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

You could actually pick 2 more.

 

Happy Birthday Chuck Berry!

 

Chuck Berry's Finest Deep Cuts: 10 Overlooked Gems

 

Dear Dad doesn't have many votes, but I love that one. Also voted for You Never Can Tell and Promised Land.

 

I like Dear Dad as well.

 

Was listening to this comp just now, and decided to change it up a bit and add some of the songs I missed. While doing some searching, I ended up stumbling on this thread. So here's what I ended up with!

CHUCK BERRY - THE MIGHTY THIRTY (1965)

side one

1. Maybellene
2. Wee Wee Hours
3. Thirty Days
4. You Can't Catch Me
5. Too Much Monkey Business
6. Brown Eyed Handsome Man
7. Roll Over Beethoven
8. Havanna Moon

side two

1. No Money Down
2. School Days
3. Rock and Roll Music
4. Reelin' and Rockin'
5. Sweet Little Sixteen
6. Around and Around
7. Johnny B. Goode

side three

1. Carol
2. Beautiful Delilah
3. Memphis, Tennessee
4. Sweet Little Rock n' Roller
5. Little Queenie
6. Almost Grown
7. Back in the U.S.A.

side four

1. Let it Rock
2. Bye Bye Johnny
3. I'm Talking About You
4. Come On
5. Nadine (Is it You?)
6. No Particular Place to Go
7. You Never Can Tell
8. The Promised Land

Basically, I got rid of "Oh Baby Doll" and "I Wanna Be Your Driver", which honestly are the least popular and/or interesting songs in the whole bunch, and replaced them with other four: "Wee Wee Hours", "No Money Down", "You Never Can Tell" and "The Promised Land". Now, instead of ending with the weakest song on the whole album, it ends with one of his best songs! I also didn't put in any of his other songs, such as "Worried Life Blues", "Run Rudolph Run" or "Merry Christmas Baby", as I wanted to keep this contained only to songs Chuck wrote.

Also, since The Great Twenty Eight is a catchy name that rhymes, I had to figure out something for 30. The Mighty Thirty might sound corny as hell, but hey, if you think of anything better than that, I'm all ears

 

@Dr. Robert Oh Baby Doll charted at #57 in U.S. charts.

If you go by the highest charting numbers better than #57 the choices they would be these:

My Ding-A-Ling - #1
You Never Can Tell - #14
Run Rudolph Run - #36
Promised Land - #41
Too Pooped To Pop - #42
Little Marie - #54

Wee Wee Hours and No Money did not chart in the U.S. regular charts but did in the R&B charts.

 

The Definitive Collection has every track from the Great Twenty-Eight except Bye Bye Johnny. However, it adds You Never Can Tell, Promised Land and My Ding-A-Ling to make an even 30 tracks.

 

To be more accurate, it should have been called "The Definitive Collection ... and My Ding-A-Ling"

 

I Wanna be Your Driver rocks. Don't take it away.

 

It was an album track and not a single so it didn't chart. However, it is a cool track.

 

Just picked up a pristine original pressing of this LP at a used record shop in Portland, ME for $9.00. Loving it!