Rappers React To Chuck Berry "Roll Over Beethoven"!!!

[@dragon-ed1hz]

Saw him live back in the early 70's. He was the most natural performer I've ever seen. That man was filled with music.

[@dandoldum]

Next should be “My Ding A Ling”

[@reneeallen3569]

Definitely!

[@stevedahlberg8680]

Yeah!

[@sukie584]

It’s a novelty song. He has so many really great rock and roll songs.

[@SteveoGregg]

Mandatory song .

[@tessasnow]

Yes definitely!!!🖖🏻🇨🇦

[@rhwinner]

Back in those days the old people would hear the new music and say, 'if Beethoven heard this he would roll over in his grave.' This song is Chuck's finger in the eye of these people.

[@BwfVid]

The man passed away at 90, rocking and rolling to the very end!

[@bobhoffman9848]

Nobody knew how to play rock guitar until Chuck Berry showed them. He created that sound. (They played on that with the Marvin Berry reference in “Back to the Future.”) And instead of just playing the guitar, he moved with it, as you saw. On top of that, he was the first serious rock and roll lyricist, creating poetry and images. His influence as a rock pioneer cannot be overstated. Funny you should mention the Beach Boys because Brian Wilson wrote their first hit, “Surfin’ USA” by using the entire melody of Chuck Berry’s “Sweet Little Sixteen” without giving Berry credit. Later, though, when people realized it was the same song, Wilson shared credit with Berry (Wilson for the lyrics, Berry for the melody).

[@MizCriz46]

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of rock & roll, the original soul sister, was playing her guitar like that before Chuck. He was born in 1926. She was big in the 30's & 40's so she was famous when he was a pre-teen. Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash & Little Walter were all inspired by her. Sam Philips wrote "Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us" in 2007. Also sung by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss. Watch her arriving by carriage at a train station in England in 1964. A teenage Eric Clapton was in the audience listening to her sing "Didn't It Rain."

[@robwhitmer5294]

Chuck Berry started it all! Great, great song writer. "...there lived a country boy named Johnny be good. Who, never, ever, ever could read or write so well, but he could play a guitar, just like ring'n a bell."

[@amandab4978]

Originally "coloured boy" (or, "colored" in Americanish 😉), but he was forced to change the lyric for playing on "white" radio 🙄

[@robwhitmer5294]

Thank you for that tidbit, Amanda. I did not know that. @@amandab4978

[@peardrop61]

Chuck Berry is on the gold metal record that launched on Voyager 1 in 1977. It is still flying today.

[@OriginalLictre]

Television studio audiences at that time were often told to keep any responses as restrained, so that the performer would get as much attention as possible.

[@gabrielplattes6253]

ACDC honours Chuck as the creator of rock & roll, in 'Let there be rock', referencing 'Roll over Beethoven', with the line: 'No one knew what they was gonna do but Tschaikovsky had the news'. Chuck knew what he was going to do. 😄

[@trappenweisseguy27]

The real King Of Rock and Roll.

[@jacqueline1099]

He’s the real “King” of rock& roll

[@msfoodiediva]

Father of Rock n roll

[@SteveoGregg]

ABSOLUTELY!!

[@allengator1914]

The Beatles had a Top 100 hit with their cover of "Roll Over Beethoven" ELO also covered this song.

[@mzondi1970]

Chuck Berry was right here from good old St Lou.is where I am. Up until the day he passed he played at a local club called blueberry Hill right here in St Louis you can usually see him once a week in this very small venue of maybe 300 people

[@bigdaddypiggy]

I feel lucky to have been on this planet the same time as Chuck Berry 🤓when he toured he drove his Cadillac (not a tour bus) would have the promoter put a band together,he’d show up before the show collect his $$ (in cash only) & told the band “Try to keep up “ did the show hopped in his Caddy & off to the next gig he went ….the King of Rock&Roll no question

[@deandavidson1375]

He would sleep in his Caddy and eat balogna sandwiches. Saved alot of money that way. He was known to have said he would do that before he would give a doolar to a cracker

[@sumonjamal1653]

