FIRST TIME HEARING Chuck Berry - Johhny B Goode REACTION
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- FIRST TIME HEARING Chuck Berry - Johhny B Goode REACTION
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"I guess you guys aren't ready for that, yet. But your kids are gonna love it."
Love this song in Back To The Future!! 🙂
This is exactly my first thought when this popped on my feed. I love Marty McFly's version in back to the future. Best part is when the band member who Marty is replacing calls up his cousin "chuck" and says "you know that sound you've been looking for, well listen to this" and he holds the phone up to the performance. Freaking awesome!
LOL
Lmao
😉
It’s not rock, it’s Rock”n”Roll
This is why the scene in "Back to the Future" where Marty plays with the band and goes a little wild then tells everyone that their kids are gonna love this is so iconic.
"HEY Chuck, it's your cousin Marvin...Marvin BERRY!, Listen to this!" loved that scene.
This song is, considered by many, to be the very birth of rock and roll.
Rocket 88? Don't get me wrong. Chuck Berry is one of not the first rock star. Love him. But rocket 88
Got that right
Birth of rock, not rock n roll.
Really? When Elvis, Little Richard, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly and dozens more had huge hit Rock and Roll songs prior to Johnny B Goode? Chuck Berry had many prior hits including ''"Rock and Roll Music" the previous year.
It's debatable, but Rocket 88 in 1951 is most often considered the 1st. By Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats with Ike Turner. Don't have to like him to give credit.
The following I checked online for accuracy:
Bill Haley & His Comets started playing Rock and Roll with a Rocket 88 cover in 1951. “Rock Around the Clock” was copyrighted by songwriters Max C. Freedman & James Myers in March 1953. The Comets recorded it in 1954. The song appeared in the movie "Blackboard Jungle" & quickly became the first huge Rock and Roll hit, #1 for 2 months. Bill Haley & His Comets were soon replaced with younger edgier artists like Berry, Elvis, Little Richard, etc... There's evidence Freedman who was 60 in 1953 wrote the song himself. I'm in my mid-50s myself & find that rather inspiring.
People are misunderstanding what was stated, rock around the clock was considered the start of the rock and roll era because it went to number 1 , no one ever said it was the first rock and roll song,
Chuck Berry is beyond "god" status. He influenced every rock guitarist that ever played. Remember, this is 1958. He didn't just rock the boat, he sank the damn thing.
🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Chuck Berry got ripped off by a promoter ONCE. He would refuse to perform unless paid in cash upfront. Promoters must have hated him
@@roryrory5047 He would also put riders in his contracts that were virtually impossible for promoters to fulfill or the promoter would have to pay Berry a bonus. Things like asking for a certain piece of equipment that there were only three of in the country.
He died at the age of 90years old
@@locustjohn3865 Can't say I blame him artists were ripped off appallingly in those days
Chuck Berry IS the Godfather of Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Rosetta Thorpe is the god mother
Actually Marty McFly is the Godfather of Rock ‘n’ Roll! 😁
Yes he is:)
@@jimhsfbay 😆
@@stephenbrown199 She absolutely is!
JOHN LENNON ONCE SAID, "IF IT WASN'T CALLED ROCK AND ROLL, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN CALLED CHUCK BERRY!"
You can watch Angus Young pay tribute to Chuck every concert he plays....
the duck-walk is his.
God bless rock and roll!
His influence on Angus certainly shows everytime Angus goes on the stage yes :D
Angus, Elvis, Michael Jackson pretty much all the players with “stage presence” from the 50s on thru owe at least a little to Chuck Berry.
Along with Little Richard of course
Not Jazz...Blues is the foundation for most Rock 'n' Roll.
rythem and blues
Rock and Roll, like most music evolved, it wasn't born. It is still evolving.
Partially agree,,swing and big band, led to the Jump Swing of acts like Louis Jordan which Bill Hailey is emulating. In terms of electric guitar all comes from Black bluesman for sure.
This is basically a blues in twelve bars.
@@jgsrhythm100 The piano was very prominent early on too. With the likes of Fats Dominoe, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
“Buddy Holly” is another Founding Father of Rock n Roll :
- Everyday
- Rave On
- That’ll Be the Day
- Peggy Sue
Yes Buddy Holly is really good
Buddy Holly is a Must ,and Jerry Lee Lewis
He passed away 2017 and was from Missouri and it was definitely the pioneer of Rock and Roll. His nickname was Father of Rock and Roll
St. Louis, Mo.
This song has been covered by soooo many bands over the last 60+ years
Angus Young's duck walk is a straight imitation of Chuck Berry.
🤘🏻😎
He acknowledges that. Chuck Berry was a big influence you can hear it in some of his chord progressions, solos, and timing.
