Chuck Berry and Fats Domino are the true king of Rock N Roll along with Little Richard who the artitech of Rock N Roll who also the king to broke the color barriers in the 1950s along with Bo Diddley,Ruth Brown,Lavern Baker and Etta James they break the race line in rock n roll and R&B of the 50s
The only reason why he got arrested is because he was banging white chicks in 1950's America. Hahah hahahaha ahahahaha!!! I wonder what the kkk thought about this.... I love you tube!
@palmer8112 1st: whatever the tradition was in earlier decades (and centuries for that matter), the law apparently changed, because Berry was able to not only file a suit against the Beach Boys, but well, he won it, too. As for the lawsuit you say his bandmate, Johnny Johnson filed, is there any record that he won any damages? Anybody can file. 2nd: Ida Red was a folk song (as in communal in origin--no known individual creator) with earliest recording in 1924 by Fiddlin' Powers & Family.
@palmer8112 First, whatever the "tradition" was in earlier decades (and centuries for that matter), the law apparently changed, because Berry was able to not only file a suit against the Beach Boys, but well, he won it, too. As for the lawsuit you say his bandmate, Johnny Johnson filed, is there any record that he won any damages? Anybody can file. Second, the song to which you are referring is Ida Red as sung by Bob Willis which itself has origins in the African American blues tradition.
@HibiscusDawn Actually Ida Red was a FIDDLE tune. NOt Blues. It was Appalachian folk music which has European roots along with African American. Lets not get biased and say the song had origins in Blues. The original writer is Frederick W. Root. And different genres and styles from blacks and whites make up folk music. Downplaying the situation is crazy. We should just acknowledge Chuck took music from others too. Lets judge it for what it really is.
@oneindachamber And I quote: "Wills not only learned traditional music from his family, he learned some Negro songs directly from African Americans in the cotton fields near Lakeview, Texas...."I don't know whether they made them up as they moved down the cotton rows or not," Wills once told Charles Townsend, author of San Antonio Rose: The Life and Times of Bob Wills, "but they sang blues you never heard before." Source (with researched references): Wikipedia
@oneindachamber Also, as you'll see in my 2nd response to @palmer8112, I identified the earliest recording of Ida Red as being from Fiddlin' Powers & Family. However, it remains true that "Bob Wills' version* is indeed influenced by the blues he heard and admired. I never said he was exclusively influenced by the blues. And since you acknowledge that his music (which actually crossed genres) was rooted in both African and European traditions, I'm not sure where we disagree in that regard.
@HibiscusDawn OK now I understand you and I agree with you on many accounts but when I listen to Ida Red I cant really hear the BLUES within the song per se if it was B.B. King or if I was listening to Ike Turner. So thats why I think it was just a FIDDLE tune because it seems as if the blues elements arent there so I cant really classify it as blues influenced.
Brian Wilson unknowin'ly borrowed the melody for 'Surfin' USA'. Chuck hit #2 in Billboard, 3-17-58. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx! Have a great week!
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La cancion de chuck berry fue copiada y remasterizada con nuevas letras por los beach boys creando surfin USA.
La gente que cree que es original de los Beach boys se equivoca, al igual con Roll Over Beethoven se piensan que son de los Beatles, y no es, oviamente.
I just saw Cadillac Records the movie and heard the beginning of rock and roll was from the Chuck Berry! So I had to look this guy up. Thanks for posting this! He's awesome.
@hamarutax haha i don't know if that is a compliment or an insult. either way i'm sure there's plenty of chuck berry footage roaming around the internet.
I agree, @hibiscusdawn. Even the guitar solo was note for note. Friggin plagiarism. Some nerve, ripping off a rock n roll king. It' surprising that someone as creative as Brian Wilson ever went about something in that way.
I agree, @hibiscusdawn. Even the guitar solo was note for note. Friggin plagiarism. Some nerve, ripping off a rock n roll king. It' surprising that someone as creative as Brian Wilson ever went about something in that way.
I agree, @hibiscusdawn. Even the guitar solo was note for note. Friggin plagiarism. Some nerve, ripping off a rock n roll king. It' surprising that someone as creative as Brian Wilson ever went about something in that way.
Jesus Christ, do a little research on shit before you try and argue about it. Chuck Berry wrote this song then was put in jail for transporting a minor(prostitute) over state lines. The Beach Boys wrote "Surfin' USA" as a tribute to Chuck Berry. But when Chuck got out of jail he demanded from the Beach Boys all this money and shit. Yes Chuck Berry wrote the original and it's a great song BUT the Beach Boys did NOT steal the song, "Surfin' USA" is a tribute! They are BOTH very good songs!
@WhoAteTeddy No, no. YOU do the research. WITHOUT BERRY's PERMISSION, The Beach Boys took the melody Chuck Berry created for his song, "Sweet Little Sixteen", and released it as Surfin USA (with new lyrics). Since when do folks do a "tribute" by stealing your work? This was no business deal they discussed with him while he was in jail. That's ain't no "tribute", that's theft. They're not "BOTH" good songs 'cause there's not but ONE SONG--Berry's song-- with two sets of lyrics. Tell the truth.
@HibiscusDawn You are right in a sense, but have you seen Hail Hail Rock n Roll. Chuck gives an insight into where some of his melodies come from, other musicians.
@13thfloor18 I'm not sure what you mean by "in a sense" because there's no sense in which I'm wrong. Is there? And no, I haven't seen the song/footage you're referencing. It' would great if you posted it. However, we all know there is a difference (legally as well as musically) between drawing inspiration and outright duplication. We're all talking about him 60 yrs. later because he was an innovator and not a copycat. So, with all due respect, what is your point?
