🎶 *...."TWO POP TARTS....two tarts, that beat as Oneeee...." ...* 🎶 ...Stacey Q could've REALLY made a killing on the sweets market! ...ha-HAAA!! ....gotta GO..... ; )
ELO: Don’t Bring Me Down- Correct: groos. Misheard: Bruce. The Eagles: One Of These Nights- Correct: In between the dark and the light. Misheard: In between the rum and the rye.
I knew it was gonna be "There's a Bathroom on the Right". 🤣 My drunk friends butchered another lyric by The Steve Miller Band. Instead of singing "Big Ol' Jet Airliner" they'd sing, "Big Ol' Jet Hadda A Light On!!". 😵💫🤣
My brother-in-law’s name is Roland. Roland’s life has consisted of three things: welding, fishing and building boats. Since I was a kid I’ve always sang “Roland on the river”.
Yes, I fully understand what your brother went through, however, I think you missed the third thing he goes through which is everyone calling him Ronald so often that he just answers to it.
Yes, I fully understand what your brother went through, however, I think you missed the third thing he goes through which is everyone calling him Ronald so often that he just answers to it.
My wife's cousin's name was also Roland and her uncle used to play that song very often when she was living with them,she says that she used to sing it as Roland on the river and still did, until I pointed out to her that it was in fact,Rollin on the river.😅😅😅😅
@@rcannon409 My last name is Rodger, I'm just used to saying it and then spelling it, I was at the chemist the other day and another gentleman came in and gave his name, Rogers R-O-G-E-R-S, I smiled.
It’s strange to me how nobody ever talks about CCR’s cover of I Heard It Through The Grapevine. It was insanely good! Of course, most of their catalog is.
The fascinating part to me is that they blew the lyrics to Marvin Gaye's song. I wonder if they had hearing issues. Marvin's lyrics were so profound. Marvin's version, "People say believe half of what you see, Son, and none of what you hear." Versus CCR "People say, "You hear from what you see Not, not, not from what you hear" But having nonsensical lyrics doesn't hurt because just as someone is thinking, "I am confused" they are singing, "I can't help but be confused."
I gotta tell you man. You've got the cadence down. It's almost like listening to Casey. Perfect pitch, soothing movement through events, with an almost Paul Harvey reveal of "the mystery tune" gives the whole thing a beautiful feeling. Makes me feel connected to this music again in a way I can't explain. Thanks man. Keep it up.
Loved CCR right out of the gate. Born on the Bayou was my introduction. Went to Viet Nam just after Proud Mary was released and I took CCR's music with me on my journey. When I came home in June of 1970, I found out that they were coming to Cleveland Oh in a few weeks. Got a couple of tickets and went to the show. It was great to see my heroes playing the songs that saw me through 12 months of the hot country.
Murry Hill, when I lived in Cleveland I loved going to that place, good food, clean streets, Italian babes all over the place, a lot nicer neighborhood than where I lived on West 65th St.
You probably paid $10 for a ticket. I remember concerts being $6 in the '70s. That was 2-3 hours pay. Today, it's a week's pay on some. Some are 2-3 months pay. Some pay $10,000 for front row seats. Status and perceived image rules the day. I was a teen in the 70s, and times have changed. People, including kids, are so depressed, and unhappy. Dating is a thing of the past it seems. Swip right to ignore, swipe left and F..... Or just pay some photoshopped gal monthly and jack away. I'm so glad I grew up when I did.
@@jeffcampbell2710 Thank you. I am a member so I can ride coach any old time except special events, those'll cost me extra. As to concerts, I can watch live music on the TH-cam , not even premium.
I was with an army Chinook helicopter unit in Vietnam, we flew missions most of the day but at night, oh yeah at night, the music was wild. Creedence, Steppenwolf, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and who could ever forget "Time Has Come Today" by The Chambers Brothers or even "We Gotta Get Outta This Place" by The Animals; It wasn't the insanity of those times that kept us sane, it was the music!
After my dad passed away in 2020 I started playing the music he loved more often. CCR is one of those bands I got really invested in listening to. They had always just been part of the background of my life. Now I understand why my dad liked them so much.
My fondest memory of CCR (Bad Moon) was my Grandma turning up the volume as loud as she could grinning ear to ear. My sister and I would smile and dance. We didnt expect her, a pianist and Sunday school teacher, to love the music so loud! We sure did! And, I still do. Thanks PoR for the memory of my beloved grandma whose been in heaven nearly 20 years. I have several of her vinyls, CCR she played was one. ❤ You have a way of making the music come alive! ❤
I've seen John Fogerty live a couple of times in my life. I can distinctly recall him singing "there's a bathroom on the right" in the second to last chorus, just before the end of the song. I also remember him scratching his head with his index finger, a symbolic gesture to the crowd as if to say, "You guys really think those are the lyrics???" I used to have his Premonition album, and I believe he also sang that line there as well.
Way back in 1970 or 71 I was 7/8 years old and just learning to play the piano. My Dad’s youngest brother was 20 and played keyboards in a band. Dad & I called passed Nan’s one afternoon after my music lesson and Uncle Phill asked me to show him what I was learning. I was being classically trained, so I played the pieces I was learning. He listened, said that I was doing well..but now he was going to show me what *real* music was..and he put CCR on the record player and turned the volume up. I’ve never forgotten it, or the fact that many years later he got to take his own 20 yo son to see CCR..and now we’ll into his ‘70’s, he still plays in a band, at nursing homes for the folk of his generation, who love it!
When he performed at the Morris Performing Arts Center, in South Bend, Indiana, he sang "there's a bathroom to the right", and pointed to the right side of the stage, where there is, indeed, a bathroom. To the right.
My father was in WWII, Korea, and eventually Viet Nam. I ultimately understood Duty and Country, but "Fortunate Son" was always my favorite CCR song. Having been a child and losing his Father for over a year to fight in a war that we had no business fighting, the song still resonates with me to this day.
@@testicletanning4453 Probably not, since Ukraine is one we have ZERO business in. But Ole Joe and the Ukraine government are tag teaming($) so.......😉
My Uncle James fought in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. He married our mum's older sister Ena and she emigrated to the States with him after WWII from Cardiff, Wales UK. In the '60s he was stationed in Lincoln, NE and my aunt summoned our mum to come visit. Aunt Ena took our mum to go see my Dad and Uncle George's (Jorge) band's gig at the University of Nebraska where they both attended as engineering students. They were both immigrant students from Bolivia. My twin brother and me arrived on the scene pretty quickly after that meeting. And that is how Welsh/Bolivians are minted in Lincoln, NE... lol. Uncle James was the very catalyst for us ever existing. He was also a second father to my twin brother and me. He taught us how to wrench cars. Cancer took him slow in the early '90s... I am very grateful for all his love and guidance. He retired from the Air Force as Chief Master Sgt head of the MPs on McChord Air Base in Lakewood, WA. McChord is also where a young Airman would soak up all the Soul and Funk grooves from the other black Airmen musicians from the South that he served with him at McChord. When that kid got out of the Air Force, he became the drummer for one of my fav bands Tower of Power. I had no idea David Garibaldi spent time in our 'hood when we were just young kids.
I grew up with this music and took for granted that this was the way music would always be. I was wrong. Which is why I still go back to the music of my childhood and youth. It’s not nostalgia. It’s the fact that the music is still fresh and relevant.
Really heard CCR the first time from a jukebox that played 45s at a campground in 1971. It was a magical time when you grew up and heard music that way. Dreaming of the day you could actually own a vinyl record of your own. Till then, you were at the mercy of waiting for the song to be heard again on your parent's radio in the car usually. Still is my sanctuary. Listening to Rock n roll on a road trip. ❤
same we had a local pizza restaurant had a jukebox with 45s a quarter ccr was one always picked also had ice cream shop had the flip 45s at the table you picked out same like a quarter i was looking at ttables vinlys antique store booth they had a restored jukebox was like how cool to have one then looked at the price wow couldnt believe was like 3 thousand
Andof course a few years later in the cassette era there was nothing worse than chasing a radio song and never being able to tape it off the radio from the beginning, you always tuned in near the end. I remember our first cassette deck, we thought you had to be quiet when recording from the radio or it would pick up your voice. I vividly remember seeing the reel taking up tape and being shushed.
When I was a kid in the 1970s, I asked my dad where the restaurant bathroom was located and he sang, "There's the bathroom on the right" while pointing in the direction of the bathroom door. To this day, I still remember him doing that! My dad grew up in grinding poverty and in a dysfunctional home. He dropped out of high school after the 10th grade and joined the US Army in 1960. A couple of years into his four-year hitch, he was asked to volunteer to go to Vietnam to serve as an advisor. He told me that he remembered a corporal telling his unit, "Don't EVER volunteer for ANYTHING!" He then admitted that he had never heard of Vietnam before. Remembering his corporal's voice, he DID NOT volunteer. When I was in my 20s, I was helping my dad do some work in my parents' basement. He had the radio playing, and "Fortunate Son" began playing. I'll never forget my dad getting a a somber expression on his face as he said, "It ain't me; It ain't me." That was all he said. My dad was a good man who had been dealt a bad hand in life. There was probably a bad moon on the rise when he was born.
In 1969 I had all of the CCR albums on 8-track tape in my pickup. My Mom always told me she could hear my music playing in my truck before she could hear my truck. 60 years later I’m still a fan. Except now it’s playing on my motorcycle at high volume.