Look up sister Rosetta Tharpe. She is definitely one of the original architects of rock and roll.
I should apologize to you. I just posted that nobody mentions Sister Rosetta Tharpe. I didn't look far enough or closely enough. She was the Godmother of Rock and Roll in so many ways. #sorry
Only woman I have seen who can cook without even using a stove.
@S Ragsdale Aretha Franklin before Aretha Franklin...man what a voice!
Yes 👍 Sister Rosetta, first to do distortion on Electric car too …. amazing
OG Queen 👑 Of Rock n Roll 💚
In the late '30s Sister Rosetta invented the sound that would later be called R&R.
This song was put on the gold disc on board "Voyager 1" and he's singing to the stars.
News bulletin: scientists have received the first message from alien civilization: it is a four word message:
"SEND MORE CHUCK BERRY!"
The reactions of the hosts are so pure and joyous. Without Chuck Berry, there is no rock and roll. Thank you for sharing a song from the year I was born.
J , you need to react Fats Domino" blueberry Hill" and Jerry Lee Lewis " great balls of fire" both piano players
Little Richard - Lucille
For sure Jerry Lee Lewis
@@macinfloydvolk they should also react to "Long Tall Sally", "Tootie Fruity" and "Good Golly Miss Molly"
Little Richard is the next obvious choice.
Tutto Fruitii, Lucille, Long Tall Sally!
also Jerry Lee Lewis "Whole Lotta Shakin"
She's got this, Chuck Berry is the first Rockstar. He put the showmanship into it...This song is historic, they sent it into space. True story.
Everyone else copied him.
@@louiseasmith1336
Elvis was the first, in 1954.
He opened the doors for Little Richard and Chuck Berry.
Little Richard is on camera saying it was Elvis who really made his career, singing black people's music, so in other words it was fine to listen to it.
Remember segregation was rife then, black people were second rate citizens.
Elvis was white and if you watch his first appearances it was all white teenage girls screaming.
Common sense really millions more white teenage girls and boys to buy the records and go to appearances as they were then.
Elvis opened doors for many performers black and white.
That is history.
LONG LIVE THE KING ❤
Elvis stood by the back door of blues club and got his inspiration from black blues artists as well as country and gospel. I'm not sure you can pick a single performer who started rock n roll..The term was invented by a DJ. Carl Perkins, Elvis, Buddy Holly as well as Berry and Little Richard all added to the genre.
@@jennywren7822 he was first to copy the black players and was successful because he was white. Even he said he copied the black dance moves. But not the first to invent R+R
@@robertbeaulieu9386
Guess what?
Elvis presley's initial sound was the fusion of white country and bluegrass with black blues.
When you say just black music alone, you reveal racist tendencies.
The birth of rock n roll, heavy metal, rap, r&b, and everything that we all love. Chuck berry is The Godfather of rock n roll!
He is considered the Father of rock 'n' roll.
I aalllllwwaaayyysss loved Chuck Berry! I was a child in the 80s but it didn't matter, Chuck Berry was in my top list! He is so cool! 😁
No one person started Rock and Roll. It was a vibe going around influenced by many things and different people put their spin on it. It was an evolution, not something born on one spot fully formed. All music is like that.
Exactly
Here is what really happened
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Yep most great music can't be put in one particular box.
Precisely!
Well said. You could apply that to practically any 'invention'.
Little Richard always claimed the “originator” title but that’s debatable. Back in 1957/58 you had Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Buddy Holly. The term “Rock N Roll” had been used since 1946 but was an obscure term until the 50’s when Alan Freed (a disc jockey) used it a lot to describe this style of music.
The term rock and roll was originally a euphemism of coitus .
I understood Carl Perkins started it all w/ the original version of Blue Suede Shoes. But who really knows?
@@bluebird3281 like the term Jazz too right ?
Nicely done on the history side.
@@bluebird3281 and religious ecstasy.
This is 58 true blues that got twisted into Rock and Roll , Chuck took it to another level and so it all began .
Bill Hayley and the Comets started to perform in 1953 and Chuck Berry started performing about that same time . Thank you for asking and yes i am a white man that simply adored Chuck Berry! I loved dancing to all of Chucks music. He was and always will be 1 of my favorite performers . Again, i thank you so much for asking about Chuck Berry!!!!!
I'm 60 years old and I can't tell you how fun it is to watch the younger generations learn the history of music!! Keep on learnin!
Agreed! It's a pleasure to watch them discover all this for the first time! I can't get enough.
I'm 79 and all you said, but sometimes I cannot believe what the younger gen does not know. My parents were born in 1911&1912, but when I was in my teens 1950s I knew lots of music from the roaring twenties. Their music
I grew up in the 60s and I was taught Chuck Berry was the father of Rock and Roll. Of course there was an abundance of great groups at the time, but he had the showmanship to go along with his musical talent. Definitely a legend!
