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From the Album
1. Run Rudolph Run
2. Merry Christmas Baby
3. Spending Christmas
4. Christmas
From the Single
Johnny B. Goode
From the Single Run Rudolph Run
Other Songs 30 Days Ain't That Just Like a Woman All Aboard Almost Grown Anthony Boy Around And Around Baby Won't You Come Out Tonight Back In The U.s.a. Back to Memphis Beautiful Delilah Betty Jean Big Boss Man Bio Blue Suede Shoes Blues for Hawaiians Bo Diddley Body and Soul Bordeaux In My Pirough Bound To Lose Breathless Brenda Lee Brown Eyed Handsome Man Bye Bye Johnny California Carol C.C. Rider Cest La Vie Changed Check Me Out Childhood Sweetheart Club Nitty Gritty Come On Confessin The Blues Crazy Arms Dear Dad Do You Love Me Don't Be Cruel Don't You Lie to Me Down the Line Down The Road A Piece Down the Road Apiece Downbound Train Dream Baby Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) Driftin' Blues Drifting Blues Drifting Heart Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee Drinkin' Wine Earth Angel Every Day I Have the Blues Everyday I Have the Blues Festival Fish and Chips Flip Flop and Fly Fraulein Go Bobby Soxer Go Go Go Good Looking Woman Good Morning Little Schoolgirl Goodnight Well It's Time to Go Got It and Gone Got My Mojo Working Havana Moon Have Mercy Judge Hello Little Girl, Goodbye High School Confidential His Daughter Caroline Hit the Road Jack Hoochie Coochie Man House Lights House of Blue Lights How High the Moon How You've Changed I Can't Believe I Do Really Love You I Don't Take But A Few Minutes I Got A Booking I Got To Find My Baby I Just Want to Make Love to You I Love Her I Love Her I Love You I Need You Baby I Never Thought I Want To Be Your Driver I Will Not Let You Go If I Were I'm a Man I'm a Rocker I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday I'm Just a Lucky So and So I'm Just a Name I'm on Fire Im Talking About You I'm Through With Love [Soundtrack Version] In the Wee Hours It Hurts Me Too It Hurts Me Too [Previously Unreleased Track; Bonus Track] It Wasn't Me It's My Own Business It's Too Dark In Here I've Changed Jack Rabbit Slims Twist Contest/You Never Can Tell Jaguar and Thunderbird Jamaica Farewell Song Jamaica Moon Jo Jo Gunne Johnny B Good Johny B. Good Johny B Goode Jonny Be Good Key to the Highway La Jaunda La Jaunda [Español] Let It Rock Lets Boogie Lets Do Our Thing Together Listen to Me Little Girl from Central [Bonus Track] Little Marie Little Queenie Little Star Liverpool Drive Lonely School Days Lonely Weekends Louis To Frisco Love Is Strange Love's Made a Fool of You Ma' Dear Ma' Dear Man and the Donkey Maybe Baby Maybellene Maybelline Me and Bobby McGee Me & Bobby McGee Mean Old World Memphis Memphis Beat Memphis Tennessee Misery Move It Mum's The Word My Ding A Ling My Ding-a-ling My Dream My Heart Will Always Belong to You My Little Love Lights My Mustang Ford My Woman Nadine Nadine (Is It You) No Money Down No Particualr Place To Go No Particular Place To Go Oh Baby Doll Oh Boy Oh Louisiana Oh What a Thrill Oh Yeah Old Time Rock N Roll Our Little Rendezvous Pass Away Peggy Sue Promised Land Rain Eyes Ramona Say Yes Rave On Ready Teddy Reelin and Rockin Reeling and Rocking Riding Along In My Automobile Right Off Rampart Street Rip It Up Rock And Roll Music Rock Cradle Rock Rockin Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu Roll Over Beethoven Roly Poly Route 66 Run Around San Francisco Dues School Day School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes The Bell) School Days Sexy Ways Shake, Rattle & Roll Some People Soul Rocking St. Louis Blues Still Got the Blues Stop and Listen Sue Ann Sir Sweet Little Rock And Roll Sweet Little Rock and Roller Sweet Little Rock 'N' Roller Sweet Little Rock & Roller Sweet Little RocknRoller Sweet Little Sixteen Sweet Sixteen Talkin bout You Talking About My Buddy Talking bout You Tell You About My Buddy The Festival The Little Girl from Central The Man And The Donkey The Things I Used to Do The Things That I Used to Do Think It Over Thirteen Question Method Thirty Days Together (We'll Always Be) Too Much Monkey Business Too Much Monkey Business For Me Too Pooped To Pop Trick or Treat Tulane Vacation Time Viva Viva Rock'n'roll Wee Wee Hours Welcome Back Pretty Baby Why Should We End This Way Wonderful Woman Worried Life Blues Wuden't Me You And My Country You Came a Long Way from St. Louis You Cant Catch Me You Never Can Tell You Two Your Lick You're the One
From the Single Run Rudolph Run
