One of the employees of Fantasy was Saul Zaents. Eventually he bought the company. While looking over the contracts and talking to the involved they decided to change the name of the Golliwogs. Mr. Zaents asked the Golliwogs members to come up with ten suggestions for a new name and he would make a list of ten suggestions. That was a hard task to do. On Christmas Eve 1967 John was on the way out of his living room. He was about to go to buy the last Christmas gifts. Somewhere between the living room and the door he was hit by the name CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL. That was the only name he took to Mr.Zaents. When he saw that name, he threw away his own list! From now on John was the leader. How come? Who knows? There has never been any explanation to the sudden change of leadership. Another matter to speculate about was the origin or meaning of the name. Some says that Creedence was the name of a friend, Clearwater was from a beer commercial and Revival means revival. Others say that Creedence means believing in something (hence Creed-believe) and Clearwater would be Johns point of view about the air and water pollution. Everybody agrees, of cause, on the Revival, because John has said that: "Revival was the most important thing. I meant is as a personal resurgence within ourselves... we really needed that" Now that they were pros they headed to San Francisco and got the opportunity to play in Bill Grahams FilImore West and in Avalon Ballroom.
All you cats that revere Fogarty can watch a nice video clip of an acoustic version of Lodi
click and enjoy
http://www.johnfogerty.com/videos/video_lodi_win.html?res=hiRegards
AQD
