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You Never Can Tell: The Complete Chess Recordings 1960-1966 |  | Artist: Chuck Berry
Label: Import Music Services
Category: Music
List Price: £43.99
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Seller: Sent2u by hts-scotland
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 39383
Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 4.9 x 0.5
UPC: 602517937833
EAN: 0602517937833
ASIN: B001U0HB9C
Release Date: July 13, 2009
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Drifting Blues | | • | I Got To Find My Baby | | • | I Got To Find My Baby | | • | Don't You Lie To Me | | • | Worried Life Blues | | • | Our Little Rendezvous | | • | Bye Bye Johnny | | • | Bye Bye Johnny | | • | Run Around | | • | Run Around | | • | Jaguar and Thunderbird | | • | Diploma For Two | | • | Little Star | | • | Way It Was Before | | • | Away From You | | • | Down the Road Apiece | | • | Down the Road Apiece | | • | Confessin' the Blues | | • | Sweet Sixteen | | • | Thirteen Question Method | | • | Stop and Listen | | • | I Still Got the Blues | | • | I'm Just a Lucky So and So | | • | Mad Lad | | • | Surfin' Steel (Cryin' Steel) | | • | Route 66 | | • | Route 66 (Alt. Take 11) | | • | I'm Talking About You | | • | Rip It Up | | • | Come On | | • | Come On (Alternate - Stereo) | | • | Adulteen | | • | Man and the Donkey |
Disc 2
| • | Go Go Go | | • | Go Go Go | | • | Trick or Treat | | • | Brown Eyed Handsome Man | | • | Brown Eyed Handsome Man | | • | Brown Eyed Handsome Man | | • | All Aboard | | • | Live Recordings | | • | Guitar Boogie | | • | Let It Rock | | • | Almost Grown | | • | Chuck Berry Dialog | | • | Johnny B. Goode | | • | Introduction/Instrumental | | • | Sweet Little Sixteen | | • | Wee Wee Hours | | • | Chuck Berry Dialog | | • | Maybellene | | • | Medley Goodnight Sweetheart/Goodnight/Johnny B. Goode/School Day | | • | Nadine (is It You) | | • | You Never Can Tell | | • | Little Girl From Central | | • | The Things I Used To Do | | • | I'm In the Danger Zone |
Disc 3
| • | Fraulein | | • | Lonely All the Time (Crazy Arms) | | • | O Rangutang (Unfaded Instrumental) | | • | Big Ben (Blues) | | • | Promised Land | | • | Brenda Lee | | • | No Particular Place To Go | | • | You Two | | • | Liverpool Drive | | • | Chuck's Beat | | • | Bo's Beat | | • | Little Marie | | • | Go Bobby Soxer | | • | Lonely School Days | | • | His Daughter Caroline | | • | Dear Dad | | • | Want To Be Your Driver | | • | Spending Christmas | | • | Song of My Love | | • | Butterscotch | | • | After It's Over | | • | Why Should We End This Way |
Disc 4
| • | You Came a Long Way From St. Louis | | • | She Once Was Mine | | • | Jamaica Farewell | | • | My Little Love Light | | • | I Got a Booking | | • | St. Louis Blues | | • | Shake Rattle Roll | | • | Wee Wee Hours | | • | Honey Hush | | • | Run Joe | | • | It's My Own Business | | • | One For My Baby (and One More For the Road) | | • | Every Day We Rock and Roll | | • | My Mustang Ford | | • | My Mustang Ford | | • | My Mustang Ford | | • | Merrily We Rock and Roll | | • | Vaya Con Dios | | • | Wee Hour Blues | | • | It Wasn't Me | | • | It Wasn't Me | | • | Ain't That Just Like a Woman | | • | Right Off Rampart Street | | • | Welcome Back Pretty Baby | | • | Sad Day Long Night | | • | Ramona Say Yes | | • | Ramona Say Yes | | • | Viva Viva Rock 'N Roll | | • | His Daughter Caroline | | • | Lonely School Days |
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| Customer Reviews:
 You will never need another June 16, 2009
Mr. Richard G. Boyle (Middle England)
This,along with vol. one( "Johnny B Good" the 1950s sides,)is all you will ever need of this master creator of Rock..the design,sound and notes that come with the set are second to none..at last Chucks genius is allowed to breath..for me a dream come true..dont hesitate!
 "...Now If You Want To Hear Some Boogie Like I'm Gonna Play...It's Just Down The Road Apiece..." July 28, 2009
Mark Barry at Revival Records, West End (London, UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"You Never Can Tell..." is the eagerly awaited second volume of Chuck Berry's Chess recordings (his initial output for the famous label was released in 2008 as "Johnny B. Goode - The Complete 50's Recordings"). This February 2009 US Hip-O Select 4CD set has 108 tracks housed in a slightly oversized 4-way foldout digipak that is itself tied with a string on a lapel on the front. It's not numbered, but is a worldwide limited edition of 5000.
