Chuck Berry was an early rock and roll star and influential musician. His guitar sound was the inspiration for a generation of musicians and his showmanship showed that a guitar player could do more than just stand and play. When NASA sent their first space probe out of our solar system with artifacts about our culture if found by other celestial beings, NASA included Chuck Berry’s original classic song, Johnny B Goode. Glad you enjoyed and your reaction was appreciated and fantastic.
FIRST TIME I HEARD YOU'RE MUSIC ALL THIS TEXAS COWBOY WOULD LISTEN TO WAS COUNTRY MUSIC SINCE I RAN ACROSS YOU I NOT ONLY LISTEN THAT I HEARD YOU PLAY BUT EVERY KIND OF MUSIC THAT EXISTS INCLUDING OPERA THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS DEAD TEXAS COWBOY BACK TO LIFE DARLIN ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Another party and dance tune for you is taking you back to the 60's with "Cool Jerk" by the Capitols. I use to live in the house that Chuck Berry grew up in when he was a kid. He's deceased now.
Chuck was an amazing pioneer of rock and roll, he was also a fantastic entertainer who would involve the crowd and okay off of them. Next song needs to be My Ding-a-ling 😂😂
That last move was his pigeon walk. His duck walk is better. It's where Angus Young of AC/DC got his moves from. His "They'll be rockin' on Bandstand" line got an extra cheer because this clip was from the TV show American Bandstand. The MC here was Dick Clark, the Dick Clark from the New Years' Rockin' Eve yearly show that still airs. He got his start on American Bandstand and starred in the original $100,000 Pyramid.
A very sweet rockin' reaction 🍯🎸! He was doing his Pigeon Walk first, then his Duck Walk at the end. I see 👁👁 you reacted to Chuck Berry before: Johnny B Goode and Reelin' And Rockin'. Sweet Little Sixteen was released as the third single off of Chuck Berry's 1958 album: One Dozen Berrys. It was written by Chuck Berry. It was produced by Leonard Chess and Phil Chess. The song reached #1 on the R&B chart and #2 on the Hot 100. This performance is from Dick Clark's Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show, on February 22, 1958. Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song #272 on its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2004. Several tunes were written by Chuck Berry from true-life experiences. The song: “Sweet Little Sixteen”, was inspired after a Denver concert at the Auditorium Arena. Chuck Berry had embarked on impresario Irving Feld’s “Biggest Show Of Stars For ’57” package tour, with Fats Domino, Clyde McPhatter, The Crickets, LaVern Baker and others. The event went through every region of the United States, including some, such as the northern Rocky Mountain states, which had never witnessed live Rock ’n Roll. “I happened to open the show this particular date in Denver, and while the other acts were performing, I walked around and signed autographs”, Chuck Berry said. “I noticed that there was this little girl wearing a big, flowery yellow dress running around and around the oval-shaped auditorium. I passed her six or seven times-she was searching for autographs a mile a minute, waving her wallet high in her hand". “She never saw one complete act fully, and she didn’t seem to care about who was on stage-she only cared about when they came off so she could get her autographs. And this made me think that she wanted things to remember”. Chuck Berry never got around to speaking with the girl who would serve as his muse for his classic celebration of everything beautiful about fandom. “I wish I could have gotten her name”, he said. “I was writing as I was looking at this kid, and I got several lines of ‘Sweet Little Sixteen’ that night”. He used the same melody on an earlier song: "The Little Girl From Central", recorded on Checkmate Records in 1955. The Beatles recorded the song once for the "Pop Go The Beatles" radio show on July 10, 1963, at the Aeolian Hall, in London, England: John Lennon - vocals, rhythm guitar George Harrison - lead guitar Paul McCartney - bass Ringo Starr - drums It remained unreleased until the group's 1994 compilation album: Live At The BBC. Three years after The Beatles broke up, John Lennon recorded a solo version of the song for his 1975 album of cover versions: Rock 'n' Roll. His version was produced by Phil Spector who cut the tempo of the song and gave it his "Wall Of Sound" treatment. John Lennon turned in one of his most passionate vocal performances. While it has a running time of 3:01, it has fewer verses than Chuck Berry's original version, being slower and more Bluesy than the original. A year later, Paul McCartney recorded the tune, while making a film during one afternoon in the "backyard" of Abbey Road Studios during the production of the 1974 Rockumentary: One Hand Clapping. The song has been covered by many other artists including 📻: Joe Brown, The Hollies, Johnny Halladay, Don Lang & The Twisters, Bobby Vee And The Crickets, Eddie Cochran, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jerry Williams, The Manchester Playboys, Dick Rivers, The Routers, Los Apson, Vince Taylor And His Playboys, Fats And His Cats, Jimmy Cone, Onda Choc, Roy Black, The Searchers, Pat Boone, The Animals, Jim & Jesse And The Virginia Boys, Mickie Most and more. Song Credits 