CHUCK BERRY - ESSENTIAL ORIGINAL ALBUMS [CD]

• DELUXE 3-CD DIGIPACK BOX SET WITH 10 PANELS• INCLUDES 9 BONUS TRACKS• 12-PAGE BOOKLETThis 3-CD set presents some of the finest Berry performances from the period 1955-61, including five complete original albums and nine extra tracks from the same period. Contained are many of his bestknown compositions, such as “Johnny B. Goode” (the only rock-androll song included on the Voyager Golden Record), “Almost Grown”, “School Days”, “Maybellene”, and “Rock and Roll Music”.PERSONNEL:CHUCK BERRY, guitar and vocals on all tracks, plus:Jimmy Rogers, Matt “Guitar” Murphy (guitar), Leroy C. Davis (tenor sax), Johnnie Johnson, Otis Spann, Lafayette Leake (piano), Willie Dixon, Reggie Boyd (bass), Martha Berry (second vocal), Fred Below, Ebby Hardy, Jaspar Thomas (drums), Jerome Green (maracas), among others.Recorded at Chess Studio, Chicago, Illinois, between 1955 and 1961.CD 1 [1-12]: ROCKIN’ AT THE HOPS (Chess LP-1448)CD 1 [13-24]: NEW JUKE BOX HITS (Chess LP-1456)CD 2 [1-12]: ONE DOZEN BERRYS (Chess LP-1432)CD 2 [13-24]: CHUCK BERRY IS ON TOP (Chess LP-1435)CD 3 [1-12]: AFTER SCHOOL SESSION (Chess LP-1426)CD 3 [13-21]: BONUS TRACKSTRACKS:CD 1 (58:42 Min.)01 Bye Bye Johnny02 Worried Life Blues03 Down The Road Apiece04 Confessin’ The Blues05 Too Pooped To Pop06 Mad Lad07 I Got To Find My Baby08 Betty Jean09 Childhood Sweetheart10 Broken Arrow11 Driftin’ Blues12 Let It Rock13 I’m Talking About You14 Diploma For Two15 Thirteen Question Method16 Away From You17 Don’t You Lie To Me18 The Way It Was Before19 Little Star20 Route 6621 Sweet Sixteen22 Run Around23 Stop And Listen24 Rip It UpCD 2 (66:04 Min.)01 Sweet Little Sixteen02 Blue Feeling03 La Jaunda04 Rock at the Philharmonic05 Oh Baby Doll06 Guitar Boogie07 Reelin’ and Rockin’08 In-Go09 Rock & Roll Music10 How You’ve Changed11 Low Feeling12 It Don’t Take But a Few Minutes13 Almost Grown14 Carol15 Maybellene16 Sweet Little Rock & Roller17 Anthony Boy18 Johnny B. Goode19 Little Queenie20 Jo Jo Gunne21 Roll Over Beethoven22 Around and Around23 Hey Pedro 24 Blues for HawaiiansCD 3 (54:48 Min.)01 School Days02 Deep Feeling03 Too Much Monkey Business04 Wee Wee Hours05 Roly Poly06 No Money Down07 Brown Eyed Handsome Man08 Berry Pickin’09 Together10 Havana Moon11 Downbound Train12 Drifting Heart13 You Can’t Catch Me (*)14 Run Rudolph Run (*)15 Thirty Days (*)16 Our Little Rendezvous (*)17 Jaguar and Thunderbird (*)18 Come On (*)19 Go Go Go (*)20 County Line (*)V21 Back in the U.S.A. (*)