CHUCK BERRY. "THE LATEST AND GREATEST" PYE Intl, UK 1964 LP. ORIG EX.
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Chuck Berry ?– The Latest And The Greatest
Label: Pye International ?– NPL 28031 Format: Vinyl, LP, CompilationCountry: UK Released: May 1964 Genre: Jazz, Rock, Funk / Soul, Blues Style: Rock & Roll, Doo Wop
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A1 Nadine (Is It You) A2 Fraulein A3 Guitar Boogie A4 Things I Use To Do A5 Don't You Lie To Me A6 Driftin' Blues Written-By – Brown*, Williams*, Moore* A7 Liverpool Drive B1 No Particular Place To Go B2 Lonely All The Time B3 Jaguar And The Thunderbird B4 O Rangutang B5 You Two B6 Deep Feeling B7 Bye Bye JohnnyCredits
- Written-By – Berry* (tracks: A1 to A5, A7 to B7)
Review by Bruce Eder [-]
This album is one of a handful of Chuck Berry long-players that were exclusive to England. By mid-1964, in the midst of the British Invasion, Chuck Berry was a lot more popular in England than he was in America -- the result was a reversal of what took place in America with the Beatles, as Chess Records' British licensee, Pye, spun a pair of Chuck Berry albums out of recent singles and odd B-sides, getting the jump on Chess by putting the single tracks "The Things I Used to Do," "No Particular Place to Go," and "You Two" (due to appear on From St. Louis to Liverpool that fall) on an LP, and throwing in cuts like "Guitar Boogie," "Don't You Lie to Me," "Bye Bye Johnny," "Liverpool Drive," and "Driftin' Blues" (off of One Dozen Berrys, New Juke Box Hits, Two Great Guitars, and Rockin' at the Hops), along with the single edit of "Jaguar and Thunderbird" (previously only available on the fake-live On Stage album) onto The Latest and the Greatest. The most interesting and unfamiliar track here is the blues instrumental "O Rangutang," which, with its saxes backing Berry and his core band, sounds like it could have come from the same January 1964 session that yielded "Nadine." The funny thing is, for all of the overlaps with other Berry albums and the slapped together nature of the album,The Latest and the Greatest is a very solid album -- it is almost certainly the place where Jeff Beckand the Yardbirds heard "Guitar Boogie," which they promptly redid (without credit) as "Jeff Boogie" the following year, and the harder rocking numbers intersected with the repertories of dozens, perhaps hundreds, of British bands.
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EXCELLENT: The record shows some signs of having been played, but there is very little lessening in sound quality. The cover and packaging might have slight wear and/or creasing.
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GOOD: The record has been played so much that the sound quality has noticeably deteriorated, perhaps with some distortion and mild scratches. The cover and contents suffer from folding, scuffing of edges, spine splits, discoloration, etc.
FAIR: The record is still just playable but has not been cared for properly and displays considerable surface noise; it may even jump.
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