Creedence Clearwater Revival ‘Willy and the Poor Boys’ art work – Courtesy: UMG
Might you think about a modern-day band releasing three studio albums in ten months and seeing every of them later be licensed not less than platinum? That was the unbelievable tempo that Creedence Clearwater Revival had been setting on the finish of the Sixties. Late in 1969, they accomplished the sequence, and noticed out the last decade, as they launched their fourth album Willy and the Poor Boys, issued on November 2, 1969.
Produced by lead singer and author John Fogerty, this was the file that featured such CCR classics as “Down On The Corner,” “Fortunate Son,” and the band’s variations of Leadbelly’s “Cotton Fields” and the normal, much-covered “Midnight Special.” Certainly, “Down On The Corner” contained the lyric that gave the album its title (“down on the corner, out in the street, Willy and the Poor Boys are playin’/Bring a nickel, tap your feet”).
This was additionally, successfully, two nice bands for the worth of 1. The album featured extra instrumentation by Booker T. Jones and the remainder of the MGs, Steve Cropper, Donald “Duck” Dunn and Al Jackson. It was a measure of CCR’s pre-eminence by 1969 that it was one thing of a disappointment that the album “only” reached No.3 within the US, staying there for no fewer than six weeks, and “only” went double platinum. Its predecessor a number of months earlier, Inexperienced River, had 4 weeks at No.1 and went triple platinum within the US.
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As Willy and the Poor Boys began its journey, charting on December 13, “Down On The Corner” was launched as a US single with “Fortunate Son” listed as its double A-side. As typically for Creedence, either side had been hits, “Corner” reaching No.3 and “Son” No.14. The album itself was an enormous worldwide success, too, going to the highest of the French chart and, the next spring, changing into the band’s first UK Prime 10 album, at No.10.
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