I've seen John Fogerty twice, and both times everyone in the building sang along to every word of this song. Ten thousand voices. Unforgettable.

@Noelle0026

7 ай бұрын

John is so good in concert. One of my favorite concerts just because of how the audience sings and dances along to all of his great music

You can't pick a bad CCR song ,they are all great ❤❤❤❤

@humpy936

7 ай бұрын

Truth

An old American blues traditional done wonderfully by CCR

It’s John. He alone does all the CCR vocals. And does them all VERY well! For something a bit different, but only a bit, from CCR, try Ramble Tamble. Starts out bluesy, transitions to a more psychedelic guitar vibe on repeat. Kind of unique for the group, got lots of radio air time back in the day.

@petervandervlies6427

7 ай бұрын

Absolutely right, awesom song, awesom guitar part,like the guitar is crying. 👍👊😁

In 1934, Huddie William "Lead Belly" Ledbetter recorded a version of the song at Angola Prison for John and Alan Lomax, who mistakenly attributed it to him as the author. However, Ledbetter, for his Angola session, appears to have inserted several stanzas relating to a 1923 Houston jailbreak into the traditional song.

CCR IS ONE of my all-time favorite Rock bands. 😊

It's pretty crazy how swampy and soulful CCR was for a bunch of guys from California.

You have done a lot of songs by this awesome group. CCR has always been one of my favorites. John Fogerty has one of the most unique & recognizable voices around. They don't have a bad song! Huge list of hits! "I Heard It Through The Grapevine", "Down On The Corner", "Cotton Fields", "It Came Out Of The Sky", "Travelin' Band", "Long As I Can See the Light", "Feelin' Blue", "Sweet Hitchhiker" etc.

If the Midnight Special shone its light on you, you're about to go free. That's why the line, 'Let...shine its light on me'.

one of my fave CCR 'deep cuts' 😎

The Midnight Special and Other Southern Prison Songs is an album by Lead Belly and the Golden Gate Quartet, recorded for Victor Records in 1940 and released a few months later. In 1939, Lead Belly was back in jail for assault after stabbing a man in a fight in Manhattan.

The story I have heard is that the prison is in Huntsville, in Texas, and there is a legend that the "Midnight Special", a train passes the prison, goes by and shines it's light in your cell, you will be released soon. Take that with a grain of salt; I can't verify, so it may just be tall tale, but given the number of tall tales surrounding old Blues tunes...and Bluesmen...and women, it's just as plausible as any, and more so than most. Regardless of where the truth lies, it's a great song!

John is the lead vocal on mostly all CCR songs.He was the primary writer and composer also.

@jemogan

7 ай бұрын

Mostly true, but hard core CCR fans know that Stu Cook and Doug Clifford both sang lead on songs from the Mardi Gras album.

One of the best versions of this song.

Oh Credence! They never put out a bad song, their music sounds as fresh today as it did back then and you can tell it's John Fogerty with the first note he sings. Is anyone making music close to this today? I haven't heard it.

C.C.R.❤💖💗💕

Ccr are awesome❤❤❤❤❤

You need to do the song by the man who wrote it, the great "Leadbelly. song is about a train that passes a prison and the light of the engine flashes in through the windows of the cell where Leadbelly was a prisoner. He had lots of other great songs

This song is very old. The oldest recording I have heard was of Leadbelly singing it in the 1920s in jail. But we know it was already old then - I believe there is an even earlier recording and there were people writing about it even before world war one. 'The Midnight Special' may have been a literal train or it may have been slang for a jail break in the Southern US (probably, but not necessarily exclusively) black community shortly after the US civil war.

Can’t go wrong with CCR

Ya, nice to see your reaction to this one, it is one of my fav CCR tunes.

Smooth and relaxing sound to that song but has a bit of an up kick to it too. It is always so good )

"Hey, you wanna see something really scary?"

Hit Ramble Tamble...😎😎

Everything they do is great.

A great great cover of an old old song.

Bootleg Feelin blue It came out of the sky Before you accuse me Tombstone shadow(royal albert hall 1970) Heard it thru grapevine(11 min version)

CCR is timeless!❤

My favorite CCR song!

