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The opening guitar riff of "Johnny B. Goode" borrows from the opening single-note solo on Louis Jordan's "Ain't That Just Like a Woman" (1946), played by guitarist Carl Hogan. [ 10 ] One notable feature of Berry's recording is the contrast between the swing of the drums and piano backing, and the "straight" (non-swinging) rhythm and lead guitar.
Johnny B. Goode is a live album by Jimi Hendrix, released posthumously in June 1986.It contains three songs from Hendrix's performance at the 1970 Atlanta International Pop Festival on July 4, 1970, and two songs, including the title track, from a performance at the Berkeley Community Theater on May 30, 1970.
The biggest differences between the track lists is that the songs are re-arranged and version A features "Watcha Gonna Do About It" and the Dave Goodman produced version of "Anarchy in the UK" (known as the 'vinyl quotation'mix), while version B features features "I Wanna Be Me" and the Chris Thomas produced version of "Anarchy in the UK".
The opening electric guitar introduction of the song was based on Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode", [12] [13] and the track's punctuated drum fills were inspired by the work of Phil Spector. [1] Musicologist Philip Lambert noted that the initial two phrases of the song are based on almost the same chord progression as the first two phrases of ...
"Memphis, Tennessee", sometimes shortened to "Memphis", is a song by Chuck Berry, first released in 1959. In the UK, the song charted at number 6 in 1963; at the same time Decca Records issued a cover version in the UK by Dave Berry and the Cruisers, which also became a UK Top 20 hit single.
It reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100, one of two of Berry's second-highest positions—along with Johnny Rivers cover of "Memphis, Tennessee"—on that chart (surpassed only by "My Ding-A-Ling", which reached number one in 1972). "Sweet Little Sixteen" also reached number one on the R&B Best Sellers chart. [3]
"Johnny B. Goode" Chuck Berry [3] "Frosty the Snowman" The Beach Boys' Christmas Album: Gene Autry and the Cass County Boys [4] "We Three Kings of Orient Are"
Carl D. Hogan (October 15, 1917 – July 8, 1977) was an American jazz and rhythm and blues guitarist and bassist. He is known for playing the lead guitar riff on Louis Jordan's "Ain't That Just Like a Woman (They'll Do It Every Time)" [1] which was later imitated by Chuck Berry for his hit "Johnny B. Goode".