Chords for Creedence Clearwater Revival- Interview 1972 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]

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[B] _ Hello there, and welcome to Hit Scene.
Today's a very special show.
We are fortunate enough to be the only television station to be given an interview with Cretan's Clearwater Revival.
_ _ [D] It was the most fantastic performance these people have put up over the years.
Eight gold singles in a row.
And we'd like to mention them for you while you're watching these background scenes.
Songs like I Put a Spell on You, Bad Moon Rising, Green River, Down [Dm] on the Corner,
_ [D] Travelling Band, He'll Stop the Rain as a [E] Double, Up [Eb] Around the Bend, Looking Out My Back [D] Door,
and Have You Ever Seen the Rain.
Wonderful songs, full of verve, vivacity, [F] and plenty [D] of drive.
And we talked to these boys at [G] length.
_ And there you see them. _
There's [Dm] Doug Clifford, _ [G] John Furgadee, and Stu Cook.
[G] What _ are you up to currently, apart from touring Australia?
Are you writing lots of music [Bb] of the sort we've had before, [Gm] in great propensity?
Yes.
_ What specifically?
Albums, singles?
We're writing [Ebm] albums in great_
_ [G] Propensity?
Yeah.
I can disappear in a [Gb] half. _
[Db] _ _ John, your last single [Eb] released here in Australia was Sweet [G] Hitchhiker.
What sort of performances have you put up around the world so far?
Has there been a gold seller for you yet?
Oh yeah.
_ How many countries?
[C] _ _ Mmm_
[Eb] Good Lord, [G] I don't know.
All but the Communist Bloc.
Yeah.
_ _ Thanks.
It's a gold curtain, as it were.
The [C] reason I ask, it hasn't reached gold [Abm] status here in Australia, but your [Em] previous eight releases have done that.
Just one after the other.
[Bb] It's a record which hasn't been approached [F] by anybody, that I can [G] recall, so far. _
There must not be a lot of motorcycle [Eb] fans.
I'm expecting the same thing.
Probably [G] it.
_ _ [Em] How far [F] back do you go with your composing?
You began [G] in what year?
_ Composing?
Yep.
[Eb] _ 1949.
[B] _ [G] At what age was that?
Four.
_ [C] Have you [G] recorded this song?
_ [A] No, [N] but some people have said it.
It might sound like it.
[F] Now Susie was the first one to be put out as a singer.
But I didn't write that.
You [C] didn't?
No.
Not yours?
No, [G] Leo Hawkins wrote that.
My mistake.
I'm sorry.
No, no, no, no.
It wasn't a big success for you, was [C] it?
Yeah, it was about 600,000 when you say it.
At the time, that was the biggest success of our life.
Yeah, [Cm] it was our first, [Gm] what you call, a hit.
I'll take that.
[Abm] And then came I Put a Spell on You.
Right, which was written [Eb] by another Hawkins, named [G] Speedman Jay.
[Eb] _ From that time on, it was just a succession [G] of hits.
Proud Mary was the first.
Proud Mary would have to be your biggest hit so far.
No, no.
No?
I think Looking Out My Back Door is the biggest hit so far.
Really?
Biggest single?
[Ab] I think Here in Australia, [G] Proud Mary might have been the one.
_ _ [Gm] Now, album-wise, we have six [Ab] listed here, [N] and it's all rock and roll music.
Do you desire to write anything else but rock and roll?
No, [Gb] we're going to completely [Gm] stop and write cool jazz.
_ Yeah, [Ab] it's really, seriously, it's just from being based, _ [N] personally, all of us, in rock and roll.
It's what we like to listen to.
It's what we like to play.
But we're a weed-op.
[B] I don't have any great ambitions to write [C] a [Eb] standard, like I [Gbm] Left My Heart in [F] Brisbane.
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[G] It's a_
Did you get that?
Oh, I sure did.
It's [Eb] almost been done.
I left mine in Sydney, actually, but I'm not going to talk about it.
[N] _ _ _ [C] Now you see why we write rock and roll [Db] songs, huh?
Yeah, [C] it's a way of [G] getting ahead.
Rock and roll fits our lives.
[Ab] We're just funky [Eb] dudes.
[Bb] What's been your [E] biggest moment so far in your career?
[G] _ The most exciting thing that's happened to you? _
[Em] For me, [Ab] it was standing backstage at the Ed Sullivan show, waiting to go [Eb] on, you know, the very first time.
Really, really [G] nervous.
[Ab] And we were behind the backdrop that he's always in front [B] of.
_ [A] _ And, you know, suddenly it just hit me, I [Ab] want to go home, I don't want to do it, I can't do it, I [Gm] can't do it.
And [Eb] I looked up and [G] somebody had written in graffiti on the back of this thing,
Down with Saigon, up with [Db] Ho Chi Minh.
