{"id":239,"date":"2017-08-07T12:24:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T12:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesquirrel.org.uk\/?p=239"},"modified":"2018-10-21T20:40:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T20:40:02","slug":"chuck-berry-re-takes-on-mercury-1966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/2017\/08\/07\/chuck-berry-re-takes-on-mercury-1966\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Berry re-takes on Mercury 1966"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/berry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-240\" src=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/berry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/berry.jpg 600w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/berry-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/berry-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/berry-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you see this mid-price compilation from Spain from 1967 grab it as it is a re-badging of the Mercury Studios 1966 re-takes session Berry did when he swapped labels moving from Chess to Mercury (Fontana over here).<\/p>\n<p>Original Mercury album cover from states<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Chuck_Berrys_Golden_Hits.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-243\" src=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Chuck_Berrys_Golden_Hits.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Chuck_Berrys_Golden_Hits.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Chuck_Berrys_Golden_Hits-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Chuck_Berrys_Golden_Hits-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The session involved :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chuck Berry \u2013\u00a0<a title=\"Guitar\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guitar\">g<\/a>uitar, vocals<\/li>\n<li>Ebby Hardy \u2013\u00a0drums<\/li>\n<li>Johnnie Johnson \u2013\u00a0piano, electric piano<\/li>\n<li>Quincy Macon \u2013 rhythm guitar<\/li>\n<li>Eugene Washington \u2013 drums<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They hit the hits at quite a lick and all in all it a feisty reinterpretation of the Chess standards with one new track <strong>Club Nitty Gritty<\/strong> that came out as the first mercury single and hence very rare.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/chuck-berry-laugh-and-cry-mercury-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-246\" src=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/chuck-berry-laugh-and-cry-mercury-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/chuck-berry-laugh-and-cry-mercury-3.jpg 805w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/chuck-berry-laugh-and-cry-mercury-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/chuck-berry-laugh-and-cry-mercury-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/chuck-berry-laugh-and-cry-mercury-3-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/chuck-berry-laugh-and-cry-mercury-3-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"club nitty gritty - chuck berry - mercury 1966\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rbqSCZDJsW4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More info on the Mercury Releases here :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crlf.de\/ChuckBerry\/mercury.html\">http:\/\/www.crlf.de\/ChuckBerry\/mercury.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My particular favourite is the take on Roll Over Beethoven which almost punk like in its speed and intensity. The whole session sounds one-take live throughout. Leadbitter and Slaven&#8217;s Blues Records 1943-1970 states it recorded Clayton Mo, Oct\/Nov 1966.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Full track listing:<\/p>\n<p><b>Side one<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&#8220;Sweet Little Sixteen&#8221; (2:32)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Memphis&#8221; (2:07)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;School Days (Ring Ring Goes the Bell)&#8221; (2:35)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Maybellene&#8221; (2:35)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Back in the U.S.A.&#8221; (2:27)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Side two<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&#8220;Johnny B. Goode&#8221; (2:45)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Rock and Roll Music&#8221; (2:33)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Roll Over Beethoven&#8221; (2:02)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Thirty Days&#8221; (2:10)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Carol&#8221; (2:24)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Club Nitty Gritty&#8221; (2:18)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; If you see this mid-price compilation from Spain from 1967 grab it as it is a re-badging of the Mercury Studios 1966 re-takes session Berry did when he swapped labels moving from Chess to Mercury (Fontana over here). Original Mercury album cover from states The session involved : Chuck Berry \u2013\u00a0guitar, vocals Ebby Hardy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-33s","category-45s","category-americana","category-rock-and-roll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}