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

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Maybellene
  2:22
  3.9 ★
• 2
  Wee Wee Hours
  3:05
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Thirty Days (to Come Back Home)
  2:25
  3.5 ★
• 4
  Together (We Will Always Be)
  2:38
  3.0 ★
• 5
  You Can’t Catch Me
  2:44
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Rolli Polli
  2:51
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Downbound Train
  2:51
  3.4 ★
• 8
  Berry Pickin’
  2:32
  4.0 ★
• 9
  No Money Down
  2:59
  4.0 ★
• 10
  I’ve Changed
  3:07
• 11
  Drifting Heart
  2:50
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Brown Eyed Handsome Man
  2:18
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Roll Over Beethoven
  2:24
  4.2 ★
• 14
  Too Much Monkey Business
  2:56
  3.4 ★
• 15
  Maybellene (live)
  2:07
• 16
  Roll Over Beethoven (live)
  2:44
• 17
  Havana Moon
  3:08
  2.4 ★
• 18
  Rock and Roll Music (demo)
  2:41
• 19
  [untitled]
  2:24
• 20
  Deep Feeling
  2:20
  4.5 ★
• 21
  School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell)
  2:43
  4.2 ★
• 22
  Low Feeling
  3:10
  4.0 ★
• 23
  La Jaunda (Español)
  3:13
  3.0 ★
• 24
  Blue Feeling
  3:02
  4.0 ★
• 25
  How You’ve Changed
  2:48
  3.0 ★
• 26
  Oh Baby Doll
  2:36
  4.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Rock and Roll Music (alternate)
  2:27
• 2
  Rock and Roll Music
  2:33
  4.4 ★
• 3
  13 Question Method (early version)
  2:41
• 4
  How High the Moon (instrumental)
  3:09
• 5
  Sweet Little Sixteen (demo)
  3:09
• 6
  Sweet Little Sixteen (take 3)
  3:13
• 7
  Sweet Little Sixteen (take 11)
  3:09
• 8
  Sweet Little Sixteen (original master)
  3:18
• 9
  Sweet Little Sixteen (sped up originally released version)
  3:02
• 10
  Rock at the Philharmonic (instrumental)
  3:24
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Guitar Boogie (instrumental)
  2:21
  5.0 ★
• 12
  Night Beat (take 3) (instrumental)
  2:59
• 13
  Night Beat (instrumental)
  2:45
  5.0 ★
• 14
  Time Was (slow version, take 4)
  2:37
• 15
  Time Was (slow version)
  2:02
• 16
  Reeling and Rocking (take 1)
  3:38
• 17
  Reeling and Rocking (takes 7–8)
  3:47
• 18
  Reeling and Rocking
  3:17
  3.5 ★
• 19
  Chuckwalk (instrumental)
  2:28
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Johnny B. Goode (alternate take 2–3)
  3:22
• 21
  Johnny B. Goode
  2:41
  4.2 ★
• 22
  Around and Around (overdub take 2)
  2:50
• 23
  Around and Around (overdub take 3)
  2:43
• 24
  Around and Around
  2:43
  3.5 ★
• 25
  Ingo (overdub take 3) (instrumental)
  2:57
• 26
  Ingo (instrumental)
  2:30
  4.0 ★
• CD 3
• 1
  It Don’t Take but a Few Minutes
  2:29
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Blues for Hawaiians
  3:25
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Beautiful Delilah (alternate takes 15 & 16)
  2:32
• 4
  Beautiful Delilah (take 6)
  2:10
  3.0 ★
• 5
  21 Blues
  2:12
• 6
  21
  2:27
• 7
  21 (take 14)
  2:38
• 8
  Vacation Time
  2:54
• 9
  Oh Yeah
  2:35
• 10
  Hey Pedro
  1:57
  2.0 ★
• 11
  Time Was (fast version)
  2:29
• 12
  House of Blue Lights
  2:28
• 13
  Carol
  2:49
  3.8 ★
• 14
  Jo Jo Gunne
  2:47
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Memphis Tennessee
  2:14
  3.0 ★
• 16
  Anthony Boy
  1:54
  2.6 ★
• 17
  Sweet Little Rock ’n’ Roller (alternate take 5)
  2:28
• 18
  Sweet Little Rock ’n’ Roller (take 11a)
  2:23
• 19
  Long Fast Jam
  11:35
• 20
  Long Slow Jam
  11:14
• 21
  Merry Christmas Baby
  3:14
  4.0 ★
• 22
  Merry Christmas Baby (alternate take)
  3:01
• 23
  Run Rudolph Run
  2:43
  4.5 ★
• CD 4
• 1
  Little Queenie (take 8)
  2:31
• 2
  Little Queenie
  2:43
  4.4 ★
• 3
  That’s My Desire
  2:19
• 4
  Do You Love Me (alternate take)
  2:24
• 5
  Do You Love Me
  2:37
• 6
  Almost Grown (take 14)
  2:35
• 7
  Almost Grown (take 28)
  2:55
• 8
  Almost Grown
  2:21
  3.6 ★
• 9
  Back in the USA
  2:29
• 10
  Blue on Blue (alternate a/k/a Upchuck) (alternate take)
  3:10
• 11
  Blue on Blue
  3:00
• 12
  Betty Jean (alternate take 14)
  2:27
• 13
  Betty Jean (alternate take 17)
  2:40
• 14
  Betty Jean
  2:32
  4.0 ★
• 15
  County Line
  2:18
• 16
  Childhood Sweetheart (alternate take)
  3:13
• 17
  Childhood Sweetheart
  2:45
  4.0 ★
• 18
  One O’Clock Jump
  3:09
• 19
  I Just Want to Make Love to You (take 3)
  2:19
• 20
  I Just Want to Make Love to You
  2:14
• 21
  Broken Arrow (take 21)
  2:45
• 22
  Broken Arrow
  2:29
• 23
  Let It Rock (alternate mix)
  1:58
• 24
  Let It Rock
  1:48
  3.6 ★
• 25
  Too Pooped to Pop (take 4a)
  2:38
• 26
  Too Pooped to Pop
  2:36
  4.0 ★
• 27
  Say You’ll Be Mine
  2:19
• 28
  Let Me Sleep Woman
  2:25

