Posts Tagged ‘Chuck Berry’
Audiogramme du mardi 8 Mars 2016
1. Ramsey Lewis – Do What You Wanna
2. Freddy Martin – Bumble Boogie (feat. Jack Fina)
3. The Rivingtons – Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow
4. Richard Berry & The Pharaohs – Louie Louie
5. Chuck Berry – Havana Moon
6. Kay Kyser – Managua Nicaragua (feat. Gloria Wood & Group)
7. Fred Astaire – Carioca
8. Colette Magny – Melocoton
9. Colette Renard – Les Nuits D’une Demoiselle
10. Julie London – Cry Me A River
11. The Drifters – Under The Boardwalk
12. The Staple Singers – I Wish I Had Answered
13. Ella Fitzgerald – Don’t Cha Go Way Mad
14. The Marvelettes – Please Mr. Postman
15. Martha Reeves & The Vandellas – (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave
16. Johnny “Guitar” Watson – I Say I Love You
17. Aretha Franklin – Lee Cross
18. Lord Tanamo – Come Down
19. Nora Dean – Barbwire
20. Roy & The Dew Drops – Soul Side of the Street
21. Sarah Vaughan – Misty
BONUS:
Audiogramme du vendredi 15 Janvier 2016
1. Miles Davis – Sur l’autoroute
2. Serge Gainsbourg – Du Jazz dans le ravin
3. Gene Vincent – Why Don’t You People Learn to Drive
4. Chuck Berry – No Money Down
5. The Commitments – Mustang Sally
6. Ritchie Valens – La Bamba
7. The Troggs – Wild Thing
8. Status Quo – Pictures Of Matchstick Men
9. The La’s – There She Goes
10. The Foundations – Build Me Up, Buttercup
11. Tom Jones – It’s Not Unusual
12. The Belle Stars – Iko Iko
13. Stereo MC’s – Step It Up
14. Rose Royce – Car Wash
15. Madness – Driving In My Car
16. The Cars – Drive
17. Tears For Fears – Everybody Wants To Rule The World
18. The Temptations – Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone
19. The Mint Juleps – Every Kind Of People
Audiogramme du jeudi 14 Janvier 2016
1. Dizzy Gillespie – Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
2. Desmond Dekker – You Can Get It If You Really Want
3. Kool and The Gang – Get Down On It
4. Sparks – This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us
5. Soft Cell – Tainted Love
6. Klaxons – Golden Skans
7. The Hives – Walk Idiot Walk
8. Stiltskin – Inside
9. Skunk Anansie – Weak
10. Iggy Pop – Real Wild Child (Wild One)
11. Johnny Kidd and The Pirates – Shakin’ All Over
12. Bo Diddley – Road Runner
13. Vernon Green – Speedin’
14. Chuck Berry – You Can’t Catch Me
15. The Del Vikings – Flat Tire
16. Bruce Channel – Hey! Baby
17. Bob Dylan – Highway 51
18. Pulp – Common People
19. Deep Blue Something – Breakfast At Tiffany’s
Audiogramme du mercredi 13 Janvier 2016
1. Angelo Badalamenti – Jitterbug
2. Ray Charles – Hit the Road Jack
3. Jackie Brenson – Rocket 88
4. Chuck Berry – Johnny B. Goode
5. Nat King Cole – (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
6. Natalie Cole – Pink Cadillac
7. Tears For Fears – Shout
8. Roxette – Joyride
9. Smash Mouth – All Star
10. Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel – White Lines (Don’t Do It)
11. Fontella Bass – Rescue Me
12. The Beach Boys – I Get Around
13. Canned Heat – On The Road Again
14. Norman Greenbaum – Spirit In The Sky
15. Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama
16. Ike and Tina Turner – Nutbush City Limits
17. The Undertones – Teenage Kicks
18. Lowell Fusion – Let Me Ride Your Automobile
BONUS:
