Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain? | Reaction

[@harlequin75]

This song makes me teary-eyed... always.

[@stanleynykaza9042]

Favorite CCR songs Down on the Corner , Born on the Bayou, Looking Out my Back Door, Midnight Special, Up Around the Bend , Sweet Hitch Hiker, and Jambalaya and Centerfield !Fortunate Son,

[@ceresa21]

Hammond b-3 organ. One of my favorite instruments

[@dfrain1000]

Also maybe played through one of these beasties en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_speaker

[@GratefulNole1]

John Fogerty- Lead guitar and vocals, Tom Fogerty- Rhythm guitar, Stu Cook- Bass, Doug"Cosmo" Clifford on drums. John did most of the songwriting. Amazing talents!!!!!

[@mistabook]

And in that picture it goes Cosmo, Tom, Stu, John.

[@jamessmith7959]

Classic rock really has a lot of meaning

[@cesarnarro6013]

Still sounds as good today as the first time i heard it back in 1971

[@karinwolf3645]

Me, too!😁

[@debbiechang5781]

Their songs just pull you right in from the first note. Never made a bad song that I’m aware of! Just a great song. 🌺✌️

[@lorilxn1597]

Love CCR and always will

[@gloria46131]

Great song love CCR thanks for the reaction.

[@cplatt1042]

That instrument you were hearing was the keys of the electric organ. Classic sound in most good music

[@mikemaricle9941]

A Hammond B3

[@r.plante2916]

Church organ!

[@orneryokinawan4529]

Harmonium?

[@dianesaienni5466]

Can't believe you couldn't identify the organ!! Ha!

[@FreeBallin2002]

You need to hear next, “Put a Candle in the Window” Amazing song

[@corieyoung187]

John Foberty (lead) went on to have a solo career. One of my favorite summertime feel-good songs is his hit "Centerfield." If you get a chance, watch a live performance video, you will get a kick out of his guitar. ⚾️

[@serge.l.1897]

Now that's music with great talented musicians and awesome singer.

[@jasoncarman9656]

That sound is from the keyboard plugged into “Leslie Speakers”… They spin in circles and creates that unique vibrato …It was huge in the 60’s-70’s

[@JUSTMAR1E]

I never get tired of this song. I’m 55 and listening since a young teen

[@BlendaKaye]

This is my favorite song from CCR. Love all of their music but this song is 🔥

[@brendaotoole4012]

Love them. My fave of theirs is Long As I Can See the Light🙂

[@kerrinbeirne6286]

One of my favorite songs ever 🥰

[@iainprendergast8311]

Creedence in the house

[@mikeperkins3469]

I've seen the rain fall on me on a sunny day two times in my life. A wow moment for me.

[@iwantmyutube9040]

What a beautiful band 😊

[@timothymyers6827]

As many of us have told you over the last several days. CCR - incredible!

[@shaitanlavey]

Bro, you gotta do the CCR song Long As I Can See the Light. John's vocals are awesome.

[@TexasMagnolia]

This was the very first rock song I heard. My big brother (RIP) had the .45 and played it non-stop. Bittersweet.

[@SherriLyle80s]

You aren't anyone unless you scream out the lyrics to this in your vehicle looking like a maniac at a stop light 😂

[@jeffstevens4262]

You too huh? That's so cool.

[@zeallust8542]

@@jeffstevens4262 all of us man

[@joshuataylor81]

Yup!

[@senneschreurs9588]

This made me laugh so hard! I always ... always sing the soul out of myself when listening to this song in the car.

[@davidpreciado4114]

Just right!!! Ha, ha, ha....so glad, not being the only one.......!

[@DellyDoo]

If you want to hear something soulful and funky AF, check out CCR Midnight Special. Great song!

[@lonniekiser3612]

Oh yeah got a 6 CD player in my truck, got CCR, SRV, George Jones, Temptations, ACDC, 4 Tops, at all times. Niccccee

[@robertmccracken6886]

I love this band! John Fogerty was one of the greatest singers of my time.Very raw but extremely great 👍

[@carojayess1723]

I would love it if you would do CCR’s version of I Put a Spell on You. It’s GREAT and very appropriate for Halloween. 🔥🔥🔥

[@sharipetkovsek5502]

Agree! The vocals are amazing but the guitar!!!

