The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Maybelline
  2:20
• 2
  Sweet Little Sixteen
  3:02
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Rock and Roll Music
  2:30
  4.4 ★
• 4
  Thirty Days (to Come Back Home)
  2:25
  3.5 ★
• 5
  Wee Wee Hours
  3:03
• 6
  No Money Down
  2:58
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Too Much Monkey Business
  2:55
  3.4 ★
• 8
  You Can’t Catch Me
  2:43
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Down Bound Train
  2:50
• 10
  Havana Moon
  3:07
  2.4 ★
• 11
  Oh Baby Doll
  2:37
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Deep Feeling
  2:17
• 13
  Roly Poly
  2:50
• 14
  Brown‐Eyed Handsome Man
  2:16
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Blue Feeling
  3:01
• 16
  Berry Picking’
  2:30
• 17
  Drifting Heart
  2:49
• 18
  Beautiful Delilah
  2:10
  3.0 ★
• 19
  In‐Go
  2:24
• 20
  Vacation Time
  2:50
• CD 2
• 1
  Roll Over Beethoven
  2:24
  4.2 ★
• 2
  School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell)
  2:42
  4.2 ★
• 3
  Carol
  2:48
  3.4 ★
• 4
  Jo Jo Gunne
  2:45
• 5
  Rockin’ at the Philharmonic
  3:22
• 6
  Reelin’ and Rocking’
  3:16
  3.5 ★
• 7
  Guitar Boogie
  2:18
• 8
  Sweet Little Rock ’n’ Roller
  2:21
• 9
  It Don’t Take but a Few Minutes
  2:27
• 10
  Around and Around
  2:41
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Blues for Hawaiians
  3:25
• 12
  Run Rudolph Run
  2:45
  4.5 ★
• 13
  Almost Grown
  2:21
  3.5 ★
• 14
  Anthony Boy
  1:52
  2.5 ★
• 15
  Little Queenie
  2:42
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Childhood Sweetheart
  2:45
• 17
  Betty Jean
  2:29
• 18
  Jaguar and the Thunderbird
  1:50
• 19
  Our Little Rendezvous
  2:00
• 20
  Worried Life Blues
  2:10
• CD 3
• 1
  Johnny B. Goode
  2:40
  4.2 ★
• 2
  Memphis, Tennessee
  2:14
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Back in the USA
  2:28
• 4
  Let It Rock
  1:44
  3.6 ★
• 5
  Down the Road a Piece
  2:12
• 6
  Confessin’ the Blues
  2:09
• 7
  Bye Bye Johnny
  2:04
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Little Star
  2:46
• 9
  Come On
  1:49
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Too Pooped to Pop
  2:33
• 11
  Mad Lad
  2:12
• 12
  I’m Talking About You
  1:48
• 13
  I Got to Find My Baby
  2:16
• 14
  Don’t You Lie to Me
  2:08
• 15
  Go Go Go
  2:32
• 16
  Route 66
  2:53
• 17
  Sweet Sixteen
  2:46
• 18
  Run Around
  2:32
• 19
  Rip It Up
  2:11
• 20
  Merry Christmas Baby
  3:13

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Release credits

• Abb Locke
  tenor saxophone [9]
• Bo Diddley
  guitar [13]
• Bob Bushnell
  electric bass guitar [10]
• Chester Simmons
  background vocals [13]
• Chuck Barksdale
  background vocals [13]
• Chuck Berry
  electric guitar [2.6, 1.2-3, 1.11], guitar [1.4, 1.6-7, 1.7-8, 1.10-11, 1.14, 1.18, 3.1-4, 3.4, 3.7, 3.9, 3.12, 2.1-3, 2.10, 2.12-15], lead vocals [1.2-4, 1.6-8, 1.10-11, 1.14, 1.18, 2.1-3, 2.6, 2.10, 2.13-15, 3.1-4, 3.7, 3.9, 3.12], producer [7, 9, 12], vocal [1.1, 1.6-7, 3.4, 2.2, 2.12-14]
• Ebby Hardy
  drums (drum set) [3.9, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8]
• Etta James
  background vocals [2.13, 3.3]
• Fred Below
  drums (drum set) [3.2-4, 3.4, 1.3, 1.7, 1.11, 2.2]
• Harvey Fuqua
  background vocals [13]
• Hubert Sumlin
  guitar [2]
• James Nolan
  background vocals [13]
• Jasper Thomas
  background vocals [14], drums (drum set) [1.2, 2.6, 2.10, 2.13-14, 3.1-2], vocal [14]
• Jerome Green
  maracas [4]
• Jimmy Rogers
  guitar [10]
• John Jackson
  tenor saxophone [9]
• Johnnie Johnson
  piano [3.1, 3.3-4, 3.4, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6-7, 1.7-8, 1.14, 2.1-2, 2.6, 2.10, 2.13]
• Lafayette Leake
  piano [3.7, 3.9, 3.12, 2.12, 2.15, 1.3, 1.11]
• Leonard & Phil Chess
  producer [3.1-4, 3.7, 3.9, 3.12, 1.2-4, 1.6-8, 1.10-11, 1.14, 1.18, 2.1-3, 2.6, 2.10, 2.13-15]
• Leroy C. Davis
  tenor saxophone [1.7, 2.1]
• Martha Berry
  background vocals [9], other vocals [9]
• Marvin Gaye
  background vocals [13]
• Matt Murphy
  guitar [7], instrument [9]
• Melvin Billups
  drums (drum set) [2.1, 1.7, 1.14]
• Odie Payne
  drums (drum set) [3.7, 2.3, 2.12, 2.15, 1.18]
• Otis Spann
  background vocals [14], piano [2.14, 1.6, 1.8], vocal [14]
• Paul Gayten
  piano [1.18, 2.3]
• Phil Thomas
  drums (drum set) [9, 12]
• Reese Palmer
  background vocals [13]
• Reggie Boyd
  electric bass guitar [4, 9, 12]
• The Marquees
  background vocals [2.13, 3.3]
• The Moonglows
  background vocals [13]
• Vincent Pitts
  trumpet [1.7, 2.1]
• Willie Dixon
  background vocals [14], bass [3.4, 1.4, 1.7, 1.11, 2.13], double bass [3.1-3, 3.7, 1.2-3, 1.6-8, 1.10-11, 1.14, 1.18, 2.1, 2.3, 2.6, 2.12-15], producer [7, 9, 12], vocal [14]
• [unknown]
  percussion [3]
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Issues

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  The Absolutely Essential Collection

  Digital Media
  17 November 2014
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  The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection

  3x CD
  2014