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br /The 24-page booklet on recycled paper is in colour and features an informative and affectionate article by FRED ROTHWELL - author of the 2001 book "Long Distance Information - Chuck Berry's Recorded Legacy". There's also detailed track-by-track annotation and the whole set has been transferred and remastered by Universal's ERICK LABSON - a sure sign of quality (he has over 800 mastering credits to his name including almost all of the massive Chess catalogue). The sound quality is wonderful, especially on the STEREO mixes - full of punch and detail...
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br /There isn't room in this review to list all the tracks and where they came from, but as there's stuff fans will want to know, I've posted a separate detailed list of all 4CDs in the 'comment' box. It outlines what track is from where...
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br /Each of the discs is coloured to reflect a different era in the Chess label while beneath the see-through trays are 4 albums pictured in colour - "Chuck Berry On Stage", "Bo Diddley/Chuck Berry - Two Great Guitars", "Chuck Berry In London" and "Fresh Berry's". Across each of the foldout flaps are colour shots of Chuck, which are beautifully reproduced - really classy looking photographs.
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br /Niggles - the booklet has some sloppy mistakes in it - quoting "No Particular Place To Go" as Chess 1848 when its 1898 - the singles discography forgets "You Never Can Tell" on Chess 1906 (the title of this box for God's sake!) - and worse - other than the pictured albums, there's no LP discography whatsoever. You can be damn sure that if Bear Family had been handling his box, the booklet would have been done with care and pictured stuff from worldwide sources to thrill fans rather than make them yawn (see my reviews of their Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent box sets). The packaging and booklet are nice - they are - cute even - - but for such a major release on such a seminal artist, it should have been so much better...
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br /Back to the music - most dedicated fans will have the 3 "Rock Roll Rarities" releases from 1986 and 1999 and the unreleased stuff on the 4CD 1988 "Chess Box" - what they won't have is the 23 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED tracks surfacing here for the first time anywhere. They're a mixture of outtakes, instrumentals and an unheard concert. My heart always sinks when I hear it's live (too much filler), but if anything the 11 on here are more lively than some of the studio stuff and capture the essence of the man and his music much better. It's from a gig in Walled Lake Casino In Detroit, Michigan in October 1963 and accompanied by good taping and an appreciative audience, Chuck's on rare old form - cracking jokes - playing the crowd like he does - launching into "Almost Grown" like he was 18 and his life depended on it - it's really great stuff...
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br /A good set then - "You Never Can Tell" compliments Hip-O's Muddy Waters and Little Walter Chess boxes to a tee. I would have liked better presentation for sure, but it's the tunes and the great man's spirit I'll return too.
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br /Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll! Deliver us from the days of old! Indeed!
Chuck Berry "You never can tell" June 7, 2009
Mr. T. F. Clemson (England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Hip-O Select really come up with the good, don't they ? This is the second in the series of Chuck Berry's Chess recordings mastered from the original tapes, and WHAT a collection this is!
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br /The sound quality is superb, and the disc's contain alternate version, and stereo re-mixes previously un-heard.
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br /It's amazing, and sometimes overlooked that Berry recorded some true classic songs in the 1960's "Bye, bye Johnny", "Confessin the blues", "I gotta find my baby" "Brown eyed handsome man" "You never can tell" "Don't you lie to me" the list goes on, and they are all here for us to enjoy.
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br /One or two little niggles prevent me from giving this 5 stars. I/ because the sound quality IS so good we can now hear, rather annoyingly "breath pops", and 2/ as previously stated by another reviewer, the packaging; you either like it or you don't. But, as this is packaged in a similar manner to volume one you know what to expect and you either take it or leave it. Me, I took it and am glad I did.
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br /All in all a great collection of classic Chuck Berry. Go for it, before this limited edition sells out.
 masterpieces of music, horrible packaging June 2, 2009
Ray Thomas (U.E.)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Chuck Berry is the king of rock for me, but this collection is very poor in his presentation, only a smal digipack with a small booklet, and a very overpriced one, really very expensive, really a shame
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br /and now ¿where are the mercury recordings?....I hope universal also put out that ones
Dreadful November 7, 2009
Mr. Alan D. Woolf (UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ever seen him live?
br /Yes well this is worse. Amongst the rubbish there are a few nuggets, but like most of his contemoraries, his ouput was 90% amateur, derivative and truly dire.
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