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- His Best, Vol.1
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Chuck Berry
Released 1997

Brown Eyed Handsome Man
02:16
954 plays

Thirty Days
02:24
948 plays

Downbound Train
02:52
925 plays

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- 1
- Maybellene
- 02:22
- 1,821 plays

- 2
- Thirty Days
- 02:24
- 948 plays

- 3
- You Can't Catch Me
- 02:45
- 792 plays

- 4
- Downbound Train
- 02:52
- 925 plays

- 5
- Brown Eyed Handsome Man
- 02:16
- 954 plays

- 6
- Roll Over Beethoven
- 02:25
- 1,658 plays

- 7
- Too Much Monkey Business
- 02:56
- 865 plays

- 8
- Havana Moon
- 03:09
- 678 plays

- 9
- School Day
- 02:43
- 1,615 plays

- 10
- Rock And Roll Music
- 02:34
- 1,962 plays

- 11
- Oh Baby Doll
- 02:39
- 692 plays

- 12
- Reelin' And Rockin'
- 03:17
- 918 plays

- 13
- Sweet Little Sixteen
- 03:03
- 1,235 plays

- 14
- Johnny B. Goode
- 02:42
- 3,020 plays

- 15
- Around And Around
- 02:41
- 768 plays

- 16
- Beautiful Delilah
- 02:08
- 614 plays

- 17
- Carol
- 02:50
- 791 plays

- 18
- Anthony Boy
- 01:53
- 569 plays

- 19
- Jo Jo Gunne
- 02:48
- 514 plays

- 20
- Memphis
- 02:12
- 780 plays

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album review

Strictly focusing on his single tracks in a chronological manner, this first of two volumes in MCA's Chess 50th Anniversary collection hits all the high spots of Chuck Berry's career up to 1958. It also serves as the first compilation to really showcase his development as a songwriter over the first three years of his massive crossover success, including the seldom-anthologized "Downbound Train" (perhaps the darkest and most demonic ditty he ever recorded) juxtaposed against his car songs ("Maybellene," "You Can't Catch Me"), his calculated and carefully crafted instant classics for the 1950s teenage market ("Reelin' and Rockin'," "Sweet Little Sixteen," "School Day"), and his celebrations of the music itself ("Rock and Roll Music," "Johnny B. Goode," "Roll Over Beethoven"). There's a ton of great music here (with a second companion volume to complete the picture), and for a big chunk of what makes Berry perhaps rock & roll's original triple-threat package (singer, songwriter, and guitar hero), there's much here to tip the scales in its favor to recommend this volume as a first-time purchase. ~ Cub Koda, All Music Guide