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Chuck Berry's Golden Hits

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Released
  
March 1967

Artist
  
Chuck Berry

Label
  
Mercury Records

Length
  
36:59

Release date
  
March 1967

Genre
  
Rock and roll

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Chuck Berry's Golden Hits (1967)
  
Chuck Berry in Memphis (1967)

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Chuck Berry albums, Rock and roll albums

Chuck Berry's Golden Hits is an album by Chuck Berry, released in 1967 by Mercury Records, his first for that label. It consists of new recordings of songs he had recorded for Chess Records and one new song. The re-recordings were performed with faster tempos and recorded in stereo. While the rest of Berry's albums for Mercury rest in obscurity, Golden Hits is still available.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Chuck Berry.

Side one

  1. "Sweet Little Sixteen" (2:32)
  2. "Memphis" (2:07)
  3. "School Days (Ring Ring Goes the Bell)" (2:35)
  4. "Maybellene" (2:35)
  5. "Back in the U.S.A." (2:27)

Side two

  1. "Johnny B. Goode" (2:45)
  2. "Rock and Roll Music" (2:33)
  3. "Roll Over Beethoven" (2:02)
  4. "Thirty Days" (2:10)
  5. "Carol" (2:24)
  6. "Club Nitty Gritty" (2:18)

CD issue, 1989

  1. "Sweet Little Sixteen"
  2. "Memphis"
  3. "School Days"
  4. "Maybellene"
  5. "Back in the U.S.A."
  6. "Around and Around"
  7. "Brown Eyed Handsome Man"
  8. "Johnny B. Goode"
  9. "Rock and Roll Music"
  10. "Roll Over Beethoven"
  11. "Thirty Days"
  12. "Carol"
  13. "Let It Rock"
  14. "Reelin' and Rockin'"
  15. "Club Nitty Gritty"

Personnel

  • Chuck Berry – guitar, vocals
  • Ebby Hardy – drums
  • Johnnie Johnson – piano, electric piano
  • Quincy Macon – rhythm guitar
  • Eugene Washington – drums

    • Songs

    1Sweet Little Sixteen2:15
    2Memphis - Tennessee2:09
    3School Days (Ring Ring Goes the Bell)2:36

    References

    Chuck Berry's Golden Hits Wikipedia
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