Now that you've heard this song, you may want to (off air?) listen to John Fogerty's Old Man Down The Road. He wrote that after CCR broke up, but he didn't own rights to CCR's music, so the record label sued John Fogerty for plagiarizing his own work (Run Through The Jungle). Fogerty won that one.
Which Funk track for A&A ? Sly and Family Stone -" Thank You" James Brown - " Sex Machine" Curtis Mayfield. - "Pusher Man" Parliment Funkadelic - "P Funk Wants to Get Funked Up".
CCR has so many great songs. Your next should be GREEN RIVER It has catfish biting and barefoot girls dancing in the moonlight and everything. Classic CCR sound
@Nature and Physics I listen to tons of Little Richard. Considerably less Howlin Wolf. Neither of whom were from northern California. Sorry, I didn't understand what your comment was getting at. Was it meant to be a question?
@Nature and Physics Listening to TONS of Howlin Wolf and Little Richard is how a guy from northern California can get himself to sound so swampy. Gotcha. I suppose that could apply to Bob Seger as well. Except he's from Michigan.
@Nature and Physics That's not surprising. But still, there were a ton of singers back then who were influenced by Howlin Wolf and Little Richard. But compared to Fogerty, most of them just sounded like malnourished caucasians trying too hard. I can definitely hear the similarities between "Jungle" and "Smokestack Lightnin" (which in retrospect makes the plagiarism lawsuit between Fantasy Records and John Fogerty seem even more ridiculous).
@Nature and Physics It's hard to keep up that kind of singing when it's an affectation. Fogerty has a pretty average sounding speaking voice. Whereas Howlin Wolf's speaking voice sounded like he'd been gargling rocks every morning for the last 1000 years.
@@theycallmemcgyver Very interesting! I always knew it was about a clash with protesters, just not over a curfew. Could just as easily fit into the Nam naritive. I remember being 5 years old and seeing the fall of Saigon on the news. I didn't quite understand then what was happening, but those images seared into my mind. Thanks for the link Steve!!!✌🏻
Guys! The AM-format radio “fade out” was necessary because programmers would not play songs that went over three minutes! The Beatles had to famously lie about the length of Hey Jude on the record label, so did the Righteous Brothers with You Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’. It wasn’t until FM-format radio came along that the 4-minute + songs with proper fade outs came along in the ‘70’s.
Brian Landis Ummm...FM radio came out late sixties. Jimmy Page knew this. That’s how Zeppelin I got air time...came out in December 1968. Now CCR got. Lots of AM radio play, where that still applied, in general, but there were exceptions made for huge artists...like The Beatles and Bob Dylan (Like a Rolling Stone). CCR got plenty of radio play on FM, so they could have easily made this song longer.
The first FM station that did that was KMPX, San Francisco, late '66. They were the pioneers of "underground radio". They only lasted until '68, when the DJs switched over to KSAN. The radio was so great you hardly needed a record player (but we had one anyway). The DJ's would teach you- going back to the origins of songs and styles. Epic.
@@blandis93312 My fuzzy memory agrees with you. I don't think that cars with FM radio as a standard option was even common until the mid '70s. I remember people having to buy an aftermarket accessory for FM radio in cars... usually via a J.C. Whitney catalog.
Can't say anything bad about Creedence! We all have our favorite songs from them, but they definitely have been part of my fabric in my life! Thank You ✌
Proud Mary would have been a much better choice. Run Through The Jungle is a good song, but it's not one of their greats. It's just a great background song. Not one that grabs you by the collar and demands your attention.
Origins of CCR? Polk Salad Annie by Tony Joe White m.th-cam.com/video/MCSsVvlj6YA/w-d-xo.html If you wanna see the origins of CCR, watch this b&w clip from the late 60’s. You get that swampy, bluesy funk with more mentions of gators 🐊 per verse. He “talks-sings” it briefly to explain the down-home lingo, then goes into the song. Fogerty experts claim blues and swamp-blues, Rockabilly and Southern-blues influences, like Carl Perkins, etc. But this song is the swamp music that even Elvis covered. The Rolling Stones also did a cover of a down-home song in 1965 that includes lyrics about “turnip greens” and “pork & beans” - “Down Home Girl.” m.th-cam.com/video/utFa1cidLcg/w-d-xo.html Watch for your own enjoyment. Not suggesting for channel. It’s more gravy than sauce but funky, wavy-gravy. 🤪
What "Dazed and Confused" is for Zeppelin, "Dream On" for Aerosmith, "Layla" for Eric Clapton and "Lola" for the Kinks, so too is "Suzie Q" for CCR. In fact, I don't think you should call yourself a true Credence fan until you've heard that song! It's also well worth your time to dig deep into their catalog, beyond all the hits: "Keep on Chooglin'", "Pagan Baby", "Ramble Tamble", and "Effigy" are a few highly recommended bangers that will definitely get you lost in the sauce. lol Also "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" is an epic masterpiece, and an absolute must-listen.
