Chuck Berry - Around and Around

[RockNEHouseNHipHop]

I give credit for Chuck Berry igniting this song, and this is an amazing piece, but I feel David Bowie did a better version (Chuck did beat the Stones though). If you look up the version at Hammersmith Oderon '73 (With Jeff Beck), it's one heck of a performance.

[GratefulVince]

Berry is king!

[Milesco]

Love this song -- it's one of my favorite Chuck Berry tunes.

For some reason, whenever I absent-mindedly get a song floating around in my head for no apparent reason, it's always THIS one! (In fact, that's why I came here this evening. This song was playing in my head, so I decided to come here to YouTube and listen to the actual recording!)

[PRINANZ]

3 Personen haben eine ROT GRÜN Schwäche ;-)

[shanehenning26]

great song

[MJP9ab]

Chuck berry is really amazing, this is a great song (:

[AbuAvital]

I would also add Lonnie Donegan to the intro piece, he more than any other influenced British youth to form bands.

[singlechuck]

The Stones version was WAY BETTER....

[chanstar6]

Not really, u fail.

[justTrinidad]

3 dislikes ? Really?

[beigleinn]

How come people always come on here and ask for the tabs? If you're any good you can just figure it out by ear, right?

[doritosyiiiha]

@beigleinn

But maybe some people are just beginners?

[justTrinidad]

@doritosyiiiha LOl, your kind

[justTrinidad]

@justTrinidad I had the record when i was a kid. Nothing will ever replace Vinyl Ever!!!!!!!!!

[SVOkid86]

I first heard this song, and thought originally it was by, by the Germs. Then one day, i heard this song at work. And it took no time at all to realize where i had heard these lyrics and sounds from. I love how my favorite punk bands always lead me back to the oldies

[NixKuiper]

correction. The rolling stones LOL

[NixKuiper]

sucks the beach boys heard this and copied this song and they got most of the money. I think Chuck started a lawsuit, he may have one. I cant remember all of the details.

[jplew138]

@NixKuiper Actually, they ripped off "Sweet Little Sixteen" for "Surfin' USA", and Chuck sued...and won.

[620NA]

boom boppa boom ba boom...you could practice drums the rest of your life and never play this like Fred Below....seriously....it's just not possible...and that creates disturbance in my mind....

[ThaPlatform]

! Would anyone have the bass tab to this, ive always wanted to learn it since i heard it

[IAm4SureTheWalrus]

little taste techiqula(misspelled) in there

[Knuckist]

When the police knocked, both doors flew back. But they Kept on Rockin!!!

[jackiechampion]

@Knuckist You're right, that's the best line in the song.

[jebrekke]

The Rolling Stones are almost unthinkable without Chuck Berry. Around and Around was one of our favourite tunes in a band I played in in the mid sixties.

[widdyhabb]

@jebrekke Rock'n'roll is unthinkable without Chuck Berry!

[ajax515]

@widdyhabb Scientifically inconceivable.

[wins151]

I will look out for that clip i have been reading the comments & EP fans all ways try to break down chuck but if EP had as much talent as Chuck we would not hear the last of it they would be saying he plays, writes, sings, and do all that Chuck is R&R best that simple he wrote over 35 songs in a short time all R&R classics ain't much that can say that.

[jackiechampion]

There's a video on YouTube of Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis et al singing Chuck's song Brown-eyed Handsome Man and they are just in awe of Chuck's talent. Everyone should look for it on YouTube. It's great. You can hear in their voices that even then it was clear to Chuck's contemporaries (the other early Rock and Rollers) that he was writing on a higher level artistically than anyone else.

[jackiechampion]

Jacobrester is the one in denial about Chuck's greatness. Chuck said many times Maybelline is based on Ida Red, he changed it so significantly that the 2 songs sound NOTHING ALIKE. Johnnie Johnson filed ONE lawsuit asking for co-composer credit; it was thrown out of court, and JJ NEVER claimed he wrote any of Chuck's BRILLIANT LYRICS. Chuck was R&R's first genius. Great songwriter, great instrumentalist.

