The Chess Box

Tracklist

• CD 1: 1955–1958
• 1
  Maybellene
  2:21
  3.9 ★
• 2
  Wee Wee Hours
  3:04
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Thirty Days
  2:24
  3.5 ★
• 4
  You Can’t Catch Me
  2:43
  3.0 ★
• 5
  No Money Down
  2:58
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Downbound Train
  2:49
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Brown Eyed Handsome Man
  2:18
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Drifting Heart
  2:49
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Roll Over Beethoven
  2:24
  4.2 ★
• 10
  Too Much Monkey Business
  2:56
  3.4 ★
• 11
  Havana Moon
  3:08
  2.4 ★
• 12
  School Day
  2:41
  4.2 ★
• 13
  Rock and Roll Music
  2:32
  4.4 ★
• 14
  Oh Baby Doll
  2:38
  4.0 ★
• 15
  I’ve Changed
  3:06
• 16
  Reelin’ and Rockin’
  3:17
  3.5 ★
• 17
  Rockin’ at the Philharmonic
  3:23
  4.0 ★
• 18
  Sweet Little Sixteen
  3:11
  2.5 ★
• 19
  Johnny B. Goode
  2:39
  4.2 ★
• 20
  Time Was
  1:57
• 21
  Around & Around
  2:40
  3.0 ★
• 22
  Beautiful Delilah
  2:15
  3.0 ★
• 23
  House of Blue Lights
  2:27
• 24
  Carol
  2:48
  3.4 ★
• CD 2: 1958–1964
• 1
  Memphis
  2:13
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Anthony Boy
  1:54
  2.5 ★
• 3
  Jo Jo Gunne
  2:45
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Sweet Little Rock ’n’ Roller
  2:22
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Merry Christmas Baby
  3:13
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Run Rudolph Run
  2:44
  4.5 ★
• 7
  Little Queenie
  2:42
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Almost Grown
  2:21
  3.5 ★
• 9
  Back in the U.S.A.
  2:28
• 10
  Betty Jean
  2:31
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Childhood Sweetheart
  2:44
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Let It Rock
  1:47
  3.6 ★
• 13
  Too Pooped to Pop
  2:35
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Bye Bye Johnny
  2:06
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Jaguar and Thunderbird
  1:51
• 16
  Down the Road Apiece
  2:15
• 17
  Confessin’ the Blues
  2:09
• 18
  Thirteen Question Method
  2:14
  4.0 ★
• 19
  Crying Steel
  2:33
• 20
  I’m Just a Lucky So and So
  2:51
• 21
  I’m Talking About You
  1:50
• 22
  Come On
  1:49
  4.0 ★
• 23
  Nadine (Is It You?)
  2:35
  4.0 ★
• 24
  Crazy Arms
  2:13
• 25
  You Never Can Tell
  2:42
  4.2 ★
• 26
  The Things You Used to Do
  2:42
  4.0 ★
• 27
  Promised Land
  2:22
• CD 3: 1964–1973
• 1
  No Particular Place to Go
  2:43
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Liverpool Drive
  2:55
• 3
  You Two
  2:10
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Chuck’s Beat
  10:36
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Little Marie
  2:36
• 6
  Dear Dad
  1:50
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Sad Day, Long Night
  2:43
• 8
  It’s My Own Business
  2:10
  4.0 ★
• 9
  It Wasn’t Me
  2:33
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Ramona Say Yes
  2:42
• 11
  Viva Viva Rock ’n’ Roll
  2:01
• 12
  Tulane
  2:38
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Have Mercy Judge
  2:39
  4.0 ★
• 14
  My Dream
  5:57
• 15
  Reelin’ and Rockin’ (live)
  7:06
• 16
  My Ding‐A‐Ling (single edit, live)
  4:22
• 17
  Johnny B. Goode (live)
  3:14
• 18
  A Deuce
  2:33
• 19
  Woodpecker
  3:33
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Bio
  4:25
  5.0 ★

