Johnny B. Goode: Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
No edit summary |
|||
| Line 44: | Line 44: | ||
* [[Peter Tosh]] |
* [[Peter Tosh]] |
||
* [[Jerry Lee Lewis]] |
* [[Jerry Lee Lewis]] |
||
* [[Wardy And The Rockets]] |
|||
==Trivia== |
==Trivia== |
||
Revision as of 17:36, 5 March 2006
| "Johnny B. Goode" | |
|---|---|
| Song |
"Johnny B. Goode" is a song written by Chuck Berry in 1955 (although recorded in 1958), and is considered one of the first pure rock and roll songs ever recorded.
The piece is the rock and roll version of the American dream - a poor country boy from the backwoods has dreams of becoming a star by hard work and his skill at playing the guitar. Although partly based on Berry himself, the inspiration for the song is said to have been Johnnie Johnson who played the piano and composed several songs with Berry. On earlier unreleased takes Chuck sang 'colored boy' for 'country boy', but the Chess-brothers decided that that would not sell.
Covers
This song has been covered by many artists including:
- AC/DC
- Aerosmith
- The Beatles
- Buck Owens
- Earthlings?
- Elton John
- Elvis Presley
- George Thorogood
- The Grateful Dead
- Jimi Hendrix
- Johnny Winter
- Judas Priest
- Marty McFly
- NOFX
- Peter Tosh
- Phish
- Sex Pistols
- Stray Cats
- The Tornadoes
- Peter Tosh
- Jerry Lee Lewis
- Wardy And The Rockets
Trivia
- Berry's recording of the song was included on the Voyager Golden Record, attached to the Voyager spacecraft
- In the movie Back to the Future, Marty McFly, played by Michael J. Fox, performs this song at a high school dance (although Michael J. Fox does not provide the vocals) where the original band's guitarist (Marvin Berry) injures his hand. According to the movie, Chuck Berry becomes inspired to write the song because Marvin calls Chuck to hear the "new sound", which is of course Marty playing the song.
- Berry later wrote a sequel called "Bye Bye Johnny"
- Johnny B. Goode makes a cameo appearance in the Ricky Nelson song, Garden Party, as a symbol of nostalgia
- Johnny B. Goode also makes a cameo in the Big Bopper song, "Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor".
- In 2004, Democratic nominee John Kerry used the song as a theme song at most of his campaign events
- The Beach Boys copied the intro of the song for Fun, Fun, Fun
- Countless rock guitarists of varying popularity have lifted the song's memorable guitar licks for their own songs, most notably the intro
- Australian band TISM once recorded a parody of this song entitled "The Ballad of Johnny To B. Or Not To B. Goode". Their independent record label is named "Genre B. Goode".