Act like you knew the lyrics before you watched this . ..i been listening 30 years and only got about 25% if lyrics correct , thats a thicc accent gawd damn !
Thats awsome!! My daughter now 28, she loved some of ccr songs when she was little, back in the 70s i loved this music riding in my Dads suped up cutlass!! 🤘
My dad worked 42 years for CSX Railroad ..... he kept America moving ..... Love All Flat Car Riders And Cross Tie Walkers ..... you know who you are ..... peace out ..... RIP Pops
"Flat car riders and cross tie walkers" I grew up in the country with Rock Island RR about 2 miles to the north and Frisco about a quarter mile south. Loved hearing those old lonesome whistles. Both defunct now. Only Kansas City Southern blows through about 20 miles from here now. Seen a lot of changes but good music never dies ❤
We just saw a 79 year old Fogerty play in southern California. I haven't seen him since the "Centerfield" tour. After nearly 60 years of performing, he still rocks. He looks good and sounds great. Two songs he extended, shredding on guitar, and he's so happy to own his songs. Thank you, John Fogerty.
Can you send the extended versions..... Want to hear it.... This never gets old..... And they don't make music like they used to... I would really appreciate it😊
I am from England. I was 14 and totally immersed in the music of CCR. One of the best bands ever, and Green River one of the best tunes ever!! Thank you Fogarty and Co.
I just saw John Fogerty & his sons perform during their Celebration Tour. John has FINALLY re-gained the rights from the creeps at Fantasy Records to perform his OWN music! He'll be 78 this moth & still puts on a FABULOUS show! 🙂
@@ronaldmcalister8008 Hi Ronnie from Preston, I am so glad that so many people are hooked on CCR. Green River makes me feel so good and transports me back to that era....wish I could stay there!! 😁
My spoused served in Vietnam "1967" few months after higher school graduation 😢straight to US Army Training, then head straight on into Vietnam! Came home wounded, but thankful, especially seeing many die in a war we should have never be on. Credence Clear Water Revival was his favorite group!
'Cause they sang the real truth. Your Brother and my Brother in Law knew. He said "Apocalypse Now" captured the American Army corruption and feeling of the Nam War better than any movie up to that time. He passed away young of court proven neglect at a VA Hospital. You remember how wards full overwhelmed the VA Hospitals were in the years after Nam. Vets lying on hall floors sometimes. That's what I saw. 'And CCR became another example of the way things are censored in the good old USA. Sorry. I guess I went off over your two year old comment.
What was particular about this song was we did walk the cross ties on the old B&M rail line along the Connecticut river, knew a person named Lucien Cody who did have a camp (and a mean ass dog) who lived on River Road and we fished in the Green River. But I’ll bet most people who lived along a major river probably had the same. These tunes were during my late teens and we all worried about the draft and Vietnam. What a waste of life as we now get much of our clothes from Vietnam. Never let a government fool you into war.
Back in the early 90s me n my long time boyfriend, lived in Tennessee. Ccr was one of his favorite bands of all time.we were real young back then,but we'd herd that they were playing a free outdoors gig.we were so excited.we got all packed up ,a blanket to sit on,some beers our dogs of course, and hopped up into our d 3 on the tree ford pick up...well course with our luck back then the dam thing just would not start.we tried everything, all the tricks we knew about it,but still...no luck.Anyhow with great dissapointment, we ended up missing the show ,but did set up our own space out on our farm n listened to the local show on our old radio live instead. It of course wouldn't compare or be by any means the same as in actually being there,but it was the best we could do at the time. Chickens and there babies walking around us as we sat on that blanket in the grass and listened and dreamed we were there.No phone back then to try n get a ride from anyone,but it still was a day to remember. I still do.Hes passed on now 5 years actually, and ill always remember that day and what it meant..
Mr. Fogerty stated that "Green River" was actually based on a place in Winters, CA (even though it makes reference to the southern US), and that it was also inspired by a soft drink with the flavor "Green River".
Best creedence song in my opinion. John so talented. We need artists with talent throw away this computer generated stuff. John has such a wonderful voice.
Good going Neyla, The Warnings influence is definitely there, with your own touch and flavor, sounding very good, keep up the good work. Liking what you are doing.
I remember playing this song during a rough time in my life. My Mom was in the hospital and I was helping to take care of three younger siblings. I was 13 and after school I would get out my portable record player and play this song while I washed dishes. I played it over and over and over. It took me through that bad time.
Although I'm mainly a fan of punk rock and heavy metal, I still love listening to this and other swamp rock songs when I'm camping in the Oklahoma countryside. Really relaxing song around a campfire.
I agree. I played the drums for 10 years as a hobby and I played to this song the most. I lived in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey and CCR aside from Blue Grass was the official music.
Same my friend ........... 69 hear and rocking out to this song since I was a young lad camping and hiking in the Chickahominy swamp in Virginia where you could always here the bullfrog callin me.
I remember these talented fellows from El Cerrito High School (3 of them) back then, and I went to Berkeley High School in the San Francisco Bay Area...
It sounds like it came out of, and belongs deep in the bayou, but it is the "Bakersfield sound", California country if you will, Buck Owens and Don Rich were a huge influence on Fogerty.