Other Songs 30 Days Ain't That Just Like a Woman All Aboard Almost Grown Anthony Boy Around And Around Baby Won't You Come Out Tonight Back In The U.s.a. Back to Memphis Beautiful Delilah Betty Jean Big Boss Man Bio Blue Suede Shoes Blues for Hawaiians Bo Diddley Body and Soul Bordeaux In My Pirough Bound To Lose Breathless Brenda Lee Brown Eyed Handsome Man Bye Bye Johnny California Carol C.C. Rider Cest La Vie Changed Check Me Out Childhood Sweetheart Club Nitty Gritty Come On Confessin The Blues Crazy Arms Dear Dad Do You Love Me Don't Be Cruel Don't You Lie to Me Down the Line Down The Road A Piece Down the Road Apiece Downbound Train Dream Baby Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) Driftin' Blues Drifting Blues Drifting Heart Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee Drinkin' Wine Earth Angel Every Day I Have the Blues Everyday I Have the Blues Festival Fish and Chips Flip Flop and Fly Fraulein Go Bobby Soxer Go Go Go Good Looking Woman Good Morning Little Schoolgirl Goodnight Well It's Time to Go Got It and Gone Got My Mojo Working Havana Moon Have Mercy Judge Hello Little Girl, Goodbye High School Confidential His Daughter Caroline Hit the Road Jack Hoochie Coochie Man House Lights House of Blue Lights How High the Moon How You've Changed I Can't Believe I Do Really Love You I Don't Take But A Few Minutes I Got A Booking I Got To Find My Baby I Just Want to Make Love to You I Love Her I Love Her I Love You I Need You Baby I Never Thought I Want To Be Your Driver I Will Not Let You Go If I Were I'm a Man I'm a Rocker I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday I'm Just a Lucky So and So I'm Just a Name I'm on Fire Im Talking About You I'm Through With Love [Soundtrack Version] In the Wee Hours It Hurts Me Too It Hurts Me Too [Previously Unreleased Track; Bonus Track] It Wasn't Me It's My Own Business It's Too Dark In Here I've Changed Jack Rabbit Slims Twist Contest/You Never Can Tell Jaguar and Thunderbird Jamaica Farewell Song Jamaica Moon Jo Jo Gunne Johnny B Good Johny B. Good Johny B Goode Jonny Be Good Key to the Highway La Jaunda La Jaunda [Español] Let It Rock Lets Boogie Lets Do Our Thing Together Listen to Me Little Girl from Central [Bonus Track] Little Marie Little Queenie Little Star Liverpool Drive Lonely School Days Lonely Weekends Louis To Frisco Love Is Strange Love's Made a Fool of You Ma' Dear Ma' Dear Man and the Donkey Maybe Baby Maybellene Maybelline Me and Bobby McGee Me & Bobby McGee Mean Old World Memphis Memphis Beat Memphis Tennessee Misery Move It Mum's The Word My Ding A Ling My Ding-a-ling My Dream My Heart Will Always Belong to You My Little Love Lights My Mustang Ford My Woman Nadine Nadine (Is It You) No Money Down No Particualr Place To Go No Particular Place To Go Oh Baby Doll Oh Boy Oh Louisiana Oh What a Thrill Oh Yeah Old Time Rock N Roll Our Little Rendezvous Pass Away Peggy Sue Promised Land Rain Eyes Ramona Say Yes Rave On Ready Teddy Reelin and Rockin Reeling and Rocking Riding Along In My Automobile Right Off Rampart Street Rip It Up Rock And Roll Music Rock Cradle Rock Rockin Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu Roll Over Beethoven Roly Poly Route 66 Run Around San Francisco Dues School Day School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes The Bell) School Days Sexy Ways Shake, Rattle & Roll Some People Soul Rocking St. Louis Blues Still Got the Blues Stop and Listen Sue Ann Sir Sweet Little Rock And Roll Sweet Little Rock and Roller Sweet Little Rock 'N' Roller Sweet Little Rock & Roller Sweet Little RocknRoller Sweet Little Sixteen Sweet Sixteen Talkin bout You Talking About My Buddy Talking bout You Tell You About My Buddy The Festival The Little Girl from Central The Man And The Donkey The Things I Used to Do The Things That I Used to Do Think It Over Thirteen Question Method Thirty Days Together (We'll Always Be) Too Much Monkey Business Too Much Monkey Business For Me Too Pooped To Pop Trick or Treat Tulane Vacation Time Viva Viva Rock'n'roll Wee Wee Hours Welcome Back Pretty Baby Why Should We End This Way Wonderful Woman Worried Life Blues Wuden't Me You And My Country You Came a Long Way from St. Louis You Cant Catch Me You Never Can Tell You Two Your Lick You're the One
Charles Edward Anderson Berry was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter who pioneered rock and roll. Nicknamed the "Father of Rock and Roll", he refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive with songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957), and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958).
