Chuck Berry-Johnny B. Goode-His Complete 50s Chess Recordings-4CD-2008-XXL

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


Rip Info
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Artist: Chuck Berry
Album Title: Johnny B. Goode - His Complete 50's Chess Recordings
Record Label: Hip-O Select
Rip Date: 2008-03-13
Catalog Number:
Genre: Rock & Roll
Year: 2008
Source: CD/Multiple Discs
Encoder: LAME 3.97 -V2 --vbr-new
Quality: 121 kbps avg / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo


Track List
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Disc: 1
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01 Maybellene 2:21
02 Wee Wee Hours 3:05
03 Thirty Days (To Come Back Home) 2:25
04 Together (We Will Always Be) 2:37
05 You Can't Catch Me 2:44
06 Rolli Polli (Instrumental) 2:50
07 Down Bound Train 2:50
08 Berry Pickin' (Instrumental) 2:32
09 No Money Down 2:58
10 I've Changed 3:07
11 Drifting Heart 2:49
12 Brown Eyed Handsome Man 2:17
13 Roll Over Beethoven 2:24
14 Too Much Monkey Business 2:55
15 Maybellene (Live) 2:06
16 Roll Over Beethoven (Live) 2:44
17 Havana Moon 3:08
18 Rock And Roll Music (Demo) 2:40
19 United Instrumental 2:23
20 Deep Feeling (Instrumental) 2:20
21 School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes The Bell) 2:43
22 Low Feeling (Instrumental) 3:10
23 La Jaunda (Espanol) 3:12
24 Blue Feeling (Instrumental) 3:02
25 How You've Changed 2:48
26 Oh Baby Doll 2:36

Disc: 2
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01 Rock And Roll Music (Alternate) 2:26
02 Rock And Roll Music 2:33
03 13 Questions Method (Early Version) 2:40
04 How High The Moon (Instrumental) 3:09
05 Sweet Little Sixteen (Demo) 3:08
06 Sweet Little Sixteen (Take 3) 3:12
07 Sweet Little Sixteen (Take 11) 3:08
08 Sweet Little Sixteen (Original Master) 3:17
09 Sweet Little Sixteen (Sped Up Originally 3:02
Released Version)
10 Rock At The Philharmonic (Instrumental) 3:24
11 Guitar Boogie (Instrumental) 2:20
12 Night Beat (Take 3) (Instrumental) 2:58
13 Night Beat (Instrumental) 2:44
14 Time Was (Slow Version, Take 4) 2:37
15 Time Was (Slow Version) 2:02
16 Reelin' And Rockin' (Take 1) 3:38
17 Reelin' And Rockin' (Takes 7 And 8) 3:47
18 Reelin' And Rockin' 3:16
19 Chuckwalk (Instrumental) 2:28
20 Johnny B. Goode (Alternate Takes 2 And 3) 3:21
21 Johnny B. Goode 2:41
22 Around And Around (Overdub Take 2) 2:49
23 Around And Around (Overdub Take 3) 2:42
24 Around And Around 2:43
25 Ingo (Overdub Take 3) (Instrumental) 2:57
26 Ingo (Instrumental) 2:30

Disc: 3
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01 It Don't Take But A Few Minutes 2:28
02 Blues For Hawaiians (Instrumental) 3:24
03 Beautiful Delilah (Alternate Takes 15 And 16) 2:32
04 Beautiful Delilah (Take 6) 2:10
05 21 Blues 2:11
06 21 2:26
07 21 (Take 14) 2:38
08 Vacation Time 2:54
09 Oh Yeah 2:35
10 Hey Pedro 1:56
11 Time Was (Fast Version) 2:29
12 House Of Blue Lights 2:28
13 Carol 2:49
14 Jo Jo Gunne 2:46
15 Memphis Tennessee 2:14
16 Anthony Boy 1:54
17 Sweet Little Rock 'n' Roller (Alternate Take 2:27
5)
18 Sweet Little Rock 'n' Roller (Take 11A) 2:22
19 Long Fast Jam (Instrumental) 11:34
20 Long Slow Jam (Instrumental) 11:13
21 Merry Christmas Baby 3:14
22 Merry Christmas Baby (Alternate) 3:00
23 Run Rudolph Run 2:43

