The Complete 1955-61 Chess Singles

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Maybelline
  2:22
• 2
  Wee Wee Hours
  3:04
• 3
  Thirty Days (to Come Back Home)
  2:25
• 4
  Together (We Will Always Be)
  2:35
• 5
  No Money Down
  2:57
• 6
  The Downbound Train
  2:49
• 7
  Roll Over Beethoven
  2:22
  4.2 ★
• 8
  Drifting Heart
  2:47
• 9
  Brown Eyed Handsome Man
  2:16
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Too Much Monkey Business
  2:55
  3.4 ★
• 11
  You Can't Catch Me
  2:43
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Havanna Moon
  3:07
• 13
  School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell)
  2:41
  4.2 ★
• 14
  Deep Feeling
  2:18
• 15
  Oh Baby Doll
  2:37
  4.0 ★
• 16
  La Jaunda (Español)
  3:11
• 17
  Rock and Roll Music
  2:31
  4.4 ★
• 18
  Blue Feeling
  2:59
• 19
  Sweet Little Sixteen
  3:01
• 20
  Reelin' and Rockin'
  3:15
  3.5 ★
• 21
  Johnny B. Goode
  2:40
  4.2 ★
• 22
  Around and Around
  2:41
  3.5 ★
• 23
  Beautiful Delilah
  2:09
  3.0 ★
• 24
  Vacation Time
  2:53
• 25
  Carol
  2:48
  3.8 ★
• 26
  Hey Pedro
  1:55
• CD 2
• 1
  Sweet Little Rock 'N' Roller
  2:22
• 2
  Joe Joe Gun
  2:46
• 3
  Merry Christmas Baby
  3:12
• 4
  Run Rudolph Run
  2:45
  4.5 ★
• 5
  Anthony Boy
  1:52
  2.6 ★
• 6
  That's My Desire
  2:18
• 7
  Almost Grown
  2:20
  3.6 ★
• 8
  Little Queenie
  2:42
  4.4 ★
• 9
  Back in the U.S.A.
  2:27
• 10
  Memphis, Tennessee
  2:12
• 11
  Broken Arrow
  2:27
• 12
  Childhood Sweetheart
  2:43
• 13
  Let It Rock
  1:47
  3.6 ★
• 14
  Too Pooped to Pop "Casey"
  2:34
• 15
  Bye Bye Johnny
  2:05
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Worried Life Blues
  2:11
• 17
  I Got to Find My Baby
  2:16
• 18
  Mad Lad
  2:21
• 19
  Jaguar and Thunderbird
  1:50
• 20
  Our Little Rendevous
  2:03
• 21
  I'm Talking About You
  1:49
• 22
  Little Star
  2:47
• 23
  Come On
  1:47
  4.0 ★
• 24
  Go-Go-Go
  2:32
• 25
  Rock at the Philharmonic
  3:24
• 26
  Guitar Boogie
  2:19
• 27
  Route 66
  2:52

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Release credits

• Abb Locke
  tenor saxophone [23]
• Bo Diddley
  guitar [7]
• Bob Bushnell
  electric bass guitar [22]
• Chester Simmons
  background vocals [7]
• Chuck Barksdale
  background vocals [7]
• Chuck Berry
  electric guitar [15, 17, 20], guitar [1.7, 1.9-10, 1.10-11, 1.13, 1.15, 1.21-23, 1.25, 2.4-5, 2.7-9, 2.13, 2.15, 2.21, 2.23], lead vocals [2.5, 2.7-9, 2.13, 2.15, 2.21, 2.23, 1.7, 1.9-11, 1.13, 1.15, 1.17, 1.20-23, 1.25], producer [15, 21, 23], vocal [1.10, 1.13, 2.4-5, 2.7, 2.13]
• Ebby Hardy
  drums (drum set) [1.11, 2.23]
• Etta James
  background vocals [7, 9]
• Fred Below
  drums (drum set) [2.9, 2.13, 1.10, 1.13, 1.15, 1.17]
• Harvey Fuqua
  background vocals [7]
• Hubert Sumlin
  guitar [13]
• James Nolan
  background vocals [7]
• Jasper Thomas
  background vocals [5], drums (drum set) [2.5, 2.7, 1.20-22], vocal [5]
• John Jackson
  tenor saxophone [23]
• Johnnie Johnson
  piano [2.7, 2.9, 2.13, 1.7, 1.9-10, 1.10-11, 1.13, 1.20-22]
• Lafayette Leake
  piano [1.15, 1.17, 2.4, 2.8, 2.15, 2.21, 2.23]
• Leonard & Phil Chess
  producer [2.5, 2.7-9, 2.13, 2.15, 2.21, 2.23, 1.7, 1.9-11, 1.13, 1.15, 1.17, 1.20-23, 1.25]
• Leroy C. Davis
  tenor saxophone [7, 10]
• Martha Berry
  background vocals [23], other vocals [23]
• Marvin Gaye
  background vocals [7]
• Matt Murphy
  guitar [15], instrument [23]
• Melvin Billups
  drums (drum set) [7, 9-10]
• Odie Payne
  drums (drum set) [2.4, 2.8, 2.15, 1.23, 1.25]
• Otis Spann
  background vocals [5], piano [1.11, 2.5], vocal [5]
• Paul Gayten
  piano [23, 25]
• Phil Thomas
  drums (drum set) [21, 23]
• Reese Palmer
  background vocals [7]
• Reggie Boyd
  electric bass guitar [13, 21, 23]
• The Marquees
  background vocals [7, 9]
• The Moonglows
  background vocals [7]
• Vincent Pitts
  trumpet [7, 10]
• Willie Dixon
  background vocals [5], bass [1.10, 1.15, 2.7, 2.13], double bass [1.7, 1.9-11, 1.15, 1.17, 1.20-21, 1.23, 1.25, 2.4-5, 2.7-9, 2.15], producer [15, 21, 23], vocal [5]
• [unknown]
  percussion [25]
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Issues

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