The Chess Years

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Maybellene
  2:20
  3.9 ★
• 2
  Wee Wee Hours
  3:04
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Thirty Days
  2:24
  3.5 ★
• 4
  Together (We Will Always Be)
  2:38
  3.0 ★
• 5
  You Can't Catch Me
  2:44
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Roly Poly
  2:50
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Berry Pickin'
  2:32
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Down Bound Train
  2:50
  3.4 ★
• 9
  No Money Down
  2:59
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Drifting Heart
  2:50
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Brown-Eyed Handsome Man
  2:17
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Roll Over Beethoven
  2:24
  4.2 ★
• 13
  Too Much Monkey Business
  2:56
  3.4 ★
• 14
  Havana Moon
  3:08
  2.4 ★
• 15
  Rock and Roll Music (demo)
  2:35
• 16
  Deep Feelin'
  2:19
  4.5 ★
• 17
  School Day
  2:43
  4.2 ★
• 18
  La Juanda
  3:10
  3.0 ★
• 19
  Blue Feeling
  3:02
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Low Feeling
  3:08
  4.0 ★
• 21
  Wee Wee Hours (Blues) (alternate)
  3:03
• 22
  How You've Changed
  2:47
  3.0 ★
• 23
  Rock and Roll Music
  2:33
  4.4 ★
• 24
  Oh Baby Doll
  2:38
  4.0 ★
• 25
  Sweet Little Sixteen
  3:13
  0.1 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Thirteen Question Method (alternate)
  2:42
• 2
  How High the Moon
  3:11
• 3
  I've Changed
  3:06
• 4
  Sweet Little Sixteen
  3:13
  0.1 ★
• 5
  Rockin' at the Philharmonic
  3:23
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Guitar Boogie
  2:20
  5.0 ★
• 7
  Night Beat
  2:45
  5.0 ★
• 8
  Time Was (Slow version)
  1:58
• 9
  Reelin' and Rockin'
  3:18
  3.5 ★
• 10
  Johnny B. Goode
  2:40
  4.2 ★
• 11
  Around and Around
  2:40
  3.5 ★
• 12
  In-Go
  2:29
  4.0 ★
• 13
  It Don't Take but a Few Minutes
  2:27
  3.0 ★
• 14
  Blues for Hawaiians
  3:25
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Beautiful Delilah
  2:14
  3.0 ★
• 16
  Vacation Time
  2:46
• 17
  21
  2:30
• 18
  22 Blues
  2:15
• 19
  Carol
  2:48
  3.8 ★
• 20
  Oh Yeah
  2:29
• 21
  Hey Pedro
  1:55
  2.0 ★
• 22
  Time Was
  2:28
• 23
  House of Blue Lights
  2:26
• 24
  Anthony Boy
  1:53
  2.6 ★
• 25
  Jo Jo Gunne
  2:46
  3.0 ★
• 26
  Sweet Little Rock and Roller
  2:22
  4.0 ★
• 27
  Memphis
  2:11
  3.0 ★
• 28
  Merry Christmas Baby
  3:14
  4.0 ★
• 29
  Run Rudolph Run
  2:43
  4.5 ★
• 30
  Little Queenie
  2:38
  4.4 ★
• CD 3
• 1
  That's My Desire
  2:13
• 2
  Little Queenie (alternate)
  2:34
• 3
  Do You Love Me
  2:20
• 4
  Almost Grown
  2:21
  3.6 ★
• 5
  Back in the USA
  2:29
• 6
  Blue on Blue
  2:57
• 7
  Betty Jean
  2:30
  4.0 ★
• 8
  County Line
  2:17
• 9
  Childhood Sweetheart
  2:44
  4.0 ★
• 10
  One O'Clock Jump
  3:10
• 11
  I Just Want to Make Love to You
  2:25
• 12
  Broken Arrow
  2:22
• 13
  Let It Rock
  1:45
  3.6 ★
• 14
  Too Pooped to Pop
  2:35
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Say You'll Be Mine
  2:16
• 16
  Let Me Sleep Woman
  2:25
• 17
  Childhood Sweetheart (alternate)
  3:15
• 18
  Drifting Blues
  2:21
• 19
  I Got to Find My Baby
  2:16
• 20
  Don't You Lie to Me
  2:00
  4.0 ★
• 21
  Worried Life Blues
