Chuck Berry discography

Chuck Berry discography
Releases
Studio albums 18
Compilation albums 31
Singles 45
Soundtracks 1

This page is a discography of rock and roll musician Chuck Berry.

Contents

Albums

Studio albums

Title Album details[1][2][3] Peak chart positions
US 200[4] US R&B[4] CA[5]
After School Session
  • Released: May 1957
  • Label: Chess (LP-1426)
  • Format: mono LP
One Dozen Berrys
  • Released: March 1958
  • Label: Chess (LP-1432)
  • Format: mono LP
Rockin' at the Hops
  • Released: July 1960
  • Label: Chess (LP-1448)
  • Format: mono LP
New Juke Box Hits
  • Released: March 1961
  • Label: Chess (LP-1456)
  • Format: mono LP
Two Great Guitars
  • Released: August 1964
  • Label: Checker (LP-2991)
  • Format: mono LP
St. Louis to Liverpool
  • Released: November 1964
  • Label: Chess (LP/S-1488)
  • Format: mono/stereo LP
124
Chuck Berry in London
  • Released: April 1965
  • Label: Chess (LP/S-1495)
  • Format: mono/stereo LP
Fresh Berry's
  • Released: November 1965
  • Label: Chess (LP/S-1498)
  • Format: mono/stereo LP
Chuck Berry's Golden Hits
  • Released: March 1967
  • Label: Mercury (MG-21103/SR-61103)
  • Format: mono/stereo LP
Chuck Berry in Memphis
  • Released: September 1967
  • Label: Mercury (MG-21123/SR-61123)
  • Format: mono/stereo LP
From St. Louie to Frisco
  • Released: November 1968
  • Label: Mercury (SR-61176)
  • Format: stereo LP
185
Concerto in B. Goode
  • Released: June 1969
  • Label: Mercury (SR-61223)
  • Format: stereo LP
Back Home
  • Released: November 1970
  • Label: Chess (LPS-1550)
  • Format: stereo LP
San Francisco Dues
  • Released: September 1971
  • Label: Chess (CH-50008)
  • Format: stereo LP
The London Chuck Berry Sessions
  • Released: October 1972
  • Label: Chess (CH-60020)
  • Format: stereo LP
8 8 6
Bio
  • Released: August 1973
  • Label: Chess (CH-50043)
  • Format: stereo LP
175 58
Chuck Berry
  • Released: February 1975
  • Label: Chess (CH-60032)
  • Format: stereo LP
Rock It
  • Released: 1979
  • Label: Atco (SD-38-118)
  • Format: stereo LP
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Live albums