@HibiscusDawn I just meant that he was inspired and took melodies himself and put his lyrics over it at times. In the film he says that one of his songs was based off a song called 'Ida Red'. He wanted to call it that, but he was not allowed to so he changed it to maybelline. They should have just put his name on the credits to begin with. I just meant in a sense because perhaps it was a tribute which got caught up in legality. I doubt the Beach Boys wanted to rip off someone they admired.
@13thfloor18 I'm posting to this comment section because I know that more folks will "learn" the story of American music (and by extension some politics and culture as well) here than in some other classroom. For that reason, I'm interested in historical truth and the facts that bear witness to it. The historical truth is this: Chuck Berry sued The Beach Boys some are trying to recast as "tribute" givers" And the historical truth is, Chuck Berry won.
@13thfloor18 You "doubt the Beach Boys wanted to rip off someone they admired"? I don't. Over against the well documented pattern of African American artists in particular getting ripped financially and historically by the dominant European American music establishment, I don't doubt it all. Much love...
@HibiscusDawn He is an innovator and a great business man it seems from watching the film. But I am sure there are many who went before him and who inspired him who we don't talk about as much. This guy's sound though is something special it is timelessly exciting. As are The Beach Boys in my own opinion ( which doesn't mean that much at the end of the day).
@HibiscusDawn fuck off music is all the same today! if you go to that fucking point you will see how many musics have the progression, E,A,E,A,A,D... A lot so shut da fuck up and enjoy da fukin music
The musicians playing with Chuck are all Jazz masters, who played with Duke Ellington, and are clearly trying to fuck his song up, after all they hated rock and roll
The musicians playing with Chuck are all Jazz masters, who played with Duke Ellington, and are clearly trying to fuck his song up, after all they hated rock and roll
The musicians playing with Chuck are all Jazz masters, who played with Duke Ellington, and are clearly trying to fuck his song up, after all they hated rock and roll
The Beach Boys gave Chuck Berry songwriting credit for this song. Also what about Promised Land by Chuck Berry? It's the Wabash Cannonball. Oops. Chuck forgot to give credit to J.A. Roff. That's ok, musicians borrow from one another all the time. It's been going on since the beginning of time. Every art form does this. Be sure to check out the Carter Family doing Wabash Cannonball and think about what you are accusing the Beach Boys of doing. Chuck did the same thing.
Promised Land is its own song with its own riffs. Chuck didn't use the WB's melody and then just sing different lyrics over it like The Beach Boys did with Chuck's Sweet Little 16, that's the difference. The Beach Boys completely stole (not "borrowed") Chuck's melody for their song for profit - that's why it was wrong and that's why Chuck sued and won. TBB never gave credit to Chuck before the lawsuit either.
Promised Land has the exact same melody as Wabash Cannonball. I'm sorry that you aren't willing to acknowledge it but it's true. He wrote his own lyrics over the melody which already existed.
I get a kick out of how the old guyss on stage don't quite know what to make of Chuck and stand there with hands in the pockets; the earth underneath their feet had changed dramatically and their dancers in the audience were hip to it while the old jazz-dudes just wondered what was to come.
This is absolutely brilliant. The camera work and editing, the subject of a young Chuck Berry, the cuts of the crowd, and the wonderful, dirty guitar sound from Berry while surrounded by a number of jazz greats - who all appear to be having a great time! Thank you for putting it up, austinstein, and thanks to those who made such informative comments.
Interestingly, Brian Wilson said, real early on, that the goal of the Beach Boys was to pair Chuck Berry's guitar with Four Freshman vocals and they pretty much succeeded.
Say what you want to about Chuck's guitar playing and argue forever about whether or not he "invented" rock n roll, but one thing is for sure...he definitely put hidden cameras in the women's bathroom of his restaurant so he could watch them urinate and defecate. Oh yes, it's true
I feel like crying watching this. It's not just the artistic rip off, they take someones inspiration and delete it from history. I like these lyrics better than "Surfing USA".
Chuck nails it as...a ginormous music influence globally...as a social reformer in the
US deep south (it should be called " the Shallow South ")...as a German porn star...is there no end to Chuck's talents?????.....he's working at 84year old...and he charges to access his website!!!!.....cohunas of steel.....
it doesnt matter who was the first artist...no one will ever know, i just think that rock'n'roll was originated from the blues so probably was little richard or chuck, but what i know is that the beach boys did copy this song and made surfin usa,.....that really sucks because, whether you like them or not that song eventually became more popular than chuck's
@dondevis Oh, yes it does matter and yes, we DO know who was first. It matters because families get fed and children (illegitimate or otherwise) get money for school and wives and "mistresses" get healthcare off of these royalties, etc.). It matters because--whether we like it or not--money is tied to accomplishment and to "pioneers". It matters because it's not just one incident, but part of a larger longstanding pattern of theft. We all know the history, don't we? Theft isn't "borrowing".
im 23 and i always heard alot of 50's music but when i watched cadilac records it really gave me some knowledge to where all this music came from and since it was still segeregated there white people took blacks music and made it there own that is y some are famous
This clip from the film Jazz On A Summer's Day is the best clip of rock and roll on flim for so many reasons. You can see the changing of the guards as the big band (Duke Ellington's ?) are not taking this rock and roller too seriously. Unfortunately, like the dinosaur they are doomed. A new kid is on the block and taking the limelight away from them.
Great memories! I was 14 and hooked on Chuck through having two 78's with him!although I had never seen him perform on TV in the UK..Then this film,'Jazz on a Summer's Day' came to our local cinema and my gran gave me money so I could go and see this film seven days in a row!!!Wow, that was really something back in those golden days!!!