Not only do I have "CHRONICLE" but hanging on my wall, with a 2-tone orange, and green label, is a 45 (rpm, for anyone who doesn't know) of "BAD MOON RISING" bought at the AAFES Public Exchange (PX) in Dallas, Texas. It was a late Christmas gift that arrived on January 23, 1976 (The PX wrote a note on the sleeve that they had notified my mom of its arrival.) The B side is "LODI" I can't tell you how many times this spun on my old suitcase-looking record player. It's amazing that it made it through all my rough times & is still in the plain white sleeve, still clean with no scratches or warping. I always knew the words because I would play my favorite songs over & over with my earphone connected until I knew every word. But I can't listen to or even sing the song in my head with anything but the real true lyrics: "There's a bathroom on the right."
Creedence Clearwater Revival is one of the greatest classic rock bands. During the summer of 1987 The Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan did a stadium tour and John Fogerty opened. He played a lot of the CCR stuff and it was great. I saw this show at the Oakland Coliseum and I was blown away. So many CCR songs came through the radio when I was a kid that my whole early musical life was built on them and the Eagles and the Beatles.
I had not heard the "there's a bathroom on the right!" My favorite twisted lyric comes from England Dan and John Ford Coley, "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight;" "I'm not talkin' bout the linen and I don't want to change your tire..."😆
In 1975, I got my sister’s ‘64 Chevy Malibu, which had an 8-track player in it. My favorite tape was CCR, and I would play it all the time. Also, my cousin would play drums to that same album in his basement. I loved CCR and John Fogerty. It was the music of my youth and I’m forever grateful for growing up with such great music. ❤
8 tracks were such a strange medium as the program often changed in the middle of songs. To this day i still hear that odd "kachunk"on many classic rock tunes, inserted by my "way back" brain when listening to the radio....weird.
"Bad Moon Rising" with "Lodi" on the B-side is one of the greatest singles ever released. In the same stratosphere as many of the Beatles' great pairings.
Professor, there's a loophole to CCR never reaching number 1 on Billboard's Hot 100. In July 2021, "Have You Ever Seen The Rain" topped the Rock Digital Song Sales Chart. It's a crime that they never hit #1 on the Hot 100.
It's only Billboard Pop Charts that they didn't hit #1. They hit #1 on the Pop Charts of Cashbox, Record World & Gavin Report. I believe Billboard is more political than the other magazines. "Proud Mary" #1 on RW/GR, "Bad Moon Rising" #1 on RW/GR, & "Looking Out My Back Door" #1 on CB/RW.
We listened to our father's 8-Track tapes on endlessly long trips in the early 70s. I've never heard this 'misheard' lyric mentioned before. That being said, for many years I never understood a lot of the words in Fogerty's songs until I was able to find the lyrics online. I love that he told so many stories in such a little amount of time. CCR has always been one of my favorite groups and will always be. Great video!
I have my fathers' helicopter flight helmet from the Vietnam conflict. He had a Playboy bunny painted on the front, and Mammy Yokum from Dogpatch on the back. When you take it out of its cover, you put it next to your ear and listen very closely you can hear the sound of chopper blades, gunfire, and..."Fortunate Son".
Back in 1987 or 88, John came to the Oshkosh Air Show in Wisconsin. He was staying in a Holiday Inn along with many WW2 aircraft owners. My friend gave him a ride in his P-51 and that night in the club , I was at a front table. About 10 PM , he and his followers came in and assumed a table higher up in the club. It was not long before the band started Proud Mary and stopped almost immediately. Then the leader said, let's get the writer of this song down here to play it for us. John came down and played a set of songs with the band. He saw us sitting near the stage and when he finished came directly to our table and sat down next to me. What happened next is why I am writing this story. While the band continued to play, their girl friends and wives were sitting behind us and started to berate John for taking away whatever from the band members, they were very rude and insulting. After a bit of time he turned around and apologized that they felt that way as it was not intended. He was a Saint from where I sat. He told the women that the band was one of the best he had ever worked without a practice. They still ragged on him and he was a perfect gentleman!. After the club closed he and I went to a private room set for VIPs with drinks and food where we talked until nearly 4 AM. One of the best nights of my life, with a great man. Hope you see this John, thanks for the memories.
My very first vinyl record album was CCR's "Willi and the Poor Boys" when I was in the seventh grade in 1970. I still have it as well as "Chronicles". I made a huge poster of "Bad News Rising" the next year which hung in my bedroom. Thanks for turning on "the way back machine" and taking us all on this journey.
I saw John Fogerty perform at the State Theater in Portland, Maine in 2005. He sang Bad Moon Rising near the end of his set and I was delighted when he sang "there's a bathroom on the right". I didn't see anyone at all react to it, but I got a big kick out of it. Thanks for what you do. I love it!.
Love them. Have You Ever Seen the Rain is one of my all time favs. When my sis rode to Nashville with her friend years ago and the friend started singing along to Bad Moon but singing Bathroom on the Right. My sis was laughing so hard but her friend insisted that was the correct lyrics. Her friend has passed now but we still laugh about it. CCR put out great music and you can’t argue with the fact that nobody has a voice like John. They were so great during the late 60’s and into the 70’s (and beyond) you couldn’t turn on a radio without hearing them. Great times. Great video Prof.
Bad Moon will live forever, because it's one of those songs you can learn on your first day playing guitar. D, A, & G, are some of the first chords one learns, and everyone knows the rhythm.
Prof... You have made my day, a LIFETIME! I have never misheard or misquoted that line... EVER but have always sung "There's a bathroom on the right"! Just because it's so damn funny! You have truly lightened my evening! Rock n Roll Prof!
What's so extraordinary is in over 2 years of their very short career that they produced 5 classic albums debut in 1968 green River,bayou country and Willie and the poor boys in 1969 and cosmos factory and pendulum in 1970 all in a 2 year span and an amazing collection of albums that are timeless classics
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 yes it certainly does Cosmo's factory is my favorite CCR album although it's practically a greatest hits album it's deep cuts like the epic opener of wangle tangle and the 11 minute remake of I heard it through the grapevine that makes it even better actually all of CCR's albums have an epic track that's the best deep cuts on their albums to
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 ok so I've got a correction to make here I meant ramble.tamble not wangle tangle lol just forgot the song title off the top of my head there, so I've got a favorite John Fogerty sola album that many people don't like and it's 1986's eye of the zombie it's a fantastic album that has some of his best songs since Cosmo's factory such as the title track, headlines, violence is golden, change in the weather and sail away there are some corny tracks on the album to but it's definitely worth a listen for those songs I mentioned
My father introduced me to CCR. In fact he gave me the nickname Suzy-Q because he first heard that song on the radio on his way to the hospital to see me after I was born. When JF released his solo album in the 80's (Centerfield), I had to have it. I have always loved the sound.
I grew up in the 80s. Mainly into metal but everyone heard all these songs wether they liked them or not. The stories you share are fascinating either way. Dig your show man.
I remember back in the 60's and 70's not really liking CCR, but when Fogerty made a comeback in the 80's, I really liked him, and gained appreciation for CCR. Thanks Professor!
CCR....such a great band!! Bad Moon Rising is definitely one of my favorites by them. My Mom was a huge fan of theirs and I always thought that was so cool that she liked the same music from when I grew up. CCR is an American treasure. I am a very big fan!! Takes me back to my childhood....
it started with Proud Mary. Dylan told Fogarty that if he didn't start playing Proud Mary, everyone will think it's Tina Turner's song. The end of CCR was more like an implosion - their last album was terrible because John let the other guys write songs for it, and they weren't good at all.
@TechGuy-sv3ptFogerty in the 70s and 80s was beset by legal problems over the loss of his song rights and his subsequent refusal to play any of his songs live.
LOVE CCR! It's got that swamp-rock sound that is so amazing (which is odd, since they're from California, not Louisiana). "Run Through the Jungle" is probably my favorite of theirs.
Love Fogerty. He wrote so many hits in two years, it made Lennon & McCartney's head spin. Was so glad to hear that he won his decades long court battles. The man is a national treasure.
The one misheard CCR lyric that always stuck with me was in “Down on the Corner”. The actual lyric was “Willie goes into a dance and doubles on kazoo” but what I heard was “Devil’s on the loose”. Apparently, that misheard lyric was also relayed to John so when he wrote “Run Through The Jungle”, he deliberately put that line at the end of the first verse: “Whoa, thought it was a nightmare Lord, it's all so true They told me, don't go walking slow The devil's on the loose”
Chronicle was among the first five CDs I bought when they were initially available. I remember hearing Bad Moon Rising on the radio and specifically remember the scene from American Werewolf in London in which it was featured. My dad let my brother and I see the movie even though it was rated R. He was cool like that!🖖🏼
I must say that this awesome song for me is forever tied up with „An American Werewolf in London“ 😄! It was one of my favorite movies back than and this song was a perfect fit!!!
@ericschulze5641 Landis directed An American Werewolf in London and also one of the chapters in Twilight Zone: The Movie. The Landis segment is infamous for the on set accident that killed actor, Vic Morrow and two children working as extras. John Lithgow starred in the final chapter of Twilight Zone: The Movie, as a passenger on an airplane who sees a gremlin on the wing. That was directed by George Miller, who was famous for his Mad Max movies (and later for his Babe series about a talking pig).
