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It was all fun and games...until it wasn't.
In the early days of their fame, Creedence Clearwater Revival was booked all over the place--including Woodstock.
After awhile, however, the constant traveling started to take its toll--and annoying inconveniences started popping up.
Their luggage was constantly getting lost, and they were slaves to airline scheduling...sometimes waiting several hours between flights...resulting in missed gigs.
If that sounds like typical air travel snafus--even today, 50+ years later--you're right...but if you're on a travel deadline EVERY SINGLE DAY, it gets old--fast.
So John Fogerty wrote a song about it--and then the band went out and bought their own plane. :-)
1970's Travelin' Band" was a rousing rocker that summed up their lifestyle perfectly...but then, MORE trouble.
Specialty Records, who held the rights to Little Richard's music, sued CCR, claiming "Travelin' Band was a ripoff of "Good Golly Miss Molly." CCR's bass player Stu Cook didn't help things by stating he thought it sounded like "Long Tall Sally."
In any event, the suit was settled when CCR agreed to pay royalties to Specialty Records and Little Richard.
When the song was released as a single in 1970, it was paired with "Who'll Stop the Rain" on the flip side (or vice-versa).
Together, the single became a double-sided hit all over the world: #1 in Belgium and The Netherlands, #2 in the US, and #4 in Canada, Norway and Switzerland.
"Travelin' Band" by CCR: it took a bumpy road to get there, but it became a "Great Song of 1970--and so did "Who'll Stop the Rain!"
"Travelin' Band:"
"Who'll Stop the Rain:"
"Good Golly Miss Molly" (Little Richard):
"Long Tall Sally" (Little Richard:
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