Chuck BerryBerry Is On Top - St Louis To Liverpool [MFSL UDCD 776] (EAC FLAC Artwork)

Chuck Berry / Berry Is On Top - St. Lous To Liverpool [MFSL UDCD 776]



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Released 1959 + 1964 [MFSL 2008]

Specials: Ultradisc 2; 2 on 1 Series; Running Time 71:38



Great sounding combination of 2 Chuck Berry classics, both decorated wth 5 Stars by Allmusic.com.



Berry Is On Top (1959)



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.



St. Louis To Liverpool (1964)



This album puts the lie to the popular myth that Chuck Berry's music started to fade away around the same time that the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, et al. emerged covering his stuff. His songwriting is as strong here as ever -- side one is packed with now-familiar fare like "Little Marie" (a sequel to "Memphis, Tennessee"), "No Particular Place to Go," "Promised Land," and "You Never Can Tell," but even filler tracks like "Our Little Rendezvous" and "You Two" are among Berry's better album numbers, the latter showing off the slightly softer pop/R&B side to his music that many listeners forget about. Side two includes a bunch of tracks, including the hard-rocking "Go Bobby Soxer" and the even better "Brenda Lee," the slow blues "Things I Used to Do" (with a killer guitar break), and the instrumentals "Liverpool Drive" and "Night Beat," one fast and the other slow, that never get reissued or compiled anywhere.



Track listing:



Titel: Berry Is On Top + ST. Louis To Liverpool [MFSL UDCD 776]

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01 - Chuck Berry - Almost Grown

02 - Chuck Berry - Carol

03 - Chuck Berry - Maybellene

04 - Chuck Berry - Sweet Little Rock & Roller

05 - Chuck Berry - Anthony Boy

06 - Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode

07 - Chuck Berry - Little Queenie

08 - Chuck Berry - Jo Jo Gunne

09 - Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven

10 - Chuck Berry - Around And Around

11 - Chuck Berry - Hey Pedro

12 - Chuck Berry - Blues For Hawaiians

13 - Chuck Berry - Little Marie

14 - Chuck Berry - Our Little Renezvous

15 - Chuck Berry - No Particular Place To Go

16 - Chuck Berry - You Two

17 - Chuck Berry - Promised Land

18 - Chuck Berry - You Never Can Tell

19 - Chuck Berry - Go Bobby Soxer

20 - Chuck Berry - The Things I Used To Do

21 - Chuck Berry - Liverpool Drive

22 - Chuck Berry - Night Beat

23 - Chuck Berry - Merry Christmas Baby

24 - Chuck Berry - Brenda Lee

25 - Chuck Berry - Fraulein

26 - Chuck Berry - O'Rangutang

27 - Chuck Berry - The Little Girl From Central



Tracks 1 - 12 "Berry Is On Top"; Tracks 13 - 27 "St. Louis To Liverpool"





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