Chuck Berry was doing this in the 1950's... he was a huge influence on The Beach Boys... The Beatles... The Rolling Stones ... The Who ... AC/DC ... Jimi Hendrix ... Led Zeppelin ... etc. The Beatles actually covered "Roll over Beethoven" 🔥🔥

[@deandavidson1375]

And the Stones covered Oh Carol and Little Queenie 👍

[@reneeallen3569]

His OG crip walk is called the duck walk and he was a large influence on angus young. Angus does that same walk in concert and has since 1974!! Now you saw where it came from. And Hollywood…I cracked up at the look on your face and the “mama so proud” clap you were doing!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@deandavidson1375]

Pete Townshend got his spread footed stance from Chuck👍

[@JAMESMOORE-gq4vv]

Chuck was one of the first Triple Threats, he played the music, he sang the music, and he wrote the music, before him the artists had songwriting duo's usually, there were songwriting teams in the 50's, and the artists would pick a song, Chuck changed all of that.

[@willyroussel3563]

Jimrmy Page was like a kid in a candy store when he was looking at Chuck Berry's guitar at the Met.

[@HRConsultant_Jeff]

I would recommend you try the ELO (Electric Light Orchestra) version of this song. Also, another good Chuck Berry is My Ding-a-ling. Also, Belgium, because of its proximity to France and Germany, So they speak French but it is a very hybrid society.

[@daveenberg9075]

You have to do Chuck's My Ding O Ling

[@stevedahlberg8680]

Great reaction to a legendary figure. Chuck Berry influenced music for decades to follow and in a way still does.

[@beabarber4300]

The Beatles spent a lot of time when they started, playing the clubs in Hamburg. They were heavily influenced by Chuck Berry and it shows in their early stuff. There was a LOT of support for roll & roll in Europe at the time.

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

They recorded covers of several of his songs too - but later made the mistake of plagiarising a line from one. Chuck's lawyers were not pleased!

[@stevedockeray]

I understand Chuck picked up some stuff from Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock and Roll | American Women's History Museum.

[@louiseasmith1336]

I was around at this time. Chuck Berry was a phenomenon! I saw him in concert once.

[@KingOfNebbishes]

There's some scholarly argument about what the first rock and roll song was. (My personal opinion is "Good Rockin' Tonight" by Roy Brown in 1948, but others just call it a jump blues.) Chuck Berry was unquestionably the first big rock and roller.

[@williamreiser3118]

51 Rocket 88 could be considered also

[@stacyvanvranken5934]

OMG you have to do Chuck Berry Doing "my Ding -A -Ling" it's so funny. You guys will love it.

[@mikeh8416]

💯💯💯💯

[@michaelrowsey768]

Beach Boys had to give credit Chuck for Surfin USA

[@bobschenkel7921]

"Vision Quest" is a movie about High School wrestling, and starred Matthew Modine (Joker in Full Metal Jacket) and Linda Fiorentino, who was also in the first MiB movie. Forgot about the Madonna bit. Later in his career, Chuck Berry would just tour on his own, with out a real backing band, and he would hire local musicians to back him. His songs were so famous, and easy to play, that they would rock out with no problem. Real Rock and Roll.

[@Vlc506]

Wasn’t it Dick Tracy where Madonna played the lounge singer.

[@bwana-ma-coo-bah425]

After Elvis Presley died on August 16, 1977, the African American newspaper, the Chicago Defender explained that: “When Elvis Presley breathed his last breath and the press hailed him as the ‘King of Rock,’ Ol’ Man River cried out, ‘Naw he ain’t! My friend Chuck Berry is the King of Rock. Presley was merely a Prince who profited from the royal talent of a sovereign ruler vested with tremendous creativity. Had Berry been white, he could have rightly taken [Presley’s] throne and worn his crown well.’”

[@barriehull7076]

Chuck Berry, fast forward to Angus Young, ACDC, btw Angus and his brother Malcolm were born and raised in Scotland before moving to Australia, present lead singer Brian Johnston is from the North of England, Geordie, he has a KZbin Channel..

[@JohnHazelwood58]

Wait until you've heard "Reelin' And Rockin'" or "My-Ding-A-Ling" (< live!!!), ... than you know what he's singing about! :)

[@MrTech226]

Hollywood and Smokey Audience back then were informed to be polite and respectful during the music. Chuck Berry rocked all the way to his death in 2017 at the age of 90. Even at advance age, Chuck was still rocking!

