CBID Updates - 8

CBID is never complete as new records and CDs appear and some old rarities are discovered. This section presents interesting additions and corrections to CBID.

Today: a new cover version which is quite interesting in the way of the name of the band in the first place:

STUCK HERRY (Netherlands)

Rock’n’roll quartet led by Peter de Haan (guitar-vocals), Ep Oosting (vocals-guitar), Martin Tuinte (bass), Theo Dijkstra (drums-vocals). Their influences are Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eddie Cochran and the Kinks. However, no doubt about it that they got their name from Chuck Berry’s.

Back In The USA (1:39) 2013

EP: Rock And Roll E.P. Volume 1 [Primrose Prod. EKS-0290] ? Netherlands, 2013

They are pictured on the cover with acoustic instruments, but the Berry track has an el. guitar solo. I had to look at my stop-watch twice to check if the time was right. It was! The music is ok but I don’t fancy the vocals, especially not the oh yeahs. They also cover Cochran/John D. Loudermilk’s ‘Sittin’ In The Balcony’ (not good) and Cochran’s ‘Jeannie, Jeannie, Jeannie’ (better), plus ‘Justine’ from Don & Dewey.

CBID is never complete as new records and CDs appear and some old rarities are discovered. This section presents interesting additions and corrections to CBID.

Today: Two 2013 CDs. which you can easily do without:

Netherlands

LET IT ROCK – Just About As Good As It Gets [2 CD]

Smith & Co. SCCD-2492 ? 2013

CD 1: Let It Rock / Johnny B. Goode / Thirty Days / Maybellene / Sweet Little Rock And Roller / Rock And Roll Music / Carol / Sweet Little Sixteen (original speed) /You Can’t Catch Me /Little Queenie /Back In The USA / Rock At The Philarmonic (instr) / Almost Grown / Roll Over Beethoven / I Got To Find My Baby+ / Around And Around /No Money Down / House Of Blue Lights+ / Do You Love Me / Mad Lad (instr) / Too Much Monkey Business / Don’t You Lie To Me+ / Come On / Childhood Sweetheart / Too Pooped To Pop+ / Oh Baby Doll / Rock And Roll Music (demo) /County Line / Wee Wee Hours / Rip It Up+.
CD 2: Down The Road A Piece+ (faded) / Reelin’ And Rockin’ / School Day / Go Go Go / 21 Blues (Vacation Time) / I’m Talking About You / Memphis, Tennessee / Bye Bye Johnny (stereo) / Guitar Boogie (instr) / Jaguar And The Thunderbird / Run Rudolph Run+ / Confessin’ My Blues+ / Betty Jean / Johnny B. Goode (alt. take) / In-Go (instr) / Brown Eyed Handsoime Man / Run Around / Come On (alt. take stereo) / Route 66+ (alt. take stereo) / Beautiful Delilah / Say You’ll Be Mine+ -The Equadors / Worried Life Blues+ / One O’Clock Jump+ (instr) / Let Me Sleep Woman+ -The Equadors / Merry Christmas Baby+ / Sweet Little Sixteen (alt. take) / Reelin’ And Rockin’ (alt, take) / Down Bound Train / Sweet Sixteen+ / Down The Road A Piece (stereo).

Don’t know what it is, but I don’t approve of this CD release. The sound is not good enough as of todays standard. And why include both ‘County Line’ and ‘Jaguar And The Thunderbird’ as they are almost the same songs. And both versions of ‘Come On’? And ‘Down The Road A Piece’ twice? ‘Rip It Up’? Give me a break. The text says ‘Vacation Time’ but it is ’21 Blues’. There is enough material to choose from his ‘50s and early ‘60s stuff so this 2 CD set is a waste of money. The liner notes in the booklet written by Dave Travis are straight forward and quite okay.

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USA

SAN FRANCISCO DUES

Geffen [Chess] GET-54058-CD ? 2013

This digipack is the same as original US album Chess (GRT) CH-50008 from 1971. No extra tracks, BUT they (who?) have used the slow version of ‘Lonely Schooldays’ instead of the rockin version that’s on the original album. Always something!

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CBID is never complete as new records and CDs appear and some old rarities are discovered. This section presents interesting additions and corrections to CBID.

Today: The missing Dutch - For some reason, this 45 from 1975 missed to make it into Volume 1. So here it is:

NETHERLANDS

Shake Rattle And Roll / Baby What You Want Me To Do

Chess CH-2169 ? 1975 (picture sleeve)

CBID is never complete as new records and CDs appear and some old rarities are discovered. This section presents interesting additions and corrections to CBID.

Today: We found a Spanish album not listed in Volume 1 - and then we didn't:

Spain

CHUCK BERRY : ÉXITOS

Movie Play S-26.103 ? Spain, 1972

This one (listed on page 451) has a fold-out cover which was not mentioned. The cover also has the following printed on the back: Fabricado distribuido por discos movieplay, S.A. Bajo licencia de GRT – Chess Records, USA. Which differs from the book-club issue below.

CHUCK BERRY : ÉXITOS

Movie Play S-26.103 ? Spain, 1972 (Book-club issue)

Same as US LP Chess 1485 ‘Greatest Hits’. Different cover. However, the album title, label and cat no are exactly the same as the one mentioned on page 451 in Vol.1 (see above) but different cover, front and back. And it’s a single cover, and not fold-out as the one on page 451. Has the following printed on the back cover: Produccion especial para Discolibro 7525. Which points to that this issue is an album released by a book club ('Discolibro') and therefore pressed for their members with a new cover. Both albums have the same liner notes in Spanish.

CBID is never complete as new records and CDs appear and some old rarities are discovered. This section presents interesting additions and corrections to CBID.

Today: Two additional entries to the country-specific discographies published in Volume 1:

USA

Johnny B. Goode / Rock And Roll Music

Mercury ‘Celebrity Series’ C-30146 ? 1972

This has a special yellow and red color cardboard cover (one-sided). It has the number 3260 which should indicate more issues, however, I have never seen any others. Dark blue label color.

BELGIUM

ROCK REVIVAL (VOLUME 4)

Roll Over Beethoven / School Day

Chess BE-169515 ? 1969

Picture sleeve. This sleeve is green compared to the French one on page 293 (in CBID Vol. 1) which is red.

CBID is never complete as new records and CDs appear and some old rarities are discovered. This section presents interesting additions and corrections to CBID.

Today: Two additional cover versions, one new and one not so new, to be added to the chapter on Chuck Berry covers in Volume 3.

LA FEMME (FRANCE)

Sextet (one girl, five guys), classified as a smooth, tropical, surf, cold wave band from Paris. They first recorded in 2010.

Oh Baby Doll [‘Baby Doll’] (3:06) 2013

CD single: Disque Pointu, (no cat.no) ? France, 2013

Techno (as I would call it) version by a young modern popular French group. Interesting to notice the wish to cover an obscure Berry song, in 2013! This was also used as a TV ad for the Yves Saint Laurent Babydoll Mascara. Check it out on YouTube.

BRUCE CHANNEL (USA)

Born in 1940 in Jacksonville, Texas. Famous for the hit version of ‘Hey Baby’ in 1962, featuring Delbert McClinton on harmonica.

Maybellene [Mabellene] (2:15) 1968

45: Charay C-33-A ? USA, 1968

Record label out of Fort Worth, Texas. This is in stereo and very white soul. Unusual. The B-side ‘One Letter At A Time’ is more country oriented. The Charay label had 2 other 45 issues using the cat.no. 33 but this one has the letter A to separate it from the others. Strange policy though.