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Chuck Berry - Gold

Track listing:
Volume 1
  1. Maybellene 2:22
  2. Wee Wee Hours 3:05
  3. Thirty Days 2:24
  4. You Can't Catch Me 2:45
  5. Downbound Train 2:51
  6. No Money Down 2:59
  7. Brown Eyed Handsome Man 2:18
  8. Roll Over Beethoven 2:24
  9. Too Much Monkey Business 2:56
  10. Havana Moon 3:09
  11. School Day 2:43
  12. Rock And Roll Music 2:33
  13. Oh Baby Doll 2:39
  14. Sweet Little Sixteen 3:03
  15. Guitar Boogie 2:21
  16. Reelin' And Rockin' 3:17
  17. Johnny B. Goode 2:42
  18. Around And Around 2:41
  19. Beautiful Delilah 2:11
  20. House Of Blue Lights 2:29
  21. Carol 2:50
  22. Jo Jo Gunne 2:47
  23. Memphis, Tennesse 2:15
  24. Sweet Little Rock & Roller 2:24
  25. Little Queenie 2:44
  26. Almost Grown 2:21
Volume 2
  1. Back In The USA 2:29
  2. Do You Love Me? 2:24
  3. Betty Jean 2:28
  4. Childhood Sweetheart 2:45
  5. Let It Rock 1:49
  6. Too Pooped To Pop 2:37
  7. I Got To Find My Baby 2:17
  8. Don't You Lie To Me 2:05
  9. Bye Bye Johnny 2:07
  10. Jaguar & Thunderbird 1:52
  11. Down The Road Apiece 2:16
  12. Confessin' The Blues 2:10
  13. I'm Talking About You 1:51
  14. Come On 1:51
  15. Nadine (Is It You?) 2:36
  16. You Never Can Tell 2:44
  17. Promised Land 2:25
  18. No Particular Place To Go 2:44
  19. Dead Dad 1:52
  20. I Want To Be Your Driver 2:17
  21. Tulane 2:39
  22. My Ding-A-Ling (Live, Single Edit) 4:19
  23. Reelin' & Rockin' (Live) 7:04
  24. Bio 4:24

Notes

May 21, 1955-1973

Universal's 2005 release Gold is a repackaged reissue of their excellent 2000 release Anthology, containing the same 50 tracks over two CDs, the same mastering, and the same liner notes. The only difference is the title and the artwork, which are tailored to be part of Universal's ongoing Gold series (which somehow is more extensive than their ongoing Platinum series, even if it isn't as precious a metal). Clearly, anybody who owns that previous compilation has no need to repurchase this set, but anybody who's looking for a good compilation of Chuck Berry's classic Chess recordings of the '50s and '60s should get this, since this contains all of the hits plus the great majority of such excellent non-hit singles as "Jaguar & Thunderbird," "Tulane," and "Jo Jo Gunne," none of which are on the seminal Great Twenty-Eight comp (all 28 songs from that collection are here, however). While it's not as exhaustive as the triple-disc Chess Box, there's not a bad cut here outside of the abominable "My Ding-A-Ling" -- a novelty that grows worse with each passing year, but is regrettably (yet somehow fittingly) Chuck's only number one single -- and it comes as close to being a definitive Chuck Berry anthology as a double-disc compilation can be.