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"Johnny B. Goode" is a song by American musician Chuck Berry, written and sung by Berry in 1958. Released as a single in 1958, it peaked at number two on the Hot R&B Sides chart and number eight on its pre- Billboard Hot 100 chart. [ 1 ]
Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter who pioneered rock and roll.Nicknamed the "Father of Rock and Roll", he refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive with songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957), and ...
American rock and roll musician Chuck Berry's discography includes 20 studio albums, 12 live albums, 31 compilation albums, 50 singles, 8 EPs, and 2 soundtrack albums. Berry's recording career began in 1955, with the release of his single " Maybellene ", and spanned a total of 62 years, although the latter 4 decades featured few or no releases.
Concerto in "B Goode" is the thirteenth studio album by Chuck Berry, released in 1969 by Mercury Records.The title song is an extended instrumental interpolation of a wide range of themes pioneered in Berry's classic 1957-62 period, running approximately 18 minutes and taking up the entire second side of the record; this is Berry embracing the emerging preference in the rock genre for extended ...
Chuck Berry " Around and Around " is a 1958 rock song written and first recorded by Chuck Berry . It originally appeared under the name " Around & Around " as the B-side to the single " Johnny B. Goode ".
Chuck Berry performs "Johnny B. Goode" over the opening titles.We meet a young singer (Jimmy Clanton) who goes by the stage name of Johnny Melody.After a few opening performances, Berry and Alan Freed (playing themselves) discuss their discovery of Johnny, whose fate once hinged on the toss of a coin, with Freed intimating that Johnny nearly ended-up in jail.
It reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100, one of two of Berry's second-highest positions—along with Johnny Rivers cover of "Memphis, Tennessee"—on that chart (surpassed only by "My Ding-A-Ling", which reached number one in 1972). "Sweet Little Sixteen" also reached number one on the R&B Best Sellers chart. [3]
The opening electric guitar introduction of the song was based on Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode", [12] [13] and the track's punctuated drum fills were inspired by the work of Phil Spector. [1] Musicologist Philip Lambert noted that the initial two phrases of the song are based on almost the same chord progression as the first two phrases of ...