3x CD

The Chess Box

Compilation by Chuck Berry

Released 1988

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
3.4 ★
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
0.1 ★
19
Johnny B. Goode
2:39
4.2 ★
20
Time Was
1:57
21
Around & Around
2:40
3.5 ★
22
Beautiful Delilah
2:15
3.0 ★
23
House of Blue Lights
2:27
24
Carol
2:48
3.8 ★
CD 2: 1958–1964
1
Memphis
2:13
3.0 ★
2
Anthony Boy
1:54
2.6 ★
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
4.4 ★
8
Almost Grown
2:21
3.6 ★
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
4.5 ★
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 ★

More by Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry Is on Top

Chuck Berry Is on Top 1959

Have Mercy: His Complete Chess Recordings 1969–1974

Have Mercy: His Complete Chess Recordings 1969–1974 2010

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

You Never Can Tell: His Complete Chess Recordings 1960–1966 2009

The Best

The Best 2007

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 [2.8, 3.4]
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, 3.1, 3.3-6, 3.8-10, 3.12-13, 3.18-20, 2.1-12, 2.12-14, 2.16-18, 2.20-23, 2.25-27], lead vocals [2.1-2, 2.4, 2.7-9, 2.12, 2.14, 2.16-18, 2.20-23, 2.27, 3.5-6, 3.8-10, 3.12-13, 3.18, 3.20, 1.1-16, 1.18-24], piano [18], producer [2.14, 2.16-18, 2.20-23, 2.25-27, 3.1, 3.3, 3.5-6, 3.8-10], 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) [1.2-6, 1.15, 2.22]
Esmond Edwards
background vocals [19], handclaps [19], producer [18-20], tambourine [19]
Etta James
background vocals [8-9]
Fred Below
drums (drum set) [2.1, 2.4, 2.9-12, 2.12-13, 1.10, 1.12-14]
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) [2.1-3, 2.8, 1.16-21], 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 [2.1-5, 2.7-9, 2.12, 2.14, 2.16-18, 2.20-23, 2.25-27, 1.1-14, 1.16-17, 1.19-24, 3.1, 3.3, 3.5-6, 3.8-10]
Leonard Chess
maracas [1], producer [25]
Leroy C. Davis
tenor saxophone [2.13, 1.8-10, 1.10]
Linda Solomon
handclaps [19]
Louis Satterfield
bass guitar [10], electric bass guitar [2.23, 2.25-26, 3.1]
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 [2.2, 1.4-5, 1.15], 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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The Chess Box
3x CD
1988