AllischaGermanyb5lov sorry for the late reply but i agree with everything u said elvis did steal from blacks i bet if times werent racist back then then chuck would be the king of rock n roll
WOW!! Never heard of this version. Just watch cadillac records and remembered about the Surfing USA and how Chuck was mad about the beach boys copying him.
Look at this guy... doesn't realize that the first mobile phone was sold in 1973.. this video is from 1958. On top of this, I really doubt that the first mobile phone had a camera function. My most likely guess was that this was filmed on a regular old fashioned Sony Super 8. This is what you get when you elect Barack Obama.. typical public school education. Seriously how do you sleep at night?
@parrotsnest one the dude was being sarcastic see the wink at the end of the comment and two what does obama being president for a total of twenty two months recieve the blame for the fails of the public education system. What we all do know is that bush's no child left behind bill is really helping to solve this problem
the beachboys borrowed chucks sound because they were his biggest fans and secondly on the score of he invented the genre. so stop knocking the beachboys if you please. all bands have their influences and by extension borrow from others.
Great song so great the Beach boys ripped it off for Surfin USA. Chuck got t.he due credit though by suing and now he has credit for writting Surfin USA with Brian Wilson.
Many artists borrow melodies from older songs, although perhaps not as blatantly as the Beach Boys did. Chuck Berry himself took and old Bob Wills hit song called "Ida Red", and changed the lyrics and called it "Maybellene". He also took the note for note guitar intro fof Johnny B Goode from Louis Jordan's old song "Aint that Just Like A Woman". But that doesn't make the artist any less great. Berry, Jordan and Beach Boys are all huge artists.
@rbound827 I would disagree on the borrow. Every artist back then played a 16th pace on a high note, but in johnny b goode he changes notes every second and 4th note. or it's so fast it's 4th and 8th. that isn't plagerism. in music you have to take more then half of a 4 note set, or every song is stolen.
@Jaggeh33 Sure he may added a little extra, but many of the solos, like the guitar intor to Johnny B Goode were taken from Louis Jordan's guitarist- but Chuck Berry made them his sound, and it's Berry' s now
And the thing with him and Elvis.. I think that Chuck is the KinG:: elvis copied a lot of black artists... many other white artists back in the days did that... because the white folks had more rights.. they could sell more
If you want to do yourself a favor and see who really started it all .. check out Little Richard ... he preceded both chuck and elvis ...and is still rockin today!!
@AllischaGermanyb5lov Sure Chuck Berry is a legend, and wrote many of the greatest RnR songs, but as far as Presley goes, Presley recorded a year before Chuck Berry ever recorded. Along with Bill Haley, Presely combined Country and Blues to create Rockabilly, which is the pre- cursor to Rock and Roll. Berry also "copied" many black artists, such as T Bone Walker and Louis Jordan, as well as country artists such as Bob Wills.,
True both are pioneers, with Berry being the most influential guitarist, as well as one of it's earliest artists that tapped into the teenage market with his lyrics about teenage life. All artists copied off each other, and the artists that came before them, both black and white. Its a natural progression of music.
@AllischaGermanyb5lov Chuck got his style from copying guys like Son House and Charlie Patton copied the white bluegrass singers they heard on the radio before them, also black plantation workers in the south were introduced to the guitar and taught by Mexican migrant workers in the late 1800s which led to guys like Robert Johnson who copied Son House note for note. Thats how music is
@testmonkey21 mexican did not teach them how to play guitar idiot.Black people did not talk or come close to mexican workers fool that were like in southern texas.Rock and roll comes from the blues duh they call little richard the architect of rock and roll.The guitar comes from the banjo a african invention with is what black people were playing in the south as slaves learn something fool.
@enferno00 yo need to read a bit before you call someone a fool ....
they kept all the mexicans in texas huh?are you serious Retard the guitar is a SPANISH instrument numbnuts ....and all the dancing and playing with their teeth they learned that from the mexicans too ......Ever watch a Mariachi band ......retard
@testmonkey21 you are a fool Banjos is a african invention were the guitar came from , and can you tell me were black learn to play do you know lol you can tell me that fool.
@enferno00 the learned to play from the mexican migrant workers who stayed in the same boarding houses that blacks did ....blues scales are a very simple almost illiterate version of the more complex scales and chords the spanish had been playing for at least 100 years at that point.....fool....lol
Don't talk stupid. The Yank white kids were unaware of a lot of their black artists. Only when the Stones, the Beatles and others introduced them to some of their songs did thye start appreciating them. See how many black bluesmen were living in poverty until they suddenly started getting royalty cheques because of their songs being successful for British bands.
In the early 60's bluesmen were coming to England and getting the biggest paydays they had ever had.
Chuck Berry and Fats Domino are the true king of Rock N Roll along with Little Richard who the artitech of Rock N Roll who also the king to broke the color barriers in the 1950s along with Bo Diddley,Ruth Brown,Lavern Baker and Etta James they break the race line in rock n roll and R&B of the 50s
MrWalterlee011 1 week ago
He should be proud that they let him steal the royalties
SuperVarulven 1 month ago
That a song sucks compare AAA To Surfin´ U.S.A.
SuperVarulven 1 month ago
fuck elvis...afroamericans is kings of rnr
1borat5 1 month ago
I'm rocking in pittsburgh Pa :P
CL137626 1 month ago
Is this from the Newport Jazz Festival? Looks like a bunch of very un Rock 'n Roll New York Jews.
washboardblues 1 month ago
ah people are people, and do what they do, dont they?
what matters is we have these awesome pieces of artistic expression preserved for our enjoyment today.
