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Universal's 2005 release Gold is a repackaged reissue of their excellent 2000 release The Anthology, containing the same 50 tracks over two CDs, the same mastering, and the same liner notes. The only difference is the title and the artwork, which are tailored to be part of Universal's ongoing Gold series (which somehow is more extensive than their ongoing Platinum series, even if it isn't as precious a metal). Clearly, anybody who owns that previous compilation has no need to repurchase this set, but anybody who's looking for a good compilation of Chuck Berry's classic Chess recordings of the '50s and '60s should get this, since this contains all of the hits plus the great majority of such excellent non-hit singles as "Jaguar & Thunderbird," "Tulane," and "Jo Jo Gunne," none of which are on the seminal Great Twenty-Eight comp (all 28 songs from that collection are here, however). While it's not as exhaustive as the triple-disc Chess Box, there's not a bad cut here outside of the abominable "My Ding-A-Ling" -- a novelty that grows worse with each passing year, but is regrettably (yet somehow fittingly) Chuck's only number one single -- and it comes as close to being a definitive Chuck Berry anthology as a double-disc compilation can be.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - WILLIE DIXON, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Johnnie Johnson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Jerome Green, Maracas, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer - Ebby Hardy, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1955 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, Composer, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - WILLIE DIXON, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Johnnie Johnson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Jerome Green, Maracas, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer - Ebby Hardy, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1955 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jasper Thomas, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - WILLIE DIXON, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Johnnie Johnson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Jerome Green, Maracas, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1955 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - WILLIE DIXON, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Otis Spann, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer - Ebby Hardy, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1955 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - WILLIE DIXON, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Otis Spann, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer - Ebby Hardy, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1955 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - WILLIE DIXON, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Johnnie Johnson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer - Ebby Hardy, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1955 UMG Recordings, Inc.
L.C. Davis, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - WILLIE DIXON, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Johnnie Johnson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer - Fred Below, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 UMG Recordings, Inc.
L.C. Davis, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - WILLIE DIXON, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Johnnie Johnson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer - Fred Below, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 UMG Recordings, Inc.
L.C. Davis, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - WILLIE DIXON, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Johnnie Johnson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer - Fred Below, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - WILLIE DIXON, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jimmy Rogers, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Johnnie Johnson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer - Fred Below, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - WILLIE DIXON, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Hubert Sumlin, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Johnnie Johnson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer - Fred Below, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - WILLIE DIXON, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer - Fred Below, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Lafayette Leake, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
G. Smith, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Unknown, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Don Raye, ComposerLyricist - Freddie Slack, ComposerLyricist - Johnnie Johnson, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer - Ebby Hardy, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1958 Geffen Records
Chuck Berry, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1958 Geffen Records
Chuck Berry, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1959 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1959 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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Chuck Berry, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1959 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1979 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1959 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1959 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1959 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Billy Davis, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1959 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1960 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1961 Geffen Records
Chuck Berry, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1960 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1960 Geffen Records
Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - WILLIE DIXON, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Don Raye, ComposerLyricist - Matt "Guitar" Murphy, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Johnnie Johnson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer - Ebby Hardy, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1960 Geffen Records
Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - WILLIE DIXON, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Matt "Guitar" Murphy, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - JAY MCSHANN, Composer - Walter Brown, Author - Johnnie Johnson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer - Ebby Hardy, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1960 Geffen Records
Chuck Berry, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc.
L.C. Davis, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Johnnie Johnson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer - Martha Berry, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Ebby Harding, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1961 Geffen Records
Chuck Berry, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1964 Geffen Records
James Robinson, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - L.C. Davis, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Unknown, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Johnnie Johnson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer - Odie Payne, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1964 Geffen Records
Unknown, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - WILLIE DIXON, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer - Lafayette Leake, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Odie Payne, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1964 Geffen Records
Unknown, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Paul Williams, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer - Odie Payne, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1964 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1964 Geffen Records
Chuck Berry, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1965 Geffen Records
Chuck Berry, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1969 Geffen Records
Chuck Berry, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Esmond Edwards, Producer
℗ 1972 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Esmond Edwards, Producer
℗ 1972 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Berry, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Esmond Edwards, Producer
℗ 1973 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Albumbeschreibung
Universal's 2005 release Gold is a repackaged reissue of their excellent 2000 release The Anthology, containing the same 50 tracks over two CDs, the same mastering, and the same liner notes. The only difference is the title and the artwork, which are tailored to be part of Universal's ongoing Gold series (which somehow is more extensive than their ongoing Platinum series, even if it isn't as precious a metal). Clearly, anybody who owns that previous compilation has no need to repurchase this set, but anybody who's looking for a good compilation of Chuck Berry's classic Chess recordings of the '50s and '60s should get this, since this contains all of the hits plus the great majority of such excellent non-hit singles as "Jaguar & Thunderbird," "Tulane," and "Jo Jo Gunne," none of which are on the seminal Great Twenty-Eight comp (all 28 songs from that collection are here, however). While it's not as exhaustive as the triple-disc Chess Box, there's not a bad cut here outside of the abominable "My Ding-A-Ling" -- a novelty that grows worse with each passing year, but is regrettably (yet somehow fittingly) Chuck's only number one single -- and it comes as close to being a definitive Chuck Berry anthology as a double-disc compilation can be.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 50 track(s)
- Total length: 02:10:55
- Main artists: Chuck Berry
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Geffen
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc. This Compilation ℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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