Writing lyrics that focused on teen life and consumerism, and developing a music style that included guitar solos and showmanship, Berry was a major influence on subsequent rock music.
Born into a middle-class black family in St. Louis, Berry had an interest in music from an early age and gave his first public performance at Sumner High School. While still a high school student, he was convicted of armed robbery and was sent to a reformatory, where he was held from 1944 to 1947. After his release, Berry settled into married life and worked at an automobile assembly plant.
By early 1953, influenced by the guitar riffs and showmanship techniques of the blues musician T-Bone Walker, Berry began performing with the Johnnie Johnson Trio. His break came when he traveled to Chicago in May 1955 and met Muddy Waters, who suggested he contact Leonard Chess, of Chess Records. With Chess, he recorded "Maybellene"—Berry's adaptation of the country song "Ida Red"—which sold over a million copies, reaching number one on Billboard magazine's rhythm and blues chart.
By the end of the 1950s, Berry was an established star, with several hit records and film appearances and a lucrative touring career. He had also established his own St. Louis nightclub, Berry's Club Bandstand. He was sentenced to three years in prison in January 1962 for offenses under the Mann Act—he had transported a 14-year-old girl across state lines for the purpose of having sexual intercourse.
After his release in 1963, Berry had several more successful songs, including "No Particular Place to Go", "You Never Can Tell", and "Nadine". However, these did not achieve the same success or lasting impact of his 1950s songs, and by the 1970s he was more in demand as a nostalgia performer, playing his past material with local backup bands of variable quality. In 1972, he reached a new level of achievement when a rendition of "My Ding-a-Ling" became his only record to top the charts. His insistence on being paid in cash led in 1979 to a four-month jail sentence and community service, for tax evasion.
Berry was among the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on its opening in 1986; he was cited for having "laid the groundwork for not only a rock and roll sound but a rock and roll stance." Berry is included in several of Rolling Stone magazine's "greatest of all time" lists; he was ranked fifth on its 2004 and 2011 lists of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and 2nd greatest guitarist of all time in 2023.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll includes three of Berry's: "Johnny B. Goode", "Maybellene", and "Rock and Roll Music". "Johnny B. Goode" is the only rock-and-roll song included on the Voyager Golden Record.
Birth Name: Charles Edward Anderson BerryWriting lyrics that focused on teen life and consumerism, and developing a music style that included guitar solos and showmanship, Berry was a major influence on subsequent rock music.
Born into a middle-class black family in St. Louis, Berry had an interest in music from an early age and gave his first public performance at Sumner High School. While still a high school student, he was convicted of armed robbery and was sent to a reformatory, where he was held from 1944 to 1947. After his release, Berry settled into married life and worked at an automobile assembly plant.
By early 1953, influenced by the guitar riffs and showmanship techniques of the blues musician T-Bone Walker, Berry began performing with the Johnnie Johnson Trio. His break came when he traveled to Chicago in May 1955 and met Muddy Waters, who suggested he contact Leonard Chess, of Chess Records. With Chess, he recorded "Maybellene"—Berry's adaptation of the country song "Ida Red"—which sold over a million copies, reaching number one on Billboard magazine's rhythm and blues chart.
By the end of the 1950s, Berry was an established star, with several hit records and film appearances and a lucrative touring career. He had also established his own St. Louis nightclub, Berry's Club Bandstand. He was sentenced to three years in prison in January 1962 for offenses under the Mann Act—he had transported a 14-year-old girl across state lines for the purpose of having sexual intercourse.
After his release in 1963, Berry had several more successful songs, including "No Particular Place to Go", "You Never Can Tell", and "Nadine". However, these did not achieve the same success or lasting impact of his 1950s songs, and by the 1970s he was more in demand as a nostalgia performer, playing his past material with local backup bands of variable quality. In 1972, he reached a new level of achievement when a rendition of "My Ding-a-Ling" became his only record to top the charts. His insistence on being paid in cash led in 1979 to a four-month jail sentence and community service, for tax evasion.
Berry was among the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on its opening in 1986; he was cited for having "laid the groundwork for not only a rock and roll sound but a rock and roll stance." Berry is included in several of Rolling Stone magazine's "greatest of all time" lists; he was ranked fifth on its 2004 and 2011 lists of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and 2nd greatest guitarist of all time in 2023.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll includes three of Berry's: "Johnny B. Goode", "Maybellene", and "Rock and Roll Music". "Johnny B. Goode" is the only rock-and-roll song included on the Voyager Golden Record.
Also Known As: Father of Rock N' Roll
Born: October 18, 1926 in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Died: March 18, 2017 (at age of 90) near Wentzville, Missouri, U.S.
Spouse(s): Themetta Suggs (m. 1948)
Children: 4
Genre(s): Rock and roll, rhythm and blues
Instrument(s): Vocals, guitar
Occupation(s): Singer, musician, songwriter
Active From: 1953-2017
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