@@frankkolton1780 Yea, California is a real big place. People sometimes forget there's more to it than just San Francisco and LA. (Okay, fine, Berkeley isn't far off but I stand by the point.) As for the sound, check out Powderfinger by Bob Dylan. Another contender by one of the few people I'd put anywhere near Fogerty's level of writing.
From 1996 to 2011 I was a soldier in the Special Combat Force of Germany in Somalia, the whole Yugoslav war (IFOR, SFOR, KFOR) Afghanistan, Congo and others. My life during the war and then 174 festivals. I found my happiness in the war and have 1 children. When I see such beautiful young people today who reinvent the hits of that time, it makes me happy. I wish you all the best and health, peace and love. REAST in PEACE my brothers in Arms. Greetings from germany..... Martin
My ancestors found fun and peace in bombing your cities and murdering your ground forces in Northern Africa. We took the hilltops and churches where your forces hid in Italy and in France we came across the massacres your ancestors left behind before they ran home behind the shitcreek line. And that's only the start. I can say so much more. Arohanui Maori Battalion All my love to the whole of Bomber Command. And love to my Great uncle who died in the desert because Germany got angry.
I'm inclined to agree actually. I love simple perfect song and this is one. For another, try Kinks Sunny Afternoon. Also the Cars had quite a few simple perfect songs. There are hundreds if not thousands out there, but yeah the simple perfect song. Signs, by Five Man Electrical Band is another, Go All the Way, Raspberries are another couple. Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel had a ripper, Make me Smile: th-cam.com/video/uLktwloscrU/w-d-xo.html Here's Kinks: th-cam.com/video/yFWJmPXY3pw/w-d-xo.html
Fogerty had a great poetic gift: flat car riders and cross tie walkers- scans beautifully against the guitars. These would be depression-era veterans taking it easy in the 60s, with great tales to tell. Not to mention the wonderfully strange harmonies in the full versions of Susie Q, grapevine, and the powerful aggression of Fortunate Son. The forgotten three so solid
I've had a CCR greatest hits cd in my car radio for a good month and half and I haven't gotten sick of it in the slightest. The guitars in this song just seem to have some sort of punch to them that I just can't get enough of.
Born in Brazil, in a little town in the state of São Paulo, on a neighborhood near a tiny river. Me and my friends used to fish and play on the river border, climbing trees, throwing rocks, making slingshots and catching fruits. I don't even remeber when was the first time I was into CCR, an incomom thing for a BR youngster, but it became my favorite band of all time and this song remembers me home, since now I live in São Paulo capital, a huge urban center. Miss my days of running on the grass.
My older brother Lloyd introduced me to CCR's music back in 70 and still think that they along with Bachman Turner Overdrive were the best bands at the time. Green River is definitely one of my favorites.
I was a musician in the 60's. In the later part of the 60's I saw all hell break loose around me. Everyone was singing "la la la" as they walked blindly off the cliffs of following the mess my generation was being herded into. But, whenever I heard and found myself enjoying CCR on my car radio? I would become quiet inside. I wondered how they seemed able to escape it all. Excellent heart of America talent. Always their own person. Their own music. Their lives. Thank you CCR!
My husband was Nam vet. He was a Marine in a construction Battalion working on the strip. Every day facing sniper fire, sprayed with agent orange. Those guys never had the help they needed. He suffered physically for over 30 years. He's home now.
Almost there .. waiting for the most high to come for us/him and others as they rest. Thanking him for his service .. don't pick the wars, but are first to jump..
This song is an entire vibe. When music becomes an emotional shuttle and transports you to another time and place, almost instantly, it's really good art. Nothing else can do that for you quite like music. The highs and lows one experiences while taking in the music is, in and of itself, a dopamine hit just like a really good drug. This is a timeless masterpiece that will be around far beyond anyone's lives today. If we haven't destroyed ourselves by then, I often ponder what people from the far off future will think about this music.
Creedence es atemporal, de aquí a mil años seguirán sonando como suenan hoy y como sonaron ayer, Creedence es una de las pocas bandas inmortales que tiene la humanidad como patrimonio universal
Excellent video. I’m born and raised in Los Angeles in the 70’s and have always loved CCR. Especially this song. Your video is exactly what I’d see in my mind’s eyes as I’d mentally drift off and I’d listen to this great song. Damn, I felt like I was 12 years old for a couple minutes. Thank you!
Anyone know of a song that has a very similar rythem to the this part of the song, I’ve been looking for the song in thinking of but I can’t find it, and I really like those part 0:29
Dude i know what your looking for I came here looking for it too 😅 I'll let you know if I find it. Something about a river black water but not the doobie brothers.
Hey guys, 2 ChatGPT prompts later (it created a list of 5 posssible songs then I made it do it again with more options and it generated like 15 more options) I think I’ve come the closest to finding your golden ticket (song) lol. It sounds wayy too similar to this CCR song to not be it. Give it a listen. It’s by another great artist of that era. John Fogerty - The Old Man Down the Road
CCR can pack so much awesomeness into a 2 minute song with just their instruments than most bands can in a entire album with all the sound effects to help them.