  2:10
• 22
  Our Little Rendezvous
  2:01
• 23
  Bye Bye Johnny
  2:05
  4.0 ★
• 24
  Run Around
  2:33
  4.0 ★
• 25
  Jaguar and the Thunderbird
  1:51
• 26
  Diploma for Two
  2:31
  4.0 ★
• 27
  Little Star
  2:46
  3.0 ★
• 28
  The Way It Was Before
  2:50
• 29
  Away From You
  2:40
  4.0 ★
• 30
  Down the Road Apiece
  2:12
• CD 4
• 1
  Confessin' the Blues
  2:10
• 2
  Sweet Sixteen
  2:45
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Thirteen Question Method
  2:14
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Stop and Listen
  2:27
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Still Got the Blues
  2:17
• 6
  Lucky So and So
  2:52
• 7
  Mad Lad
  2:11
• 8
  Cryin' Steel
  2:34
• 9
  Surfin' Steel
  2:41
• 10
  Route 66
  2:48
  4.0 ★
• 11
  I'm Taking About You
  1:50
• 12
  Rip It Up
  1:59
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Come On
  1:50
  4.0 ★
• 14
  The Man and the Donkey
  2:14
• 15
  Go Go Go
  2:48
• 16
  Trick or Treat
  1:41
• 17
  Brown Eyed Handsome Man
  1:54
• 18
  All Aboard
  2:17
• 19
  How High the Moon #2
  1:07
• 20
  Nadine
  2:36
  4.0 ★
• 21
  You Never Can Tell
  2:43
  4.2 ★
• 22
  The Girl From Central High
  2:41
• 23
  Things I Used to Do
  2:43
  4.0 ★
• 24
  Fraulein
  2:53
• 25
  Crazy Arms (Lonely All the Time)
  2:13
• 26
  Orangutang
  2:20
• 27
  Big Ben Blues
  2:28
• 28
  Promised Land
  2:24
• 29
  Brenda Lee
  2:12
• CD 5
• 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 (edit)
  6:30
• 5
  Bo's Beat (edit)
  3:19
• 6
  Little Marie
  2:35
• 7
  Go Bobby Soxer
  2:59
• 8
  Lonely School Days
  3:01
• 9
  His Daughter Caroline
  3:17
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Dear Dad
  1:50
  4.0 ★
• 11
  I Want to Be Your Driver
  2:16
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Song of My Love
  2:32
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Butterscotch
  2:43
  4.0 ★
• 14
  After It's Over
  2:20
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Why Should We End This Way
  2:54
  4.0 ★
• 16
  You Came a Long Way From St. Louis
  2:08
  3.0 ★
• 17
  She Once Was Mine
  2:26
  4.0 ★
• 18
  Jamaica Farewell
  2:05
• 19
  My Little Lovelight
  2:38
  4.0 ★
• 20
  I Got a Booking
  2:55
  4.0 ★
• 21
  St. Louis Blues
  2:39
  4.0 ★
• 22
  Run Joe
  2:17
  4.0 ★
• 23
  It's My Own Business
  2:10
  4.0 ★
• 24
  One for My Baby
  2:44
• 25
  Everyday We Rock & Roll
  2:11
  4.0 ★
• CD 6
• 1
  My Mustang Ford
  2:17
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Merrily We Rock and Roll
  2:10
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Vaya Con Dios
  2:37
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Wee Hours Blues
  3:15
  4.0 ★
• 5
  It Wasn't Me
  2:33
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Ain't That Just Like a Woman
  2:13
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Right Off Rampart Street
  2:22
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Welcome Back Pretty Baby
  2:35
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Sad Day, Long Night
  2:42
• 10
  Ramona Say Yes
  2:41
• 11
  Viva Viva Rock and Roll
  1:55
• 12
  Lonely School Days #2
  2:31
• 13
  Tulane
  2:36
  3.0 ★
• 14
  Have Mercy Judge
  2:39