[@ericmorgan204]

Oh yeah, me too, best rendition of that song ever.

[@tgutz4332]

My fave CCR song

[@ralphgomez6251]

Born On The Bayou is a Good Vibe

[@Mike-lz2ef]

these guys cranked out like six albums in three years...all of them just packed with hits.

[@jmweed1861]

This picture was taken in London when CCR played Albert Hall... L to Right Doug Clifford ( Drummer) Tom Fogerty ( Rythum Guitar) Stu Cook ( Bass Guitar) John Fogerty ( Lead Guitar , lead singer and song writer)

[@orneryokinawan4529]

i remember in the JGSDF our squad playing this song in our Japanese Huey grappling down in the rain. One of the Luitenants had a tube boombox and she played a song matching the situations we were in making training much more enjoyable. CCR and the Huey were made for each other.

[@stmbtsodapop2513]

CCR music was the best dance music, always on the list for our Jr/Sr Proms!!!!

[@joeschimpf5650]

This tune was their "swan song". On top of their game..........behind the scenes, turmoil. "Have you ever seen the rain, coming down on a sunny day." Very prophetic.

[@jackastor5265]

Sometimes I can't listen to CCR, they hit me in the feels too much. Iconic band.

[@TheJoshuaPimentel]

Yep

[@christyalo5244]

I'm sitting here crying my eyes out. I've seen CCR many times in the bay area... usually popping up to play with Jerry. Yep, blubbering away here. Good ol' days for sure.

[@ilovethe80slovesongs21]

You are right! This song does it for me!

[@pribilovian4709]

He's a drummer 🤯

[@roberormonde]

I'm glad you get to hear this before the lord comes back

[@gerdbucher543]

groovin' bass

[@alberthero2600]

The song about hard times with the band brothers fighting

[@badbob6689]

I live in New Mexico and here you can catch pneumonia and sun stroke at the same time. Many times when it rains I think of this song and have to answer "YES"

[@cilleshaner4092]

John went on to sing on his own. His premonition album is great! There's one on there you'll want to share with your Lady. It's called "Joy Of My Life" He wrote it to his wife. The Cincinnati Reds have "rounding third and headed for home" from "Centerfield" painted on the side of the stadium.

[@cscook69]

Left to right in the photo are: Doug Clifford,-drums, Tom Fogerty,-rhythm guitar, Stu Cook,-Bassist, and John Fogerty,-lead vocal, lead guitar, primary song writer.

[@loganmortensen3952]

Please react to Jamey Johnson - in color. You won’t regret it

[@Emilyhildegaard1]

LOL, enjoying your reactions. That's music from MY youth. (I'm 72! Eeeek!)

[@cathysorge8433]

Heard it through the grapevine, is a great one by them!

[@lesdavis2318]

My uncle was a Vietnam veteran in the verse sun is cold and rain is hot my uncle said that's is a perfect way to describe the weather in Nam, very high humidity steaming hot then the sun felt cold piercing through the high humidity

[@markthoele1808]

At my class reunion the band let me sit in and I did this song.

[@reesezpeecez08]

I agree 100% with CaroJay Ess. I Put a Spell on You. However I think you'd like to see them live and see them in action. It is at Woodstock I believe. John Fogerty kills it!

[@micheledash7269]

If you see the clip now about John Fogerty talking about Woodstock he is so funny.

[@johnbarrick80]

It's an organ, probably a Hammond B3, played through a Leslie speaker cabinet.

[@jmweed1861]

This song is about the Break Up of CCR at the higth of their popularity. The were the number 1 rock band in the world at this time ( the Beatles had broken up) but turmoil within the band, especially between John Fogerty and his brother Tom. " Who'l Stop the Rain" by CCR is about Vietnam War...

[@donniemaher511]

“I thought the fro would help!” You are magnificent my friend 😂

[@hockemeyer1]

Its about the break up of the band. Tom wanted to leave. The rain is the conflict within the band and the sunny day is the fact that this conflict was happening while the band won making great money and on top of the charts.

[@aprilmack3795]

Crazy for CCR! Often lumped into the “Vietnam” Protest music. All of these guys are wonderful talent! I love that you’re reacting to a lot of different music. I’m digging your channel.

