What are your three favorite Chuck Berry songs?

[Rain Man]

No, that ding-a-ling song will not be in the poll. But Chuck had a lot of good songs. Really good songs. Even they sometimes sound alike.

Back in the USA
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Brown-Eyed Handsome Man
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Carol
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Come On
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Johnny B. Goode
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Let It Rock
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Maybellene
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Memphis
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No Particular Place to Go
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Sweet Little Sixteen
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Promised Land
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Rock and Roll Music
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Roll Over Beethoven
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Too Much Monkey Business
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You Never Can Tell
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[listopencil]

Johnny B. Goode, No Particular Place to Go, You Never Can Tell.

[Garcia Bronco]

Promised Land
Nadine
Never Can Tell (C'est La Vie)

[stumppy]

Rockin and Reelin

[EPodolak]

Sweet Little Sixteen
Carol
You Never Can Tell

[Rain Man]

I figured Johnny B. Goode would be an easy leader, but I was curious about the rest. There are a few other songs that I highly recognize, and I view them all about equal: Promised Land, Maybellene, You Never Can Tell, and Roll Over Beethoven. I know Sweet Little Sixteen's tune but didn't know it was his, and the same is true of Memphis to a lesser degree.

The funny thing is that Chuck Berry wasn't my first exposure to several of these songs:

Maybellene - first heard the Simon & Garfunkel version.

You Never Can Tell - I'd vaguely heard the song before, but Pulp Fiction is really what pulled it to my frontal lobe. I can't separate the song from the movie.

Promised Land - first heard the Meat Loaf version (which may be better than Chuck's)

Roll Over Beethoven - don't laugh, but the first version I ever heard was by ELO.

[EPodolak]

Roll Over Beethoven - don't laugh, but the first version I ever heard was by ELO.

By a long shot the first Roll Over Beethoven I heard was on the Beatles' second album, elementary school age. Just a small kid, it was candy for the ears.

[threebag]

Cat on Red Dwarf has a similar look and style. RIP Chuck

[Deberg_1990]

All of them. They all sounded the same

[Rivermike87]

Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You done started back doing the things you used to do,

[Garcia Bronco]

I figured Johnny B. Goode would be an easy leader, but I was curious about the rest. There are a few other songs that I highly recognize, and I view them all about equal: Promised Land, Maybellene, You Never Can Tell, and Roll Over Beethoven. I know Sweet Little Sixteen's tune but didn't know it was his, and the same is true of Memphis to a lesser degree.

The funny thing is that Chuck Berry wasn't my first exposure to several of these songs:

Maybellene - first heard the Simon & Garfunkel version.

You Never Can Tell - I'd vaguely heard the song before, but Pulp Fiction is really what pulled it to my frontal lobe. I can't separate the song from the movie.

Promised Land - first heard the Meat Loaf version (which may be better than Chuck's)

Roll Over Beethoven - don't laugh, but the first version I ever heard was by ELO.

The meat loaf Promised land is based on the Elvis version and both those fat turds drop a verse.

[gblowfish]

Let It Rock
Roll Over Beethoven
Reelin and Rockin'

Chuck did an album back in the 1980's that was pretty great. It was called "Rock It." And he had a lot of guest musicians, including Johnny Johnson, his long time piano player. Piano in Chuck Berry music is what gives it the bite. This song is called "I Never Thought" which sums up his life pretty well.

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[Rain Man]

The meat loaf Promised land is based on the Elvis version and both those fat turds drop a verse.

I'd never known that until I was just listening the version in this thread. I wonder why.