Creedence Clearwater Revival: In Performance | Music Documentary | Chris Welch | Reuben Archer
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- Ranked among the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, this is the definitive review of the classic music of Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR). Featuring an in-depth retrospective with bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug ‘Cosmo’ Clifford who revisit every Clearwater album to reassess the music and its impact. Band members; John Fogerty, Tom Fogerty, Stu Cook, Doug Clifford
Director: The Creative Picture Company
Stars: Chris Welch, Reuben Archer, Phil Sutcliffe
The American rock band was formed in El Cerrito, California. The band initially consisted of lead vocalist, lead guitarist, and primary songwriter John Fogerty; his brother, rhythm guitarist Tom Fogerty; bassist Stu Cook; and drummer Doug Clifford. These members had played together since 1959, first as the Blue Velvets and later as the Golliwogs, before settling on the Creedence Clearwater Revival name in 1967. The band performed at the 1969 Woodstock festival in Upstate New York, and was the first major act signed to appear there.
CCR disbanded acrimoniously in late 1972 after four years of chart-topping success. Tom Fogerty had officially left the previous year, and John was at odds with the remaining members over matters of business and artistic control, all of which resulted in subsequent lawsuits among the former bandmates. Fogerty's ongoing disagreements with Fantasy Records owner Saul Zaentz created further protracted court battles, and John Fogerty refused to perform with the two other surviving members at Creedence's 1993 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Though the band has never officially reunited, John Fogerty continues to perform CCR songs as part of his solo act, while Cook and Clifford have performed as Creedence Clearwater Revisited since the 1990s.
CCR's music is still a staple of U.S. classic rock radio airplay; 30 million CCR records have been sold in the U.S. alone. The compilation album Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits, originally released in 1976, is still on the Billboard 200 album chart and reached the 500-week mark in December 2020. It has been awarded 10× platinum.
CCR Studio albums discography:
Creedence Clearwater Revival (1968)
Bayou Country (1969)
Green River (1969)
Willy and the Poor Boys (1969)
Cosmo's Factory (1970)
Pendulum (1970)
Mardi Gras (1972)
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For me the best band in the 60" and 70 " years. They make very great music! I have all albums of CCR,John Fogerty and Tom Fogery.
Greatest American band ever.
Wonderful documentary. Touched my innermost soul as much as their Music did 55 years ago ❤.
Great documentary. Like it says at the end, CCR will be played everywhere, for ever.
John is still playing this music live. Do yourself a favor and go see him
CCR; Prom, 1969!! Yes!!
I think, Fortunate Son, definitely showcased the peak of John's voice. It May be a statement on the political angst of the time, but to me there's a sexy character to the gritty, passionate way in which he sang that song. The band just shines in that one.
Uh....put a candle on the window does exist
My best bud was a Viet Nam vet, on a swift boat, and "Run Through The Jungle" always sent him back there. RIP, Stitches, miss you every day, Bro.
I am 68 years of age and CCR was and still is my favorite band. To me all of their albums are good. I like the Pendulum album it's alot different than the others because of the Hammond organ. Green River album is my favorite and John says it's his favorite.😎👍
My favorite band since 50 years. Great music! 🎸
Rock on!
1970 - 2022
CELEBRATING 52 YEARS SINCE THE RELEASE OF "COSMO'S FACTORY", THE GREATEST STUDIO-RECORDED ALBUM IN ROCKNROLL HISTORY 🎸
Enough said!
STILL LOVE TO LISTEN TO CCR EVEN AT 80 YRS OLD.
Always great to see & hear this great , Band & their MUSIC.
No! IN MUSIC HISTORY ...
Cosmos Factory was lying on the shelve of albums from my older siblings. I played it, while in blueish teenager mood, on a hot summer evening, I hit 'Up around the bend' and it instantly cheered me up and converted me into a lifetime fan of their music.
Just went into a CCR RUclips rabbit hole. Sad to read about how the band treated John when the band broke up. Sure he may have been a bit egocentric but when you have all the talent in the band….you are allowed to make the calls. 🤷🏻♂️
I saw Creedence 3 times, l have meet Stu& Doug,many photos all together, Doug give me tour Drumstic,from 1970,Stu give me stylus to play,John signed very rare photo from Fantasy rec.Great band.
You know a band is great when a song like "Who'll Stop the Rain" doesn't even get mentioned.
Stu Cook is lying. He, Doug Clifford, and Tom Fogerty definitely wanted to write, sing, and get more recognition. Tom Fogerty chose to just quit the band. That's when John said, "Okay.., you guys can have two thirds of the album." They wrote and sang 3 songs a piece, and the album was terrible with the exception of 'Someday Never Comes' and 'Sweet Hitchhiker'. Both written and sang by John. Stu and Doug sang terribly! Especially Stu! Saul Zanz let everyone out of their contracts except John Fogerty. John was the money maker of the bunch.