[@MrTech226]

AC/DC's Angus Young does his version of the duck walk as tribute to Chuck Berry

[@fullmoonprepping4024]

It's more of a trifecta for the roots of Rock and Roll. Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis.

[@JulesfromHouston]

Y'all should check out Chuck Berry and Bruce Springsteen singing Johnny B Goode. Chuck was 70 when they did this live performance and the look of admiration on Springsteen's face is priceless! 🤠

[@brandonflorida1092]

Chuck Berry didn't merely take a pre-existing trend and "make it harder." He's one of about 5 guys who invented rock and probably the primary one. He was the first person inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and was inducted on the day it opened. I think that the singer is saying to Beethoven, "Move aside. It's our turn now."

[@beatrice1234ful]

I almost choked on my coffee when you said Belgium is in Germany. I'm from Belgium, we have 3 national languages, Dutch in the north, French in the south and German in the east. Love you guys

[@ChrisLawton66]

Rock n Roll wasn't an invention, it was an evolution and a revolution.

[@Fakename70]

It “sounds like The Beach Boys” because they had to give Berry a co-writing credit after stealing this riff for “Surfin U.S.A.”.

[@jedimind_79]

I saw Dave Chappelle last year he told a story about a Chuck Berry adult video, where he farts in some lady's mouth and asks if 'she could taste daddy's fart" I laughed so hard I almost died. Then proceeded to Google it when I got home, and hot damn if it wasn't real! I'll never look at old Chuck the same again lmfao.

[@robertlavorna2968]

just had a smile on my face the whole song,,,,,,fantastic!!! ,im old but was too young in his hey day. i remember hendrix talking so highly of him and learned alot......you guys, if you havent already, must do hendrix doing....johnny b good.....its amazing...and do chuck with the original.....hendrix learned much of his showman ship from chuck...

[@travissmith9046]

You need to check out Rocket 88 by Ike Turner. It's another one of those early 'transitional' rock songs.

[@williamward446]

Chuck Berry was the KING... Elvis was merely a pretender... Chuck Berry created the sound of Rock & Roll... Had the chance to see him a dozen or so times, and he was always the best...

[@bella-xp7qd]

Do the live version of Chuck's song called My Ding A Ling. 😂😂😂 as you can see it was being taped, audiences were asked to sit and listen not to make big moments v

[@Linda-y9h]

Chuck was the original rocker. ❤😊

[@brendamilloy2557]

Family tradition...in my house we 'fool legs' instead of pulling legs, ever since The Kid, at the tender age of two, asked me if I was "fooling his leg" when I told him that green beans were really french fries in disguise!

[@MrWo-qj2yh]

the godfather of rock

[@terryallen345]

He sounds like early Beach Boys, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Kinks and hundreds of others for a reason. They all loved him

[@brodemonz]

He's in Belgium. Which is pretty close to France. Now imagine you're in America and someone started speaking Spanish... And you're in Texas.

[@EchoesDaBear]

Great reaction guys! I can attest (through word from my parents) that was the view of rock 'n roll at the time - they were teenagers in the mid-50's, when this music was coming out, and their parents HATED it! It wasn't big band, it wasn't classical. It was viewed as wild, noisy and a bad influence on the youth (and my grandfather was a musician! He played sax & clarinet - he loathed the song Tequila as he said that is no proper way to play a saxophone!) My parents, of course, completely embraced this new music movement! They were lovers of dancing, and this music was perfect for it!! Sidenote - there are some that say if Beethoven were around today, he'd be a progressive metal artist/composer! If you knew more of his compositions, you'd realize that he was pushing the boundaries of 'acceptable' music at the time - indeed classical by today's view, but his compositions, time signatures & complexity could be considered progressive even today! (my wife plays a lot of Beethoven - so I'm quite familiar with a lot of his stuff) Cheers!

[@jimbrentar]

Chuck Berry is black. On TV in those days, the TV people often used make-up to lighten up skin tone

[@alexhaas9653]

And to think it was his cousin Marvin who introduced Chuck to this new sound and the following "Johnny B. Goode" (released 1958 - written in 1955 of course). All thanks to Calvin Klein.

