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Creedence Clearwater Revival Split

October 16, 1972, Creedence Clearwater Revival split. With the failure of their album Mardi gras, their limited success as a solo act, and legal hassles with Fantasy Records, they disbanded. John Fogarty would have two big hits in 1985, “Center Field” and “Rock and Roll Girls”. John’s brother Tom Fogarty died in September 1990, and…

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Offbeat Weekend, Hank Ballard and The Midnighters, Mama Cass, CCR

Today in 1960 Hank Ballard refused to perform ‘The Twist’ on a highly rated US TV show with his band The Midnighters, so Chubby Checker picked it up at the insistence of Dick Clark, and Checker’s version of the song was number 1 this week in 1960. It made No.14 in the UK in 1962,…

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