{"id":608192,"date":"2026-04-26T22:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/608192\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T22:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:26:09","slug":"3-massive-creedence-clearwater-revival-hits-that-were-all-released-in-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/608192\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Massive Creedence Clearwater Revival Hits That Were All Released in 1969"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1968, Creedence Clearwater Revival, made up of brothers <a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/tag\/john-fogerty\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Fogerty<\/a> and Tom Fogerty, plus Stu Cook and Doug Clifford, released their self-titled debut album. The record includes one Top 10 single, \u201cSuzie Q\u201d. But by their sophomore Bayou Country record, released one year later, Creedence Clearwater Revival hit their stride.<\/p>\n<p>These three songs, each written by John Fogerty, came out in 1969 and were all big hits for Creedence Clearwater Revival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProud Mary\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProud Mary\u201d is the group\u2019s first multi-platinum hit. The song says, \u201cBig wheel keep on turnin\u2019 \/ Proud Mary keep on burnin\u2019 \/ Rollin\u2019, rollin\u2019, rollin\u2019 on the river.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fogerty wrote \u201cProud Mary\u201d after leaving the Army Reserves, where he was honorably discharged.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cI was so happy, I ran out into my little patch of lawn and turned cartwheels,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/from-a-maid-to-a-riverboat-the-origins-of-the-creedence-clearwater-revival-song-turned-tina-turner-chart-topper-proud-mary\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recalls<\/a> in Bad Moon Rising: The Unofficial History of Creedence Clearwater Revival. \u201cThen I went into my house, picked up my guitar, and started strumming. \u2018Left a good job in the city\u2019 and then several good lines came out of me immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProud Mary\u201d has been covered several times, including by Ike Turner and his wife, Tina Turner, in 1971. Also, Tina Turner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Gciy9oG5678\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">released<\/a> her own version of \u201cProud Mary\u201d in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBad Moon Rising\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBad Moon Rising\u201d is from Creedence Clearwater Revival\u2019s third album, Green River. Written by John Fogerty, it became one of the group\u2019s biggest hits.<\/p>\n<p>The song begins with, \u201cI see the bad moon a-rising \/ I see trouble on the way \/ I see earthquakes and lightning \/ I see bad times today \/ Don\u2019t go around tonight \/ Well, it\u2019s bound to take your life \/ There\u2019s a bad moon on the rise.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Emmylou Harris and Jerry Lee Lewis are among the artists who have versions of \u201cBad Moon Rising\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreen River\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A title track, the song\u2019s inspiration came from a real-life river John Fogerty liked to visit in California. Green River\u201d is not the river\u2019s actual name. Still, it\u2019s what Fogery called the river. Green River also happened to be his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/facts\/creedence-clearwater-revival\/green-river\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">favorite flavor <\/a>of soda as a child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreen River\u201d says, \u201cWell, take me back down where cool water flow, y\u2019all \/ Let me remember things I love, Lord \/ Stopping at the log where catfish bite \/ Walking along the river road at night \/ Barefoot girls dancing in the moonlight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After \u201cGreen River\u201d, Creedence Clearwater Revival released one more song from the record, \u201cCommotion\u201d. The song became a Top 40 single.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 1968, Creedence Clearwater Revival, made up of brothers John Fogerty and Tom Fogerty, plus Stu Cook and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[2617,43014,88,216],"class_list":["post-608192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-classic-rock","tag-creedence-clearwater-revival","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}