In a way, an enormous chapter in American rock historical past ended within the spring of 1972. Creedence Clearwater Revival entered the Billboard LP chart with their seventh studio launch, Mardi Gras. Inside six months of its look, CCR have been no extra.
The ultimate set, recorded that January, was one thing of an unlucky and sad postscript within the vastly profitable Creedence story. Tom Fogerty had left the band after inside disputes following their 1970 million-seller Pendulum. That left a three-piece line-up by which his brother John was now joined for lead vocal, songwriting and manufacturing duties by each bassist and rhythm guitarist Stu Prepare dinner and drummer Doug Clifford.
The exception was a canopy of the Gene Pitney co-write that had change into a giant hit for Ricky Nelson means again in 1961, “Hello Mary Lou.” It was part of the rock’n’roll upbringing of all three CCR members, every aged 16 when it was everywhere in the radio.
Fogerty takes a again seat
John Fogerty, beforehand the band’s principal songwriter, solely contributed three numbers to Mardi Gras, with Clifford and Prepare dinner taking six between them. The album met with significantly much less success and acclaim than its predecessors and was usually not effectively acquired by reviewers. “Lookin’ For A Reason” had John in nation temper, introducing an LP with fairly a powerful country-rock really feel.
However audiences didn’t heat as a lot to a sound that was inevitably much less acquainted on tracks not that includes Fogerty’s distinctively raucous lead vocals. That was aside from “Sweet Hitch-Hiker,” launched as a single in 1971 and one other US Prime 10 hit, which was then included on Mardi Gras.
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The album entered the US chart on April 29, 1972 at No.63. It will climb as excessive as No.12 in a 24-week keep, profitable gold certification. By October, the band had introduced their break up. However inside a number of weeks of that, they have been again within the charts with a Creedence Gold compilation that superior to US gross sales alone of two million.
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