CHUCK BERRY: "Roll'em Pete", 1973

[@hyzercreek]

Pete Johnson and Big Joe Turner started playing together around 1929 in Kansas City. They finally got famous with this song by playing it Christmas of 1938 at Carnegie Hall in NY during the "From Spirituals to Swing" concert (which was recorded and you can get the box set), and cut the studio record 2 weeks later for Columbia, all produced by John Hammond.

[@StellaWaldvogel]

Big Joe Turner cut this song in 1939, and it's arguably the first rock and roll record. And you read that right: 1939.

[@hyzercreek]

1938 actually

[@hyzercreek]

Joe and Pete did this song live at the Carnegie Hall "From Spirituals to Swing" concert in December 1938. The record was made 2 weeks later in January so 1939

[@StellaWaldvogel]

@@hyzercreek It looks like wikipedia has it recorded on December 30, 1938. So yes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll_'Em_Pete

[@jazziccoolcat]

Truly one of the great architects of Rock 'n' Roll....Chuck Berry (R.I.P.).

[@marcosamavaamulherbionicas8194]

Esse tal de chuck Berry era fantástico, maravilhoso, fenomenal, inimitável, Best of the Best...

[@smfield]

The first R&R song!

[@blakebruner6173]

This song, "Roll 'Em Pete", was written by Pete Johnson in 1939. He was a boogie woogie piano man. There are versions of the song with him playing here on youtube. He was a fantastic player. And he blows this CB version into galatic dust. Go check it out, the sound quality is phenomenal.

[@bonkeydollocks1879]

Nah, chucks is way better

[@hyzercreek]

He wrote it long before 1939

[@TheThomasmoon]

Chuck Berry didn't just play Rock N Roll he was Rock N Roll

[@leslittle9112]

Rock N friggin Roll 🥐!!!

[@brianhackert8513]

So tight!!!

[@JamesPetroff]

Chuck at 47 like a spring chicken and rocking like hell.

[@johnbarquinero5354]

That's hilarious. black folks were like how do we dance to this! I saw the struggle. Different decades. Different time periods. 😂

[@hyzercreek]

This music is not new to black people

[@davidglow3]

Yes the producer told them dance your ass off or l throw you out.. Definitely something artificial about the sheer effort the dancers are putting in

[@tattyshoesshigure5731]

I think Chuck took inspiration from this song for his own composition ‘Oh what a thrill’.

[@sulufest]

Awesome!

[@georgeallan6550]

hILARIOUS

[@guillaumerusengo9371]

Black folk struggling to move!😮

[@klauxbeitmalyud5340]

Jony be good?

[@leslittle9112]

No, but he did that one at this show too.

[@88BlueKeys4U]

Poor Pete Johnson, poor Big Joe Turner.. Chuck can play R'n'R, but he sure hasn't got an idea what Pete Johnson and his bartender companion Big Joe were talking/singing and playing about in 1939. This Berry tune is just his old and worn Roll Over gimmick. Nice riffs, but totally off topic. Singing the lyrics of the Turner tune just doesn't cut it, Big Joe could 'shout' like nobody else. Prove me wrong, AFTER listening to the real thing, and other goodies of Pete Johnson or Albert Ammons or Meade Lux Lewis, 20 years before Chuck could hold a guitar in his hands! Real Boogie Woogie has class, Rock'n'Roll is loud at best; swinging triplets vanished into flat pounding of simple eights.

[@stevencarr4002]

You are right, I hear Chuck Berry in this song, not Pete Johnson, and certainly not Big Joe Turner.

[@bonkeydollocks1879]

Shut up

[@bluegtturbo]

But Chuck probably released it because it was an easy add on. Remember it was all about the money with Chuck. He was a much admired originator but from 1964 onwards he didn't give a damn as long as his royalties and gig money kept rolling in. I'm no musician but it's easy to see he uses the same riffs in lots of different songs. 😊

[@bonkeydollocks1879]

@@bluegtturbo somebody else uneducated said all his songs are the same, I named about 20 that were not.

[@georgeallan6550]

What a butchering. Garbage.

[@ito-kyopeya8656]

Why listen ?

[@georgeallan6550]

@@ito-kyopeya8656 How would I know if I didn't listen? Think, use brain before you speak.

[@ito-kyopeya8656]

@George Allan Maybe, h a constructive critical spirit. Connecting your brain and your ears!

[@bonkeydollocks1879]

You don't know sh*t

[@TheThomasmoon]

Apparently you are completely deaf