Bad Moon Rising

Yeah.

Bad Moon Rising.

Yeah.

In 1970.

And they said no.

Bad Moon Rising was a no.

Really?

Yeah.

Apparently it got a hard pass.

But I thought that Bad Moon Rising was, it's what we hear when he's turning.

When he's turning, he's walking back and forth.

I hear the bad, I hear earthquakes and lightning.

We'll be right back.

I see the bad moon rising.

I see trouble on the way.

I see earthquakes and lightning.

You know?

Who sang, uh, Bad Moon Rising?

That was Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Oh, that's ...

Okay, that's what they should play as the doors open.

[laughs] There's a bad moon rising.

I like that idea.

Yeah.

fine

believe it or not I got two more examples and these are also both hard hitting classics here Bad Moon Rising Creedence Clearwater Revival from the album Green River 1969 okay is doing a 1-5-4 here.

Have you guys also heard about how one will often misconstrue the lyrics as there's a bathroom on the right? Y'all done that

one? Yeah.

So this is also a Stone Cold classic.

Yeah.

I see a bad moon rising I see trouble on the way I see earthquakes and lightning I see bad times today Hurricanes are blowin' I know the end is comin' soon

Yeah, I guess I hear it.

But it's one of those scenes, like, I see it, like, for example, they mimic that scene in Kong Skull Island.

And it's like, all right, yeah, we're 1970s playing Bad Moon Rising.

Okay, right.

Okay, okay.

Well, that's about us for the f- uh, the first hour of the program.

We've got Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater Revival, and then Classical Gas by Mason Williams to bring us up to the news at 5:00.

[upbeat music] I see the bad moon a-risin' I see trouble on the way I see earthquakes and lightnin' I see bad times today Don't go around tonight Well, it's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise I hear hurricanes a-blowin' I know the end is comin' soon I fear rivers overflowin' I hear the voice of rage and ruin Don't go around tonight Well, it's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise All right Hope you got your things together

together[singing] One eye is taken for an eye.

They were ready to take over for the Beatles.

Riding this wave of creative inspiration, John Fogerty immediately set out to write their next hit, deriving the title Bad Moon Rising from a contemporary pickup line popular at the time.

What's your sign? I'm a Sagittarius with Mercury Rising.

Now, the core narrative of the song was drawn from the 1941 fantasy film The Devil and Daniel Webster, a movie that had deeply impacted Fogerty when he was a little kid.

Said John about it, and I quote, I got the idea for Bad Moon Rising from an old black and white movie called The Devil and Daniel Webster.

There's the scene with a hurricane where the storm destroys everything in its path, blowing down houses and ruining crops.

That apocalyptic image, it stuck with me.

And I wanted to write a song about the darkness and anxiety hanging over the country back in 1969.