Louisiana Gal here and yes, John Fogerty captured the essence of Louisiana. LOVE CCR!

He really does!! I’m from south Mississippi with a heavy Louisiana influence and love it. ♥️

From Louisiana here too, but this band is from central California. They have lots of other great songs as well. In their tree year recording career, it's difficult to find a single song of theirs that hasn't been played on radio over the past 50 years and still counting. I love the originals, but their covers of "Heard it Through the Grapevine" and "I put a spell on you" are all time favorites of mine. Oh yeah, and don't forget that they're the ones that wrote "Proud Mary" that Tina Turner covered and put her on the map.

He recognizes this song from The Waterboy :)

@@Mesotech Funny thing is Fogerty got sued after he left the band for sounding like himself lol. No joke it actually happened

remember the lawsuit the record company brought agents john over his solo project . they clamed he sounded to much like CCR .Glad he won or we would not have centerfield .

I second that emotion lol...🎶🎶🎶

I like what you say about Fogarty who is great. But, there is great music all the time, that musicians can keep amazing me all these years, and still with new riffs and lyrics, is one of the things I look to when I'm trying to keep from giving up and hoping for the end of the human race.

I would say a close second to the late GREAT Freddie Mercury

​@@neilberman4116, amen brother!

Some of us Gen-Xers like these guys as well

CKLW, motor city rock. actually, out of windsor, back then i remember lots of motown and ccr! am radio signal would go a long way across lake erie, clear in toledo and even cleveland!

We were lucky to have such great music. Like you, I often say that "our" music was the soundtrack of our lives.

One of my favorite groups growing up in late '60s & '70s and you're reacting to a favorite song. Northern California group that we so loved in southern California. They also covered "Heard It Through The Grapevine". Another great song, "Long As I Can See The Light". Always loved your insightful input and priceless reaction. I watch every single day. Keep it rollin'...pun intended, lol.

me we. we me..... love to me you. me.....we....we some gwe.mwe, gwe me suck me.......I remmeber alot of fist-fights money!!!

I remember alot of fist fight fights!!!!..... I am 62, I am from new haven, I remember alot of knife fights... and fist...uh...uh... fights!!!...I wou;d like to say that i won them all!!......I am glad to be alive!!...I am 62, and I doubt that you hav e a clue!!

Yes, and the lyric goes "I see a bad moon on the rise". As a kid I thought it was "I see a bad moon on the right ". 🤣

@@blakewestwood8096 John Fogarty said that in his solo performances he used to sing "there's a bathroom on the right" to see if anyone noticed

CCR Was huge in the 60s and 70s . Most of there songs are in ALL WAR movies Forest Gump for 1

Yes "Bad Moon Rising" is an amazing song!!

I always get, "Doo, doo, doo lookin' out my back door" stuck in my head. CCR has several like that.

Right on dusty827. CCR even did a song 'about' Lodi California. Amazing how they are so great at defining the sound of swamp-rock.

They must've been Louisiana boys in previous life with songs this; "Willy & the Poor Boys" and Looking Out My Back Door

What is hodo

@@collettedobrocke5585 A hoo doo is a type of Cajun/ Creole voodoo practitioner also referred to as a hoodoo man or woman.

@@collettedobrocke5585 As per Wikipedia "hoodoo" says... Hoodoo is a set of spiritual practices, traditions, and beliefs created by enslaved Africans in North America that were held in secret from slaveholders. Hoodoo evolved from various traditional African religions and practices, and in the American South, incorporated various elements of indigenous botanical knowledge. In the Gullah South Carolina Lowcountry, Hoodoo is also known as "Lowcountry Voodoo." Following the Great Migration of African-Americans, Hoodoo spread throughout the United States. Practitioners of Hoodoo are called rootworkers, conjure doctors, conjure man or conjure woman, and Hoodoo doctors. Regional synonyms for hoodoo include conjure or rootwork. Background Approximately 388,000 enslaved Africans from various ethnic groups were transported to North America from the 17th to 19th centuries as part of the transatlantic slave trade. They were Kongo, Igbo, Akan, Mandé, Yoruba, Fon, Ewe, and Fulbe, among many others. After the arrival of diverse African ethnic groups to the United States, Hoodoo was created by enslaved African Americans for their spiritual survival as a form of resistance against slavery. "Because the African American community did not have the same medical or psychological aids as the European American society, its members were forced to rely on each other for survival." As a result, free and enslaved African Americans relied on Hoodoo for their protection.