Saturday Night Special is the gun and a Skynyrd song as well. John's last name is pronounced Fogerty, like Throwgerty. He is singing as well.

Give a listen to this song Driver’s Seat by Sniff ‘n’ The Tears. Just as the title indicates it is the best song ever for driving your car.

Leadbelly...Huddie Leadbetter. You need to explore that man, who wrote this song. An amazing American. Please react to HIM. One of the truly foundational figures of American music, especially rock and roll and R&B.

@netzahuacoyotl

6 ай бұрын

Because he was recorded, his songs (whether he wrote them or by writers unknown) have been enormously influential in the development of blues, folk and rock music.

John Foe - Gur - T Great reaction Biz ❤️

😂😂😂 I have to admit, I met my husband to be, dancing to this song 😂😂... And we've been together for over 15 years 🥺🥺

Loved your reaction, great song ❤

After seeing CCR, as a 9-10 year old kid, perform Down On The Corner and Fortunate Son on The Ed Sullivan Show, this album (Willie & The Poor Boys) was the first one I ever bought with my own money. I quickly grew to love not just every song on it, but the sequencing of the songs. It is a terrific album that still holds up well today, 50+ years later. My record eventually had a small scratch that caused a short skip during The Midnight Special. Every time I hear this song today I still anticipate that annoying little skip at a certain place in the song. 🙃 I like the way you handled this one, Biz, as I often do. Thank you.

"The Midnight Special" ain't a "Saturday Night Special", but there is a connection between them. Using a "Saturday Night Special" could land a person in prison praying for "The Midnight Special" just like in the song. "Saturday night special is a colloquial term in the United States and Canada for inexpensive, compact, small-caliber handguns made of poor quality metal. ... The term 'Saturday night special' refers to cheap guns used in poor neighborhoods. They are usually small, of small caliber, and often unreliable or inaccurate." (Wikipedia). Lynyrd Skynyrd dropped a hit in 1975 titled "Saturday Night Special". Check it out too. And for more from CCR, check out "Don't Look Now", "Night Time is the Right Time", and the eleven minute album version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine". Fire!

To me that's 100% John Fogerty all the way man. You've got more stuff to listen to, there is so much good soulful amazing stuff. But anyway I loved your reaction as always. And I know exactly what you mean about your descriptions of that lifestyle. For some people, they get introduced to that life in Juvy and then it just becomes in and out and finally always in, and that becomes their world. It's heartbreaking. But when I was growing up with this and I had relatives and older acquaintances that had lived through the Great Depression, I mostly saw it through that lens. I've got real life 1 to 1 stories of so many older men that talked about what it was like during that time period and it was pretty sad. It was just a gentler form of slavery. You see the same thing today in the Immigrant lines waiting under a bridge or at a known spot for people to pick up illegal immigrants and work them to death, all competing to get that one slot where in the end they will toss you out as soon as you're spent, and these people are just trying to put food on the table.

I'm trying my BEST not to sing along to this in my office (with my headphones on). Love this!

Biz! Another great CCR tune! They are one of my favorite American bands! I was too young to see them live by about 10 yrs! This one Takes one to church

Many great songs from CCR, I suggest Penthouse Pauper.

Thanks for doing the midnight special, has also seen an old movie from 1976 about Lead belly ! Please do SWEET HITCH HIKER and JAMABALAYA by CCR/ JOHN FOGERTY /Blue Ridge Rangers 1972.

CCR!

Cool 😎 lead belly/traditional cover ! ❤ccr….(train lights shining on ya would free ya form imprisonment 🌞🌞🌞)🚂

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@watchbizmatik

7 ай бұрын

lol let them know

Fogerty fo ger tee

Good reaction but FYI, his name is pronounced Fo + gurr + t.

The Midnight Special is a train. He wants out of town...not to be in jail there.

Maybe, Matik, and I mean maybe you were confusing The Midnight Special with thee "Saturday Nite Special." idk

@watchbizmatik

7 ай бұрын

That’s exactly what happened

Absolutely 💯 brilliant band, not one of their songs I don't like

It's pronounced Fo - ger - tee.

Southern gospel performed by a California rock band...pretty convincingly too eh?

Cultural appropriation done right haha! Seriously tho a perfect song

foe...ger...T.ea