Chuck Berry Is on Top

Album by Chuck Berry

Released July 1959

Bo Diddley
guitar [1]
Bob Bushnell
electric bass guitar [10, 12]
Chester Simmons
background vocals [1]
Chuck Barksdale
background vocals [1]
Chuck Berry
guitar [1-11, 13-15, 17-18, 20], lead vocals [1-7, 9-11, 13-15, 20], producer [13, 17-18, 20], steel guitar [12], vocal [1, 5, 8, 14, 17-18]
Colin Escott
producer
Ebby Hardy
drums (drum set) [14-15]
Etta James
background vocals [1]
Fred Below
drums (drum set) [4]
George Patterson
tenor saxophone [20]
Harvey Fuqua
background vocals [1]
James Nolan
background vocals [1]
Jasper Thomas
background vocals [5], drums (drum set) [1, 5-6, 8, 10, 12], vocal [5]
Jerome Green
maracas [3]
Johnnie Johnson
piano [1, 3-4, 6, 9-10, 12, 14, 17, 20]
Lafayette Leake
piano [7, 13]
Leonard & Phil Chess
producer
Leonard Chess
maracas [3]
Leroy C. Davis
tenor saxophone [9]
Louis Satterfield
electric bass guitar [17-18, 20]
Marvin Gaye
background vocals [1]
Matt Murphy
guitar [13]
Melvin Billups
drums (drum set) [9]
Nezih Özütok
design
Odie Payne
drums (drum set) [2, 7, 11, 13, 17-18, 20]
Otis Spann
background vocals [5], piano [5, 14], vocal [5]
Paul Gayten
piano [2]
Paul Williams
piano [18]
Reese Palmer
background vocals [1]
Rubin Cooper
tenor saxophone [20]
The Marquees
background vocals [1]
The Moonglows
background vocals [1]
Vincent Pitts
trumpet [9]
Willie Dixon
background vocals [5], bass [1, 4], double bass [1-3, 5-9, 11, 14-15], producer [13, 17-18, 20], vocal [5]
[unknown]
percussion [2, 11]