Ayala84 2 months ago
The beauty of Chuck Berry's playing is it's simplicity and also the flow of his lyrics.
If you play guitar your gotta be able to play some Chuck Berry or you really can't call yourself a rock and roller.
andrewr62 2 months ago
I'm a Musician, There's only Seven Notes who cares!!!! Chuck Berry is and always will be the King of Rock n Roll, story closed!!
britephoenix09 2 months ago 6
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kourosh89 2 months ago
The beach boys never had shit on Chuck Berry.
Thatguychris93 3 months ago
great song :)
chaot0punk 4 months ago
The only reason why he got arrested is because he was banging white chicks in 1950's America. Hahah hahahaha ahahahaha!!! I wonder what the kkk thought about this.... I love you tube!
boddus 4 months ago
@palmer8112 1st: whatever the tradition was in earlier decades (and centuries for that matter), the law apparently changed, because Berry was able to not only file a suit against the Beach Boys, but well, he won it, too. As for the lawsuit you say his bandmate, Johnny Johnson filed, is there any record that he won any damages? Anybody can file. 2nd: Ida Red was a folk song (as in communal in origin--no known individual creator) with earliest recording in 1924 by Fiddlin' Powers & Family.
HibiscusDawn 4 months ago
@palmer8112 First, whatever the "tradition" was in earlier decades (and centuries for that matter), the law apparently changed, because Berry was able to not only file a suit against the Beach Boys, but well, he won it, too. As for the lawsuit you say his bandmate, Johnny Johnson filed, is there any record that he won any damages? Anybody can file. Second, the song to which you are referring is Ida Red as sung by Bob Willis which itself has origins in the African American blues tradition.
HibiscusDawn 4 months ago
@HibiscusDawn Actually Ida Red was a FIDDLE tune. NOt Blues. It was Appalachian folk music which has European roots along with African American. Lets not get biased and say the song had origins in Blues. The original writer is Frederick W. Root. And different genres and styles from blacks and whites make up folk music. Downplaying the situation is crazy. We should just acknowledge Chuck took music from others too. Lets judge it for what it really is.
oneindachamber 3 months ago
@oneindachamber And I quote: "Wills not only learned traditional music from his family, he learned some Negro songs directly from African Americans in the cotton fields near Lakeview, Texas...."I don't know whether they made them up as they moved down the cotton rows or not," Wills once told Charles Townsend, author of San Antonio Rose: The Life and Times of Bob Wills, "but they sang blues you never heard before." Source (with researched references): Wikipedia
HibiscusDawn 3 months ago
@oneindachamber Also, as you'll see in my 2nd response to @palmer8112, I identified the earliest recording of Ida Red as being from Fiddlin' Powers & Family. However, it remains true that "Bob Wills' version* is indeed influenced by the blues he heard and admired. I never said he was exclusively influenced by the blues. And since you acknowledge that his music (which actually crossed genres) was rooted in both African and European traditions, I'm not sure where we disagree in that regard.
HibiscusDawn 3 months ago
@HibiscusDawn OK now I understand you and I agree with you on many accounts but when I listen to Ida Red I cant really hear the BLUES within the song per se if it was B.B. King or if I was listening to Ike Turner. So thats why I think it was just a FIDDLE tune because it seems as if the blues elements arent there so I cant really classify it as blues influenced.
oneindachamber 3 months ago
@palmer8112 well chuck is still awsome
rockandrollallnight4 4 months ago
Brian Wilson unknowin'ly borrowed the melody for 'Surfin' USA'. Chuck hit #2 in Billboard, 3-17-58. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx! Have a great week!
DaveWollenberg 4 months ago
great soloing
bluestough 4 months ago
@bluestough You can see why the clarinet never made it as a rock'n'roll instrument, though.
AllBobsAllTheTime 4 months ago
Gotta love Chuck!
DuecePiece 5 months ago
great song
shanehenning26 5 months ago
Mos Def should play him in a biopic
fediaz88 5 months ago
@fediaz88 lol he did.
GhitItGhitIt 5 months ago
@fediaz88 Lol He Did.... Thats So Awkward That You Thought Of That!
eyesword101 5 months ago
@fediaz88 Great idea
speechrighter 4 months ago
surfin usa
rhall4th 5 months ago
Hey,
Cool video. Peace
-MW
MatthewHowardWight 5 months ago
i heard the spanish version first lol x)
damarissaysrawrbitch 6 months ago
great song
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noelbeatles 7 months ago
La cancion de chuck berry fue copiada y remasterizada con nuevas letras por los beach boys creando surfin USA.
La gente que cree que es original de los Beach boys se equivoca, al igual con Roll Over Beethoven se piensan que son de los Beatles, y no es, oviamente.
El Rey del Rock es y será Chuck Berry
Eloybb1 7 months ago
at drums papa jo jones
fortune996 7 months ago
I just saw Cadillac Records the movie and heard the beginning of rock and roll was from the Chuck Berry! So I had to look this guy up. Thanks for posting this! He's awesome.
cj10109 7 months ago
Sick quality!
MrVault13Dweller 7 months ago
Where did this clip came from ???
God's personal vault ???
hamarutax 8 months ago
@hamarutax haha i don't know if that is a compliment or an insult. either way i'm sure there's plenty of chuck berry footage roaming around the internet.
groeten uit ...
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I agree, @hibiscusdawn. Even the guitar solo was note for note. Friggin plagiarism. Some nerve, ripping off a rock n roll king. It' surprising that someone as creative as Brian Wilson ever went about something in that way.