If you've seen _Apocalypse Now_ you've heard "Suzie Q". And tbh, it fits exactly in the pocket of what A&A were talking about, as a "standard CCR song" - very much like this one here. Not a _bad_ thing, but not groundbreaking either.
@@dwc1964 "Suzie Q" is a cover. I think it would be an insult to one of the greatest original rock bands in American history to say their "standard song" is merely a straight-forward cover of a song from a decade earlier. They would go on to do FAR better things. Their first album is their second worst, only after their last one.
@@-Ricky_Spanish- This is not "merely a straight-forward cover" of Dale Hawkins's "Oh! Suzie-Q".[*] It's a translation of that song onto the Creedence template. That's not a _bad_ thing, necessarily - it's just the thing that's happening here. * since you brought it up, I got a hankering to give it a listen after too many years since the last time, and that's the title on the record cover in the picture, which I'd never seen before.
@@dwc1964 Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great cover, but given the relative limited amount of songs we could realistically expect A&A to review, there are at least a dozen other CCR songs I would choose first. They just moved so quickly into their own thing that even the best of their earliest stuff was quickly overshadowed.
@@-Ricky_Spanish- Thanks for pointing that out! Perfect example of most being familiar with the clasic rock version not the original by a black Blues musician. Speaking off which lets gets done Blues soul and funk happening in this joint!!
When Forgerty wrote this, a lot of people just assumed it was more about the Vietnam War, but it was his thoughts on America and the proliferation of guns. He said he was a hunter and he loved it but he felt like people were really gun happy and there was a lack of control over the buying and selling of them. He believed it was dangerous. Imagine that !!
I think this was a great choice. So many of their songs were over played on the radio, to the point that I still can’t listen to them. But not this one. Love it! Heard a song last night that I think you’ll love. Baby hold on, by Eddie Money.
Although my Generation is sick of overplayed Classic Rock songs, we're failing to understand that these Boys have never heard them ONCE! We're supposed to be taking care of these Boy's musical needs, Not our Own! For example these Boys haven't reacted to "One way Out" or by the Allman Brothers or "Call me the Breeze" by Lynyrd Skynyrd for that exact same reason. Now I ask you, HOW IN GOD'S NAME IS THAT POSSIBLE!! 🤣🤣
CCR had the 'formula' and it was called JOHN FOGERTY! Wrote just about all their songs, vocals, guitar, harmonica, all around bad ass. Please react to CCRs 'Long As I Can See the Light' straight bluesy, nasty nasty vocals.. the best.
The intro really transports me into Vietnam. The heavily distorted rising tritone gives exactly the right feeling of danger coming from everywhere and a hot, sticky environment. It also reminds me of mosquitoes.
This song always felt to me like it was written for the troops in Vietnam. Fortunate Son has been used in countless movies and tv shows (for obvious reasons)on the Vietnam war but I've never heard this one. It seems like a no-brainer. I've often wondered why it was overlooked?
@@ericjahoda2997 I don't think he is saying Cinnamon girl is Neil's biggest hit but it is one of his songs that features the 🎸 more than most of his other songs.
I've been after them for a "Low Spark" for quite a while! They've kind of danced around it with "Dear Mr. Fantasy" and then Blind Faith's "Can't Find My Way Home" but still no Spark! I've got a LONG list of Traffic favorites!
Song request: Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy. This guy influenced everyone. The Rolling Stones named themselves after one of his songs. He was an inspiration to Led Zeppelin Eric Clapton, ZZ Top, AC/DC, Jimi Hendrix, the Allman Brothers.... the list goes on.
@@peterquinones3522 I agree. They have proclaimed many times their distain for the "Blues chord", which is so ironic because the Blues gave birth to Rock. lol
This was a long sitting on for the day. You keep forgetting that radio required you to have a 23-minute song so they could have their sponsor commercial. That's just the way the industry was set up. The group's didn't really have a choice.
If you're feeling CCR's songs are too short, check out "Heard It Through the Grapevine" - a classic 11-minute jam! One I've actually heard in its full length on the radio multiple times, which is pretty unusual.
I listened to this album in the 80's when i was like 15, and not gonna lie, i played over, and over, and over, and over, and over... my parents probably worried about my mental state..... but i was good as fuck! LoL
If you knew CCR they didn't stretch out their songs live. It was like playing the record. A 3 minute song would always be 3 minutes. The greatest American roots rock band
CCR has so many classics. Definetly check out Down on the Corner, Up and Around The Bend, Long As I Can See The Light, or honestly any of their other stuff
You're not film majors, but man! If you really want to go down the rabbit hole, and appreciate this song set in the era of it's time, you really aught to watch Apocalypse Now... I mean, it's a wild "smell of naypalm in the morning, you either surf or fight, and NEVER get out of the boat" kind of ride, you'll never forget.
