The Great Twenty-Eight
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Average customer review:Track Listing
- Maybellene
- Thirty Days
- You Can't Catch Me
- Too Much Monkey Business
- Brown Eyed Handsome Man
- Roll over Beethoven
- Havana Moon
- School Days
- Rock & Roll Music
- Oh Baby Doll
- Reelin' and Rockin'
- Sweet Little Sixteen
- Johnny B. Goode
- Around and Around
- Carol
- Beautiful Delilah
- Memphis
- Sweet Little Rock & Roller
- Little Queenie
- Almost Grown
- Back in the U.S.A.
- Let It Rock
- Bye Bye Johnny
- I'm Talking About You
- Come On
- Nadine
- No Particular Place to Go
- I Want to Be Your Driver
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #33141 in Music
- Released on: 1990-10-25
- Number of discs: 1
Customer Reviews
The Best Single Disc Chuck Berry Compilation
For someone on a budget who is interested in the music of this legendary artist, look no further than this single disc album. The sound and track selection here are excellent. Anyone interested in early Rock 'N Roll needs to have at least one Chuck Berry album in their collection and you can't go wrong here. For those of you have a few extra dollars around, I strongly suggest 2 disc set, "Anthology 2"; or upgrade even further to the 3 disc "The Chess Box" set. "The Box Set" can easily be considered one of the foundations of rock n roll & the Mt Olympus of Chuck Berry collections.
****July 2006 Update. The release of the "Definitive Collection" now puts "Great Twenty-Eight" in the #2 slot. "Definitive Collection" has every track included here (in basically the same order), but includes two more tracks: "Promised Land" & "My Ding-A-Ling". So if you're budget dictates a single disc album purchase, "Definitive Collection" should be your choice.
Let me hear some of that rock and roll music
This is the definitive single disc Chuck Berry compilation. The title says it all. It contains 28 great songs. Not necessarily Chuck's "greatest" songs, but great nonetheless. "You Never Can Tell" is unquestionably one of Chuck's greatest songs, and it's not here. But, c'est la vie. The songs that they do include are great, so I won't complain. Highly recommended.
Great Chuck Berry
Some of the newer "remastered" packages have better sound quality, but if you are looking for a restrospective sampling of some of the best "roots of rock n roll" music ever, this might well be it. 28 songs on one cd, I mean you will feel like you have died and gone to Chuck Berry heaven. The full staple of hits is here, including some gems little heard. My favorites next to the ones everyone knows would be "30 Days"...a real cookin classic and "Nadine". This version of "Roll Over Beethoven" is simply the best ever done...not many songs will give a person goose bumps or send a shiver down the spine, but this is one of those....absolutely fantastic! It is no wonder so many of the world's greatest rock n roll groups were influenced by Mr. Berry...he had the soul to make rock n roll great.




