Poll: Biggest 4 Omissions from Chuck Berry's The Great Twenty-Eight

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Improving Bo Diddley: His Best AKA The Definitive Collection - Pick 6

 

Any other thoughts or votes?

 

Well, apart from Run Rudolph Run, a few of us picked all the leading vote-getters.
I personally wouldn't include a Xmas type song on a best of.

 

I would vote for it. It's a great song whether it's about Christmas or not.

 

Just for comparison, Chuck Berry - The Definitive Collection adds the following tracks that do not appear on the Great Twenty Eight:

You Never Can Tell
Promised Land
My Ding-A-Ling

It omits Bye Bye Johnny from the Great Twenty-Eight.

 

Here is a single disc alternative to the Great 28 called Rocks released by Bear Family. It also includes a large booklet with liner notes.

1. Maybellene
2. Thirty Days (To Come Back Home)
3. You Can't Catch Me
4. No Money Down
5. Brown Eyed Handsome Man
6. Roll Over Beethoven
7. Too Much Monkey Business
8. School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes The Bell)
9. Rock And Roll Music
10. Oh Baby Doll
11. Sweet Little Sixteen
12. Reelin' And Rockin'
13. Johnny B. Goode
14. Around And Around
15. Beautiful Delilah
16. Carol
17. Memphis, Tennessee
18. Sweet Little Rock And Roller
19. Run Rudolph Run
20. Little Queenie
21. Almost Grown
22. Back In The U.S.A.
23. Betty Jean
24. Let It Rock
25. Bye Bye Johnny
26. Jaguar And Thunderbird
27. Go-Go-Go
28. Nadine (Is It You?)
29. You Never Can Tell
30. Promised Land
31. No Particular Place To Go
32. Dear Dad

The track listing is pretty similar to the Great 28 with a few differences


Rocks omits the following tracks from the Great 28:

Havana Moon
I'm Talking About You
Come On
I Want To Be Your Driver

Rocks adds these tracks that are not on the Great 28.

No Money Down
Run Rudolph Run
Betty Jean
Jaguar And Thunderbird
Go-Go-Go
You Never Can Tell
Promised Land
Dear Dad

 

Promised Land and You Never Can Tell are the only truly glaring omissions. Those two, along with the rest of the compilation, are about all the Chuck Berry I need.

But to properly answer the question, the other two I would add are Run Rudolph Run and My Ding-a-Ling. Rudolph because it’s a fun song to have for the holidays, and Ding-a-Ling for the novelty of it - and what’s a proper greatest hits set without his highest charting single?

Though at the very least, Promised Land should have been on the original compilation and call it The Fine Twenty-Nine.

 

Havana Moon. Not one of your options but it is the one I miss.

 

It's already on the Great Twenty-Eight.

 

Oooooops!

I think I meant Blue Feeling.

 

Bump for votes and comments. @Clanceman what say you?

I posted videos in case some members were not familiar with some of the choices and want to change their votes.