Best of the Chess Years

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Johnny B. Goode
  2:42
  4.2 ★
• 2
  Maybellene
  2:21
• 3
  Little Queenie
  2:42
  4.4 ★
• 4
  School Days (Ring, Ring Goes the Bell)
  2:42
  4.2 ★
• 5
  Carol
  2:48
  3.8 ★
• 6
  Too Much Monkey Business
  2:55
  3.4 ★
• 7
  No Money Down
  2:59
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Come On
  1:50
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Guitar Boogie
  2:19
• 10
  Stop and Listen
  2:28
• 11
  Together (We’ll Always Be)
  2:38
• 12
  Run Around
  2:33
• 13
  Confessin’ the Blues
  2:09
• 14
  You Can’t Catch Me
  2:44
  3.0 ★
• 15
  The Way It Was Before
  2:50
• 16
  It Don’t Take but a Few Minutes
  2:28
• 17
  Worried Life Blues
  2:10
• 18
  I Got to Find My Baby
  2:16
• 19
  Away From You
  2:39
• 20
  I’m Talking About You
  1:49
• 21
  Thirty Days
  2:25
  3.5 ★
• 22
  Vacation Time
  2:48
• 23
  Our Little Rendezvous
  2:00
• 24
  Jaguar and Thunderbird
  1:51
• 25
  Too Pooped to Pop
  2:36
  4.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Memphis, Tennessee
  2:15
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Sweet Little Sixteen
  3:12
  2.5 ★
• 3
  Brown Eyed Handsome Man
  2:18
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Let It Rock
  1:45
  3.6 ★
• 5
  Beautiful Delilah
  2:16
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Thirteen Question Method
  2:13
• 7
  Almost Grown
  2:21
  3.6 ★
• 8
  Driftin’ Blues
  2:21
• 9
  Mad Lad
  2:11
• 10
  Blues for Hawaiians
  3:25
• 11
  Down the Road a Piece
  2:14
• 12
  Blue Feeling
  3:01
• 13
  Don’t Lie to Me
  1:58
• 14
  Low Feeling
  3:08
• 15
  Broken Arrow
  2:22
• 16
  Diploma for Two
  2:30
• 17
  Roly Poly
  2:50
• 18
  How You’ve Changed
  2:48
• 19
  Deep Feeling
  2:20
• 20
  Childhood Sweetheart
  2:44
• 21
  Little Star
  2:46
• 22
  That’s My Desire
  2:18
• 23
  Rip It Up
  1:58
• 24
  Reelin’ and Rockin’
  3:18
• CD 3
• 1
  Back in the U.S.A.
  2:30
• 2
  Roll Over Beethoven
  2:24
  4.2 ★
• 3
  Sweet Little Rock and Roller
  2:22
• 4
  Rock and Roll Music
  2:33
  4.4 ★
• 5
  Bye Bye Johnny
  2:05
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Downbound Train
  2:51
  3.4 ★
• 7
  Route 66
  2:47
• 8
  Around and Around
  2:39
  3.5 ★
• 9
  Sweet Sixteen
  2:45
• 10
  Rockin’ at the Philharmonic
  3:24
• 11
  Havana Moon
  3:08
  2.4 ★
• 12
  Go Go Go
  2:33
• 13
  Berry Pickin’
  2:32
• 14
  Oh Baby Doll
  2:38
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Drifting Heart
  2:50
• 16
  In‐Go
  2:29
• 17
  Betty Jean
  2:30
• 18
  Hey Pedro
  1:57
• 19
  Anthony Boy
  1:54
  2.6 ★
• 20
  La Jaunda
  3:13
• 21
  Jo Jo Gunne
  2:47
  3.0 ★
• 22
  Wee Wee Hours
  3:04
• 23
  Merry Christmas Baby
  3:14
  4.0 ★
• 24
  Run Rudolph Run
  2:52
  4.5 ★

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Greatest Hits

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Have Mercy: His Complete Chess Recordings 1969–1974

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You Never Can Tell: His Complete Chess Recordings 1960–1966

