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John Lennon once said that if you were going to give another name to rock & roll you might as well call it Chuck Berry -- a phrase that has been repeated to exhaustion precisely because it is no exaggeration. More than any other single musician, Berry defined the sound, style, and attitude of what rock & roll is, pushing guitars and cars to the forefront, constructing a world of soda shops and jukeboxes that resided just down the road a piece, finding an endless world within three chords. Fats Domino may have started the big wheel rolling, the Everly Brothers invented the power chord, Buddy Holly married pop with tough rockabilly, Little Richard had the manic energy, and Elvis Presley broke down the barriers, but Chuck Berry was the one that created the culture. How he did it is at long last chronicled in detail on Hip-O Select's Johnny B. Goode: His Complete '50s Chess Recordings, a four-CD set containing all his singles from the '50s (which include most of his biggest hits), album tracks, and rarities, including demos and unreleased recordings. Berry, of course, had another decade of vital recordings on Chess ahead of him (and an often-overlooked series of worthy recordings for the label in the '70s), but within these '50s sessions is where the heart of his legacy lies, as this is when he created rock & roll out of jump blues, country boogie, juke joint R&B, Harry Belafonte calypso, and Nat King Cole crooning.


Tracks

Disc 1        Title Composer Time
  1  Maybellene Berry 2:21
  2  Wee Wee Hours Berry 3:05
  3  Thirty Days (To Come Back Home) Berry 2:25
  4  Together (We Will Always Be) Berry 2:37
  5  You Can't Catch Me Berry 2:44
  6  Rolli Polli Berry 2:50
  7  Down Bound Train Berry 2:50
  8  Berry Pickin' Berry 2:32
  9  No Money Down Berry 2:58
  10  I've Changed Berry 3:07
  11  Drifting Heart Berry 2:49
  12  Brown Eyed Handsome Man Berry 2:17
  13  Roll Over Beethoven Berry 2:24
  14  Too Much Monkey Business Berry 2:55
  15  Maybellene Berry 2:06
  16  Roll Over Beethoven Berry 2:44
  17  Havana Moon Berry 3:08
  18  Rock and Roll Music Berry 2:40
  19  Untitled Berry 2:23
  20  Deep Feeling Berry 2:20
  21  School Day (Ring! Ring! Goesthe Bell) Berry 2:43
  22  Low Feeling Berry 3:10
  23  La Jaunda [Español]  Berry 3:12
  24  Blue Feeling Berry 3:02
  25  How You've Changed Berry 2:48
  26  Oh Baby Doll Berry 2:36


Disc2        Title Composer Time
  1  Rock and Roll Berry 2:26
  2  Rock and Roll Music Berry 2:33
  3  13 Question Method [Early Version]  Berry 2:40
  4  How High the Moon Hamilton, Lewis 3:09
  5  Sweet Little Sixteen Berry 3:08
  6  Sweet Little Sixteen [Take 3]  Berry 3:12
  7  Sweet Little Sixteen [Take 11]  Berry 3:08
  8  Sweet Little Sixteen [Original Master]  Berry 3:17
  9  Sweet Little Sixteen [Sped Up Originally Released Version]  Berry 3:02
  10  Rock at the Philharmonic Berry 3:24
  11  Guitar Boogie Berry 2:20
  12  Night Beat [Take 3]  Berry 2:58
  13  Night Beat Berry 2:44
  14  Time Was [Slow Version, Take 4]  Luna, Prado, Russell 2:37
  15  Time Was [Slow Version]  Luna, Prado, Russell 2:02
  16  Reelin' and Rockin' [Tale 1]  Berry 3:38
  17  Reelin' and Rockin' [Takes 7 & 8]  Berry 3:47
  18  Reelin' and Rockin' Berry 3:16
19  Chuckwalk Berry 2:28
  20  Johnny B. Goode [Alt. Takes 2 & 3]  Berry 3:21
  21  Johnny B. Goode Berry 2:41
  22  Around and Around [Overdub Take 2]  Berry 2:49
  23  Around and Around [Overdub Take 3]  Berry 2:42
  24  Around and Around Berry 2:43
  25  Ingo [Overdub Take 3]  Berry 2:57
  26  Ingo Berry 2:30


Disc 3        Title Composer Time
  1  It Don't Take But a Few Minutes Berry 2:28
  2  Blues for Hawaiians Berry 3:24
  3  Beautiful Delilah [Alternate Takes 15 & 16]  Berry 2:32
  4  Beautiful Delilah [Take 6]  Berry 2:09
  5  21 Blues Berry 2:11
  6  21 Berry 2:26
  7  21 [Take 14]  Berry 2:38
  8  Vacation Time Berry 2:54
  9  Oh Yeah Berry 2:35
  10  Hey Pedro Berry 1:56
  11  Time Was [Fast Version]  Luna, Prado, Russell 2:29
  12  House of Blue Lights Raye, Slack 2:28
  13  Carol Berry 2:49
  14  Jo Jo Gunne Berry 2:46
  15  Memphis Tennessee Berry 2:14
  16  Anthony Boy Berry 1:54
  17  Sweet Little Rock 'N' Roller [Alternate Take 5]  Berry 2:27
  18  Sweet Little Rock 'N' Roller [Take 11A]  Berry 2:22
  19  Long Fast Jam Berry 11:34
  20  Long Slow Jam Berry 11:13
  21  Merry Christmas Baby Baxter, Moore 3:14
  22  Merry Christmas Baby Baxter, Moore 3:00
  23  Run Rudolph Run Berry, Brodie 2:43


Disc 4        Title Composer Time
  1  Little Queenie [Take 8]  Berry 2:31
  2  Little Queenie Berry 2:42
  3  That's My Desire Kressa, Loveday 2:19
  4  Do You Love Me Berry 2:24
  5  Do You Love Me Berry 2:36
  6  Almost Grown [Take 14]  Berry 2:34
  7  Almost Grown [Take 28]  Berry 2:55
  8  Almost Grown Berry 2:21
  9  Back in the U.S.A. Berry 2:28
  10  Blue on Blue (Upchuck) Berry 3:10
  11  Blue on Blue Berry 2:59
  12  Betty Jean [Alternate Take 14]  Berry 2:27
  13  Betty Jean [Alternate Take 17]  Berry 2:40
  14  Betty Jean Berry 2:31
  15  County Line Berry 2:17
  16  Childhood Sweetheart Berry 3:12
  17  Childhood Sweetheart Berry 2:44
  18  One O'Clock Jump Berry 3:08
  19  I Just Want to Make Love to You [Take 3]  Dixon 2:18
  20  I Just Want to Make Love to You Dixon 2:13
  21  Broken Arrow [Take 21]  Berry 2:45
  22  Broken Arrow Berry 2:28
  23  Let It Rock [Alternate Mix]  Berry 1:58
  24  Let It Rock Berry 1:48
  25  Too Pooped to Pop [Take 4A]  Davis, Mitchell 2:38
  26  Too Pooped to Pop Davis, Mitchell 2:36
  27  Say You'll Be Mine  Anderson 2:18
  28  Let Me Sleep Woman  Anderson 2:24


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