Chuck is, and will forever be, the Godfather of Rock n Roll. Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, those are the men who birthed rock n roll.
Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire and Little Richard- Tutti Frutti
you will love the piano on those
Chuck Berry has a hilarious song called My Ding-A-Ling
Gotta watch a live version for that one.
Early rock came from blues. Chuck Berry, Elvis, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and all the others basically took blues, combined it with the swing genre and created Rock-N-Roll. You can hear it the the 12 bar blues progression and the walking bass line. Jazz came from blues. Basically most if not all western pop music came from blues.
Actually, they combined blues and country....
I saw Chuck Berry in concert. He was the opening act for the Rolling Stones during their “Gimme Shelter” tour (late 60s). He was awesome! He out-performed the Stones. Even at his age, he still performed the duck walk.
Some things to keep in mind: this was EARLY, classic rock 'n roll, emerging out of the swing and big band eras. The sound hadn't fully developed yet. Audio recording technology was relatively primitive compared to today. To our modern ears, it can sound sketchy, tinny, and the instruments unbalanced with one another. Also, electric guitars back then were still relatively new and much of the "rock sound" hadn't even been invented yet! Modern rock guitar effects like distortion, overdrive, compressor, flanger, wah-wah etc. weren't a thing yet - the sound mostly just ran straight from the guitar into the amp. Tremolo and reverb were pretty much it. Drum kits were very basic for the most part. So yeah, if you're comparing this to say, Guns 'n Roses and confused that both are considered "Rock music", keep in mind that it's a broad category and realize that decades of musical evolution came after! S'all good though. ;)
Right! It was all new and wide open, and Chuck saw it and made it his. You can just look at the venue he’s playing and the audience. They’re dressed for classical or maybe formal jazz, and here comes Chuck Berry plugging in his electric guitar. They’d never seen anything like that, surely not in the concert hall, and really I give them credit for open minds, although as far as classic rock & roll goes, how can you get better than Chuck Berry playing “Johnny B Goode”, the quintessential song that set the form and structure that future rock & roll songs used?: two verses about a kid playing guitar, a double guitar solo, one more verse and a finish. Perfection.
Lathe Dauphinot Right on!!!
I agree with a lot of what you’ve just written. However, I just want to clarify that although, yes, R’n’R was “emerging out of the swing and big band ERA”, it *was not* emerging *from* the swing and big band GENRES. R’n’R came from a fusion of (primarily) rhythm and blues with an element of blues, country, bluegrass and rockabilly.
Chuck Berry a lot of times traveled alone with just his guitar and would pick up a band to back him up at the venues he played at. The band would usually never have backed him up before and in some cases would never have heard him play. To make things even more difficult for the orchestra he improvised a lot as you just saw in this video. The orchestra just had to try to keep up. Luckily most had experience with playing jazz and had learned to adapt quickly.
@@caseyparker6375 I saw him play that way. In 1983 when I graduated high school, my dad took me and three of my buddies to see him play with the house band at Billy Bob’s in Fort Worth, “the world’s largest honky-tonk”. He opened with “Roll Over Beethoven”, the house band was good, and I loved it. Yep, he’d come in the back door carrying his guitar, go straight to the promoter to get paid, then walk on stage, plug in, and start playing. When he finished, he put the guitar in the case, left $1000 for the band and amps rental, walked out the back door, got in the rent car, and was gone.
For rocking on a piano, listen to Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire.
I was brought up with these two as my Dad was a piano player.............i just had to go and watch Blueberry Hill and Great Balls Of Fire lol
Yes! Some consider Great Balls of Fire the greatest Rock & Roll song ever written
Shout out to Dazo for mentioning Blueberry Hill.
Fats Domino was EPIC!
Little Richard , Tutti Frutti, long tall sally , Lucille. Ike Turner, rocket 59, Fats Domino, ain't that ashame , blueberry hill. Chuck Berry, no particuler place to go, hello Josephine, etc. Jerry Lee Lewis copied Little Richard's style.
@@elijahbethea6313 little Richard, another one i listened to when i was a boy 👌. Johnny Johnson was another, who was Chuck Berry's piano player. Chuck stole loads of licks off Johnny and transposed them to guitar 😁
Agree with you totally- none better than Jerry Lee Lewis.
Real music people know Chuck is the king of Rock n Roll. It started with Chuck, and he still goes hard as fuck.
Cheers!
Johnny B Goode was a real person named Johnny Johnson. Johnson was actually from Fairmont, WV, USA - my hometown.
"I Think That Rock'n'Roll Has It's Origins In Jazz"
Actually, Jordan, Rock'n'Roll is derived from Blues music
Don't forget the country.
