What's your favorite Chuck Berry song?

[NightTrain]

Poll question: What's your favorite Chuck Berry song?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Nadine...my all time favorite story!!!!!

LOVE THAT SONG....don't miss a word when it's on!

[Nomad559]

3. My ding-a-ling

My ding-a-ling :evilgrin:

When I was a little bitty boy
My grandmother bought me a cute little toy.
Silver bells hanging on a string,
She told me it was my ding a ling a ling.
Oh, my ding a ling, my ding a ling,
I want you to play with my ding a ling.
My ding a ling, my ding a ling,
I want you to play with my ding a ling.
And then mama took me took me to grammar school,
But I stopped off in the vestibue.
Every time that bell would ring,
Catch me playing with my ding a ling a ling.
Oh, my ding a ling, my ding a ling,
I want you to play with my ding a ling.
My ding a ling, my ding a ling,
I want you to play with my ding a ling.
Once I was climbing the garden wall.
I slipped and had a terrible fall.
I fell so hard I heard bells ring,
But held on to my ding a ling.
Oh, my ding a ling, my ding a ling,
I want you to play with my ding a ling.
My ding a ling, my ding a ling,
I want you to play with my ding a ling.
Once I was swimming across turtle creek,
Man, them snappers all around my feet.
Sure was hard swimming across that thing
With both hands holding my ding a ling.
Oh, my ding a ling, my ding a ling,
I want you to play with my ding a ling.
My ding a ling, my ding a ling,
I want you to play with my ding a ling.
This here so song, it ain't so sad.
The cutest little song you ever had.
Those of you who will not sing,
You must be playing with your own ding a ling.
Oh, my ding a ling, my ding a ling,
I want you to play with my ding a ling.
My ding a ling, my ding a ling,
I want you to play with my ding a ling.
Your ding a ling, your ding a ling,
We saw you playing with your ding a ling.
My ding a ling, everybody sing,
I want to play with my ding,Everybody,
my ding a ling,Oh my ding a ling,
I want to play with my ding a ling.

[carpetbagger]

7. didn't you mean to post that at "Favorite Possessions" poll?

:)

[Tikki]

2. "Havana Moon"...and

(Goes To Show) "You Never Can Tell"

[BurtWorm]

4. I voted for Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell

but I think I like Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll better.

[carpetbagger]

5. "My Heart Will Always Belong To You"

A bit obscure, but that's my answer.

[Tom Kitten]

6. I like Havana Moon

because it's different, y'know? Catchy too.

[Skittles]

8. MAYBELLINE

that's a KILLER TUNE.

[Jim Sagle]

11. Best rock and roll song EVER!

Best GUITAR work EVER! (That big fat resonating sound!)
Best background PIANO work ever!

The day it was released, I heard it on about seven different radio stations - FEW OF WHICH were "rock and roll" stations (rock and roll had not yet been fully separated out from other music). EVERY ANNOUNCER said something like, "What was THAT???" after playing it.

PS - I think this is DU's best POLL ever, too!!!!!!

[MnFats]

9. "She's too cute to be a minute over 17."

How could you forget...."LITTLE QUEENIE?"

I got lumps in my throat
When I saw her comin down the aisle
I got the wiggles in my knees
When she looked at me and sweetly smiled
Well there she is again
Standin over by the record machine
Well she looks like a model
On the cover of a magazine
But she's too cute
To be a minute over seventeen

Meanwhile I was thinkin'

Well if she's in the mood
No need to break it
I got the chance and I oughta take it
If she can dance we can make it
C'mon queenie let's shake it

I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie

Won't someone tell me
Who's the queen standin over by the record machine
Well she looks like a model
On the cover of a magazine
But she's too cute
To be a minute over seventeen
I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie

Meanwhile, I was still thinkin, hmmmm,
Well if it's a slow one
We'll omit it
If it's a rocker, then we'll get it
If it's a good one, she'll admit it
C'mon queenie, let's get with it

I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie

I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie...

[Kenneth ken]

10. other

Memphis, Tennessee
Long distance information, give me Memphis Tennessee
Help me find the party trying to get in touch with me
She could not leave her number, but I know who placed the call
'Cause my uncle took the message and he wrote it on the wall

Help me, information, get in touch with my Marie
She's the only one who'd phone me here from Memphis Tennessee
Her home is on the south side, high up on a ridge
Just a half a mile from the Mississippi Bridge

Help me, information, more than that I cannot add
Only that I miss her and all the fun we had
But we were pulled apart because her mom did not agree
And tore apart our happy home in Memphis Tennessee

Last time I saw Marie she's waving me good-bye
With hurry home drops on her cheek that trickled from her eye
Marie is only six years old, information please
Try to put me through to her in Memphis Tennessee

[MnFats]

12. While on the subject, FUCK "Johnny Rivers"

white guy made a career of ripping off black sounds, esp. Chuck Berry's. He hit the chart with "Nadine" and "Memphis, Tenn." and, if I recall, went higher than ol' Chuck himself. Got rich doing it.
prick.

[Dookus]

14. aww...

musicians have always succeeded by "expropriating" music from other races/classes/ethnic groups.

It's not necessarily a bad thing. It gives a lot of exposure to the original artists. Would you have ever heard of Ladysmith Black Mombazo without Paul Simon? 50 Cent without Eminem? hell, Sammy Davis without Frank Sinatra? The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin "stole" from plenty of blues artists.

I think art should be one area that's free of racial considerations. If Johnny Rivers admired Chuck Berry and covered his music well, that's a good thing.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

15. But he persoanlly is a little ass

In my opinion.

[MnFats]

16. all of the artists you cite...

...gave props to their sources. Paul Simon TOURED with Ladysmith Black Mombazo; the STONES had Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker appear onstage with them. The TOLD people to go out and dig up old Muddy Waters and B.B. King records if they were truly interested in hearing some hip music.

Johnny Rivers took Chuck Berry songs and took all the soul out of them so they'd get plenty of airplay. They were dreadful, whitebread versions of these songs, but the sold millions of copies...and I know of nothing he ever did to honor the original artists.

[mulsh]

24. credit where its due

yer right about all of the above.

Brian Wilson gave Chuck Berry co-writer credit for Surfin USA. as far as I know he's the only guy who ripped off a Berry song and made sure Chuck got some money from it.

oh carole and talkin bout you are my favorite chuck berry songs

[PsN2Wind]

13. The flip side of "School Days"

'Deep Feeling"

[darkstar]

17. I'm kida partial to "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" as well n/t

Chuck: the true Governor of the "Show Me" state....

[newyawker99]

18. Congrats darkstar!! 800 posts

:toast:

[Richardo]

19. There's more than one?

"Roll over, maybelline, on johnny b goode."

[CO Liberal]

20. Deep-down-in-loosiana-close-to-new-orleans....

Way-back-up-in-the-woods-among-the-evergreens....

BTW, Chuck Berry had to change the lyrics on Johnny B. Goode. Originally, Johnny B. Goode was a "colored boy" - he had to change it to "country boy".

[RandomKoolzip]

21. "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" is an amazingly clever lyric

Broaches the subject of interracial sex...in the fifties, no less!...and Berry uses the code word "Brown-Eyed" tomean "Black-skinned". Berry was a brilliant lyricist, always. "No Particular Place to Go" is also a great song.

[Zuni]

22. Maybelline

why can't you be true?

Got a great beat. I also like 'ridin around in my automobile' and 'reelin and rockin', oh and 'Carol'

[jos]

23. No Particular Place to Go

1964.