THATS 100%,!FACT..❤J.F
MADE IT MAN.!😊
Everything you wrote is 100% fact. However, John never attained the same level of success since the band broke up. There was something about the 4 of them greater than the sum of the parts. The CCR sound was so distinct and I have to give credit to the other 3 guys for helping to develop it.
CCR is one of the greatest rock n'roll band ever. John Fogerty is really a genious!!
But they WERE Johns backing band! What success have they had without JOHN? Did any of them play in another well known band after that? Did any of them write their own hit song in the past 50 years
Even very talented bands don't have as much success apart as they did together. John wasn't as successful by himself either talented as he is
@@allensaunders449 Not true. John was suppressed by Saul Zaentz who sued John for plagiarizing himself! He was told he could not make music which sounded like CCR, when John WAS CCR! Don Henley had a fantastic career outside of the Eagles. Jimmy Page was successful in every band he formed! And Paul McCartney and wings were huge in the 70's! I was there, and bought every album!
Great documentary. Well done!! 💣🔥
@@allensaunders449John Fogerty’s solo career is as successful as he wants it to be! He is worth over 70 million $$! Now he owns all his songs so those $$$ will be going up! When he was younger he was more, driven. In his middle years after his beloved band broke up, John went through depression, creative blockages and alcoholism! So finally being freed from the encumberment of the pathetic contract they all signed with Fantasy, John has a different perspective with regards to music & life!🇨🇦
@@ConvairDart106Yes your very correct !This is pointless by mainly brits.?!😢
Hey, I'm 40% leadbelly!
No, but really, they're iconic especially when it comes to 60% of music from the nam era and those kinds of songs that no cover could ever even compete like fortunate son... entirely timeless.
Those were the times of Vietnam can never be repeated
CCR and John Fogerty Forever.
Amazing hit making machine. Join Fogarty in 2 years did all this fantastic music! Hard to believe one guy did this so quickly.
Glad you enjoy it!
My fave group since spring 1971
Fogerty has the perfect rock and roll voice
Atlanta Pop Festival summer 1969...they were killer.
Bad Moon Rising, the licks during the 2nd and 3rd verses were pulled from Scotty Moore’s work on early Elvis Sun records-check out “You’re Right, I’m Left, She’s Gone”
Your point, is?
Please Stu, you know damn well you had no impact on the band doing Suzie Q😂
Such a unique sound, and so many great songs. It’s a shame they couldn’t have stayed together for a while longer. But happy for what they gave us!
John is still touring and making new music. No need to live in shame. John is living BIG
The most successful coattail riders in rock history. God bless John Foggerty.
Cosmo's factory, dark side of the moon ... les 2 albums que j'ai volés chez le libraire à 15 ans. C'était magique. De la vraie musique. Une époque bénie. 😢 . Quand j'écoute CCR encore maintenant je remonte le temps ❤
Cosmo’s factory was there best album
lmportant like the holy Graal
Without question.🎸
Yes it was, 6 big hits on it, quadruple platinum, #1 album, their biggest selling album👍✌️
Yes it was but Willy & The Poor boys was a close second:
Side 1
1 "Down on the Corner"
2. "It Came Out of the Sky"
3. "Cotton Fields"
4. "Poorboy Shuffle"
5. "Feelin' Blue"
Side two
1. "Fortunate Son"
2. "Don't Look Now (It Ain't You or Me)"
3. "The Midnight Special"
4. "Side o' the Road"
5. "Effigy"
What a line-up!
Porterville was written by John ,not with Stu and Doug!
And his brother
Gene Hackman likes Green River...
The rest of the band had to admit that John was far and away the most talented
The ONLY talented one
@e7thstar Nah man I don't think so. Well yes John was the only one who had the gift of being capable to write songs in this awesome way, but his brother Tom was a very, very good rhythm player, Stu could play the bass very groovy and spot on and Doug was just the right drummer for the band. Especially at live performances, he was a thriving force.
For me personally it's just a shame these 4 guys lost their friendship and love for each other. Especially in the post Creedence time.
Para mi fue y es el mejor conjunto musical de música country y excelente ritmo con su líder John foguerty
NOT ONLY DID THEY WRITE EPIC SAGA'S OF SONGS BUT THEY WERE GREAT , GIANT SONGS. YOU DIDN'T
TIRE OF. CCR RULES ALL TIME H
GREATEST ROCK GODS. THE BEATLES HAVE TO KNEEL BEFORE CCR.
Absolutely John Lennon even came forward to voice how great Creedence was!
Where is John? Why was the fact that the 3 of them (not John) sold their rights to Saul (their manager) is what led to John leaving the band?????
ALSO why would stu say that they didn't want to write or sing? BECAUSE THEY DID.
Then Tom fogerty went solo under Saul.
Anyways, John is still alive and touring. He rocks
The others sold their rights to Saul after the breakup of the band. They broke up because the others were wanting to write and sing, and because John had writers block due to the contract pressure he was under. Saul let the other 3 out of the contract, but wouldn't let John out, so he quit.