Blues and country, but jazz would find its way in there. Remember, at that time Jazz was the dominant music, so Bill Haley's band infusing some aspect of jazz was a good way to bridge genres and sell more records.
R&B, gospel and country swing.
@@richardmather1906 Sun Records. Sun was the first label to record Elvis Presley, Charlie Rich, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash. Prior to them, Sun Records had recorded a lot of black performers, because Sam Phillips liked rhythm and blues.
Rock and roll has always adopted elements of blues, jazz, r&b, country, bluegrass, gospel... rock and roll is a glorious mutt!
Bruce Springsteen once said that the only show he'd pay to see was Chuck Berry. A vinyl of this song was put on the spaceship Voyager that left our solar system several years ago. On there for any life form that encounters it. Chuck called his famous dance The Duck Walk.
Re: Voyager 1
"Send More Chuck Berry" SNL
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Love chuck Berry .. is a legend. That duck walk and the guitar move is soo damn cool with the guitar solo.
There are times I watch you two react, and it just makes me laugh so hard! JAY:" I get a ROCK VIBE,...!" YEAH, D'YA THINK? I truly admire your innocence with some of the performers! Love the channel guys!
Chuck Berry is famous for his “Duck Walk” that you’ve seen Angus imitate in so many AC/DC videos.
Which performance does Berry perform hus Duck Walk? I think it's "Maybelleen".
@@kathyp1563 every live one
He make it live of this song in concert with Bruce Springsteen
Aaaa, how about the word GREAT?
I saw an interview with Chuck where he said he started to "duck walk" to try and hide the wrinkles in his (Rayon) suits from long hours on the road (remember, this is most bands, especially when up and coming, drove themselves in their own cars). It was a hit, so he incorporated it into his act.
"If you wanted to give Rock another name, you could just call it Chuck Berry."
- John Lennon
& Chuck Berry is from St. Louis, and just died in the last few years.
There is a cool Chuck Berry statue in St. Louis
@@jayjeffrey1724 Would he be considered the oldest rock musician, like Dick Clark was the world's oldest teenager?
We were still listening to Chuck in high school in the 70's. THE Godfather of Rock N Roll !!!
I was listening to him in high school I was class of 2015-2016
Little Richard !!!! The King,God,Founder,Creator of rock n roll!!!!bar none!
There IS NO rock n roll without Chuck.
He's literally the reason Elvis and Jimi pick up a guitar. He's the Reason Mic, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan and Keith Richards ever get into music.
There is no Chuck Berry without Sister Rosetta Tharpe!
@@ddskreamer THANK YOU! All of the early rock and rollers, Chuck Berry, Elvis, Little Richard, etc, were directly influenced by her and wouldn't have had shit had it not been for the originator, the godmother, Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Let's put some respect on her name.
@@garrettlink9090 Rubbish.
@@frankhyland6333 I was wrong about Elvis. John Lennon, Keith Richards, and Bob Dylan all idolized Chuck.
“The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock and Roll”- Muddy Waters
Chuck Berry is from Wentzville, MO. When he was alive he always played at the Duck Room in University City, MO. There is a statue of him on the Delmar Loop on University City, MO suburb of St. Louis, MO.
First Rock and Roll song : Jacky Bereston in 1951 "Rocket 88" he was the sax player in Ike Turners Band. (Tina Turners husband). Chuck died in 2017
My Ding a Ling is a classic! I still remember hearing this as a kid when it came out! It`s a cute funny tale. Please react to the live version! You will love it! Keep On Rockin`.
My Ding a Ling, cute and funny! well I guess so, but not R&R, but playing with your Ding a Ling as you well know Dee, has a double meaning, Chuck Berry was so much more than that.
The pioneer, the one from whom you can tell springboarded the other early ones, is definitely Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Li'l bit of gospel, li'l bit of blues, and a whole lot of electric guitar.
I should apologize to you. I just posted that nobody mentions Sister Rosetta Tharpe. I didn't look far enough or closely enough. She was the Godmother of Rock and Roll in so many ways. #sorry
Now youre talkin !! She was way ahead of the game
She may have invented the guitar solo. She loved her guitar so much that she was buried with it when she died.
Classic, classic rock and roll. There is no one original rock song but this is definitely from the roots of it all. Love this song. Soooo cool.
DJ Alan Freed: The Inventor of Rock and Roll. Alan Freed was the most famous of radio DJ who coined the phrase Rock and Roll. He played bands like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, the Coasters and the Platters so yes this is the first origins of Rock right here.
While many artists are rock pioneers, CHUCK BERRY is universally considered the first who put it all together: the country guitar licks, the rhythm and blues beat, and lyrics that spoke to a young generation. In just a few songs, he drew a musical blueprint for what the world would soon know as rock & roll.