📝: Chuck Berry - vocals and guitar Lafayette Leake - piano Willie Dixon - bass Fred Below - drums Song Lyrics 🗒: They're really rockin' Boston In Pittsburgh, PA Deep in the heart of Texas And 'round the 'Frisco Bay All over St Louis And down in New Orleans All the cats wanna dance with Sweet Little Sixteen Sweet Little Sixteen She's just got to have About half a million Famed autographs Her wallet filled with pictures She gets 'em one by one Becomes so excited Watch her, look at her run, boy Oh, mommy, mommy Please, may I go? It's such a sight to see Somebody steal the show Oh, daddy, daddy I beg of you Whisper to mommy It's all right with you 'Cause they'll be rockin' on Bandstand In Philadelphia, PA Deep in the heart of Texas And 'round the 'Frisco Bay All over St. Louis Way down in New Orleans All the cats wanna dance with Sweet Little Sixteen 'Cause they'll be rockin' on Bandstand Philadelphia, PA Deep in the heart of Texas And 'round the 'Frisco Bay All over St Louis Way down in New Orleans All the cats wanna dance with, ooh Sweet Little Sixteen Sweet Little Sixteen She's got the grown up blues Tight dresses and lipstick She's sportin' high heel shoes Oh, but tomorrow morning She'll have to change her trend And be sweet sixteen And back in class again But they'll be rockin' in Boston Pittsburgh, PA Deep in the heart of Texas And 'round the 'Frisco Bay Way out in St Louis Way down in New Orleans All the cats wanna dance with Sweet Little Sixteen Chuck Berry Info 📰: Charles "Chuck" Berry was born on October 18, 1926 in St Louis, Missouri. He passed away on March 18, 2017 in Wentzville, Missouri. He was a singer, guitarist and songwriter who was one of the first pioneers of Rock And Roll music. Nicknamed the "Father Of Rock And Roll", he refined and developed Rhythm And Blues into the major elements that made Rock And Roll distinctive with songs including: "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock And Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B Goode" (1958). Writing lyrics that focused on teen life and consumerism, and developing a music style that included guitar solos and showmanship, Chuck Berry was a major influence on subsequent Rock music genre. Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Louis Jordan, Jackie Brenston and Bo Diddly are considered as being some of the earliest progenitors of Rock And Roll music. Chuck Berry's discography includes 20 studio albums, 12 live albums, 31 compilation albums, 50 singles, 8 EPs, and 2 soundtrack albums: Rock Rock Rock! - 1956 & Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll - 1987. ****CONTINUE BELOW****
Chuck Berry's musical influences growing up include: Robert Johnson, Carl Hogan, Benny Goodman, Charles Brown, Big Joe Turner, Charlie Christian, Louis Jordan, Nat King Cole and T-Bone Walker. Chuck Berry was a major influence on many artists including: Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Ritchie Valens, AC/DC, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, David Bowie and many more. Chuck Berry's recording career began in 1955 and spanned a total of 62 years, although the latter 4 decades featured few or no releases. His most prolific and successful period spanned the 1950s and early 1960s, during which time he recorded for Chess Records. By the time he left Chess records in 1966, he had released 36 singles, 5 EPs, and 12 albums, including the fake live album: Chuck Berry On Stage and 2 compilation albums, as well as having featured in the movie soundtrack album for the 1956 film: Rock, Rock, Rock!. Chuck Berry was among the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on its opening in 1986; he was cited for having "laid the groundwork for not only a Rock And Roll sound but a Rock And Roll stance". Chuck Berry is included in several of Rolling Stone magazine's "greatest of all time" lists; he was ranked fifth on its 2004 and 2011 lists of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and 2nd greatest guitarist of all time in 2023. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll includes three of Chuck Berry's singles: "Johnny B Goode", "Maybellene" and "Rock And Roll Music". "Johnny B Goode" is the only Rock And Roll song included on NASA's The Voyager Golden Record, which was sent into deep outer space. Born into a middle-class black family in St. Louis, Missouri Chuck Berry had an interest in music from an early age and gave his first public performance at Sumner High School. While still a high school student, he was convicted of armed robbery and was sent to a reformatory, where he was held from 1944 to 1947. After his release, Chuck Berry settled into married life and worked at an automobile assembly plant. By early 1953, influenced by the guitar riffs and showmanship techniques of the Blues musician T-Bone Walker, Chuck Berry began performing with the Johnnie Johnson Trio. His break came when he traveled to Chicago in May 1955 and met Muddy Waters, who suggested he contact Leonard Chess, of Chess Records. With Chess Records, he recorded the single: "Maybellene", Chuck Berry's adaptation of the Country song: "Ida Red", which sold over a million copies, reaching number one on Billboard magazine's R&B music chart. By the end of the 1950s, Chuck Berry was an established star, with several hit records and