I have listened to CCR since early 70's, heard this song probably 10,000 times and the only words I know are "c'mon on a green river". And I'm not even sure that's right.
The things that make us laugh make us cry. Like it says in the book: We are blessed and cursed. The streets is cold dawg. A man cant survive on bread alone i know i tried that shit. ~Big Smoke
Me too. Fogerty's voice was off the scale brilliant. Singing those tricky rythms he just nailed it every time. This song especially. I have'nt met a session musician who could sing this. It's the timing and grabbing those lyrics. 👌💙
i cried thinking about my lifes misstakes while lisening to this. Im on the buss rn on my way home lisining to this song, not with saddness but with joy. Whatever you go through you can make it through it pal. Just because you think that youre life sucks it does not mean that you have to end it.This morning i thought that i would kill myself, but after thinking about all the great things in my life , i decided not to kill my self. Thank you Sincerly- B.K
Mi padre me ponía está canción de bebé, porque me decía que solo ella me tranquilizaba y sacaba una sonrisa, cambió la vida, y ahora le pongo Green River a mí padre para que siga la canción con su alma pese a su grave enfermedad. La música nos une.
My 102 year old father was a civil war veteran when he passed. I remember listening to this song with him while we drove around in our busted up old Tesla truck. He would be 296 today. Happy bday dad! Long live the confederacy!
Lot's of green rivers , in '69 when CCR released the song , I moved to Rio Verde, ( River Green ) Goias , Brazil .) Was 12 yrs old at the time , came back to U.S. 2 yrs later heard this song and CCR for first time , was my fav. rock band for years after that.
When this music first came out we used to drive around in our cars drinking beer smoking pot and having a great time and playing this music still sounds great today brings back memories!❤
@@neeverd call it what you want we had fun we didn't hurt anybody and we didn't shoot anybody. Look what the kids are doing today mass shootings. Flash mobs looting and burning down stores and rioting everywhere over anything and everything. Fentanyl overdoses thousands of them with kids every year. Thousands of kids committing suicide over trivial things on social media every year. I'm 70 years old and most of my friends are dead but it wasn't for the things that are happening now. Do you believe things are better or worse for you or your children then they were when I grew up?
Some modern songs have billions of views... now. Let's see how many views they'll have 20 years from now. And then think about how many songs will get millions of views when they're over 50 years old. That's the difference between a hype and a classic. The hype is unmatched in size, like a huge bushfire, but it dies down, whereas the classic is like the fire on the the tomb of the unknown soldier in Moscow, it's discreet but undying fire.
bombero voluntario 22 años... escuchando en el cuartel cada finde cuando lavamos los moviles! un gusto que aun los argentinos tengamos esta cultura musical!
A huge favorite of my mine
Me to , Up around the Bend always got me fired up 👍👍👍
Repent to God
Its a favourite of mine also.
All with the music is much better!
Me,at 9:35pm,, Philippines
Absolutely brilliant
A perfect song.
Act like you knew the lyrics before you watched this . ..i been listening 30 years and only got about 25% if lyrics correct , thats a thicc accent gawd damn !
we'll keep up the listening
Now imagine for a non native english guy like me...
Then agin, it don't really matter - it's the amazing (musical) atmosphere created here that touches your soul.
California kid
Pick up a flat rock, skip it across Green River.
I wish I had known that awesome lyric earlier.
My father has died from COVID this night, and this was one of his favorite songs ever...
So sorry to hear that my friend, he's jamming to this in heaven✌️👍
@@kennyhuskisson2684 surely he's doing that.
Oh no ):
My prayers go to your family 🙏
RIP
As a Non American when i Heard CCR im feeling the Most American feeling in my soul..
Sadly that was in the 60's and 70"s. Different world now! God help us!! 😢😢
Same, I'm aussie but this is top 10 road trip songs for me
@@Zipmegolden but i can Feel Texas..Alabama etc
Cipayo
My 5yo daughter is just nuts about this track and CCR !!! And im the proud father...
Well done dad
As you should be, pay it forward papa
Thats awsome!! My daughter now 28, she loved some of ccr songs when she was little, back in the 70s i loved this music riding in my Dads suped up cutlass!! 🤘
Don't forget to play her some Slayet, Sabbath, Priest and so on
God bless her !
My brothers favorite song.He played lead guitar,self taught and a real MASTER...My brother,Tony,is in ROCK N ROLL HEAVEN NOW....I LOVE YOU BROTHER😢❤❤❤
♡
Rock In Peace, Tony 🙏 🎶 !
I'll bet he was a master, may Tony rest in peace.
RIP LEGEND TONY!
Repent to God
You know, fellas, I was born in the USSR. to tell you the truth this band was even bigger than The Beatles in my country!
They should've been....
There was CCR in the USSR???
@@SovietBear4 no they didn't come to the USSR! but we used to have some vynil records that we listened to and enjoyed their music very much!
@@Olegzyan thought the Russians blocked the sales of those
@@arifbayusatrio1028 In the USSR western rock music was not on sale in the music stores, mainly the records were smuggled.