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I agree, @hibiscusdawn. Even the guitar solo was note for note. Friggin plagiarism. Some nerve, ripping off a rock n roll king. It' surprising that someone as creative as Brian Wilson ever went about something in that way.
jakebacon889 8 months ago
I agree, @hibiscusdawn. Even the guitar solo was note for note. Friggin plagiarism. Some nerve, ripping off a rock n roll king. It' surprising that someone as creative as Brian Wilson ever went about something in that way.
jakebacon889 8 months ago 2
Oh snap, that's Papa Jo Jones on drums! That guy is crazy good, too bad he didn't get a chance to shine in this song...
legaralith 9 months ago
crazy clarinet player, I like him XD
jaiszos 9 months ago
Jesus Christ, do a little research on shit before you try and argue about it. Chuck Berry wrote this song then was put in jail for transporting a minor(prostitute) over state lines. The Beach Boys wrote "Surfin' USA" as a tribute to Chuck Berry. But when Chuck got out of jail he demanded from the Beach Boys all this money and shit. Yes Chuck Berry wrote the original and it's a great song BUT the Beach Boys did NOT steal the song, "Surfin' USA" is a tribute! They are BOTH very good songs!
WhoAteTeddy 9 months ago
@WhoAteTeddy No, no. YOU do the research. WITHOUT BERRY's PERMISSION, The Beach Boys took the melody Chuck Berry created for his song, "Sweet Little Sixteen", and released it as Surfin USA (with new lyrics). Since when do folks do a "tribute" by stealing your work? This was no business deal they discussed with him while he was in jail. That's ain't no "tribute", that's theft. They're not "BOTH" good songs 'cause there's not but ONE SONG--Berry's song-- with two sets of lyrics. Tell the truth.
HibiscusDawn 9 months ago 47
@HibiscusDawn You are right in a sense, but have you seen Hail Hail Rock n Roll. Chuck gives an insight into where some of his melodies come from, other musicians.
13thfloor18 6 months ago
@13thfloor18 I'm not sure what you mean by "in a sense" because there's no sense in which I'm wrong. Is there? And no, I haven't seen the song/footage you're referencing. It' would great if you posted it. However, we all know there is a difference (legally as well as musically) between drawing inspiration and outright duplication. We're all talking about him 60 yrs. later because he was an innovator and not a copycat. So, with all due respect, what is your point?
HibiscusDawn 6 months ago
@HibiscusDawn I just meant that he was inspired and took melodies himself and put his lyrics over it at times. In the film he says that one of his songs was based off a song called 'Ida Red'. He wanted to call it that, but he was not allowed to so he changed it to maybelline. They should have just put his name on the credits to begin with. I just meant in a sense because perhaps it was a tribute which got caught up in legality. I doubt the Beach Boys wanted to rip off someone they admired.
13thfloor18 6 months ago
@13thfloor18 I'm posting to this comment section because I know that more folks will "learn" the story of American music (and by extension some politics and culture as well) here than in some other classroom. For that reason, I'm interested in historical truth and the facts that bear witness to it. The historical truth is this: Chuck Berry sued The Beach Boys some are trying to recast as "tribute" givers" And the historical truth is, Chuck Berry won.
HibiscusDawn 6 months ago
@13thfloor18 You "doubt the Beach Boys wanted to rip off someone they admired"? I don't. Over against the well documented pattern of African American artists in particular getting ripped financially and historically by the dominant European American music establishment, I don't doubt it all. Much love...
HibiscusDawn 6 months ago
@HibiscusDawn He is an innovator and a great business man it seems from watching the film. But I am sure there are many who went before him and who inspired him who we don't talk about as much. This guy's sound though is something special it is timelessly exciting. As are The Beach Boys in my own opinion ( which doesn't mean that much at the end of the day).
13thfloor18 6 months ago
@HibiscusDawn fuck off music is all the same today! if you go to that fucking point you will see how many musics have the progression, E,A,E,A,A,D... A lot so shut da fuck up and enjoy da fukin music
PeterSteves 4 months ago
@PeterSteves I don't engage with profanity. Talk to the hand.
HibiscusDawn 4 months ago
@HibiscusDawn & chuck won in the courth
lturkay 3 months ago
@lturkay Thanks for the reference!
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The musicians playing with Chuck are all Jazz masters, who played with Duke Ellington, and are clearly trying to fuck his song up, after all they hated rock and roll
palbt 9 months ago
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The musicians playing with Chuck are all Jazz masters, who played with Duke Ellington, and are clearly trying to fuck his song up, after all they hated rock and roll
palbt 9 months ago
The musicians playing with Chuck are all Jazz masters, who played with Duke Ellington, and are clearly trying to fuck his song up, after all they hated rock and roll
palbt 9 months ago
The Beach Boys gave Chuck Berry songwriting credit for this song. Also what about Promised Land by Chuck Berry? It's the Wabash Cannonball. Oops. Chuck forgot to give credit to J.A. Roff. That's ok, musicians borrow from one another all the time. It's been going on since the beginning of time. Every art form does this. Be sure to check out the Carter Family doing Wabash Cannonball and think about what you are accusing the Beach Boys of doing. Chuck did the same thing.
1populist 10 months ago
@1populist
Promised Land is its own song with its own riffs. Chuck didn't use the WB's melody and then just sing different lyrics over it like The Beach Boys did with Chuck's Sweet Little 16, that's the difference. The Beach Boys completely stole (not "borrowed") Chuck's melody for their song for profit - that's why it was wrong and that's why Chuck sued and won. TBB never gave credit to Chuck before the lawsuit either.
