Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fight Fire - Non-Album Tracks (1965-1969)

I think Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) was a great band. That shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who has seen the kind of music I've been posting here. However, they're not a band that left a lot of stray tracks off their official studio albums. In fact, almost none whatever! I'm guessing that CCR put out albums at such a remarkable rate - three classic studio albums in the year of 1969 alone! - that they used every song they could come up with.

However, there is one notable exception to this: the music CCR made in the years leading up to and including their first album in 1968. The group had a surprisingly long "pre-history," with the four musicians on the first CCR album having played in a band together all the way since 1959! They put out their first singles in 1961 and 1962 when they were still known as the Blue Velvets, but, to be honest, their music was highly derivative and not very good.

In 1964, they changed their name to the Golliwogs and started putting out more singles. Unfortunately, many of these weren't very good either. However, they did have some gems here and there. I've listened to all of this early music and separated the wheat from the chaff so you don't have to. The songs on this album are in rough chronological order. All the songs from the first one through "Call It Pretending" were first released under the Golliwogs name. ("Call It Pretending" was released as a B-side in mid-1967, then the exact same recording was released a few months later under the CCR name. The A-side, "Porterville," was put on the first CCR album.)

The last four songs here are stray tracks after the CCR name change. The very last one, "Suzie Q," is kind of a bonus track. It's the single version, instead of the album version. It's just the album version edited down. But I think it's quite different when it's only a four minute long song instead of a nine minute one.

01 You Better Be Careful (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
02 Fight Fire (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
03 Fragile Child (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
04 You Better Get It Before It Gets You (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
05 Tell Me (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
06 You Can't Be True (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
07 Call It Pretending (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
08 Crazy Otto [Instrumental] (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
09 Before You Accuse Me (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
10 Glory Be [Instrumental] (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
11 Susie Q [Single Version] (Creedence Clearwater Revival)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15100313/CreedCR_1965-1969_FightFre_atse.zip.html

The cover was made by Peter at his Albums I Wish Existed blog. It's based on the cover of a CCR compilation.