Editing Creedence Clearwater Revival (section)

===Name change to Creedence Clearwater Revival (1968–1969)===
In 1967, [[Saul Zaentz]] bought Fantasy Records and offered the band a chance to record an album. Having hated the name "the Golliwogs" from day one, the band decided on their own name, Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR), which they took in January 1968.<ref name=pc54>{{Gilliland |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19837/m1/ |title=Show 54 - Hail, Hail, Rock 'N' Roll: Getting back to rock's funky, essential essence. [Part 3]}}</ref> According to interviews with the band members 20 years later, the name's elements came from three sources: Tom Fogerty's friend Credence Newball, whose name they changed to form the word ''Creedence'' (as in [[creed]]); a television commercial for [[Olympia Brewing Company]] ("clear water"); and the four members' renewed commitment to their band.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.comhttp//arch-timesmachine-fe-prd-40741-2-575473780.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com/timesmachine/1995/10/15/060380.html?pageNumber=236|title=MUSIC MUSIC;The Rolling, Uh, Pebbles?|access-date=June 19, 2023|website=Timesmachine.nytimes.com}}{{Dead link|date=December 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Rejected contenders for the band's name included "Muddy Rabbit", "[[Gossamer Wump]]", and "Creedence Nuball and the Ruby"; the last was the starting point, though, from which the band derived their final name. Cook described the name as "weirder than [[Buffalo Springfield]] or [[Jefferson Airplane]]".<ref name="isbn"/> In early 1968, the band began appearing regularly at local [[San Francisco]]-area clubs and venues, including [[Deno and Carlo's]], the [[Avalon Ballroom]], and the [[Fillmore West]]. Later that year, the band began touring across the US and made their first appearances in New York City at the [[Fillmore East]].

By 1968, [[AM radio]] programmers around the U.S. took note when CCR's [[cover version|cover]] of the 1956 [[rockabilly]] song<ref name=pc54/> "[[Susie Q (song)|Susie Q]]" received substantial airplay in the [[San Francisco Bay area]] and on [[Chicago]]'s [[WLS (AM)|WLS-AM]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oldiesloon.com/il/wls101468.htm|title= WLS890 Hit Parade|work=Mike Gallant|date=1968-10-14|access-date=2020-03-07}}</ref> It was the band's second single, its first to reach the [[top 40]] (number 11), and its only top-40 hit not written by John Fogerty. Two other singles were released from their May 1968 debut self-titled album, a cover of [[Screamin' Jay Hawkins]]'s "[[I Put a Spell on You]]" (number 58) and "Porterville" (released on the Scorpio label with writing credited to "T. Spicebush Swallowtail"), written during Fogerty's time in the Army Reserve.