UNCLE FLIPSIDE

Notes / Credits / Personnel

• Chuck Berry – “Maybellene”: Johnnie Johnson [piano]; Willie Dixon [bass]; Ebbie Hardy [drums]; possibly Otis Spann [piano]; Johnnie Johnson co-writer; recorded 5/21/55 at Universal Studios in Chicago
• Elmore James – “Hawaiian Boogie”: Elmore James [guitar]; Odie Payne [drums]; Ransom Knowling [bass]; Johnny Jones [piano]; JT Brown [t-sax]; Joe Bihari [producer]; recorded 4/53 in Chicago; 2nd version of Hawaiian Boogie
• Elvis Presley – “Milkcow Blues Boogie”: Elvis [vocal, acoustic guitar]; Scotty Moore [electric guitar]; Bill Black [bass]
• Charlie Ryan & The Livingston Bros. – “Hot Rod Lincoln”: (original version) Charlie Ryan [vocal]; Ronnie Livingston [lead guitar]; Neal Livingston [pedal steel]
• Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys – “Ida Red”: Leon McAuliffe [steel]; Eldon Shamblin [guitar]; Tommy Duncan [vocal]; Johnnie Lee Wills [banjo]; Jesse Ashlock [fiddle]; Smokey Dacus [drums]; Al Stricklin [piano]; Son Lansford [bass]; Herman Arnspiger [guitar]; recorded 11/29/38
• Chuck Berry – “Wee Wee Hours”: Johnnie Johnson [piano]; Willie Dixon [bass]; Ebbie Hardy [drums]; possibly Otis Spann [piano]; Johnnie Johnson co-writer; recorded 5/21/55 at Universal Studios in Chicago
• Art Tatum – “Wee Baby Blues”: Big Joe Turner [vocal]; Art Tatum [piano]
• Chuck Berry – “Thirty Days (To Come Back Home)”: Johnnie Johnson [piano]; Willie Dixon [bass]; Ebbie Hardy [drums]; recorded 9/55 at Universal Studios in Chicago
• Hank Williams – “Move It On Over”: Hank Williams [vocal, guitar]; Zeke Turner [electric guitar]; Louis Innis [rhythm guitar]; Dale “Smokey” Lohman [steel]; Bronson Reynolds [bass]; Tommy Jackson [fiddle]; recorded 4/21/47 at Castle Studio at The Tulane Hotel in Nashville
• Chuck Berry – “Together (We’ll Always Be)”: Johnnie Johnson [piano]; Willie Dixon [bass]; Ebbie Hardy [drums]; recorded 9/55 at Universal Studios in Chicago
• King Cole Trio – “Then I’ll Be Tired of You”: Nat King Cole [piano, vocal]; Irving Ashby [guitar]; Johnny Miller [bass]; recorded 10/28/47 at RKO Pathé Studios in NY
• Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers – “Drifting Blues”: Johnny Moore [guitar]; Charles Brown [vocal, piano]; Eddie Williams [bass]
• Chuck Berry – “No Money Down”: Johnnie Johnson [piano]; Willie Dixon [bass]; Ebbie Hardy [drums]; recorded 12/20/55 at Universal Studios in Chicago
• Muddy Waters – “I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man”: Muddy Waters [vocal, guitar]; Jimmy Rogers [guitar]; Willie Dixon [bass]; Otis Spann [piano]; Elgin Evans [drums]; Little Walter [harmonica]; recorded 1/7/54 in Chicago
• Chuck Berry – “Downbound Train”: Willie Dixon [bass]; Ebbie Hardy [drums]; recorded 12/20/55 at Universal Studios in Chicago
• Mary Deloatch – “The Lord’s Gospel Train”: Mary Deloatch [vocal]
• Benny Goodman Sextet – “Shivers”: Benny Goodman [clarinet]; Artie Bernstein [bass]; Nick Fatool [drums]; Charlie Christian [electric guitar]; Johnny Guarnieri [piano]; Lionel Hampton [vibraphone]; recorded 12/20/39 in NYC