Pure Creedence. Which is pure John Fogerty. And yep, you’re gonna wish for more. That’s kinda the point. 👍 the Vietnam war was another dark era in US history. This song was part of the soundtrack. CCR always had an abundance of saucy licks. Just really good stuff that stays in the head and the heart. The depth of hooks is like ZZ Top. AC/DC also. Fogerty has always known how to set the hook. Some of John’s solo work would be a great corner on the road. Centerfield is a good album and the title cut will take you to a new place. And there’s Rock and Roll Girls. As always, you guys set the standard. Cheers 🥃
My God, they had so many great songs. I was young but remembered them all. Great to see a new generation enjoying. Now where are the new generation songs like this?? Nowhere but I know there is a lot of talent.
CCR is just one of those break the mold type of bands, that made timeless classics...like Beatles, Stones, Doors, Zep, Pink F, Yes...and the 60s and 70s were magical times for music...
Let’s see, you’ve done “Bungle in the Jungle” and “Run Through the Jungle.” How about Bruce Springsteen’s “Jungleland”? Or “Jungle Love” by the Steve Miller Band? Or ELO’s “Jungle”? Or Kool & the Gang’s “Jungle Boogie”? I’m sure you already know GnR’s “Welcome to the Jungle.” That would be one bangin’ jungle playlist.
Hey guys about about another psychedelic song from the 60's 8 Miles High by the Birds 1966. David Crosby was in that band before joining Crosby, Stills and Nash. Stephen Still's song For What it's Worth is one of the best protest songs ever written. At the time he was in the Buffalo Springfield group.
To me "Ramble Tamble" the opening track of this album is their greatest song. It's a 7 minutes song with a phenomenal instrumental part. A masterpiece !
If you want grit, try “Travelin’ Band” and “Suzy Q”. Honestly, CCR has an incredible library, and you could spend the next month doing exclusive CCR and still not get all of them. When I first started listening to CCR, I binged album after album. Not sure how you guys restrain yourselves...
in a 2016 interview, Fogerty explained that the song is actually about the proliferation of guns in the United States. The thing I wanted to talk about was gun control and the proliferation of guns... I remember reading around that time that there was one gun for every man, woman and child in America, which I found staggering. So somewhere in the song, I think I said, '200 million guns are loaded.'
This became a Vietnam theme song but John Fogerty said it was written about gun control and the proliferation of guns in America at the time (1970) which was one for every man, woman and child, hence the the verse "two million guns are loaded"
This was my grandpa’s favorite song. He survived ‘nam but lost to cancer. Going through his things there was a cd with his name and a heart in it. This was the first song on the cd. Been playing it on loop. Love you guys for covering it.
Live version of "Keep On Chooglin" also many great songs and I recommend "Looking Out My Backdoor", "Fortunate Son", "Hey Tonight", "As Long As I Can See The Light", Have You Ever Seen The Rain" and "Who Will Stop The Rain" just to name some!
@@rogerpatton2242 My vote too. That guitar intro jumps out and grabs you by the ears & shoots you full of energy. Great 1st song to put on your exercise playlist!
CCR !! You pretty much can’t go wrong with that crew. Here’s some top-shelf bangers to hit up in the future by them : Commotion, Travelin’ Band, Green River, Ninety-Nine & a Half Won’t Do, Keep On Cooglin’. Have a great fucking weekend, A&A !
I was 13 or 14 when my brother got out of the Army back in '70. He gave me this album. Every song is a banger to me. I literally wore this one out. Cosmos Factory is a work of art.
Who'll Stop the Rain makes my top ten songs of all time list. Other great ones include Looking Out My Back Door, Have You Ever Seen the Rain, and Lodi. And while Proud Mary, Bad Moon Rising, and Heard It Through the Grapevine are also hits, I think they get too much attention compared to the other ones I mentioned.
Checking out some more CCR! Make to vote in this week’s poll, picking a new guitarist for us to get into!! Cheers guys have a great weekend! 🙌🏻🔥
For some haunting, awesome guitar, please consider Neil Young - Cortez the Killer
Now that you've heard this song, you may want to (off air?) listen to John Fogerty's Old Man Down The Road. He wrote that after CCR broke up, but he didn't own rights to CCR's music, so the record label sued John Fogerty for plagiarizing his own work (Run Through The Jungle). Fogerty won that one.
Is this video recorded in advance, and you are live on the chat during the premier? Or truly a live stream?
Next by them 🎶🎤🎤GREEN River
Which Funk track for A&A ?
Sly and Family Stone -" Thank You"
James Brown - " Sex Machine"
Curtis Mayfield. - "Pusher Man" Parliment Funkadelic - "P Funk Wants to Get Funked Up".