@@mperezmcfinn2511what's the movie where at the end Lithgow is driving a car or cab and bad moon comes on & he says I love credence? I could swear it was twighlight zone
Johnny Rivers smash hit,”Secret Asian Man,” Pearl Jam’s “Glorified version of a Pelican,” and,”Don’t call me daughter, not fair to… the picture cat will remind me…”
I always enjoyed the sound with both Fogerty's better. This is over half a century ago, and everyone still sings and plays them. They are American folk songs, the foundation of our sound.
Ccr and John Fogerty were my Dad's favorite band. Like yourself, my dad was a rock n roll dad. I was a rock n roll son. My favorite band was kiss. We'd have playful debates over Kiss and Ccr, Dad always won. After turning 18, I gave in and fell in love with Ccr. At the age of 27, my dad and I went to see John Fogerty together. Just myself and Dad. He passed 3 years later. It's my most treasured evening with my dad. Thanks Professor. You always bring back the good memories.
Another very human and engaging chronicle of the history and creation of such an iconic song! As usual, well done, Doc!!! I grew up in the same area as CCR and one of my first jobs was only a few blocks away from where they grew up and got their start. Also, I went to what I believe was the first show that John did where he was able to play his own music again! At the Oakland Coliseum if I remember correctly... I remember him talking about it, he didn't appreciate the past, but he's such a positive guy that he said we've got to move on and enjoy what we have. Again wise words! I've seen John quite a few times since then and I highly recommend it!
One of my favorite pianists Bob Malone (who also performs with Fogerty) made a blues rock interpretation on his album Good People in 2021. I love the jazz elements, as well as the suttle reharmonization. Pretty cool video break down on my favorite songs! (Smile)
CCR is a treasure of classic American Rock regardless of your political spectrum. You have to appreciate the talent. I personally … love their music. If, but and however. You do have to understand what some of the content means and appreciate it even if you didn’t agree with their themes. I think I can, because I believe my military career stood to defend everyone’s point of view and freedom to speak it. If nothing else. I think your analysis of Bad Moon Rising is, as always, just spot on, Professor. My main point is off topic of that, but that another great CCR song, “Fortunate Son” was a favorite of deployed units to use as the background song in making Hooah videos of their operations. Our guys put one together from my last deployment to OEF and used Fortunate Son for videos of our helicopter ops. Being one of the Senior Warrants in our brigade, they were pretty stoked to show me before they uploaded it to social media, like our unit FB page. It was great, but I asked them if they knew what the background of the song was or what the lyrics even meant. They weren’t really understanding. I just advised them that first, it was written in a time when the draft was still active and it was about young men who didn’t have a say about going to war and that we were all volunteers. Also, there’s a gigantic element of mistrust of senior military leaders in it and I told them probably most importantly, the band might not like, probably wouldn’t like, their anti-war classic turned into the exact opposite thing. And there’s Hooah videos out there with Bad Moon Rising too. I just always wondered if the band ever saw any of them and what they might have thought.
I love CCR! It's the stuff I listened to on the radio when I was little ('cause, you know, I'm old). When I got a CD player, of course "Chronicle" was one of the first CD's I bought.
Jeff Lynn did a similar thing with the song Don't Bring Me Down, the lyric is "Don't bring me down, groos" but the fans misheard it and sang Bruce, whenever ELO performed it live, Jeff decided to give in and started singing Bruce himself and he still does to this day.
Bad Moon Rising is one of my favorite songs of all time, and I absolutely LOVED the way it was used in American Werewolf in London - truly inspired use in the transformation scene. So sorry to realize that yet another crap contract leveled the band - that happened WAY too often in the music industry. One of my best friends in grade school had their album Green River, which is how I fell in love with the band. I've always loved them and still do today. 💞💞💞
@iscovidoveryet7828 Agreed. How is John Fogerty NOT going to sound like John Fogerty? What was he supposed to do? Sing in falsetto? Not to mention that he was also the primary songwriter. Spurious and asinine lawsuit.
ZZ Top Sharp Dressed Man for many years I sang, Jive Ass Man. It kinda worked with surrounding lyrics. Until one day I was singing it while driving a girl around on a first date, trying to impress her. After the song was over, she enlightened me about the lyrics. After that she called me, Jive Ass Man everytime she saw me. Needless to say things didn't work out. She saw me years later at the mall, I was renting a tux for my brother's wedding, she stuck her head in the store and yelled at me, Oh now you want to be a Sharp Dressed Man !! I had to think for a minute and then busted out laughing. I had to explain to my friends and others in the store. To them it wasn't that funny. I tracked her down in the mall. We have been married for 25 years. I met John Fogerty when my dad Dickie Harrell drummer of the band Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps and my uncle backup singer Tommy Facenda. We were backstage at John's Concert at VA Beach Amp They presented him with a Bluecap like the band wore and made him an honorary Bluecap. They did that because John had been the one who inducted Gene Vincent and the Bluecaps into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The were talking about misheard lyrics because one of Gene's song was banded from the radio because of a misheard lyric on one of their songs. I was going to say something about my misheard ZZ Top lyric story, but my wife stopped me😂
Everybody needs at least one Creedence tape 🤠 They were just so damn awesome I can listen to them constantly with the only thing wrong them is not making enough albums! Roll on CCR!! (& hell ya I had Chronicle on tape!)
i guess you mean the cassette i had one also still have a few teuck stop best ofs friends oldee brother had the 8 track also ps you cam get the double vinly reissue now but is over 40 retail store local
Something magical about learning about the music we loved growing up and seeing new facets of it to make us fall in love with it again. Really appreciate your channel for this, Prof. :)
Growing up I once saw my brother with his cassette tape walkman enthusiastically singing "I'm a maaaan not a woman!" along to When A Man Loves A Woman... Amazing.
I've always felt bad for John fogerty. Dude was such a talented, prolific songwriter for sure. Jealousy from his bandmates and the way he was mistreated by the (expletive) people in the music industry is tragic, actually. Bad Moon Rising" is a very iconic song. I never considered the dichotomy between the music and the lyrics, though but now that you mention it, I do see it. Can't wait to see that movie you are talking about. I was so happy when he came back with his song "The Old Man". Love that you brought in Jerry Lee Lewis to this video! John is truly one of the greatest of all time, this song is amazing and it is as much of a travesty that it didn't hit #1 as it was what happened professionally to this man. No apocalypse so far Thank God, maybe just a little nasty weather. Cheers from Ottawa, Canada🍁
@@fmbbeachbum8163hmmm then why was he sued for sounding like himself? I understand that ego is a big issue in RnR but that wasn’t only JF, it was all of them.
I loved and love CCR. I had every album and, of course, Chronicle. The songs are classic and the band is classic. I heard John Fogerty on "Austin City Limits" on PBS singing "Bad Moon on the Rise" and he intentionally sang "bathroom on the right" and got the crowd singing it too. It was a hugh chuckle. I love to this day listening to anything they did. This 77 year old thought and still thinks they were about the best!
Thanks for your stories. I play in a band, and we cover Bad Moon Rising. Sometime after we learned it, the guitarist said "there's a bathroom on the right," and we include it in the lyrics. It's part of our show: before we play the song, I'll say "I'm gonna need a mens' room - it's up on the right, isn't it?" Then we play the song, and for the first chorus we sing "there's a bathroom on the right." Geographically, we are just North of Lodi CA, which we consider the home of CCR. I don't know whether our guitarist came up with the phrase independently, or heard it through some vocal grapevine.
Speaking of cover bands, what infuriates me is when some act covers Devo's "Freedom of Choice" because 9 out of 10 times they sing "freedom of choice is what you got -- freedom of choice is what you want" when it's actually "freedom of choice is what you got -- freedom *from* choice is what you want" and that's the *entire point of the song!!!*
As an aside, I love that you have the Big Chill soundtrack album displayed. Really great selection of songs of the 60's - 70's. My hubs took me to see that movie on our first date, and the rest, as they say, is history.
My Dad is all about instrumental music. Never listens to anything with words. One day in the early 1980s, he and his wife came home from some store with this pair of shelf size speakers. With AA batteries and no wires, this they could blare out whatever music was on the boombox next to it. It was CCR they were playing for the neighborhood. Everybody came outside to see where this sound was coming from. All of this was going on while my Father was singing along with the music!!!! Amazed does not begin to tell my reaction. I knew the words. I was in my early twenties and had been listening to music for almost ten years at this point. I thought I knew all there was to know about music. Turns out I didn't know squat about music and still don't. But I love the Professor of Rock.
I was at that CCR show at the Fillmore!!! I was a freshman at Stanford it was my very first live concert ever. I’m 73 almost 74 now and that concert turned me into a huge CCR fan. What a small world to actually have attended a concert The Professor talks about in a video. Great memories.
My parents were a part of the Baby Boomer Generation and they both really liked CCR’s music. I remember hearing a song or two of theirs on a local AM radio station growing up as a kid. The first time I heard the “bathroom on the right” misheard lyric was on a SNL Wayne’s World Special where they had a Top 5 misheard lyrics. It was pretty funny and I’ve referenced the song with the misheard lyric ever since. I have since downloaded the CCR greatest hits from iTunes.
No one ever mentions their most haunting and excellent song, “Effigy”. So good! Then check out Son Volt’s gorgeous cover. The song is powerful. A deep cut.