• T-Bone Walker – “T-Bone Boogie”: with Marl Young and His Orchestra; recorded 5/45 in Chicago
• Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five – “Choo Choo Ch’Boogie”: Carl Hogan [guitar]
• Spade Cooley – “Oklahoma Stomp”: John Weis [guitar]; Joaquin Murphey [pedal steel]
• Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers – “Shuffle Shuck”: Johnny Moore [guitar]; Charles Brown [vocal, piano]; Eddie Williams [bass]
• Additional artists and songs that directly or indirectly influenced Chuck Berry:
• Tampa Red & Georgia Tom – “It’s Tight Like That”
• Carter Family (Maybelle Carter [guitar] – “Wildwood Flower”
• Big Bill Broonzy – “How You Want It Done”
• Cripple Clarence Lofton – “Strut That Thing”
• Jimmie Lunceford – “(If I Had) Rhythm in My Nursery Rhymes”
• Milton Brown (Bob Dunn [pedal steel]) – “Taking Off”
• Bob Wills (Leon McAuliffe [electric guitar]) – “Too Busy”
• Dick McDonough and Carl Kress – “Heat Wave”
• Big Bill Broonzy (George Barnes [electric guitar]) – “New Shake ‘Em On Down”
• Roy Acuff – “Wabash Cannon Ball”
• Hank Penny (Noel Boggs [pedal steel]) – “Chill Tonic”
• Benny Goodman (Charlie Christian [electric guitar]) – “Boy Meets Goy”
• Will Bradley (Steve Jordan [guitar]) – “Rhumboogie”
• Woody Guthrie – “Do Re Mi”
• Bob Wills (Leon McAuliffe, Eldon Shamblin [guitars]) – “Twin Guitar Special”
• Lead Belly – “Rock Island Line”
• T-Bone Walker – “Mean Old World”
• T-Bone Walker – “Sail On Boogie”
• Ella Fitzgerald – “A-Tisket, A-Tasket”
• Ella Mae Morse – “The House of Blue Lights”
• Louis Jordan (Carl Hogan [guitar]) – “Ain’t That Just Like a Woman”
• Arthur Crudup – “That’s All Right (Mama)”
• Chet Atkins (Atkins [lead guitar], George Barnes [rhythm guitar]) – “Canned Heat”
• Delmore Brothers (Jethro Burns [electric guitar]) – “Boogie Woogie Baby”
• Louis Jordan (Carl Hogan [guitar]) – “Early in the Morning”
• Pee Wee Crayton – “Pee Wee Special”
• Hank Williams – “I Saw the Light”
• Muddy Waters – “I Can’t Be Satisfied”
• Pee Wee Crayton – “Texas Hop”
• Sister Rosetta Tharpe – “Everybody’s Gonna Have a Wonderful Time Up There”
• Bob Wills (Eldon Shamblin, Herb Remington [guitars]) – “Ida Red Likes the Boogie”
• Goree Carter – “Rock Awhile”
• Goree Carter – “She’s My Best Bet”
• Louis Jordan (Carl Hogan [guitar]) – “Saturday Night Fish Fry”
• Hank Williams – “Moanin’ the Blues”
• Tommy Dorsey – “Boogie Woogie”
• Bumble Bee Slim (Mitchell Tiny Webb [guitar]) – “Ida Red”
• George Barnes – “State Street Boogie”
• Hank Williams – “Jambalaya (On the Bayou)”
• Pete Guitar Lewis – “Louisiana Hop”
• Annisteen Allen (Mickey Baker [guitar]) – “My Brand of Lovin’”
• Dave Stogner – “Hardtop Race”
• Elmore James – “Baby What’s Wrong”
• Shorty Long – “I Got Nine Little Kisses”
• Elvis Presley (Scotty Moore [guitar]) – “Blue Moon of Kentucky”
• Big Maybelle – “One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show”