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product_id: 52890731
title: "The Ultimate Chuck Berry"
brand: "chuck berry"
price: "R729"
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reviews_count: 8
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# The Ultimate Chuck Berry

**Brand:** chuck berry
**Price:** R729
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## Description

Fantabulous three CD collection featuring the best tracks from three of Rock 'N' Roll's forefathers: Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and Buddy Holly. Disc One features 20 brilliant Berry nuggets including 'Roll Over Beethoven', 'Maybelline', 'Rock And Roll Music', 'Sweet Little Sixteen and more. Disc Two features 20 electric Jerry Lee Lewis cuts including 'Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On', 'Great Balls of Fire', 'Big Boss Man' and 'Breathless'. Disc Three contains 19 happenin' Holly hits including 'Oh Boy', 'Peggy Sue', 'Heartbeat', 'That'll Be the Day' and more. 59 tracks total. Spectrum. 2007.

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Great chuck berry so good
  

*by W***H on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 24 April 2023*

Am big chuck berry fan loved this cd

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    almost but not quite the definitive Chuck Berry collection
  

*by F***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 5 September 2007*

For any serious, as opposed to obsessive fan, this largely excellent collection contains about as much Chuck Berry as anyone could ever want, and the contents are mostly well chosen.  There are a fair number of obscure gems here that will please anyone who's enjoyed a single disc compilation and wondered if there was any more worth hearing: Childhood Sweetheart, Betty Jean, Little Marie (a surprisingly good sequel to Memphis Tennessee using the same tune but far better played and recorded), a fine cover of The Things I Used To Do, plus (nearly) all his classics and some fine minor hits such as Almost Grown, I'm Talking About You, You Can't Catch Me.So it seems churlish to point out the defects that make this a 4 star collection as opposed to a 5 star one, but defects there are.  First and foremost is the omission of the wonderful hit version of Sweet Little Rock And Roller in favour of an alternate version.  This isn't just an alternate take but a completely different arrangement.  The hit version, with its spine-tingling guitar solo, is essential, this is merely an interesting alternative version, only of interest to completists - and it seems likely the inclusion of the wrong one was careless, not deliberate.  Secondly, while the sound quality is good to excellent throughout, far too many of the 60s tunes are presented here in stereo.  As a general rule, pop singles (and we are talking rock'n'roll here) from before about 1966 should be presented in mono - the stereo mixes were always an afterthought, the mono ones almost always sound better - as for instance on the Rolling Stones' Singles Collection; note also that the first stereo single came out in 1968.  These aren't the worst examples I've heard by any means, but what's wrong with the mono versions?  And finally, there are a few tunes here that really didn't need reviving.  Foremost among these, of course, is the hideous and perhaps unavoidable My Ding-A-Ling, but several far more obscure tunes have either dated badly (Havana Moon), are cheesy, contrived novelties (Too Pooped To Pop) or just lame and out of tune (House Of Blue Lights).  It's notable that of those four, Chuck only wrote Havana Moon, and that's a thinly disguised re-write of Louie Louie.So not a perfect compilation - I'd hoped I'd never need any other Chuck Berry CD but I'm going to have to hold on to the one with the proper version of Sweet Little Rock And Roller on it - but having said all that, 90% of this is completely brilliant, stereo mixes or not, so if you want a lot of Chuck's classics and you're on a budget, this is unbeatable.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    More fun than the most fun thing you listened to before this
  

*by I***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 15 July 2010*

It's been a few years since I last listened to Chuck Berry and now I'm asking myself: Why? You could subtitle this record 'The Joy of Rock'n'Roll' because one track after another is a joyful romp, an exhuberant celebration of rock'n'roll and rhythm & blues, of being being young with a girl on your arm, a fancy car, and listening to music with the open road in front of you.Memorable classic track after classic track along with a few unexpected detours. There's a swamp-bluesish Downbound Train, a great version of blues standard The Things That I Used To Do, a cover of crooner Charles Brown's Merry Christmas Baby, the just odd but likeable Jo Jo Gunne, Havana Moon with its Louie Louie echoes, along with a plethora of Berry's lesser but still fun rockers. And, of course, there are all the big hits that made him a sensation.In the unlikely event that you've never actually heard any Chuck Berry, you will certainly have heard several of his songs as he's one of the most covered artists in the history of Rock from Buddy Holly, The Beatles,the Rolling Stones up to the present. The sad thing is that such marvellous life-enhancing music comes from someone who is a notorious mean-spirited miserly curmudgeon who was never the same after a spell in jail in the early 60's.But we have his marvellous music. If you're ever feeling down, just put on this collection and if it doesn't put a smile on your face then check your pulse because you aint down you're dead.(And, really, it isn't compulsory to listen to My Ding-a-ling, indeed it's best avoided. But after everything else, we can forgive him this one.)

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