Vietnam POW/MIA You are not forgotten ...
Amen
This reminds me of saying goodbye to someone I loved at Fort Benning. .never to see again...My God Why????
Yes. Never forget.
@@sandrapoore4514 💙
YES
CCR has so many great songs. Your next should be GREEN RIVER It has catfish biting and barefoot girls dancing in the moonlight and everything. Classic CCR sound
indeed
those lyrics, so nostalgic
Yes! Yes! Yes! Si! Si! Si! Oui! Oui! Oui! Sim! Sim! Sim! Ja! Ja! Ja!
Good pick
Don't forget "My old hound dog barkin'!"
Nobody has a voice like John Fogarty. You know its him right away
Who knew a guy from northern California could sound so damn swampy? He sounds almost as bayou as Dr John.
@Nature and Physics I listen to tons of Little Richard. Considerably less Howlin Wolf. Neither of whom were from northern California. Sorry, I didn't understand what your comment was getting at. Was it meant to be a question?
@Nature and Physics Listening to TONS of Howlin Wolf and Little Richard is how a guy from northern California can get himself to sound so swampy. Gotcha. I suppose that could apply to Bob Seger as well. Except he's from Michigan.
@Nature and Physics That's not surprising. But still, there were a ton of singers back then who were influenced by Howlin Wolf and Little Richard. But compared to Fogerty, most of them just sounded like malnourished caucasians trying too hard.
I can definitely hear the similarities between "Jungle" and "Smokestack Lightnin" (which in retrospect makes the plagiarism lawsuit between Fantasy Records and John Fogerty seem even more ridiculous).
@Nature and Physics It's hard to keep up that kind of singing when it's an affectation. Fogerty has a pretty average sounding speaking voice. Whereas Howlin Wolf's speaking voice sounded like he'd been gargling rocks every morning for the last 1000 years.
Having grown up during the viet nam era, this song still gives me chills.
The drums are tasty machine gun bullets. I neber got why Fortunate Son is the Vietnam movie go-to and this isn't.
Having gone to Vietnam, it kinda gives me flashbacks.
@@tzcomp Thank you for your service.
Another great anti Veitnam war song. Might do Bufflao Springfield - For What It's Worth if youguys haven't heard it before.
@@theycallmemcgyver Very interesting! I always knew it was about a clash with protesters, just not over a curfew. Could just as easily fit into the Nam naritive.
I remember being 5 years old and seeing the fall of Saigon on the news. I didn't quite understand then what was happening, but those images seared into my mind.
Thanks for the link Steve!!!✌🏻
Didn't they write that about the Kent State murdered students?
@@cathyhampton4426 I know CSN&Y wrote "Ohio" about Kent State for sure.
@@cathyhampton4426 CSNY Ohio - written by Neil Young
NOT an anti Vietnam song. It's about guns.
Guys! The AM-format radio “fade out” was necessary because programmers would not play songs that went over three minutes! The Beatles had to famously lie about the length of Hey Jude on the record label, so did the Righteous Brothers with You Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’. It wasn’t until FM-format radio came along that the 4-minute + songs with proper fade outs came along in the ‘70’s.
Interesting, didn't know that.
Brian Landis Ummm...FM radio came out late sixties. Jimmy Page knew this. That’s how Zeppelin I got air time...came out in December 1968. Now CCR got. Lots of AM radio play, where that still applied, in general, but there were exceptions made for huge artists...like The Beatles and Bob Dylan (Like a Rolling Stone). CCR got plenty of radio play on FM, so they could have easily made this song longer.
The first FM station that did that was KMPX, San Francisco, late '66. They were the pioneers of "underground radio". They only lasted until '68, when the DJs switched over to KSAN. The radio was so great you hardly needed a record player (but we had one anyway). The DJ's would teach you- going back to the origins of songs and styles. Epic.
R3D FM was a novelty in the ‘60’s with a small amount of cities with it.
@@blandis93312 My fuzzy memory agrees with you. I don't think that cars with FM radio as a standard option was even common until the mid '70s. I remember people having to buy an aftermarket accessory for FM radio in cars... usually via a J.C. Whitney catalog.
Imagine listening to this song the night before its your turn to be “point man” when you go out to meet Charlie co at dawn.
point man out was my favorite command. Were you there brah?
That harmonica is cryin 😢
Thank you for your service. Happy you made it home. Infantry here from a different time. All the best. Always.
I used to laugh watching you guys listening to music. Then I realized this is how I lived through the 70s.
Hat's off to those that took their sr. class trip to Vietnam.
This song for you.
It’s very atmospheric. It’s juicy with layers of sound.
Can't say anything bad about Creedence! We all have our favorite songs from them, but they definitely have been part of my fabric in my life! Thank You ✌
Yeah, it's hard to find a bad CCR song!
