The Definitive Collection

Tracklist

• 1
  Maybellene
  2:21
  3.9 ★
• 2
  Thirty Days
  2:25
  3.5 ★
• 3
  You Can't Catch Me
  2:44
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Too Much Monkey Business
  2:55
  3.4 ★
• 5
  Roll Over Beethoven
  2:23
  4.2 ★
• 6
  Brown Eyed Handsome Man
  2:18
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Havana Moon
  3:08
  2.4 ★
• 8
  School Day
  2:42
  4.2 ★
• 9
  Rock and Roll Music
  2:32
  4.4 ★
• 10
  Oh Baby Doll
  2:38
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Reelin' and Rockin'
  3:16
  3.5 ★
• 12
  Sweet Little Sixteen
  3:02
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Johnny B. Goode
  2:41
  4.2 ★
• 14
  Around and Around
  2:40
  3.5 ★
• 15
  Beautiful Delilah
  2:10
  3.0 ★
• 16
  Carol
  2:49
  3.8 ★
• 17
  Memphis, Tennessee
  2:14
  3.0 ★
• 18
  Sweet Little Rock & Roller
  2:22
  4.0 ★
• 19
  Little Queenie
  2:42
  4.4 ★
• 20
  Almost Grown
  2:21
  3.6 ★
• 21
  Back in the U.S.A.
  2:28
• 22
  Let It Rock
  1:48
  3.6 ★
• 23
  I'm Talking About You
  1:51
• 24
  Come On
  1:50
  4.0 ★
• 25
  Nadine (Is It You?)
  2:35
  4.0 ★
• 26
  You Never Can Tell
  2:43
  4.2 ★
• 27
  Promised Land
  2:24
• 28
  No Particular Place to Go
  2:44
  4.5 ★
• 29
  I Want to Be Your Driver
  2:15
  4.0 ★
• 30
  My Ding-A-Ling (live, single edit)
  4:16
  4.0 ★

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Johnny B. Goode

Johnny B. Goode 2018

Greatest Hits

Greatest Hits 2017

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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 [24]
• Andy McKaie
  producer
• Bill Bixler
  bass [29]
• Bo Diddley
  guitar [20]
• Bob Bushnell
  electric bass guitar [14]
• Bud Scoppa
  liner notes
• Chess/Universal Music Archives
  photography
• Chester Simmons
  background vocals [20]
• Chuck Barksdale
  background vocals [20]
• Chuck Berry
  producer, electric guitar [9-12], guitar [1-4, 4-8, 10, 13-22, 22-30], lead vocals [1-25, 27, 29-30], producer [23-28], vocal [4, 8, 20, 22, 26, 28]
• Dave Kafinetti
  piano [30]
• Ebby Hardy
  drums (drum set) [2-3, 24]
• Esmond Edwards
  photography, producer [30]
• Etta James
  background vocals [20-21]
• Fred Below
  drums (drum set) [4, 8-10, 17-18, 21-22, 22]
• George Patterson
  tenor saxophone [25-26]
• Harry Goodwin
  photography
• Harvey Fuqua
  background vocals [20]
• Howard Jones
  drums (drum set) [29]
• Hubert Sumlin
  guitar [8]
• James Nolan
  background vocals [20]
• Jasper Thomas
  drums (drum set) [11-14, 17, 20]
• Jean‐Pierre Leloir
  photography
• Jerome Green
  maracas [1-2]
• Jimmy Rogers
  guitar [7]
• John Jackson
  tenor saxophone [24]
• Johnnie Johnson
  piano [1-4, 4-6, 8, 11-14, 18, 20-22, 22, 25-26]
• Jules Blattner
  guitar [29]
• Keith Morris
  photography
• Lafayette Leake
  piano [9-10, 19, 23-24, 27]
• Leonard & Phil Chess
  producer, producer [1-29]
• Leonard Chess
  maracas [1], producer [26]
• Leroy C. Davis
  tenor saxophone [4, 4-5]
• Louis Satterfield
  electric bass guitar [25-26, 28]
• Martha Berry
  background vocals [24], other vocals [24]
• Marvin Gaye
  background vocals [20]
• Matt Murphy
  instrument [24]
• Melvin Billups
  drums (drum set) [4-6]
• Michael Putland
  photography
• Mike Fink
  graphic design
• Nic Potter
  electric bass guitar [30]
• Odie Payne
  drums (drum set) [15-16, 19, 25-28]
• Otis Spann
  piano [3]
• Owen McIntyre
  guitar [30]
• Paul Gayten
  piano [15-16]
• Paul Williams
  piano [28]
• Phil Chess
  producer [26]
• Phil Thomas
  drums (drum set) [23-24]
• Popsie Randolph
  photography
• Reese Palmer
  background vocals [20]
• Reggie Boyd
  electric bass guitar [22-24]
• Robbie McIntosh
  drums (drum set) [30]
• Rubin Cooper
  tenor saxophone [25-26]
• The Marquees
  background vocals [20-21]
• The Moonglows
  background vocals [20]
• Vartan
  art direction
• Vincent Pitts
  trumpet [4-5]
• Willie Dixon
  bass [2, 4, 10, 18, 20, 22], double bass [1, 3-7, 9-13, 15-17, 19-21, 27], producer [23-28]
• [unknown]
  percussion [16]
• Show all credits (59)

Issues

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  The Definitive Collection

  CD (club edition)
  2005
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  The Definitive Collection

  CD
  18 April 2006