film appearances and a lucrative touring career. He had also established his own St Louis nightclub called Berry's Club Bandstand. He was sentenced to three years in prison in January 1962 for offenses under the Mann Act-he had transported a 14-year-old girl across state lines for the purpose of having sexual intercourse. After his release in 1963, Chuck Berry had several more successful songs, including: "No Particular Place To Go", "You Never Can Tell", and "Nadine". However, these did not achieve the same success or lasting impact of his 1950s songs, and by the 1970s he was more in demand as a nostalgia performer, playing his past material with local backup bands of variable quality. In 1972 he reached a new level of achievement when a rendition of the song: "My Ding-A-Ling", became his only record to top the Pop music charts. His insistence on being paid in cash led in 1979 to a four-month jail sentence and community service, for tax evasion. Chuck Berry continued to play 70 to 100 one-nighters per year in the 1980s, still traveling solo and requiring a local band to back him at each stop. In 1986, Taylor Hackford made a documentary film: Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll, of a celebration concert for Chuck Berry's sixtieth birthday, organized by Keith Richards. Eric Clapton, Etta James, Julian Lennon, Robert Cray, and Linda Ronstadt, among others, appeared with Chuck Berry on stage and in the film. In 1982, Chuck Berry performed a television special at The Roxy in West Hollywood with Tina Turner as his special guest. The concert was released a year later on home video. Chuck Berry regularly performed one Wednesday each month at Blueberry Hill, a restaurant and bar located in the Delmar Loop neighborhood of St Louis, from 1996 to 2014. In 2008, Chuck Berry toured Europe, with stops in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Ireland, Switzerland, Poland, and Spain. In mid-2008, he played at the Virgin Festival in Baltimore. During a concert on New Year's Day 2011 in Chicago, Chuck Berry, suffering from exhaustion, passed out and had to be helped off stage In 2016, Chuck Berry announced on his 90th birthday that his first new studio album since his album: Rockit, in 1979, entitled: Chuck, would be released in 2017. His first new record in 38 years, it included his children, Charles Berry Jr and Ingrid Berry, on guitar and harmonica, with songs "covering the spectrum from hard-driving rockers to soulful thought-provoking time capsules of a life's work" and dedicated to his wife Toddy Berry. Chuck Berry Passing 🙏🏾: On March 18, 2017, Chuck Berry was found unresponsive at his home near Wentzville, Missouri. Emergency workers called to the scene were unable to revive him, and he was pronounced deceased by his personal physician. Chuck Berry's funeral was held on April 9, 2017, at The Pageant, in Berry's home town of St Louis, Missouri. He was remembered with a public viewing by family, friends, and fans in The Pageant, a music club where he often performed. He was viewed with his cherry-red Gibson ES-335 guitar bolted to the inside lid of the coffin and with flower arrangements that included one sent by the Rolling Stones in the shape of a guitar. Afterwards a private service was held in the club celebrating Chuck Berry's life and musical career, with the Berry family inviting 300 members of the public into the service. Gene Simmons of Kiss gave an impromptu, unadvertised eulogy at the service, while Little Richard was scheduled to lead the funeral procession but was unable to attend due to an illness. Chuck Berry was laid to rest at Bellerive Gardens Cemetery in St Louis, Missouri. Miscellaneous Note 🗂: After going to prison for stealing a car and studying accounting, Chuck Berry became very concerned about the business side of his performances, he wouldn't take the stage until he was paid in full, in cash. Honors & Awards (Partial) 🏆: In 1987, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Among the many honors that Chuck Berry received include: a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1984 and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2000. He was ranked seventh on Time magazine's 2009 list of the 10 best electric guitar players of all time. On May 14, 2002, Chuck Berry was honored as one of the first BMI Icons at the 50th annual BMI Pop Awards. He was presented the award along with BMI affiliates Bo Diddley and Little Richard. In August 2014, Chuck Berry was made a laureate of the Polar Music Prize. In 2020, the International Astronomical Union named a small crater on Mercury after Chuck Berry. In September 2003, Rolling Stone ranked him number 6 in its list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". In November of 2003, his compilation album: The Great Twenty-Eight, was ranked 21st in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In March 2004, Chuck Berry was ranked fifth on the list of "The Immortals - The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time" by Rolling Stone. In December 2004, six of his songs were included in "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time": "Johnny B Goode" (#7), "Maybellene" (#18), "Roll Over Beethoven" (#97), "Rock And Roll Music" (#128), "Sweet Little Sixteen" (#272) and "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" (#374). In June 2008, his song "Johnny B Goode" was ranked first in the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time" by Rolling Stone. On July 29, 2011, Chuck Berry was honored in a dedication of an eight-foot, in-motion Chuck Berry Statue in the Delmar Loop in St Louis right across the street from Blueberry Hill. In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Chuck Berry at number 96 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. ****CONTINUE BELOW****
