''Chuck Berry on Stage'' is the first "live" 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 1963 by

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. Although promoted as a live album, it is a collection of previously released studio recordings (with the exception of "All Aboard", "Trick or Treat", "I Just Want To Make Love To You", "Still Got The Blues", and a previously unreleased alternate take of "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man") with overdubbed audience sounds to simulate a live recording. One track on the album labelled "Surfin' USA", is "Sweet Little Sixteen", originally released in 1958, the melody of which was used in

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' 1963 hit "Surfin' USA". Chuck's cover of Willie Dixon's "I Just Want To Make Love To You" was later re-recorded and released on the very rare Chess LP CH60032 ''Chuck Berry'' in 1975.

Track listing

All songs composed by Chuck Berry except as noted # " Maybellene" (Berry,

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, Russ Fratto) – 2:25 # "Memphis, Tennessee" – 2:17 # "Surfin' Steel" – 2:32 # "Rockin' on the Railroad" (Let It Rock) (Edward Anderson, pseudonym of Chuck Edward Anderson Berry) – 1:51 # "Go, Go, Go" – 3:31 # "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" (alternate take) – 1:46 # "Still Got the Blues" – 2:08 # "Surfin USA" ("Sweet Little Sixteen") – 3:13 # "Jaguar and Thunderbird" – 1:49 # " I Just Want to Make Love to You" (

Willie Dixon William James Dixon (July 1, 1915January 29, 1992) was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. He was proficient in playing both the upright bass and the guitar, and sang with a distinctive voice, but he ...

) – 2:13 # "All Aboard" – 2:15 # "Trick or Treat" – 1:37 # "The Man and the Donkey" – 2:07

Personnel

* Chuck Berry –

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* Fred Below –

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* Martha Berry –

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* Reggie Boyd –

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* Leroy C. Davis -

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (whi ...

– bass * Jerome Green –

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s * Ebbie Hardy - drums * Johnnie Johnson –

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* Lafayette Leake – piano * The Moonglows – backing vocals * George Smith – bass *

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– piano * Phil Thomas – drums

Notes

References

Chuck Berry live albums 1963 live albums Chess Records live albums Albums produced by Leonard Chess Albums produced by Phil Chess {{1960s-rock-album-stub