[@damonhines8187]

I believe Steve Lukather(Toto) played the riff throughout 'Beat It', Eddie played the solo. 'Roll Over Beethoven' was originally released in 1956, same as me. Hmm. 🤔 Mama said I hated lullabies but I loved me some rock'n'roll. 😅 Chuck devised a personal formula amalgamating rhythm and blues and country swing more than jazz, though it was in there too. Add the wittiest poetic sensibility extant to the loping grooves and how could ya lose? 😊🫰🏼🎸🎶❤️✨️🕊 Gotta do 'No Particular Place to Go', 'Too Much Monkey Business','Maybelline', 'Rock'n'Roll Music' and 'You Never Can Tell' by Chuck.

[@kdm71291]

No one person invented rock and roll, but Chuck was one of the godfathers. There are songs going back to the 1930s that, technically, could be considered R&R. R&R has its roots in blues, jazz, country, gospel, rhythm and blues and the old "spirituals" the slaves would sing as they toiled in the fields......its sources are largely from the black community! It began to develop and popularize in the 1950s with songs like "Rocket 88" by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats, which included Ike Turner...considered by some to be the first rock and roll song and was released in 1951, but it really exploded in 1954 with "Rock Around The Clock" by Bill Haley And His Comets. Elvis is widely considered to be the one who "brought that black music to the white masses". It is probably the film that is making Chuck look washed out....and his hair style was similar to many black artists of the time, to look more acceptable to a white audience!

[@lucasnavajas4166]

He was awesome, so many great songs, probably the first rock star although rock around the clock from bill haley and the comets came out in 54 but I think chuck took it to another level

[@GordonTredgold]

you have to remember he was the very first to do this, you need to look at it through the lens of no one had seen anything like this before he is the father of rock and roll, especially for guitar playing

[@nancykorensek4083]

The term "Rock and Roll" was coined by a Cleveland disc jockey. Chuck Berry is a deep rabbit hole. Maybelline, C'est la Vie, Brown Eyed Handsome Man, and Sweet Little Sixteen are just a few.

[@ajruther67]

Chuck Berry always gave a great performance. Even at 70 years when I saw him live with Little Richard. Great show. I saw them at the K-EARTH 101 radio station Legends concert in Southern CA. I think it was either 1999 or 2000.

[@samcrihfield4744]

Beautiful

[@wallypeake6579]

Now you need to check out ELO's Roll Over Beethoven.

[@emptybraincase4181]

if you want chuck berry in full blown eccentic mode, listen to "my dingaling".

[@williamweiss6128]

Forgotten style. Raw, cool, groundbreaking,love it. Hey, Berry, Richard, Presley, pushing the boundaries of music. So weird, people clapping on the beat, not on the backbeat. 🙄

[@charlescook1749]

Y'all need to watch The Trashmen "Surfin Bird". It will blow your mind.

[@barriehull7076]

The Belgium Capital, Brussels-Capital Region is officially bilingual in French and Dutch, although French is the majority language and lingua franca. Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in North-western Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the southwest, and the North Sea to the northwest.

[@Merlin-lc4zu]

Seen IT ALL BUT THIS IS THE FATHER OF ROCK AND ROLL.Beatles ,Stones .Led zep thanked the man.

[@mikefetterman6782]

Ray Charles was around and started rock back in the1940s

[@Rowenband]

I think I saw Georges Brassens and Jacques Brel in the audience at 14:33. Brassens seems to appreciate.

[@dennispower5362]

IT WAS THE GUITARS RIFF say no more ☮️🇦🇺🥗

[@waynemosca2277]

ROCK and ROLL

[@mikecaetano]

They speak French in Belgium! 😃

[@timwhitnell7145]

That was Chuck's famous duck walk. If that film was from 1965, just realize that the song was released in 1956!! He was a, if not THE, rock 'n roll pioneer but that has to be tempered with his reputation, from what I've read, of not being very nice and you had better have his money for him because he didn't do anything for free. Next up should be ELO's mind-blowingly creative rendition of Roll Over Beethoven, which marries sublime orchestration with pure old rock 'n roll. Please react to the full album version.