Far and away my favorite CCR song, it’s been a few years since we’ve done it but my siblings and I used to be able to all play it pretty well together.
Our ancient traveling jokes are to 1) sing “On the road againnnn . . .” at the start of a trip, and after every rest stop, 2) sing “There’s a bathroom on the right . . .” when one of us _needs_ a rest stop. 3) sing “We gonna walk down to / Kmart* and buy some shoes; / they only cost a dollah . . .” when someone spots a sign for the store from the highway. *now, it’s “Walmart.” Another great video, Professor!
I am both astonished and appalled to learn CCR never had a #1 hit! Also, I can literally say I have never heard of the misheard lyrics you spoke of on here. "Bad Moon Rising" has been my second favorite song by CCR for about 20 years (prior to that, it was my absolute favorite, but it was at that time when I heard "Long As I Can See the Light," which immediately replaced it at the top of the list), and even when I was little (late 70s/early 80s) I always understood what he was saying just fine. Speaking of "Long As I Can See the Light," if you want to cover the story behind that one, I would love to hear it! Or "Up Around the Bend" (which I still say had one of the greatest guitar riffs EVER; I will die on that hill!). Love your videos, and been subscribed for at least a couple years now. I have to admit, though, that I don't watch most of your videos. I'm generally not interested in the story behind music that lies outside of my own musical tastes, and since you don't name the song, or even the artist in the video titles, I only watch when it's someone I recognize and am interested in since you generally have the artist pictured in the thumbnail, unless a video title catches my eye (but in a lot of those cases I end up only watching the first few minutes as it usually ends up being a song or artist that I don't like or don't know).
It's really amazing that John himself was prophesying about the future with out realizing it. Neil Peart did the same thing in many of Rush's songs as well. Hey God works in mysterious ways !
Best rock group period. Had all but one album of theirs and was given Chronicles as a gift. Still stand at attention when I hear their music. Heard it through the Grapevine is superb.
CCR is one of my favorites sooo many great songs. One of those bands you pop on the record,CD, cassette and just let it play and enjoy 99% of the albums 👍
I listened to this song on radio and in bars and poolrooms from the jukebox and never misunderstood the lyrics. I only heard of it many years later from others. "There's a bad moon on the rise" was always clear.
Chronicles was the very first cassette tape that I owned, I got it for Christmas way back in the mid 80's. It's heartbreaking to hear of them getting screwed over by their record label.
Good video, great song...besides the bathroom on the right, how about "Scuse me while I kiss this guy!" from Hendrix Purple Haze?!?! Or the Eagles Hotel California "on a dark desert highway...Cool Whip in my hair!" ?!?!
Another great video. I’ve got to add, I got two pair of Zenni glasses six months ago. Best eyewear decision I’ve ever made. Both frames and lenses are great. Getting all the lens add-ons does add up, but it’s still less expensive than local shops. My previous optician/eyewear shops gave me glasses that just didn’t work well for distance. I did my own prescription tweaking, sent it off to Zenni, and I just love these glasses.
I'm impressed that, despite how things were at the time, the members of CCR didn't do drugs or get drunk. In my mind, that makes them craftsmen, those dedicated to "doing the job right", and that always earns my respect. Always loved their songs, but that puts a new spin on it for me.
I saw a video of Fogerty singing "Bad Moon Rising" is fairly recent years, and sure enough, on the last stanza, he did sing "There's a bathroom on the right," with a gesture of his hand to to the right to emphasize it.
Well, we need some music for this chopper scene here in Vietnam, so you got one of three choices: Fortunate Son, Paint it Black, or For What It's Worth.
I was very young when I first heard CCR. I enjoyed listening to them then and to this day when they come on the radio I turn up the sound. I believe if they started their band today they would fall more into the country genre. Love the fact the CCR members made a pact not to do drugs and alcohol. Thank you CCR for not polluting your sound, your minds, and your actions. Love the sound of John Fogherty's voice. When I hear John Mellencamp sing I think of John Fogherty. I know they don't sound the same, I do think that John M could do a good job singing some CCR songs. Hope he sees this post. Thank you for making this video on CCR's Bad Moon Rising and CCR. Also, thank you CCR for the music and showing that being drug and alcohol free in the music scene is possible.❤🌚
I'm the same age, but was already into music before the Beatles, because my mom was a classical pianist, my dad was a jazz pianist, and my older sisters were into rock. My inspirations to take up guitar were Wes Montgomery, Paul Simon, and classical guitarist John Williams. But I also fell in love with the Beatles when we saw them on the Ed Sullivan Show. ❤
Thank you for this facinating reveal of why the band fell apart and what kind of person Mr. Forgerty was and hardship he endured to somehow keep going. I never knew about the drug free stance the band had. This was a great band with an amazing string of hits. 'I Put A Spell On You' definitely put a spell on me in the beginning with this band and even his great solo tune 'Center Field' just made me happy every listening. Peace!
I'm 57, born in '66, so I wasn't around and into music yet when CCR became popular, but their legacy was there and very prevalent as I came into my first years of my musical journey. Everyone I knew loved them and their songs. They certainly left a strong following in the short time they were together
As a grade-schooler, I had two different friends that had terribly misheard lyrics. One thought the Go-Go’s “Our lips are sealed” was “Honest Lucille” and the other thought Pink Floyd’s “No dark sarcasm in the classroom” line from Another Brick In The Wall was “No ducks or chasms in the classroom.”
Poll: What is your pick for the BEST MISHEARD lyric of all time?
"She's got electric boobs."
🎶 *...."TWO POP TARTS....two tarts, that beat as Oneeee...." ...* 🎶 ...Stacey Q could've REALLY made a killing on the sweets market! ...ha-HAAA!! ....gotta GO..... ; )
"The sheep don't like it
Rock the Cat Box"
The Clash
Gruce as Bruce in Dont Bring Me Down! I saw a concert where Lynne told the story behind it, & how he eventually said “f*ck it its Bruce”🤣🤘🍻
ELO: Don’t Bring Me Down- Correct: groos. Misheard: Bruce.
The Eagles: One Of These Nights- Correct: In between the dark and the light. Misheard: In between the rum and the rye.
as a 75 year old with fading memory, your channel is just what i need to keep the old times alive. thanks for what you do. thoroughly enjoy.
I hear that brother!!!!
Amen brother, amen!!
He said MLK died 3 years after JFK. It was 5.
I knew it was gonna be "There's a Bathroom on the Right". 🤣
My drunk friends butchered another lyric by The Steve Miller Band. Instead of singing "Big Ol' Jet Airliner" they'd sing, "Big Ol' Jet Hadda A Light On!!". 😵💫🤣
@@SuperDenise128 It was indeed. I remember both, though I was still in grade school at the time.
My brother-in-law’s name is Roland. Roland’s life has consisted of three things: welding, fishing and building boats. Since I was a kid I’ve always sang “Roland on the river”.
Yes, I fully understand what your brother went through, however, I think you missed the third thing he goes through which is everyone calling him Ronald so often that he just answers to it.
Yes, I fully understand what your brother went through, however, I think you missed the third thing he goes through which is everyone calling him Ronald so often that he just answers to it.
My dad's name is Roland and is also a fan of fishing. He got the same thing! LOL.
My wife's cousin's name was also Roland and her uncle used to play that song very often when she was living with them,she says that she used to sing it as Roland on the river and still did, until I pointed out to her that it was in fact,Rollin on the river.😅😅😅😅
@@rcannon409 My last name is Rodger, I'm just used to saying it and then spelling it, I was at the chemist the other day and another gentleman came in and gave his name, Rogers R-O-G-E-R-S, I smiled.
I've always loved both CCR as a band & John Fogarty as a solo artist. Great classic rock music.
Same.
Fogarty is just a pure example of musical genius and workhorse
It’s strange to me how nobody ever talks about CCR’s cover of I Heard It Through The Grapevine. It was insanely good! Of course, most of their catalog is.
Agreed!
Dont forget " I put a spell on you "
The fascinating part to me is that they blew the lyrics to Marvin Gaye's song. I wonder if they had hearing issues. Marvin's lyrics were so profound. Marvin's version, "People say believe half of what you see, Son, and none of what you hear." Versus CCR "People say, "You hear from what you see Not, not, not from what you hear" But having nonsensical lyrics doesn't hurt because just as someone is thinking, "I am confused" they are singing, "I can't help but be confused."
It’s not. CCR’s covers suck.
Agreed! That's a really fun song to play on the drums
I gotta tell you man. You've got the cadence down. It's almost like listening to Casey. Perfect pitch, soothing movement through events, with an almost Paul Harvey reveal of "the mystery tune" gives the whole thing a beautiful feeling. Makes me feel connected to this music again in a way I can't explain. Thanks man. Keep it up.
Loved CCR right out of the gate. Born on the Bayou was my introduction. Went to Viet Nam just after Proud Mary was released and I took CCR's music with me on my journey. When I came home in June of 1970, I found out that they were coming to Cleveland Oh in a few weeks. Got a couple of tickets and went to the show. It was great to see my heroes playing the songs that saw me through 12 months of the hot country.
Murry Hill, when I lived in Cleveland I loved going to that place, good food, clean streets, Italian babes all over the place, a lot nicer neighborhood than where I lived on West 65th St.
