''Chuck Berry's Golden Hits'' is the tenth studio album by

Chuck Berry Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter who pioneered rock and roll. Nicknamed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Father of Rock and Roll", he refined and de ...

, released in 1967 by

Mercury Records Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. It had significant success as an independent operation in the 1940s and 1950s. Smash Records and Fontana Records were sub labels of Mercury. Mercury Records released ...

, his first for that label. It consists of new recordings of songs he had recorded for

Chess Records Chess Records was an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago, specializing in blues and rhythm and blues. It was the successor to Aristocrat Records, founded in 1947. It expanded into soul music, gospel music, early rock an ...

and one new song, "Club Nitty Gritty". 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. In 1989 the CD issue of the collection was augmented with several tracks that were left off the original album.

Track listing

All songs written by Chuck Berry. Side one # " Sweet Little Sixteen" (2:32) # " Memphis" (2:07) # " School Days (Ring Ring Goes the Bell)" (2:35) # " Maybellene" (2:35) # " Back in the U.S.A." (2:27) Side two # "

Johnny B. Goode "Johnny B. Goode" is a song by American musician Chuck Berry, written and sung by Berry in 1958. Released as a Single (music), single in 1958, it peaked at number two on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Hot R&B Sides chart and number eight on its pre ...

" (2:45) # " Rock and Roll Music" (2:33) # "

Roll Over Beethoven "Roll Over Beethoven" is a 1956 song written by Chuck Berry, originally released on Chess Records, with "Drifting Heart" as the A-side and B-side, B-side. The lyrics of the song mention rock and roll and the desire for rhythm and blues to be a ...

" (2:02) # "Thirty Days" (2:10) # " Carol" (2:24) # "Club Nitty Gritty" (2:18)

1989 CD reissue

# " Sweet Little Sixteen" # " Memphis" # " School Days" # " Maybellene" # " Back in the U.S.A." # " Around and Around" # " Brown Eyed Handsome Man" # "

" # " Rock and Roll Music" # "

" # "Thirty Days" # " Carol" # " Let It Rock" # "

Reelin' and Rockin' "Reelin' and Rockin'" is a song written and recorded by Chuck Berry. It was originally recorded in 1957 and released as the B-side of " Sweet Little Sixteen". Recording The song was recorded on December 29-30, 1957 in Chicago, Illinois. * Chuck B ...

" # "Club Nitty Gritty"

Personnel

* Chuck Berry –

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

, vocals * Ebby Hardy –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

* Johnnie Johnson –

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

, electric piano * Quincy Macon – rhythm guitar * Eugene Washington – drums

References

External links

* Chuck Berry albums 1967 albums Mercury Records albums {{1960s-rock-album-stub