Proud Mary. CCR was the original, Tina Turner covered
Proud Mary would have been a much better choice. Run Through The Jungle is a good song, but it's not one of their greats. It's just a great background song. Not one that grabs you by the collar and demands your attention.
Proud Mary should be our National Anthem! 🤣
@@radar0412 😉
But they should listen to both
Origins of CCR?
Polk Salad Annie by Tony Joe White
m.th-cam.com/video/MCSsVvlj6YA/w-d-xo.html
If you wanna see the origins of CCR, watch this b&w clip from the late 60’s. You get that swampy, bluesy funk with more mentions of gators 🐊 per verse. He “talks-sings” it briefly to explain the down-home lingo, then goes into the song. Fogerty experts claim blues and swamp-blues, Rockabilly and Southern-blues influences, like Carl Perkins, etc. But this song is the swamp music that even Elvis covered.
The Rolling Stones also did a cover of a down-home song in 1965 that includes lyrics about “turnip greens” and “pork & beans” - “Down Home Girl.”
m.th-cam.com/video/utFa1cidLcg/w-d-xo.html
Watch for your own enjoyment. Not suggesting for channel. It’s more gravy than sauce but funky, wavy-gravy. 🤪
What "Dazed and Confused" is for Zeppelin, "Dream On" for Aerosmith, "Layla" for Eric Clapton and "Lola" for the Kinks, so too is "Suzie Q" for CCR. In fact, I don't think you should call yourself a true Credence fan until you've heard that song! It's also well worth your time to dig deep into their catalog, beyond all the hits: "Keep on Chooglin'", "Pagan Baby", "Ramble Tamble", and "Effigy" are a few highly recommended bangers that will definitely get you lost in the sauce. lol Also "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" is an epic masterpiece, and an absolute must-listen.
If you've seen _Apocalypse Now_ you've heard "Suzie Q".
And tbh, it fits exactly in the pocket of what A&A were talking about, as a "standard CCR song" - very much like this one here. Not a _bad_ thing, but not groundbreaking either.
@@dwc1964 "Suzie Q" is a cover. I think it would be an insult to one of the greatest original rock bands in American history to say their "standard song" is merely a straight-forward cover of a song from a decade earlier. They would go on to do FAR better things. Their first album is their second worst, only after their last one.
@@-Ricky_Spanish- This is not "merely a straight-forward cover" of Dale Hawkins's "Oh! Suzie-Q".[*] It's a translation of that song onto the Creedence template. That's not a _bad_ thing, necessarily - it's just the thing that's happening here.
* since you brought it up, I got a hankering to give it a listen after too many years since the last time, and that's the title on the record cover in the picture, which I'd never seen before.
@@dwc1964 Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great cover, but given the relative limited amount of songs we could realistically expect A&A to review, there are at least a dozen other CCR songs I would choose first. They just moved so quickly into their own thing that even the best of their earliest stuff was quickly overshadowed.
@@-Ricky_Spanish-
Thanks for pointing that out! Perfect example of most being familiar with the clasic rock version not the original by a black Blues musician.
Speaking off which lets gets done Blues soul and funk happening in this joint!!
Their version of I Heard it through the Grapevine is banging!❤🎵
I am totally in lvoe with how he pronounces "heard" lol
Album version - no complains about to early fadeouts, garanteed
@silber7 not with that eleven minute monster if a song. Great for exercising because you don’t have to stop and pick a new song!
Is the shit...best you could ever hear !
Their version is third rate. Marvin Gaye did it best.
I put a spell on you - Changed my whole perspective on how good CCR really is.
I'm 64 and grew up on all this. It's heartening to see that you two appreciate good music.
When Forgerty wrote this, a lot of people just assumed it was more about the Vietnam War, but it was his thoughts on America and the proliferation of guns. He said he was a hunter and he loved it but he felt like people were really gun happy and there was a lack of control over the buying and selling of them. He believed it was dangerous. Imagine that !!
huh? whoare you
I think this was a great choice. So many of their songs were over played on the radio, to the point that I still can’t listen to them. But not this one. Love it!
Heard a song last night that I think you’ll love. Baby hold on, by Eddie Money.
Overplayed? NOT Possible!
I totally agree @deborah enger about CCR overplayed but not this one.
Although my Generation is sick of overplayed Classic Rock songs, we're failing to understand that these Boys have never heard them ONCE! We're supposed to be taking care of these Boy's musical needs, Not our Own! For example these Boys haven't reacted to "One way Out" or by the Allman Brothers or "Call me the Breeze" by Lynyrd Skynyrd for that exact same reason. Now I ask you, HOW IN GOD'S NAME IS THAT POSSIBLE!! 🤣🤣
CCR made the county take notice. Nothing like them was around and there technical ability is awesome
"Technical ability" ... CCR is nothing if not easy to play. That's great thing about it , basic chord structure.
