Berry, Chuck – Very Good 20 Greatest Rock & Roll Hits Vinyl LP 180gr HQ
Chuck Berry – Very Good!! 20 Greatest Rock & Roll Hits – Vinyl LP 180gr HQ DMM
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This essential LP edition compiles 20 of Chuck Berry’s most emblematic and celebrated songs, taped by the Chess label between 1955 and 1961.
These recordings helped define the exact nature of early rock & roll.
This material will convince even the skeptics of Berry’s brilliance.
All of these original gems-which have been brilliantly remastered to achieve the most pristine sound-are simple two-and-a-half-minute songs that convey all the sheer power and emotion of rock & roll.
Tracklist:
A1 Maybellene (aka Maybelline)
A2 Roll Over Beethoven
A3 Johnny B. Goode
A4 Oh, Baby Doll
A5 ‘Round and ‘Round
A6 Come On
A7 Almost Grown
A8 Reelin’ and Rockin’
A9 School Days
A10 Carol
B1 Rock and Roll Music
B2 Sweet Little Sixteen
B3 Too Much Monkey Business
B4 Thirty Days (To Come Back Home)
B5 Brown Eyed Handsome Man
B6 Go-Go-Go
B7 Run Rudolph Run
B8 Memphis, Tennessee
B9 Back in the U.S.A.
B10 Route 66
CHUCK BERRY: Lead vocals and Guitar
A1: Willie Dixon (b), Johnnie Johnson (p), Jasper Thomas or Ebby Hardy (d), Jerome Green (maracas).
Recorded on May 21, 1955.
A2 / B3 & B5: Willie Dixon (b), Johnnie Johnson (p), Fred Below (d), Leroy C. Davis (tS).
Recorded on April 16, 1956.
A3 & A8 / B2: Willie Dixon (b), Lafayette Leake (p), Fred Below (d).
Recorded on December 29, 1957.
A4 / B1: Same personnel as on Side 1, tracks 3 & 8.
Recorded on May 6, 1957.
A5: Chuck Berry sings and plays all of the instruments (guitar, bass & drums).
Recorded on February 27, 1958.
A6 / B6: probably Reggie Boyd (b), Johnnie Johnson (p), Phil Thomas (d), Leroy C. Thomas (ts), Martha Berry (voc).
Recorded on August 3, 1961.
A7 / B9: Willie Dixon (b), Johnnie Johnson (p), Fred Below (d), Harvey & The Moonglows, feat. Harvey Fuqua, Marvin Gaye, Janes Nolan, Reese Palmer, Chuck Barksdale, Chester Simmons, and Etta James (voc).
Recorded on February 17, 1959.
A9: Willie Dixon (b), Johnnie Johnson (p), Fred Below (d).
Recorded on January 21, 1957.
A10: G. Smith (b), Johnnie Johnson (p), Ebby Hardy or Jasper Thomas (d / perc).
Recorded on May 2 or June 12, 1958.
B4: Willie Dixon (b), Johnnie Johnson (p and voc), Ebby Hardy (d and voc), Jerome Green (maracas and voc).
Recorded in September 1955.
B7: Willie Dixon (b), Lafayette Leake (p), Fred Below (d).
Recorded on November 19, 1958.
B8: Chuck Berry sings and plays all of the instruments (g, b & d).
Recorded in July 1958.
B10: Reggie Boyd (b), Johnnie Johnson (p), Ebby Hardy (d).
Recorded on January 10 or 19, 1961.
All tracks recorded at Chess Studio, Chicago, Illinois