You Never Can Tell: His Complete Chess Recordings 1960–1966 2009

The Best

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Johnny B. Goode: His Complete ’50s Chess Recordings

Johnny B. Goode: His Complete ’50s Chess Recordings 2007

Release credits

• Abb Locke
  tenor saxophone [8]
• Bo Diddley
  guitar [7]
• Bob Bushnell
  electric bass guitar [8]
• Chester Simmons
  background vocals [7]
• Chuck Barksdale
  background vocals [7]
• Chuck Berry
  electric guitar [4, 14], guitar [2.1-4, 2.4-5, 2.7, 2.11, 3.1-2, 3.5-6, 3.8, 3.11, 3.14, 3.19, 3.21, 3.23-24, 1.1, 1.3-6, 1.6-8, 1.13-14, 1.20-21, 1.25], lead vocals [2.1-5, 2.7, 2.11, 3.1-2, 3.4-6, 3.8, 3.11, 3.14, 3.19, 1.1, 1.3-8, 1.13-14, 1.20-21], producer [3.5, 1.8, 1.13, 1.20, 2.11], vocal [2.4, 2.7, 1.4, 1.6-7, 1.25, 3.19, 3.21, 3.23-24]
• Ebby Hardy
  drums (drum set) [1.7-8, 1.14, 1.21, 3.6]
• Etta James
  background vocals [3.1, 2.7]
• Fred Below
  drums (drum set) [2.1, 2.4, 1.4, 1.6, 1.25, 3.1, 3.4, 3.14]
• Harvey Fuqua
  background vocals [7]
• Hubert Sumlin
  guitar [4]
• James Nolan
  background vocals [7]
• Jasper Thomas
  background vocals [19], drums (drum set) [2.1-2, 2.7, 1.1, 3.8, 3.19, 3.21], vocal [19]
• Jerome Green
  maracas [21]
• Jimmy Rogers
  guitar [11]
• John Jackson
  tenor saxophone [8]
• Johnnie Johnson
  piano [2.2-4, 2.4, 2.7, 1.1, 1.4, 1.6, 1.6-7, 1.14, 1.21, 1.25, 3.1-2, 3.8]
• Lafayette Leake
  piano [1.3, 1.8, 1.13, 1.20, 2.11, 3.4-5, 3.14, 3.23-24]
• Leonard & Phil Chess
  producer [1.1, 1.3-8, 1.13-14, 1.20-21, 3.1-2, 3.4-6, 3.8, 3.11, 3.14, 3.19, 3.21, 3.23, 2.1, 2.3-5, 2.7, 2.11]
• Leroy C. Davis
  tenor saxophone [1.6, 1.25, 3.2]
• Martha Berry
  background vocals [8], other vocals [8]
• Marvin Gaye
  background vocals [7]
• Matt Murphy
  guitar [2.11, 3.5, 1.13], instrument [8]
• Melvin Billups
  drums (drum set) [2.3, 1.6, 3.2]
• Odie Payne
  drums (drum set) [2.5, 2.11, 3.5, 3.23-24, 1.3, 1.5, 1.13]
• Otis Spann
  background vocals [19], piano [3.19, 1.7, 1.14], vocal [19]
• Paul Gayten
  piano [1.5, 2.5]
• Phil Thomas
  drums (drum set) [8, 20]
• Reese Palmer
  background vocals [7]
• Reggie Boyd
  electric bass guitar [2.4, 1.8, 1.20, 1.25]
• The Marquees
  background vocals [2.7, 3.1]
• The Moonglows
  background vocals [7]
• Vincent Pitts
  trumpet [1.6, 3.2]
• Willie Dixon
  background vocals [19], bass [3.14, 1.6, 1.21, 2.4, 2.7], double bass [1.1, 1.3, 1.5-7, 1.14, 3.1-2, 3.4-6, 3.11, 3.14, 3.19, 3.21, 3.23-24, 2.1-3, 2.5, 2.7], producer [2.11, 3.5, 1.8, 1.13, 1.20], vocal [19]
• [unknown]
  percussion [5]
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Issues

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  Best of the Chess Years

  3x CD
  2012