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Instrumental
  2:46
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Christmas
  3:23
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Gun
  2:46
  4.0 ★
• 18
  I'm a Rocker
  4:32
  3.0 ★
• 19
  Flyin'Home
  4:18
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Fish & Chips
  2:48
  3.0 ★
• 21
  Some People
  4:12
  4.0 ★
• 22
  Oh Louisiana
  4:29
• 23
  Festival
  4:06
  2.0 ★
• 24
  Let's Do Our Thing Together
  2:21
• 25
  Your Lick
  2:33
  4.0 ★
• 26
  Bound to Lose
  3:05
• 27
  Bordeaux in My Pirough
  2:33
• CD 7
• 1
  San Francisco Dues
  3:24
  4.0 ★
• 2
  My Dream
  5:58
• 3
  My Ding a Ling (live)
  11:45
• 4
  Johnny B. Goode (live)
  4:27
• 5
  Reelin' and Rockin' (live)
  6:59
• 6
  Let's Boogie
  3:14
• 7
  Mean Old World
  5:48
• 8
  I Love You
  3:23
• 9
  I Will Not Let You Go
  2:51
• 10
  London Berry Blues
  6:00
• 11
  Rain Eyes
  3:47
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Sue Answer
  2:33
• 13
  Got It and Gone
  4:19
  3.0 ★
• 14
  A Deuce
  2:32
• CD 8
• 1
  Talkin' About My Buddy
  6:52
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Hello Little Girl Goodbye
  3:57
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Aimlessly Driftin'
  5:30
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Woodpecker
  3:31
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Bio
  4:25
  5.0 ★
• 6
  I'm Just a Name
  3:41
• 7
  Too Late
  2:48
• 8
  Hi Heel Sneakers
  4:42
• 9
  South of the Border
  2:21
• 10
  Swanee River
  2:38
• 11
  You Are My Sunshine
  2:52
• 12
  Don't Lie to Me (197x version)
  3:45
• 13
  My Babe
  2:30
• 14
  I Just Want to Make Love to You (197x version)
  3:06
• 15
  Shake Rattle & Roll
  2:17
• 16
  Baby What You Want Me to Do
  2:35
• CD 9
• 1
  Rock and Roll Music (alternate)
  2:26
• 2
  Sweet Little Sixteen (alternate)
  3:11
• 3
  Reelin' and Rockin' (alternate)
  3:38
• 4
  Johnny B. Goode (alternate)
  3:10
• 5
  Beautiful Delilah (alternate)
  2:27
• 6
  Sweet Little Rock & Roller (alternate)
  2:27
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Betty Jean (alternate)
  2:25
• 8
  I Got to Find My Baby (alternate)
  2:16
• 9
  Bye Bye Johnny (alternate)
  2:05
• 10
  Down the Road Apiece (alternate)
  2:27
• 11
  Route 66 (alternate)
  2:52
• 12
  I'm Talking About You (alternate)
  1:51
• 13
  Come On (alternate)
  1:49
• 14
  Go Go Go (alternate)
  2:50
• 15
  Brown-Eyed Handsome Man (alternate)
  1:50
• 16
  Nadine (alternate)
  2:47
• 17
  You Never Can Tell (alternate)
  2:41
• 18
  Promised Land (alternate)
  2:29
• 19
  No Particular Place to Go (alternate)
  2:43
• 20
  Little Marie (alternate)
  2:37
• 21
  I Want to Be Your Driver (alternate)
  2:18
• 22
  My Mustang Ford (alternate)
  2:51
• 23
  It Wasn't Me (Undubbed)
  2:35
• 24
  Ain't That Just Like a Woman (Undubbed)
  2:42

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Release credits

• Abb Locke
  tenor saxophone [4.13, 4.18, 9.13]
• Adam Ippolito
  piano [1-5]
• Adam Komorowski
  compiler
• Bill Armstrong
  background vocals [16]
• Bill Bixler
  bass [11], bass guitar [8-10, 12]
• Bill Metros
  drums (drum set) [7.1, 6.22-27]
• Billy Peek
  guitar [11-14]
• Bo Diddley
  guitar [4]
