St. Louis to Liverpool

St. Louis to Liverpool Artist: Chuck Berry
Label: Chess
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 602498613528
EAN: 0602498613528
ASIN: B0001XAQSC


Release Date: 2004-04-13

St. Louis to Liverpool


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Tracks:

  1. Little Marie
  2. Our Little Rendezvous
  3. No Particular Place to Go
  4. You Two
  5. Promised Land
  6. You Never Can Tell
  7. Go Bobby Soxer
  8. Things I Used to Do
  9. Liverpool Drive
  10. Night Beat
  11. Merry Christmas, Baby
  12. Brenda Lee
  13. Fraulein [*]
  14. Little Girl from Central [*]
  15. O'Rangutang [*]

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars From St. Louis To Liverpool With Rock-n-Roll........2007-04-29

This is a different sounding Chuck Berry mixed in with some American versions of his standards and also a semi-country western type song that he started out playing when he was with the Johnny Johnston Trio in E. St. Louis, Illinois. Buy this album for the shear fact that no existing Chuck Berry cd sounds like this one. Little Marie is a version of Memphis, Tennesse but better. Our Little Rendezvous is a cooker and more like the Everly Brothers singing with Little Richard. No Particular Place To Go and You Never Can Tell are just Americanized Chuck songs but hey they are the best. PROMISED LAND WOULD GET HANK WILLIAMS SR. TO DO ROCK-N-ROLL...THIS IS THE TOPS. You Two is sort of a Big Band ballad sound that Chuck does once in awhile..he can be very versatile. Go Bobby Soxer is a straight cover of Johnny B. Goode but with new lyrics...I got off on it as Johnny B. Goode is the Rock-n-Roll national anthem according to George Thoroughgood. The Things That I Used To Do, Night Beat and Merry Christmas Baby are Chuck getting down and dirty in the Delta Mud...that cat can sing jazz, ballads, blues, rock and lawrd who knows what else...probably gospel also. Liverpool Drive show cases the band musical side and is a great jitterbug song. Brenda Lee is o.k. but not for me. I wish Chuck would let Ray Charles sing Country and Western and left off Fraulein...left me cold. THE ABSOLUTE BEST SONG ON THIS CD IS ONE THAT I HAD NEVER HEARD BEFORE...O'RANGUTANG....it starts off with the famous Elmore James riff and never lets, up. Add some sax and piano and you have a true Chicago Blues Style song....IT PUT ME INTO ROCK-N-ROLL HEAVEN. The last song "The Little Girl From Central" is a straight cover of the more famous "Sweet Little Sixteen." How about that, Chuck steals from himself and makes more hits. BUY THIS CD BECAUSE YOU WILL NEVER HEAR A COMPILATION LIKE THIS ONE AGAIN...A BIG 5 STARS FROM JOLIET JAYKE THE BLUZE BROTHER.

5 out of 5 stars Very good. It rocks........2006-11-08

A good selection of Chuck Berry stuff to listen to. It will have you dancing.

5 out of 5 stars Classic Chuck Berry.......2004-08-16

Chuck Berry spent much of 1962 and all of 1963 in jail after being convicted on a Mann Act charge. When he emerged in January of 1964, the popular music landscape had been forever changed by the British Invasion. Fortunately artists like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones worshipped the founding father of rock 'n' roll. [The stones included "Carol" on their 1964 debut, and the Beatles included a cover of "Roll Over Beethoven" the same year on their second U.S. album.] Berry used this momentum to go into the studio to cut one of the strongest albums of his career. In addition to the hits "No Particular Place to Go" (No. 10), "You Never Can Tell" (No. 14), and "Little Marie" (a sequel to "Memphis" that went to No. 54), it also includes the standard "Promised Land." To some extent, this is Berry's final hurrah. A year after the album's release, he turns forty, and the elder statesman of rock seems to have lost much of his drive. He has one final hit (the double entendre novelty song "My Ding-A Ling" goes No. 1 in 1972), but by then Berry seems content to spend the remainder of his career on the oldies circuit. But ST. LOUIS TO LIVERPOOL is classic Berry, and it's made even better with the addition of three bonus tracks: "Fraulein," "The Little Girl From Central" and "O'Rangutang." If you need proof that Berry was still a vital artist after the British Invasion, this album proves it beyond a doubt. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

4 out of 5 stars +1/2 -- Berry responds to the British Invasion.......2004-04-22

Having toured the UK in the early '60s, Berry was aware of the impact he was having, and perhaps had an inkling of the British tsunami that was about to flood American shores. This album, released in 1964, doesn't greatly change Berry's formula of clever lyrics, memorable guitar licks and Johnnie Johnson's ever-present piano backings, but it does add a few classics and some fine album tracks to the canon.

Best known are the hit "No Particular Place to Go," and the oft-covered "You Never Can Tell. Both are heard in crisp, expansive stereo - sure to confound listeners weaned on AM radio. A trio of slow blues includes the original "Night Beat," a cover of Guitar Slim's "Things I Used to Do" and a late-night reading of the Charles Brown chestnut "Merry Christmas, Baby." The original album's tracks include a follow-on to "Memphis" titled "Little Marie," and this release's bonus tracks include a follow-on to "Sweet Little Sixteen" titled "The Girl From Central."

Berry sounds energized on album cuts like "Our Little Rendezvous" and "Promised Land," and especially on the original instrumental "Liverpool Drive." With the Beatles and Rolling Stones just then beginning to cover his catalog on record, his singing, lyrics and guitar playing still sound contemporary-for-the-time. Even when he's recycling his own riffs and melodies, Berry adds new tempos, arrangements or lyrical twists that reinvent the original spark. Three bonus tracks include the non-US ballad, "Fraulein," the B-side instrumental "O'Rangutang," and the aforementioned "The Girl From Central." All tracks appear to be original stereo, except for 2, 10-12, and 14.

4-1/2 stars, if allowed fractional ratings.

5 out of 5 stars

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