My dad worked 42 years for CSX Railroad ..... he kept America moving ..... Love All Flat Car Riders And Cross Tie Walkers ..... you know who you are ..... peace out ..... RIP Pops
"Flat car riders and cross tie walkers"
I grew up in the country with Rock Island RR about 2 miles to the north and Frisco about a quarter mile south.
Loved hearing those old lonesome whistles.
Both defunct now.
Only Kansas City Southern blows through about 20 miles from here now.
Seen a lot of changes but good music never dies ❤
@@RedHeadOnTheRanchRock and roll will never Die .,.! ❤♥️♥️🌹🇲🇽 peace out .,.!
@@arturomonreal7432ppppp
Your father is my hero
We just saw a 79 year old Fogerty play in southern California. I haven't seen him since the "Centerfield" tour.
After nearly 60 years of performing, he still rocks.
He looks good and sounds great. Two songs he extended, shredding on guitar, and he's so happy to own his songs.
Thank you, John Fogerty.
Saw him in 2008 and he was great! good to know he still rocks!!!
Can you send the extended versions.....
Want to hear it....
This never gets old.....
And they don't make music like they used to...
I would really appreciate it😊
he was drug free i assume. music and performing were his natural high
Who's listening 15/1/2025
Love CCR avid fan. 🇭🇲❤️
I am from England. I was 14 and totally immersed in the music of CCR. One of the best bands ever, and Green River one of the best tunes ever!! Thank you Fogarty and Co.
I just saw John Fogerty & his sons perform during their Celebration Tour. John has FINALLY re-gained the rights from the creeps at Fantasy Records to perform his OWN music! He'll be 78 this moth & still puts on a FABULOUS show! 🙂
Hello..Tony from England
@@lauradundon3387 Hello Laura, 👋 nice of you to drop in!!
How are you ?
Nice one Tony my eldest brother got me hooked on CCR in 1970 and I've been hooked ever since. Ronnie from Preston. 😊😊
@@ronaldmcalister8008 Hi Ronnie from Preston, I am so glad that so many people are hooked on CCR. Green River makes me feel so good and transports me back to that era....wish I could stay there!! 😁
My spoused served in Vietnam "1967" few months after higher school graduation 😢straight to US Army Training, then head straight on into Vietnam! Came home wounded, but thankful, especially seeing many die in a war we should have never be on.
Credence Clear Water Revival was his favorite group!
I heard that our government didn't want to win that war. I believe that. Same age as you are all by the way
Sucks to be him
@@ruthbourgeois1297 yesterday was Nam,today is Ukraine..This politicians needs to be ignored by the people and not follow their orders
There's this game called mafia 3, they used this song for radios, and the history in that game was actually accurate, it's crazy.
'Cause they sang the real truth. Your Brother and my Brother in Law knew. He said "Apocalypse Now" captured the American Army corruption and feeling of the Nam War better than any movie up to that time. He passed away young of court proven neglect at a VA Hospital. You remember how wards full overwhelmed the VA Hospitals were in the years after Nam. Vets lying on hall floors sometimes. That's what I saw. 'And CCR became another example of the way things are censored in the good old USA.
Sorry. I guess I went off over your two year old comment.
Man.. not many bands from the era could create a groove that made you wanna move like CCR
Songs that make you feel nostalgic for places you've never been to are the best.
True. Even better if you have.
@@jacobkingery1389 "even better if you have"
I dont think that applies to fortunate son
youve never been to a river or lake or ocean?
@@wickedhouston5538 I guess he puts the led on Vietnam and not on the bayoo... ;) :(
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I am someone wh
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This song has a timeless attraction to it. It's rhythm STILL swings here in 2023! . . . One of CCR's best!
That bass! All I can say. 💚
waaaaaaaaaaaahh
This song encapsulates CCR's entire sound maybe better than any of their (extensive!) hit list. No one sounds like Credence.
Right here here in 2024
What was particular about this song was we did walk the cross ties on the old B&M rail line along the Connecticut river, knew a person named Lucien Cody who did have a camp (and a mean ass dog) who lived on River Road and we fished in the Green River. But I’ll bet most people who lived along a major river probably had the same. These tunes were during my late teens and we all worried about the draft and Vietnam. What a waste of life as we now get much of our clothes from Vietnam. Never let a government fool you into war.
I wasn't in Vietnam, but I feel ya brother 🙏
Wow this gave me a great shift of mind, I wish good days for the rest of your days man
yea but then thank you for your service 30 years later. screwed up.
Cool story. I spent my summers in Arkansas. Lots of catfish fry's and rope to jump in a river!
Papa said son don't let the man get ya, do what he done to me
Rockstar Games had CCR, Alice in Chains and Stone Temple Pilots in GTA San Andreas. So much more bangers. Thank you R*!!
Back in the early 90s me n my long time boyfriend, lived in Tennessee. Ccr was one of his favorite bands of all time.we were real young back then,but we'd herd that they were playing a free outdoors gig.we were so excited.we got all packed up ,a blanket to sit on,some beers our dogs of course, and hopped up into our d 3 on the tree ford pick up...well course with our luck back then the dam thing just would not start.we tried everything, all the tricks we knew about it,but still...no luck.Anyhow with great dissapointment, we ended up missing the show ,but did set up our own space out on our farm n listened to the local show on our old radio live instead. It of course wouldn't compare or be by any means the same as in actually being there,but it was the best we could do at the time.