My absolute favourite version of that song!

Yes. Yes it does.

@@deenoruve1542 Angelina Jordan at the age of 9 does a great cover of that song! The black and white version! If you check it out, tell me what you think ! GO ANGELINA JORDAN!!!!

Man I love their version of this song.

Absolutely!!!!

Amen brother. Absolutely agree. Although the original 1956 version by Screamin' Jay Hawkins is entertaining.

Oh yeah

Bryan Ferry (of Roxy Music fame) also did a fantastic version on his "Taxi" album. I love both versions

OK, I'm not gonna argue, but I would like you to hear Angelina Jordan's version, sang when she was nine. I'm not saying is better, I'm just saying you've got to hear it.

@@TryMyMartini cheers dude, I’ll check it out.

100% quality music-all of these songs! 🎉

I cant think of another band whos had two greatest hits albums in a span of 5 yrs

He asked for cowbell and bam it came shining through 😂😂😂

@@SLesCauley Yep, right on cue 😂

You are so right!♥️♥️

I LOVE his song "Blue Boy"! Sadly, the record company KEPT all the songs Fogerty wrote for CCR. He wasn't able to keep any of them. 😔

@@DianaJG8 That was a very sad turn of events for John and his brother.

@@baladilady - Yes, it was. He tried to take it to court but lost. 😪

@@DianaJG8 Can you imagine being sued for sounding like yourself? I don't blame him for feeling bitter. But he produced some great music on his own.

HOT DAAAAAAM we had such ICONIC music in the late 60s and 70s ,, This bands music C, C, R has been in so many movies ,

Down on the Corner

mhmmm

If someone says soundtrack of the 60s, (Besides two songs from Steppenwolf that dominated the era), Three Dog Night immediately comes to mind. So many iconic, great songs: One, Shambala, Mama Told Me Not To Come, Never Been To Spain, Joy To The World, Eli’s Coming, An Old Fashioned Love Song, The Show Must Go On, and so on and so on. You pretty much can’t go wrong.Though some of those probably were early 70s.

@@lonewolf9077 Yes! I remember burning up a Three Dog Night album back in the day!! I was thinking the other day about suggesting them. Well played! ♥️

And Hard Target with Jean Claude Van Dam if I'm not mistaken

Bobby Boucher gonna open up a can of whoop ass!

Awesome movie

John Fogerty wrote Proud Mary along with many other songs

But she did it better

@@gailenefuller8330 I like CCR version much more. JohnFogerty wrote the song.

Very true. Fogerty wrote the song.

Try TRAVELIN' BAND by CCR.

Yeah, definitely one of my favs of all time.

Absolutely, Also who’ll stop the rain .

Yes I saw CCR in Vancouver Canada 1972

Can't forget those Cotton Fields

Lola by the kinks or squeezebox by the who are also good banjo tunes

@@jbranum3087 love Squeeze Box but it would have to be the studio version as I haven’t found a “Live” video with the banjo solo part being played by an actual banjo.

Please react to the song CHEVY VAN By Sammy John ,, Released in 1974 ,, You WILL THANK ME I PROMSE ,, THE HARMONIES ARE OUT STANDING

@Jim Fellines I was there. Never been a fan of the Beatles but yes, you are correct. I always preferred the Rolling Stones. "I want To Hold Your Hand" vs "Let's Spend The Night Together". : )

Actually, the Bee Gee's had 5 songs in the top 10 at one time during the Saturday Night Fever craze, and they had 6 songs in the top 10 at once that they had written.