Country, right?
@@theccpisaparasite8813 I've never seen any bar band or pro band play a Creedence song correctly.
CCR had the 'formula' and it was called JOHN FOGERTY! Wrote just about all their songs, vocals, guitar, harmonica, all around bad ass. Please react to CCRs 'Long As I Can See the Light' straight bluesy, nasty nasty vocals.. the best.
The intro really transports me into Vietnam. The heavily distorted rising tritone gives exactly the right feeling of danger coming from everywhere and a hot, sticky environment. It also reminds me of mosquitoes.
A classic anti-Vietnam War song from the grunt’s standpoint.
NOT an anti Vietnam song. It's about guns.
@@betsyduane3461 We Veterans didn't care. It fit our reality of the times.
This song always felt to me like it was written for the troops in Vietnam. Fortunate Son has been used in countless movies and tv shows (for obvious reasons)on the Vietnam war but I've never heard this one. It seems like a no-brainer. I've often wondered why it was overlooked?
@@marcmcfinn7470 It wasn't. Fogerty says it's about guns in the US.
@@betsyduane3461 Yes, I know. But it FEELS like it was written for the troops in Vietnam.
Please do Cinnamon Girl by Neil Young. Guaranteed if you put it in a weekly poll it crushes everything. One of his best bangers.
That is a good one, but the epic is "Down By The River".
Yes, I agree. They HAVE to do Cinnamon Girl. Classic.👍
@@ericjahoda2997 I don't think he is saying Cinnamon girl is Neil's biggest hit but it is one of his songs that features the 🎸 more than most of his other songs.
YES ! I've been suggesting Cinnamon Girl for months!
@@ericjahoda2997 this is true but I actually prefer Cowgirl in the Sand.
Takes me back almost 50 years for this one.
CCR- "Have you ever seen the rain" "SusieQ" 😍
I want you to hear " The Low Spark of High Heel Boys" by Traffic
You may have to send out a search party to bring them back ,serious sauce to get lost in.
I've been after them for a "Low Spark" for quite a while! They've kind of danced around it with "Dear Mr. Fantasy" and then Blind Faith's "Can't Find My Way Home" but still no Spark! I've got a LONG list of Traffic favorites!
Hell yes! I've been recommending it forever
YES
I'm joining this mob!
Traveling Band is one of my favorites, a true banger. Someday Never Comes is a different side of CCR that you haven't heard yet. So beautiful and sad.
With CCR, you know what you're going to get. Great music, great vocals. Good pick, guys!
Song request: Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy. This guy influenced everyone. The Rolling Stones named themselves after one of his songs. He was an inspiration to Led Zeppelin Eric Clapton, ZZ Top, AC/DC, Jimi Hendrix, the Allman Brothers.... the list goes on.
I'd like to see the boys try more raw blues like Hound Dog Taylor or RL Burnside but I got a feeling blues won't fly here.
A live version with video.
Yes, Yes Yes. Howlin Wolf and John Lee Hooker as well!! The roots that bare the fruits!
@@peterquinones3522 I agree. They have proclaimed many times their distain for the "Blues chord", which is so ironic because the Blues gave birth to Rock. lol
I was lucky enough to see Muddy Waters at a small venue
Would love to see you guys do Lookin’ Out My Back Door!!
I agree with you! One of the most underrated CCR songs and one that instantly changes your mood.
Looking Out My Back Door
yes ma'am
Written by Buck Owens if my memory serves me.
This was a long sitting on for the day. You keep forgetting that radio required you to have a 23-minute song so they could have their sponsor commercial. That's just the way the industry was set up. The group's didn't really have a choice.
They don't know how many great CCR tunes that they have not heard yet. I look forward to future reactions.
If you're feeling CCR's songs are too short, check out "Heard It Through the Grapevine" - a classic 11-minute jam! One I've actually heard in its full length on the radio multiple times, which is pretty unusual.
I've been driving with other people and so many minutes go by and they end up saying, wait, this song is still going?!?!?
Definitely! If you're trying to showcase CCR this song would be it.
And Suzie Q, the album version, runtime 8 1/2 mins.
One of the Best lead guitar songs for CCR in "Heard it through the Grapevine too!" 🎸🎸🎸
Ramble Tamble from Cosmo's Factory.
CCR and Three Dog Night owned the top 40 in the late 60's/early 70's. so many hits. What to have some fun? "Don't Touch Me There" by The Tubes.
I listened to this album in the 80's when i was like 15, and not gonna lie, i played over, and over, and over, and over, and over... my parents probably worried about my mental state..... but i was good as fuck! LoL
"Polk Salad Annie" by Tony Joe White. Very swampy.
Def one of my favorites.
Great selection.
Widow Wimberly.