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Release credits

• Al Sears
  tenor saxophone [15-16]
• Andy McKaie
  compiler, producer
• Bo Diddley
  guitar [8]
• Bob Bushnell
  electric bass guitar [2.22-26, 3.1-2]
• Chester Simmons
  background vocals [8], vocal [4-5]
• Chuck Barksdale
  background vocals [8], vocal [4-5]
• Chuck Berry
  electric guitar [2.2, 2.10-11, 2.18, 2.26, 3.1, 1.22-26], guitar [3.3-23, 4.1-24, 4.24-28, 2.1, 2.3-9, 2.11-17, 2.19-21, 2.23-25, 1.1-14, 1.14-17, 1.19, 1.21, 1.26], lead vocals [3.1, 3.3-13, 3.15-16, 4.2, 4.8-9, 4.24, 1.1-5, 1.7, 1.9-14, 1.17-18, 1.21, 1.23, 1.25-26, 2.1-3, 2.5-7, 2.14-18, 2.21-24], steel guitar [3.2, 1.20], vocal [2.8-9, 2.20, 3.14, 3.16-18, 3.21-23, 4.1, 4.3-8, 4.12-17, 4.19-26, 1.9, 1.14-16, 1.21]
• Chuck Stewart
  photography
• Doug Schwartz
  engineer [19]
• Ebby Hardy
  drums (drum set) [2-10]
• Erick Labson
  re
• Etta James
  background vocals [8-9], vocal [4-5]
• Fred Below
  drums (drum set) [4.9, 4.12-24, 4.24-28, 2.1-4, 3.15, 1.14, 1.18-22, 1.24-26]
• Fred Rothwell
  compiler, liner notes
• Harvey Fuqua
  background vocals [8], vocal [4-5]
• Haywood Henry
  baritone saxophone [15-16]
• Hubert Sumlin
  guitar [20-21]
• J.C. Davis
  tenor saxophone [18]
• James Nolan
  background vocals [8], vocal [4-5]
• Jasper Thomas
  background vocals [16], drums (drum set) [3.1-2, 3.14-20, 2.5-26, 4.4-8, 4.10-11], vocal [16]
• Jerome Green
  maracas [1, 3]
• Jimmy Rogers
  guitar [17]
• Johnnie Johnson
  piano [2.5-26, 4.4-20, 4.23-24, 4.24-28, 1.1-6, 1.8-14, 1.14, 1.18-24, 3.1-2, 3.19-20]
• Keith Morris
  photography
• Lafayette Leake
  piano [3.21-23, 4.1-3, 2.1-4, 1.25-26]
• Leonard & Phil Chess
  producer [3.1-2, 3.4, 3.9-16, 3.21-22, 1.1-3, 1.5-7, 1.9, 1.11-14, 1.17, 1.20-22, 1.24-26, 2.2-4, 2.10-11, 2.13, 2.15, 2.18, 2.21, 2.24, 2.26, 4.2-3, 4.8-12, 4.15, 4.20, 4.22, 4.24]
• Leonard Chess
  maracas [1], other vocals [8]
• Leroy C. Davis
  tenor saxophone [1.11, 1.13-14, 1.14, 4.21-22, 4.25-26]
• Marvin Gaye
  background vocals [8], performing orchestra [4-5]
• Melvin Billups
  drums (drum set) [11-14]
• Michele Horie
  art direction
• Mike Fink
  design
• Odie Payne
  drums (drum set) [3.3-13, 3.21-23, 4.1-2]
• Otis Spann
  background vocals [16], piano [3.16-18, 1.5-6, 1.8-10], vocal [16]
• Pat Lawrence
  executive
• Paul Gayten
  piano [3-9, 11-13]
• Popsie Randolph
  photography
• Reese Palmer
  background vocals [8], vocal [4-5]
• Reggie Boyd
  bass [16, 18, 27-28], electric bass guitar [12-13, 15, 17, 19-26]
• Sam “The Man” Taylor
  tenor saxophone [15-16]
• The Equadors
  vocal [27-28]
• The Marquees
  background vocals [8-9], vocal [6-7]
• The Moonglows
  background vocals [8]
• Vartan
  art direction
• Vincent Pitts
  trumpet [11, 13-14]
• Willie Dixon
  background vocals [16], bass [1.3, 1.14, 1.26, 4.8, 4.14, 4.24], double bass [2.1-21, 3.3-23, 4.1-11, 1.1-2, 1.4-9, 1.11-14, 1.17, 1.19, 1.22, 1.24-26], vocal [16]
• [unknown]
  bongos [23], maracas [8], percussion [10, 13]
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  Johnny B. Goode: His Complete '50s Chess Recordings

  4x CD
  21 December 2007