It may of been made in 1976 but I didn't hear until many years later having rejected the whole Creedence thing when Punk music took over my listening sensibilities. Creedence were too American and too Southern. Really I should of known better. The wake up call was the early eighties when I found myself watching some band I've totally forgotten playing a pretty typical pub rock set. But then they played this song and it was just brilliant. I don't care how bad the band played it I knew it was a great song. When I asked the guitarist later whose song it was he told me it was a Dave Edmunds single. I really liked Dave Edmunds and Rockpile and didn't know this one.
So I went round the record shops and hunted down the single. Finally got it for a very cheap 25 cents at some record shop in the city. But the record didn't do it for me. But when I looked at the credits on the vinyl I noticed it was by John Fogerty. I knew that would have to be the one. That's where the song was. In the hands of it's writer. But for the life of me I couldn't get a copy of the single. And gradually I forgot about it. Sometimes hearing the Dave Edmunds copy and trying to figure out how I would find that elusive John Fogerty track. Well at least it got me back into Creedence.
Then this morning I was checking out the Power Pop Criminals blog and there was a copy of Almost Saturday Night on a compilation made up by Will Birch of The Records for Mojo Magazine a while back. So now I'm blasting it out on my computer. And it rocks!
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