You probably paid $10 for a ticket. I remember concerts being $6 in the '70s. That was 2-3 hours pay. Today, it's a week's pay on some. Some are 2-3 months pay. Some pay $10,000 for front row seats. Status and perceived image rules the day.
I was a teen in the 70s, and times have changed. People, including kids, are so depressed, and unhappy. Dating is a thing of the past it seems. Swip right to ignore, swipe left and F..... Or just pay some photoshopped gal monthly and jack away. I'm so glad I grew up when I did.
@@jeffcampbell2710 Thank you. I am a member so I can ride coach any old time except special events, those'll cost me extra. As to concerts, I can watch live music on the TH-cam , not even premium.
I was with an army Chinook helicopter unit in Vietnam, we flew missions most of the day but at night, oh yeah at night, the music was wild. Creedence, Steppenwolf, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and who could ever forget "Time Has Come Today" by The Chambers Brothers or even "We Gotta Get Outta This Place" by The Animals; It wasn't the insanity of those times that kept us sane, it was the music!
@@WayneClarke-e2s Yes sir, thank you for your service, I'm glad that we are sitting here more than 50 years later still enjoying those same tunes.
After my dad passed away in 2020 I started playing the music he loved more often. CCR is one of those bands I got really invested in listening to. They had always just been part of the background of my life. Now I understand why my dad liked them so much.
I started getting into them over the past few years, I wasn't into them much before, but they clicked with me eventually.
My fondest memory of CCR (Bad Moon) was my Grandma turning up the volume as loud as she could grinning ear to ear. My sister and I would smile and dance. We didnt expect her, a pianist and Sunday school teacher, to love the music so loud! We sure did! And, I still do. Thanks PoR for the memory of my beloved grandma whose been in heaven nearly 20 years. I have several of her vinyls, CCR she played was one. ❤ You have a way of making the music come alive! ❤
I've seen John Fogerty live a couple of times in my life. I can distinctly recall him singing "there's a bathroom on the right" in the second to last chorus, just before the end of the song. I also remember him scratching his head with his index finger, a symbolic gesture to the crowd as if to say, "You guys really think those are the lyrics???" I used to have his Premonition album, and I believe he also sang that line there as well.
Way back in 1970 or 71 I was 7/8 years old and just learning to play the piano. My Dad’s youngest brother was 20 and played keyboards in a band. Dad & I called passed Nan’s one afternoon after my music lesson and Uncle Phill asked me to show him what I was learning. I was being classically trained, so I played the pieces I was learning. He listened, said that I was doing well..but now he was going to show me what *real* music was..and he put CCR on the record player and turned the volume up. I’ve never forgotten it, or the fact that many years later he got to take his own 20 yo son to see CCR..and now we’ll into his ‘70’s, he still plays in a band, at nursing homes for the folk of his generation, who love it!
When he performed at the Morris Performing Arts Center, in South Bend, Indiana, he sang "there's a bathroom to the right", and pointed to the right side of the stage, where there is, indeed, a bathroom. To the right.
AWESOME! Love it.
Were you there?
Hilarious!!🤣
It’s “on the right.” 🤦🏻♂️
😂
The Rolling Stones "Ill never be your beast of burden", my friend sang " Ill never be your pizza burnin"
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Gruce changed to Bruce in Dont Be Down!!
Ha ha!
Love it!
That’s awesome 😂😂😂
My father was in WWII, Korea, and eventually Viet Nam. I ultimately understood Duty and Country, but "Fortunate Son" was always my favorite CCR song. Having been a child and losing his Father for over a year to fight in a war that we had no business fighting, the song still resonates with me to this day.
Do you support the war in Ukraine?
Timothy I'm sorry for your loss. Thank you for your father's service.
@@testicletanning4453
Probably not, since Ukraine is one we have ZERO business in.
But Ole Joe and the Ukraine government are tag teaming($) so.......😉
My Uncle James fought in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. He married our mum's older sister Ena and she emigrated to the States with him after WWII from Cardiff, Wales UK. In the '60s he was stationed in Lincoln, NE and my aunt summoned our mum to come visit. Aunt Ena took our mum to go see my Dad and Uncle George's (Jorge) band's gig at the University of Nebraska where they both attended as engineering students. They were both immigrant students from Bolivia. My twin brother and me arrived on the scene pretty quickly after that meeting. And that is how Welsh/Bolivians are minted in Lincoln, NE... lol. Uncle James was the very catalyst for us ever existing. He was also a second father to my twin brother and me. He taught us how to wrench cars. Cancer took him slow in the early '90s... I am very grateful for all his love and guidance. He retired from the Air Force as Chief Master Sgt head of the MPs on McChord Air Base in Lakewood, WA.
McChord is also where a young Airman would soak up all the Soul and Funk grooves from the other black Airmen musicians from the South that he served with him at McChord. When that kid got out of the Air Force, he became the drummer for one of my fav bands Tower of Power. I had no idea David Garibaldi spent time in our 'hood when we were just young kids.
Cool Story!--& we thank him for his service...👍
I grew up with this music and took for granted that this was the way music would always be. I was wrong. Which is why I still go back to the music of my childhood and youth. It’s not nostalgia. It’s the fact that the music is still fresh and relevant.
Don't you thrill to the droning on and on of rap? 😂Born in later fifties by the way.
Absolutely! Grew up in a musical household in the 50s.
Really heard CCR the first time from a jukebox that played 45s at a campground in 1971. It was a magical time when you grew up and heard music that way. Dreaming of the day you could actually own a vinyl record of your own. Till then, you were at the mercy of waiting for the song to be heard again on your parent's radio in the car usually. Still is my sanctuary. Listening to Rock n roll on a road trip. ❤
same we had a local pizza restaurant had a jukebox with 45s a quarter ccr was one always picked also had ice cream shop had the flip 45s at the table you picked out same like a quarter i was looking at ttables vinlys antique store booth they had a restored jukebox was like how cool to have one then looked at the price wow couldnt believe was like 3 thousand
Discovering different songs and artists along the way while waiting for the song you wanted!
I remember hearing the Beatles's HELP! that way. Those barbershop chords...
Andof course a few years later in the cassette era there was nothing worse than chasing a radio song and never being able to tape it off the radio from the beginning, you always tuned in near the end. I remember our first cassette deck, we thought you had to be quiet when recording from the radio or it would pick up your voice. I vividly remember seeing the reel taking up tape and being shushed.
When I was a kid in the 1970s, I asked my dad where the restaurant bathroom was located and he sang, "There's the bathroom on the right" while pointing in the direction of the bathroom door. To this day, I still remember him doing that!
My dad grew up in grinding poverty and in a dysfunctional home. He dropped out of high school after the 10th grade and joined the US Army in 1960.
A couple of years into his four-year hitch, he was asked to volunteer to go to Vietnam to serve as an advisor. He told me that he remembered a corporal telling his unit, "Don't EVER volunteer for ANYTHING!" He then admitted that he had never heard of Vietnam before. Remembering his corporal's voice, he DID NOT volunteer.
When I was in my 20s, I was helping my dad do some work in my parents' basement. He had the radio playing, and "Fortunate Son" began playing. I'll never forget my dad getting a a somber expression on his face as he said, "It ain't me; It ain't me." That was all he said.
My dad was a good man who had been dealt a bad hand in life. There was probably a bad moon on the rise when he was born.
Respect to your Dad. A man who strives with all he's got through decades for his family is a good man.
In 1969 I had all of the CCR albums on 8-track tape in my pickup. My Mom always told me she could hear my music playing in my truck before she could hear my truck. 60 years later I’m still a fan. Except now it’s playing on my motorcycle at high volume.
Not only do I have "CHRONICLE" but hanging on my wall, with a 2-tone orange, and green label, is a 45 (rpm, for anyone who doesn't know) of "BAD MOON RISING" bought at the AAFES Public Exchange (PX) in Dallas, Texas. It was a late Christmas gift that arrived on January 23, 1976 (The PX wrote a note on the sleeve that they had notified my mom of its arrival.) The B side is "LODI" I can't tell you how many times this spun on my old suitcase-looking record player. It's amazing that it made it through all my rough times & is still in the plain white sleeve, still clean with no scratches or warping.
I always knew the words because I would play my favorite songs over & over with my earphone connected until I knew every word. But I can't listen to or even sing the song in my head with anything but the real true lyrics: "There's a bathroom on the right."
Creedence Clearwater Revival is one of the greatest classic rock bands. During the summer of 1987 The Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan did a stadium tour and John Fogerty opened. He played a lot of the CCR stuff and it was great. I saw this show at the Oakland Coliseum and I was blown away. So many CCR songs came through the radio when I was a kid that my whole early musical life was built on them and the Eagles and the Beatles.
Still crank it up when CCR plays on the radio. I sing along so terribly.
I know!! Gosh!!
Totally kidding
@@tracycase4520 hahaha
Just sing for yourself & the Lord, & make a joyful noise!!
Just saw John Fogerty with his son. Played all CCR and solo music. One of my best concerts.
I had not heard the "there's a bathroom on the right!" My favorite twisted lyric comes from England Dan and John Ford Coley, "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight;" "I'm not talkin' bout the linen and I don't want to change your tire..."😆
In 1975, I got my sister’s ‘64 Chevy Malibu, which had an 8-track player in it. My favorite tape was CCR, and I would play it all the time. Also, my cousin would play drums to that same album in his basement. I loved CCR and John Fogerty. It was the music of my youth and I’m forever grateful for growing up with such great music. ❤
8 tracks were such a strange medium as the program often changed in the middle of songs. To this day i still hear that odd "kachunk"on many classic rock tunes, inserted by my "way back" brain when listening to the radio....weird.
