I liked Rod Stewart’s rendition of “have you ever seen the rain”....pretty good. The studio version sounds like a full orchestra, strings and all.....
Rod did good remakes.....especially “this old heart of mine”....I think better than the original by the Isley Brothers.
Have you ever seen the rain...Rod Stewart:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oX2FSv4Rys
Rod Stewart is all or nothing - his songs are either really good or really bad. IMO his best cover is The First Cut Is the Deepest - blows Cat Stevens' original out of the water.
From what I heard, John Fogerty is such a perfectionist that I'm surprised he ever got any song finished to his satisfaction. That perfectionism drove his CCR bandmates crazy. While he was probably too critical of his bandmates, to be fair, he was hard on himself, too.