• Bob Baldori
  harmonica [13-16, 18, 20-21, 25], piano [6.15, 6.20-22, 6.24, 6.26-27, 7.1]
• Bob Bushnell
  electric bass guitar [11-14]
• Bob Scrivens
  piano [14-16, 18-20]
• Brian David "Chick" Kattenhorn
  drums (drum set) [14-16, 18-20]
• Brian Smith
  background vocals [16]
• Bryce Roberson
  bass [24], bass guitar [5.22-23, 5.25, 6.1-8], guitar [10]
• Chester Simmons
  background vocals [4]
• Chuck Barksdale
  background vocals [4]
• Chuck Berry
  electric guitar [1.18-20, 1.22-24, 2.5-6, 2.9, 2.12-13], guitar [5.1, 5.3, 5.6-12, 5.14-16, 5.18-20, 5.22-23, 5.25, 7.1, 7.4, 7.6-10, 7.13-14, 8.1-7, 8.9-11, 8.11, 8.13, 8.15-16, 1.1-13, 1.13-14, 1.17, 1.24-25, 3.4-10, 3.13, 3.13-19, 3.21-23, 3.26-30, 2.1-4, 2.6-8, 2.10-11, 2.15, 2.17, 2.19-30, 4.1-4, 4.13, 4.18, 4.20-21, 4.23-24, 4.27-29, 9.1, 9.5-6, 9.9, 9.11, 9.13, 9.24, 6.1-8, 6.10, 6.13-16, 6.18, 6.20-27], lead vocals [9.1, 9.5-6, 9.9, 9.11, 9.13, 9.24, 8.1-3, 8.5-7, 8.9-11, 8.13, 8.15, 1.1-5, 1.8-15, 1.17-18, 1.22-25, 2.1, 2.3-4, 2.8-11, 2.13, 2.15, 2.17, 2.19-24, 2.26-27, 2.30, 5.6-12, 5.15-16, 5.18-20, 5.22-23, 5.25, 7.1, 7.4, 7.6-9, 7.11-14, 6.1-8, 6.10, 6.13-14, 6.16, 6.18, 6.20-24, 6.26-27, 4.1-4, 4.13, 4.18, 4.20, 4.24, 4.27-29, 3.4-5, 3.13, 3.18-19, 3.21-24, 3.26-30], piano [7.11-14, 8.10-11, 8.11], producer [5.1, 5.3, 5.6-10, 5.12, 5.14-16, 5.18-20, 5.22-23, 5.25, 4.1-4, 4.13, 4.20-21, 4.23-24, 4.27-29, 6.1-8, 6.10, 6.22-27, 9.9, 9.11, 9.13, 3.18-19, 3.21-24, 3.26-30, 7.1], steel guitar [3.24, 1.16, 2.14], vocal [5.1, 5.3, 2.24-25, 2.28-29, 3.4, 3.7-9, 3.13-14, 3.17, 4.21, 4.23, 8.16, 1.9, 1.13, 1.17]
• Dave Kafinetti
  piano [4]
• David Torretta
  bass [11-14]
• Dean Bredwell
  engineer [6.25, 7.1]
• Derek Griffiths
  guitar [6-10]
• Earl Williams
  drums (drum set) [6-7]
• Ebby Hardy
  drums (drum set) [1.2-9, 2.3, 4.13]
• Elliott Randall
  guitar [8, 11, 13-15], steel guitar [6, 9]
• Ernest Hayes
  piano [6-7, 9, 13, 15-16]
• Esmond Edwards
  background vocals [4], handclaps [4], producer [7.6-14, 8.1-11, 8.13-16], tambourine [4]
• Etta James
  background vocals [4-5]
• Fred Below
  drums (drum set) [3.3, 3.5, 3.7-10, 3.13, 3.13-17, 1.13, 1.15-17, 1.19-20, 1.22-24, 2.1-2, 2.26-27, 9.1, 9.6]
• Gary Van Scyoc
  bass [1-5]
• George Patterson
  tenor saxophone [20-21, 24]
• Harvey Fuqua
  background vocals [4]
• Howard Jones
  drums (drum set) [8-12]
• Hubert Sumlin
  guitar [16-17]
• Ian McLagan
  piano [6-10]
• Ingrid Berry
  vocal [6-7, 16]
• J.C. Davis
  tenor saxophone [10]
• Jack Groendal
  bass [6.22-27, 7.1]
• James Nolan
  background vocals [4]
• Jasper Thomas
  background vocals [24], drums (drum set) [1.25, 2.4-14, 2.24-25, 2.27, 3.4, 3.6], vocal [24]
• Jeff Baldori
  guitar [7.1, 6.22-27]
• Jeff Krivet
  guitar [14-16, 18-20]
• Jerome Green
  maracas [1, 3]
• Jimmy Johnson
  drums (drum set) [9-11, 13, 15-16]
• Jimmy Rogers
  guitar [14]
• John Jackson
  tenor saxophone [4.13, 4.18, 9.13]
• Johnnie Johnson
  piano [1.1-7, 1.9-13, 1.13, 1.15-20, 1.25, 2.3-14, 2.26, 3.3-10, 3.13, 3.13-17, 6.23, 6.25, 9.6, 4.20-21, 4.23-24]
• Joop Visser
  compiler
• Jules Blattner
  guitar [8-12]
• Kenney Jones
  drums (drum set) [6-10]
• Lafayette Leake
  piano [2.1-2, 2.28-30, 9.1, 9.9, 9.11, 9.13, 1.22-24, 4.1-4, 4.13, 4.18, 4.27-29, 6.13-14, 3.19, 3.21-24, 3.26, 3.28-30]