"Bad Moon Rising" with "Lodi" on the B-side is one of the greatest singles ever released. In the same stratosphere as many of the Beatles' great pairings.
Indeed it is!
I have to take a listen to Lodi again!
“Rode into town on a Greyhound bus,
I’ll be walking out if I go”
That line made me turn my life around.
“Lodi” is my favorite song by CCR.
Professor, there's a loophole to CCR never reaching number 1 on Billboard's Hot 100. In July 2021, "Have You Ever Seen The Rain" topped the Rock Digital Song Sales Chart. It's a crime that they never hit #1 on the Hot 100.
That should be their compensation.
Only if you really care about those charts. I don't put much stock in them or halls of fame.
The only band that everyone listened to in my high school so... no one gives a feck about #1s during another stupid war.
It's only Billboard Pop Charts that they didn't hit #1. They hit #1 on the Pop Charts of Cashbox, Record World & Gavin Report. I believe Billboard is more political than the other magazines. "Proud Mary" #1 on RW/GR, "Bad Moon Rising" #1 on RW/GR, & "Looking Out My Back Door" #1 on CB/RW.
We listened to our father's 8-Track tapes on endlessly long trips in the early 70s. I've never heard this 'misheard' lyric mentioned before. That being said, for many years I never understood a lot of the words in Fogerty's songs until I was able to find the lyrics online. I love that he told so many stories in such a little amount of time. CCR has always been one of my favorite groups and will always be. Great video!
I have my fathers' helicopter flight helmet from the Vietnam conflict. He had a Playboy bunny painted on the front, and Mammy Yokum from Dogpatch on the back. When you take it out of its cover, you put it next to your ear and listen very closely you can hear the sound of chopper blades, gunfire, and..."Fortunate Son".
Huge CCR fan myself, but every time I hear them, I feel like my brother is with me. Just brings him back to me for a few minutes.
My big brother died in 1987, and Fogerty and CCR were beloved. Bittersweet every time.
@@lissobczak7191 Always.
Back in 1987 or 88, John came to the Oshkosh Air Show in Wisconsin. He was staying in a Holiday Inn along with many WW2 aircraft owners. My friend gave him a ride in his P-51 and that night in the club , I was at a front table. About 10 PM , he and his followers came in and assumed a table higher up in the club. It was not long before the band started Proud Mary and stopped almost immediately. Then the leader said, let's get the writer of this song down here to play it for us. John came down and played a set of songs with the band. He saw us sitting near the stage and when he finished came directly to our table and sat down next to me. What happened next is why I am writing this story. While the band continued to play, their girl friends and wives were sitting behind us and started to berate John for taking away whatever from the band members, they were very rude and insulting. After a bit of time he turned around and apologized that they felt that way as it was not intended. He was a Saint from where I sat. He told the women that the band was one of the best he had ever worked without a practice. They still ragged on him and he was a perfect gentleman!. After the club closed he and I went to a private room set for VIPs with drinks and food where we talked until nearly 4 AM. One of the best nights of my life, with a great man. Hope you see this John, thanks for the memories.
CCR Bad moon rising, and Run through the Jungle got me through the war. I still love that stuff.
My very first vinyl record album was CCR's "Willi and the Poor Boys" when I was in the seventh grade in 1970. I still have it as well as "Chronicles". I made a huge poster of "Bad News Rising" the next year which hung in my bedroom. Thanks for turning on "the way back machine" and taking us all on this journey.
I saw John Fogerty perform at the State Theater in Portland, Maine in 2005. He sang Bad Moon Rising near the end of his set and I was delighted when he sang "there's a bathroom on the right". I didn't see anyone at all react to it, but I got a big kick out of it. Thanks for what you do. I love it!.
Love them. Have You Ever Seen the Rain is one of my all time favs. When my sis rode to Nashville with her friend years ago and the friend started singing along to Bad Moon but singing Bathroom on the Right. My sis was laughing so hard but her friend insisted that was the correct lyrics. Her friend has passed now but we still laugh about it. CCR put out great music and you can’t argue with the fact that nobody has a voice like John. They were so great during the late 60’s and into the 70’s (and beyond) you couldn’t turn on a radio without hearing them. Great times. Great video Prof.
Bad Moon will live forever, because it's one of those songs you can learn on your first day playing guitar. D, A, & G, are some of the first chords one learns, and everyone knows the rhythm.
The chord progression is universal!
Learned it at 10 taking a beginner class at local community college
Prof... You have made my day, a LIFETIME!
I have never misheard or misquoted that line... EVER but have always sung "There's a bathroom on the right"! Just because it's so damn funny!
You have truly lightened my evening!
Rock n Roll Prof!
It's a public service message for drunk bar patrons.
My sentiments EXACTLY!
What's so extraordinary is in over 2 years of their very short career that they produced 5 classic albums debut in 1968 green River,bayou country and Willie and the poor boys in 1969 and cosmos factory and pendulum in 1970 all in a 2 year span and an amazing collection of albums that are timeless classics
They also had five #2 hits, including Bad Moon Rising. It really shows their sheer influence.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 yes it certainly does Cosmo's factory is my favorite CCR album although it's practically a greatest hits album it's deep cuts like the epic opener of wangle tangle and the 11 minute remake of I heard it through the grapevine that makes it even better actually all of CCR's albums have an epic track that's the best deep cuts on their albums to
@@georgemathie8123 Their cover of Grapevine is hella good. Cosmo’s Factory also has a great album cover.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 ok so I've got a correction to make here I meant ramble.tamble not wangle tangle lol just forgot the song title off the top of my head there, so I've got a favorite John Fogerty sola album that many people don't like and it's 1986's eye of the zombie it's a fantastic album that has some of his best songs since Cosmo's factory such as the title track, headlines, violence is golden, change in the weather and sail away there are some corny tracks on the album to but it's definitely worth a listen for those songs I mentioned
"there's a bathroom on the right". CCR is great. His music was used in a couple of Vietnam movies too I think
You are right.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Thank you for the confirmation. I need to watch Good Morning Vietnam again. Saw it a long time ago and remember it was good
My father introduced me to CCR. In fact he gave me the nickname Suzy-Q because he first heard that song on the radio on his way to the hospital to see me after I was born. When JF released his solo album in the 80's (Centerfield), I had to have it. I have always loved the sound.
I grew up in the 80s. Mainly into metal but everyone heard all these songs wether they liked them or not. The stories you share are fascinating either way. Dig your show man.
Adam, your joy always brings JOY. Another great one - can't wait to swing back and listen to the rest. Thank you!!!!
Thanks for listening!
I remember back in the 60's and 70's not really liking CCR, but when Fogerty made a comeback in the 80's, I really liked him, and gained appreciation for CCR. Thanks Professor!
Thanks for watching!
Centerfield was not bad for a comeback!
CCR....such a great band!! Bad Moon Rising is definitely one of my favorites by them. My Mom was a huge fan of theirs and I always thought that was so cool that she liked the same music from when I grew up. CCR is an American treasure. I am a very big fan!! Takes me back to my childhood....
it started with Proud Mary. Dylan told Fogarty that if he didn't start playing Proud Mary, everyone will think it's Tina Turner's song.
The end of CCR was more like an implosion - their last album was terrible because John let the other guys write songs for it, and they weren't good at all.
That last album showed they were doomed.
@@TechGuy-sv3ptDisagree; it just took him a while to find his stride again.
@TechGuy-sv3ptFogerty in the 70s and 80s was beset by legal problems over the loss of his song rights and his subsequent refusal to play any of his songs live.
LOVE CCR! It's got that swamp-rock sound that is so amazing (which is odd, since they're from California, not Louisiana). "Run Through the Jungle" is probably my favorite of theirs.
Love Run Through the Jungle!
Run through the jungle is so good!
Mine, too.
Right up there with Green River and Looking Out My Back Door.
I also thought they were from the south for so long!
Love Fogerty. He wrote so many hits in two years, it made Lennon & McCartney's head spin.
Was so glad to hear that he won his decades long court battles. The man is a national treasure.
I hope the b@stards had to pay back every dime they stole from him.
🤬🤬🤬
No, it didn't.
Didn't win. Ultimately, a company purchased Fantasy records and decided to give Fogarty the right to his royalties back.
The one misheard CCR lyric that always stuck with me was in “Down on the Corner”. The actual lyric was “Willie goes into a dance and doubles on kazoo” but what I heard was “Devil’s on the loose”. Apparently, that misheard lyric was also relayed to John so when he wrote “Run Through The Jungle”, he deliberately put that line at the end of the first verse: “Whoa, thought it was a nightmare
Lord, it's all so true
They told me, don't go walking slow
The devil's on the loose”
Whoa! Interesting
Chronicle was among the first five CDs I bought when they were initially available. I remember hearing Bad Moon Rising on the radio and specifically remember the scene from American Werewolf in London in which it was featured. My dad let my brother and I see the movie even though it was rated R. He was cool like that!🖖🏼
Very cool! My dad was the same way> Thanks for sharing.
