Berry, Chuck - After School Session (1957)
1. School Days (Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell) (2:43)
2. Deep Feeling (2:20)
3. Too Much Monkey Business (2:55)
4. Wee Wee Hours (3:05)
5. Roly Poly (2:50
6. No Money Down (2:58)
7. Brown Eyed Handsome Man (2:18)
8. Berry Pickin' (2:32)
9. Together (We Will Always Be) (2:37)
10. Havana Moon (3:08)
11. Downbound Train (2:50)
12. Drifting Heart (2:49)
Recorded: 21. 5. 1955 (4), September 1955 (9),
20. 12. 1955 (5, 6, 8, 11), 19. 4. 1956 (3, 7, 12),
29. 10. 1956 (10), and 15. 12. 1956 (1, 2)
Released: May 1957
All songs written by Chuck Berry,
except lyrics to "Downbound Train" by John Andrew Howell
Obsazení:
Chuck Berry – vocals, guitar, steel guitar
Johnnie Johnson – piano
Willie Dixon – double bass
Ebbie Hardy – drums
Fred Below – drums (1, 2)
Melvin Billups – drums (3, 7, 12)
Hubert Sumlin – guitar (1, 2)
Jimmy Rogers – guitar (10)
Leroy C. Davis – tenor saxophone (3, 12)
Vincent Pitts – trumpet (3, 12)
Previously unreleased: "Roly Poly" and "Berry Pickin'"
Songs released before but not included on the album:
"Maybellene", "Thirty Days (To Come Back Home)", "Roll Over Beethoven" and "You Can't Catch Me" (singles A–sides)
Songs recorded during this period, but not released for a long time:
"I've Changed", recorded 20. 12. 1955, and released on compilation America's Hottest Wax, 1979
"Upchuck", instrumental recorded 20. 12. 1955, and released on Johnny B. Goode (box set), January 2008
Live versions of "Maybellene" and "Roll Over Beethoven", recorded in New York, 1956, broadcasted 28. 8. 1956,
and released on compilation Rock 'n' Roll Radio (various artists), August 1978
Demo version of "Rock and Roll Music", recorded 15. 12. 1956, and released on compilation America's Hottest Wax, 1979
"Untitled Instrumental", recorded 15. 12. 1956, and released on Missing Berries - Rarities Volume 3, July 1990