Australian singles chart:
Up Around the Bend entered the Kent charts on 22 June 1970 and was a #1 hit. The song was #8 on the Top 100 of 1970.
Album:
The song is on Cosmo’s Factory which entered the Kent album charts on 31 Aug 1970. It hit #1 after only two weeks (on 14 Sep 1970) and remained there for an incredible 19 weeks.
Songwriter:
John Fogerty
Producer:
John Fogerty
Record label of Australian release:
Liberty
Songfacts:
Written by lead singer John Fogerty, Up Around the Bend is a very upbeat Creedence Clearwater Revival, giving a hint that, as bad as things were in the early ’70s, there might be some hope for the future: things would improve “around the bend.”
In his memoir Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music, John Fogerty said that the song came to him when he was riding his motorcycle though the California hills.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/creedence-clearwater-revival/up-around-the-bend
Lyrics:
There′s a place up ahead and I’m going
Just as fast as my feet can fly
Come away, come away, if you′re going
Leave the sinking ship behind
Come on the rising wind
We’re going up around the bend
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