ChannelTheHumor 9 months ago 2
Promised Land has the exact same melody as Wabash Cannonball. I'm sorry that you aren't willing to acknowledge it but it's true. He wrote his own lyrics over the melody which already existed.
1populist 9 months ago
did someone record this with the new iphone?
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haze7211 10 months ago
I get a kick out of how the old guyss on stage don't quite know what to make of Chuck and stand there with hands in the pockets; the earth underneath their feet had changed dramatically and their dancers in the audience were hip to it while the old jazz-dudes just wondered what was to come.
AllBobsAllTheTime 11 months ago
C B -it's your BEST song ever !!! TNX !!!
everhard1000 11 months ago
This clip of film is from the movie Jazz on a Summer's Day, circa 1958 or '59 ... hence the jazz players with Chuck
juniormcfadden 11 months ago
awww they having such a good time even tho half of them were racist smh
kingdatnikka 11 months ago
How could the beach boys just rip this off and not give credit. Lol, 1960s Black Eyed Peas!
EllysaE 11 months ago
the beach boys totally ripped this off.
Chuck Berry FTW!
willscomix 11 months ago
This was a documentary, wasn't it? Jazz on a Summer's Day in Newport, Rhode Island.
bunnyknows1 1 year ago
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trance22355 1 year ago
Papa Jo on drums.... must of been an amazing night!
riffwagner 1 year ago
This is absolutely brilliant. The camera work and editing, the subject of a young Chuck Berry, the cuts of the crowd, and the wonderful, dirty guitar sound from Berry while surrounded by a number of jazz greats - who all appear to be having a great time! Thank you for putting it up, austinstein, and thanks to those who made such informative comments.
mysterydirt 1 year ago
Interestingly, Brian Wilson said, real early on, that the goal of the Beach Boys was to pair Chuck Berry's guitar with Four Freshman vocals and they pretty much succeeded.
AllBobsAllTheTime 1 year ago
Pretty much proves that the clarinet, although a great jazz instrument, doesn't quite work in a rock'n'roll band.
AllBobsAllTheTime 1 year ago
That's Buck Clayton on trumpet!
Pickinbuddy 1 year ago
@Pickinbuddy ....and Jack Teagarden on trombone?! What the heck is this?!
jaw350 1 year ago
Great!!
ClintReno90 1 year ago
Say what you want to about Chuck's guitar playing and argue forever about whether or not he "invented" rock n roll, but one thing is for sure...he definitely put hidden cameras in the women's bathroom of his restaurant so he could watch them urinate and defecate. Oh yes, it's true
vgorilla80 1 year ago
at the drum there is the legendary papa Jo Jones!!!!!!!!!
fortune996 1 year ago
I feel like crying watching this. It's not just the artistic rip off, they take someones inspiration and delete it from history. I like these lyrics better than "Surfing USA".
Beach Boys suck.
EliorFein 1 year ago
@EliorFein brian wilson rules, though...
hippojuice23 1 year ago
Chuck nails it as...a ginormous music influence globally...as a social reformer in the
US deep south (it should be called " the Shallow South ")...as a German porn star...is there no end to Chuck's talents?????.....he's working at 84year old...and he charges to access his website!!!!.....cohunas of steel.....
kevinherbert 1 year ago
fuck the beach boys
FrankBottazzo 1 year ago
@FrankBottazzo : I did.....pussy's all....
kevinherbert 1 year ago
it doesnt matter who was the first artist...no one will ever know, i just think that rock'n'roll was originated from the blues so probably was little richard or chuck, but what i know is that the beach boys did copy this song and made surfin usa,.....that really sucks because, whether you like them or not that song eventually became more popular than chuck's
dondevis 1 year ago
@dondevis Oh, yes it does matter and yes, we DO know who was first. It matters because families get fed and children (illegitimate or otherwise) get money for school and wives and "mistresses" get healthcare off of these royalties, etc.). It matters because--whether we like it or not--money is tied to accomplishment and to "pioneers". It matters because it's not just one incident, but part of a larger longstanding pattern of theft. We all know the history, don't we? Theft isn't "borrowing".
HibiscusDawn 6 months ago
im 23 and i always heard alot of 50's music but when i watched cadilac records it really gave me some knowledge to where all this music came from and since it was still segeregated there white people took blacks music and made it there own that is y some are famous
sexybodykemist 1 year ago
This clip from the film Jazz On A Summer's Day is the best clip of rock and roll on flim for so many reasons. You can see the changing of the guards as the big band (Duke Ellington's ?) are not taking this rock and roller too seriously. Unfortunately, like the dinosaur they are doomed. A new kid is on the block and taking the limelight away from them.
harvey1954 1 year ago
Chuck rocks! Elvis had a voice! Enough said!
susie4100 1 year ago
Dam Beach Boys! Thiefs!
mrhoffame 1 year ago
I see 5 people's hands accidentally missed the "like" button.
luvBHIC 1 year ago
wow, the bitch boys copied surfin usa from this, what hackers
EloiWeena 1 year ago
way too cool!!!!
Vikingwolfe 1 year ago
Great memories! I was 14 and hooked on Chuck through having two 78's with him!although I had never seen him perform on TV in the UK..Then this film,'Jazz on a Summer's Day' came to our local cinema and my gran gave me money so I could go and see this film seven days in a row!!!Wow, that was really something back in those golden days!!!