Chickens and there babies walking around us as we sat on that blanket in the grass and listened and dreamed we were there.No phone back then to try n get a ride from anyone,but it still was a day to remember. I still do.Hes passed on now 5 years actually, and ill always remember that day and what it meant..
@@SC-pm5gm great memories for you, I'm sure!
competeing with zep . hendrix beatles stones and so many others, u could dance to these folks always had agreat story to tell in their music wow1
That is awesome ,,, I'm 67 and that is awesome ! I have been Remembering this music and never want to forget it !!!
Only 67❤
I will be 73 on January 20, 2025. Inauguration Day for 47th president Donald Trump. I remember CCR back in the day.
"Lady i'm a god fearing, peace loving man of the people"
CJ - 1992
Pure southern rock. Tremendous song. John is and always was a super talented genius. God bless him!!
Ironic the song was written about Fogerty's childhood escape place in Northern California!
@@stevecooper7883
Well,
Suppose that was Southern enough for him.
@@stevecooper7883 That sounds like something a writer at Rolling Stone might say I'm pretty sure John never said it.
Mr. Fogerty stated that "Green River" was actually based on a place in Winters, CA (even though it makes reference to the southern US), and that it was also inspired by a soft drink with the flavor "Green River".
This song was the soundtrack of a summer of my life , a 13 year old, exploring the wonders of the outdoors and the joy of being alive!
Me too brother! Good times in a Florida summer of my youth! 😉👍😎
@@toddmcintosh83 😊👍
sounds like a good life
Me too. I also was 13 in 69. The song that did it for me was Bad Moon Rising.
We were kids then. Really knew how to have fun. No video games just pure adventure!
That 65 - 76 era of music that will always stand as 'TIMELESS'. CCR sure has a nice footprint in it too.
I'd say '66 (Revolver) to '81 (Rush - Moving PIctures) was the zenith of music.
Best creedence song in my opinion. John so talented. We need artists with talent throw away this computer generated stuff. John has such a wonderful voice.
i think that the best song of creedence is it came out of the sky
This is his favorite Creedence song too lmao
@@edgreen8140 huh? Im just saying that this is John's favorite Creedence song.
De acuerdo
Ramble Tamble is a great one.
My brother did a great job on CCR songs back on our band days! I had too much fun!
Catchy tune. RIP the great drummer Hal Blaine. The greatest session drummer of all time.
Good going Neyla, The Warnings influence is definitely there, with your own touch and flavor, sounding very good, keep up the good work. Liking what you are doing.
I remember playing this song during a rough time in my life. My Mom was in the hospital and I was helping to take care of three younger siblings. I was 13 and after school I would get out my portable record player and play this song while I washed dishes. I played it over and over and over. It took me through that bad time.
SAME HERE,IT WAS MY LIFELINE SONG,GOD BLESS
CCR makes me proud to be American!There’s nothing like the freedom of a groovin’ Rockin’ song like Green River!
You are strong but live in a shithole country.
I read your comment before I looked af your name. Not sure why. Boys wouldn't wash dishes.
I'm Swedish and love every inch of America!
We love you Sweden!❤
El Cerrito California..... Fantasy Records.....Clear Water delivery.... California Huevos....
Although I'm mainly a fan of punk rock and heavy metal, I still love listening to this and other swamp rock songs when I'm camping in the Oklahoma countryside. Really relaxing song around a campfire.
*_Green River_* is, hands down, my favorite Creedence Clearwater Revival song
I agree. I played the drums for 10 years as a hobby and I played to this song the most. I lived in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey and CCR aside from Blue Grass was the official music.
This is #1 , born on the bayou #2 and #3 is midnight special. CCR will always be amazing
that makes 2 of us
Mine too
I appreciate my dad raising me and listening to these guys!
This song will always be good no matter the time or place.
Pick up a flat Rock and skip it across the Green River, love this song
Unbelievable guitar work
I am 72.listening to CCR since 1970.
...ain't nuttin wrong wid dat ^^
Me too. Such truth in some of their words!!! And them were the good ole days!!!
Same my friend ........... 69 hear and rocking out to this song since I was a young lad camping and hiking in the Chickahominy swamp in Virginia where you could always here the bullfrog callin me.
I remember these talented fellows from El Cerrito High School (3 of them) back then, and I went to Berkeley High School in the San Francisco Bay Area...
69 here in 2024 and still lovin it.
I do believe the lyrics are "Let me remember things I don't know"...not "things I love" . But it doesn't really matter...great tune from a great band.
CCR is definitely the greatest band they had there on sound they didn't copy nobody else
The ultimate "swamp rock" band. What a totally original sound they had.
satisfaction pony.
That's why they're my fav band, Rock songs with Country and Blues feel to em
It sounds like it came out of, and belongs deep in the bayou, but it is the "Bakersfield sound", California country if you will, Buck Owens and Don Rich were a huge influence on Fogerty.
@@frankkolton1780 Did not know that - thanks.