[@bigbow62]

One of the best story tellers in rock and rockers like Bruce Springsteen credit Chuck for leading him to become one of the greatest rock-n-roll writers & storytellers ✌️🙂 (Not chicken walk) Thats the Duck Walk that Chuck was doing... listen to his rendition of... My Ding-a-ling 😂 If you want a fun song

[@pegajense]

Really wish you would check out Journey Mother Father live in Houston

[@Hayley.a]

Imagine how he would have loved to have played at download lol

[@donkfail1]

Chuck Berry seems like a fun guy to hang out with like you said, not just a brilliant musician and a fantastic performer. If you haven't heard or reacted to his epic song My Ding-a-Ling, I must sincerely recommend it for a reaction. The best video of it I've seen is this one, where he's corrupting the innocent English in 1972 (happens to be the year I was born too): kzbin.info/www/bejne/nn7Hlaeba953aNk If you don't trust links from strangers, just search KZbin for "Chuck Berry Live 1972 ~ My Ding-a-Ling" on the TrackerProTeam175 channel. It's been there for 14 years, so I guess it won't go anywhere soon. Anyways, keep those reactions coming!

[@crbr1432000]

Please do My Ding A Ling next!

[@Bridgercraft]

More Chuck Berry? Well, it's got to be Johnny B Goode, hasn't it?

[@mattsaunders6107]

I thought I had the trivia. Madonna played a nightclub singer in Dick Tracy also, but it came out in 1990. Sneaky sneaky... good job Hollywood!

[@ritagryphon222]

Great performance!

[@msfoodiediva]

Chuck was keith Richard's idol

[@kdm71291]

What Chuck did was called the duck walk.

[@RockinMamaT]

You guys are do much fun.Hollywood you are mad jokes😂❤

[@Neotron2001]

The Real King of Rock and Roll

[@vickihirsch8340]

The Beatles did a cover of this. Chuck was THE MAN!!

[@Oron-n5l]

Great, Chuck Berry is a Rock n Roll originator. Now, listen to the version by the Beatls, from the 1960s and then the version by Electric Light Orchestra, from the early 1970s.

[@officepipelineplumbing423]

Little Richard is the ACTUAL inventor of Rock N Roll. Watch the documentary about him, it confirms it.

[@bella-xp7qd]

He was the first to fo the duck walk.

[@kennethroy2911]

Chuck Berry's mentor was a woman named sister Rosetta Tharpe

[@DefinitelyNotBender]

The comments remind me why I don't talk to most people 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@Chris-ew9gz]

Without Chuck Berry there'd be no Angus Young

[@mikefetterman6782]

Chuck started guitar rock

[@ivansavoie3190]

Electric Light Orchestra does a really good cover,

[@OriginalLictre]

Chuck's was the original, the Beatles did a great cover, but I think ELO's version, with more orchestral instruments, really took it over the top into true greatness.

[@ivansavoie3190]

@@OriginalLictre I agree, love the Beatles also, saw ELO back in 73 opening for Edgar Winter, great concert, thanks for your comment

[@korybeavers6528]

You guys need to do My Dingling by Chuck Berry

[@mfournier8033]

Belgium and Germany are two different countries.

[@kdm71291]

Eddie Van Halen is only half the answer.....he played the solo on "Beat It", the rest of the guitar work was done by Steve Lukather.

[@Fakename70]

And Paul Jackson, Jnr.

[@deandavidson1375]

Check out the Stones 1969 Madison Square Gardens for their cuts of Oh Carol and Little Queenie. They had been banned from thebStares since '66. Great live show, would love to see your reactions

[@1COMIXMAN]

I'd love you guys to do the song the devils chasing me by horton heat.

[@wencherubach2516]

Jonny Depp loves Chuck Berry 😂😂

[@christarpley6861]

Actually Back To The Future came out in 85 which is always 40 years ago that's hard to believe

[@terryallen345]

Always enjoy your work gentlemen. Please react to Cold Chisel singing Bow River live from the 2003 Ringside tour. Best Australian band that you have never heard of. 🇭🇲