Chuck Berry: The Indispensable 1954–1961

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Maybellene
  2:25
  3.9 ★
• 2
  Wee Wee Hours
  3:06
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Thirty Days
  2:25
  3.5 ★
• 4
  Together We Will Always Be
  2:39
  3.0 ★
• 5
  You Can’t Catch Me
  2:45
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Downbound Train
  2:51
  3.0 ★
• 7
  No Money Down
  3:00
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Roly Poly
  2:52
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Berry Pickin’
  2:34
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Drifting Heart
  2:51
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Brown Eyed Handsome Man
  2:20
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Roll Over Beethoven
  2:26
  4.2 ★
• 13
  Too Much Monkey Business
  2:57
  3.4 ★
• 14
  Havana Moon
  3:09
  2.4 ★
• 15
  School Day
  2:44
  4.2 ★
• 16
  La Jaunda
  3:14
  3.0 ★
• 17
  Blue Feeling
  3:03
  4.0 ★
• 18
  How You’ve Changed
  2:50
  3.0 ★
• 19
  Rock and Roll Music
  2:34
  4.4 ★
• 20
  I’ve Changed
  3:08
• 21
  Oh Baby Doll
  2:40
  4.0 ★
• 22
  Rockin’ at the Philharmonic
  3:25
  4.0 ★
• 23
  I Hope These Words Will Find You Well
  2:43
• CD 2
• 1
  Sweet Little Sixteen
  3:03
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Guitar Boogie
  2:22
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Johnny B.Goode
  2:42
• 4
  In-Go
  2:30
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Reelin’ and Rockin’
  3:18
  3.5 ★
• 6
  Around and Around
  2:41
  3.0 ★
• 7
  It Don’t Take but a Few Minutes
  2:28
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Hey, Pedro
  1:59
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Blues for Hawaiians
  3:26
  4.5 ★
• 10
  Carol
  2:50
  3.4 ★
• 11
  Oh Yeah
  2:35
• 12
  Time Was
  1:59
• 13
  House of Blue Lights
  2:28
• 14
  Beautiful Delilah
  2:17
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Jo Jo Gunne
  2:47
  3.0 ★
• 16
  Sweet Little Rock and Roller
  2:23
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Anthony Boy
  1:55
  2.5 ★
• 18
  Memphis
  2:14
• 19
  Little Queenie
  2:44
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Run Rodolph Run
  2:46
• 21
  Merry Christmas Baby
  3:15
  4.0 ★
• 22
  Almost Grown
  2:22
  3.5 ★
• 23
  Back in the USA
  2:29
• CD 3
• 1
  Betty Jean
  2:33
  4.0 ★
• 2
  County Line
  2:18
• 3
  Broken Arrow
  2:28
• 4
  Let It Rock
  1:48
  3.6 ★
• 5
  Too Pooped to Pop
  2:37
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Don’t You Lie to Me
  2:09
• 7
  Drifting Blues
  2:17
• 8
  Worried Life Blues
  2:12
• 9
  Bye Bye Johnny
  2:07
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Our Little Rendez Vous
  2:03
• 11
  Run Around
  2:33
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Jaguar and the Thunderbird
  1:53
• 13
  I Got to Find My Baby
  2:17
• 14
  Little Star
  2:48
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Down the Road Apiece
  2:17
• 16
  Confessin’ the Blues
  2:10
• 17
  Sweet Sixteen
  2:48
  4.0 ★
• 18
  Mad Lad
  2:23
• 19
  Route 66
  2:49
  4.0 ★
• 20
  I’m Talking About You
  1:51
• 21
  Come On
  1:50
  4.0 ★
• 22
  Go Go Go
  2:35
• 23
  The Man and the Donkey
  2:07

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The Best

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Reelin' and Rockin': The Very Best of Chuck Berry

