The T.A.M.I. Show: Chuck Berry - "Johnny B. Goode"

[Greencard51]

He couldn't dance in these shows the he regularly does

[Greencard51]

Wen Elvis was 35 he stopd dancing n starts lip syncing fuck Elvis it was Chuck first then elvis dweeb look at hail hail rock n roll chuck is 61 years old n doing it

[luisescalonharo]

feliz cumpleaños,Chuck Berry.

[manofconstantsorrow]

sexy babes

[Paulohenrique0]

60's?? or 50's?

[KyleMeyer758]

it would be cool if we had shows like this still, instead of just music videos that are played over and over on mtv.

[000xxxxXXXXxxxx000]

can i get a thumbs up for no dislikes hell yea!

[fuvazoe]

Jajaja! Qué felicidad!, cómo se ve que lo disfruta. Qué chingón.

[Paadder]

Love that invisible drummer!

[spazhat]

I read that Chuck Berry's records were sometimes sped-up (stepped-up to a higher key) by Chess before they were released to the public. I doubt that "Johnny B. Goode' was sped-up because he would be singing (at least) two keys higher here, though he does sound like he's singing at the top of his range. ( I went to see Chuck Berry at Sturgis, SD in 2009 but he canceled. It's amazing that he plays some of the dates at his age.)

[spazhat]

Hey, the Stones played behind Chuck Berry here. This is maybe the only time that Chuck played with all the Stones, his greatest disciples. (Sister Rosetta Tharpe was an influence on Chuck's style, along with countless others.)

[spazhat]

The Rolling Stones were Chuck Berry's back-up band here, according to Harvey Kubernik's " This Is Rebel Music". Jack Nitzsche was responsible for booking the Stones.

[Khultan]

All around just fantastic: Chuck Berry, the music and the dancers! Top notch!!

[BUSToutDEMSB97]

at 0:14 the girl on the left tities where going up and down 

[gibb253]

There's something very weird about how this video has been cut to eliminate the "bouncy" dancer on the platform on the left- when he goes into the first "Go Johnny go" she's disappeared. I suspect the first chorus was cut out and one from later in the song was spliced in.

[pvtpstr]

This song is among 28 others contained on a gold disc attached to the 2 NASA Voyager interplanetary probes, launched in 1977. Top that, Elvis & Justin.

[sunrecords56]

A Rock N Roll Classic that will stand the test of Time 100 years from now this song will still bring people to their feet.

[CrimsonGuard07]

I have heard Johnny B Goode too many times to count before this but for some reason the way he opens this version is just amazing to me. I just love the swagger that he walks down the stairs with and at about 14 seconds when he goes high with his guitar and then has that brief pause before continuing is just pure magic and I could listen to that one section of music all day long.

[elamite66]

Chuck is truly one of the great ones of Rock'n'Roll but I think that another reason for Elvis being more popular, other than race, was that Elvis had the stage presence and sexuality to appeal to teenagers particulary girls Also although Chuck was clearly the better song writer and musician Elvis' voice was unrivalled They're both great in my book By the way I remember the TV show but can't remember what T.A.M.I. stood for "Teen Age Musical ? I'd appreciate anyone who knows supplying the facts

[chuckiejay]

@elamite66 Teen Age Music International.

[ironmaiden6ification]

Let's snort a line!!!!!!!!!! :D



[st105900]

thumbs up if you was amused by the stage dancers!!

[HousleyMike]

• As I understand history, Chuck Berry got his greatest ideas from Marty McFly.

[day500champ08]

Elvis may be the King, but Chuck is the Godfather of Rock and Roll.

[725Mama]

That's Teri Garr in the background, dancing.

[elamite66]

@725Mama Is that for real?

[Mp25DIII]

@725Mama Toni Basil was probably back there, too

[missionpeak1]

excellent!

[Johi2410]

What doesn't make sense is: this hearably is a life performance, I mean, you just can tell from the way Chuck acts, and it of course is not the studio version playing in the background. But why the heck is there a drum set nobody's playing on :D, and we can't see the band???

[gibb253]

@Johi2410 there were a lot of different acts on this concert, some of whom had drummers in the group (e.g. Beach Boys) and some of whom used the house band in the orchestra pit or wherever they were

[Johi2410]

@gibb253

Ah, ok, well that makes sense!

[Khultan]

@gibb253 Band members disbanded, disappeared, faded or reincarnated into a different group. It seems to be quite typical. I don't understand it.

[endicott3]

Chuck Berry = pure rock'n'roll best SONGWRITER of all time. Elvis Presley = pure rock'n'roll best SINGER of all time. Both geniuses.

[tobasko78]

Every successful artist stands on the shoulders of giants. That is a definition, not a statement.

[Khultan]

@thelivingfire Feck off.

[texasrocker65]

Go Chuck Go!!!

[robertlaf]

Everyone had influences. Michael Jackson stole everything he did from Bob Fosse to Elvis to name just a few.

No one is better than another, it's evolution of music.

[pborrellij]

There's no rock & roll without Chuck Berry, but there wouldn't have been without Elvis as well. Watch the part of his Comeback Special here where he is "unplugged" with his band. It simply doesn't get any better. Chuck gave us the music and lyrics, but Elvis was the raw sensuality which make R & R what it is. Too bad Elvis didn't hold that edge after that show in 1968.

