If you actively dislike Creedence Clearwater Revival, then I can never respect anything you have to say about anything.

(Early on also being when they were covering a lot of American R&B and emulating that sound)

LOL it would be far easier to list British rock bands in the 60s and 70s that didn't sing in American accents.

hi guys

remember "Rocky Raccoon"? "Long Tall Sally"?

No

Good.

Rocky Rococo I remember.

I remember someone making the point that Bowie's success (at least with Ziggy Stardust in the UK) was a really big deal because here was a British rock star who wasn't hiding or diluting his accent or emulating American singers.

Having said that, I kind of wish Springsteen toned down the Dust Bowl refugee accent he adopted after recording Tom Joad.

I'll be honest, as much as I love the song, I've never been a fan of the way John sings it as "I HOID it through the grapevine."

I remember someone making the point that Bowie's success (at least with Ziggy Stardust in the UK) was a really big deal because here was a British rock star who wasn't hiding or diluting his accent or emulating American singers.

― birdistheword,

yeah Ferry too.

xp I love CCR but I think it's just an okay cover. Fine to sit through despite its length, but not one of their great recordings.

I'll be honest, as much as I love the song, I've never been a fan of the way John sings it as "I HOID it through the grapevine."

OTM. Or "Proud Mary keep on BOININ'," which apparently he got from Howling Wolf.

TS: Gladys Knight vs CCR's "Grapevine."

Gladys by a wide margin.

Gladys
Marvin
Slits
CCR

Putting Marvin at #2 might be a slight, but man. It was not easy growing up with The Big Chill generation.

I'm not a Lawrence Kasdan fan so I've never seen the Big Chill in its entirety. I revisited a few scenes when William Hurt died and people posted them, and they seemed to confirm what I don't like about his movies.

Having said that, Marvin's a firm #1 for me.

It was not easy growing up with The Big Chill generation

feeling this

The power of choogle compels you

Gladys
Marvin
Slits
CCR

Putting Marvin at #2 might be a slight, but man. It was not easy growing up with The Big Chill generation.

― pplains

My ranking too, but I love all four covers.

Bowie sang in an American accent plenty of times. Marc Bolan on the other hand invented his own accent to sing in.

I get the point but I feel like that's very common in pop music, especially rock n' roll - to use Macca as an example, the Beatles and a lot of British Invasion bands sung more with American accents, especially early on.

― birdistheword, Friday, September 2, 2022 1:53 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

When Lennon was asked by US journalists why they sang in American accents, he replied that they only sang in Liverpool accents. Americans were never great at distinguishing between, or identifying, different UK accents, and were much worse at it in the '60s -- if a British singer didn't sound like Eliza Doolittle, then they weren't singing in a British accent, as far as US audiences were concerned.

(Jagger, Daltrey, Eric Burdon, and Paul Jones definitely tried to sing in American accents, though.)

Americans not great at picking up on Scouse sarcasm either.

In the U.S., we do not have irony.

or ironing

UKers trying to understand CCR lol

https://nobilliards.blogspot.com/2010/03/creedence-clearwater-revival-cosmos.html

Hey, they had a No. 1 single in the UK, something they never managed in the US.

I assumed that this revive was because of the new book by John Lingan:
https://bookshop.org/books/a-song-for-everyone-the-story-of-creedence-clearwater-revival/9780306846717

I picked it up last time I was at the book store but haven't had time to read it yet. I did enjoy Lingan's previous book about the town that gave us Patsy Cline:
https://www.bookforum.com/culture/homeplace-by-john-lingan-19961

I kind of passively dislike Creedence Clearwater Revival.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux)

If you passively dislike Creedence Clearwater Revival, then I can never respect anything you have to say about anything.

these are the ways

It is known

I remember someone making the point that Bowie's success (at least with Ziggy Stardust in the UK) was a really big deal because here was a British rock star who wasn't hiding or diluting his accent or emulating American singers.

Something like this has been said about everyone who sings in their real voice and it always sounds like bullshit to me. "Oh, before the Stone Roses we'd *never* heard anyone sing in a Northern accent before! Except Mark E Smith".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOqo5Po462U

Now you're talking.

I am developing an app that will notify you when you are near a place that had a memorable CCR performance.

It's called Choogle Maps

would download

I read another book about CCR, which I believe was by Hank Bordowitz. It's probably the most unhappy musical biography that didn't involve anyone dying of misadventure (it was also written before Fogerty got hold of his masters again, while Saul Zaentz was still alive). Fogerty basically spent most of the ten years between 1975 and 1985 paralyzed with rage, and his bandmates (and brother) didn't end up very happy either.

One of the revelations therein was that Fogerty's record contract required him to produce 36 master recordings per year. A master was any recording 2:30 or less; if it were longer, it would count as multiples against his contract. This is why there are a number of CCR tracks that are 2:35 or 5:05 or so - they would count as two or three songs respectively to fulfilling the record company demands.

Way to stick it to the man CCR

he was contractually obligated to choog! gotdam

Lol, chooglin is 7:37! That’s just over 3 groups of 2.5 minutes!

The whole meaning of the song has changed

Keep on chooglin
Chooglin
Chooglin, chooglin, chooglin!

all the way to the bank

That's what I call choooguliiiine

puffin, i gotta declare whats mines

if only he had used choogle maps
― wario in the streets, waluigi in the sheets (m bison), Wednesday, August 28, 2019 1:50 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh dang

in the world of provenance, that was like an alley oop

Sorry m bison! I bow to you

*whispers*

keep on chooglin...
keep on chooglin...

*speaking up a bit*

chooglin!
chooglin!

*shouting now*

CHOOGLIN!
CHOOGLIN!
CHOOGLIN!

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