Creedence Clearwater Revival (The Golliwogs) - Fight Fire (1967)

 In 1967, the group put out a tune called "Fight Fire", and lead guitarist and singer John Fogerty was gradually claiming more control over the group while they still languished in obscurity, despite their label's efforts to promote their "Fight Fire" single. For whatever reason, they still hadn't put out an album. Lord knows why, they had the tunes. 

With this album, some of the tracks need some explanation. "You Can't Be True" appeared on the previous album, but this version is a remade version and fits this album fine. "Walking On The Water" would be re-recorded in 1968 for Creedence's debut self titled album, titled there "Walk On The Water", but as that was a remake and released under a different name, I figure, what the hell, why not put it on here? "Call It Pretending" was, I belive, the b-side to the Creedence single "Porterville", but because it didn't end up on any Creedence album, it has a home here, shining a light onto the Creedence jammin' that was to come.

I wasn't able to come up with a cover I'm happy with, since like, all the pictures of the band that have any sembelance of quality come from either the photoshoot of the last cover, or from 1969, so...
go wild.

Side One

1. Fight Fire
2. Fragile Child
3. She Was Mine
4. Try Try Try
5. Instrumental #1
6. Little Tina

Side Two

1. Tell Me
2. You Can't Be True (Remake Version)
3. Walking On The Water (Original Version)
4. You Better Get It Before It Gets You
5. Call It Pretending (Porterville B-side)
   

Creedence Clearwater Revival (The Golliwogs) - The Golliwogs (1965)

 So what I've done in terms of rounding up the pre-Creedence tracks by CCR is take all the tunes recorded and released for the years of 1964 and 1965 and put them together in an album. Though, excluding the '62 songs, which I've put on their own ep due to their stylistic difference to their later stuff, the album only comes out to ten tracks, which is reasonable enough, but only 22 minutes or so, which might seem like a stretch, but keep in mind that the US Kinks album 'Kinks-Size' has the same specifications, being about 22 minutes long and 10 tracks long, so it's not out of the realm of possibility that a record label would put out a short album like this, especially if the band hasn't had any success.

The photo I've used for the cover is taken from the band's Complete Recordings archive release.

 

Side One

1. Gonna Hang Around
2. Brown-Eyed Girl
3. I Only Met You Just An Hour Ago
4. You Better Be Careful
5. Don't Tell Me No Lies

Side Two

1. Little Girl (Does Your Momma Know?)
2. Where You Been?
3. You Came Walking
4. You Can't Be True
5. You Ain't Got Nothin' On Me
   

Creedence Clearwater Revival (Tommy Fogerty and the Blue Velvets) - Oh My Love (1962 EP)

 What it seems a lot of people don't know about CCR is that their debut album came out only after ten years of being a group, with a long line of singles behind them, dating back all the way to 1962, back when they were led by Tom Fogerty, rather than John. 

When they were 'Tommy Fogerty and The Blue Velvets', they only put out three singles, so that's what this EP is. After these, they were breifly called 'The Visions', before switching to 'The Golliwogs' from 1964-1967, before switching their name to 'Creedence Clearwater Revival, almost immidiately becoming a popular group.

Side One (6:24)

1. Come On, Baby
2. Oh, My Love
3. Have You Ever Been Lonely?
   

Side Two (5:54)

1. Bonita 
2. Yes You Did
3. Now You're Not Mine
   

Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well (1969-1970)

 Fleetwood Mac released their first masterpiece in 1969: the fabulous Then Play On. In addition to this, there were a fat stack of fantastic singles, too. The US side of Reprise records decided to mangle the Then Play On album and shove some of the singles on the album instead of waiting and putting it together with some of the other singles. That's what I've done here, along with using outtakes from the same era. Two of the songs came out in early '71, but were recorded in 1970. In addition to that, I've divided the songs into mostly electric, and mostly acoustic sides, with an electric ending.

The album art is a modified version of the single cover.

Side One

1. Dragonfly
2. October Jam 2
3. Someone's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonite
4. The Purple Dancer
5. Oh Well (Parts 1 & 2)

Side Two

1. Man of the World
2. (That's What) I Want To Know
3. Tell Me From The Start
4. Love It Seems
5. World In Harmony
6. The Green Manalishi (With The Two Prong Crown)
   

Fleetwood Mac - The Pious Bird of Good Omen (1968 alternate)

 Fleetwood Mac slapped in the 60s. They also had some jammin' singles. What happened, though, is that there's been weird choises as to how some of these rare tracks have been released. Beyond "The Vaudeville Years", there's only really one well put together raritites and outtakes comp that came out, that being "The Original Fleetwood Mac", which covers their 1967 sessions, which is to say, outtakes from their debut album.
There's been some odd choices though, like when their original record company, Blue Horizon, issued a com of Fleetwood Mac tracks, with eight of them being the A sides and B sides of all the singles put out on the label to that point, which, for these purpouses, is good. The oddness comes when there's the other four tracks on the album. Two of them are from the band's previous album, "Mr. Wonderful", which, okay, whatever. But then there's two songs by the Blues musician Eddie Boyd, where the only involvement Fleetwood Mac had was as session musicians. Not what I'm after, anyway, So I swapped those four tracks with outtakes from the same year, with one being about six minutes long, the length of two sstandard tracks of the time.

 The cover is the normal one.

 

Side One

1. Need Your Love So Bad
2. I'm Coming Home To Stay
3. Ramblin' Pony
4. Something Inside Of Me
5. I Belive My Time Ain't Long

Side Two

1. The Sun Is Shining
2. Albatross
3. Black Magic Woman
4. Jigsaw Puzzle Blues
5. Mighty Cold
6. You're So Evil
   

The Rolling Stones - Could You Walk On The Water? (1966)

One of the greatest crimes of the Rolling Stones in the 60s, beside the drugs, is that they left some of their greatest tunes off of their American albums, which were designed to have the singles on 'em. 19th Nervous Breakdown, for example, is one of my favourite tunes by them, but since it came out, it'd been relegated to various greatest hits compilations. My goal with these is to not have overlapping tracks, and while the US album Flowers is fantastic and picks up a lot of great tunes that were left of the likes of Aftermath and Between The Buttons, it also includes tunes that were included on both of those albums, like "Ruby Tuesday" and "Let's Spend The Night Together", and I'd also like to restrict this album to stray tracks from the tail end of '65 and throughout '66.  That leaves us with an album for the end August in 1966. 

The song 'Who's Driving Your Plane?' was released as the b-side of 'Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow?' in late '66, but it was recorded in early august of '66, wheras 'Have You Seen Your Mother' was recorded in September of '66, by which point I imagine this album would've been in the process of being released.

I've used the album art and title from a reconstruction by Soniclovenoize

Side One

1. 19th Nervous Breakdown
2. What To Do
3. Sad Day
   
4. Long Long While
   
5. Out Of Time
6. Who's Driving Your Plane?
   

Side Two

1. Sittin' On A Fence
   
2. Looking Tired
3. Mother's Little Helper
4. Take It or Leave It
5. Ride On, Baby
6. If You Let Me