Best Chuck Berry Song??

[SouthSwans]

Suggestions??

Johnny B Goode for mine.

 

[HorseHead]

Maybelline

 

[lioness]

Maybelline

Yep it's my choice too.

 

[Dogs 13]

Hugely influential:

Roll Over Beethoven
School Day - Hail! Hail! Rock and Roll
Promised Land
Memphis
Johnny B. Goode
Rock and Roll Music

 

[melbournemartin]

johnny b. goode as it's the only song of his on my computer

 

[MagpieScouser]

the song that john travolta and uma thurman were dancing to in pulp fiction at jack rabbitt slims?

 

[legitimatic]

Johnny B Goode is my favourite of his, brilliant man though.

 

[cats56]

the song that john travolta and uma thurman were dancing to in pulp fiction at jack rabbitt slims?

That was "You Never Can Tell."

Some cool dancing there. Uma mmmm!

 

[cats56]

Hard to name just one. Alway's loved his first single "Maybellene" with the distorted guitar intro. Of course "Johnny Be Goode" which would be the most influentual song in rock history.

Had some great muso's in his band's as well, Johnnie Johnson, Willie Dixon, Fred Belew etc.

 

[JuddyisGod]

Johnny B. Goode. How a song can still be that good and that influential after that many years astounds me. The definition of a classic.

 

[andrew coombs]

The promised land is the best of a plethora of brilliantly written songs. If he had been white he would have been bigger then Elvis.

 

[Monkster]

My Ding-a-ling

 

[AndSmithMustScore]

Maybelene

 

[skilts]

Has anyone else noticed the sameness in structure and tempo of just about all of his songs? For this reason, you could name just about any of his songs as being his best. Call me cynical, but I reckon he stole a riff from Johnny Johnson, found he was unable to improve on it, so just kept using it.

 

[Fossie 32]

Roll Over Beethoven
School Days
Promised Land
Memphis


but the best =
Rock and Roll Music

 

[Captain Sensible]

Things that I used to do.


Downtown Train.

 

[adammania9]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39318602

RIP Chuck Berry - the true king of rock and roll

Will play his greatest hits vinyl in his honour.

 

[Paul Kersey]

Bit surprised there is no thread on his passing. An absolute legend with a profound impact on music as we know it AFAIC.

 

[Richard Pryor]

Not his best but this song is possibly the furthest the guy ever got from his comfort zone.

 

[Damon_3388]

This was a tribute from when Berry was awarded the Polar Music Prize in 2014:



A nice taste of his best tunes. Particularly like the version of "Come On" at the start.

 

[Present Not Past]

I remember seeing a show on tv where Chuck performed Johnny B Goode with Sean Lennon. Chuck couldn't get over how much Sean looked like John.

 

[JackFlash]

Johnny B Goode

Nadine

Memphis

Sweet little sixteen

You Never Can Tell

Maybellene

No Particular Place to Go

Brown Eyed handsome Man

Jaguar & Thunderbird

Carol

 

[Fossie 32]

Johnny B Goode

Nadine

Memphis

Sweet little sixteen

You Never Can Tell

Maybellene

No Particular Place to Go

Brown Eyed handsome Man

Jaguar & Thunderbird

Carol

Nice, I forgot No Particular Place to Go, Carol and You Never Can Tell .... and Sweet Little SIxteen.

 

[adammania9]

Sweet Little Sixteen always my #1 favourite

I also love Havana Moon, very underrated track


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