• Writers: John Fogerty
• Producers: John Fogerty
• Recorded: Early 1970
• Released: January 1970 (single), July 1970 (album)
• Players:
  John Fogerty — vocals, guitar
  Tom Fogerty — guitar
  Stu Cook — bass
  Doug Clifford — drums
• Album: Cosmo’s Factory (Fantasy, 1970)
• Also On:
  Chronicle (Fantasy, 1976)
  More Creedence Gold (Fantasy, 1973)
  The Movie Album (Fantasy, date n/a)
  The Concert (Fantasy, 1981)
  Premonition (Warner Bros., 1998; John Fogerty)
  Revisited (Varese, 1998; Creedence Clearwater Revisited)
• The truckload of hits and seminal rock classics that emanated from Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) overshadows the fact that the group’s peak was barely two years.
• Between 1969 and 1971, CCR released a staggering eight gold singles and five full-length albums — four of which went platinum — and most of which are now regarded as standards.
• Cosmo’s Factory contains many CCR classics — “Who’ll Stop The Rain,” “Lookin’ Out My Back Door,” “I Heard It Through The Grapevine,” “Travelin’ Band,” “Up Around The Bend,” “Run Through The Jungle,” and “Long As I Can See The Light.”
• “Who’ll Stop The Rain” was one of a few socially conscious songs concerning the Vietnam war that singer-guitarist John Fogerty wrote.
• The album title Cosmo’s Factory was taken from the Berkeley, California warehouse the band rehearsed and recorded in.
• Although CCR is noted for their rootsy swamp sound, it was San Francisco, not New Orleans, where the band was based after their initial formation in El Cerrito, California, in 1959 as Tommy Fogerty & the Blue Velvets.

FAST FORWARD:

• CCR disbanded in 1972, only four years after their first album. The group reunited for two low-profile gigs — Tom Fogerty‘s wedding in 1980, and a school reunion in 1983.
• John Fogerty’s relationship with his old bandmates seems irreparably strained. He refused to play with them when CCR was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, and he battled in court to keep bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug “Cosmo” Clifford from using the name Creedence Clearwater Revisited, a case he ultimately lost.
• In 1987, Fogerty ended his boycott of not playing any CCR songs in his live act and sang eight of his former band’s songs in a show for Vietnam veterans.
• Tom Fogerty died of tuberculosis in 1990 at age 48.