[@ratdad48]

Now I'll go to official video so I can enjoy it.

[@TheJoshuaPimentel]

My favorite band of all time. I know, I’m weird. *EDIT* also I love the commercial.

[@Teresa7087]

You're right. John Fogerty is on the far right, lead singer, lead guitar, wrote their songs. Drummer Doug Clifford is on far left. Curly haired blonde is Tom Fogerty (rhythm guitar), John's older brother. Stu Cook is 2nd from right(next to John) with dark hair and glasses on- he was the bass guitarist. John sang lead on all their songs.

[@robertduley7658]

Never had number 1 but was very popular in late 60s and early 70s cause Beatles were no 1

[@gabeackerman4964]

I recommend Hey Tonight or Put a Candle In The Window. You'll dig em.

[@shamanllama]

The instrument you was hearing in the background was an organ 😊 probably a pipe organ to be exact brotha!!❤❤

[@valdannfamr.2430]

😉❤ this song!👍👍my 3rd favorite CCR jam ✌🌼🌻🌼

[@bradjbourgeois73]

Actually, before the early 70's most songs were under 3 minutes long.

[@mistabook]

On the Beatles' Revolver, strong contender for the greatest album ever made, almost every song is like two minutes and change. "Eleanor Rigby" barely cracks two minutes, and that's like a novel compressed into a pop song! Bands back then made their point and moved on. If you really listen to songs since then, they have the same amount of song, they just drag it out longer. They hit that three minute mark, then repeat a verse, then pad out the end by repeating the chorus way too many times.

[@LittlebitofDixie]

I want to think, I read somewhere, that the "rain, coming down on a sunny day" was when the military were knowing the defoliate, Agent Orange was raining down with the flyovers. When at war, the jungles; once the leaves were gone....were more "equalized" for the soldiers, in the war. I do not know if that is the meaning of the lyrics ....it is in the back of my mind, of having heard or read that.

[@susandrysdale7987]

“I Heard it Through the Grapevine”

[@ALong-fo5so]

The song is describing the eventual breakup of the band. The guy on the far right of the picture is John Fogerty, the lead singer, lead guitarist, producer and principal song writer of all of CCR’s great hits. And there was an organ you hear, played by John himself.

[@RT-mn2pb]

Alright, that was seriously hilarious when you shouted out up to the camera

[@freckles7184]

Loved your reaction.

[@ramontieso1208]

symbolism to me. Rain coming down on sunny days. Bad things happening on good days. This was a great war movie. Made you think the rain represented the bullets'.

[@danielbritton8588]

At the time the keys you are hearing might well be a Hammond organ with a cabinet that employed a rotating horn. It was a popular instrument in the 60's, 70's. The cabinet has a distinct name but, I cannot recall it.

[@billytheschmid]

Love your content bro

[@keiththompson7280]

It's about combat in Vietnam an a vet's singing about an anti- personnel weapon falling from the sky , sun is cold rain is hot. Rain is also called white rain , it's parts burn super hot when comes in contact with air an burns coming down leaving white streaks, burns thru anything it lands on manly human flesh

[@Boatzilla2]

"I thought the fro would help, but apparently it doesn't." You're killin' me man. :>)))

[@raynemaria4838]

You should listen to Stuck in the Middle with You by Stealers Wheel

[@Darkwind20101989]

Essentially this song is about how everything can seem just fine, but terrible things can happen out of nowhere.

[@timothymyers6827]

In 1971 I graduated HS.........................

[@Thatgirl1973]

It’s metaphorically about the band breaking up. But can really apply to anything. When life should be sunny and happy, a rain cloud looms in the distance. However, as a kid from north Florida, I took it literally. Cause it happens all the time in the summer. 😂

[@loganfaulk8120]

I was down until this. "Why am I spitting all over the place?" And "all over my beard" lol. I love the LFR Family.

[@elbryan9]

As I understand it, the song is about Tom Fogerty (the lead singer) and his brother (Tom) who was leaving the band despite the commercial success they were experiencing at the time. Hence the lyrics, "Have you ever seen the rain, coming down on a sunny day?" Which, if you live in Washington State, you literally see all the damn time...

