Up Around the Bend

Infobox Single
Name = Up Around the Bend


Artist = Creedence Clearwater Revival
from Album = Cosmo's Factory
A-side = "Run Through the Jungle"
Released = April, 1970
Genre = Rock
Format = 7" 45 RPM
Length = 2:41
Label = Fantasy
Writer = John Fogerty
Producer = John Fogerty
Certification = Gold
Chart position = * #4 U.S. Pop
* #3 UK Singles Chart"Up Around the Bend" is a song recorded by the American band Creedence Clearwater Revival and written by the band's lead singer, guitarist and songwriter, John Fogerty. The song was included on their 1970 album "Cosmo's Factory".

The song is opened with a prominent, high-pitched guitar riff played by John Fogerty. The song's lyrics have Fogerty telling of a big happening, perhaps a party or festival, that's right "around the bend" on the highway and urging the listener to join him.

Released as a single, along with "Run Through the Jungle" on the flipside, the double sided single (counted as one entry by the methodology used by Billboard Magazine at the time) eventually climbed to number four on the Billboard chart in the spring of 1970 and eventually was certified gold by the RIAA, for sales of over one million copies. It was also a major hit in the UK , reaching number three on their pop singles chart.

The song has been covered by a few artists, including Elton John who recorded a cover of the song early in his career, and Finnish rock band Hanoi Rocks who covered it on their 1984 album "Two Steps from the Move", and still regularly perform it live.

Atlanta radio talk-show host Kim Peterson used the song as his theme song and bumper music during his show's run on WGST-AM in from the mid-1990s through the mid-2000s.

Usage in film

"Up Around the Bend" has appeared in the following films: "Eau froide, L'" (1994), "Michael" (1996), "Remember the Titans" (2000), "Invincible" (2006), and "The Hoax" (2007) It was also used in the TV mini-series, "From the Earth to the Moon " (1998).

The song was featured in the Kurt Cobain documentary "Kurt Cobain About a Son" and is also available on the soundtrack. Cobain's band, Nirvana, were known to cover "Bad Moon Rising" early in their career.

=Usage in video games=Most recently, the song was announced to appear in the upcoming music video game "Guitar Hero World Tour".