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Compiler
  
Andy McKaie

Artist
  
Chuck Berry

Label
  
Chess Records

Chuck Berry - Anthology (2000)
  
Live on Stage (2000)

Release date
  
27 June 2000

Genres
  
Rock music, Rock and roll

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Released
  
June 27, 2000 (2000-06-27)

Recorded
  
May 21, 1955 – December 22, 1969 in Chicago, Illinois September 28, 1958 in St. Louis, Missouri February 3, 1972 at the Lanchester Arts Festival, Coventry, England 1973 in New York City

Producer
  
Leonard Chess, Phil Chess, Esmond Edwards, Andy McKaie

Similar
  
Chuck Berry albums, Rock and roll albums

Anthology is a two-disc compilation album by rock and roll performer Chuck Berry released on July 27, 2000 by Chess Records. The album is intended as an overview of Chuck Berry's song-writing career. It is a two-disc anthology which contains 50 tracks of Chuck Berry's finest songs. It contains every track issued on the previous anthology The Great Twenty-Eight. The album was later reissued and packaged in 2005 as part of Universal Records' Gold series, and simply retitled Gold.

Contents

Critical reception

Robert Christgau states how Anthology is less expensive than The Chess Box, he thinks that it removed several good songs like "Have Mercy Judge" and "Anthony Boy". David McGee, Milo Miles, and Mark Kemp, of Rolling Stone magazine, are of the opinion that Anthology is one of the best of Chuck Berry's compilation albums.

Track listing

All songs written by Chuck Berry, except as indicated. All songs produced by Leonard & Phil Chess, except where indicated.

Disc 1

  1. "Maybellene" – 2:22
  2. "Wee Wee Hours" – 3:05
  3. "Thirty Days" – 2:24
  4. "You Can't Catch Me" – 2:45
  5. "Downbound Train" – 2:51
  6. "No Money Down" – 2:59
  7. "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" – 2:18
  8. "Roll Over Beethoven" – 2:24
  9. "Too Much Monkey Business" – 2:56
  10. "Havana Moon" – 3:09
  11. "School Days" – 2:43
  12. "Rock and Roll Music" – 2:33
  13. "Oh Baby Doll" – 2:39
  14. "Sweet Little Sixteen" – 3:03
  15. "Guitar Boogie" – 2:21
  16. "Reelin' and Rockin'" – 3:17
  17. "Johnny B. Goode" – 2:42
  18. "Around and Around" – 2:41
  19. "Beautiful Delilah" – 2:11
  20. "House Of Blue Lights" (Don Raye, Freddie Slack) – 2:29
  21. "Carol" – 2:50
  22. "Jo Jo Gunne" – 2:47
  23. "Memphis" – 2:15
  24. "Sweet Little Rock & Roller" – 2:24
  25. "Little Queenie" – 2:44
  26. "Almost Grown" – 2:19

Disc 2

  1. "Back in the U.S.A." – 2:29
  2. "Do You Love Me" – 2:24
  3. "Betty Jean" – 2:28
  4. "Childhood Sweetheart" – 2:45
  5. "Let It Rock" – 1:49
  6. "Too Pooped To Pop" – 2:37
  7. "I Got to Find My Baby" – 2:17
  8. "Don't You Lie to Me" – 2:05
  9. "Bye Bye Johnny" – 2:07
  10. "Jaguar & Thunderbird" – 1:52
  11. "Down the Road a Piece" (Raye) – 2:16
  12. "Confessin' the Blues" (Jay McShann, Walter Brown) – 2:10
  13. "I'm Talking About You" – 1:51
  14. "Come On" – 1:51
  15. "Nadine (Is It You?)" – 2:36
  16. "You Never Can Tell" – 2:44
  17. "Promised Land" – 2:25
  18. "No Particular Place to Go" – 2:44
  19. "Dear Dad" – 1:52
  20. "I Want to Be Your Driver" – 2:17
  21. "Tulane" – 2:39
  22. "My Ding-a-Ling (Live, Single Edit)" – 4:19
  23. Produced by Esmond Edwards
  24. "Reelin' and Rockin (Live)" – 7:04
  25. Produced by Esmond Edwards
  26. "Bio" – 4:24

Personnel

Per the liner notes

Songs

1Maybellene2:21
2We We Hours3:05
3Thirty Days2:24

References

Anthology (Chuck Berry album) Wikipedia
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