With the release of this extraordinary debut album in July 1968, Creedence Clearwater Revival was launched upon a career that little more than a year later would lead to enormous worldwide popularity. The four-man group from San Francisco's East Bay had worked ten years as a bar band and recorded several singles on the Scorpio label (under the forgettable name the Golliwogs), but it was with this Fantasy release that CCR caught fire. Lead singer/guitarist/writer John Fogerty emerges as a fine lyric shouter with "Ninety-Nine and a Half," "I Put a Spell on You," and "Suzie Q," a brilliant extended rendition of the Dale Hawkins classic that quickly became a Top Ten hit.

John Fogerty, Tom Fogerty, Stu Cook, Doug Clifford