CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL’S THE SINGLES COLLECTION
PRESENTING 30 SONGS FROM 1968 THROUGH 1972, OUT NOW ON FANTASY RECORDS

Creedence Clearwater Revival‘s golden era of hit singles (fall of 1968 through spring of 1972) rivals that of any band in rock ‘n’ roll history. The Southern-flavored quartet from El Cerrito, California, turned out 17 hits in a 44-month stretch, nine of them in the Top 10, five of them in the Top 5.

Fantasy Records have released The Singles Collection, a two-CD, one-DVD box with a slipcase, containing all of the band’s U.S. singles – 30 songs in all. Top 5 smashes like “Bad Moon Rising,” “Green River,” “Down on the Corner,” “Travelin’ Band,” “Who’ll Stop the Rain,” “Run Through the Jungle,” “Up Around the Bend,” “Long As I Can See the Light” and “Lookin’ Out My Back Door” are joined by seldom-heard singles that never charted (“Porterville” and “Call It Pretending” on Fantasy’s Scorpio subsidiary, and later singles “Tearin’ Up the Country” and “45 Revolutions Per Minute [Parts 1 & 2]“).

The 30 songs (which are presented in their original single mixes, many of them in mono – are making their CD debut) housed on two CDs, are joined by a DVD containing four never-before-available, long-pre-MTV music videos: “I Heard it Through the Grapevine,” “Bootleg,” “I Put a Spell on You” and “Lookin’ Out My Back Door.” Also included in the package is a poster featuring the dozens of international single sleeves, and a 16-page booklet with liner notes by former Rolling Stone editor Ben Fong-Torres, who lived and wrote in the Bay Area during CCR’s golden half-decade.

Fantasy has also manufactured a limited edition collectors’ version of The Singles Collection featuring a boxed set of 15 vinyl 45 rpm singles with reproductions of the original Fantasy label design and housed in their rare picture sleeves — the ultimate holiday gift for Creedence fans.

Forty years later, the music sounds as fresh and vital as ever.