@@michaelharrington75 my G, John NEVER had writers block. He wanted to prove to the other members that their music was trash....and it was. John is the ONLY talented one in ccr....also they sold their rights well before they "broke up" ...get your facts straight
@@e7thstar You've obviously never read his book? It's a well known fact that he struggled with writers block. He's talked about it many times.
Along with their debut album, Pendulum is my favorite album. I love the rawness of the first one, and the variety of Pendulum
thumbs up for your logo ID. I'm a Cosmo's fan. it's really too bad that it sounds like they didn't have a vote on whether or not the Woodstock set got out. that, I would say, should be a group decision. I'm w/ Fogerty most of the way on his way of operating, but their set there was not nearly as bad as he says it was. but their career really didn't need Woodstock ,as it turns out.
Good one for sure, but I have to go with Cosmo’s. Probably because I was in my HS senior year had something to do with this choice .
Me too! I love all of the tracks in it. And rude awakening #2... it's the way we fell the day after the end of CCR.
@@mariosabourin6965 It's also the only one without any covers, whereas half of Cosmo's factory are covers. So with Pendulum, John's creativity was at its peak. Some don't like Rude Awakening. I always loved it. It's a brave experiment into prog.
@@stevedotwood Half? Four out of eleven. And the originals ? Travellin Band, Up Around the Bend, Who'll Stop the Rain?, Looking out my Back Door, Long as I can see the LIght, Run Through the Jungle. Not to mention Ramble Tamble which didn't get a mention here, but I think is the best of their extended jams.
It is my opinion that a MAJOR factor in CCR's problems was their business manager, Saul Zaentz. From what one reads on Wickedpedia (Wikipedia), Mr. Zaentz was responsible for business deals that bilked millions of dollars from the band. I will not mention Mr. Zaentz's specific ethnic / religious heritage, but I think THAT explains a lot of his behavior towards the band and its members.
Thank you.
@AnbroBR I will mention your heritage of bigoted Nazi stupidity.
Zaentz was definitely NOT their business manager. He owned the record company.
Ramble tamble one of my favorites 😊
' Cosmo's Factory' album Forever.
forgive me, my British friends, but as a 'Yank' when I hear the line," well, I can remember the 4th of July" it makes me feel Patriotic. and I'm well aware that they were from Berkeley, not bayou country. but it doesn't matter, we all love the 4th. I've often blasted it out on that date. and Jerry Lee Lewis was a fan of the song. he was from there.
Probably the only contenders to the Doors as the greatest American Rock n Roll band.
The Eagles????
@@aidanswanson914 Obviously, your not ‘the dude’ Lebowski. He hated the eagles, but LOVED him some Creedance!
41:00 Don't *INSULT* The song "Midnight Special" by calling it gospel. It's a *SECULAR* song about an Afro-American prisoner doing time in a southern jail run by racist officials. The John Fogarty arrangement adds an extra layer of secularity to the song and it becomes a CCR classic!
What are you talking about? Race isn't even mentioned in the song.
@@frogger1952 It may not be overtly mentioned but it's implied!
@@neilforbes416 The song is about a woman appealing to the governor for a last-minute stay of execution. That's the "midnight special". No mention of race or that the prison officials are racist. It's not.overtly mentioned nor implied.
Midnight Special is actually a prison song.
Yes, but isn't that already common knowledge?
Another name for CCR? How about...JOHN FOGERTY! I just heard their take on "Heard it through the grapevine," and I'm thinking, that's not John Bonham, or Keith Moon, but it's pretty good, decent...but you know what? In the end, even Keith Moon was REPLACED (by Kenny Jones, I believe), who was fine...So you three "session" guys, you were ALL replaceable. Know who was NOT replaceable? The lead singer ger. The lead guitarist. The WRITER...of all these HITS, and great album cuts!.
32:50 Did you notice Doug smile?
I still find it amazing that John's brother Tom wanted to change things up they had the recipe It was great and that ruined the band???
Like Wow Man!
My understanding was at the beginning John wanted everyone to contribute to the songwriting process but no one wanted to. I may be wrong..
John did say in an interview that he is the only one who brought songs to the table. Tom stated he wanted to sing & write music, however, Tom left the band right after John accepted this new approach! Go figure!
26:15 Guy call Lodi, "Lody". Lol
Stu and Doug couldn't song- write themselves out of a wet paper Bag much less Sing and play their Instruments.
It was all about cranking out the paycheck, drinking as much beer as possible.
No comprendo, en esta foto del grupo CCR, John Fogerty ( líder, alma y compositor de todos los éxitos), aparece al fondo y Cook y el batería en primer plano. Debería ser al revés.
I believe that was a “band” decision, albeit, with John’s blessing’s! It was to take some of the pressure off of John & help the other 3 get more recognition as John was getting it all!🇨🇦
Oh no THIS 'documentary'
What do you mean by that, thanks
@@waynesheppard4826 Got it from eBay about 15 years ago .. really bad
@@RideAcrossTheRiverThanks got it
1st Viewer
Absolutely awesome band