@@frankkolton1780 Yea, California is a real big place. People sometimes forget there's more to it than just San Francisco and LA. (Okay, fine, Berkeley isn't far off but I stand by the point.)
As for the sound, check out Powderfinger by Bob Dylan. Another contender by one of the few people I'd put anywhere near Fogerty's level of writing.
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Probably the most underrated songs ever by CCR.
How is one of their most well known tracks with over 80 Million views underrated?
you might have something there. it's never been my go-to CCR song.
This might just be my favorite song of all time currently
I ❤ love this Song CCR is the coolest 🎉
From 1996 to 2011 I was a soldier in the Special Combat Force of Germany in Somalia, the whole Yugoslav war (IFOR, SFOR, KFOR) Afghanistan, Congo and others. My life during the war and then 174 festivals. I found my happiness in the war and have 1 children. When I see such beautiful young people today who reinvent the hits of that time, it makes me happy. I wish you all the best and health, peace and love. REAST in PEACE my brothers in Arms. Greetings from germany..... Martin
Salute from Croatia and thank you💯✋
Have you ever killed someone from Yugoslavia?
@@megahippi7661 Naah its only was question bcs i have ancestors from 3 states that was in Yugoslav war (Croatia,Serbia and Bosnia).
@@megahippi7661 Es ist sehr seltsam. Die Deutschen haben hier in Jugoslawien viele Menschen getötet.
My ancestors found fun and peace in bombing your cities and murdering your ground forces in Northern Africa. We took the hilltops and churches where your forces hid in Italy and in France we came across the massacres your ancestors left behind before they ran home behind the shitcreek line.
And that's only the start.
I can say so much more.
Arohanui Maori Battalion
All my love to the whole of Bomber Command.
And love to my Great uncle who died in the desert because Germany got angry.
I just can't get enough of this song. One of the greatest rock songs ever.
Is thrue
So then, if you love this song, what do you think of The Hollies, Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress?
@@tornillo95 javais 18 ans et je dansais le bop ..france
I'm inclined to agree actually. I love simple perfect song and this is one. For another, try Kinks Sunny Afternoon.
Also the Cars had quite a few simple perfect songs. There are hundreds if not thousands out there, but yeah the simple perfect song. Signs, by Five Man Electrical Band is another, Go All the Way, Raspberries are another couple.
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel had a ripper, Make me Smile:
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Fogerty had a great poetic gift: flat car riders and cross tie walkers- scans beautifully against the guitars. These would be depression-era veterans taking it easy in the 60s, with great tales to tell. Not to mention the wonderfully strange harmonies in the full versions of Susie Q, grapevine, and the powerful aggression of Fortunate Son. The forgotten three so solid
Well Said! I admire you for your intelligence. They will never be forgotten. (Having mentioned it!) today
Recuerdos de amigos que ya no estan pero con esta musica viven por siempre
I've had a CCR greatest hits cd in my car radio for a good month and half and I haven't gotten sick of it in the slightest. The guitars in this song just seem to have some sort of punch to them that I just can't get enough of.
I am 67 and it is my pick me up music. Fond memories and good times.
creedance tape deck? alright dude
@@fordlady5684 I'm 67 also. Turns out I had half the lyrics wrong! I've been singing along my own way for all these years!
@@dalewinfree5644 What were your lyrics to this song? Now you got us curious 🤩
Haha. Same. In time I will shy away. But I always find my way back to timeless music like this
'69 Boulder Colo. I was 18. CCR What.. Man what an album. Do you love CCR?
Just canoed 22 miles of the Green River, l listened to a little Credence. Saw them in '69 at the HIC on Ohau, the blissful days of yesteryear.
Born in Brazil, in a little town in the state of São Paulo, on a neighborhood near a tiny river. Me and my friends used to fish and play on the river border, climbing trees, throwing rocks, making slingshots and catching fruits. I don't even remeber when was the first time I was into CCR, an incomom thing for a BR youngster, but it became my favorite band of all time and this song remembers me home, since now I live in São Paulo capital, a huge urban center. Miss my days of running on the grass.
My 32 year son ..is his go to music 🙏.. I did something right 🥰
Yes, you did, sir 😊
Esa. Epoca. Fue. De. Lo. Mejor.
Parenting done right!
Raised him right
My 36year old also
CCR has never written a bad song. That’s a fact ✌🏻
hell yeah
That's not a fact,it's your opinion.Opinions are not facts.
@@exterminateparasites3185 Oh, behave.
You need to listen to their Mardi Gras album then.
@@mikejames4691 Yeah, but still my favourite band!!
**If you listen to this in 2021! *YOU my friend have great taste in Music ✌
Thanks
Ronald Corona thank you
Ronald Corona 2019 and forever!
I'll still be listening to stuff like this many years from now
I'm listen from Brazil.
Good song
My older brother Lloyd introduced me to CCR's music back in 70 and still think that they along with Bachman Turner Overdrive were the best bands at the time. Green River is definitely one of my favorites.
My older brothers did the same. I re-discovered Creedence in 1981 & I haven't stopped listening! 🙂
There are certain songs, that to certain people, can never get old or worn out. This to me, is near the top of that list.
