Have You Ever Seen the Rain?

Pendulum's best-known song came out as a single on 29 December 1970 with Hey Tonight on the other side. It reached No. 8 on the Hot 100, No. 3 on Cash Box and No. 1 in Canada in March 1971. Fogerty told Rolling Stone in 1993 that it is really about the impending breakup of Creedence. AllMusic's Mark Deming heard it as a comment on the fading of the 1960s counterculture, a reading Fogerty disputes, and in 2012 he said the song now reminds him of his daughter and rainbows.

Fogerty played Hammond B3 organ on it, as a homage to Booker T. & the M.G.'s, and Cook played some piano. Cook has said the song and Pagan Baby were written and rehearsed in the studio. A video for the band's fiftieth anniversary in 2018 was filmed in Montana, directed by Laurence Harlan Jacobs and starring Jack Quaid, Sasha Frolova and Erin Moriarty. Spotify reported a billion streams in March 2023.

Covers

Boney M. recorded it in 1977, Bonnie Tyler in 1983 for a UK No. 47, Johnny Cash in 1985, Joan Jett in 1990 and Rod Stewart in 2006. Willie and Paula Nelson's 2019 version was used in the season two finale of Big Little Lies. Fogerty sang it with Alan Jackson in 2013.