I LIKE THE WAY
YOU WALK
I LIKE THE WAY
YOU TALK...
Creedence Clearwater Revival
is the
debut
studio album
by the
American Rock band
released in
July 1968,
by Fantasy Records
in the US.
Featuring the band's
first hit single,
"Susie Q",
which reached
number 11
in the US charts,
it was recorded
shortly after the
band changed
its name
from
the Golliwogs
and began
developing a
signature
swamp rock sound.
Background
While
"Suzie Q"
proved to be a hit,
the band had played
for years as
The Golliwogs
in the early 1960s,
releasing
numerous singles
before achieving
success in the
pop world.
In 1967,
Saul Zaentz
bought
Fantasy Records
and offered
the band
a chance to
record a
full-length album
on the condition
that they change
their name.
Having never liked
'the Golliwogs',
in part because
of the racial charge
of the name,
the four readily agreed,
coming up with
Creedence Clearwater Revival.
In Hank Bordowitz's book
Bad Moon Rising:
The Unauthorized History of
Creedence Clearwater Revival,
bassist
Stu Cook
is quoted,
"Fogerty, Cook, Clifford
and Fogerty
signed a
publishing agreement
with one of
Fantasy's companies
that gave up
rights to
copyright ownership...
Lennon and McCartney
never owned
the copyrights
to their compositions,
either.
When you're on
the bottom,
you make the best
deal you can."
John Fogerty
took charge of the group
artistically,
writing all of the band's
fourteen hit records
and assuming
the roles of singer,
guitarist,
producer and
arranger of
nearly everything
that appeared on
Creedence's
seven studio albums.
TRACK LIST
I Put A Spell On You
The Working Man
Susie Q
Ninety-Nine And A Half (Won't Do)
Get Down Woman
Porterville
Gloomy
Walk On The Water
Call It Pretending
[Single B-Side, 1968]
Before You Accuse Me
[Outtake 1968]
Tell Me
(The Golliwogs)
You Better Get It Before It Gets You
(The Golliwogs)
Ninety-Nine And A Half (Won't Do)
(Live at The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA, 3.14.69)
Susie Q
(Live at The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA, 3.14.69)
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