Chuck Berry Albums 📀: After School Session (1957) One Dozen Berrys (1958) Chuck Berry Is On Top (1959) Rockin' At The Hops (1960) New Juke Box Hits (1961) Two Great Guitars w/ Bo Diddley (1964) St Louis To Liverpool (1964) Chuck Berry In London (1965) Fresh Berry's (1965) Chuck Berry's Golden Hits (1967) Chuck Berry In Memphis (1967) From St Louie To Frisco (1968) Concerto In B Goode (1969) Back Home (1970) San Francisco Dues (1971) The London Chuck Berry Sessions (1972) Bio (1973) Chuck Berry (1975) Rockit (1979) Chuck (2017) Some more good songs by Chuck Berry 🎶: Rock And Roll Music, Nadine, Roll Over Beethoven, My Ding-A-Ling, No Particular Place To Go, Maybellene, Carol, You Can't Catch Me, Little Queenie, Memphis, School Days (Ring Ring Goes The Bell), Back In The U.S.A., Merry Christmas Baby, Club Nitty Gritty, Deep Feeling, Almost Grown, Too Much Monkey Business, Thirty Days, Brown Eyed Handsome Man, Wee Wee Hours, No Money Down, Together (We Will Always Be), Havana Moon, Drifting Heart, Ingo, Berry Pickin', Low Feeling, Down Bound Train, Blue Feeling, La Jaunda, Rockin' At The Philharmonic, Oh Baby Doll, Guitar Boogie, Reelin' And Rockin', How You've Changed, Anthony Boy, Joe Joe Gunne, Blues For Hawaiians, Roly Poly, Your Lick, Down The Road A Piece, Confessin' The Blues, Too Pooped To Pop, Mad Lad, Around And Around, I Got To Find My Baby, Childhood Sweetheart, Broken Arrow, Driftin' Blues, Let It Rock, I'm Talking About You, Bound To Lose, Diploma For Two, Festival, San Francisco Dues, Viva Rock & Roll, My Dream (Poem), Away From You, Don't You Lie To Me, Worried Life Blues, Little Star, The Way It Was Before, Route 66, Run Around, Stop And Listen, Our Little Rendezvous, It Wasn't Me, Run Joe, Let's Do Our Thing Together, Every Day We Rock & Roll, Thirteen Question Method, Welcome Back Pretty Baby, Vaya Con Dios, Little Marie, Right Off Rampart Street, It's My Own Business, Rip It Up, Merrily We Rock & Roll, My Mustang Ford, Ain't That Just Like A Woman, You Two, Promised Land, Go Bobby Soxer, The Things I Used To Do, Night Beat, One For My Baby (And One More For The Road), Bordeaux In My Pirough, Tulane, Wee Hour Blues, Have Mercy Judge, Still Got The Blues, Christmas, Bo's Beat, Chuck's Beat, Surfin' USA, I Just Want To Make Love To You, Flyin' Home, Gun, I'm A Rocker, Let's Boogie, Mean Old World, Ramona Say Yes, I Will Not Let You Go, Ma Dear, Louie To Frisco, It's Too Dark In There, Good Looking Woman, That's My Desire, London Berry Blues, I Love You, Trick Or Treat, Reelin' And Rockin', Jaguar & The Thunderbird, Sweet Little Rock & Roller, Vacation Time, Bio, All Aboard, O Rangutang, The Man And The Donkey, Surfing Steel, Rocking On The Railroad, Baby What You Want Me To Do, Fish & Chips, You Can Never Tell, Go Go Go, Lonely School Days, Run Rudolph Run, Lady B Goode, Together (We Will Always Be), Laugh And Cry, Dear Dad, Let Me Sleep Woman, Oh Louisiana, Shake Rattle And Roll, Betty Jean, Hey Pedro, Wonderful Woman, Big Ben Blues, Little Girl From Central, Brenda Lee, It Don't Take But A Few Minutes, Back To Memphis, One O'clock Jump, Roll 'Em Pete, 21 Blues, Liverpool Drive and Bye Bye Johnny. Fun Fact 🕵🏾♂: The Beach Boys used the melody from Chuck Berry's 1958 song: "Sweet Little Sixteen", for this song on their 1963 hit song: "Surfin' U.S.A.". Chuck Berry got composing credit on The Beach Boys song in the mid-1970s as a result of a threatened lawsuit.
You like his moves, this is easy stuff, compared to some of his other moves!!Check out more of his videos. That man could do the splits while playing guitar,( and did so into his 60's). Always fun , entertaining and energetic! Music!
LUCILLE the long version by Little Richard. NADINE by Chuck Berry. RUBY BABY by Dion. And ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK by Bill Haley and his Comets. The 5o's baby!! That's where it all began. You might want to throw in the Stray Cats and their music in the 198o's paid tribute to these great people. The songs I recommend are STRAY CAT STRUT, I WONT STAND IN YOUR WAY, and SEXY + 17. Keep going and enjoy
Some reactions to consider 🤔: DeBarge - All This Love Live (Just Masters YT channel), Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark (Official Video) or The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice Music Video (Katy Jones YT channel).
Anything that Chuck did was legendary. A true pioneer.
Chuck Berry was an early rock and roll star and influential musician. His guitar sound was the inspiration for a generation of musicians and his showmanship showed that a guitar player could do more than just stand and play. When NASA sent their first space probe out of our solar system with artifacts about our culture if found by other celestial beings, NASA included Chuck Berry’s original classic song, Johnny B Goode.
