The Chess Box (1988)

About this title: Over the course of three compact discs, The Chess Box contains most of the highlights from Chuck Berry's career, including all of the hit singles. In addition to the familiar items, which are all included here, there are numerous tracks that are lesser-known but equally as good. That's particularly true on the stellar first two discs, where album tracks, B-sides, and forgotten singles like "Downbound Train," "Drifting Heart," "Havana Moon," "Betty Jean," "Bye Bye Johnny," "Down the Road a Piece," and "The Thirteen Question Method" get equal space with "Maybellene," "Thirty Days," "No Money ... read more

Tracks:

1. Maybellene [Berry]
2. Wee Wee Hours [Berry]
3. Thirty Days [Berry]
4. You Can't Catch Me [Berry]
5. No Money Down [Berry]
6. Downbound Train [Berry]
7. Brown Eyed Handsome Man [Berry]
8. Drifting Heart [Berry]
9. Roll over Beethoven [Berry]
10. Too Much Monkey Business [Berry]
11. Havana Moon [Berry]
12. School Days [Berry]
13. Rock & Roll Music [Berry]
14. Oh Baby Doll [Berry]
15. I've Changed [Berry]
16. Reelin' and Rockin' [Berry]
17. Rockin' at the Philharmonic [Berry]
18. Sweet Little Sixteen [Berry]
19. Johnny B. Goode [Berry]
20. Time Was [Luna/Prado/Russell]
21. Around and Around [Berry]
22. Beautiful Delilah [Berry]
23. House of Blue Lights [Raye/Slack]
24. Carol [Berry]
25. Memphis [Berry]
26. Anthony Boy [Berry]
27. Jo Jo Gunne [Berry]
28. Sweet Little Rock & Roller [Berry]
29. Merry Christmas, Baby [Baxter/Moore]
30. Run Rudolph Run [Brodie/Marks]
31. Little Queenie [Berry]
32. Almost Grown [Berry]
33. Back in the U.S.A. [Berry]
34. Betty Jean [Berry]
35. Childhood Sweetheart [Berry]
36. Let It Rock [Berry]
37. Too Pooped to Pop [Berry]
38. Bye Bye Johnny [Berry]
39. Jaguar and Thunderbird [Berry]
40. Down the Road a Piece [Raye]
41. Confessin' the Blues [Brown/McShann]
42. Thirteen Question Method [Berry]
43. Crying Steel [Berry]
44. I'm Just a Lucky So and So [David/Ellington]
45. I'm Talking About You [Berry]
46. Come On [Berry]
47. Nadine [Berry/Freed]
48. Crazy Arms [Seals/Mooney]
49. You Never Can Tell [Berry]
50. The Things I Used to Do [Guitar Slim [Eddie]
51. Promised Land [Berry]
52. No Particular Place to Go [Berry]
53. Liverpool Drive [Berry]
54. You Two [Berry]
55. Chuck's Beat [Berry/Diddley]
56. Little Marie [Berry]
57. Dear Dad [Berry]
58. Sad Day, Long Night [Berry]
59. It's My Own Business [Berry]
60. It Wasn't Me [Berry]
61. Ramona Say Yes [Berry]
62. Viva Viva Rock & Roll [Berry]
63. Tulane [Berry]
64. Have Mercy Judge [Berry]
65. My Dream [Berry]
66. Reelin' and Rockin' [Live] [Berry]
67. My Ding-A-Ling [Live, Single Edit] [Berry]
68. Johnny B. Goode [Live] [Berry]
69. A Deuce [Berry]
70. Woodpecker [Berry]
71. Bio [Berry]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.