Audiogramme du lundi 19 Octobre 2015
1. Isobel Campbell – October’s Sky
2. The Delfonics – Ready Or Not Here I Come (Can’t Hide From Love)
3. Chuck Berry – Almost Grown
4. The Rolling Stones – Come On
5. Bryan Adams – Rock And Roll Music (Chuck Berry)
6. The Beach Boys – Surfin’ U.S.A.
7. The Coasters – Yakety Yak
8. The Doobie Brothers – Long Train Runnin’
9. Stealers Wheel – Stuck In The Middle With You
10. The Cardigans – Carnival
11. The Morning Benders – Lovefool (Cardigans Cover)
12. Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade Of Pale
13. George McCrae – You Can Have It All
14. Peter Tosh – Get Up, Stand Up
15. Ry Cooder – 3 Cool Cats [The Coasters cover]
16. The Coasters – Charlie Brown
17. Kaiser Chiefs – I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Marvin Gaye)
18. Madness – It Must Be Love
19. World Party – Is It Like Today?
BONUS 1: Yo La Tengo chante You Can Have It All
BONUS 2: La scène de l’oreille dans Reservoir Dogs de Quentin Tarantino
Hail, Hail
“If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry’.” — John Lennon
This post is a weird double whammy. Actually, read on… It might even be a quadruple-whammy.
I was going through my digital music library and decided I’d clean it up a bit and make some space. I don’t know how I got to a really lo-res (56kbps!!!) version of Chuck Berry’s Memphis Tennessee.
And I remembered that John Lennon had nicked Come Together‘s opening line (Here come ol’ flat-top, he was movin’ up with me) from a Chuck Berry lyric. A few google search attempts later and I had discovered it was You Can’t Catch Me. I’d always thought it was Come on…
He’d later record a whole album of Rock’n’Roll standards in order to settle this royalties issue.
It’s funny, I usually post so many lyrics, and this is a lyric-initiated blogpost but it’s actually leading to a mostly instrumental theme. Bear with me…
I then realized John Lennon was also “inspired” for Sun King, another track on Abbey Road.
Forget about the lyrics: they’re mostly gibberish and Google translate didn’t recognize the Span-talian at the end.
Focus on the progression: it sounds a lot like a Fleetwood Mac instrumental called Albatross
And the worst part is Peter Green got his inspiration from Chuck Berry‘s Deep Feeling
Once again, we have the Chuck Berry connection…
But wait, there’s more!
It seems a lot of lesser-known musicians are still not credited by the big boys. Click here to read some more about about Jake Holmes and Led Zeppelin’s Dazed and Confused.
And all this “inspiration” took me straight back to that lyric from 1992: “Hail hail rock ‘n’ roll, comes from r ‘n’ b and soul…”
Ahaha ahaha ….
Pockets of hate, rockets of love
It’s never too late, the change in the color of
The color of her, the color of him
It really doesn’t matter what skin you’re in
Big yellow taxi cab passed me by
Stopped on the next corner to pick up a white guy
The color of you, the color of me
You can’t judge a man by looking at the marque
Hail hail rock ‘n’ roll, comes from r ‘n’ b and soul
Don’t leave me standing in the cold
I used to fake ‘I never grow old’
Hail hail rock ‘n’ roll, don’t leave me standing on the bleak
Don’t leave me stranded on the street
I see the light, I feel the heat
Blame it on you, blame it on me
Now let’s the race that won’t let’s get on history
Pain in my heart won’t let me be
Take it from me but don’t you take away my liberty
Father of coal, mother of pearl
Never too black to blush to pick up a white girl
The color of you, the color of me
You can’t judge a man by looking at the marque
Hail hail rock ‘n’ roll, comes from r ‘n’ b and soul
Don’t leave me standing in the cold
I used to fake ‘I never grow old’
Hail hail rock ‘n’ roll, don’t leave me standing on the bleak
Don’t leave me stranded on the street
I see the light, I feel the heat
Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino
Here come Elvis, Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly and Jerry Lee
Hail hail rock ‘n’ roll, comes from r ‘n’ b and soul ….
Hail hail rock ‘n’ roll, comes from r ‘n’ b and soul ….
Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino
Here come Elvis, Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly and Jerry Lee
Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino
Here come Elvis, Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly and Jerry Lee
I love everything about this song: the video, the lyrics, the story behind the album “Don’t Call Me Buckwheat” as well as Garland Jeffreys‘ crazy career.
But wait! there’s more… we go full circle once again: Hail hail rock ‘n’ roll is a documentary film that chronicles two concerts celebrating Chuck Berry‘s 60th birthday!!!
Post-Scriptum: As I was finishing this post I did a small research and realized John Lennon and Chuck Berry had actually played together on the Mike Douglas show in 1972!!! Thank you WFMU. I’ll leave you with a great version of the track that started this whole post!!!
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