Chuck Berry Is on Top

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Chuck Berry Is on Top

Studio album by Chuck Berry

Released

July, 1959

Recorded

Unknown

Genre

Rock and roll

Length

29:26

Label

Chess Records

Producer

Leonard Chess
Philip Chess

Professional reviews

Chuck Berry chronology

One Dozen Berrys
(1958)

Chuck Berry Is on Top
(1959)

Rockin' at the Hops
(1960)

Chuck Berry Is on Top is an album released by Chuck Berry in 1959 on Chess Records.

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If you had to sweat all of Chuck Berry's early albums on Chess (and some, but not all, of his subsequent greatest-hits packages), this would be the one to own. The song lineup is exemplary, cobbling together classics like "Maybellene," "Carol," "Sweet Little Rock & Roller," "Little Queenie," "Roll Over Beethoven," "Around and Around," "Johnny B. Goode," and "Almost Grown." With the addition of the Latin-flavored "Hey Pedro," the steel guitar workout "Blues for Hawaiians," "Anthony Boy," and "Jo Jo Gunne," this serves as almost a mini-greatest-hits package in and of itself. While this may be merely a collection of singles and album ballast (as were most rock & roll LPs of the 1950s and early '60s), it ends up being the most perfectly realized of Chuck Berry's career.