And he was inclusive. He never mentioned color or race or religion in his rockers, this was intentional, he wanted to show how we are alike, not different. Sweet Little Sixteen clearly highlights this.
universally? Bullshit.
If you ever seen the movie Back to the Future …. At the end of the movie Marty played Johnny Be Good …. He was channeling Chuck Berry . Mr Berry was born in St. Louis Mo.
Also in "Back to the Future" as Marty is playing "Johnny B. Good, one of the band members calls his cousin "Chuck" on the phone and says "Man you gotta hear this"... so technically Marty McFly may have been the guy who originated Rock and Roll.
Also if you like Chuck Berry, you need to check him out doing "My Ding-a-Ling".
“It’s your cousin, Marvin, Marvin Berry, that new sound you’ve been lookin for....”
Chuck Berry is “THE FATHER OF ROCK & ROLL”
John Lennon said if they had to give Rick n Roll another name it would be Chuck Berry!
The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Elvis all praise and play Chuck Berry songs!!
Most experts consider "Rocket 88" by Jackie Brinston (1952) to be the first rock 'n' roll song. Chuck Berry is considered the Father of rock 'n' roll because he defined how it looked and sounded. Many "oldies" concerts end with all the acts performing "Johnny B Goode" as the encore--it is considered the epitome of rock 'n' roll. He is from Saint Louis; his hero was Muddy Waters; he recorded for Chess Records in Chicago--they have an awesome blues catalogue. Johnny is probably Johnny Johnson, the boogie pianist who backed up Chuck's early recordings, along with Willie Dixon on bass, and Ebbie Harding on drums (at least the name Johnny). He died several years ago at the age of 90. John Lennon of the Beatles once said that if you were to give rock 'n' roll another name you might call it Chuck Berry; almost every "English Invasion" artist/act from the 1960s cited Chuck Berry as a major influence.
If you didn’t know this song, that’s means you’ve never seen Back To The Future…which is more disappointing than not knowing the song. 😁
Seriously I was thinking the same thing.
On the plus side, if they watch the movie now, they will get the scene where Marty is playing - and "Marvin" calls his cousin. : )
Well then he should
Me personally I think alot of these reactors are lying their asses off to get views. If you have cable I'm pretty sure everyone has seen back to the future. If not they've been living under a rock.
@@MrGrifter123 Well, you can see the movie and not understand the reference.
From Wikipedia; “
Charles "Chuck" Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 - March 18, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. 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 …”
That IS an opinion by a particular author. There were many early pioneers.
Thank you James
Chuck was from St. Louis. I loved watching the smiles on your faces as you listened. Its just good, fun, clean rock and roll!
You gotta watch Chuck Berry do his 'duck walk' as he's rockin.
The Big Bopper “Chantilly Lace”
Richie Valen “LaBamba” and “Oh Donna”
Jerry Lee Lewis “Great Balls of Fire”
Definitely Ritchie Valens LA Bamba!!
@@Jamesleekirk Movies...
Gene Vincent as well
you read my mind. excellent choices
@@matthewburkart7718 Gene Vincent is the man!👍
No question it is Chuck Berry. Saw him live in 1979 when I was 16 years old, and it was awesome.
Charles Edward Anderson Berry
Was born October 18th 1926
In St. Louis, Missouri.
Considered by many as the "father of rock 'n' roll," Chuck Berry had early exposure to music at school and church. As a teen, he was sent to prison for three years for armed robbery. He began producing hits in the 1950s, including 1958's
"Johnny B. Goode
At the end of 1952, he met Jonnie Johnson, a local jazz pianist, and joined his band, the Sir John's Trio. Berry revitalized the band and introduced upbeat country numbers into the band's repertoire of jazz and pop music. And the rest is history, as they say.
More early rock:
Eddie Cochran: "Summertime Blues"
Gene Vincent: "Be-Bop-A-Lula"
This song was in "Back to the Future" when Marty is playing at the school.
Fun trivia: The guitar Marty plays in Back to the Future is a Gibson ES345 - which was invented in 1958, 3 years after the scene in the movie took place at the 1955 prom. He played a song from the future with a guitar from the future 😉
Yeah that was so funny especially when the guy called Chuck Berry on the phone and said hey I found your new sound!
So, MARVIN Berry invented Rock'n'Roll ;)
@@chefskiss6179 that's so funny! Yeah- Chuck's cousin.
You guys need to get that "Rock" wasn't a thing back then. It was "Rock'n'Roll". There was no one person who started it, the whole point was that it was a combo of a lot of different people playing a lot of genres and styles, yes, including Jazz😉(especially Swing Jazz), also Country, Blues, Gospel, & Folk. But I guess if you had to pick one person, it might be Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who I unfortunately only discovered recently. Amazing guitarist!