GOLDBAND45 1 year ago
Chuck Berry is the true King of Rock n Roll - period.
cllamont 1 year ago
This is the film Keith Richards saw as a teenager and learned his Berry technique
twenty-eight years later Chuck would be arguing with him in Hail Hail Rock N' Roll.
steveconn 1 year ago
@steveconn yes - it is priceless to see chuck put keith in his place!
noxinsox1 1 year ago
i cant believe i got lucky enough to stumble on this one...amazing!
fullmooney1 1 year ago
I saw him live at hootenanny concert this july 3. It was amazing! He is amazing <333
16courtneyriot 1 year ago
SURFIN' U.S.A, sure everyone knew
Saantiaguito 1 year ago
chuck berry at his finnest hour... forever live the true king of rock and roll
finaldrive1987 1 year ago
So amazing..what a band..clarinet solo....an' all.....
kevinherbert 1 year ago
Check out that band...brass section and all....clarinet solo !!!!.....how authentic is Chuck's gat playing..one take recording at its zenith....
kevinherbert 1 year ago
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Chuck Berry is NOT the king of Rock’n Roll. He is a Pedophile and a thief the sooner people realize this the better.
thelivingfire 1 year ago
love it. those kids were having a blast
tommyloika 1 year ago
It used to be in colour
buskerbuoy 1 year ago
AllischaGermanyb5lov sorry for the late reply but i agree with everything u said elvis did steal from blacks i bet if times werent racist back then then chuck would be the king of rock n roll
corn730 1 year ago
This is the original. not the beach boys, this!
lisarri23 1 year ago
Some people are stupid.
enferno00 1 year ago
Whao did the Beach Boys total rip this beat off for Surfing USA or what??
engineeringtech 1 year ago
@engineeringtech They had the same songwriter.
BellaDiL0 1 year ago
This is a horrible recording of CB's Sweet Little 16 -- the soud quality is horrible!!
mdandrea39 1 year ago
@mdandrea39 give them a break lol that was cut on the mayflower i think
y00sta 1 year ago
This man invented what became rock music. Berry was copied by the Beach Boys and the Beatles, they made mountains from the Chuck Berry swagger.
kenrmcallister 1 year ago
Some spirits walk forever.
signsbyrock 1 year ago
lol it is so lame that the beach boys ripped this off from him!!!!
MoThErFuNkErS3 1 year ago
WOW!! Never heard of this version. Just watch cadillac records and remembered about the Surfing USA and how Chuck was mad about the beach boys copying him.
I love the Beach Boys but DAMN!
archy2frank2 1 year ago
For those wondering, Chuck Berry sued the beach boys for Surfin' USA.
MuddyWaters1913 1 year ago
I bet he banged a lot of white chicks that night!
707RipOtee 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this, Austinstein it 's great video!
rscarfo1 1 year ago
Chuck Berry is the INVENTOR of the Rock & Roll
mostrovolante 1 year ago 3
thank you for this video.
dreemerzisland11 1 year ago
hmmm... now you would ask which one. Both of course....
richicious 1 year ago
The clarinet player is amazing!!!!
richicious 1 year ago
omg, those mobile-phone cameras weren't so good in those days ;-)
Themawechsel 1 year ago 50
@Themawechsel
Look at this guy... doesn't realize that the first mobile phone was sold in 1973.. this video is from 1958. On top of this, I really doubt that the first mobile phone had a camera function. My most likely guess was that this was filmed on a regular old fashioned Sony Super 8. This is what you get when you elect Barack Obama.. typical public school education. Seriously how do you sleep at night?
parrotsnest 1 year ago
@parrotsnest one the dude was being sarcastic see the wink at the end of the comment and two what does obama being president for a total of twenty two months recieve the blame for the fails of the public education system. What we all do know is that bush's no child left behind bill is really helping to solve this problem
ProfessorX2000 1 year ago
@Themawechsel LMFAO that was the funniest comment Ive seen all month
redhoney01 1 year ago
it was something like this 3w. gadgetvenu.kom/wp-content/uploads/2008/07.camera-phone.jbg
trance22355 1 year ago
Holy shit, it really does sound a lot like Surfing USA!
kdixon7783B 1 year ago
This looks earlier than 1958. Cool bolo tie, btw.
boscoruby 1 year ago
the beachboys borrowed chucks sound because they were his biggest fans and secondly on the score of he invented the genre. so stop knocking the beachboys if you please. all bands have their influences and by extension borrow from others.
porridgeeveryday 1 year ago
@ first he didnt . they raped him outta of it until he took them to court and sued they ass!!
mademane20 1 year ago
Great!
Thanks Chuck!
John, Paul George, Ringo et much more musicians
canutodosbis 1 year ago
looks like the clarinet player was the only one in the band sympathetic !
markdeanellen 2 years ago
Fantastic clip! Thank you! There's a line in a Bob Seger song
" all of chucks children are out there playin his licks! " so true!
rossfletcher22 2 years ago
cuz everybody surfin, surfin sweet sixteen......wtf! seriously, people need to make original music!
r4scuache 2 years ago
Gotta love the Bitch Boys...
boscoruby 1 year ago
Fantastic footage. And Elvis was NOTHING compared to Chuck Berry. The True King Of Rock'n'Roll
sjefendin 2 years ago
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BeatleJohnGeorge 2 years ago
i don't know what the hell is up with all the negative comments. they do.
murdochmikey 1 year ago
the real king of rock and roll
LSickman2 2 years ago
Great song so great the Beach boys ripped it off for Surfin USA. Chuck got t.he due credit though by suing and now he has credit for writting Surfin USA with Brian Wilson.
Yugderf1 2 years ago 4
this is the greatest clip of all time.
mattybock 2 years ago 4
bravo,bravo thats rock & roll ! ! !
deadlyfork 2 years ago
Cool film noir-esque lighting. Menacing. Hints at the prevalent racism of the era.
