Chuck Berry's Golden Hits

Chuck Berry's Golden Hits
Studio album by Chuck Berry
Released	March 1967
Genre	Rock and roll
Length	36:59
Label	Mercury
Chuck Berry chronology
Fresh Berry's (1965) Chuck Berry's Golden Hits (1967) Chuck Berry in Memphis (1967)

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Chuck Berry's Golden Hits is an album by Chuck Berry, released in 1967 by Mercury Records, his first for that label. It consists of new recordings of songs he had recorded for Chess Records and one new song. The re-recordings were performed with faster tempos and recorded in stereo. While the rest of Berry's albums for Mercury rest in obscurity, Golden Hits is still available.

Track listing

All songs written by Chuck Berry.

Side one

1. "Sweet Little Sixteen" (2:32)
2. "Memphis" (2:07)
3. "School Days (Ring Ring Goes the Bell)" (2:35)
4. "Maybellene" (2:35)
5. "Back in the U.S.A." (2:27)

Side two

1. "Johnny B. Goode" (2:45)
2. "Rock and Roll Music" (2:33)
3. "Roll Over Beethoven" (2:02)
4. "Thirty Days" (2:10)
5. "Carol" (2:24)
6. "Club Nitty Gritty" (2:18)

CD issue, 1989

1. "Sweet Little Sixteen"
2. "Memphis"
3. "School Days"
4. "Maybellene"
5. "Back in the U.S.A."
6. "Around and Around"
7. "Brown Eyed Handsome Man"
8. "Johnny B. Goode"
9. "Rock and Roll Music"
10. "Roll Over Beethoven"
11. "Thirty Days"
12. "Carol"
13. "Let It Rock"
14. "Reelin' and Rockin'"
15. "Club Nitty Gritty"

Personnel

• Chuck Berry – guitar, vocals
• Ebby Hardy – drums
• Johnnie Johnson – piano, electric piano
• Quincy Macon – rhythm guitar
• Eugene Washington – drums

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