Chuck Berry on Stage is the first "live" album by Chuck Berry,[a] released in 1963 by Chess Records. Although promoted as a live album, it is a collection of previously released studio recordings (with the exception of "All Aboard", "Trick or Treat", "I Just Want To Make Love To You", "Still Got The Blues", and a previously unreleased alternate take of "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man") with overdubbed audience sounds to simulate a live recording. One track on the album labelled "Surfin' USA", is "Sweet Little Sixteen", originally released in 1958, the melody of which was used in The Beach Boys' 1963 hit "Surfin' USA". Chuck's cover of Willie Dixon's "I Just Want To Make Love To You" was later re-recorded and released on the very rare Chess LP CH60032 Chuck Berry in 1975.
^According to a journal article in Popular Music & Society, Chuck Berry Live on Stage is what is known as a "fake live" album staged "with a well-behaved, artificial audience".[1]
^Duffett, Mark (February 2009). ""We Are Interrupted by Your Noise": Heckling and the Symbolic Economy of Popular Music Stardom". Popular Music & Society. 3 (1). doi:10.1080/03007760802207734.
