| "Bad Moon Rising" | ||||
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| Single by Creedence Clearwater Revival |
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| from the album Green River | ||||
| B-side | "Lodi" | |||
| Released | May 3, 1969 | |||
| Format | Vinyl 45 RPM | |||
| Recorded | March 1969, Wally Heider's Studio, San Francisco, California | |||
| Genre | Swamp rock | |||
| Length | 2:21 | |||
| Label | Fantasy | |||
| Writer(s) | John Fogerty | |||
| Producer | John Fogerty | |||
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"Bad Moon Rising" is a 1969 song by Creedence Clearwater Revival, written by John Fogerty. It was the lead single from their album Green River reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and #1 on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in September 1969.
The song has been recorded by at least 20 different artists, in styles that range from acoustic folk to reggae to psychedelic rock to zydeco. Sonic Youth named an entire album after it.
Common mondegreen
A common mondegreen of the last line is "There's a bathroom on the right". (The correct line is "There's a bad moon on the rise".) Fogerty himself has been known to occasionally substitute the "bathroom" version of the lyric as a joke during his live shows, including on his 1998 live album Premonition.
Use in soundtracks
Recordings by CCR or other artists have been used in the soundtrack of many films, including Blade; An American Werewolf in London; Sweet Home Alabama; My Girl; Twilight Zone: The Movie; My Fellow Americans; Man of the House; Mr. Woodcock; Shaun of the Dead (2004). It has also appeared in many television programs such as the first season finale to "Supernatural". An episode of The West Wing features the song, and is also named "Bad Moon Rising".
In Entertainment
- This song is the entrance song for UFC fighter Dustin Hazelett
- This song has been used as the entrance song for UFC fighter Jim Miller
- The song title is a name of an episode on Everybody Loves Raymond.
| Preceded by "In the Year 2525" by Zager & Evans |
UK number one single September 20, 1969-October 4, 1969 |
Succeeded by "Je t'aime... moi non plus" by Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg |
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