And that gave [Gb] me the strength to go on.
[Gm] Right there, and Ed Sullivan's there.
Honestly, you're putting me on quite obviously. No, no. _
That's what [A] we're going to do.
Rock and roll. _ _
That's an interesting [Gm] point.
Just what does the Ed Sullivan show mean to [E] American television?
Is [Ab] it that big?
[G] No, it's off the air now.
Yeah, but at [Cm] that time.
Yeah, that was the, what did [B] he call that?
Pinnacle of showbiz.
For [Ab] sure, for sure it was.
And for [G] us it was a _ really big show.
Yeah, really big.
What was your first television show, can you recall?
[G] I'm sure it was something like [C] Teen Beat [Abm] or_
No, it was_ Getting Together.
No, what was that?
Sam Riddle's Hot Time Bananas.
I [Bb] don't know.
It was kind of one of [G] those local television shows.
Riddle's swell night.
And then we worked our way up to Dick Clark.
Right.
_ That sounds like a put on tune.
It's the truth.
It's the truth.
_ Well, he is highly rated, yes, but are you guys putting me on?
No.
[Abm] No, actually, Dick Clark's show was a_
[Ab] I don't even get into that, but he's respectable because he's stayed there for over 12 years
when [Abm] everyone else is kind of_ Yeah.
He's still going strong.
[C] _ [G] Well, it seems that you can't visualize your [Gm] musical directions changing at all.
It's to be rock and roll.
[G] Yeah, we can't put it in words.
Right.
You know, _ it's_
[G] _ [Ab] As you grow, as you [G] learn new things and as you bounce around the world, I guess, you know,
of course you're going to change.
And that'll just, you know, it'll be obvious, I guess, or maybe it won't.
_ [Ab] Have you ever reached a point either singly or collectively and wanted to do something
else rather than do what you're doing?
_ [G] Oh, I don't know.
Well, Stu made a movie.
Right.
A home movie.
Oh, no.
[Gm] No.
The real thing.
16 million? _
_ _ _ [G] _ I'll drink to that.
Did you contribute?
_ _ I'll tell you [Gm] about it.
I'll smoke this peanut.
_ All right, then.
What's your next single coming up?
Can you tell [Em] us at this time? _
_ Someday Never [G] Comes and Tearing Up the Country.
Both songs of your own?
Of our own, yeah.
[Abm] Actually, Doug wrote Tearing Up the Country [G] and I wrote Someday Never Comes. _ _
_ How many [C] companies have you seen on your travels over the years? _
[G] Often.
I'd say 33.
Right. _
What was the question?
How many countries?
_ And what do you look for?
We've been tearing them all up, too.
What do you look for in these countries?
[Eb] Anything special?
[Gm] Oh.
_ _ No names.
The most bizarre action to [G] be found.
Right.
I see.
As bizarre as it can be, that's what we're looking for.
Kinky production.
Right, actually.
Right. _
Kinky production.
I don't know.
[Em] It sounds good, but I better watch out.
I'm [Ab] not up on my Australian slang.
I could be really bad at it.
I'm really [Gm] getting myself in trouble.
You said a mouthful there.
Watch it now.
Tell me, do you other fellows have to [G] fight John for the honors on the record label?
Does he just have the natural talent?
No, I think we get _ honored equally by our record label.
Oh, yeah, we sure do.
I mean, as far _ _ _ _ as the compositions are concerned.
Do you have natural writing talent, Doug and Stu?
Or do you have to_ Most assuredly.
Of course.
So why aren't you putting out some of your own stuff?
We are.
We are.
We are.
On our fourth coming out, and it's not yet entitled.
I see.
We'll look forward to [C] it.
Number seven.
Yeah, number seven.
[B] Number seven.
Stu, you've just come across Australia from New Zealand.
How [C] did you find the natives over there?
Receptive to [G] CCR type music?
Yeah, very receptive.
[E] And it's going well [D] for you so far in Australia.
Would you like to come back again?
[B] Yes.
Yes.
Whatever the public [Gm] wants.
We'll be back when the moon is in triple asparagus.
Triple asparagus.
[G] We'll look forward to that.
That's _ _ his_
Doug, you must have enjoyed yourself. _ _
I [Bb] sure have.
[Gb] I took the asparagus part of being a [G] Yay in the first place.
Where are you [E] off to when you've left Australia?
[G] Japan.
How many dates up there, John?
How many dates?
_ [F] About [C] 26.
And [G] three concerts.
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ The irrepressible [G] CCR.
Gentlemen, thank you very much for the time.
I know you're anxious to get back to the party, and we'd like to thank you very much for coming on ABC television,
Hit Scene, and Safe [Eb] Tripping Around the World.
Thank you, Hit Scene.
Thank [G] you, ABC.
Thank you. Bye-bye. _ _ _ _ _ _
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