Glad you enjoyed and your reaction was appreciated and fantastic.
FIRST TIME I HEARD YOU'RE MUSIC ALL THIS TEXAS COWBOY WOULD LISTEN TO WAS COUNTRY MUSIC SINCE I RAN ACROSS YOU I NOT ONLY LISTEN THAT I HEARD YOU PLAY BUT EVERY KIND OF MUSIC THAT EXISTS INCLUDING OPERA THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS DEAD TEXAS COWBOY BACK TO LIFE DARLIN ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Another party and dance tune for you is taking you back to the 60's with "Cool Jerk" by the Capitols. I use to live in the house that Chuck Berry grew up in when he was a kid. He's deceased now.
Love the music you bring to the table and your reactions are like 🍒s on top keep up the outstanding work darlin ❤👍
Thank you for appreciating one of my favorite guys
He was the man back then
Chuck always had the moves.
Chuck was an amazing pioneer of rock and roll, he was also a fantastic entertainer who would involve the crowd and okay off of them.
Next song needs to be My Ding-a-ling 😂😂
That last move was his pigeon walk. His duck walk is better. It's where Angus Young of AC/DC got his moves from. His "They'll be rockin' on Bandstand" line got an extra cheer because this clip was from the TV show American Bandstand.
The MC here was Dick Clark, the Dick Clark from the New Years' Rockin' Eve yearly show that still airs. He got his start on American Bandstand and starred in the original $100,000 Pyramid.
A LITTLE RESPECT GOES A LONG WAY WHEN COMPLIMENTING MY BEAUTIFUL YOUNG FRIENDS MUSIC AND REACTIONS COWBOYS 👍
A very sweet rockin' reaction 🍯🎸! He was doing his Pigeon Walk first, then his Duck Walk at the end. I see 👁👁 you reacted to Chuck Berry before: Johnny B Goode and Reelin' And Rockin'. Sweet Little Sixteen was released as the third single off of Chuck Berry's 1958 album: One Dozen Berrys. It was written by Chuck Berry. It was produced by Leonard Chess and Phil Chess. The song reached #1 on the R&B chart and #2 on the Hot 100. This performance is from Dick Clark's Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show, on February 22, 1958. Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song #272 on its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2004.
Several tunes were written by Chuck Berry from true-life experiences. The song: “Sweet Little Sixteen”, was inspired after a Denver concert at the Auditorium Arena. Chuck Berry had embarked on impresario Irving Feld’s “Biggest Show Of Stars For ’57” package tour, with Fats Domino, Clyde McPhatter, The Crickets, LaVern Baker and others. The event went through every region of the United States, including some, such as the northern Rocky Mountain states, which had never witnessed live Rock ’n Roll.
“I happened to open the show this particular date in Denver, and while the other acts were performing, I walked around and signed autographs”, Chuck Berry said. “I noticed that there was this little girl wearing a big, flowery yellow dress running around and around the oval-shaped auditorium. I passed her six or seven times-she was searching for autographs a mile a minute, waving her wallet high in her hand".
“She never saw one complete act fully, and she didn’t seem to care about who was on stage-she only cared about when they came off so she could get her autographs. And this made me think that she wanted things to remember”.
Chuck Berry never got around to speaking with the girl who would serve as his muse for his classic celebration of everything beautiful about fandom. “I wish I could have gotten her name”, he said. “I was writing as I was looking at this kid, and I got several lines of ‘Sweet Little Sixteen’ that night”. He used the same melody on an earlier song: "The Little Girl From Central", recorded on Checkmate Records in 1955.
The Beatles recorded the song once for the "Pop Go The Beatles" radio show on July 10, 1963, at the Aeolian Hall, in London, England:
John Lennon - vocals, rhythm guitar
George Harrison - lead guitar
Paul McCartney - bass
Ringo Starr - drums
It remained unreleased until the group's 1994 compilation album: Live At The BBC.
Three years after The Beatles broke up, John Lennon recorded a solo version of the song for his 1975 album of cover versions: Rock 'n' Roll. His version was produced by Phil Spector who cut the tempo of the song and gave it his "Wall Of Sound" treatment. John Lennon turned in one of his most passionate vocal performances. While it has a running time of 3:01, it has fewer verses than Chuck Berry's original version, being slower and more Bluesy than the original. A year later, Paul McCartney recorded the tune, while making a film during one afternoon in the "backyard" of Abbey Road Studios during the production of the 1974 Rockumentary: One Hand Clapping.
The song has been covered by many other artists including 📻: Joe Brown, The Hollies, Johnny Halladay, Don Lang & The Twisters, Bobby Vee And The Crickets, Eddie Cochran, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jerry Williams, The Manchester Playboys, Dick Rivers, The Routers, Los Apson, Vince Taylor And His Playboys, Fats And His Cats, Jimmy Cone, Onda Choc, Roy Black, The Searchers, Pat Boone, The Animals, Jim & Jesse And The Virginia Boys, Mickie Most and more.
