Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - The Bad Moon on the Rise Edition
In just a couple of years, Creedence Clearwater Revival generated one of the most amazing runs of hits in
American pop history: from “Proud Mary” to “Green River,” “Bad Moon Rising” to “Travelin’ Band.”
Reportedly, they even outsold the Beatles in America in 1969. But for all their success with those John
Fogerty–penned classics, CCR never held the No. 1 spot on the Hot 100. All of those hits were No. 2s: a
dubious Billboard chart record they hold to this day, for most No. 2s without a No. 1. True, it was the late ’60s,
and CCR had the bad luck to be competing with such chart titans as Paul…
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