• Leonard & Phil Chess
  producer [4.1-4, 4.10, 4.13, 4.20-21, 4.23-24, 4.27-29, 5.1, 5.3, 5.6-12, 5.14-16, 5.18-20, 5.22-23, 5.25, 6.1-8, 6.10, 9.6, 9.9, 9.11, 9.13, 9.24, 1.1-3, 1.5-6, 1.8-14, 1.16-17, 1.19-20, 1.22-24, 2.1-2, 2.5-15, 2.19-28, 2.30, 3.4-6, 3.8, 3.13, 3.18-19, 3.21-24, 3.26-30]
• Leonard Chess
  maracas [1], producer [21]
• Leroy C. Davis
  tenor saxophone [3.14, 3.18-19, 3.26-29, 1.10, 1.12-13, 1.13]
• Linda Solomon
  handclaps [4]
• Louis Cennamo
  bass guitar [14-16, 18-20]
• Louis Satterfield
  bass guitar [10], electric bass guitar [4.20-21, 4.23-24, 5.1]
• Malcolm Chisholm
  engineer [13-21]
• Martha Berry
  background vocals [13], other vocals [4.13, 9.13]
• Marvin Gaye
  background vocals [4]
• Matt Murphy
  guitar [4.1-4, 4.18, 3.18-19, 3.21-24, 3.30, 9.9, 9.13], instrument [13]
• Maurice White
  drums (drum set) [10]
• Melvin Billups
  drums (drum set) [10-13]
• Mike Bloomfield
  additional [5], guitar [5]
• Mike Boocock
  background vocals [16]
• Neil Carter
  background vocals [16]
• Nic Potter
  bass [4]
• Odie Payne
  drums (drum set) [3.18-19, 3.21-24, 3.26-30, 5.1, 5.3, 5.6-7, 4.1-4, 4.20-21, 4.23-24, 4.27-29, 9.5, 9.9, 2.15, 2.17, 2.19-23, 2.28-30]
• Otis Spann
  background vocals [24], piano [1.5-7, 1.9, 2.3, 2.24], vocal [24]
• Owen McIntyre
  guitar [4]
• Paul Butterfield
  additional [5], harmonica [5]
• Paul Gayten
  piano [9.5, 2.15, 2.17, 2.19-20, 2.22-23]
• Paul Williams
  piano [1, 3]
• Paul Williams
  piano [3]
• Pete Cosey
  guitar [10]
• Peter John Hogman
  background vocals [16], harmonica [14-16, 20]
• Phil Chess
  producer [21]
• Phil Thomas
  drums (drum set) [9.11, 9.13, 4.13, 4.18]
• Phil Upchurch
  bass [13-14]
• Reese Palmer
  background vocals [4]
• Reggie Boyd
  bass [10, 15-17], double bass [18, 27], electric bass guitar [9.11, 9.13, 3.8-9, 3.13-14, 3.19, 3.26, 3.28-29, 4.13, 4.18]
• Ric Grech
  bass [6-10]
• Rick Carrell
  drums (drum set) [11-14]
• Rick Frank
  drums (drum set) [1-5]
• Rick Green
  background vocals [16]
• Robbie McIntosh
  drums (drum set) [4]
• Roger Eagle
  background vocals [16]
• Roger Fairhurst
  background vocals [16]
• Ron Malo
  engineer [6.1-8, 5.22-23, 5.25]
• Rubin Cooper
  tenor saxophone [20-21, 24]
• Sonny Thompson
  keyboard [10], organ [10], piano [5.22-23, 5.25, 6.1-8, 9.24]
• Stan Bronstein
  tenor saxophone [1-4]
• Steve Hoffman
  engineer [24]
• The Equadors
  vocal [15-16]
• The Marquees
  background vocals [4-5]
• The Moonglows
  background vocals [4]
• Vincent Pitts
  trumpet [10, 12-13]
• Walter Ben Ruffin
  drums (drum set) [6.1-8, 5.22-23, 5.25, 9.24]
• Wayne Gabriel
  guitar [1-5]
• Wilbur “Bad” Bascomb
  bass [7, 9-11, 13, 15-16]
• Willie Dixon
  background vocals [24], bass [2.26, 3.3-4, 3.7, 3.13, 9.6, 1.3, 1.13, 1.24], double bass [9.1, 9.5, 9.9, 1.1-2, 1.4-14, 1.19-20, 1.22-25, 4.2-4, 4.27-29, 3.4-6, 3.21-24, 2.1-2, 2.4-10, 2.15, 2.17, 2.19-25, 2.27-30], producer [5.1, 5.3, 5.6-10, 5.12, 5.14-16, 5.18-20, 5.22-23, 5.25, 3.18-19, 3.21-24, 3.26-30, 4.1-4, 4.13, 4.20-21, 4.23-24, 4.27-29, 6.1-8, 6.10, 9.9, 9.11, 9.13], vocal [24]
• [unknown]
  bongos [18], maracas [7], percussion [19, 21]
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  The Chess Years

  9x CD
  1991