Here you've got this song with all these hurricanes and blowing and raging ruin and all that, but it's 'I see a bad moon rising.' It's a happy-sounding tune, right? It didn't bother me at the time." Reception īillboard described the single as being "loaded with rhythm and drive" and predicted that it " miss going He said "It wasn't until the band was learning the song that I realized the dichotomy. He also said that when the band was learning the song he recognized the dichotomy between the apocalyptic words and the happy melody. Fogerty claims the song is about "the apocalypse that was going to be visited upon us". It was inspired by a scene in the film in which a hurricane destroys the crops of several farms, but spares those of Jabez Stone ( James Craig), the character in the film who makes a deal with the devil in exchange for wealth. "Bad Moon Rising" uses weather imagery to make the point that something bad is lurking "out there." įogerty reportedly wrote the song after watching the 1941 film The Devil and Daniel Webster. It was blocked by " Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet" by Henry Mancini. It is one of five songs by the band that peaked at the No. 364 on its " 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list.
The song has been recorded by at least 20 different artists, in styles ranging from folk to reggae to psychedelic rock. 1 on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in September of that year (see 1969 in music). 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on 28 June 1969 and reached No. It was the lead single from their album Green River and was released in Apfour months before the album. " Bad Moon Rising" is a song written by John Fogerty and performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival. "Bad Moon Rising" (lyric video) on YouTube Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco, CaliforniaĬreedence Clearwater Revival singles chronology
For other uses, see Bad Moon Rising (disambiguation).
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