Chuck Berry's Golden Hits (CD)

Elvis may have brought rock and roll to a mass (i.e. caucasian) audiences, but if the genre has a father--someone who could truly be crowned its king--it is undoubtedly Chuck Berry, the man who wrote the genre's entire vocabularly in riffs. Not just a guitar dynamo and consummate showman, Berry was a masterfully wry songwriter whose songs displayed a narrative wit as infectious as their hooks. His run of singles from 1955 to 1965--including his debut "Maybelline," "Rock and Roll Music," "Roll Over Beethoven," and "Johnny B. Goode" among many others--turned on generations of rockers from the Beatles and Rolling Stones to AC/DC and the Sex Pistols. While his chart presence waned after 1972's lewd novelty hit "My Ding-a-Ling," Berry continued to duck walk across stages the world over in the ensuing decades.

• Category:  Music  »  Oldies  »  Rock 'N' Roll
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: April 17, 1989
• Label: Chess (USA)
• UPC: 042282625625
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106664725
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #161260 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #2345 in Oldies (See Top 100 Oldies Bestsellers)
• #240 in Rock 'N' Roll (See Top 100 Rock 'N' Roll Bestsellers)

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Personnel: Chuck Berry (vocals, guitar); Quincy Macon (guitar); Carey Enlow (saxophone); Johnny Johnson (keyboards); Forrest Frierson (bass); Ebbie Hardy, Eugene Washington (drums).

Includes liner notes by Jim Delchant.

These are not the original versions, but 1966 re-recordings of his classic songs.

A seminal figure in the evolution of rock 'n' roll, Chuck Berry's influence as songwriter and guitarist is incalculable. His cogent songs captured adolescent life, yet the artist was 30 years old when he commenced recording. In 1955, during a chance visit to Chicago, Berry met bluesman Muddy Waters, who advised the young singer to approach the Chess label. Berry's demo of "Ida May," was sufficient to win a recording contract and the composition, retitled "Maybellene," duly became his debut single. Berry enjoyed further hits with "Thirty Days" and "No Money Down," but it was his third recording session that proved even more productive, producing a stream of classics, "Roll Over Beethoven," "Too Much Monkey Business" and "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man." The artist's subsequent releases read like a lexicon of pop history--"School Days," "Rock And Roll Music" (all 1957), "Sweet Little Sixteen," "Reelin' And Rockin"," "Johnny B. Goode" (1958), "Back In The USA," "Let It Rock" (1960) and "Bye Bye Johnny" (1960) are but a handful of the peerless songs written and recorded during this prolific period.

Berry was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 1986. His stature as an essential figure in the evolution of popular music cannot be underestimated.

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