Berry Is on Top | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Chuck Berry |
Cover: | Chuck Berry Is on Top cover.jpg |
Released: | [1] |
Recorded: | May 21, 1955–1959, Chicago, Illinois |
Genre: | Rock and roll |
Length: | 30:25 |
Label: | Chess LP–1435 |
Producer: | Leonard Chess, Phil Chess |
Prev Title: | One Dozen Berrys |
Prev Year: | 1958 |
Next Title: | Rockin' at the Hops |
Next Year: | 1960 |
Berry Is on Top is the third studio album by rock and roll artist Chuck Berry, released in July 1959 on Chess Records, catalogue LP 1435. With the exception of one track, "Blues for Hawaiians", all selections had been previously released on 45 rpm singles, several of which were double-sided and charted twice. In his review of the album for AllMusic, Cub Koda described it as "almost a mini-greatest-hits package in and of itself" and the most perfectly realized collection of Berry's career. In 2008, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab reissued the album with St. Louis to Liverpool on an Ultradisc II Gold compact disc. In 2012, Hoodoo reissued the album with One Dozen Berrys on the same CD.
Singles - Billboard (United States)
Year | Single | Chart | Position[3] | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1955 | "Maybellene" | Billboard Top 100 | 5 | |
1956 | "Roll Over Beethoven" | Billboard Top 100 | 29 | |
1958 | "Johnny B. Goode" | Billboard Top 100 | 8 | |
1958 | "Carol" | Billboard Hot 100 | 18 | |
1958 | "Jo Jo Gunne" | Billboard Hot 100 | 83 | |
1958 | "Sweet Little Rock & Roller" | Billboard Hot 100 | 47 | |
1959 | "Anthony Boy" | Billboard Hot 100 | 60 | |
1959 | "Almost Grown" | Billboard Hot 100 | 32 | |
1959 | "Little Queenie" | Billboard Hot 100 | 80 |