Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode: His Complete 50's Chess Recordings (4-Audio CD - 2008) - Special Edition - Digipack - Remastered Box set

Listening to Johnny B. Goode: His Complete '50s Chess Recordings is an entirely different experience than The Great 28 or any other hit-heavy compilation where all the brilliant singles sound so much of a piece that they give the impression that they were all cut at roughly the same time. Those who learned Berry's music through these compilations -- and there are generations of listeners who did -- may be surprised that certain hits like "No Particular Place to Go" or "You Never Can Tell" arrived well into the '60s and so are absent here, perhaps jarringly so. What "Johnny B. Goode" does a superb job of is putting Berry's music in context, illustrating what happened when by methodically going through every existing recording in the Chess vaults, including alternate takes, instrumental jams, a few live tracks, a single by the Ecuadors featuring Chuck on guitar, and a handful of unreleased cuts. Unlike Hip-O Select's similar Bo Diddley I'm a Man: The Chess Masters 1955-1958 there are no major unreleased songs (I'm a Man had Bo's original "Love Is Strange"); instead, this has a plethora of alternates, all sequenced in succession, which would give this the feel of an excavation if the music itself wasn't so energetic and enjoyable.
Condition:NEW. Brand New Factory Sealed

TRACK LISTINGS

Disc 1
1 Maybellene 2:21
2 Wee Wee Hours 3:05
3 Thirty Days (To Come Back Home) 2:25
4 Together (We Will Always Be) 2:37
5 You Can't Catch Me 2:44
6 Rolli Polli Instrumental 2:50
7 Down Bound Train 2:50
8 Berry Pickin' Instrumental 2:32
9 No Money Down 2:58
10 I've Changed 3:07
11 Drifting Heart 2:49
12 Brown Eyed Handsome Man 2:17
13 Roll Over Beethoven 2:24
14 Too Much Monkey Business 2:55
15 Maybellene Live 2:06
16 Roll Over Beethoven Live 2:44
17 Havana Moon 3:08
18 Rock and Roll Music Demo Version 2:40
19 Untitled Instrumental 2:23
20 Deep Feeling Instrumental 2:20
21 School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell) 2:43
22 Low Feeling Instrumental 3:10
23 La Jaunda Español 3:12
24 Blue Feeling Instrumental 3:02
25 How You've Changed 2:48
26 Oh Baby Doll 2:36

Disc 2
1 Rock and Roll Alternate Take 2:26
2 Rock and Roll Music 2:33
3 13 Question Method Early Version 2:40
4 How High the Moon Instrumental 3:09
5 Sweet Little Sixteen Demo Version 3:08
6 Sweet Little Sixteen Take 3 3:12
7 Sweet Little Sixteen Take 11 3:08
8 Sweet Little Sixteen Original Master 3:17
9 Sweet Little Sixteen Sped Up Originally Released Version 3:02
10 Rock at the Philharmonic Instrumental 3:24
11 Guitar Boogie Instrumental 2:20
12 Night Beat Take 3 / Instrumental 2:58
13 Night Beat Instrumental 2:44
14 Time Was Slow Version, Take 4 2:37
15 Time Was Slow Version 2:02
16 Reelin' and Rockin' Tale 1 3:38
17 Reelin' and Rockin' Takes 7 & 8 3:47
18 Reelin' and Rockin' 3:16
19 Chuckwalk Instrumental 2:28
20 Johnny B. Goode Alt. Takes 2 & 3 3:21
21 Johnny B. Goode 2:41
22 Around and Around Overdub Take 2 / Take 2:49
23 Around and Around Overdub Take 3 / Take 2:42
24 Around and Around 2:43
25 Ingo Overdub Take 3 / Take 2:57
26 Ingo Instrumental 2:30

Disc 3
1 It Don't Take But a Few Minutes 2:28
2 Blues for Hawaiians Instrumental 3:24
3 Beautiful Delilah Alternate Takes 15 & 16 2:32
4 Beautiful Delilah Take 6 2:09
5 21 Blues 2:11
6 21 2:26
7 21 Take 14 2:38
8 Vacation Time 2:54
9 Oh Yeah 2:35
10 Hey Pedro 1:56
11 Time Was Fast Version 2:29
12 House of Blue Lights 2:28
13 Carol 2:49
14 Jo Jo Gunne 2:46
15 Memphis Tennessee 2:14
16 Anthony Boy 1:54
17 Sweet Little Rock 'N' Roller Alternate Take 5 2:27
18 Sweet Little Rock 'N' Roller Take 11A 2:22
19 Long Fast Jam Instrumental 11:34
20 Long Slow Jam Instrumental 11:13
21 Merry Christmas Baby 3:14
22 Merry Christmas Baby Alternate Take 3:00
23 Run Rudolph Run 2:43

Disc 4
1 Little Queenie Take 8 2:31
2 Little Queenie 2:42
3 That's My Desire 2:19
4 Do You Love Me Alternate Take 2:24
5 Do You Love Me 2:36
6 Almost Grown Take 14 2:34
7 Almost Grown Take 28 2:55
8 Almost Grown 2:21
9 Back in the U.S.A. 2:28
10 Blue on Blue (Upchuck) Alternate Take / Instrumental 3:10
11 Blue on Blue Instrumental 2:59
12 Betty Jean Alternate Take 14 2:27
13 Betty Jean Alternate Take 17 2:40
14 Betty Jean 2:31
15 County Line 2:17
16 Childhood Sweetheart Alternate Take 3:12
17 Childhood Sweetheart 2:44
18 One O'Clock Jump Instrumental 3:08
19 I Just Want to Make Love to You Take 3 2:18
20 I Just Want to Make Love to You 2:13
21 Broken Arrow Take 21 2:45
22 Broken Arrow 2:28
23 Let It Rock Alternate Mix 1:58
24 Let It Rock 1:48
25 Too Pooped to Pop Take 4A 2:38
26 Too Pooped to Pop 2:36
27 Say You'll Be Mine 2:18
28 Let Me Sleep Woman 2:24