16-CD-Box (28x28x6 cms) with 2 hardcover books (356 total pages) in clothbound slipcase, 396 tracks, total 21 hrs 11 mns

16-CD boxed set (28 x 28 x 6 cms ) with 2 hardcover books (356 total pages) in a clothbound slipcase, 396 tracks, total playing time: 21 hours and 11 minutes.

''If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.'' (John Lennon)

Since our launch in 1975, we at Bear Family have wanted to honor Chuck Berry. There have been endless Chuck Berry compilations-more than anyone could possibly tabulate, but we wanted to do the ultimate Chuck Berry compilation, containing:

Every single and LP track, starting with a rare pre-Chess single with Joe Alexander from 1954

All the celebrated and legendary Chess singles and album cuts from 1955 to 1966 and from 1969 to 1974

All the Mercury recordings, and the Atco album

Every surviving alternate take as well as classic live recordings from 1956 to 1972

Exclusive introduction by Sir Paul McCartney

But there's more!

Expatriate British photographer Bill Greensmith lives in St. Louis and a few years back he found the photo archive of Chuck Berry's uncle, Harry Davis. Included are many previously unseen images of Chuck performing in St. Louis and hanging out with friends and family. In these images, Chuck is unguarded and relaxed. We also see him performing at blues nightspots in and around St. Louis before he was famous. These photos, included with this set in a high quality 104-page hardbound book, will open your eyes to Chuck Berry as you've never seen him.

Plus, there's a second 252-page hardbound book with a definitive essay from Chuck's biographer, Bruce Pegg, additional texts by Mike Snow and Roger Fairhurst, a comprehensive discography by Fred Rothwell, hundreds of published and unpublished photos, including several images made by respected French photographer Jean-Marie Perrier in 1964.

Read more at: https://www.bear-family.de/

Track Listing

Disc 1:

• Newbury, Mickey
• Maybellene
• Wee Wee Hours
• Thirty Days (To Come Back Home)
• Together (We Will Always Be)
• You Can't Catch Me
• Roly Poly
• Berry Pickin' (instrumental)
• (The) Down Bound Train
• No Money Down
• I've Changed
• Drifting Heart
• Brown Eyed Handsome Man
• Roll Over Beethoven
• Too Much Monkey Business
• Havana Moon
• Rock And Roll Music (demo)
• Untitled Instrumental
• Deep Feeling (instrumental)
• School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes The Bell)
• Lajaunda (Español)
• Blue Feeling (instrumental)
• Low Feeling (instrumental)
• How You've Changed
• Rock And Roll Music
• Oh Baby Doll
• 13 Question Method
• How High The Moon (instrumental)
• Maria
• Hope These Words Will Find You Well
• Sweet Little Sixteen (demo)

Disc 2:

• Sweet Little Sixteen
• Rock At The Philharmonic (instrumental)
• Guitar Boogie (instrumental)
• Night Beat (instrumental)
• Time Was (slow version)
• Reelin' And Rockin'
• Chuckwalk (instrumental)
• Johnny B Goode
• Around And Around
• Ingo (instrumental)
• It Don't Take But A Few Minutes
• Blues For Hawaiians (instrumental)
• Beautiful Delilah
• Vacation Time
• 21
• 21 Blues
• Oh Yeah
• Hey Pedro
• Time Was
• House Of Blue Lights
• Carol
• Jo Jo Gunne
• Memphis Tennessee
• Anthony Boy
• Sweet Little Rock And Roller
• Long Fast Jam (instrumental)
• Long Slow Jam (instrumental)

Disc 3:

• Merry Christmas Baby
• Run Rudolph Run
• Little Queenie
• That's My Desire
• Do You Love Me
• Almost Grown
• Back In The USA
• Fast B 6 (instrumental)
• Blue On Blue (instrumental)
• Betty Jean
• County Line
• Childhood Sweetheart
• One O'Clock Jump (instrumental)
• I Just Want To Make Love To You
• Broken Arrow
• Let It Rock
• Too Pooped To Pop
• Say You'll Be Mine
• Let Me Sleep Woman
• Drifting Blues
• I Got To Find My Baby
• Don't You Lie To Me
• Worried Life Blues
• Our Little Rendezvous
• Bye Bye Johnny
• Run Around
• Jaguar And Thunderbird
• Diploma For Two
• Little Star
• The Way It Was Before
• Away From You
• Down The Road Apiece
• Confessin' The Blues
• Sweet Sixteen
• Thirteen Question Method
• Stop And Listen

