Thirty Days (Chuck Berry song) explained

Thirty Days (To Come Back Home)
Type:	single
Artist:	Chuck Berry
Album:	Rock, Rock, Rock!
B-Side:	Together (We Will Always Be)
Released:	September 1955
Recorded:	September 1955
Studio:	Universal Recording Corp. (Chicago)^[1]
Genre:	Rock and roll
Length:	2:23
Label:	Chess 7898
Producer:	Leonard Chess, Phil Chess
Prev Title:	Wee Wee Hours
Prev Year:	1954
Next Title:	No Money Down
Next Year:	1956

"Thirty Days (To Come Back Home)", also written "30 Days", is a 1955 song and chart single by Chuck Berry.^[2] Berry wrote "30 Days" to pay tribute to Hank Williams' country music.^[3]

Covers

The song has been covered by many artists, including:^[4]

• Ernest Tubb, 1955
• Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks as "Forty Days", 1959 (#4 Canada, July 6, 1959^[5])
• Cliff Richard & the Shadows as "Forty Days", 1961
• Bill Black and His Combo, 1964
• The Tractors, 1995

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Chuck Berry Database: Details For Recording Session: 9. 1955. A Collector's Guide to the Music of Chuck Berry . Dietmar Rudolph . 28 September 2021.
2. Billboard - 29 Oct. 1955 new disks on the national chart are Chuck Berry's "Thirty Days" on Chess and Dinah Washington's "I Concentrate on You" on Mercury."
3. Howard A. DeWitt Chuck Berry, rock 'n' roll music 1985 - - Page 14 "The sound of the country pedal steel guitar was transformed into rock-and-roll on Chuck Berry's electric guitar. ... When Chuck wrote 30 Days to pay tribute to Hank Williams' country music, he unwittingly acknowledged his debt to country ..."
4. Web site: Thirty Days (To Come Back Home) by Chuck Berry and His Combo: Versions. secondhandsongs.com. 17 April 2016.
5. Web site: CHUM Charts - July 6, 1959.