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Release credits

• Abb Locke
  tenor saxophone [21]
• Bo Diddley
  guitar [22]
• Bob Bushnell
  electric bass guitar [4, 6-7, 9]
• Chester Simmons
  background vocals [22]
• Chuck Barksdale
  background vocals [22]
• Chuck Berry
  electric guitar [2.1-2, 2.4-5, 2.7, 1.16-19, 1.21-22], guitar [2.2, 2.6, 2.8, 2.10-17, 2.19, 2.21-23, 1.1-13, 1.13-15, 1.20-21, 1.23, 3.1-2, 3.4, 3.4-5, 3.7-10, 3.14-15, 3.17, 3.20-21], lead vocals [2.1, 2.5-8, 2.10-14, 2.16-17, 2.19, 2.22-23, 1.1-7, 1.10-16, 1.18-21, 3.4, 3.7-11, 3.14-15, 3.17, 3.20-21], producer [7-11, 14-15, 17, 20-21], steel guitar [2.9, 3.11], vocal [1.7, 1.13, 1.15, 3.1-2, 3.4-5, 2.15, 2.17, 2.21-22]
• Ebby Hardy
  drums (drum set) [3.21, 1.2-9, 1.20]
• Etta James
  background vocals [22-23]
• Faith Douglas
  guitar [23]
• Fred Below
  drums (drum set) [3.1-2, 3.4, 3.4-5, 2.16, 2.23, 1.13, 1.15, 1.17-19, 1.21]
• Freddie Golden
  bongos [23]
• Harvey Fuqua
  background vocals [22]
• Hubert Sumlin
  guitar [15]
• James Nolan
  background vocals [22]
• Jasper Thomas
  background vocals [17], drums (drum set) [2.1-2, 2.4-7, 2.9, 2.12, 2.15, 2.17, 2.22, 1.22], vocal [17]
• Jerome Green
  maracas [1, 3]
• Jimmy Rogers
  guitar [14]
• Joe Alexander
  lead vocals [23]
• John Jackson
  tenor saxophone [21]
• Johnnie Johnson
  piano [1.1-5, 1.7-13, 1.13, 1.15-17, 1.20, 1.22, 2.1-2, 2.4-7, 2.9, 2.12, 2.16, 2.22-23, 3.1-2, 3.4, 3.4-5]
• Lafayette Leake
  piano [1.18-19, 1.21, 2.19, 2.21, 3.8-11, 3.15, 3.17, 3.20-21]
• Leonard & Phil Chess
  producer [1.1-3, 1.5-8, 1.10-15, 1.17-19, 1.21-22, 3.2, 3.4, 3.7-11, 3.14-15, 3.17, 3.19-21, 2.1-2, 2.4-17, 2.19, 2.21-23]
• Leonard Chess
  maracas [1]
• Leroy C. Davis
  tenor saxophone [1.10, 1.12-13, 1.13, 3.5, 3.7, 3.14]
• Martha Berry
  background vocals [21], other vocals [21]
• Marvin Gaye
  background vocals [22]
• Matt Murphy
  guitar [7-11, 15, 17], instrument [21]
• Melvin Billups
  drums (drum set) [10-13]
• Odie Payne
  drums (drum set) [2.8, 2.10-11, 2.13-14, 2.19, 2.21, 3.7-11, 3.14-15, 3.17]
• Otis Spann
  background vocals [17], piano [2.17, 1.5, 1.7-9, 1.20], vocal [17]
• Paul Gayten
  piano [10-11, 13-14]
• Phil Thomas
  drums (drum set) [20-21]
• Reese Palmer
  background vocals [22]
• Reggie Boyd
  double bass [7, 14], electric bass guitar [2, 4-5, 20-21]
• The Marquees
  background vocals [22-23]
• The Moonglows
  background vocals [22]
• Vincent Pitts
  trumpet [10, 12-13]
• Willie Dixon
  background vocals [17], bass [3.1, 3.4, 2.16, 2.22, 1.3, 1.13, 1.21], double bass [2.1-2, 2.5, 2.8, 2.10-15, 2.17, 2.19, 2.21-23, 1.1-2, 1.4-14, 1.17-19, 1.21-22, 3.8-11, 3.17], producer [7-11, 14-15, 17, 20-21], vocal [17]
• [unknown]
  bongos [16], maracas [9], percussion [8, 10]
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Issues

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  Chuck Berry: The Indispensable 1954–1961

  3x CD
  2013