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Green River (song) " Green River " is a song by American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival. It was written by John Fogerty and released as a single in July 1969, one month before the album of the same name was released. [1] ". Green River" peaked at number two for one week, behind "Sugar, Sugar" by The Archies, and was ranked by Billboard ...
Green River is the third studio album by the American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released on August 7, 1969 by Fantasy Records.It was the second of three albums they released in that year, preceded by Bayou Country in January and followed by Willy and the Poor Boys in October.
It was the lead single from their album Green River and was released on April 16, 1969 four months before the album. The song peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on 28 June 1969 and reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in September of that year (see 1969 in music). It was CCR's second gold single. [3] The song has ...
Down on the Corner. " Down on the Corner " is a song by the American band Creedence Clearwater Revival. It appeared on their fourth studio album, Willy and the Poor Boys (1969). The song peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 20 December 1969. The flip side, "Fortunate Son", reached No. 14 on the United States charts on 22 November 1969 ...
Green River (40th Anniversary Edition) 2008 [6] "Good Golly, Miss Molly" Robert Blackwell John Marascalco † Bayou Country: 1969 [4] "Graveyard Train" John Fogerty Bayou Country: 1969 [4] "Green River" John Fogerty Green River: 1969 [2] "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" John Fogerty Pendulum: 1970 [5] "Hello Mary Lou" Gene Pitney Cayet ...
During 1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival had number 2 hits in the US with "Proud Mary", "Green River" and "Bad Moon Rising", and also have a number 3 hit with "Down on the Corner"/"Fortunate Son". Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso released enormously popular albums in Brazil, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, respectively.
Willy and the Poor Boys is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released on October 29, 1969, by Fantasy Records. It was the last of three studio albums the band released that year, arriving just three months after Green River. [6] In 2020, Rolling Stone ranked the album number 193 on its list of the ...
In a 1969 interview, Fogerty said that he wrote it in the two days after he was discharged from the National Guard. [10] In the liner notes for the 2008 expanded reissue of Bayou Country, Joel Selvin explained that the songs for the album started when Fogerty was in the National Guard, that the riffs for "Proud Mary", "Born on the Bayou", and "Keep on Chooglin'" were conceived by Fogerty at a ...