What Einstein Was to Physics, CHUCK BERRY is to Rock -n- Roll

Reaganite Republican ^ | 22 November 2012 | Reaganite Republican

[Donkey Odious]

Great “Back to the Future” reference....HA!

[wizr]

Amen! I’m glad someone realized that this man put a whoooole lot of boogie in people’s feet.

[Scoutmaster]

I agree Chuck Berry is the real King of Rock and Roll, but I'd have to take exception to the statement: "Since [1979], he's stayed out of trouble.

In 1989, Berry videotaped women using the restroom at his Southern Aire restaurant. One of the tapes recovered by police was a minor. In 1990, Berry plead guilty to possession of the pot that was found in his house when the police searched it, in return for dropping the child-abuse charges.

Berry also settled out of court with about 60 women for taping them in the restroom.

[Albion Wilde]

I saw him live in 1969, and was sitting in the front row. He was awesome. Opened for the Stones. Liked Chuck better.

[dfwgator]

Thanks to his cousin Marvin.

[Albion Wilde]

Mom has never been a fan of rock-and-roll, and at the time was something of a stereotypical Iowa grandmother/all-around "square." When she told me about her trip, she said of Chuck Berry, "He really is a handsome man! And what a smooth talker!"

[Scoutmaster]

I met Chuck Berry in a rental car lot in Austin in 1983. As I was putting things in the trunk of my little mid-size, Berry walked up to get in the adjacent car - a grey Cadillac.

Because he doesn't travel with a band (the promoter provides that at each location), Berry traveled light. The rental agent carried his guitar case and a slim garment bag.

We awardly came face to face and I mumbled out something like "Mr. Berry, it's a honor to meet you. You're the true King of Rock and Roll."

He just smiled and nodded and shook my hand. It felt as if I were an infant putting my hand in an adult's.

It was then that I understood that some of the Chuck Berry tab I had didn't have misprints . . . he really could span 5-7 frets further than I could playing up the neck.

[Fiji Hill]

When I was drinking I used to sing My Ding a Ling. A younger friend of mine went to Idaho hunting with her husband and heard it on the jukebox. She was flabbergasted that it was a real song. She thought I made it up. Chuck Berry rocks.

Chuck Berry's recording of "My Dingaling" (1972) was his biggest hit. However, his version was not the first. The Bees released it in 1954 under the title Toy Bell--and the Spiders promptly came up with an answer entitled The Real Thing (1954).

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Thanks. I had not heard the earlier version Toy Bell. I liked The Real Thing also. Almost twenty years before My Ding a Ling.