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Greatest Hits

Greatest Hits 2017

You Never Can Tell: His Complete Chess Recordings 1960–1966

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The Best

The Best 2007

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

Johnny B. Goode: His Complete ’50s Chess Recordings 2007

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

Reelin' and Rockin': The Very Best of Chuck Berry 2006

Release credits

• Abb Locke
  tenor saxophone [22]
• Adam Ippolito
  piano [19-20]
• Andy McKaie
  compiler
• Bill Bixler
  bass guitar [6]
• Billy Peek
  guitar [18]
• Bo Diddley
  guitar [3.4, 2.8]
• Bob Baldori
  harmonica [12-13]
• Bob Bushnell
  electric bass guitar [21]
• Bryce Roberson
  bass guitar [8-9], guitar [10]
• Chester Simmons
  background vocals [8]
• Chuck Barksdale
  background vocals [8]
• Chuck Berry
  electric guitar [13-14, 16-17], guitar [1.1-10, 1.10-12, 1.14-15, 1.18-24, 2.1-12, 2.12-14, 2.16-18, 2.20-23, 2.25-27, 3.1, 3.3-6, 3.8-10, 3.12-13, 3.18-20], lead vocals [2.1-2, 2.4, 2.7-9, 2.12, 2.14, 2.16-18, 2.20-23, 2.27, 1.1-16, 1.18-24, 3.5-6, 3.8-10, 3.12-13, 3.18, 3.20], piano [18], producer [3.1, 3.3, 3.5-6, 3.8-10, 2.14, 2.16-18, 2.20-23, 2.25-27], vocal [2.2-3, 2.5-6, 2.8, 2.10-13, 2.25-26, 3.1, 3.3, 1.5, 1.10, 1.12]
• David Torretta
  bass [18]
• Ebby Hardy
  drums (drum set) [2.22, 1.2-6, 1.15]
• Esmond Edwards
  background vocals [19], handclaps [19], producer [18-20], tambourine [19]
• Etta James
  background vocals [8-9]
• Fred Below
  drums (drum set) [1.10, 1.12-14, 2.1, 2.4, 2.9-12, 2.12-13]
• Gary Van Scyoc
  bass [19-20]
• George Patterson
  tenor saxophone [23, 25]
• Harvey Fuqua
  background vocals [8]
• Howard Jones
  drums (drum set) [6]
• Hubert Sumlin
  guitar [12]
• James Nolan
  background vocals [8]
• Jasper Thomas
  background vocals [2], drums (drum set) [1.16-21, 2.1-3, 2.8], vocal [2]
• Jerome Green
  maracas [1.1, 1.3, 3.4]
• Jimmy Rogers
  guitar [11]
• John Jackson
  tenor saxophone [22]
• Johnnie Johnson
  piano [2.4, 2.8-12, 2.12-13, 2.23, 2.25-26, 1.1-5, 1.7-10, 1.10, 1.12, 1.15-21]
• Jules Blattner
  guitar [6]
• Lafayette Leake
  piano [3.4, 3.12-13, 1.13-14, 2.5-7, 2.14, 2.16-18, 2.20-22, 2.27]
• Leonard & Phil Chess
  producer [3.1, 3.3, 3.5-6, 3.8-10, 1.1-14, 1.16-17, 1.19-24, 2.1-5, 2.7-9, 2.12, 2.14, 2.16-18, 2.20-23, 2.25-27]
• Leonard Chess
  maracas [1], producer [25]
• Leroy C. Davis
  tenor saxophone [1.8-10, 1.10, 2.13]
• Linda Solomon
  handclaps [19]
• Louis Satterfield
  bass guitar [10], electric bass guitar [3.1, 2.23, 2.25-26]
• Malcolm Chisholm
  engineer [12-13]
• Martha Berry
  background vocals [22], other vocals [22]
• Marvin Gaye
  background vocals [8]
• Matt Murphy
  guitar [14, 16-18, 20], instrument [22]
• Maurice White
  drums (drum set) [10]
• Melvin Billups
  drums (drum set) [7-10]
• Mike Bloomfield
  additional [9], guitar [9]
• Odie Payne
  drums (drum set) [3.1, 3.3, 3.5, 1.22-24, 2.5-7, 2.14, 2.16-18, 2.20, 2.23, 2.25-27]
• Otis Spann
  background vocals [2], piano [1.4-5, 1.15, 2.2], vocal [2]
• Paul Butterfield
  additional [9], harmonica [9]
• Paul Gayten
  piano [22-24]
• Paul Williams
  piano [1, 3]
• Paul Williams
  piano [3]
• Pete Cosey
  guitar [10]
• Phil Chess
  producer [25]
• Phil Thomas
  drums (drum set) [21-22]
• Phil Upchurch
  bass [12-13]
• Reese Palmer
  background vocals [8]
• Reggie Boyd
  electric bass guitar [11-13, 21-22]
• Rick Carrell
  drums (drum set) [18]
• Rick Frank
  drums (drum set) [19-20]
• Ron Malo
  engineer [4, 8-9]
• Rubin Cooper
  tenor saxophone [23, 25]
• Sonny Thompson
  keyboard [10], organ [10], piano [8-9]
• Stan Bronstein
  tenor saxophone [19]
• The Marquees
  background vocals [8-9]
• The Moonglows
  background vocals [8]
• Vincent Pitts
  trumpet [8-10]
• Walter Ben Ruffin
  drums (drum set) [8-9]
• Wayne Gabriel
  guitar [19-20]
• Willie Dixon
  background vocals [2], bass [1.3, 1.10, 1.14, 2.4, 2.8, 2.10, 2.12], double bass [1.1-2, 1.4-11, 1.13-14, 1.16-20, 1.22-24, 2.1-3, 2.5-9, 2.14, 2.18, 2.20, 2.27], producer [2.14, 2.16-18, 2.20-23, 2.25-27, 3.1, 3.3, 3.5-6, 3.8-10], vocal [2]
• [unknown]
  percussion [24]
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Issues

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  The Chess Box

  3x CD
  1988