Dueling Hits - Chuck Berry - 1958 | Eastern North Carolina Now

Publisher's note: I have initiated this new segment on BCN, where I determine the Best Music Ever ... and, 'with a little help from my friends'. I do this from my opinion, for what that is worth, where I will measure the best music that I am familiar with.

    I do this for two reasons: 1) I want to expose the best music that I know to the rest of us. 2) Popular Music today may be the very worst it has ever been, and that is saying much, since I lived through Disco.

    For a list of all of the contributions to this series, please click here.

    As previously mentioned, there will be others who share their favorites with our BCN readers, in particular here, Bobby Tony.

Another one of the greatest songs, Transcending Eras "Johnnie B. Goode"

    OK Just try to sit still and keep from singing along.

   Here is my first entry into the Dueling Music of the Era's.     Without a doubt there have been many songs that came and went on the music scene but at the birth of rock and roll, there was good old Chuck Berry in 1958. For this 13 year old boy, He defined the rock and roll era as it expanded from the white boy Elvis with his black influenced roots to an equal opportunity toe tapping, hand clapping, and guitar inspired let it all hang out base of fans.



    The story is an old Horatio Alger story which was pretty much Chuck Berry himself. He was born on a 2520 Goode Avenue in ST Louis.

    When they made the movie "Back to the Future" that was supposed to transcend the generations, there was only one song that could have a foot in 1985 and 1955 (forgive Hollywood for the poor math)