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Creedence Clearwater Revival (album)

1968 studio album by Creedence Clearwater Revival

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Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Creedence Clearwater Revival is the debut studio album by the American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released in May 1968 by Fantasy Records in the US. Featuring the band's first hit single, "Suzie Q," which reached number 11 in the US charts, it was recorded shortly after the band changed its name from the Golliwogs and began developing a signature swamp rock sound.

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The public source identifies “Creedence Clearwater Revival (album)” as 1968 studio album by Creedence Clearwater Revival. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Creedence, Clearwater and Revival.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Creedence, Clearwater and Revival providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 27, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1968.

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This entry incorporates text from “Creedence Clearwater Revival (album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.