Here's another -- Don't mess around with Jim by Jim Croce.
As is all of ccr’s tunes. It’s like they’re part of humanity’s growth.NYC dude loving the country vibe.rock on.
@@dorianward4909LA brother feeling the vibe on this one 🙋♂️ man
I was a musician in the 60's. In the later part of the 60's I saw all hell break loose around me. Everyone was singing "la la la" as they walked blindly off the cliffs of following the mess my generation was being herded into. But, whenever I heard and found myself enjoying CCR on my car radio? I would become quiet inside. I wondered how they seemed able to escape it all. Excellent heart of America talent. Always their own person. Their own music. Their lives. Thank you CCR!
Makes me miss Louisiana's byou! How's the gator catching this year Troy?
My husband was Nam vet. He was a Marine in a construction Battalion working on the strip. Every day facing sniper fire, sprayed with agent orange. Those guys never had the help they needed. He suffered physically for over 30 years. He's home now.
Almost there .. waiting for the most high to come for us/him and others as they rest. Thanking him for his service .. don't pick the wars, but are first to jump..
This song is an entire vibe. When music becomes an emotional shuttle and transports you to another time and place, almost instantly, it's really good art. Nothing else can do that for you quite like music. The highs and lows one experiences while taking in the music is, in and of itself, a dopamine hit just like a really good drug. This is a timeless masterpiece that will be around far beyond anyone's lives today. If we haven't destroyed ourselves by then, I often ponder what people from the far off future will think about this music.
As a 23 year old, same
The imagery here is Mark Twain quality. Masterpiece of English in my mind.
Great comment
This is one of those times where I am so glad I read the comments. Profound, dude, simply profound.
Lol chill out bro. You're just emotionally attached to it....nothing life shattering like electricity.
Creedence es atemporal, de aquí a mil años seguirán sonando como suenan hoy y como sonaron ayer, Creedence es una de las pocas bandas inmortales que tiene la humanidad como patrimonio universal
Yo la seguire haciendo inmortal, y mis hijos tambien, eso te lo juro💪 espero q muchos tambien
Perfecta descripción.
So true.
Recuerdos 😊
Excellent video. I’m born and raised in Los Angeles in the 70’s and have always loved CCR. Especially this song. Your video is exactly what I’d see in my mind’s eyes as I’d mentally drift off and I’d listen to this great song.
Damn, I felt like I was 12 years old for a couple minutes. Thank you!
Anyone know of a song that has a very similar rythem to the this part of the song, I’ve been looking for the song in thinking of but I can’t find it, and I really like those part 0:29
Tryy google search song thingy. You can hum or sing and it lists similiar tracks
Ferre Grignard has some songs like this. He was one of Belguim' finest artists in the 60s 70s.
Dude i know what your looking for I came here looking for it too 😅 I'll let you know if I find it. Something about a river black water but not the doobie brothers.
@@slimshadetree9468omggg me too what is ittt
Hey guys, 2 ChatGPT prompts later (it created a list of 5 posssible songs then I made it do it again with more options and it generated like 15 more options) I think I’ve come the closest to finding your golden ticket (song) lol. It sounds wayy too similar to this CCR song to not be it. Give it a listen. It’s by another great artist of that era.
John Fogerty - The Old Man Down the Road
Man, San Andreas had such a good soundtrack.
man your profile picture has such a good memories too !
in my opinion it is the best soundtrack in the saga
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loved riding around on the motorcyle through the rural areas and blasting this. And blasting people
X gen will always be listening till the wheels fall off @Anthonygustit,,great song,great memories of better days brother👍👊
Better times better days - clean up time
CCR can pack so much awesomeness into a 2 minute song with just their instruments than most bands can in a entire album with all the sound effects to help them.
I love how John just like, makes up whatever he wants lyrically and vocally. One of the best things about CCR.
I have listened to CCR since early 70's, heard this song probably 10,000 times and the only words I know are "c'mon on a green river". And I'm not even sure that's right.
Me, too. That accent was non-sensical in those days (especially to Australians!). So glad to finally read the words here! Makes the song even better!
I love ❤️ the song 🎶 and the lyrics to this song 🎶
Creedence, Son! Nothing else in the world sounds like that.
I love the sound of Creedence in the morning.
You.... You have earned a like
The things that make us laugh make us cry.
Like it says in the book:
We are blessed and cursed.
The streets is cold dawg.
A man cant survive on bread alone i know i tried that shit.
~Big Smoke
THIS SONG IS SENDING A VERY CLEAR MESSAGE TO A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE
A perfect song that breaks the template of song writing.
The best
Besides Ramble Tamble.
Creedence Clearwater Revival will be always one of my favorite bands.
Me too. Fogerty's voice was off the scale brilliant. Singing those tricky rythms he just nailed it every time. This song especially. I have'nt met a session musician who could sing this. It's the timing and grabbing those lyrics. 👌💙
У ДЖОНА ГОЛОСИЩЕ
And they didn't ev3n come from the area they wrote about..also they didn't succumb to the drug culture..good for CCR
Mine too
Another masterpiece grew up listening this band much love ❤ rock on
Same here ❤ 🎸 🤘
GREAT SONGS MY 4 KIDS GRANDPA COULD PLAY THE SPOONS TO THIS BEAT J 2:35
CMJ 2:36
CMJ FOR THE FIRST COMMENT OF GREEN RIVER BY CCR 2:36 2:36 2:36 2:36 2:36 2:36 2:36
Many thanks to CCR. This song reminds me my own Mexican country : Tabasco.
music never get's old just a little dusty
yep. got this when I was 11.