[rockadrianrock]

THE king of rock'n roll. Today there nobody who do rock'n roll it's so bad...

[blak21]

thanks for posting these...a true artist...a true legend.. props to you man props

[KoRnhead12]

the only thing I hate about chuck's music is that its so poorly produced. we deserve to hear him in all his glory!

[sgr48]

'Bout my favorite Berry number...

[ARIZJOE]

There's only one Chuck.

[vfgjhj]

There's only one Chuck.

[Jacobrester]

Jackiechampion seems to be in denial about chuck.....Johnnie Johnson filed in court MANY seperate lawsuits claiming that Chuck stole his songs.....this presents a problem for jackiechampion because he was earlier bragging about the brilliance of Johnnie Johnson....Everyone who is familiar with Chuck knows he lfited "Ida Red" from Cowboy Bob Wills and changed the words to "Maybelline".....

[harpo103]

If I were stuck on a desert island and could only take one album..........it would be Chuck Berry's Great 28.

[kevinherbert]

Chuck is rock n roll......& he's still rockin in his 80's....

[jackiechampion]

Chuck Berry's songcraft is as great as you can get! The meter of his lyrics, his rhyming skills, his metaphors, his ability to use words to create imagery in your mind. The guy is a GENIUS! Why aren't there volumes of books about his songwriting and guitar playing. He defined what Rock n' Roll was, is, and can be! He's the single most important figure in establishing Rock n' Roll's themes, content, structure and instrumental character.

[Jacobrester]

@jackiechampion A lot of chucks songs sound the same to me

[jackiechampion]

@Jacobrester then you need to listen closer, because certainly his lyrical skills, his wordplay, is always fresh and imaginative in different ways.

[jackiechampion]

@Jacobrester And I knew you were an Elvis fan by your comment. Elvis fans always get a little insecure and threatened by Chuck's songwriting genius and guitar playing greatness, since Elvis had neither. Don't worry, Elvis was great, but remember, Elvis sang Chuck Berry songs throughout his whole career just like everybody else. There's a reason for that.

[Jacobrester]

@jackiechampion Songwriting genius ?.....that is indeed debateable since his first hit in 1955 "Maybelline" was stolen from Cowboy Bob Wills version of "Ida Red".....chucks long time piano player Johnnie Johnson filed over 50 lawsuits claiming Chuck stole his songs and never paid him a penny for it or gave him credit for it...if chuck had been a stand up man throughout his life...a person might believe his denial...but chuck was not such a nice guy

[jackiechampion]

@Jacobrester Songwriting genius? ABSOLUTELY. That has never been in dispute, and Johnnie Johnson NEVER claimed to have written any of Chuck's lyrics. Saying he stole Maybelline is assinine . Listen to Ida Red, then listen to Maybelline. Chuck, like all GREAT songwriters, was inspired by other songs (Dylan said that Subterranean Homesick Blues was influenced by Too Much Monkey Business), but Maybelline in it's sound and lyrics is totally original. CHUCK'S SONGWRITING RAISED ROCK N ROLL TO AN ART.

[jackiechampion]

@Jacobrester You know, MANY music journalists say Elvis STOLE his singing style from African Americans. Elvis admitted that he used to go to Black churches and listen to their gospel singing and he confessed to listening to A LOT of Black Rhythm and Blues singers.

[Jacobrester]

@jackiechampion I want to hear you steal Nat KIng Cole's singing style......then I want to hear you steal Hank Williams singing style......because if you can do that you might make a million.....Elvis sang with the voice God gave him

[ZAnEPuNKpWnz]

The Germs did an awesome cover of this song. This is cool too.

[Mr2banned]

This song introduced me to rock & roll about 40 years ago, thank you.

[waylo4526]

CHUCK IS THA MAN ..MAN HELL YEAH!

[twister563]

i couldnt agree with you more

Hes the king of rock and roll