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

Another vote for Havana moon great song in a different style

 

It's already included on the Great Twenty-Eight. The poll is about songs that are not included but could/should have been. Most of them are single a-sides and a few b-sides that were omitted. Since the Great Twenty-Eight is only about 69 minutes on cd, you could add approximately 4 songs if they were not too long to fill out the disc.

 

I went with

Wee Wee Hours
No Money Down
Promised Land
and
Dear Dad

Wee Wee Hours is a great, early bit of blues. No Money Down cracks me up every time and shows Berry's clever lyrical talent. Promised Land is one of his great 1964 comeback tunes (even if it was cribbed off of Back In The USA) and Dear Dad is a bona-fide, overlooked classic IMO. It rocks, has, once again, a clever, cynical lyric and is one of my very favourite Berry tunes -- and it's just killer its punchy mono 45 rpm single mix and deserves a place on any mid-sixties rock comp.

 

Dear Dad is one Chuck's more underrated singles.

 

Willie Dixon, Chuck Berry & Louis Myers

 

I'm guessing circa 1971-72 ?

 

Probably at one of the festivals he played in the 70s.

 

Chuck Berry, Fred Below & Willie Dixon - Montreux 1972

 

This thread could use images of these CDs:

 

Those are great compilations.

 

Pretty certain that I purchased both of them in Singapore. European imports were comparitively less expensive over there and far less expensive than CDs "Made in the USA".

 

Chuck Berry with Steve Katz of the Blues Project

 

I really like Chuck Berry, and it probably isn't a popular choice, but I always loved Deep Feeling. It's among my favourite tracks he ever did.

 

New Zealand band the La De Das had a big 70's hit with Too Pooped to Pop

 

Chuck Berry & Jerry Lee Lewis

 

Was a great day for me when I visited Delmar Blueberry Hill.

 

The day after the Blues won the Stanley Cup.

 

What about Tulane?

 

I went with "Run Rudolph Run" and "You Never Can Tell".

 

@bRETT The choices were other tracks which charted and were omitted. Tulane didn't chart even though it was a good track.

 

In no way does '.My Dream ' fit in with the feel and flow of the aforementioned but I always liked it's vibe.