joey de vivre

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We Will BERRY You
(31 covers of Chuck Berry tunes)

Artist Song
Buddy & the Hearts  Let It Rock 
Kirby St Romaine  Oh Baby Doll  
Beatles  Rock & Roll Music 
Helene Dixon  Roll Over Beethoven  
Rolling Stones  Around & Around 
Yardbirds  Too Much Monkey Business 
Sonny Holiday  School Days  
Led Zeppelin  School Days 
BR549 (live)  Brown Eyed Handsome Man 
Spiders  Johnny B Goode 
Los Rockets  Que Diria Beethoven 
Kinks  Too Much Monkey Business 
Elvis  Too Much Monkey Business 
Pianosaurus  Memphis Tennessee 
Nina Simone  Brown Eyed Handsome Man  
Bertha Breadsacker  No Money Down 
Fabulous Jokers  Memphis Tennessee 
Pretty Things  Oh Baby Doll 
Byrds  Roll Over Beethoven 
Crawdaddies  30 Days 
Neko Case  Brown Eyed Handsome Man 
Buddy Holly & the Crickets  Brown Eyed Handsome Man  
Ernest Tubb  30 Days 
Waylon Jennings  Brown Eyed Handsome Man  
David Grisman  Maybellene 
Animals  Around & Around 
Bob Seger  You Never Can Tell 
Elvis  Memphis Tennessee 
Led Zeppelin  Nadine 
Stray Cats  Johnny B Goode 

Comment:

31. Beatles - - Roll Over Beethoven
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All hail the great guitar god!

This is a 3rd-generation offspring of AOTM collaboration, here - -
a few weeks back Air Raid put out
a Chuck Berry tribute mix
which got me thinking about trying to do the same, so he very kindly sent me his mix to get started with,
& then I remembered that Grandmaster Sean "my Ding-a-Ling" Lally had long ago created & shared with me his own
outstanding
God Bless Chuck Berry ,
so mostly what I've done here is meld those two collections, plus I've added a few favorites from my own vaults,
plus picked up the Neko Case number from
jenergy ,
and the Fabulous Jokers from that fabulous joker
Cruella.
Mix 'em all together & what have you got? something Berry delicious!

Too many versions of "brown eyed handsome man," I know, but they're all good, so what're you gonna do?
And yes, the David Grisman version of Maybellene is downright strange, but that's why it's on here.

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A thought that struck me while listening to this, maybe others have noticed this before, but wouldn't you say that
Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" owes a big, big debt to Chuck Berry's "Too Much Monkey Business"?
Compare & contrast:
Same thing every day - gettin' up, goin' to school.
No need for me to complain - my objection's overruled, ahh!
Been to yokohama - been fightin' in the war.
Army bunk - army chow - army clothes - army car, aah!
Too much monkey business for me to be involved in!



Get sick, get well, Hang around a ink well
Ring bell, hard to tell If anything is goin' to sell
Try hard, get barred, Get back, write braille
Get jailed, jump bail, Join the army, if you fail . . .

eh?
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I can't manage loading up a whole mix like some people can, but here's a teaser for you -- it will only be here for 7 days
or 10 downloads, whichever comes first, so will be disappeared by May Day, but in the meantime,
it's got a back beat, you can't lose it:
oh baby doll (kirby st romaine).
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Feedback:

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nola
Date: 4/23/2006
alright , i can get behind this. great song list , and great cover artist.
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Barrydali
Date: 4/23/2006
Very very well done!
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Sean Lally
Date: 4/23/2006
Yeah, yeah, yeah!!! So, is that a sitar or jaw harp on that track? Either way, I'm gonna write a little letter..... The world needs more Chuck - thanks Berry much!
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Little Spencer Boys
Date: 4/23/2006
Joey, what an absolute treat. ABSOLUTE!!!
and most any rock song till psychendelia owes a dept to Charles Berry.
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jonpoi
Date: 4/23/2006
How about that I Knew The Bride is actually C'est La Vie?
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Air Raid
Date: 4/23/2006
Happy to see you post it today. This looks amazing and can't wait to hear it.
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Mark Petruccelli
Date: 4/23/2006
Great stuff, but hasn't anybody ever covered "My Ding-a-ling"?
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2old2matter
Date: 4/23/2006
Very nice Joey. Haven't heard some of these. And don't be so hard on Dylan. After all, Brian Wilson started out to make his fortune using Chuck's melodies. Thank god he moved on before he tried to write surfing lyrics to My Ding-a-ling.
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SwankQueen
Date: 4/23/2006
You soooooooooooooo rock. P.S. I've got you covered.
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Texas Hobart
Date: 4/23/2006
Wow,your right,how'd you think of that?
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musicgnome
Date: 4/24/2006
Wonderful.
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Rob Conroy
Date: 4/24/2006
Very, very cool.
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G-Sphere
Date: 4/24/2006
This looks like great fun.
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Mixxer
Date: 4/24/2006
Hey, didn't you already do a mix of Berry covers? Oh wait, that was Richard, this is Chuck. Look now - there he is duck-walking across the stage with his guitar!
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blasikin
Date: 4/24/2006
Nice stuff, and appreciating the all-star cast.
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valis
Date: 4/25/2006
Hail hail joey de vivre
The kinda' mixer we all wanna' be...
From one who lives in Chuck Berry land: SALUTE!
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Dead Man
Date: 4/26/2006
Well done. I Especially like your take on Too Much Monkey Business/Subterranean Homesick Blues.
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DJ Karen Adams
Date: 5/1/2006
This is a nice update with a nice flow to it. Good job, squire!
By the way, Busta Rhymes when was with Leaders of the New School released a rap version of our favourite duck-walker's "My Ding-A-Ling".
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Air Raid
Date: 5/7/2006
Just heard it last night. Wonderful job. I would not change a thing.
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doowad
Date: 11/4/2006
This looks great, I would also recommend a local St. Louis tribute done to benefit our local community radio station: Brown Eyed Handsome Man: St. Louis Salutes the Father of Rock and Roll. It features regional artists (including the Bottle Rockets and Jay Farrar).