[AnarchyTelevision198]

@pborrellij Sorry but Elvis is a copycat he stole music and gave no credit to those he copied from

[pborrellij]

@AnarchyTelevision198

If you mean that Elvis performed music that other artists performed first, fine--call him a copycat. But many artists, then and now, have done the same. They're called "covers". Elvis was very much controlled by his mgr., Tom Parker, and he never said much about anything. Elvis had to happen for R & R to become what it did. Though he never came out and said it, Chuck Berry was very envious of Elvis' success, and felt race was the reason. And he was right.

[AlabamaCelt]

@AnarchyTelevision198 That's totally untrue. Even on his live records you can hear him mention who wrote some of the tunes he was doing. Impossible to give credit to them all as there were too many.

Hail hail Chuck!

[5inthehole]

There's no doubt Mr. Berry would have been bigger than Elvis if people in the 50's and 60's wouldn't have been so pea-brained to judge musical talent through skin tone. Elvis record Chucks songs, not vise-versa!

[OropherThranduil]

@5inthehole

sorry, but that's bullshit, he recorded them, but they weren't any of his big hits, a lot of elvis big hits were written for him, and so they would have never been written without elvis to sing them.

elvis had the voice and the charisma, and his live presence was unmatched by any other white guy, and with his blend of black and white music he opened the door for the black guys like chuck, little richard himself said that on more than one occasion.

[325Chuck355]

@5inthehole And the fact that Chuck Berry was imprisoned at the peak of his career =/

[tomthefunky]

@5inthehole: Your the one judging everything by race. Face it, Elvis had looks and a voice Chuck couldn't match. Shit, Chuck was a bug-eyed voodoo-looking weirdo. Of course white girls were gonna be more into Elvis. Get real.

[5inthehole]

@tomthefunky I'm not judging anything by race, I'm just telling folks how it was, period. Am I being racist by telling folks how Mr. Berry spent his prime years in prison because of a cooked up crime to cripple him and his sucsess because of his race? Elvis slept with many more woman crossing borders and no one put him in jail. What they did back then is racism, reminding people of its uglyness is not.

[tomthefunky]

@5inthehole: Hate to break it to you, but Chuck was busted for pimping an underage girl. You can believe it was a "cooked up" charge by racist cops all you want. I suppose you think the cameras in the ladies room of his nightclub was "cooked up" as well. How about the leaked video of him pissing on the hooker? You think that was "cooked up"?

Shit, I bet your one of those idiot's who think O.J. was innocent and framed by racist cops.

[SuddenPizza]

@tomthefunky Many kings but only ONE Father of Rock 'n' Roll, Chuck had what Elvis didn't in regards to great story telling witty song writting, signature brand guitar playing that is a cornerstone of Rock guitar, and the showmanship and stage presence unlike any other.

[tomthefunky]

@SuddenPizza: I can make a perfectly good argument that, in fact, Louis Jordon is the "father" of rock and roll. Chuck's "great story telling" and "signature brand guitar playing" came from Louis Jordon and his band. Chuck modeled himself on Louis and he admitted it freely numerous times.

Listen. I'm the world's biggest Chuck Berry fan. But I defend Elvis when people slam him for stupid reasons.

[SuddenPizza]

@tomthefunky If Louis Jordan is in the running for father of Rock 'n' Roll then T-Bone Walker or Elmore James have as much claim. And you fail to mention their influence as well on Chucks playing as well as his adaptation of Johnny Johnsons piano work onto guitar. As far as his song writting, the man is a poet in his own right plain and simple, which makes him one of the great short story writters. In all your claims are flawed to the tenth power.

[SuddenPizza]

@tomthefunky Look it's clear you're a Louis Jordan ball washer.....selling millions of albums and playing to stadiums is great and states his popularity in his brand of music. However when it comes to Rock 'n' Roll which is something you are showing very little comprehension of, Chuck Berry with all his influences, became the Father of Rock 'n' Roll thus influencing future greats in the Rock world.

[sinclaircj]

@5inthehole false. your point about racism is fine, but he's not half the entertainer that elvis was---- still is. his (elvis') work still makes more money and smiles than most living people, and that has nothing to do with race, rather pure star quality.

[teetosh]

only Chuck Berry would do a song he recorded in Bb and raise to C for a live performance.

[Kohntarkosz]

Led Zeppelin raised the key of The Rain Song a whole step when playing it live, but that was because it was easier to retune the six string neck of his doubleneck to EADADE, instead of DGCGCD (which is what he used on the studio version).

And I also recall reading that Kiss used to play I Was Made For Loving You in a higher key than it is on the album.

Oh, and as far as I'm concerned, Chuck is the true King Of Rock N Roll, not the delivery truck driver from Memphis.

[erniecannon100]

@Kohntarkosz  only problem is elvis had 105 gold records chuck didnt have any

[christo930]

Notice how they took the girl off the stage who was in the bikini and jumping up and down with large breasts? As soon as they went in on Berry she was yanked off.

[5inthehole]

Christo930, Johnny B Goode who have never learned how to play if he was sucking on those Gazongas! Shake those Titee's!...maybe she's Tami?...who all the boys want to slammee?

[kypoppa]

you are a sick bastard  lol

[laforjasequema]

@christo930 the name girl bikini???

[christo930]

@laforjasequema Around the 20 sec mark there is a girl jumping and dancing with really big boobs, she is on the left side of the screen (on Berry's right) dancing with a dude, then around the 20 sec mark, they zoom in on Berry and then after the camera pulls back, at about 44 seconds she is absent from that small stage to Berry's right.

[laforjasequema]

@christo930 yes!!!