Rockit (album)

Rock It
Studio album by Chuck Berry
Released	1979
Studio	Berry Park Studios, Wentzville, Missouri
Genre	Rock and roll
Length	36:00
Label	Atco
Producer	Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry chronology
Chuck Berry Live in Concert (1978)Chuck Berry Live in Concert1978 Rock It (1979) The Great Twenty-Eight (1982)The Great Twenty-Eight1982

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
The Village Voice	B+[2]

Rockit is an album by Chuck Berry, released in 1979 by Atco Records. It was his only release for the label.^[3] Atco was the third label for which Berry made studio recordings, after two tenures with Chess Records, interrupted by a brief stint with Mercury Records in the 1960s.

Rock It was Berry's last studio album for 38 years, until Chuck in 2017.^[4] It is also the last studio album to be released in his lifetime. Along with 1964's St. Louis to Liverpool, Robert Christgau considered Rock It one of two full-length albums recorded by Berry in his lifetime that were "worthy of the name", a "groove" record "sharpened by two back-end songs skewering the racist society he'd striven so audaciously to integrate and enlighten".^[5]

Track listing

All songs written by Chuck Berry

1. "Move It" (2:31)
2. "Oh What a Thrill" (3:08)
3. "I Need You Baby" (3:11)
4. "If I Were" (3:04)
5. "House Lights" (4:30)
6. "I Never Thought" (3:52)
7. "Havana Moon" (re-recording) (5:08)
8. "Wuden't Me" (2:42)
9. "California" (2:19)
10. "Pass Away" (5:35)

Personnel

• Chuck Berry – guitar, vocals
• Kenny Buttrey – drums
• Johnnie Johnson – piano
• Jim Marsala – bass
• Bob Wray – bass

Technical

• Tony Gottlieb - production assistance
• Doug Morris - executive producer
• Kyle Lehning – engineer, mixing
• Bob Defrin - art direction
• Don Brautigam - cover illustration

References

External links

• Rock It at Discogs (list of releases)