Chuck Berry - Berry Is On Top

Styles: Vocal And Guitar 
Year: 1959
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 30:00
Size: 69,1 MB
Art: Front

(2:19)  1. Almost Grown
(2:46)  2. Carol
(2:19)  3. Maybelline
(2:19)  4. Sweet Little Rock & Roller
(1:49)  5. Anthony Boy
(2:39)  6. Johnny B. Goode
(2:40)  7. Little Queenie
(2:45)  8. Jo Jo Gun
(2:22)  9. Roll Over Beethoven
(2:39) 10. Around And Around
(1:55) 11. Hey Pedro
(3:23) 12. Blues For Hawaiians

If you had to sweat all of Chuck Berry's early albums on Chess (and some, but not all, of his subsequent greatest-hits packages), this would be the one to own. The song lineup is exemplary, cobbling together classics like "Maybellene," "Carol," "Sweet Little Rock & Roller," "Little Queenie," "Roll Over Beethoven," "Around and Around," "Johnny B. Goode," and "Almost Grown." With the addition of the Latin-flavored "Hey Pedro," the steel guitar workout "Blues for Hawaiians," "Anthony Boy," and "Jo Jo Gunne," this serves as almost a mini-greatest-hits package in and of itself. While this may be merely a collection of singles and album ballast (as were most rock & roll LPs of the 1950s and early '60s), it ends up being the most perfectly realized of Chuck Berry's career. ~ Cub Koda https://www.allmusic.com/album/chuck-berry-is-on-top-mw0000198378

Personnel:  Chuck Berry – vocals, guitars;  Bo Diddley – electric guitar;  Johnnie Johnson, Lafayette Leake – piano;  Willie Dixon – double bass;  George Smith – bass;  Fred Below, Ebbie Hardy, Jaspar Thomas – drums;  Jerome Green – maracas;  The Moonglows – backing vocals

Berry Is On Top

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