Rocks

by Chuck Berry

Overview

As the guy who pretty much invented rock & roll, it was inevitable that Chuck Berry would have a volume of Bear Family's ongoing Rocks series devoted to him -- and so he does, a 32-track collection that pulls from his prime, his first decade of recordings for Chess beginning with 1955's "Maybellene" and ending with 1965's "Dear Dad." In between are all the standards and just enough semi-obscure rockers ("Go-Go-Go," "Oh Baby Doll," "Betty Jean") to keep this fresh. But this Rocks isn't a place to turn for obscurities, or Berry's sweeter moments like "Havana Moon" and "Wee Wee Hours" -- it's all about Chuck reeling and rocking, and it's a gas gas gas. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	11/21/2011
Label:	Bear Family Records
UPC:	4000127171399
Rank:	62679

Tracks

1. Maybellene
2. Thirty Days (To Come Back Home)
3. You Can't Catch Me
4. No Money Down
5. Brown Eyed Handsome Man
6. Roll Over Beethoven
7. Too Much Monkey Business
8. School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell)
9. Rock and Roll Music
10. Oh Baby Doll
11. Sweet Little Sixteen
12. Reelin' and Rocking
13. Johnny B. Goode
14. Around & Around
15. Beautiful Delilah
16. Carol
17. Memphis, Tennessee
18. Sweet Little Rock and Roller
19. Run Rudolph Run
20. Little Queenie
21. Almost Grown
22. Back in the U.S.A.
23. Betty Jean
24. Let It Rock
25. Bye Bye Johnny
26. Jaguar and Thunderbird
27. Go-Go-Go
28. Nadine (Is It You?)
29. You Never Can Tell
30. Promised Land
31. No Particular Place to Go
32. Dear Dad

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Chuck Berry   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals,Drum Overdubs,Bass (Electric)
Jules Blattner   Guitar
Marvin Gaye   Vocals
Jerome Green   Vocals
Matt "Guitar" Murphy   Guitar
Martha Berry   Vocals
Odie Payne, Jr.   Drums
Ebby Hardy   Drums,Vocals
Harvey Fuqua   Vocals
Lafayette Leake   Piano
Fred Below   Drums
Etta James   Vocals
Leroy Davis   Sax (Tenor)
Jasper Thomas   Drums
Willie Dixon   Bass,Vocals,Double Bass
Chester Simmons   Vocals
Paul Williams   Piano
James Robinson   Sax (Tenor)
Chuck Barksdale   Vocals
Bill Bixler   Bass
Reese Palmer   Vocals
James Nolan   Vocals
The Ecuadors   Vocals
Johnnie Johnson   Piano,Vocals

Technical Credits

Leonard Chess   Producer
Chuck Berry   Composer,Overdubs,Producer,Piano Overdubs,Guitar Overdubs
Phil Chess   Producer
Marvin Brodie   Composer
Richard Weize   Discography
Bill Millar   Photography,Illustrations,Reissue Producer
Juergen Crasser   Mastering
Andreas Merck   Photo Scanning
Sven T. Uhrmann   Photography,Illustrations
Fred Rothwell   Discography
Este   Photo Restoration
Bill Dahl   Discography,Biographical Information