CCR

1. Commission on Civil Rights.

Example Sentences

Formed in suburban El Cerrito in Northern California by frontman John Fogerty, his brother Tom on guitar, bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug Clifford, CCR put up an absurd number of all-timers in the space of about 2 1/2 years, including most of the 20 collected on “Chronicle,” the 1976 greatest-hits LP that still sits on the Billboard 200 album chart today, nearly half a century later.

From Los Angeles Times

After CCR’s “Pendulum” LP — which included this tender ballad that now boasts more than 2 billion streams on Spotify — Tom Fogerty quit the group; the remaining three members went their separate ways less than two years later.

From Los Angeles Times

For all their popularity, Fogerty refused to play Creedence’s biggest hits for decades due to a prolonged legal battle with his old label, Fantasy Records, over the rights to his songs — a feud that reached a kind of apex when Fantasy’s head honcho, Saul Zaentz, sued Fogerty for plagiarizing himself with his solo song “The Old Man Down the Road,” which Zaentz said sounded too much like CCR’s “Run Through the Jungle.”

From Los Angeles Times

CCR had five singles that got to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, including “Proud Mary.”

From Los Angeles Times

A lawsuit recently filed by CCR, the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups accuses the government of preventing immigrants detained at Guantánamo Bay from "accessing legal assistance to understand their rights and to challenge their transfer and detention or conditions of confinement."

From Salon