Chuck Berry on Stage
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Studio album by Chuck Berry | ||||
Released | August 1963 | |||
Genre | Rock and roll | |||
Label | Chess | |||
Producer | Leonard Chess, Philip Chess | |||
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Chuck Berry on Stage is an album by Chuck Berry, released in 1963 by Chess Records. Although promoted as a live album, it is a collection of previously released studio recordings (except for 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 actually "Sweet Little Sixteen", originally released in 1958, the melody of which was used in the Beach Boys' 1963 hit "Surfin' USA".
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Track listing
All songs composed by Chuck Berry except as noted
- "Maybellene" (Berry, Alan Freed, Russ Fratto)
- "Memphis, Tennessee"
- "Surfin' Steel"
- "Rockin' on the Railroad (Let It Rock)" (Edward Anderson, pseudonym of Chuck Edward Anderson Berry)
- "Go, Go, Go"
- "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" (alternate take)
- "Still Got the Blues"
- "Sweet Little Sixteen"
- "Jaguar and Thunderbird"
- "I Just Want to Make Love to You" (Willie Dixon)
- "All Aboard" (McKinley Morganfield)
- "Trick or Treat"
- "The Man and the Donkey"
Personnel
- Chuck Berry – guitar, vocals
- Fred Below – drums
- Martha Berry – backing vocals
- Reggie Boyd – bass
- Leroy C. Davis, tenor saxophone
- Willie Dixon – bass
- Jerome Green – maracas
- Ebbie Hardy, drums
- Johnnie Johnson – piano
- Lafayette Leake – piano
- The Moonglows – backing vocals
- George Smith – bass
- Otis Spann – piano
- Phil Thomas – drums
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