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| Last single = "Thirty Days"<br/>(1955)
| Last single = "[[Thirty Days (Chuck Berry song)|Thirty Days]]"<br/>(1955)
| This single = "'''No Money Down'''"<br/>(1955)
| This single = "'''No Money Down'''"<br/>(1955)
| Next single = "[[Roll Over Beethoven]]"<br/>(1956)
| Next single = "[[Roll Over Beethoven]]"<br/>(1956)

Revision as of 18:44, 13 September 2018

"No Money Down"
Song
B-side"Down Bound Train"

"No Money Down" is a song written and recorded by Chuck Berry in December 1955. The recording session was organized by Chess Records following the success of "Maybellene" and "Wee Wee Hours" singles the same year.[2] "No Money Down" was first released as a single in January 1956[1], with "Down Bound Train" on the B-side, reaching number 8 in the Billboard R&B chart. The song was later included into Chuck Berry's 1957 album After School Session.

"No Money Down" features a repeating stop-time riff similar to the one that had previously appeared in Willie Dixon's "Hoochie Coochie Man", Bo Diddley's "I'm a Man" and Muddy Waters's "Mannish Boy".[3] It tells a story, in great detail, of a man who enters a Cadillac showroom to trade in his Ford.[4][3]

References

  1. ^ a b "45cat - Chuck Berry - No Money Down / The Downbound Train - Chess - USA - 1615". 45cat. Retrieved 2017-05-27.
  2. ^ a b Rudolph, Dietmar. "A Collector's Guide to the Music of Chuck Berry: The Chess Era (1955–1966)". Retrieved 2009-09-03.
  3. ^ a b "Chuck Berry – No Money Down". Broaden Your Horizons — News, Info and Reviews About Rock Legends. 2010-03-07. Retrieved 2017-05-27.
  4. ^ Collins, Thomas (August 2015). "Chuck Berry — Not So Much a Poet as a Storyteller". Perfect Sound Forever. Retrieved 2017-05-27.