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Creedence Clearwater Revival Featuring John Fogerty – Chronicle (The 20 Greatest Hits) / Fantasy Audio CD Stereo 1991 / 0025218000222
UPC 025218000222
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Chronicle, Vol. 1, also known as Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits, is a greatest hits album by the American swamp rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival. It was released in January 1976 by Fantasy Records. The edited version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" featured on the album was simultaneously released as a single (see 1976 in music).
Chronicle, Vol. 1 is a singles collection with 13 A-sides and seven B-sides. Unlike the two previously released Creedence Gold compilations, Chronicle Vol. 1 includes all of the group's charted hits. Chronicle, Vol. 2 was released in 1986, and features non-charting "classics" collected from the same albums as the songs on Vol. 1.
Certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America, it is the best-selling album in the band's catalog. The compilation was ranked number 59 in the updated version of Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of all time. It has sold 6,357,000 copies in the US since 1991, when Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales for Billboard. It was re-released on vinyl in 2014 as a Limited Edition.
Tracklist:
| 1 | Suzie Q
Written-By – Hawkins, Broadwater, Lewis |
4:35 |
| 2 | I Put A Spell On You
Written-By – Jay Hawkins |
4:30 |
| 3 | Proud Mary | 3:07 |
| 4 | Bad Moon Rising | 2:18 |
| 5 | Lodi | 3:09 |
| 6 | Green River | 2:32 |
| 7 | Commotion | 2:41 |
| 8 | Down On The Corner | 2:43 |
| 9 | Fortunate Son | 2:18 |
| 10 | Travelin' Band | 2:07 |
| 11 | Who'll Stop The Rain | 2:27 |
| 12 | Up Around The Bend | 2:41 |
| 13 | Run Through The Jungle | 3:05 |
| 14 | Lookin' Out My Back Door | 2:31 |
| 15 | Long As I Can See The Light | 3:32 |
| 16 |
I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Written-By – Whitfield-Strong |
11:04 |
| 17 | Have You Ever Seen The Rain? | 2:38 |
| 18 | Hey Tonight | 2:41 |
| 19 | Sweet Hitch-Hiker | 2:55 |
| 20 | Someday Never Comes | 3:59 |
More Details:
- Art Direction, Design – Phil Carroll
- Bass – Stu Cook
- Design [CD Booklet Design] – Deb Sibony
- Drums – Doug Clifford
- Guitar – Tom Fogerty (tracks: 1 to 18)
- Lead Guitar, Vocals – John Fogerty
- Liner Notes – Greil Marcus
- Photography By – Jim Marshall (3)
- Producer, Arranged By – John Fogerty
- Remastered By – George Horn
- Written-By – J.C. Fogerty* (tracks: 3 to 15, 17 to 20)
About the Band:
Creedence Clearwater Revival , also referred to as Creedence and CCR, was an American rock band which recorded and performed from 1968 to 1972. 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.
CCR's musical style encompassed roots rock, swamp rock, and blues rock. They played in a Southern rock style, despite their San Francisco Bay Area origin, with lyrics about bayous, catfish, the Mississippi River and other popular elements of Southern United States iconography. The band's songs rarely dealt with romantic love, concentrating instead on political and socially-conscious lyrics about topics such as the Vietnam War. The band performed at the 1969 Woodstock festival in Upstate New York.
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.
CCR's music is still a staple of U.S. classic rock radio airplay. Twenty-eight million CCR records have been sold in the U.S. alone. Rolling Stone ranked them 82nd on its 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
