The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection

Tracklist

• 1
  Maybellene
  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 Pickin’
  2:30
• 17
  Drifting Heart
  2:49
• 18
  Beautiful Delilah
  2:10
  3.0 ★
• 19
  In‐Go
  2:24
• 20
  Vacation Time
  2:50
• 21
  Roll Over Beethoven
  2:24
  4.2 ★
• 22
  School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell)
  2:42
  4.2 ★
• 23
  Carol
  2:48
  3.8 ★
• 24
  Jo Jo Gunne
  2:45
• 25
  Rockin’ at the Philharmonic
  3:22
• 26
  Reelin’ and Rockin’
  3:16
  3.5 ★
• 27
  Guitar Boogie
  2:18
• 28
  Sweet Little Rock ’n’ Roller
  2:21
• 29
  It Don’t Take but a Few Minutes
  2:27
• 30
  Around and Around
  2:41
  3.5 ★
• 31
  Blues for Hawaiians
  3:25
• 32
  Run Rudolph Run
  2:45
  4.5 ★
• 33
  Almost Grown
  2:21
  3.6 ★
• 34
  Anthony Boy
  1:52
  2.6 ★
• 35
  Little Queenie
  2:42
  4.4 ★
• 36
  Childhood Sweetheart
  2:45
• 37
  Betty Jean
  2:29
• 38
  Jaguar and the Thunderbird
  1:50
• 39
  Our Little Rendezvous
  2:00
• 40
  Worried Life Blues
  2:10
• 41
  Johnny B. Goode
  2:40
  4.2 ★
• 42
  Memphis, Tennessee
  2:14
  3.0 ★
• 43
  Back in the USA
  2:28
• 44
  Let It Rock
  1:44
  3.6 ★
• 45
  Down the Road a Piece
  2:12
• 46
  Confessin’ the Blues
  2:09
• 47
  Bye Bye Johnny
  2:04
  4.0 ★
• 48
  Little Star
  2:46
• 49
  Come On
  1:49
  4.0 ★
• 50
  Too Pooped to Pop
  2:33
• 51
  Mad Lad
  2:12
• 52
  I’m Talking About You
  1:48
• 53
  I Got to Find My Baby
  2:16
• 54
  Don’t You Lie to Me
  2:08
• 55
  Go Go Go
  2:32
• 56
  Route 66
  2:53
• 57
  Sweet Sixteen
  2:46
• 58
  Run Around
  2:32
• 59
  Rip It Up
  2:11
• 60
  Merry Christmas Baby
  3:13

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Greatest Hits

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The Best

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Release credits

• Abb Locke
  tenor saxophone [49]
• Bo Diddley
  guitar [33]
• Bob Bushnell
  electric bass guitar [30]
• Chester Simmons
  background vocals [33]
• Chuck Barksdale
  background vocals [33]
• Chuck Berry
  electric guitar [2-3, 11, 26], guitar [4, 6-7, 7-8, 10-11, 14, 18, 21-23, 30, 32-35, 41-44, 44, 47, 49, 52], lead vocals [2-4, 6-8, 10-11, 14, 18, 21-23, 26, 30, 33-35, 41-44, 47, 49, 52], producer [47, 49, 52], vocal [1, 6-7, 22, 32-34, 44]
• Ebby Hardy
  drums (drum set) [4, 6, 8, 49]
• Etta James
  background vocals [33, 43]
• Fred Below
  drums (drum set) [3, 7, 11, 22, 42-44, 44]
• Harvey Fuqua
  background vocals [33]
• Hubert Sumlin
  guitar [22]
• James Nolan
  background vocals [33]
• Jasper Thomas
  background vocals [34], drums (drum set) [2, 26, 30, 33-34, 41-42], vocal [34]
• Jerome Green
  maracas [4]
• Jimmy Rogers
  guitar [10]
• John Jackson
  tenor saxophone [49]
• Johnnie Johnson
  piano [2, 4, 6-7, 7-8, 14, 21-22, 26, 30, 33, 41, 43-44, 44]
• Lafayette Leake
  piano [3, 11, 32, 35, 47, 49, 52]
• Leonard & Phil Chess
  producer [2-4, 6-8, 10-11, 14, 18, 21-23, 26, 30, 33-35, 41-44, 47, 49, 52]
• Leroy C. Davis
  tenor saxophone [7, 21]
• Martha Berry
  background vocals [49], other vocals [49]
• Marvin Gaye
  background vocals [33]
• Matt Murphy
  guitar [47], instrument [49]
• Melvin Billups
  drums (drum set) [7, 14, 21]
• Odie Payne
  drums (drum set) [18, 23, 32, 35, 47]
• Otis Spann
  background vocals [34], piano [6, 8, 34], vocal [34]
• Paul Gayten
  piano [18, 23]
• Phil Thomas
  drums (drum set) [49, 52]
• Reese Palmer
  background vocals [33]
• Reggie Boyd
  electric bass guitar [44, 49, 52]
• The Marquees
  background vocals [33, 43]
• The Moonglows
  background vocals [33]
• Vincent Pitts
  trumpet [7, 21]
• Willie Dixon
  background vocals [34], bass [4, 7, 11, 33, 44], double bass [2-3, 6-8, 10-11, 14, 18, 21, 23, 26, 32-35, 41-43, 47], producer [47, 49, 52], vocal [34]
• [unknown]
  percussion [23]
• Show all credits (35)

Issues

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  (Combined release view)
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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