+Paulo Cruz Forgot the little *cough cough*
If the police can't catch you, you must be on, THE DUST.
well said!
Dust to dust
Es impresionante lo increíble que te hace sentir, gracias Creedence donde quieran que estén.
El único comentario español xd
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i cried thinking about my lifes misstakes while lisening to this. Im on the buss rn on my way home lisining to this song, not with saddness but with joy. Whatever you go through you can make it through it pal. Just because you think that youre life sucks it does not mean that you have to end it.This morning i thought that i would kill myself, but after thinking about all the great things in my life , i decided not to kill my self. Thank you Sincerly- B.K
You are worthy of living. Glad to read, you stayed here. Thank you
Hang In there. Stick by your own words.
Credence Clearwater Revival, my all time favourite group. John Fogerty , a great songwriter.
Mi padre me ponía está canción de bebé, porque me decía que solo ella me tranquilizaba y sacaba una sonrisa, cambió la vida, y ahora le pongo Green River a mí padre para que siga la canción con su alma pese a su grave enfermedad.
La música nos une.
así es hermano
Fuerza amigo
Yee
pronta recuperación para tu señor padre, al igual que mi padre sufre del Parkinson, pero esta música los hace sentir muy bien, bendiciones
Eso me gusta bro yo tambien con mi padre nos ponemos a escuchar jamiro quake, tambien los guns roses y máa
This music fits everywhere:
Road in middle of nowhere
Asian jungles
Desert
San andreas lol
South Vietnamese lol
...and bayou
Can’t forget the river/lake cruisin as well
las vegas . . .
Великолепная музыка !!! Криденс - одна из лучших групп 60-70 х годов .
Outsold the Beatles at their peak:)
Leave ukraine or you can never listen to this song ever again
@@stazz316 Speaking Russian does not mean he is Russian
@@stazz316 lol, and how will you stop him fool? :D
My 102 year old father was a civil war veteran when he passed. I remember listening to this song with him while we drove around in our busted up old Tesla truck. He would be 296 today. Happy bday dad! Long live the confederacy!
I think your math is a little off.
@@dustygatrell-ru7tg lol what
Love the guitar beginning, barefoot girl dancing in the moonlight
this song is about Louisiana if you listen closely. cool eh
+John C. Wood no shit?
+John C. Wood According to the songwriter it about the Putah River in California where John Fogerty played growing up. Long way from Louisiana.
Lot's of green rivers , in '69 when CCR released the song , I moved to Rio Verde, ( River Green ) Goias , Brazil .) Was 12 yrs old at the time , came back to U.S. 2 yrs later heard this song and CCR for first time , was my fav. rock band for years after that.
+Ralph Dyck lot of Green Rivers yes, but only one that CCR is singing about.
Finally! After many years I know what he's saying.
so good...
When this music first came out we used to drive around in our cars drinking beer smoking pot and having a great time and playing this music still sounds great today brings back memories!❤
Sounds like a time of absolute decadence. LOL. Podium.
@@neeverd call it what you want we had fun we didn't hurt anybody and we didn't shoot anybody. Look what the kids are doing today mass shootings. Flash mobs looting and burning down stores and rioting everywhere over anything and everything. Fentanyl overdoses thousands of them with kids every year. Thousands of kids committing suicide over trivial things on social media every year. I'm 70 years old and most of my friends are dead but it wasn't for the things that are happening now. Do you believe things are better or worse for you or your children then they were when I grew up?
Some modern songs have billions of views... now. Let's see how many views they'll have 20 years from now. And then think about how many songs will get millions of views when they're over 50 years old. That's the difference between a hype and a classic. The hype is unmatched in size, like a huge bushfire, but it dies down, whereas the classic is like the fire on the the tomb of the unknown soldier in Moscow, it's discreet but undying fire.
True
Creedence has 2 songs with 1.5 bilion views on Spotify
My fav band of all time. Every song is a winner. John Fogerty is a rock god.
Totally agree Teresa
Hello Teresa
Music videos didn't even exist back then. Consider yourselves fortunate that talented people exist.
They're fortunate sons.😅
@@valeriecole5957 I get it. Sheesh lol
Escuchando desde Argentina, tengo 23 años y me encanta !!
Magalí _Belén Me da mucho gusto! Sabes la buena música 🎶
alv que buena musica ya tenia años sin escucharla
Magali sorprendente que hasta alla se escuche esta musica, tiene usted buen gusto
Genial!
Igual aqui 23,me encanta y de Colombia
bombero voluntario 22 años... escuchando en el cuartel cada finde cuando lavamos los moviles! un gusto que aun los argentinos tengamos esta cultura musical!
This song has been a constant in every part of my life from elementary school to 40 years old.
40? Try 12 to 67!