Ive still never seen it.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 You should definitely watch it!🖖🏼
It was on cable a few times over the weekend. I believe it too was also my introduction to CCR, also saw it way too young, I was probably 6 or 7.
@@D-Fens_1632yikes, I saw the movie as an adult and it terrified me so I cam imagine how you felt as a child that age.
I must say that this awesome song for me is forever tied up with „An American Werewolf in London“ 😄! It was one of my favorite movies back than and this song was a perfect fit!!!
Wasn't that the remake of the twilight zone ? John Lithgow
@@ericschulze5641 He mentions that it was used in both AW in L, AND in TZ.
I can’t not think about An American Werewolf when I hear that song!
@ericschulze5641 Landis directed An American Werewolf in London and also one of the chapters in Twilight Zone: The Movie. The Landis segment is infamous for the on set accident that killed actor, Vic Morrow and two children working as extras. John Lithgow starred in the final chapter of Twilight Zone: The Movie, as a passenger on an airplane who sees a gremlin on the wing. That was directed by George Miller, who was famous for his Mad Max movies (and later for his Babe series about a talking pig).
@@mperezmcfinn2511what's the movie where at the end Lithgow is driving a car or cab and bad moon comes on & he says I love credence? I could swear it was twighlight zone
Johnny Rivers smash hit,”Secret Asian Man,” Pearl Jam’s “Glorified version of a Pelican,” and,”Don’t call me daughter, not fair to… the picture cat will remind me…”
I always enjoyed the sound with both Fogerty's better. This is over half a century ago, and everyone still sings and plays them. They are American folk songs, the foundation of our sound.
Ccr and John Fogerty were my Dad's favorite band. Like yourself, my dad was a rock n roll dad. I was a rock n roll son. My favorite band was kiss. We'd have playful debates over Kiss and Ccr, Dad always won. After turning 18, I gave in and fell in love with Ccr. At the age of 27, my dad and I went to see John Fogerty together. Just myself and Dad. He passed 3 years later. It's my most treasured evening with my dad. Thanks Professor. You always bring back the good memories.
Another very human and engaging chronicle of the history and creation of such an iconic song! As usual, well done, Doc!!!
I grew up in the same area as CCR and one of my first jobs was only a few blocks away from where they grew up and got their start.
Also, I went to what I believe was the first show that John did where he was able to play his own music again! At the Oakland Coliseum if I remember correctly... I remember him talking about it, he didn't appreciate the past, but he's such a positive guy that he said we've got to move on and enjoy what we have. Again wise words! I've seen John quite a few times since then and I highly recommend it!
CCR was an incredible group with incredible songs. A big part of my childhood and growing up.
One of my favorite pianists Bob Malone (who also performs with Fogerty) made a blues rock interpretation on his album Good People in 2021. I love the jazz elements, as well as the suttle reharmonization. Pretty cool video break down on my favorite songs! (Smile)
CCR is a treasure of classic American Rock regardless of your political spectrum. You have to appreciate the talent. I personally … love their music. If, but and however. You do have to understand what some of the content means and appreciate it even if you didn’t agree with their themes. I think I can, because I believe my military career stood to defend everyone’s point of view and freedom to speak it. If nothing else.
I think your analysis of Bad Moon Rising is, as always, just spot on, Professor. My main point is off topic of that, but that another great CCR song, “Fortunate Son” was a favorite of deployed units to use as the background song in making Hooah videos of their operations. Our guys put one together from my last deployment to OEF and used Fortunate Son for videos of our helicopter ops. Being one of the Senior Warrants in our brigade, they were pretty stoked to show me before they uploaded it to social media, like our unit FB page. It was great, but I asked them if they knew what the background of the song was or what the lyrics even meant. They weren’t really understanding. I just advised them that first, it was written in a time when the draft was still active and it was about young men who didn’t have a say about going to war and that we were all volunteers. Also, there’s a gigantic element of mistrust of senior military leaders in it and I told them probably most importantly, the band might not like, probably wouldn’t like, their anti-war classic turned into the exact opposite thing.
And there’s Hooah videos out there with Bad Moon Rising too. I just always wondered if the band ever saw any of them and what they might have thought.
The Fortunate Son video is so important to me.
I love CCR! It's the stuff I listened to on the radio when I was little ('cause, you know, I'm old). When I got a CD player, of course "Chronicle" was one of the first CD's I bought.
Jeff Lynn did a similar thing with the song Don't Bring Me Down, the lyric is "Don't bring me down, groos" but the fans misheard it and sang Bruce, whenever ELO performed it live, Jeff decided to give in and started singing Bruce himself and he still does to this day.
@GaryWayneHill64 Yeah we used to wonder who Bruce was and what he did to bring everyone down.
Bad Moon Rising is one of my favorite songs of all time, and I absolutely LOVED the way it was used in American Werewolf in London - truly inspired use in the transformation scene.
So sorry to realize that yet another crap contract leveled the band - that happened WAY too often in the music industry.
One of my best friends in grade school had their album Green River, which is how I fell in love with the band.
I've always loved them and still do today.
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I was amazed that he got sued for "sounding too much like CCR". WTF? it wasn't someone else doing all the singing for the band....!
@iscovidoveryet7828 Agreed.
How is John Fogerty NOT going to sound like John Fogerty? What was he supposed to do? Sing in falsetto?
Not to mention that he was also the primary songwriter.
Spurious and asinine lawsuit.
ZZ Top Sharp Dressed Man for many years I sang, Jive Ass Man. It kinda worked with surrounding lyrics. Until one day I was singing it while driving a girl around on a first date, trying to impress her. After the song was over, she enlightened me about the lyrics. After that she called me, Jive Ass Man everytime she saw me. Needless to say things didn't work out. She saw me years later at the mall, I was renting a tux for my brother's wedding, she stuck her head in the store and yelled at me, Oh now you want to be a Sharp Dressed Man !! I had to think for a minute and then busted out laughing. I had to explain to my friends and others in the store. To them it wasn't that funny. I tracked her down in the mall. We have been married for 25 years. I met John Fogerty when my dad Dickie Harrell drummer of the band Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps and my uncle backup singer Tommy Facenda. We were backstage at John's Concert at VA Beach Amp They presented him with a Bluecap like the band wore and made him an honorary Bluecap. They did that because John had been the one who inducted Gene Vincent and the Bluecaps into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The were talking about misheard lyrics because one of Gene's song was banded from the radio because of a misheard lyric on one of their songs. I was going to say something about my misheard ZZ Top lyric story, but my wife stopped me😂
Everybody needs at least one Creedence tape 🤠 They were just so damn awesome I can listen to them constantly with the only thing wrong them is not making enough albums! Roll on CCR!! (& hell ya I had Chronicle on tape!)
Roll on! WHat's your CCR top 5?
@@ProfessorofRock 1. Lookin Out My Backdoor
2. It Came Out The Sky
3. Fortunate Sun
4. Ramble Tamble
5. Run Through The Jungle
Creedence TAPE?
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i guess you mean the cassette i had one also still have a few teuck stop best ofs friends oldee brother had the 8 track also ps you cam get the double vinly reissue now but is over 40 retail store local
@@jstnxprsn hehehe Hell Ya!! 🤠
Something magical about learning about the music we loved growing up and seeing new facets of it to make us fall in love with it again. Really appreciate your channel for this, Prof. :)
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Great tune from a great band. Bad Moon Rising is a happy tune with dark lyrics.
Thanks John Fogarty!
Have a great start to the week, Professor!
Thanks Roger!
A BAD moon rising…something ominous.
I finally saw him live with his two sons June 2023. What a show, what a blast he was having up there. He hasn't lost a step.
Growing up I once saw my brother with his cassette tape walkman enthusiastically singing "I'm a maaaan not a woman!" along to When A Man Loves A Woman...
Amazing.
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Was he doing it Bolton style?
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 100% he was, yes
When I was a kid I thought he was singing "there's a baboon on the right." lol
I've always felt bad for John fogerty. Dude was such a talented, prolific songwriter for sure. Jealousy from his bandmates and the way he was mistreated by the (expletive) people in the music industry is tragic, actually. Bad Moon Rising" is a very iconic song. I never considered the dichotomy between the music and the lyrics, though but now that you mention it, I do see it. Can't wait to see that movie you are talking about. I was so happy when he came back with his song "The Old Man". Love that you brought in Jerry Lee Lewis to this video! John is truly one of the greatest of all time, this song is amazing and it is as much of a travesty that it didn't hit #1 as it was what happened professionally to this man. No apocalypse so far Thank God, maybe just a little nasty weather. Cheers from Ottawa, Canada🍁
It so true Gio.
It's!
You don't think John's narcissism was a problem. He's had what 1 or 2 hits since they broke up? The sound was "the entire band".
@@fmbbeachbum8163hmmm then why was he sued for sounding like himself? I understand that ego is a big issue in RnR but that wasn’t only JF, it was all of them.
Doug Clifford is a great drummer.
I loved and love CCR. I had every album and, of course, Chronicle. The songs are classic and the band is classic. I heard John Fogerty on "Austin City Limits" on PBS singing "Bad Moon on the Rise" and he intentionally sang "bathroom on the right" and got the crowd singing it too. It was a hugh chuckle. I love to this day listening to anything they did. This 77 year old thought and still thinks they were about the best!
