The Great Twenty-Eight is a compilation album by Chuck Berry, released in 1982 on Chess Records. In 2003, the album was ranked number 21 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, the second-highest ranking compilation on the list after The Sun Sessions by Elvis Presley. Out of print for many years, the compilation was reissued on vinyl by Geffen Records on August 4, 2017, five months after his death. All of its 28 tracks can be found on the 2000 Anthology two-disc set. Geffen later announced a 'Super Deluxe Edition' vinyl reissue, containing the original album, a new compilation 'More Great Chuck Berry', a live album 'Oh Yeah! Live In Detroit', recorded in 1963, and a 10" EP called 'Berry Christmas'.[5]
A survey of Berry's first decade of recording on Chess Records, it contains 21 singles along with six of their B-sides and one album track from Chuck Berry in London. Of those singles, eleven were Top 10 hits on the Billboard R&B singles chart and ten were Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
Track listing
All tracks written by Chuck Berry.
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1. | "Carol" | Chess 1700 A (1958) | 2:46 |
2. | "Beautiful Delilah" | Chess 1697 A (1958) | 2:08 |
3. | "Memphis" | Chess 1729 B (1959) | 2:12 |
4. | "Sweet Little Rock and Roller" | Chess 1709 A (1958) | 2:20 |
5. | "Little Queenie" | Chess 1722 B (1959) | 2:38 |
6. | "Almost Grown" | Chess 1722 A (1959) | 2:19 |
7. | "Back in the U.S.A." | Chess 1729 A (1959) | 2:25 |
Personnel
- Chuck Berry – vocals, guitars
- Matt "Guitar" Murphy, Jimmy Rogers, Hubert Sumlin – electric guitars
- Johnnie Johnson, Lafayette Leake, Otis Spann, Paul Williams – piano
- Willie Dixon – bass
- Reggie Boyd, George Smith – bass
- Fred Below, Ebby Hardy, Odie Payne, Jasper Thomas – drums
- Jerome Green – maracas
- Gene Barge, L.C. Davis, James Robinson – saxophones
- Martha Berry, Etta James, The Ecuadors, The Marquees, The Moonglows – backing vocals
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