Chuck Berry on Stage is the first "live" album by Chuck Berry, released in 1963 by Chess Records. Although marketed as a live album, it actually compiled older studio recordings overdubbed with audience sounds. Overview Despite being promoted as a live album, it is a collection of previously released (with the exceptions of "All Aboard", "Trick or Treat", "I Just Want To Make Love To You", and "Still Got the Blues") studio recordings with overdubbed audience sounds to simulate a live recording. The track listed on the album as "Surfin' USA" is actually a retitled "Sweet Little Sixteen", originally released in 1958, the melody of which was used in The Beach Boys' 1963 hit "Surfin' USA". The track listed as "Rockin' on the Railroad" is also a retitled version of a previously released song, the 1960 single "Let It Rock". Berry's cover of Willie Dixon's "I Just Want to Make Love to You" was later re-recorded and released on the very rare Chess LP CH60032 Chuck Berry in 1975.
Track listing
Personnel Chuck Berry – guitar, vocals Fred Below – drums Martha Berry – backing vocals Reggie Boyd – bass Leroy C. Davis - tenor saxophone Willie Dixon – bass Jerome Green – maracas Ebbie Hardy - drums Johnnie Johnson – piano Lafayette Leake – piano The Moonglows – backing vocals George Smith – bass Otis Spann – piano Phil Thomas – drums Chart Performance The album peaked at No. 29 on the Billboard Top LPs, during a seventeen-week run on the chart. Chart (1963) Peakposition US Billboard Top LPs29 Notes
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