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And especially the little effect, the little telephone-box in the middle, which is the only part I regret now. ''Susie Q' was designed to fit right in,' he explained. Fogerty stated in a 1993 interview with Rolling Stone magazine that his purpose in recording 'Susie Q' was to get the song played on KMPX, a funky progressive-rock radio station in San Francisco, which is why the song was extended to eight minutes in length. It was released as a single version split into two parts, with the jam session during the coda on the A-side fading out with the guitar solo right before the coda which fades in part two on the B-side. The album features three other Fogerty originals: 'The Working Man', 'Get Down Woman', and 'Gloomy'.Ĭreedence Clearwater Revival is best remembered for the band's first hit single 'Susie Q', which had been a hit for Dale Hawkins in 1957. The song had already been released in 1966 under the Golliwogs name. I gave up trying to write sappy love songs about stuff I didn't know anything about, and I started inventing stories.' The album also includes the only co-write between John and his brother Tom Fogerty (who had been the original lead singer in the group) to appear on a Creedence album: the foreboding 'Walk on the Water'. And I knew when I was doing it, 'Man, I'm on to something here.' Everything changed after that. The song was a breakthrough of sorts for Fogerty, who stated to Tom Pinnock of Uncut in 2012, 'It's semi-autobiographical I touch on my father, but it's a flight of fantasy, too. 'Porterville', which was the last single released by the band under the name the Golliwogs in November 1967, was included on the band's debut album and revealed singer/guitarist John Fogerty's nascent songwriting talents. When you're on the bottom, you make the best deal you can.' John Fogerty took charge of the group artistically, writing all of the band's fourteen hit records and assuming the roles of singer, guitarist, producer and arranger of nearly everything that appeared on Creedence's seven studio albums. Lennon and McCartney never owned the copyrights to their compositions, either. In Hank Bordowitz's book Bad Moon Rising: The Unauthorized History of Creedence Clearwater Revival, bassist Stu Cook is quoted, 'Fogerty, Cook, Clifford and Fogerty signed a publishing agreement with one of Fantasy's companies that gave up rights to copyright ownership. Having never liked 'the Golliwogs', in part because of the racial charge of the name, the four readily agreed, coming up with Creedence Clearwater Revival. In 1967, Saul Zaentz bought Fantasy Records and offered the band a chance to record a full-length album on the condition that they change their name. While ' Suzie Q' proved to be a hit, the band had played for years as the Golliwogs in the early 1960s, releasing numerous singles before achieving success in the pop world.

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