Posted on 12/24/2024 1:43:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
It’s the group’s first song to hit the milestone.
Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Bad Moon Rising” has reached a new kind of success, joining the Spotify Billions Club 55 years after its original release. Songs enter the club when they tally more than one billion streams on the platform.
Written by founding member John Fogerty, “Bad Moon Rising” was released as the lead single off Creedence Clearwater Revival’s third album Green River. The track peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in June of 1969, and reached number one in the U.K. in September of the same year.
The story goes that Fogerty wrote the song after watching the 1941 film The Devil And Daniel Webster, in which a hurricane destroys the crops of all local farmers except for the main character, who had made a deal with the devil. The imagery of that scene inspired the song’s apocalyptic lyrics, which Fogerty says he didn’t realize was at odds with the song’s upbeat melody until the band started recording. In 1993, he told Rolling Stone: “Here you got this song with all these hurricanes and blowing and raging ruin and all that, but it’s [snaps fingers] ‘I see a bad moon rising.’ It’s a happy-sounding tune, right? It didn’t bother me at the time.”
In 2013, Spotify conducted a poll to determine the most misheard song lyrics, and the song’s chorus “there’s a bad moon on the rise” ranked at number five, often heard as “there’s a bathroom on the right.” Fogerty sometimes changes it for fun, sharing, “in the wonderful tradition of rock & roll, people misconstrue the lyrics, and that’s what they thought I was singing. And when I hear the song on the radio now, I can see why they thought that – it does sound like it could be what I’m singing. So I do it for fun. I’m not one of these people that walks around going: ‘I’m a serious artist.’ I like to have fun.”
There’s a bathroom on the right.
Forgery is a leftist Democrat and hated Republicans. I wonder if he has changed.
I always like “Fortunate Son” a little more. But CCR has a ton of great tunes.
I liked Born on the Bayou. Fogerty was an amazing songwriter, but a leftie loon, just like Melloncamp.
Not appearing in the summary, ‘Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Bad Moon Rising” has reached a new kind of success, joining the Spotify Billions Club 55 years after its original release. Songs enter the club when they tally more than one billion streams on the platform.’ Now back to your regular programing.
Someone told me long ago
There’s a calm before the storm
I know, it’s been coming for some time.
When it’s over, so they say
It’ll rain a sunny day
I know, shining down like water.
It is ironic that no one ever assigned the song as an anthem for his political beliefs.
Sadly, yes.
Major music in movie “American Werewolf in London.”
I like “Bad Moon Rising” he does with Brad Paisley...
But who’s getting paid the royalties for it?
Fortunate Son and Lodi are their best songs....IMO.
Someone has to say it: “There’s a bathroom on the right.”
#1. Who’ll Stop the Rain
#2. Lodi
But CCR has a ton of great tunes.
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Fogerty had the knack for writing great tunes. It’s an incredibly rare talent but he had it in spades. He also was a great live entertainer.
If I never hear it again, it’ll be too soon.
“Green River” my fave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5V9nK7-OkM&ab_channel=CCRVEVO
LOVE this video, with lyrics.
Like CCR? Here is a 1 hour 36 minute video of all their classic songs, enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hJnevvcuEQ&ab_channel=SlowRockMedley
John Fogerty himself is a fascist liberal PIG!, but he is a musical genius. Love his art/hate his politics. Its okay.
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