Pendulum (Creedence Clearwater Revival album)

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Pendulum
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Studio album by
Creedence Clearwater Revival
ReleasedDecember 9, 1970 (1970-12-09) [1]
RecordedNovember 1970
Studio Wally Heider (San Francisco)
Genre Swamp rock
Length40:56
Label Fantasy
Producer John Fogerty
Creedence Clearwater Revival chronology
Cosmo's Factory
(1970)		Pendulum
(1970)		 Mardi Gras
(1972)
Singles from Pendulum
  1. "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" / "Hey Tonight"
    Released: January 1971
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Christgau's Record Guide A− [3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]

Pendulum is the sixth studio album by the American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released by Fantasy Records on December 9, 1970. [1] It was the second studio album the band released that year, arriving five months after Cosmo's Factory .

Contents

Overview

The album is the only one by Creedence Clearwater Revival to not contain any cover songs (all of the tracks were written by John Fogerty); it is the last album the band recorded while Tom Fogerty was still a member, as he left the group in early 1971 to start a solo career; and the last of the band's albums to be produced solely by John Fogerty. The only single taken from the album, "Have You Ever Seen the Rain"/"Hey Tonight", was released in January 1971, and reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Pendulum expands the band's sonic palette with instruments such as keyboards and saxophones, in contrast to the group's previous albums, which were dominated by the guitar. It also contains, in the closing instrumental "Rude Awakening #2", a venture into avant-garde psychedelia.

Production

The album was recorded at Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco, and took a month to complete, which was an unusually long time for the band. On previous albums, they had rehearsed songs before entering the studio, but, for Pendulum, the members learned the songs in the studio. [5] The backing tracks of the songs were performed by the whole band, [6] and the various members then recorded the wide variety of vocal and instrumental overdubs, which included keyboards played by John Fogerty and Cook, and a saxophone section played entirely by John Fogerty. [5]

Track listing

All tracks are written by John Fogerty.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Pagan Baby"6:25
2."Sailor's Lament"3:47
3."Chameleon"3:05
4."Have You Ever Seen the Rain"2:39
5."(Wish I Could) Hideaway"3:53
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Born to Move"5:39
2."Hey Tonight"2:43
3."It's Just a Thought"3:45
4."Molina"2:41
5."Rude Awakening #2"6:19
40th Anniversary Edition CD bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
11."45 Revolutions Per Minute (Part 1)"3:17
12."45 Revolutions Per Minute (Part 2)" (Tracks 11 and 12 are musique concrète tracks (in the vein of "Revolution 9", including tongue-in-cheek interviews with band members)7:19
13."Hey Tonight" (Live in Hamburg September 17, 1971)2:30

Personnel

Performers [5] [7]

Production

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for Pendulum
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Finland (Musiikkituottajat) [20] Gold20,000 [20]
United States (RIAA) [21] Platinum1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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