Song Credits 📝:
Chuck Berry - vocals and guitar
Lafayette Leake - piano
Willie Dixon - bass
Fred Below - drums
Song Lyrics 🗒:
They're really rockin' Boston
In Pittsburgh, PA
Deep in the heart of Texas
And 'round the 'Frisco Bay
All over St Louis
And down in New Orleans
All the cats wanna dance with
Sweet Little Sixteen
Sweet Little Sixteen
She's just got to have
About half a million
Famed autographs
Her wallet filled with pictures
She gets 'em one by one
Becomes so excited
Watch her, look at her run, boy
Oh, mommy, mommy
Please, may I go?
It's such a sight to see
Somebody steal the show
Oh, daddy, daddy
I beg of you
Whisper to mommy
It's all right with you
'Cause they'll be rockin' on Bandstand
In Philadelphia, PA
Deep in the heart of Texas
And 'round the 'Frisco Bay
All over St. Louis
Way down in New Orleans
All the cats wanna dance with
Sweet Little Sixteen
'Cause they'll be rockin' on Bandstand
Philadelphia, PA
Deep in the heart of Texas
And 'round the 'Frisco Bay
All over St Louis
Way down in New Orleans
All the cats wanna dance with, ooh
Sweet Little Sixteen
Sweet Little Sixteen
She's got the grown up blues
Tight dresses and lipstick
She's sportin' high heel shoes
Oh, but tomorrow morning
She'll have to change her trend
And be sweet sixteen
And back in class again
But they'll be rockin' in Boston
Pittsburgh, PA
Deep in the heart of Texas
And 'round the 'Frisco Bay
Way out in St Louis
Way down in New Orleans
All the cats wanna dance with
Sweet Little Sixteen
Chuck Berry Info 📰:
Charles "Chuck" Berry was born on October 18, 1926 in St Louis, Missouri. He passed away on March 18, 2017 in Wentzville, Missouri. He was a singer, guitarist and songwriter who was one of the first pioneers of Rock And Roll music. Nicknamed the "Father Of Rock And Roll", he refined and developed Rhythm And Blues into the major elements that made Rock And Roll distinctive with songs including: "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock And Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B Goode" (1958).
Writing lyrics that focused on teen life and consumerism, and developing a music style that included guitar solos and showmanship, Chuck Berry was a major influence on subsequent Rock music genre. Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Louis Jordan, Jackie Brenston and Bo Diddly are considered as being some of the earliest progenitors of Rock And Roll music. Chuck Berry's discography includes 20 studio albums, 12 live albums, 31 compilation albums, 50 singles, 8 EPs, and 2 soundtrack albums: Rock Rock Rock! - 1956 & Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll - 1987.
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Chuck Berry's musical influences growing up include: Robert Johnson, Carl Hogan, Benny Goodman, Charles Brown, Big Joe Turner, Charlie Christian, Louis Jordan, Nat King Cole and T-Bone Walker. Chuck Berry was a major influence on many artists including: Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Ritchie Valens, AC/DC, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, David Bowie and many more.
Chuck Berry's recording career began in 1955 and spanned a total of 62 years, although the latter 4 decades featured few or no releases. His most prolific and successful period spanned the 1950s and early 1960s, during which time he recorded for Chess Records. By the time he left Chess records in 1966, he had released 36 singles, 5 EPs, and 12 albums, including the fake live album: Chuck Berry On Stage and 2 compilation albums, as well as having featured in the movie soundtrack album for the 1956 film: Rock, Rock, Rock!.
Chuck Berry was among the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on its opening in 1986; he was cited for having "laid the groundwork for not only a Rock And Roll sound but a Rock And Roll stance". Chuck Berry is included in several of Rolling Stone magazine's "greatest of all time" lists; he was ranked fifth on its 2004 and 2011 lists of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and 2nd greatest guitarist of all time in 2023. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll includes three of Chuck Berry's singles: "Johnny B Goode", "Maybellene" and "Rock And Roll Music". "Johnny B Goode" is the only Rock And Roll song included on NASA's The Voyager Golden Record, which was sent into deep outer space.
Born into a middle-class black family in St. Louis, Missouri Chuck Berry had an interest in music from an early age and gave his first public performance at Sumner High School. While still a high school student, he was convicted of armed robbery and was sent to a reformatory, where he was held from 1944 to 1947. After his release, Chuck Berry settled into married life and worked at an automobile assembly plant. By early 1953, influenced by the guitar riffs and showmanship techniques of the Blues musician T-Bone Walker, Chuck Berry began performing with the Johnnie Johnson Trio.
His break came when he traveled to Chicago in May 1955 and met Muddy Waters, who suggested he contact Leonard Chess, of Chess Records. With Chess Records, he recorded the single: "Maybellene", Chuck Berry's adaptation of the Country song: "Ida Red", which sold over a million copies, reaching number one on Billboard magazine's R&B music chart.