Chuck Berry was one of the first guitar heroes, and was a big influence on John Lennon, George Harrison, Keith Richards, and so many other guitarists of the '60s. He passed away in 2017 at the age of 90.
I was fortunate enough to see Chuck Berry live with Little Richard back in 1999. They rocked it just as good as they did in the 50's. Chuck even did his duck walk.
You two would enjoy his live version of "My Ding-A-Ling"
Please no! I know he regarded it as his pension but if I had gone to a CB concert I would have been more than happy not to hear it.
@@joyfulzero853 I so agree with you on that, ha ha! I can't believe how many people are recommending it!
The Godfather of Rythm and blues, ( Rock & Roll ) Chuck Berry love him just the best period 😎
This brings me back to my youth. I''m 89 now. And enjoying so much. You have to Play Tom Jones. Delilah. Loved Chuck Berry.
Most Rock-n-Roll historians believe “Rocket 88” by Jackie Brenston in 1951 was the first one. It actually had distorted guitar. “Rock Around the Clock” came out in 1955. By that time more artists began to appear: Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, and of course, Chuck Berry. They were monstrous inspirations to the musicians who would take the genre to stratospheric levels: Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Who, and just about all rock artists who came out in the 60’s and early 70’s. And yes, Southern Blues was the primary musical inspiration.
Rock around the Clock was 1952 (Bill Haley and The Comets) and was a hit - ergo the historians give the credit to him. Chuck Berry put the 'Roll' in rock n roll with his popular 1958 "Rock And Roll Music" record. A thing becomes popular when it's repeated by others, not just an obscure recording or catch phrase by someone.
@@jollyrodgers7272 Chuck Berry wrote and recorded "Roll Over Beethoven" in 1956.
Same thing I’ve heard.... Rocket 88 was the start of Rock music. But I’m not an expert on the subject.
The Godfathers of Rock N Roll - yes Elvis, yes Beatles, and Chuck has got to be in there also.
Beatles came 10 years later
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Beatles, no.
Watching Stevie Ray Vaughn you can hear Chuck.
@@denroy3 The Beatles influenced more great musicians and groups than anyone ever by far.
Chuck Berry is from St. Louis, Mo. and the strange thing about it is that the house that I lived in 10 years ago was the house that he grew up in as a kid.
Chuck Berry is a St. Louis, Missouri ROCK ICON. We love him here. We have a statue in STL in the LOOP where his club Blueberry Hill is located. He DEFINITELY started rock n roll. NOT Elvis.
He performed in this club up until a few months before his death.
My Mother was a HUGE Chuck Berry fan. We lived in St. Louis. We had every one of his albums. My Mom would sprinkle baby powder on our hardwood floors, tell me to go get my socks on, then, she would jitterbug me all over the floor teaching me to dance to this music. It was a fast crazy very athletic dance.
Also check out Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Big Bopper, Little Richard…..so many more.
This is what we called "ROCK N ROLL" the REAL Rock n Roll.
Chuck Berry was a St. Louis boy from start to finish. He died at age 90 (2017), and until somewhere around a year, he played at his own club there at least once a month.
And yes, this song is semi-autobiographical. He changed the names and locations from St. Louis - and the street he grew up on was Goode Street - and he was also not uneducated. He had a degree in...wait for it....hairdressing and cosmotology. But the vibe, the gist, the FEEL of the story in the song, the kid that wants to be up on stage with a guitar? That's all him.
Chuck Berry... Nadine! Wonderful!! 😎
LOVE Chuck Barry!!! Mabelline, Roll Over Beethoven, love them all!
Bill Haley and Rock around the clock was 1955 and Johnny B Goode was 1958. Both songs are classics.
Go look up Sister Rosetta Tharpe - she is considered to have had the most influence on Rock 'n Roll starting way back in the '30's. She was a BIG influence on Chuck's guitar playing.
Have they even heard Little Richard yet? Someone needs to give them a good video and documentary about the beginning of rock and roll so they won't have to guess in public--and sorry, my beloved Richard, but it was even before you. These young people would surely be proud to know that it's their heritage, mostly, with a lot of the music of all the poor people of America, including country western, long before tv, before white businessmen started to say we need a white man who can sing this black music and found Elvis. Music brings us together and then cycles back to separate us because of innocent ignorance. People can't seem to love music without fighting over it as if it was a sport, ruining the healing, the love, or letting their religion tell them that some music is a sin.
You should check out Jimmy Hendrix cover of Johnny B Goode
I believe Rosetta Tharpe was the first rocker!
@@glennmeade890 No, but one of them! Early, and she really did rock! Robert Plant saw her when he was young and claims she said Sweet boy, you should come on the road with us! I really don't doubt it!
She was amazing, and that SG guitar never sounded so good.
