The Best of Chuck Berry

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Roll Over Beethoven
  2:24
  4.2 ★
• 2
  Sweet Little Sixteen
  3:11
  2.5 ★
• 3
  Johnny B. Goode
  2:39
  4.2 ★
• 4
  You Never Can Tell
  2:41
  4.2 ★
• 5
  You Can't Catch Me
  2:43
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Downbound Train
  2:50
  3.4 ★
• 7
  Too Much Monkey Business
  2:55
  3.4 ★
• 8
  Havana Moon
  3:07
  2.4 ★
• 9
  School Day
  2:41
  4.2 ★
• 10
  Oh Baby Doll
  2:37
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Beautiful Delilah
  2:14
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Sweet Little Rock 'n' Roller
  2:22
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Anthony Boy
  1:53
  2.6 ★
• 14
  Little Queenie
  2:40
  4.4 ★
• 15
  Almost Grown
  2:20
  3.6 ★
• 16
  Let It Rock
  1:46
  3.6 ★
• 17
  Back in the U.S.A.
  2:26
• 18
  Reelin' and Rockin' (live)
  7:03
• 19
  Around and Around
  2:40
  3.5 ★
• 20
  Brown Eyed Handsome Man
  2:17
  3.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Maybelline
  2:22
  3.9 ★
• 2
  No Particular Place to Go
  2:43
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Rock & Roll Music
  2:32
  4.4 ★
• 4
  Run Rudolph Run
  2:43
  4.5 ★
• 5
  Jo Jo Gunne
  2:45
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Carol
  2:47
  3.8 ★
• 7
  Confessin' the Blues
  2:09
• 8
  Jaguar and Thunderbird
  1:51
• 9
  Down the Road Apiece
  2:14
• 10
  Thirty Days
  2:23
  3.5 ★
• 11
  Merry Christmas Baby
  3:14
  4.0 ★
• 12
  My Ding-A-Ling (live)
  4:27
  4.0 ★
• 13
  I'm Talking About You
  1:49
• 14
  Too Pooped to Pop
  2:34
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Bye Bye Johnny
  2:05
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Promised Land
  2:23
• 17
  Tulane
  2:37
  3.0 ★
• 18
  Come On
  1:49
  4.0 ★
• 19
  Nadine (Is It You?)
  2:33
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Memphis, Tennessee
  2:13
  3.0 ★

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The Best

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Release credits

• Abb Locke
  tenor saxophone [18]
• Bo Diddley
  guitar [15]
• Bob Baldori
  harmonica [17]
• Bob Bushnell
  electric bass guitar [19]
• Chester Simmons
  background vocals [15]
• Chuck Barksdale
  background vocals [15]
• Chuck Berry
  electric guitar [1.10, 2.3], guitar [2.1-2, 2.4-7, 2.9-20, 1.1-7, 1.7-16, 1.16-17, 1.19-20], lead vocals [2.1, 2.3, 2.6-7, 2.9-10, 2.12-13, 2.15-20, 1.1-3, 1.5-17, 1.19-20], producer [1.4, 2.2, 2.7, 2.9, 2.13, 2.15-16, 2.18-19], vocal [1.4, 1.7, 1.9, 1.13, 1.15-16, 2.2, 2.4-5, 2.11, 2.14]
• Dave Kafinetti
  piano [12]
• Ebby Hardy
  drums (drum set) [1.5-6, 2.10, 2.18]
• Esmond Edwards
  producer [12]
• Etta James
  background vocals [15, 17]
• Fred Below
  drums (drum set) [1.7, 1.9-10, 1.12, 1.16, 1.16-17, 2.3, 2.14, 2.20]
• George Patterson
  tenor saxophone [2.19, 1.4]
• Harvey Fuqua
  background vocals [15]
• Hubert Sumlin
  guitar [9]
• James Nolan
  background vocals [15]
• Jasper Thomas
  background vocals [13], drums (drum set) [2.5, 2.20, 1.2-3, 1.13, 1.15, 1.19], vocal [13]
• Jerome Green
  maracas [1, 10]
• Jimmy Rogers
  guitar [8]
• John Jackson
  tenor saxophone [18]
• Johnnie Johnson
  piano [1.1-5, 1.7, 1.9, 1.12, 1.15-16, 1.16-17, 1.19-20, 2.1, 2.10, 2.14, 2.19]
• Lafayette Leake
  piano [2.3-4, 2.7, 2.9, 2.11, 2.13, 2.15-18, 1.10, 1.14]
• Leonard & Phil Chess
  producer [1.1, 1.3-17, 1.19-20, 2.1-3, 2.5-7, 2.9-11, 2.13, 2.15-16, 2.18-20]
• Leonard Chess
  maracas [1], producer [4]
• Leroy C. Davis
  tenor saxophone [1.1, 1.7, 2.14]
• Louis Satterfield
  electric bass guitar [1.4, 2.2, 2.19]
• Malcolm Chisholm
  engineer [17]
• Martha Berry
  background vocals [18], other vocals [18]
• Marvin Gaye
  background vocals [15]
• Matt Murphy
  guitar [7, 9, 15], instrument [18]
• Melvin Billups
  drums (drum set) [1, 7, 20]
• Nic Potter
  electric bass guitar [12]
• Odie Payne
  drums (drum set) [1.4, 1.11, 1.14, 2.2, 2.4, 2.6-7, 2.9, 2.11, 2.15-16, 2.19]
• Otis Spann
  background vocals [13], piano [5, 13], vocal [13]
• Owen McIntyre
  guitar [12]
• Paul Gayten
  piano [1.11, 2.6]
• Paul Williams
  piano [2]
• Phil Chess
  producer [4]
• Phil Thomas
  drums (drum set) [13, 18]
• Phil Upchurch
  bass [17]
• Reese Palmer
  background vocals [15]
• Reggie Boyd
  electric bass guitar [2.13-14, 2.18, 1.16]
• Robbie McIntosh
  drums (drum set) [12]
• Rubin Cooper
  tenor saxophone [1.4, 2.19]
• The Marquees
  background vocals [15, 17]
• The Moonglows
  background vocals [15]
• Vincent Pitts
  trumpet [1, 7]
• Willie Dixon
  background vocals [13], bass [1.7, 1.10, 1.12, 1.15-16, 2.10], double bass [2.1, 2.3-6, 2.11, 2.15-16, 2.20, 1.1-3, 1.5-8, 1.10-11, 1.13-15, 1.17, 1.20], producer [1.4, 2.2, 2.7, 2.9, 2.13, 2.15-16, 2.18-19], vocal [13]
• [unknown]
  percussion [6]
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Issues

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  The Best of Chuck Berry

  2x CD
  1996