Chuck Berry's Golden Decade

by Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry's Golden Decade cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: January 1967
  • Label: Chess
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 4.35/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released concurrently with his move to Mercury Records, this monumental Chess compilation serves as the definitive text on the foundational architecture of rock and roll songwriting. Gathering his incredibly articulate, heavily rhythmic 1950s singles concerning cars, school, and teenage life, the collection highlights the massively influential double-stop guitar riffing and vivid, poetic lyricism that built the entire template for the 1960s rock explosion.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic

Tracklist

  1. Maybelline
  2. Deep Feeling
  3. Johnny B. Goode
  4. Wee Wee Hours
  5. Nadine
  6. Brown-Eyed Handsome Man
  7. Roll Over Beethoven
  8. Thirty Days
  9. Havana Moon
  10. No Particular Place To Go
  11. Memphis
  12. Almost Grown
  13. School Days
  14. Too Much Monkey Business
  15. Oh, Baby Doll
  16. Reelin' And Rockin'
  17. You Can't Catch Me
  18. Too Pooped To Pop
  19. Bye Bye Johnny
  20. 'Round And 'Round
  21. Sweet Little Sixteen
  22. Rock And Roll Music
  23. Anthony Boy
  24. Back In The U.S.A.

Credits

  • Chuck Berry - primary artist
  • Leonard Chess - supervised by [album supervision]
  • Phil Chess - supervised by [album supervision]
  • Chuck Berry Music, Inc. - written-by
  • Nigel Grainge - compiler
  • Dave Willardson - illustration

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