Johnny B Goode: His Complete 50's Chess Recordings

Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode: His Complete 50's Chess Recordings

Johnny B Goode: His Complete 50's Chess Recordings
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Artist: Chuck Berry
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Box set, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2008-02-19
Music Label: Hip-O Select
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Maybellene
  2. Wee Wee Hours
  3. Thirty Days (To Come Back Home)
  4. Together (We Will Always Be)
  5. You Can't Catch Me
  6. Rolli Polli [Instrumental]
  7. Down Bound Train
  8. Berry Pickin' [Instrumental]
  9. No Money Down
  10. I've Changed
  11. Drifting Heart
  12. Brown Eyed Handsome Man
  13. Roll Over Beethoven
  14. Too Much Monkey Business
  15. Maybellene [Live]
  16. Roll Over Beethoven [Live]
  17. Havana Moon
  18. Rock and Roll Music [Demo Version]
  19. Deep Feeling [Instrumental]
  20. School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell)
  21. Low Feeling [Instrumental]
  22. La Jaunda [EspaƱol]
  23. Blue Feeling [Instrumental]
  24. How You've Changed
  25. Oh Baby Doll
Music CD 2
  1. Rock and Roll [Alternate Take]
  2. Rock and Roll Music
  3. 13 Question Method [Early Version]
  4. How High the Moon [Instrumental]
  5. Sweet Little Sixteen [Demo Version]
  6. Sweet Little Sixteen [Take 3]
  7. Sweet Little Sixteen [Take 11]
  8. Sweet Little Sixteen [Original Master]
  9. Sweet Little Sixteen [Sped Up Originally Released Version]
  10. Rock at the Philharmonic [Instrumental]
  11. Guitar Boogie [Instrumental]
  12. Night Beat [Take 3][Instrumental]
  13. Night Beat [Instrumental]
  14. Time Was [Slow Version, Take 4]
  15. Time Was [Slow Version]
  16. Reelin' and Rockin' [Tale 1]
  17. Reelin' and Rockin' [Takes 7 & 8]
  18. Reelin' and Rockin'
  19. Chuckwalk [Instrumental]
  20. Johnny B. Goode [Alt. Takes 2 & 3]
  21. Johnny B. Goode
  22. Around and Around [Overdub Take 2][Take]
  23. Around and Around [Overdub Take 3][Take]
  24. Around and Around
  25. Ingo [Overdub Take 3][Take]
  26. Ingo [Instrumental]
Music CD 3
  1. It Don't Take But a Few Minutes
  2. Blues for Hawaiians [Instrumental]
  3. Beautiful Delilah [Alternate Takes 15 & 16]
  4. Beautiful Delilah [Take 6]
  5. 21 Blues
  6. 21
  7. 21 [Take 14]
  8. Vacation Time
  9. Oh Yeah
  10. Hey Pedro
  11. Time Was [Fast Version]
  12. House of Blue Lights
  13. Carol
  14. Jo Jo Gunne
  15. Memphis Tennessee
  16. Anthony Boy
  17. Sweet Little Rock 'N' Roller [Alternate Take 5]
  18. Sweet Little Rock 'N' Roller [Take 11A]
  19. Long Fast Jam [Instrumental]
  20. Long Slow Jam [Instrumental]
  21. Merry Christmas Baby
  22. Merry Christmas Baby [Alternate Take]
  23. Run Rudolph Run
Music CD 4
  1. Little Queenie [Take 8]
  2. Little Queenie
  3. That's My Desire
  4. Do You Love Me [Alternate Take]
  5. Do You Love Me
  6. Almost Grown [Take 14]
  7. Almost Grown [Take 28]
  8. Almost Grown
  9. Back in the U.S.A.
  10. Blue on Blue (Upchuck) [Alternate Take][Instrumental]
  11. Blue on Blue [Instrumental]
  12. Betty Jean [Alternate Take 14]
  13. Betty Jean [Alternate Take 17]
  14. Betty Jean
  15. County Line
  16. Childhood Sweetheart [Alternate Take]
  17. Childhood Sweetheart
  18. One O'Clock Jump [Instrumental]
  19. I Just Want to Make Love to You [Take 3]
  20. I Just Want to Make Love to You
  21. Broken Arrow [Take 21]
  22. Broken Arrow
  23. Let It Rock [Alternate Mix]
  24. Let It Rock
  25. Too Pooped to Pop [Take 4A]
  26. Too Pooped to Pop
  27. Say You'll Be Mine
  28. Let Me Sleep Woman