Compilation albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
U.S. 200[4] U.S. Blues[4] U.K.[6]
Chuck Berry Is on Top
  • Released: July 1959
  • Label: Chess LP-1435
  • Format: LP
Chuck Berry Twist
  • Released: February 1962
  • Label: Chess LP-1465
  • Format: LP
More Chuck Berry 9
Chuck Berry's Greatest Hits
  • Released: April 1964
  • Label: Chess LP-1485
  • Format: LP
34
The Latest and the Greatest
  • Released: May 1964 (UK only)
  • Label: Pye International NPL 28031
  • Format: LP
8
You Never Can Tell
  • Released: September 1964 (UK only)
  • Label: Pye International NPL 29039
  • Format: LP
18
Chuck Berry's Golden Decade
  • Released: 1967
  • Label: Chess 2CH-1514
  • Format: Double LP
72
Chuck Berry's Golden Decade, Vol. 2
  • Released: February 1973
  • Label: Chess 2CH-60023
  • Format: Double LP
110
Chuck Berry's Golden Decade, Vol. 3
  • Released: May 1974
  • Label: Chess 2CH-60028
  • Format: Double LP
Motorvatin'
  • Released: 1976 (Europe only)
  • Label: Chess 9288 690
  • Format: LP
7
The Great Twenty-Eight
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: Chess 2CH-8201
  • Format: Double LP
Motive Series
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: Mercury 6463129
  • Format: LP
Chess Masters
  • Released: March 1983
  • Label: Chess CXMP 2011
  • Format: LP
Rock 'n' Roll Rarities
  • Released: March 1986
  • Label: Chess 2CH-92521
  • Format: Double LP
More Rock 'n' Roll Rarities
  • Released: Agust 1986
  • Label: Chess CH-9190
  • Format: LP, CD, Cassette
The Chess Box
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: Chess CHD3-80001
  • Format: CD
Missing Berries: Rarities, Vol. 3
  • Released: June 1990
  • Label: Chess CHC/D-9318
  • Format: Cassette, CD
The Collection
  • Released: August 26, 1991
  • Label: MCA MCAC-17751
  • Format: Cassette
36 All-Time Greatest Hits
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Universal Distribution
  • Format: CD
Let It Rock
  • Released: June 4, 1996
  • Label: Universal Special MCAC/D-20931
  • Format: Cassette, CD
The Best of Chuck Berry
  • Released: July 26, 1996
  • Label: MCA MCAD-11560
  • Format: Double CD
Guitar Legends
  • 5 songs by Chuck Berry, 5 songs by Bo Diddley
  • Released: February 11, 1997
  • Label: Universal Special 20974
  • Format: Cassette, CD
His Best, Vol. 1
  • Released: March 25, 1996
  • Label: MCA/Chess CHD-9371
  • Format: CD
His Best, Vol. 2
  • Released: May 20, 1997
  • Label: MCA/Chess CHD-9381
  • Format: CD
The Best of Chuck Berry
  • Released: September 15, 1997
  • Label: Universal Distribution
  • Format: CD
Sweet Little Rock 'n' Roller
  • Released: October 14, 1997
  • Label: MCA/Chess CHD-80245
  • Format: CD
20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Chuck Berry
  • Released: March 23, 1999
  • Label: MCA MCAC/D-11944
  • Format: Cassette, CD
13
Anthology
  • Released: June 27, 2000
  • Label: MCA/Chess CHD-112304
  • Format: CD
The Ultimate Collection
  • Released: September 5, 2000
  • Label: Universal International 17751
  • Format: CD
Blues
  • Released: August 12, 2003
  • Label: MCA/Chess B000053002
  • Format: CD
Chuck Berry
  • Released: October 28, 2003
  • Label: Universal International 98017
  • Format: CD
Johnny B. Goode: His Complete '50s Chess Recordings
  • Released: February 19, 2008
  • Label: Hip-O Select-Geffen-Universal
  • Format: CD
You Never Can Tell: His Complete Chess Recordings 1960-1966
  • Released: March 31, 2009
  • Label: Hip-O Select-Geffen-Universal 12465
  • Format: CD
Have Mercy: His Complete Chess Recordings 1969-1974
  • Released: MArch 23, 2010
  • Label: Hip-O Select-Geffen-Universal 13790
  • Format: CD
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Soundtracks

Title Album details
Rock, Rock, Rock
  • Released: Dec 1956
  • Label: Chess (LP-1425)
  • Format: mono LP
Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll
  • Released: October 1987
  • Label: MCA (MCA/C/D-6217)
  • Format: LP/Cassette/CD

EPs

Title Album details
After School Session
  • Released: May 1957
  • Label: Chess (EP 5118)
  • Format: 7" 45 RPM
  • Origin: US
Rock and Roll Music
  • Released: 1957
  • Label: Chess (EP 5119)
  • Format: 7" 45 RPM
  • Origin: US
Sweet Little 16
  • Released: 1958
  • Label: Chess (EP 5121)
  • Format: 7" 45 RPM
  • Origin: US
Pickin' Berries
  • Released: 1958
  • Label: Chess (EP 5124)
  • Format: 7" 45 RPM
  • Origin: US
Sweet Little Rock and Roller
  • Released: 1959
  • Label: Chess (EP 5126)
  • Format: 7" 45 RPM
  • Origin: US
Chuck Berry
  • Released: 1963
  • Label: Pye International (NEP 44011)
  • Format: 7" 45 RPM
  • Origin: UK
This Is Chuck Berry
  • Released: 1963
  • Label: Pye International (NEP 44013)
  • Format: 7" 45 RPM
  • Origin: UK
The Best of Chuck Berry
  • Released: 1963
  • Label: Pye International (NEP 44018)
  • Format: 7" 45 RPM
  • Origin: UK

