Sweet Little Sixteen - Ten Years After

Track 8. 'Sweet Little Sixteen' *. From the album 'Watt'.
Recorded Live at The Isle of Wight Festival 1970
Written by Chuck Berry
Alvin Lee - Guitar and Vocals
Leo Lyons - Bass
Chick Churchill - Keyboard
Ric Lee - Drums
Engineer - Andy Johns
Assistant Engineer - Chris Kimsey
♪♫ They're really rockin' in Boston
Pittsburg, pa.
Deep in the heart of Texas
And down in Frisco Bay
Way over in St. Louis
Down in New Orleans
The cats they wanna dance with
Sweet little sixteen
Little sixteen
Well, shes gotta have
About half a million
Half a million autographs
Oh, but tomorrow morning
She's got to change her trend
To be back in the classroom
She's gotta be back in school again ♪♫
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~ [ Many thanks to the copyright owners WMG and EMI for allowing this to be heard on KZbin ] ~ ☺

[@kevinoshea4134]

Ten years after have made this song sound a hundred times better than the original

[@kevinoshea4134]

The greatest version of sweet little 16 ever recorded 10 years after were one of the greatest rock bands of all time

[@sam4u2004w]

super version.....pure rock and soul here......I can imagine the stage shaking and vibrating during this one ! ,,,,wow.....power pounding, foot stomping music here....does it get any better than this ?

[@broadcasttttable]

Ok...let's take nominations. All-time ass-kickers. I vote for Alvin and the boys.

[@G8GT364CI]

Yeah!!!!!!!!!!

[@daryletoews7099]

Damn right!

[@Jaguarjc]

Rock 'n roll the way it should be played. High energy and top notch musicianship!

[@sunking2001]

If one goes to Google and types in "Rock & Roll"...Alvin Lee will be right there. I know...I've seen him 4 times.

[@elrip1]

Ten Years After always were absolutely great live! Holy smokes!

[@joejoeb9455]

Take No Prisoners...Total Bad Ass Rock & Roll.

[@Jaguarjc]

You said it!

[@sunking2001]

Alvin Lee was a "true rocker"...and a "true bluesman."

[@ELGROOVER]

Totally agree with you, they absolutely nailed it th@ day!! Pure heart, gutsy rock & roll and like you say, played with a whole lot of souI!! I think Chuck would've approved ☺

[@supermac473]

the ultimate rock festival band and ive got the original vinyl

[@marshakevinoshea2090]

this is the greatest version ive ever heard kick ass rock from the boys!!!!

[@MilfrenSalvador]

Nice song alvin lee

[@tonilrac1]

Rock at its best, thank you Alvin you'll live forever

[@kevinoshea4134]

This is a great version of sweet little sixteen by one of the greatest bands of all time hands down

[@eliortegajr9710]

Thanks ELGOOVER for posting this gem.

[@NancyDrewe]

Thanks. Excellent version, clean and totally rockin. My old man will be one happy boy..lol Good weekend. ND

[@stewgotz1]

Alvin n' the boys PURE FCKING' RAWK' !!!

[@stewgotz1]

ALVIN LEE...ONE OF THE FASTEST GUIT'S EVER !!

[@willardfreeman]

still have my vinyl copy of this album.

[@Janingeforslund]

Willard Freeman me too

[@sunking2001]

So do I.

[@kevinoshea4134]

Alvin Lee and 10 years after were a badass

[@kevinoshea4134]

I remember seeing Ten Years After at the Boston Garden a 1973 Alvin was playing his guitar with a drumstick as a pick and a microphone stand as a slide awesome awesome band

[@G8GT364CI]

F'in' drums in this rock!

[@waitaniwha]

40 years after Ssssh, nice posting James. Where have all the good times gone? Everyone's taking themselves much too serious!

[@robertolesen5782]

They used to do this as an encore and bring down the house with Alvin's Elvis moves added.

[@stewgotz1]

SHIT HOT ROCK!!!!!! FCK YEAH !!!

[@eyedotkoma]

the best in the world,thanx

[@PAULLONDEN]

Yeah,weird why that was changed.They even changed the thrown sandbag.I take it you've found the cat number by now on Discogs ? Where you can find the original cover ofcourse. Such an amazing Chuck cover this,it almost derails,by sheer punkyness....Wished though that more people would realise that there was so much more to this band than Alvin Lee's speed boogie woogie.They became highly sophisticated on "A Space In Time".