Thanks for your stories. I play in a band, and we cover Bad Moon Rising. Sometime after we learned it, the guitarist said "there's a bathroom on the right," and we include it in the lyrics. It's part of our show: before we play the song, I'll say "I'm gonna need a mens' room - it's up on the right, isn't it?" Then we play the song, and for the first chorus we sing "there's a bathroom on the right." Geographically, we are just North of Lodi CA, which we consider the home of CCR. I don't know whether our guitarist came up with the phrase independently, or heard it through some vocal grapevine.
Speaking of cover bands, what infuriates me is when some act covers Devo's "Freedom of Choice" because 9 out of 10 times they sing "freedom of choice is what you got -- freedom of choice is what you want" when it's actually "freedom of choice is what you got -- freedom *from* choice is what you want" and that's the *entire point of the song!!!*
Springsteen, "revved up like a deuce" has to be the most misunderstood lyric of all time!
As an aside, I love that you have the Big Chill soundtrack album displayed. Really great selection of songs of the 60's - 70's. My hubs took me to see that movie on our first date, and the rest, as they say, is history.
That is a killer good soundtrack and movie. It's interesting the director's wife picked out the songs. 😊
My Dad is all about instrumental music. Never listens to anything with words. One day in the early 1980s, he and his wife came home from some store with this pair of shelf size speakers. With AA batteries and no wires, this they could blare out whatever music was on the boombox next to it. It was CCR they were playing for the neighborhood. Everybody came outside to see where this sound was coming from. All of this was going on while my Father was singing along with the music!!!! Amazed does not begin to tell my reaction. I knew the words. I was in my early twenties and had been listening to music for almost ten years at this point. I thought I knew all there was to know about music. Turns out I didn't know squat about music and still don't. But I love the Professor of Rock.
Whenever I hear CCR it always takes me back to summer and having parties with friends in parks or camping. Good times
"There's a Bathroom on the right." 🤣🤣🤣
I was at that CCR show at the Fillmore!!! I was a freshman at Stanford it was my very first live concert ever. I’m 73 almost 74 now and that concert turned me into a huge CCR fan. What a small world to actually have attended a concert The Professor talks about in a video. Great memories.
My parents were a part of the Baby Boomer Generation and they both really liked CCR’s music. I remember hearing a song or two of theirs on a local AM radio station growing up as a kid. The first time I heard the “bathroom on the right” misheard lyric was on a SNL Wayne’s World Special where they had a Top 5 misheard lyrics. It was pretty funny and I’ve referenced the song with the misheard lyric ever since. I have since downloaded the CCR greatest hits from iTunes.
"part of the Baby Boomer Generation". Sounds so respectful as compared with the common phrase "OK Boomer"...
No one ever mentions their most haunting and excellent song, “Effigy”. So good! Then check out Son Volt’s gorgeous cover. The song is powerful. A deep cut.
Far and away my favorite CCR song, it’s been a few years since we’ve done it but my siblings and I used to be able to all play it pretty well together.
Our ancient traveling jokes are to
1) sing “On the road againnnn . . .” at the start of a trip, and after every rest stop,
2) sing “There’s a bathroom on the right . . .” when one of us _needs_ a rest stop.
3) sing “We gonna walk down to / Kmart* and buy some shoes; / they only cost a dollah . . .” when someone spots a sign for the store from the highway. *now, it’s “Walmart.”
Another great video, Professor!
CCR is definitely the background band playing in my childhood! ♥️
Where'd you grow up?
@@ProfessorofRock Small town in Alabama near Birmingham.
What’s your favorite CCR song?
I am both astonished and appalled to learn CCR never had a #1 hit! Also, I can literally say I have never heard of the misheard lyrics you spoke of on here. "Bad Moon Rising" has been my second favorite song by CCR for about 20 years (prior to that, it was my absolute favorite, but it was at that time when I heard "Long As I Can See the Light," which immediately replaced it at the top of the list), and even when I was little (late 70s/early 80s) I always understood what he was saying just fine.
Speaking of "Long As I Can See the Light," if you want to cover the story behind that one, I would love to hear it! Or "Up Around the Bend" (which I still say had one of the greatest guitar riffs EVER; I will die on that hill!).
Love your videos, and been subscribed for at least a couple years now. I have to admit, though, that I don't watch most of your videos. I'm generally not interested in the story behind music that lies outside of my own musical tastes, and since you don't name the song, or even the artist in the video titles, I only watch when it's someone I recognize and am interested in since you generally have the artist pictured in the thumbnail, unless a video title catches my eye (but in a lot of those cases I end up only watching the first few minutes as it usually ends up being a song or artist that I don't like or don't know).
It's really amazing that John himself was prophesying about the future with out realizing it. Neil Peart did the same thing in many of Rush's songs as well. Hey God works in mysterious ways !
Best rock group period. Had all but one album of theirs and was given Chronicles as a gift. Still stand at attention when I hear their music. Heard it through the Grapevine is superb.
2:22 King and Bobby Kennedy were killed in 1968, not 1966.
Funny, I’ve never heard them referred to as CCR. We always just called them “Creedance.”
CCR is one of my favorites sooo many great songs. One of those bands you pop on the record,CD, cassette and just let it play and enjoy 99% of the albums 👍
I listened to this song on radio and in bars and poolrooms from the jukebox and never misunderstood the lyrics. I only heard of it many years later from others. "There's a bad moon on the rise" was always clear.
Chronicles was the very first cassette tape that I owned, I got it for Christmas way back in the mid 80's. It's heartbreaking to hear of them getting screwed over by their record label.
Good video, great song...besides the bathroom on the right, how about "Scuse me while I kiss this guy!" from Hendrix Purple Haze?!?! Or the Eagles Hotel California "on a dark desert highway...Cool Whip in my hair!" ?!?!
There's a bathroom on the right 🤣
What does that mean?
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It's a mystery we may never get to the bottom of.
@@thomaspick4123It's a popular misunderstanding of the lyric in this song. I thought it said that as a kid. 😅
Oh yeah. That’s what it sounded like!
Lol that’s what my mom always thought it was
Another great video. I’ve got to add, I got two pair of Zenni glasses six months ago. Best eyewear decision I’ve ever made. Both frames and lenses are great. Getting all the lens add-ons does add up, but it’s still less expensive than local shops. My previous optician/eyewear shops gave me glasses that just didn’t work well for distance. I did my own prescription tweaking, sent it off to Zenni, and I just love these glasses.
I'm impressed that, despite how things were at the time, the members of CCR didn't do drugs or get drunk. In my mind, that makes them craftsmen, those dedicated to "doing the job right", and that always earns my respect. Always loved their songs, but that puts a new spin on it for me.
I saw a video of Fogerty singing "Bad Moon Rising" is fairly recent years, and sure enough, on the last stanza, he did sing "There's a bathroom on the right," with a gesture of his hand to to the right to emphasize it.
I love how Fortunate Son is an anti-war song, but is prominent in almost every war movie.
Since the 1970d most war movies have been anti war, so that makes sense.
Well, we need some music for this chopper scene here in Vietnam, so you got one of three choices: Fortunate Son, Paint it Black, or For What It's Worth.
I always thought that was the point of putting that song in the war movies.
I was very young when I first heard CCR. I enjoyed listening to them then and to this day when they come on the radio I turn up the sound. I believe if they started their band today they would fall more into the country genre. Love the fact the CCR members made a pact not to do drugs and alcohol. Thank you CCR for not polluting your sound, your minds, and your actions. Love the sound of John Fogherty's voice. When I hear John Mellencamp sing I think of John Fogherty. I know they don't sound the same, I do think that John M could do a good job singing some CCR songs. Hope he sees this post.
Thank you for making this video on CCR's Bad Moon Rising and CCR. Also, thank you CCR for the music and showing that being drug and alcohol free in the music scene is possible.❤🌚
The Beatles got me into music as a 5-year old, CCR got me into picking up a guitar at age 10, and Chick Corea got me to switch to piano at age 16.
Great taste all the way!
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I'm the same age, but was already into music before the Beatles, because my mom was a classical pianist, my dad was a jazz pianist, and my older sisters were into rock.
My inspirations to take up guitar were Wes Montgomery, Paul Simon, and classical guitarist John Williams.
But I also fell in love with the Beatles when we saw them on the Ed Sullivan Show.
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Thank you for this facinating reveal of why the band fell apart and what kind of person Mr. Forgerty was and hardship he endured to somehow keep going. I never knew about the drug free stance the band had. This was a great band with an amazing string of hits. 'I Put A Spell On You' definitely put a spell on me in the beginning with this band and even his great solo tune 'Center Field' just made me happy every listening. Peace!
Love "Bad Moon Rising"-It's truly one of CCR's best songs!
I'm 57, born in '66, so I wasn't around and into music yet when CCR became popular, but their legacy was there and very prevalent as I came into my first years of my musical journey. Everyone I knew loved them and their songs. They certainly left a strong following in the short time they were together
As a grade-schooler, I had two different friends that had terribly misheard lyrics. One thought the Go-Go’s “Our lips are sealed” was “Honest Lucille” and the other thought Pink Floyd’s “No dark sarcasm in the classroom” line from Another Brick In The Wall was “No ducks or chasms in the classroom.”
I thought it was “no thoughts of chasm in the classroom”…till a few seconds ago when I read your comment.😂
Well, to be fair, ducks and chasms would be major distractions in a classroom.
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You mean the Go-Go’s song about Alex the Seal?