"and what is 'ballin the jack'?"

bear85: get your dancin' shoes on.....

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Downbound Train, very closely followed by Nadine.

Tulane. I named my Jet Tulane.

For me, Memphis, Tenn is the most vivid and touching story.

"With hurry home drops on her cheek that trickled from her eye

Marie is only six years old, information please..." gets me every time.

"You can't catch me" has it's supporters & rightly so. John Lennon would agree, having lifting a line for "come together" btw, my fave cover is a 100mph version by Love Sculpture, with a young Dave Edmunds on guitar & vox. http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Run Run Rudolf

I also like Joan Jetts cover of Tulane.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

For me, hands down, it's "No Particular Place to Go".

Mine too. Brilliantly evokes a time and place with a wry sense of humour. Everything I want to hear in a song.

Promised Land in one of my favourite Chuck songs, but not one of my favourite Chuck records — through no fault of his. It always seemed to me that there was a major shift in the overall recorded sound between his '50s Chess sides and the stuff that came out after, say, 1963. The voice and guitar always sounded great — and there were some good songs — but there was usually a busy bass guitar skittling about instead of Willie Dixon's upright bass which always made the records swing. Just changing styles and changing times, I suppose — or did Chess go out and buy a pile of new recording gear while Chuck was 'away'?

For sound and sheer 'bopability' this is my favourite Chuck recording, with Johnnie Johnson's piano licks weaving in and out of the guitars.

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Chalk up another one for "Downbound Train". I always wondered if it was "Hellbound Train" and then, as someone mentioned earlier, he was convinced to change it...

"hurry home drops" is one hell of a well turned phrase.

"Meanwhile, I was still thinkin'....." (Little Queenie).

"I looked at my watch and to my surprise, I was dancing with a woman twice my size!" (Reelin' and Rockin')

Get me going on Chuck Berry and we'll be here all night.

For me, it's always been Roll Over, Beethoven. Although I prefer the Beatles' cover.

As a young man I got a hold of Chuck Berry's Golden Decade, vol 3. One of my favorites on there was "County Line." Found out later that it was another take on "Jaguar and Thunderbird," but I always liked "County Line" better.

"Memphis" is about the top of my list but there's so much good to choose from. "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" was quite a statement in its time, too. So far nobody has mentioned "Carol," have they?

This is one of the hardest questions in rock music for me to answer... Such a vast list of possibilities.

30 Days is in my head now, and Almost Grown. The first time I heard No Particular Place To Go, I felt like I was living the story.

I thought that School Day was brilliant. The imagery is timeless.

I wanted to be in the room staring at Little Queenie. Chuck made me feel like I was, actually.

Memphis makes me tear up, it always has.

I could go on and on, as I'm sure we all could. I simply love Chuck Berry's songs. I spin "The Great 28" often. It's one of my all-time favorites.

Dylan

For me it's got to be - Dear Dad. It's a letter home from college asking for a new car. "from your beloved son Henry Jnr Ford". Genius