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"Promised Land" is a song lyric written by Chuck Berry to the melody of "Wabash Cannonball", an American folk song. The song was first recorded in this version by Berry in 1964 for his album St. Louis to Liverpool. Released in December 1964, it was Berry's fourth single issued following his prison term for a Mann Act conviction.
Like several other songs on Darkness on the Edge of Town, Springsteen had the chorus for "The Promised Land" before he was able to come up with the lyrics for the verses. [8] The song's title pays homage to Chuck Berry's song "Promised Land". [5] [9] [8] In Berry's song, the singer leaves his Virginia home to go to the "promised land" of ...
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 ...
"The Promised Land" Chuck Berry "Queen Jane Approximately" Bob Dylan "Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)" Bob Dylan "The Race Is On" George Jones "Rain" The Beatles "Revolution" The Beatles "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu" Huey "Piano" Smith "The Same Thing" Willie Dixon "Samson and Delilah" Reverend Gary Davis "She Belongs to Me ...
St. Louis to Liverpool is the seventh studio album by the American musician Chuck Berry. Released in 1964 by Chess Records. It peaked at number 124 on the US Billboard album chart, the first of Berry's studio albums to appear on the chart. [2] Music critic Dave Marsh called St. Louis to Liverpool "one of the greatest rock & roll records ever ...
Promised Land (Chuck Berry song) R. Reelin' and Rockin' Rock and Roll Music (song) Roll Over Beethoven; Run Rudolph Run; S. School Days (Chuck Berry song) Surfin' U.S.A.
(The Center Square) – While some schools across the nation hosted meagerly-attended “Transgivings” around Thanksgiving time, students at Hillsdale College wrote over 4,000 thank-you cards on ...
The album contains covers of Deep Purple's "Burn" (originally recorded for W.A.S.P's previous album Dominator, but not used for unknown reasons) and Chuck Berry's "Promised Land". "Promised Land" was also covered in 1973 by Elvis Presley, and it was Elvis' version that the band had in mind as demonstrated by the ending comment "How about one of ...