Disc: 4
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01 Little Queenie (Take 8) 2:31
02 Little Queenie 2:42
03 That's My Desire 2:19
04 Do You Love Me (Alternate) 2:24
05 Do You Love Me 2:36
06 Almost Grown (Take 14) 2:35
07 Almost Grown (Take 28) 2:55
08 Almost Grown 2:21
09 Back In The U.S.A. 2:28
10 Blue On Blue (Alternate A/K/A/ Upchuck) 3:10
(Instrumental)
11 Blue On Blue (Instrumental) 2:59
12 Betty Jean (Alternate Take 14) 2:27
13 Betty Jean (Alternate Take 17) 2:40
14 Betty Jean 2:31
15 County Line 2:17
16 Childhood Sweetheart (Alternate) 3:12
17 Childhood Sweetheart 2:44
18 One O' Clock Jump (Instrumental) 3:08
19 I Just Want To Make Love To You (Take 3) 2:18
20 I Just Want To Make Love To You 2:13
21 Broken Arrow (Take 21) 2:45
22 Broken Arrow 2:28
23 Let It Rock (Alternate Mix) 1:58
24 Let It Rock 1:48
25 Too Pooped To Pop (Take 4A) 2:38
26 Too Pooped To Pop 2:36
27 Say You'll Be Mine (Ecuadors) 2:18
28 Let Me Sleep Woman (Ecuadors) 2:25
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Rip Notes
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Chuck Berrys legendary breakthrough 1950s Chess recordings has gotten their
first thorough presentation anywhere via a 4-CD, 103-song box set on Chess/Hip-O
Select Records. These are the groundbreaking recordings by the first poet
laureate of rock n roll that set the tone lyrically and musically for all that
came after. To paraphrase John Lennon, if they didnt call it rock n roll,
theyd call it Chuck Berry music, and this remarkable new set shows why.
Digitally remastered from the original Chess masters, the collection features
not only such oft-covered classics as Maybellene, Roll Over Beethoven, Rock
And Roll Music, Memphis, Sweet Little Sixteen, Johnny B. Goode, Carol,
and Little Queenie, but it also shows the evolution of the artist and his
songs, while presenting a surfeit of rarities, including 16 previously
unreleased tracks.
With the exception of two live recordings, all of these tracks were recorded at
Chess Studios from May 21, 1955, through a massive late July 1959 session, which
culminated in the only time Berry played session lead guitar for an artist other
than himself: two tracks by a studio group called the Ecuadors. Other rarities
on the set, aside from the unreleased tracks, include a pair of live versions of
Maybellene and Roll Over Beethoven Chuck recorded for Alan Freeds 1956 New
York Camel Rock n Roll Dance Party album, several original masters
overdubbed for the fake On Stage Chess album, and a number of recordings making
their U.S. CD debut.
The unreleased recordings include take 3 of Sweet Little Sixteen, which is one
of five versions of the song that tells the story of its recordingfrom its
demonstration record to two rejected (and intriguingly different) session takes
to the original master to the sped-up master finally released by Chess. There
are also unreleased alternate takes at different tempos than those released,
some with different lyrics, and one (for Broken Arrow) which features Chuck
Berry instructing his backup singers in their parts. And, finally, there is a
pair of previously unreleased 11 minutes-plus in-studio jams featuring Chuck
with pianist Johnnie Johnson, bassist Willie Dixon, and drummer Jasper Thomas
a blues called Long Slow Jam and a rocker called, suitably, Long Fast Jam
from 1958.
All of this remarkable music is elaborated on by tidbits of studio dialog,
complete session by session credits, a 50s Chuck Berry singles discography,
period photos, and com