Bill Haley & The Comets’ “Rock Around The Clock” (1954), Little Richard’s “Tutti Frutti” (1955), and Elvis Presley’s “Hound Dog” (1956) were some of the first. Little Richard considered himself as the architect of Rock N Roll. Let's not forget Jerry Lee Lewis
He was also a great father and husband, and he was a huge hit !!!
This is not Rock. It's Rock 'n Roll - it still has a bit of swing to it and a back beat (emphasis on 2 & 4).
Rock comes years later and has heavy 1 & 3 emphasis.
In fact the lyrics to one of Chuck's songs called "Rock and Roll Music" says "It's got a back beat you can't lose it".
THIS!!
@Maya Nightwolf Exactly.
Finally someone who knows what he's talking about
Remember from Back To The Future,when Michael J.Fox's character Marty singing this at the prom.In 1958 this was considered to be rebellious music.
In fact, in the movie, the singer who hurt his hand hears Marty's performance and runs to the phone and calls "Chuck! It your cousin, Marvin... Marvin Berry. You know that new sound you're looking for? Well listen to this!"
1955 sir,lol
Good thing Mwrvin cakled his brother or he might have had to start rock n roll by himself,lol
Chuck Berry #1 he put rock & roll together, Elvis Presley a big r & r star 🕺🎸 The Big Bopper, Bill Haley, Richie Valens, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard ! Chuck Berry was from St. Louis & passed on in 2017 may he Rest In Peace 🎸
Mr. Chuck Berry was from my hometown of St. Louis. He performed continually at a favorite local spot called Blueberry Hill nearly until year he passed away in 2017, at the age of 90.
Another early name not to forget is Little Richard - Tooti Frutie, of course early Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock etc.
The best of all time rock and roll piano player, JERRY LEE LEWIS. Whole Lot of Shakin' going on, WILD ONE, Great Balls of Fire.
Saw him in a nightclub in Maryland in the mid 70’s with my husband, just after he shot his bass player. He was an hour late but boy what a show! What a thrill! (And he went a loooong time!)
AMEN BROTHER!
By all means the founder of rock and roll!!!
Chuck Berry was a great performer who influenced all the rock bands of the era like the Stones. As shown in back to the future. He asked to audience to participate at Wolverhampton Civic centre and I was one of the lucky six people to get up on stage with him. He was seventy at the time in the nineties but still going strong.
If you want to delve into the beginnings of Rock N' Roll, It all starts with the Blues. Robert Johnson in the 1930's is the foundation of it all, then into the Big Band era of Glenn Miller in the early 1940's, then into the Country Swing of Hank Williams Sr. in the late 1940's, then into the jazz/blues/R&B of Ray Charles in the early 1950's, then into those who melded it all together into this new thing called "Rock N' Roll" in the mid 1950's (Fats Domino, Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard). Then Elvis came along, and blew the doors wide open with his first recording (and first hit) "That's Alright Mama". I love them all, but it would be fun to see you react to Fats Domino, with such classic hits as "Blueberry Hill", "Ain't that a shame", and "Blue Monday". So many great hits!
Peace
there always has to be one person that is going to bring poor Elvis into it.
And it was you.
Elvis was an impersonator.
Not an originator.
@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 Can I sit through Elvis Presley's version of Blue Suede Shoes? Hell no! I love Carl Perkins, his amazing songwriting and guitar playing abilities were truly genius, and he is without a doubt another foundation stone in this thing we call Rock N' Roll. And for the fact that Elvis was not a songwriter, I agree with you to an extent, but the reality is, Elvis had an ear for great Rhythm and Blues songs, and he had a voice that cut through the Johnny Mathis and Pat Boone fluff that the recording industry was spoon feeding to the majority of the population at that time. Elvis introduced the roots of black music to a whole new audience of white kids, which opened the doors wide open for what would become Rock N' Roll. I'm attaching a link to an interview by Robert Plant in which he describes this phenomena much more eloquently then I ever could. But if you do the research, you will find similar statements from the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and almost every other musician of that time period who grew up in the 1950's and wanted to pursue a life in music. I hope this helps in your pursuit of knowledge. Here's the link:
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@@thewizard6077 Firstly, I have no intention of watching another video of what people say how good or how they were influenced by Elvis I have seen them all. I care not for what people say about anybody. I have the ability to make up my own mind, I care less to be a sheep and follow the crowd. I do not own any Zeppelin music, however I have heard heaps. The Stones accredit most of their music to black music, i.e Muddy Waters. Now, Elvis was found by the colonel, he was molded into the great white hope to get the white girls out of the black clubs, because back then white America didn't want their "pure white American daughters" going to the black clubs because that's where it was all going on. In steps the colonel, molds Elvis. The colonel promoted him like crazy. White America took the bait and ate it all up. Lennon said before Elvis there was nothing. Do you think that Lennon was taking the piss out of every one by saying that? Have a think about the statement!! And in my opinion the beatles were not all that great. Elvis started doing gospels songs. The colonel got Lieber and Stoller, wrote him a couple of songs and then they were off. Once they had the white dollar they then chased the black dollar. In modern times it is exactly what Simon Cowell does with his bunch of groovy accountants. I hope this helps in your pursuit of knowledge.
