Lookin' Out My Back Door by Creedence Clearwater Revival ~ RB DLC Expert Guitar/Vocals 100% SRFC

DLC Release 07/06/10 ~ Creedence Clearwater Revival Pack 01

"Lookin' out My Back Door" is a song recorded by the American band Creedence Clearwater Revival and written by the band's lead singer, guitarist and songwriter, John Fogerty.

It was included on their 1970 album Cosmo's Factory, the group's fifth album. The song's lyrics, filled with colorful, dream-like imagery, led some to believe that the song was about drugs. According to the drug theory, the "flying spoon" in the song was a cocaine spoon, and the crazy animal images were an acid trip. Fogerty, however, has stated in interviews that the song was actually written for his then three-year old son, Josh. Fogerty has also said that the reference to a parade passing by was inspired by the Dr. Seuss book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.

"Lookin' out My Back Door", along with "Long As I Can See the Light" on the flip-side, was released as a single in July of 1970. The double sided single, counted as one entry by the methodology used by Billboard magazine at the time, eventually climbed to number two on the Billboard Pop Singles chart (by comparison, "Long as I Can See the Light" only reached number fifty-seven on the concurrent Cash Box singles chart, which still tracked the performance on both sides of a single separately). This marked the fifth (and final) time the group had a double sided single accomplish that feat on the Billboard Pop Singles chart. The single was held out of the top spot by Diana Ross's cover of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough ("Lookin' Out My Back Door" did top the Cash Box singles chart for one week). "Long as I Can See the Light" also reached #20 on the U.K. Pop chart.

Heavy metal band Children of Bodom released a cover of the song on their 2008 album Blooddrunk. It was featured in the Coen Brothers' movie The Big Lebowski and in the 2006 drama We Are Marshall.

In live performances, Fogerty sometimes changes "tambourines and elephants are playing in the band" to "tangerines and Elvis are playing in the band".

Genre: Southern Rock

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GUITAR ~ PROFFESSORJOE
Nothing super challenging and more annoying than fun. Not much more to say.

VOCALS ~ RJUCPU
Kind of like singing to the radio in your car. If you've ever heard these you know them and sing along. All in all pretty easy, not a lot of phrases all together. Down on the Corner & Looking Out My Back Door probably the most fun. Most annoying/boring is definitely Heard It Through the Grapevine. While it may be fun on the other instruments it's DULLSVILLE on vocals. Not enough singing phrases to make up for the 620 taps at the end. Miss just one tap and you lose 32k points, the equivalent of 8.5 vocal phrases. I seriously question their decision to chart those =/

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[wannabetyouarefat]

the singer is a chick :(

[purplekw1]

thats outragious