Chuck Berry - 20th Century Masters: Collection - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This album presents 20 of Berry's best early Chess sides. From InchMaybelleneInch to InchMemphis,Inch this contribution to the Chess 50th Anniversary Collection includes all of his classic hits from 1955-58 including InchRock And Roll Music,Inch InchJohnny B. GoodeInch and InchCarol.Inch Album Tracks 1. Maybellene 2. Thirty Days 3. You Can't Catch Me 4. Downbound Train 5. Brown Eyed Handsome Man 6. Roll Over Beethoven 7. Too Much Monkey Business 8. Havana Moon 9. School Day 10. Rock and Roll Music 11. Oh Baby Doll 12. Reelin' and Rockin' 13. Sweet Little Sixteen 14. Johnny B. Goode 15. Around and Around 16. Beautiful Delilah 17. Carol 18. Anthony Boy 19. Jo Jo Gunne 20. Memphis

From the rockabilly flavoured Maybellene to the adrenalin rush of Dear Dad (both about automobiles!) this formidable collection spans ten years and over 20 Hot Hundred Hits. They're all here. All his greatest songs. This is a non-stop hymn to the USA; a crash course chronicle of high school hops, teen romance and rock 'n' roll cartography. Hear the most imitated electric guitar licks of all time; driving riffs which separate Chuck Berry music from the jump blues of his predecessors. 'Every guitarist I auditioned would have to play 'Johnny B. Goode' (Ronnie Hawkins). Chuck Berry is an enigmatic man. Charming one minute and cold the next. But this hit-packed compilation is red-hot from start to finish. 'Why should I write songs Chuck Berry wrote them all' (George Thorogood).Bear Family's 'Rocks' series finally gets to anthologise the most influential rock 'n' roll musician this side of Elvis. It was, it's been said, Chuck Berry who started it all and, in truth, his influence is incalculable and deeply felt especially by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. As John Lennon once put it, if you wanted to give rock 'n' roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'; Jagger and Richards are said to have met when Richards clocked a Chuck Berry album under Jagger's arm.No other songwriter has articulated the demands of the consumer society so vividly nor understood the feelings and frustrations of youth so perfectly (yet, remarkably, he was 31 when Sweet Little Sixteen was released). Chuck Berry wrote unforgettable playlets about automobile gadgetry, wayward women, classroom repression and rock 'n' roll itself. Each of these 32 tracks is a monument to his trademark guitar, the vibrant economy of his lyrics and the unifying, uplifting and enduring power of a catalogue which provided the biggest single stimulus for the '60s R&B revival, the Merseybeat explosion and the British

Chuck Berry, THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION, features 30 classic recordings. The most extensive single disc ever of his greatest hits. Includes every Top 10 hit including InchMaybellene,Inch Johhny B. Goode,Inch and InchMy Ding-A-Ling.Inch Album Tracks 1. Maybellene 2. Thirty Days 3. You Can't Catch Me 4. Too Much Monkey Business 5. Roll Over Beethoven 6. Brown Eyed Handsome Man 7. Havana Moon 8. School Day (Ring Ring Goes the Bell) 9. Rock and Roll Music 10. Oh, Baby Doll 11. Reelin' and Rockin' 12. Sweet Little Sixteen 13. Johnny B. Goode 14. Around and Around 15. Beautiful Delilah 16. Carol 17. Memphis 18. Sweet Little Rock & Roller 19. Little Queenie 20. Almost Grown 21. Back in the U.S.A 22. Let It Rock 23. I'm Talking About You 24. Come on 25. Nadine 26. You Never Can Tell 27. Promised Land 28. No Particular Place to Go 29. I Want to Be Your Driver 30. My Ding-A-Ling