Free Music Notes for Johnny B Goode: His Complete 50's Chess Recordings

Free Music Review: I like the Rock 'n' Roll
Hit: 5 Stars

I was driving a friend of mine around just after I had bought these discs. I said I had a new eight disk Chuck Berry box set that I'm enjoying pretty well. He said "Really?". Is there enough material of Chuck Berry for an eight disc set?" I said "Yes there is".

If you are not familiar with Chuck's biggest hits, you need to correct it immediately. I'm tempted to list them all with a line or two to emphasize their greatness or to help you remember them.

"Maybellene, why can't you be true, You done started back doin' those things you used to do." It's a car song about racing a Cadillac (yeah, right).

"You Can't Catch Me, cause if you get too close, I'm gone like a cool breeze". The song John Lennon was groovin' on when he wrote Come Together. I'll repeat that, "The song John Lennon was groovin' on when he wrote Come Together".

Speaking of Lennon and the Beatles, they did a lot of Chuck's songs in their early years, having a lot of radio play with Roll Over Beethoven and Rock and Roll Music. An early Rolling Stones hit was Round and Round. (Again, I want to make sure you know the song so I have to quote a little of the lyric, "Said the joint was rockin', Goin' round and round, Yeah, reeling and a rocking, What a crazy sound And they never stopped rocking, Til the moon went down".

Too Much Monkey Business for me to be involved in, School Days, the guy behind you won't leave you alone, They're really rockin' in Boston, Pittsburg Pa, all the cats want to dance with Sweet Little Sixteen. You may have heard Johnny Be Goode, she never gets any older, Sweet Little Rock and Roller, Beautiful Delilah, sweet as apple pie, Always gets a second look from fellas passin' by, Every time you see her she's with a different guy, Beautiful Delilah, that's the reason why, Rebecca don't allow me fool around with you, You are so tantalizing you just can't be true, She's in the mood, no needin' break it, I've got a chance, I'd better take it, if we can dance then we can make it, come on Queenie, let's shake it. There she is again, standing by the record machine, Go, Little Queenie. We're so glad we're livin' in the USA. Oh, I skipped over long distance information, give me Memphis Tennessee, Can't stop the train, you've got to let it roll on. NADINE!!, Honey is that you, it seems like every time I catch up with you, you're up to something new. Ridin' along in my calaboose, Still trying to get her belt a-loose, All the way home I held a grudge, For the safety belt that wouldn't budge, Crusin' and playin' the radio, With no particular place to go. CAROL, don't let him steal your heart away, I'm gonna learn to dance if it takes me all night and day.

The Great Twenty Eight didn't have You Never Can Tell (the Pulp Fiction Song), or Promise Land, not to mention My Ding-a-Ling (I usually don't mention it, but I do pull it out when I feel the need). You may know Promise Land from Elvis's version with the line "There are people there who care a little 'bout me and they won't let the poor boy down". The Great Thirty One won't fit on a single disk, so you have to get a double set. Which I did. The Anthology disks are excellent. Only problem, you'll end up wanting more.

It had some good blues on it but blues isn't really my style. I like the Rock'n'Roll. But there was actually some good Rock'n'Roll I hadn't heard. Because ... he's ... too pooped to pop, too old to scold, his feet gettin' tired when he tries to do the stroll, every time his feet gets to goin' one way, here a new dance and he's gone astray, So slow down little Jaguar, keep cool little Thunderbird Ford, Get the stuff and hide it in the van, go back by your momma's, get the money for the bail and bring it down and bail me out of this rotten funky jail.

So I was eyeing these disks, the four disks set Johnny B. Goode His Complete '50s Chess Recordings and the four disks set You Never Can Tell His Complete Chess Recordings 1960-1966 and happened to click on It Wasn't Me, (It must have been some other body, uh uh boss, it wasn't me). What can I say, it all rocks. I'll get back to you with the specifics.

My Ding-a-Ling isn't here, but I have that on the Anthology album. Hmm, I wonder if that last four disc set is any good.

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