Released 1982 Length 68:55 Artist Chuck Berry Label Chess Records Producers Leonard Chess, Phil Chess | Recorded 1955–1965 The Great Twenty-Eight
(1982) Chess Masters
(1983) Release date 1982 Genres Rock music, Rock and roll | |
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Similar Anthology, Chuck Berry Is on Top, St Louis to Liverpool, The Chess Box, Chuck Berry in London | ||
Chuck berry maybellene
The Great Twenty-Eight is a compilation album of Chuck Berry, released in 1982 on Chess Records. In 2003, the album was ranked number 21 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, the second-highest ranking compilation on the list after The Sun Sessions by Elvis Presley. It is currently out of print, but all of its 28 tracks can be found on the 2000 Anthology two-disc set.
Contents
A survey of Berry's first decade of recording on Chess Records, it contains 21 singles along with six of their b-sides and one album track from Chuck Berry in London. Of those singles, eleven were top ten hits on the Billboard R&B singles chart and ten were Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
Track listing
All songs written by Chuck Berry.
Personnel
Songs
1Maybellene2:21
2Thirty Days2:24
3You Can't Catch Me2:41