4 songs in the top 10 but unbelievably not even one number 1 song. Doesn't seem fair.

@Jim Fellines and another 7 in the top 100 all simultaneously with the lowest ranked being number 79.

@@johnfrancis1528 Creedence comes literally out of Beatles' "Another Girl" and "Me and My Monkey"

"Run Through the Jungle"

Midnight Special is a great one too...

When I was growing up, I couldn’t wait every week until THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL would come on. It was before MTV. It was the only way to see bands unless you went to a concert. Roger in Pierre South Dakota

@@rogerfleury9759 lol I watched that also. But I was talking about CCR midnight special.

ROB MOST OF THE COW BELLS YOU WILL HEAR WERE FROM THE 60s and 70s BUT HUGE IN THE 70s MAINLY

And in _Return of the Swamp Thing_

Yeah but Jeff, what are you doing about vietnam!!?????.....jerking off to Queen????....What are you going to do when russia invades the Ukraine????wHAT ARE YOU GIOING TO DO???...about vietnam??......you talk alot of rock and roll history, and I appreciate that, but how would you handle the commies invadiiing vietnam????

I heard Steely Dan was in reference to a guy named Dan who played Steel guitar. The recordings are with two main guys and different studio musicians on all their albums.

FYI. S. Dan is a reference to a sex toy in a Burroughs novel.

Down on the corner Out in the street Willie and the Poor Boys are playin Bring a nickel, tap your feet Love this band so much. Been on my funeral playlist since I was a kid. Perfect way to end a day.

"Choot 'im! Choot 'im!"

BANG! I chot 'em.

Garbage.

The long version

@@olripper2700 absolutely

Saw your comment after requesting Suzi Q myself it's in my top 3 ccr songs

@@olripper2700 yes the 8:40 original version, not the sped up 4 minute version they played on the radio back in the day that just kills the flow of the whole song..

That's the only way I could describe their music to my kids, it's swamp music, they were like what's that 🤣 just listen you'll love it

I don't know. I remember calling them CCR back in the '70s.

@@williamh4172 - OK, perhaps where you lived it was common to say "CCR", but I think that was the exception and not the rule. Like, I don't think they were being called CCR in the papers or on TV, but maybe I just don't remember. 🤷‍♀️

Diana I'm looking at their 1969 concert poster from Woodstock and they were billed as "CCR." I've never heard anyone just call them Creedence but both probably developed because people are lazy.

@@GT-ry1cv - Again, maybe it's a regional thing, IDK.

Creedence Clearwater Revival

love that song!!

I’ll add my vote, great tune!

Hell yeah

Good call!!

Bela Fleck for funky jazz banjo. Killer band, too.

Absolutely! I LOVED this song in high school… still get a kick out of it

Watch the video and the banjo player is nowhere to be found unless he's behind the drum kit?

Yes it's crazy but, CCR started just a few blocks down the street from where the Greatful Dead started

@@jameshenry8629 yeah. I read a biography the dead's road manager put out. He talked about it.

What's really funny is that the other badass swamp jam is Black Water by another California band The Doobie Brothers. What the Hell!

San Francisco was a recording Mecca back then, so numerous bands relocated there, on top of all the local talent.

@@michaeldowson6988 I don't remember if the Burrito Bros recorded in la or sf.

Definately!

@@bonnyevans1880 Then watch them perform it on SNL ;-)

My thoughts exactly lol!

They played here in Kokomo Indiana where I live during the Haynes Apperson festival a few years ago we have every 4th of July & that song rocked & everyone sang it!

Sorry, but that's just John. CCR had already split ways. 🤔😎

Being the big sports fan that he is Jay needs to react to "Centerfield".

Put me in Coach I'm ready to play LOL

Thanks for the reminder....I love that song!!!🤘🤘🤘

Yeah, I think I recommended this on another sports centered video they did.