Singles

Year Title Chart positions
US Hot
[7][8]
US R&B
[7][9]
CA
[5]
GE
[10]
NL
[11]
NO
[12]
UK
[13]
1955 "Maybellene" (A-side) 5 1
"Wee Wee Hours" (B-side) 10
"Thirty Days" 2
"No Money Down" 8
1956 "Roll Over Beethoven" 29 2 31
"Too Much Monkey Business" 4
"You Can't Catch Me"
1957 "School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell)" 3 1 24
"Oh Baby Doll" 57 12
"Rock and Roll Music" 8 6
"Havana Moon"
1958 "Sweet Little Sixteen" 2 1 16
"Johnny B. Goode" 8 1
"Beautiful Delilah" 81
"Carol" 18 9
"Joe Joe Gun" (A-side) 83
"Sweet Little Rock and Roller" (B-side) 47 13
"Merry Christmas Baby" (A-side) 71
"Run Rudolph Run" (B-side) 69 36
1959 "Anthony Boy" 60
"Almost Grown" (A-side) 32 3
"Little Queenie" (B-side) 80
"Back in the U.S.A." (A-side) 37 16
"Memphis, Tennessee" (B-side) 6
"Childhood Sweetheart"
1960 "Let It Rock" (A-side) 64 6
"Too Pooped To Pop" (B-side) 42 18
"Bye Bye Johnny"
"I Got to Find My Baby"
"Jaguar and Thunderbird" 109
1961 "Little Star"
"Go-Go-Go"
1963 "I'm Talking About You"
1964 "Nadine" 23 7 27
"No Particular Place To Go" 10 2 6 3
"You Never Can Tell" 14 11 23
"Little Marie" 54 30 40
"Promised Land" 41 16 30 26
"Chuck's Beat"
with Bo Diddley
1965 "Dear Dad" 95
"It Wasn't Me"
1966 "Ramona Say Yes"
"Club Nitty Gritty"
1967 "Back to Memphis"
"Feelin' It"
1968 "St. Louis to Frisco"
1969 "Good Looking Woman"
1970 "Tulane"
1972 "My Ding-a-Ling" 1 42 1 40 29 7 1
"Reelin' and Rockin'" (live) 27 21 18
1973 "Bio"
1975 "Shake, Rattle and Roll"
1979 "California"
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Note that not all of Berry's UK singles were released in the same year as the initial U.S. release, and not all of Berry's UK singles featured the same A-Side/B-Side configurations as in the U.S.

Billboard did not publish a separate R&B singles chart in 1964. For this year only, R&B chart positions are from Cash Box magazine.[9]

References

  1. ^ Rudolph, Dietmar. "A Collector's Guide to the Music of Chuck Berry: The Chess Era (1955-1966)". http://www.crlf.de/ChuckBerry/chessupto1966.html. Retrieved October 3, 2010. 
  2. ^ Rudolph, Dietmar. "A Collector's Guide to the Music of Chuck Berry: The Mercury Era (1966-1969)". http://www.crlf.de/ChuckBerry/mercury.html. Retrieved October 3, 2010. 
  3. ^ Rudolph, Dietmar. "A Collector's Guide to the Music of Chuck Berry: The Back-at-Chess Era (1969-1975)". http://www.crlf.de/ChuckBerry/BackatChess.html. Retrieved October 3, 2010. 
  4. ^ a b c d "Charts & Awards: Chuck Berry - Billboard Albums". Allmusic. United States: Rovi Corporation. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p3664/charts-awards/billboard-albums. Retrieved January 1, 2011. 
  5. ^ a b "RPM Search Engine" (PHP). Library and Archives Canada. Created: March 31, 2004 Modified: October 1, 2004. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-100.01-e.php?PHPSESSID=m89iq841abagb37ld9c0fdc1f3. 
  6. ^ "Chuck Berry". The Official Charts Company. http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/chuck%20berry/. Retrieved January 1, 2011. 
  7. ^ a b "Chuck Berry - Billboard Singles". Allmusic. United States: Rovi Corporation. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p3664/charts-awards/billboard-singles. Retrieved December 22, 2010. 
  8. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1992). Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Pop Charts. United States: Record Research. ISBN 9780898200928. 
  9. ^ a b Whitburn, Joel (2006). The Billboard Book of Top 40 R&B and Hip-Hop Hits. United States: Record Research. ISBN 0823082830. 
  10. ^ "Chartverfolgung / BERRY, CHUCK / Single" (in German). Media Control Charts. Germany: Music Line. http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/BERRY%2C+CHUCK/single. Retrieved February 11, 2011. 
  11. ^ "My Ding-A-Ling by Chuck Berry" (ASP). Single Top 100. Hung Medien. http://www.dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Chuck+Berry&titel=My+Ding%2DA%2DLing&cat=s. Retrieved February 11, 2011. 
  12. ^ "My Ding-A-Ling by Chuck Berry" (ASP). VG-lista. Hung Medien. http://norwegiancharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Chuck+Berry&titel=My+Ding%2DA%2DLing&cat=s. Retrieved February 11, 2011. 
  13. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 55. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.