Disc 4:

• I Still Got The Blues
• I'm Just A Lucky So And So
• Mad Lad (instrumental)
• Crying Steel (instrumental)
• Route 66 (take 10)
• I'm Talking About You
• Rip It Up
• Come On
• Adulteen
• The Man And The Donkey
• Go Go Go
• Trick Or Treat
• Brown Eyed Handsome Man (instrumental)
• All Aboard
• Nadine (Is It You')
• You Never Can Tell
• The Little Girl From Central
• (The) Things I Used To Do
• I'm In The Danger Zone
• I'm In The Twilight Zone
• Fraulein
• Lonely All The Time (Crazy Arms)
• O Rangutang (instrumental)
• Big Ben (Blues)
• (The) Promised Land
• Brenda Lee
• No Particular Place To Go
• You Two
• Liverpool Drive (instrumental)
• Chuck's Beat (instrumental)
• Bo's Beat (instrumental)
• Little Marie
• Go, Bobby Soxer

Disc 5:

• Lonely School Days
• His Daughter Caroline
• Dear Dad
• I Want To Be Your Driver
• Spending Christmas (My Blue Christmas)
• The Song Of My Love
• Butterscotch (instrumental)
• After It's Over (instrumental)
• Why Should We End This Way
• You Came A Long Way From St Louis
• She Once Was Mine
• Jamaica Farewell
• My Little Love Light
• I Got A Booking
• St Louis Blues
• Shake Rattle And Roll
• Honey Hush
• Wee Wee Hours (instrumental)
• Run Joe
• It's My Own Business
• One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
• Every Day We Rock And Roll
• My Mustang Ford (instrumental)
• My Mustang Ford
• Merrily We Rock And Roll
• Vaya Con Dios
• Wee Hour Blues
• It Wasn't Me
• Ain't That Just Like A Woman
• Right Off Rampart Street 2:21 31 Welcome Back Pretty Baby
• Sad Day, Long Night (instrumental)

Disc 6:

• Ramona, Say Yes
• Viva (Viva) Rock And Roll
• His Daughter Caroline (fast version)
• Lonely School Days (fast version)
• Campus Cookie (instrumental)
• Mum's The Word
• My Tambourine
• Laugh And Cry
• Maybelline
• School Days
• Memphis
• Rock'n'Roll Music
• Club Nitty Gritty
• Oh Captain
• Thirty Days
• Misery
• Ramblin' Rose
• Check Me Out
• I Do Really Love You
• Back To Memphis
• Bring Another Drink
• It Hurts Me Too
• Goodnight, Well It's Time To Go
• So Long
• My Heart Will Always Belong To You
• Flying Home (instrumental)

Disc 7:

• Sweet Little Rock'n'Roller
• I Can't Believe
• Soul Rockin'
• Ma Dear
• Rock Cradle Rock
• The Love I Los
• Louie To Frisco
• I Love Her, I Love Her
• Little Fox
• Song Of My Love
• Rock Cradle Rock (alt take)
• Good Lookin' Woman
• My Woman
• It's Too Dark In There
• Put Her Down
• Concerto In B Goode (instrumental)
• Tulane
• Have Mercy Judge
• My Ding-A-Ling

Disc 8:

• Gun (instrumental)
• Gun (Fast) (instrumental)
• Gun (Slow) (instrumental)
• That's None Of Your Business
• Instrumental
• Christmas
• I'm A Rocker
• Flyin' Home (instrumental)
• Fish & Chips
• Some People
• My Pad (poem)
• Oh Louisiana
• Festival
• Let's Do Our Thing Together
• Your Lick
• Bound To Lose
• Bordeaux In My Pirough
• San Francisco Dues
• My Dream (poem)
• Roll 'Em Pete
• Let's Boogie

Disc 9:

• Mean Old World
• I Love You
• I Will Not Let You Go
• London Berry Blues (instrumental)
• Blues #1 (instrumental)
• Annie Lou
• Rain Eyes
• You And My Country
• Sue Answer
• Got It And Gone
• A Deuce
• Talkin' About My Buddy
• Hello Little Girl Goodbye
• One Sixty Nine AM (instrumental)
• Aimlessly Driftin'
• Woodpecker (instrumental)
• Bio
• Roll Away
• Hi-Heel Sneakers
• Jambalaya
• South Of The Border

Disc 10:

• I'm Just A Name
• Too Late
• Turn On The Houselights (instrumental)
• Swanee River
• You Are My Sunshine
• Johnny B Blues (instrumental)
• Dust My Broom
• My Babe
• Here Today
• Rockin' (instrumental)
• Baby What You Want Me To Do
• Chuck's Beat
• Bo's Beat

Disc 11:

• I Got To Find My Baby (stereo)
• Bye Bye Johnny (stereo)
• Run Around (stereo)
• Diploma For Two (stereo)
• Down The Road Apiece (stereo-longer fading)
• Route 66 (stereo, alt take)
• I'm Talking About You (stereo)
• Come On (stereo, alt take)
• Go Go Go (stereo)
• Brown Eyed Handsome Man (stereo remix)
• Jamaica Farewell (mono)
• My Mustang Ford (stereo remix)
• It Wasn't Me (stereo, alt take)
• Ain't That Just Like A Woman (unfaded)
• Ramona, Say Yes (stereo, alt mix w-o sax)
• Move It
• Oh What A Thrill
• California
• Pass Away
• I Need You Baby
• If I Were
• House Lights
• I Never Thought
• Wuden't Me

Disc 12:

• Maybeline [sic]
• Schooldays (School Day)
• Johnny Be Goode
• First Set Introduction
• School Day
• Instrumental Boogie (instrumental)

Disc 13:

• Goodnight Sweetheart/Johnnie B Goode/Let It Rock/Rock & Roll Music
• Introduction Walled Lake Casino, Detroit (October 26, 1963) first set
• Chuck Berry Dialogue #1
• Introduction Walled Lake Casino, Detroit (October 26, 1963) second set
• Instrumental Boogie
• Chuck Berry Dialogue #2
• Goodnight Sweetheart/Johnny B Goode/Let It Rock/School Day

Disc 14:

• Fillmore Auditorium Introduction (June 27, 1967)
• Rockin' At The Fillmore (instrumental)
• Everyday I Have The Blues
• CC Rider
• Driftin' Blues
• Feelin' It (instrumental)
• I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
• Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
• Fillmore Blues (instrumental)
• Wee Baby Blues
• Johnny B Goode 3:00

Disc 15:

• Nadine
• School Day (Long Live Rock And Roll)
• (In The) Wee Wee Hours
• Carol/Promised Land
• Hoochie Coochie Man
• Reelin’ And Rockin’
• Bonsoir Cherie

Disc 16:

• Lanchester Arts Festival Introduction, Coventry (February 3, 1972)
• Roll Over Beethoven (Lanchester Arts Festival, Coventry (February 3, 1972))
• Nadine (Lanchester Arts Festival, Coventry (February 3, 1972))
• Sweet Little Sixteen (Lanchester Arts Festival, Coventry (February 3, 1972))
• Instrumental (testing) (Lanchester Arts Festival, Coventry (February 3, 1972))
• Roll 'Em Pete (Lanchester Arts Festival, Coventry (February 3, 1972))
• Around And Around (Lanchester Arts Festival, Coventry (February 3, 1972))
• It Hurts Me Too (Lanchester Arts Festival, Coventry (February 3, 1972))
• Promised Land (Lanchester Arts Festival, Coventry (February 3, 1972))
• Reelin' And Rockin' (Lanchester Arts Festival, Coventry (February 3, 1972))
• My Ding-A-Ling (Lanchester Arts Festival, Coventry (February 3, 1972))
• Johnny B Goode (Lanchester Arts Festival, Coventry (February 3, 1972))
• South Of The Border (BBC Television Theatre, London (March 29, 1972))
• School Days (BBC Radio, May 11, 1964 ‘Saturday Club' (BBC Light Programme))
• Memphis Tennessee (BBC Radio, May 11, 1964 ‘Saturday Club' (BBC Light Programme))
• Sweet Little Sixteen (BBC Radio, May 11, 1964 ‘Saturday Club' (BBC Light Programme))
• Interview (BBC Radio, May 11, 1964 ‘Saturday Club' (BBC Light Programme))
• Nadine (BBC Radio, May 11, 1964 ‘Saturday Club' (BBC Light Programme))
• Johnny B Goode (BBC Radio, May 11, 1964 ‘Saturday Club' (BBC Light Programme))
• Interview (Dr Pepper Promo)
• Dr Pepper Commercial (Dr Pepper Promo)
• Reelin' And Rockin' - Roll Over Beethoven (Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles (Late 1977))

Additional Details

Label: Bear Family Records

Genre: Pop/Rock

Run Time: 1271 mins

Release Date: 10/17/14

UPC: 5397102172731