CCR had the distinction of having TWO songs banned by US Military Radio back during Vietnam: this song, and "Fortunate Son."
Humble Pie......30 Days in the Hole....Smokin album!
Good reaction and fair all around.
Have you guys done “Up around the bend” by CCR yet?... it’s another classic
Nope.
My Favorite CCR song! Prepare to be blown away!
If you knew CCR they didn't stretch out their songs live. It was like playing the record. A 3 minute song would always be 3 minutes. The greatest American roots rock band
Yes! I feel the LOVE!
CCR has so many classics. Definetly check out Down on the Corner, Up and Around The Bend, Long As I Can See The Light, or honestly any of their other stuff
You guys just triggered PTSD in 2250 Vietnam vets. Did you notice the overhead jets in the intro - and the outro.
Ozark Mountain Daredevils: 'If You Wanna Get To Heaven'.
or Chicken Train. Why not?
Or “Back To The Country”
@@scottingram7634 love chicken train.
Down On The Corner, Traveling Band, & Long As I Can See The Light need to be on the todo list
“Heard It Through The Grapevine” Long version
by Creedence. Unbelievable! Promise!
Morning A&A family! Happy Friday and killer song to start the weekend!
CCR formula breaker to listen to next: Down on the Corner
"Ya got tah hahhhdee hahh!!" 😂😂😂 Fogerty's vocals always bring me back to that - no matter what song he sings! ("Old Man Down The Road")
Time for some Stealin’ by Uriah Heep.
You're not film majors, but man! If you really want to go down the rabbit hole, and appreciate this song set in the era of it's time, you really aught to watch Apocalypse Now... I mean, it's a wild "smell of naypalm in the morning, you either surf or fight, and NEVER get out of the boat" kind of ride, you'll never forget.
Pure Creedence. Which is pure John Fogerty. And yep, you’re gonna wish for more. That’s kinda the point. 👍 the Vietnam war was another dark era in US history. This song was part of the soundtrack.
CCR always had an abundance of saucy licks. Just really good stuff that stays in the head and the heart.
The depth of hooks is like ZZ Top. AC/DC also. Fogerty has always known how to set the hook.
Some of John’s solo work would be a great corner on the road. Centerfield is a good album and the title cut will take you to a new place. And there’s Rock and Roll Girls.
As always, you guys set the standard. Cheers 🥃
Harmonica solo is so CCR
Centerfield also has The Old Man Down The Road which is musically similar to Run Through the Jungle.
Fogerty was the creative force of the band but the rhythm section was pretty damn good and the band as a whole had a tight, unified sound.
Ken Johnston It was nasty. Who played it?
@@truthdweller3454 None other than John Fogerty
My God, they had so many great songs.
I was young but remembered them all.
Great to see a new generation enjoying.
Now where are the new generation songs like this??
Nowhere but I know there is a lot of talent.
1000 views in less than a minute. You've got some fans.
Down On The Corner, Up Around The Bend
"Up Around The Bend". One of CCR's most sizzling rockers!
This was another one of those songs in that era which was a critique of the Vietnam War. It was just a sign of the time back then.
Gotta love the swamps of San Diego!
Been listening to CCR since the late 60's...never got tired of them !!!
CCR is just one of those break the mold type of bands, that made timeless classics...like Beatles, Stones, Doors, Zep, Pink F, Yes...and the 60s and 70s were magical times for music...
Amazing that this band from Northern California sounds like they came right out of the Louisiana Bayou.
Let’s see, you’ve done “Bungle in the Jungle” and “Run Through the Jungle.” How about Bruce Springsteen’s “Jungleland”? Or “Jungle Love” by the Steve Miller Band? Or ELO’s “Jungle”? Or Kool & the Gang’s “Jungle Boogie”? I’m sure you already know GnR’s “Welcome to the Jungle.” That would be one bangin’ jungle playlist.
Jungle Bill - Yello. Get that thru yer headphones without trippin' Lol
Might I add Santana- jungle strut
@@jeremydraper733 Morris Day "Jungle Love," Baltimora "Tarzan Boy"
My vote is for Jungleland by Bruce. The big man's sax is killer on that song.
@@jeremydraper733 Great suggestion and yes, you may.
Very fair reaction.
Supposedly this song was about the Vietnam War and our boys over there in it. It was a wholly different time back then.
No it wasn't - Fogarty said it's about gun ownership in America.
They had so many great songs, in such a short period. Was pretty impressive.
This is good ole American rock n roll!
Hey guys about about another psychedelic song from the 60's 8 Miles High by the Birds 1966. David Crosby was in that band before joining Crosby, Stills and Nash. Stephen Still's song For What it's Worth is one of the best protest songs ever written. At the time he was in the Buffalo Springfield group.
To me "Ramble Tamble" the opening track of this album is their greatest song. It's a 7 minutes song with a phenomenal instrumental part. A masterpiece !
