Favorite C.C.R. 45?

[NightTrain]

C.C.R. must have had more double-sided hits than any '60s band except the Beatles. As such, I've listed both the A and B-sides of their 10 biggest singles for this poll. Try not to whistle too loudly as you read the titles!

[NightTrain]

1. kick

n/t

[Norbert]

2. Up Around the Bend was alway one of my very favorites

Very positive song.

[johnnie]

3. Not to be difficult but..

I always loved the song "Someday never comes". I think Tom was out of the band at the time, but it is a great tune.

[last_texas_dem]

16. I agree

An excellent CCR song! I voted "Travelin' Band/ Who'll Stop the Rain" b/c I think it is the overall best single, but "Someday Never Comes" (minor hit) and "Walk on the Water" (on the debut and also, I believe, the b-side of "I Put a Spell on You") are my two favorite CCR songs.

[jpgray]

4. Proud Mary / Born on the Bayou is godlike (nt)

[NightTrain]

5. kick again

n/t

[gate of the sun]

6. lately have enjoyed

listening to CCR again and have decided "green river" is the best hench my vote

[NightTrain]

7. Kick!

n/t

[Rocinante]

8. Suzie Q

Green River/Commotion a close second.

[NightTrain]

9. Good record, but...

...I prefer the 1957 original by Dale Hawkins.

[Zorra]

10. Folks down here

in Mexico absolutely universally love Creedence. I did a gig at a gringo fiesta with a pick up band on Thanksgiving Day, and played Lodi, Green River, Bad Moon Rising, Suzie Q, and Proud Mary. Sometimes I think the word "creedence" may be the most well known English word among Mexican people.

CCR's music is a transgenerational national treasure, and, IMO, captures the spirit of America in the 20th century as accurately and poignantly as a Steinbeck novel.

I never have gotten tired of playing Creedence tunes. People love them.

[jeter]

11. It was very close between

"Up Around the Bend" and "Fortunate Son"

Christ, I love all their songs.

[ewagner]

12. Green River...

it brings back warm, fuzzy menories of nights with "the gang" along the banks of the St Johns River. (You actually could swim in it bac then!)

[AntiCoup2K4]

13. Don't actually have any of their 45's

Got a few of the albums on the original vinyl though, and the 2 chronicle CD's (which is basically a compilation of all the 45's)

Anyway, I find it damn near impossible to narrow Creedence down to one song, since they had so many great ones....

But let's just say Fortunate Son seems to fit the present times almost as well as it did the times it was written in.

[greendog]

14. Down on the Corner/ Fortunate Son

I love both of those tunes.
:)

[REP]

15. Crack Cocaine Rager?

It's on Tales from Slabtown (EP); originally released as CCR.

[HEyHEY]

17. LOOKIN OUT MY BACKDOOR!!!

First Solo I learned to play..cause I loved it soooo much!

[VOX]

18. Fortunate Son is scream-along good, and it's anti-right wing!

Creedence cranked out some great songs, one after the other. But Fortunate Son is tops in my book.

[peekaloo]

19. Sweet Hitchhiker was my intro to CCR (I bought the 45)

but my fave is 'Lookin' Out My Backdoor', forever interwined with that scene from 'The Big Lebowski'.

[salmonhorse]

20. Green River ~

"Bare foot girls dancing in the moonlight..."