[@josephlemko3027]

Amazing!!!!!

[@ianstrathern8929]

Best track from isle of wight 1970

[@ianstrathern]

yeah,isle of Wight 1970,still the best.

[@coravisser727]

keep it up very gooddddddddddddddddd real super cool.

[@MrHamanen]

I have this album (Watt) and love it. Seen the band live in Down By The Laituri festival in Turku 1999.

[@ELGROOVER]

Found it now thanks ; it wasn't around a couple of years ago when I last looked ;-j

[@STEELERBARTINFL]

KILLER TYA!!!

[@ianstrathern8929]

Highlight of isle of wight 1970

[@george172529]

RIP Alvin-----

[@petrikirjavainen2702]

Ykkösäijä,kova on saatana

[@ELGROOVER]

Thanks for your kind comments 'sam' ☺ I only posted up five tracks from this album as the other three had already been put up. They're all good!! You'll find them here..... /watch?v=0Xf0ZoyTzCk "The Band With No Name" /watch?v=z8p94agyzOU "Think About The Times" /watch?v=5SuVDj1Zc3w "I'm Coming On" .......enjoy!

[@ELGROOVER]

"Folk" aha..yes! I never could make out th@ 1st word! As well as a cd, I have 2 vinyl copies of this album. One a gatefold, one not. I can't find a copy of the issue I bought back @ the time, as you describe. It's almost impossible to find accur@e smaller details like th@ when buying online e.g. the 'textured' cover of "Rest In Peace" I bought online. Th@ was huge disappointment, nothing like the original I once had. Like many old freaks my age, I'm building up my original early collection ;-j

[@sparkie119]

Can't top Chuck Berry's duck walk.

[@sam4u2004w]

any chance of posting 'band with no name', the remaining track not posted yet? ...this cd is my fave TYA..thanks a million for posting......very excellent sound and slide show !

[@albertochavez8788]

It's like early punk mixed up with blues

[@ELGROOVER]

To supermac473 ~ if your original vinyl cover has the 'Union Jack' ballon basket, then I'd very much like the catalogue number, ta ;-j

[@ELGROOVER]

....It's a pastime ☺ I don't happen to agree with the saying, "nostalgia ain't what it used to be", amusing though it is!! I think it gets better with age. So the Union Jack on the basket was the original sleeve? I wasn't sure if it might have been just on the UK issue? If you have the UJ copy, could you give me the catalogue number please ;-j

[@ELGROOVER]

Hopefully another reader can oblige? Keep searching for it periodically and you may get lucky! I am not going to find the time for....some time! Sorry that I can't help with that atm ;-j

[@Toracube]

THey did I'd like to Change the World do dee do dee doo do. Didn't they? I saw Chuck Berry once walking in Soho lol Not sure what he was up to, but i can guess....

[@stevenpurves3266]

what were you doing there at the time.....i can guess....see what surmising does

[@Toracube]

@@stevenpurves3266 I worked at Tower Records, Piccadilly. It’s close .

[@stevenpurves3266]

I know it's close, chuck was maybe just enjoying the sights, like millions of us...soho is a great place

[@sivaprasad465]

I BEG U TO UPLOAD COMPLETE ISLE OF WIGHT CONCERT FEATURING TEN YEARS AFTER, I FALL AT UR FEET,PLEASE HELP!

[@ELGROOVER]

@eyedotkoma ~ ☺ you're welcome ;-j

[@ELGROOVER]

to Toracube ~ They did so.... or you could be referring to this?? : /watch?v=oRUNtWL3Fgc TYA changed my world th@'s for sure...after I got "Watt" i.e. ;-D ....more than walking 'round Soho ever did too... ☺ ;-j

[@ELGROOVER]

Not 'alf mate!! ☺

[@1958Shemp]

But then, who could? :)

[@supermac473]

they did it without tecknology switched the amps and went for it

[@thanosvakaloudis2137]

RNR...

[@DisneysFrogPrincess]

@alvinleefan I did not like this LP, I have it in my house, but not really a fan of this lp , I like Crickle wood green , undead, or a Space in time, Stonehenge better