Chuck Berry on Stage

Chuck Berry on Stage is the first "live" album by Chuck Berry,^[a] released in 1963 by Chess Records.

Chuck Berry on Stage
Live album by Chuck Berry
Released	August 1963
Genre	Rock and roll
Label	Chess
Producer	Leonard Chess, Philip Chess
Chuck Berry chronology
Chuck Berry Twist (1962) Chuck Berry on Stage (1963) Two Great Guitars (1964)

Professional ratings

Review scores
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Overview

Although promoted as a live album, it is a collection of previously released studio recordings (with the exception of "All Aboard", "Trick or Treat", "I Just Want To Make Love To You", "Still Got The Blues", and a previously unreleased alternate take of "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man") with overdubbed audience sounds to simulate a live recording. One track on the album labelled "Surfin' USA", is "Sweet Little Sixteen", originally released in 1958, the melody of which was used in The Beach Boys' 1963 hit "Surfin' USA". Chuck'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.

Chart performance

The album peaked at No. 29 on the Billboard Top LPs, during a seventeen-week run on the chart.^[2]

Track listing

All songs composed by Chuck Berry except as noted

1. "Maybellene" (Berry, Alan Freed, Russ Fratto) – 2:25
2. "Memphis, Tennessee" – 2:17
3. "Surfin' Steel" – 2:32
4. "Rockin' on the Railroad" (Let It Rock) (Edward Anderson, pseudonym of Chuck Edward Anderson Berry) – 1:51
5. "Go, Go, Go" – 3:31
6. "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" (alternate take) – 1:46
7. "Still Got the Blues" – 2:08
8. "Surfin USA" ("Sweet Little Sixteen") – 3:13
9. "Jaguar and Thunderbird" – 1:49
10. "I Just Want to Make Love to You" (Willie Dixon) – 2:13
11. "All Aboard" – 2:15
12. "Trick or Treat" – 1:37
13. "The Man and the Donkey" – 2:07

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

Charts

Chart (1963)	Peak position
US Billboard Top LPs[2]	29

Notes

1. According to a journal article in Popular Music & Society, Chuck Berry Live on Stage is what is known as a "fake live" album staged "with a well-behaved, artificial audience".^[1]