[@raenellefisher8514]

that's what I've heard too, but I also heard that "rain" is what the GIs called incoming fire in Vietnam.

[@caneidavis4284]

Lol right.

[@caneidavis4284]

Listen to make it wíth you by bread and payback is a dog by the styílistiçs

[@jamesrh9193]

50 years later, lead singer and guitarist John Fogerty is playing, touring, singing and recording. And, his backup band includes his musically talented kids (seriously!) Weeping in the Promised Land (new song released earlier this year) kzbin.info/www/bejne/aoCno56ImdyVac0 Centerfield (from his 1985 solo record) kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWqXeJaverFlgZY Green River (one of his CCR classics. Yes, that's his backyard) kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZKbqGSonsSHra8

[@pieceofgosa]

the instrument you heard in the left channel is an electric organ, I think

[@Chris_Restall]

Charles Bradley~> Changes by Black Sabbath!Soulful, What a Voice! CCR is a Band that you put on a Record, Tape, CD and just let it go!

[@kimryan6087]

Amazing cover! Soulful and gritty I love it.

[@ididthisonpulpous6526]

Most pop songs from the 1950s through the 1990s were all constrained to an approximately 3 minute time frame to play on radio. Many songs that you have reacted to were only played late at night or on college radio stations and specialty stations in large markets. Songs like Bohemian Rhapsody and basically all of Led Zepplin's songs were kept off of "pop music" stations at the time for longer form content.

[@mikemaricle9941]

The guy with the beard is the drummer.

[@jodieschossow6497]

Could you please review Abraxas Pool, "Jingo," and Robin Trower, "Bridge of Sighs?" Very different songs, but both are Amazing!

[@tomaleshire4145]

Put your headband over the headphones, that's the only way to head bang with 'em on!😁❤✌

[@tomaleshire4145]

When it would rain but the sun was shining on us we called it "acid rain"!🤯🤣 We thought we were trippin'!🤭😅Still loving your reactions after all these years!😁❤✌

[@shaneshane5562]

You keep stopping it right where it makes you think..."Have you ever seen the rain, coming down on a sunny day?"

[@afewminuteswithchrispycubi8945]

I want that shirt!!!!!!

[@RaySawhill]

Fun video. The song’s tone is sorrowful and hopeful at the same time, don’t you think? It had a lot of resonance in 1971, when the country was caught up in the awful Vietnam War and it felt like the whole place was coming apart.

[@SusanWise-z3u]

You have just go with it and just get into it! get into the music

[@briansmith7492]

Cool

[@peterwilliamson5953]

i love you man :)

[@burgerr.5599]

The rain is the meaning of bombs that fallen inVietnam War.(Please listen Who stop the rain.)

[@nbx2au]

Go and see John Fogerty in concert. Still as good as ever. He also has a KZbin channel.

[@ericmorgan204]

The drummer, is Cosmo, the guy with the beard.

[@jasonfirewalker3595]

Pretty sure that was a Hammond organ like Mee Maw would play before thanksgiving dinner.

[@samschneider938]

I know this is an older video, so your questions have probably been answered. But the sound you were hearing is a Hammond B3 Organ. Very popular with almost every 70s rock band, but as far as I know, are no longer made and are much sought-after. As far as the subject matter, there's a lot of speculation (as with most classic rock tunes) as to the point. Most of it has been decided that this is from the standpoint of a person that has been left by their significant other, and feels like no one has ever gone through that plight. "There's a calm before the storm" references your situation being stagnant. "It's been coming for some time", then makes sense. And then desperation "Have you ever seen the rain?" is the feeling of being defeated or screwing up and thinking you're the only idiot that ever let something good go. "When it's over, so they say, it will rain a sunny day". It's loss, regardless. I haven't read the comments so maybe has a better answer, but I think it's death of a relationship, not death of a loved one. -buyandsellyou (IG & Twitter)

[@larrywalling2844]

🤘🏻😎

[@shark5919]

That song is really about the impending breakup of Creedence. The imagery is, you can have a bright, beautiful, sunny day, and it can be raining at the same time,” John reportedly told journalist Michael Goldberg in a 1993 interview. “The band was breaking up. I was reacting, ‘Geez, this is all getting serious right at the time when we should be having a sunny day.’