By the end of the 1950s, Chuck Berry was an established star, with several hit records and film appearances and a lucrative touring career. He had also established his own St Louis nightclub called Berry's Club Bandstand. He was sentenced to three years in prison in January 1962 for offenses under the Mann Act-he had transported a 14-year-old girl across state lines for the purpose of having sexual intercourse. After his release in 1963, Chuck Berry had several more successful songs, including: "No Particular Place To Go", "You Never Can Tell", and "Nadine".
However, these did not achieve the same success or lasting impact of his 1950s songs, and by the 1970s he was more in demand as a nostalgia performer, playing his past material with local backup bands of variable quality. In 1972 he reached a new level of achievement when a rendition of the song: "My Ding-A-Ling", became his only record to top the Pop music charts. His insistence on being paid in cash led in 1979 to a four-month jail sentence and community service, for tax evasion.
Chuck Berry continued to play 70 to 100 one-nighters per year in the 1980s, still traveling solo and requiring a local band to back him at each stop. In 1986, Taylor Hackford made a documentary film: Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll, of a celebration concert for Chuck Berry's sixtieth birthday, organized by Keith Richards. Eric Clapton, Etta James, Julian Lennon, Robert Cray, and Linda Ronstadt, among others, appeared with Chuck Berry on stage and in the film. In 1982, Chuck Berry performed a television special at The Roxy in West Hollywood with Tina Turner as his special guest. The concert was released a year later on home video.
Chuck Berry regularly performed one Wednesday each month at Blueberry Hill, a restaurant and bar located in the Delmar Loop neighborhood of St Louis, from 1996 to 2014.
In 2008, Chuck Berry toured Europe, with stops in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Ireland, Switzerland, Poland, and Spain. In mid-2008, he played at the Virgin Festival in Baltimore. During a concert on New Year's Day 2011 in Chicago, Chuck Berry, suffering from exhaustion, passed out and had to be helped off stage
In 2016, Chuck Berry announced on his 90th birthday that his first new studio album since his album: Rockit, in 1979, entitled: Chuck, would be released in 2017. His first new record in 38 years, it included his children, Charles Berry Jr and Ingrid Berry, on guitar and harmonica, with songs "covering the spectrum from hard-driving rockers to soulful thought-provoking time capsules of a life's work" and dedicated to his wife Toddy Berry.
Chuck Berry Passing 🙏🏾:
On March 18, 2017, Chuck Berry was found unresponsive at his home near Wentzville, Missouri. Emergency workers called to the scene were unable to revive him, and he was pronounced deceased by his personal physician.
Chuck Berry's funeral was held on April 9, 2017, at The Pageant, in Berry's home town of St Louis, Missouri. He was remembered with a public viewing by family, friends, and fans in The Pageant, a music club where he often performed. He was viewed with his cherry-red Gibson ES-335 guitar bolted to the inside lid of the coffin and with flower arrangements that included one sent by the Rolling Stones in the shape of a guitar. Afterwards a private service was held in the club celebrating Chuck Berry's life and musical career, with the Berry family inviting 300 members of the public into the service. Gene Simmons of Kiss gave an impromptu, unadvertised eulogy at the service, while Little Richard was scheduled to lead the funeral procession but was unable to attend due to an illness.
Chuck Berry was laid to rest at Bellerive Gardens Cemetery in St Louis, Missouri.
Miscellaneous Note 🗂:
After going to prison for stealing a car and studying accounting, Chuck Berry became very concerned about the business side of his performances, he wouldn't take the stage until he was paid in full, in cash.
Honors & Awards (Partial) 🏆:
In 1987, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Among the many honors that Chuck Berry received include: a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1984 and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2000.
He was ranked seventh on Time magazine's 2009 list of the 10 best electric guitar players of all time.
On May 14, 2002, Chuck Berry was honored as one of the first BMI Icons at the 50th annual BMI Pop Awards.
He was presented the award along with BMI affiliates Bo Diddley and Little Richard. In August 2014, Chuck Berry was made a laureate of the Polar Music Prize.
In 2020, the International Astronomical Union named a small crater on Mercury after Chuck Berry.
In September 2003, Rolling Stone ranked him number 6 in its list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". In November of 2003, his compilation album: The Great Twenty-Eight, was ranked 21st in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
In March 2004, Chuck Berry was ranked fifth on the list of "The Immortals - The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time" by Rolling Stone.
In December 2004, six of his songs were included in "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time": "Johnny B Goode" (#7), "Maybellene" (#18), "Roll Over Beethoven" (#97), "Rock And Roll Music" (#128), "Sweet Little Sixteen" (#272) and "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" (#374).
In June 2008, his song "Johnny B Goode" was ranked first in the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time" by Rolling Stone.
On July 29, 2011, Chuck Berry was honored in a dedication of an eight-foot, in-motion Chuck Berry Statue in the Delmar Loop in St Louis right across the street from Blueberry Hill.
In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Chuck Berry at number 96 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.
