Rock & Roll Music: Songs Of Chuck Berry / Various Rock & Roll Music: Songs Of Chuck Berry / Various CD

UK collection. Ace celebrate the 90th birthday of the Poet Laureate of Rock 'n' Roll with a well-deserved addition to our songwriter series. Rock And Roll Music! Focuses on the most revered songs from Chuck Berry's classic first decade as a writer (1954-64) and shows just how adaptable his words and music are, in selections that embrace hillbilly and country, British beat, R&B, reggae, skiffle and rock 'n' roll. Chuck's eternal anthems to the American way of life have stood the test of time perhaps better than any other songwriter of his generation, and it's hardly surprising they have been revived so frequently down the years. Here are 24 of the best and most diverse reinterpretations - almost all of them appearing on Ace CD for the first time.

1. Rock and Roll Music - the Beach Boys 2. Around ; Around - the Swinging Blue Jeans 3. Down Bound Train - Ken Colyer's Skiffle Group 4. Maybellene - Marty Robbins 5. Come on - Ian Gomm 6. Memphis Tennessee - Don Covay 7. Oh Baby Doll - the Pretty Things 8. Nadine (Is It You) - the Bunch 9. Little Queenie - Jerry Lee Lewis 10. I'm Talking About You - the Remains 11. Brown-Eyed Handsome Man - Buddy Holly 12. Johnny B Goode - Jay and the Americans 13. Roll Over Beethoven - Helene Dixon 14. Sweet Little Sixteen - the Hollies 15. Too Much Monkey Business - Elvis Presley 16. Almost Grown - Syndicate of Sound 17. No Money Down - John Hammond 18. Beautiful Delilah - the Count Bishops 19. Havana Moon - Carlos Santana (Vocal: Booker T) 20. Back in the USA - MC5 21. You Can't Catch Me - Sleepy Labeef 22. You Never Can Tell - John Prine 23. Run Rudolph Run - Dwight Yoakam 24. The Promised Land - Dave Edmunds