@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 You make a lot of valid points, and I don't necessarily disagree with a lot of what your saying, but based on your logic, I should hate the Coasters as well, because most (if not all) of their songs were written by Leiber and Stoller, and I LOVE the Coasters! So many fantastic hits like Yakety Yak, Poison Ivy, Young Blood, and others! And not just the fantastic, clever songwriting of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, but the awesome vocals and harmonies, and the amazing productions with the grooving beats and that amazing early distorted guitar sound in the back with the saxophone. I mean, just simply fantastic! Look, I hate the later, fat Elvis as much as anybody else on the planet who appreciates good music, but I can't deny that a lot of his early recordings just rock!, with Scotty Moore tearing it up on the guitar, and Bill Black with his awesome rocking Bass lines. I mean, they were rocking, no mater who wrote the songs, and although I wasn't alive at the time to give a first hand account of what was going down in the mid 1950's, it doesn't take the Amazing Kreskin to see the countless number of musicians who grew up at the time claiming Elvis was a major force in their life. But I totally appreciate where your coming from, and I enjoyed reading your argument. Much more detailed and in depth then your initial 4 line comment.
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@@thewizard6077 Just for the record I have never in any of my comments have I hated nor been racist about Elvis. and I have never told or stated that people should not listen to and go crazy over Elvis. What people need to realize is that he was a puppet to the colonel. Not nor have I ever said he wasn't a good entertainer for the white folk. However what amazes me is that most if not all Elvis reactions are done by people of color, and probably 99% of the comments are from white folk.
What does that tell you? Now that tells me, and maybe I am wrong, but the parents of these people of color either knew that Elvis was for the white people or they knew what the colonel was doing. Lieber and Stoller wrote "hound dog" made famous by Big Momma Thornton. Now these two guys knew that the material they were writing was never going to be sung by white folk. So they wrote for the people of color. I have thoroughly enjoyed the chat with you. Maybe we will meet again on another site with total agreeance on the subject at hand.
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Oh dear me, pure magic
R&R comes from blues mainly. Influences from all over the place as well
Has to be Roll Over Beethoven next ? 😀
Hardly, it was a mix of genres.
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No not “hardly”Of course that’s partly true as you can add in gospel, swing, country, rhythm and blues jazz but anyone with any knowledge of music recognises that R&R stemmed mainly from blues. Unless all the great musicians are wrong in their opinion of course. I suggest some study of the subject 😀 listen to some BB King or Muddy Waters. When they raised the tempo it’s clear
The white dominated music industry was based on swing, trad jazz and big band music. That was it. Nothing else. Radio was the big influencer and only played those genres. Never black music. R&R was a shock and broke the mold. For sure all sorts influenced it but it was the likes of Chuck Berry and Little Richard that created a whole new sound. If you look up their backgrounds it becomes even more clear
Country music had as much of an influence on R&R as the blues, especially with Chuck Berry.
I completely disagree that it was an equal influence. Blues even influenced country. The original Jimmy Rogers traveled many miles to see Bessie Smith. The Guitar originated in Africa.
Chuck Berry is the true G.O.A.T. of rock and roll.
😎💓🎸🤘🏻
ABSOLUTELY the birth of Rock & Roll!!!!
He was funny and his lyrics were smart. He influenced - and even played with - the English rock generation of the 60s. Amazing performer. It does have a jazz vibe. Jazz comes from the blues. Rock is fast blues obviously. But it has a rockabilly vibe to it as well: the country influence.
I was so lucky to be among the few invited on stage to dance to this song with Chuck Berry. He was so great. I danced...loved the concert!!! One of the best performers of all time.
Chuck Berry was from St. Louis and lived until 2017 (age 90)! He played regularly in a St. Louis venue called Blueberry Hill until late in life.
Chuck Berry is the Poet Laureate of Rock and Roll
Chuck inspired every guitarist that came after in one way or another. ALSO: No Chuck - No Keith.
Chuck Berry copied the style of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who was playing this stuff in the 1930's!!
Do people even KNOW Google exists?!?!
and then Keith Richards played with Chuck Berry in Berry's touring concert in the great biofilm about him.
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She was still there first!
In the movie Back to the Future they used this sing to explain that this was the new sound of music that everyone was looking for 👍🏻