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Chuck Berry Albums 📀:
After School Session (1957)
One Dozen Berrys (1958)
Chuck Berry Is On Top (1959)
Rockin' At The Hops (1960)
New Juke Box Hits (1961)
Two Great Guitars w/ Bo Diddley (1964)
St Louis To Liverpool (1964)
Chuck Berry In London (1965)
Fresh Berry's (1965)
Chuck Berry's Golden Hits (1967)
Chuck Berry In Memphis (1967)
From St Louie To Frisco (1968)
Concerto In B Goode (1969)
Back Home (1970)
San Francisco Dues (1971)
The London Chuck Berry Sessions (1972)
Bio (1973)
Chuck Berry (1975)
Rockit (1979)
Chuck (2017)
Some more good songs by Chuck Berry 🎶: Rock And Roll Music, Nadine, Roll Over Beethoven, My Ding-A-Ling, No Particular Place To Go, Maybellene, Carol, You Can't Catch Me, Little Queenie, Memphis, School Days (Ring Ring Goes The Bell), Back In The U.S.A., Merry Christmas Baby, Club Nitty Gritty, Deep Feeling, Almost Grown, Too Much Monkey Business, Thirty Days, Brown Eyed Handsome Man, Wee Wee Hours, No Money Down, Together (We Will Always Be), Havana Moon, Drifting Heart, Ingo, Berry Pickin', Low Feeling, Down Bound Train, Blue Feeling, La Jaunda, Rockin' At The Philharmonic, Oh Baby Doll, Guitar Boogie, Reelin' And Rockin', How You've Changed, Anthony Boy, Joe Joe Gunne, Blues For Hawaiians, Roly Poly, Your Lick, Down The Road A Piece, Confessin' The Blues, Too Pooped To Pop, Mad Lad, Around And Around, I Got To Find My Baby, Childhood Sweetheart, Broken Arrow, Driftin' Blues, Let It Rock, I'm Talking About You, Bound To Lose, Diploma For Two, Festival, San Francisco Dues, Viva Rock & Roll, My Dream (Poem), Away From You, Don't You Lie To Me, Worried Life Blues, Little Star, The Way It Was Before, Route 66, Run Around, Stop And Listen, Our Little Rendezvous, It Wasn't Me, Run Joe, Let's Do Our Thing Together, Every Day We Rock & Roll, Thirteen Question Method, Welcome Back Pretty Baby, Vaya Con Dios, Little Marie, Right Off Rampart Street, It's My Own Business, Rip It Up, Merrily We Rock & Roll, My Mustang Ford, Ain't That Just Like A Woman, You Two, Promised Land, Go Bobby Soxer, The Things I Used To Do, Night Beat, One For My Baby (And One More For The Road), Bordeaux In My Pirough, Tulane, Wee Hour Blues, Have Mercy Judge, Still Got The Blues, Christmas, Bo's Beat, Chuck's Beat, Surfin' USA, I Just Want To Make Love To You, Flyin' Home, Gun, I'm A Rocker, Let's Boogie, Mean Old World, Ramona Say Yes, I Will Not Let You Go, Ma Dear, Louie To Frisco, It's Too Dark In There, Good Looking Woman, That's My Desire, London Berry Blues, I Love You, Trick Or Treat, Reelin' And Rockin', Jaguar & The Thunderbird, Sweet Little Rock & Roller, Vacation Time, Bio, All Aboard, O Rangutang, The Man And The Donkey, Surfing Steel, Rocking On The Railroad, Baby What You Want Me To Do, Fish & Chips, You Can Never Tell, Go Go Go, Lonely School Days, Run Rudolph Run, Lady B Goode, Together (We Will Always Be), Laugh And Cry, Dear Dad, Let Me Sleep Woman, Oh Louisiana, Shake Rattle And Roll, Betty Jean, Hey Pedro, Wonderful Woman, Big Ben Blues, Little Girl From Central, Brenda Lee, It Don't Take But A Few Minutes, Back To Memphis, One O'clock Jump, Roll 'Em Pete, 21 Blues, Liverpool Drive and Bye Bye Johnny.
Fun Fact 🕵🏾♂: The Beach Boys used the melody from Chuck Berry's 1958 song: "Sweet Little Sixteen", for this song on their 1963 hit song: "Surfin' U.S.A.". Chuck Berry got composing credit on The Beach Boys song in the mid-1970s as a result of a threatened lawsuit.
You like his moves, this is easy stuff, compared to some of his other moves!!Check out more of his videos. That man could do the splits while playing guitar,( and did so into his 60's). Always fun , entertaining and energetic! Music!
LUCILLE the long version by Little Richard.
NADINE by Chuck Berry.
RUBY BABY by Dion.
And ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK by Bill Haley and his Comets.
The 5o's baby!! That's where it all began.
You might want to throw in the Stray Cats and their music in the 198o's paid tribute to these great people. The songs I recommend are STRAY CAT STRUT,
I WONT STAND IN YOUR WAY,
and SEXY + 17. Keep going and enjoy
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Some reactions to consider 🤔: DeBarge - All This Love Live (Just Masters YT channel), Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark (Official Video) or The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice Music Video (Katy Jones YT channel).