Asymmatrix 2 years ago
BeachBoys surf in usa ?
Bmoll09 2 years ago
Beach Boys got sued for it too. Watch the movie Cadillac Records.
no1TequilaQueen 2 years ago 5
The beach boys ripped off this song and put in their own lyrics. I believe they even had the same syllables as Chuck Berry.
buckywarfrat 2 years ago 2
Many artists borrow melodies from older songs, although perhaps not as blatantly as the Beach Boys did. Chuck Berry himself took and old Bob Wills hit song called "Ida Red", and changed the lyrics and called it "Maybellene". He also took the note for note guitar intro fof Johnny B Goode from Louis Jordan's old song "Aint that Just Like A Woman". But that doesn't make the artist any less great. Berry, Jordan and Beach Boys are all huge artists.
rbound827 1 year ago 5
You are 100 % right rbound827. Thank you for this post!
allaboard70 1 year ago
@rbound827 I would disagree on the borrow. Every artist back then played a 16th pace on a high note, but in johnny b goode he changes notes every second and 4th note. or it's so fast it's 4th and 8th. that isn't plagerism. in music you have to take more then half of a 4 note set, or every song is stolen.
Jaggeh33 1 year ago
@Jaggeh33 Sure he may added a little extra, but many of the solos, like the guitar intor to Johnny B Goode were taken from Louis Jordan's guitarist- but Chuck Berry made them his sound, and it's Berry' s now
rbound827 1 year ago
@buckywarfrat lol its called a cover.....beach boys DID NOT get any royalties they all went to chuck berry
Lboyer1992 1 year ago
my favorite song and "Chuck" has it
backwire25 2 years ago
I love the original sound of this video..Great video..Thanks!
thedemon6523 2 years ago 2
I wish I was there.
rhythmandblues87 2 years ago
This man is blessed with a gift .
dre20774 2 years ago
wow he wrote so many big hits?!
I'm 17 and I know a lot of his songs !
He is a legend :)
And the thing with him and Elvis.. I think that Chuck is the KinG:: elvis copied a lot of black artists... many other white artists back in the days did that... because the white folks had more rights.. they could sell more
A shame but the truth..
Chuck Berry= The Best! :)
AllischaGermanyb5lov 2 years ago 20
If you want to do yourself a favor and see who really started it all .. check out Little Richard ... he preceded both chuck and elvis ...and is still rockin today!!
austinstein 2 years ago
@austinstein Exactly what I was going to suggest ;)
Okpolosi 1 year ago
@austinstein Thats the American way. See somthing good and make it yours. thats why we are the best : )
makeumybitch 1 year ago
@AllischaGermanyb5lov Sure Chuck Berry is a legend, and wrote many of the greatest RnR songs, but as far as Presley goes, Presley recorded a year before Chuck Berry ever recorded. Along with Bill Haley, Presely combined Country and Blues to create Rockabilly, which is the pre- cursor to Rock and Roll. Berry also "copied" many black artists, such as T Bone Walker and Louis Jordan, as well as country artists such as Bob Wills.,
rbound827 2 years ago
hmm...
didn't know that
But I think he still copied some moves and so on... also some moves from Jackie Wilson I think..
But Elvis is a legend and chuck berry is a legend :)
AllischaGermanyb5lov 2 years ago
True both are pioneers, with Berry being the most influential guitarist, as well as one of it's earliest artists that tapped into the teenage market with his lyrics about teenage life. All artists copied off each other, and the artists that came before them, both black and white. Its a natural progression of music.
rbound827 2 years ago
@AllischaGermanyb5lov Chuck got his style from copying guys like Son House and Charlie Patton copied the white bluegrass singers they heard on the radio before them, also black plantation workers in the south were introduced to the guitar and taught by Mexican migrant workers in the late 1800s which led to guys like Robert Johnson who copied Son House note for note. Thats how music is
testmonkey21 1 year ago
@testmonkey21 mexican did not teach them how to play guitar idiot.Black people did not talk or come close to mexican workers fool that were like in southern texas.Rock and roll comes from the blues duh they call little richard the architect of rock and roll.The guitar comes from the banjo a african invention with is what black people were playing in the south as slaves learn something fool.
enferno00 1 year ago
@enferno00 yo need to read a bit before you call someone a fool ....
they kept all the mexicans in texas huh?are you serious Retard the guitar is a SPANISH instrument numbnuts ....and all the dancing and playing with their teeth they learned that from the mexicans too ......Ever watch a Mariachi band ......retard
testmonkey21 1 year ago
@testmonkey21 you are a fool Banjos is a african invention were the guitar came from , and can you tell me were black learn to play do you know lol you can tell me that fool.
enferno00 1 year ago
@enferno00 the learned to play from the mexican migrant workers who stayed in the same boarding houses that blacks did ....blues scales are a very simple almost illiterate version of the more complex scales and chords the spanish had been playing for at least 100 years at that point.....fool....lol
testmonkey21 1 year ago
@enferno00 So these poor slaves brought over Banjos from Africa ? lol thats dedication ,I would have most likely smuggled a weapon of some kind
testmonkey21 1 year ago
@testmonkey21stupidity is amazing i like that rock music the black americans created the british liked the music to go as the beatles lol.
enferno00 1 year ago
Don't talk stupid. The Yank white kids were unaware of a lot of their black artists. Only when the Stones, the Beatles and others introduced them to some of their songs did thye start appreciating them. See how many black bluesmen were living in poverty until they suddenly started getting royalty cheques because of their songs being successful for British bands.
In the early 60's bluesmen were coming to England and getting the biggest paydays they had ever had.
kemptonite 1 year ago