The Chess Box


The Chess Box is a compact disc box set compilation by Chuck Berry. It is one in a series of box sets issued by MCA/Chess in the late 1980s. The Chuck Berry set is the most prominent of these, having won a Grammy Award for Best Historical Album in 1989. Berry's Chess Box was reissued on vinyl in 1990.
This collection was also issued on audio cassette.

Songs

The songs "I'm Just a Lucky So and So" and "Time Was" were previously unreleased. "Cryin' Steel" was first released as "Surfin' Steel" on Chuck Berry on Stage. "Ramona Say Yes" did not have saxophones.
Another song of interest is "Chuck's Beat", from the album Two Great Guitars, by Berry and Bo Diddley.

Track listing

All songs written by Chuck Berry except as noted

Disc 1

  1. "Maybellene"
  2. "Wee Wee Hours"
  3. "Thirty Days"
  4. "You Can't Catch Me"
  5. "No Money Down"
  6. "Downbound Train"
  7. "Brown Eyed Handsome Man"
  8. "Drifting Heart"
  9. "Roll Over Beethoven"
  10. "Too Much Monkey Business"
  11. "Havana Moon"
  12. "School Days"
  13. "Rock and Roll Music"
  14. "Oh Baby Doll"
  15. "I've Changed"
  16. "Reelin' and Rockin'"
  17. "Rockin' at the Philharmonic"
  18. "Sweet Little Sixteen"
  19. "Johnny B. Goode"
  20. "Time Was"
  21. "Around and Around"
  22. "Beautiful Delilah"
  23. "House of Blue Lights"
  24. "Carol"

    Disc 2

  25. "Memphis, Tennessee"
  26. "Anthony Boy"
  27. "Jo Jo Gunne"
  28. "Sweet Little Rock N' Roller"
  29. "Merry Christmas Baby"
  30. "Run Rudolph Run"
  31. "Little Queenie"
  32. "Almost Grown"
  33. "Back in the U.S.A."
  34. "Betty Jean"
  35. "Childhood Sweetheart"
  36. "Let It Rock"
  37. "Too Pooped to Pop"
  38. "Bye Bye Johnny"
  39. "Jaguar and Thunderbird"
  40. "Down the Road a Piece"
  41. "Confessin' the Blues"
  42. "Thirteen Question Method"
  43. "Crying Steel"
  44. "I'm Just a Lucky So-and-So"
  45. "I'm Talking About You"
  46. "Come On"
  47. "Nadine "
  48. "Crazy Arms"
  49. "You Never Can Tell"
  50. "The Things I Used To Do"
  51. "Promised Land"

    Disc 3

  52. "No Particular Place to Go"
  53. "Liverpool Drive"
  54. "You Two"
  55. "Chuck's Beat"
  56. "Little Marie"
  57. "Dear Dad"
  58. "Sad Day Long Night"
  59. "It's My Own Business"
  60. "It Wasn't Me"
  61. "Ramona Say Yes"
  62. "Viva Viva Rock N' Roll"
  63. "Tulane"
  64. "Have Mercy Judge"
  65. "My Dream"
  66. "Reelin' and Rockin'", live recording
  67. "My Ding-a-Ling", live single-edit
  68. "Johnny B. Goode", live recording
  69. "A Deuce"
  70. "Woodpecker"
  71. "Bio"

    Personnel

According to Allmusic
Performers
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