Totally agree.
Yes i agree rite up these guys alley
Ramble tamble very cool and different! I’ll bet it will be your fav CCR song!
If you want grit, try “Travelin’ Band” and “Suzy Q”. Honestly, CCR has an incredible library, and you could spend the next month doing exclusive CCR and still not get all of them. When I first started listening to CCR, I binged album after album. Not sure how you guys restrain yourselves...
Definitely a A. All your Nam movies have this tune in them. It really spices the tune up.
Part of the soundtrack for nearly every Vietnam War film ever made.
Considering the lyrics have nothing to do with Vietnam.
This is an A. I love John Forgery’s graveling tone in his voice. Always delivers the “Sauce”.
"Two hundred million guns are loaded, Satan cries, take aim"..So put that in your smoke and pipe it! Lol.
I think they said " Satan cries they came" because at the time there was an anti-war slogan that said " what if they gave a war and nobody came"
@@loach392 it says "satan cries, take aim", but it's never a good thing with Satan in it...
@@lisamorrison2149 I did some research and found out it was anti- gun not war. I've had it wrong for 50 years.
@@loach392 thanks, I guess it's to each there own
in a 2016 interview, Fogerty explained that the song is actually about the proliferation of guns in the United States.
The thing I wanted to talk about was gun control and the proliferation of guns... I remember reading around that time that there was one gun for every man, woman and child in America, which I found staggering. So somewhere in the song, I think I said, '200 million guns are loaded.'
I had the 45 as a kid and this song was a B side. I played the shit out of it!
This became a Vietnam theme song but John Fogerty said it was written about gun control and the proliferation of guns in America at the time (1970) which was one for every man, woman and child, hence the the verse "two million guns are loaded"
CCR got me through Vietnam in 69. I still listen to them and perform there stuff. Appreciate you young guys appreciating a great band.
Oh hell yes! Great song!
This was my grandpa’s favorite song. He survived ‘nam but lost to cancer. Going through his things there was a cd with his name and a heart in it. This was the first song on the cd. Been playing it on loop. Love you guys for covering it.
Live version of "Keep On Chooglin" also many great songs and I recommend "Looking Out My Backdoor", "Fortunate Son", "Hey Tonight", "As Long As I Can See The Light", Have You Ever Seen The Rain" and "Who Will Stop The Rain" just to name some!
My husband came back from Vietnam became a Buddhist and never picked up a gun again. He hated that war as we all did.
My husband did the same. We're not together anymore, what a fine person, now in Canada never got over Vietnam. Neither did l
This might have been the song in the poll about which i was least excited, but I do like CCR, and the channel voters have spoken.
Paul Siebeneicher I agree. They have 30 songs that are better than this one. It’s OK, but not great.
It's one of those songs that, even after 50 years, I need me a fix of it every now and then. That's why it's an A for me.
Happy Friday A&A. Good tune ahead. Loved the poll this week. Cheers.🍻 p.s. you can like both Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins, lol.
CCR - Proud Mary and I Heard It Through the Grapevine.
Cosmos Factory would be another great full album review.
If you haven’t already, give “Around the bend “ on Cosmos factory
I second that motion. Around the Bend is CCR at their jammin best.
UP Around The Bend.
@@rogerpatton2242 My vote too. That guitar intro jumps out and grabs you by the ears & shoots you full of energy. Great 1st song to put on your exercise playlist!
This is a fabulous song from the period. When there was two kinds of music. Rock & Roll.
Absolutely the pinnacle of the time.
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in the 70's I thought they were from Louisiana , it freaked me out to find out later it was california.
CCR !! You pretty much can’t go wrong with that crew. Here’s some top-shelf bangers to hit up in the future by them : Commotion, Travelin’ Band, Green River, Ninety-Nine & a Half Won’t Do, Keep On Cooglin’. Have a great fucking weekend, A&A !
Let the people know my wisdom. Fill the land with smoke. Still spreading "wisdom".
I always pictured this song on a movie soundtrack, playing as the hero and his buddy were rolling down the road in a 57 Chevy convertible.
Salute to all the Vietnam Vets!🇺🇸
I was 13 or 14 when my brother got out of the Army back in '70. He gave me this album. Every song is a banger to me. I literally wore this one out. Cosmos Factory is a work of art.
Do...."Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" by the Hollies.......and convince me CCR didn't sneak into the studio and record that song......
Damn what a good song! Alex is feelin' it. Gritty, Vietnam-era rock n roll.
Who'll Stop the Rain makes my top ten songs of all time list. Other great ones include Looking Out My Back Door, Have You Ever Seen the Rain, and Lodi. And while Proud Mary, Bad Moon Rising, and Heard It Through the Grapevine are also hits, I think they get too much attention compared to the other ones I mentioned.