My cousin played bass for Chuck for 15 years and did the oldies tours with him and a lot of other old groups like Little Richard, Bo Diddly, and many others.
@@oldermusiclover Like most rock stars he had an ego but as long as you did your job the way he liked he was fine. He was very particular about how you did it, though.
Can never go wrong with Chuck Berry. He wasn't the first rock & roll artist, in fact it could be argued that there really wasn't a single first rock & roll artist, since different components of what came to be called rock & roll were invented by different people. But he certainly was one of the pioneers and in my mind the best of the really early guys who did it. He was from the same era as Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and while they're both fine, to my mind Chuck Berry is the best of the lot. As you both noted in the video his guitar style was both distinctive and exceptional and he was probably the single biggest influence with regards to how electric guitars "should" sound in rock & roll across the genre. He sort of set the template that all of the various guitar styles used in rock nowadays evolved from.
The Rock Hall has a whole floor dedicated to the pioneers of Rock & the Blues it came from. Elvis is credited for bringing the sound together commercially on the radio. Some stations would not play Black artists. Changing social views from the teens of the time encouraged stations to open up to the "Black sound".
Johnny be Good, and run run Rudolph, (both similar songs) are 12 bar blues. 12 bar blues are one of the most prominent chord progressions in popular music. The blues progression has a distinctive form in lyrics, phrase, chord structure, and duration. Couple that with the gear Chuck Berry used and you begin to understand the Chuck Berry sound. At the risk of sounding esoteric CB used a semi-hollow Gibson guitar he used either his 1957 Gibson ES-350T which was fitted with Gibson's then-new P.A.F. humbuckers, or he used his1956 Gibson ES-350TN which was loaded with P-90s.(P-90s and humbuckers are the pickups which turn vibration into electrical signals and are well suited for hollow-body guitars giving a warm crisp sound to blues guitar playing) These two guitars were used on the majority of Berry's Chess Records
How do you reckon a Gibson sounds compared to a Gretch. The Gibson Les Paul short necks sound more punchy/attack, but they are no hollow bodied. The larger hollow bodies have resonance.
@@highpath4776 I appreciate the question but I wouldn't be able to answer questions relating to different guitars my knowledge is limited but if you find your answer you can let me know Thanks
Great song! We need more Chuck! You've done "Johnny B Goode", but you should check out "Maybelline", "Sweet Little Sixteen", "Rock and Roll Music", and a funny little song called "My Ding-a-Ling".
Anything Chuck Berry is worth a listen! One of the all-time greats. For something non-Christmas and a little naughty, you should listen to his version of “My Ding-A-Ling”. It is a hoot, but he does a good job of keeping it family friendly while the adults know why it is naughty.
Amber’s Smile shirt reminds me of one of my favorite sayings…”Smiles are like Hugs. Their only value is in giving them away.” I like to think that the more smiles we give away the better the world is for everyone.
What a great choice - my Dad was a big Chuck Berry fan, so we heard this a lot every Christmas. I think the version Jordan is thinking of is Bryan Adams' take on it that came out for the original Very Special Christmas album back in the 80s. He did a great job of it and it gets a lot of airplay on the radio. Peace and love to you and the fam!
The A Very Special Christmas albums are rock and pop stars singing Christmas songs to benefit the Special Olympics. There are around 8 of them now but my favorite is the first one. "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" -- By The Pointer Sisters "Winter Wonderland" -- By Eurythmics "Do You Hear What I Hear?" -- By Whitney Houston "Merry Christmas Baby" -- By Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" -- By The Pretenders "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" -- By John Cougar Mellencamp "Gabriel's Message" -- By Sting "Christmas In Hollis" -- By Run-D.M.C. "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" -- By U2 "Santa Baby" -- By Madonna "The Little Drummer Boy" -- By Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band "Run Rudolph Run" -- By Bryan Adams "I Wish Everyday Could Be Like Christmas" -- By Jon Bon Jovi "The Coventry Carol" -- By Alison Moyet "Silent Night" -- By Stevie Nicks
A classic rock ‘n’ roll Christmas song… I remember watching Chuck Berry singing this song on TV. Over 50 years ago and we’re still singing to it. I remember watching American bandstand and everybody jitterbugging to this Christmas hit from Chuck Berry it seems like yesterday.
Here's my Chuck Berry list: Maybelline, Brown Eyed Handsome Man, Roll Over Beethoven, Too Much Monkey Business, Rock and Roll Music, Reelin' and Rockin', Sweet Little Sixteen, Around and Around, Memphis, Little Queenie, Back in the U.S,A,, Bye Bye Johnny, Down The Road Apiece, Nadine (Is It You?), Promised Land, No Particular Place To Go, Viva Viva Rock 'n' Roll, and, last but not least, Chuck's Beat.
You should try “I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” by Gayla Peevey. She is originally from Oklahoma. Oh, and listen to it with the kids, they’ll love it!
Angel tree was how we did our family shopping every year. Each kid got a kid of corresponding age to shop for and we went wild. It helped us see what our kids wanted but it also was important for them to put somebody else first.
GUITAR SOUNDS - Ok in the late 50's, Fender made Tweed amps (they were covered in tweed cloth). The circuit is designed to sound a certain way. They sound a lot like Chuck Berry. In the early 60's, Fender changed the design of the circuit. Early 60's amps were brown colored, and they have a slightly different sound. In the mid-60's, Fender changed the circuit again, and the amps were black colored - these amps sound different also. Another thing that contributes to the guitar sound in this song is the fact that Chuck Berry is playing a hollow-body electric guitar. Look at the picture - it is thicker than most electric guitars. This guitar has a slightly hollow/echoey sound, compared to thinner semi-hollow guitars, or solid guitars. You can buy old guitars/amps from the 50's and 60's, but they are expensive. Also, various companies currently make knock-offs of these old instruments, that sound similar, but not exactly the same.
Paper and wax capacitors are pretty hard to find these days, as are 5751 tubes. The 12AX7 replaced the 12AU7, which replaced the 5751. The 5751 tubes and wax capacitors are what give 50's amps their unique sound, as well as the fact that those old amps had no ground connection, so there was a lot of 60Hz hum going on in the power section.
@@Voltor07 See the Uncle Doug Vid /s of building a tube amp from scratch, based around a fender circuit - he tried two different speakers too so you can hear some differences.
The sound of guitar back then is just playing clean - straight into the amp or into the recording console with no effects pedals to make it distort (which weren't invented until the early-to-mid 60s). Amps in the 50s could get some natural distortion if you really cranked them up, but recording engineers discouraged guitarists from doing that in the studio and, on stage, the PA systems weren't very powerful yet, so guitarists tended to not play at full volume, so they wouldn't drown out the drummer and other band members.
Agreed. And this has created a crazy market for the amps and guitars of those days. .. Some of the guitars from that era will easily bring $200,000+. It has also sparked a lot of debate between analog guitar gear lovers and digital guitar gear gurus… Which makes Me think that you guys should listen to Night People by You Me At Six. They are a band that has two guitarist… one is analog gear only and the other is a digital gear buff… can you tell the difference?
I have done some work with the Angel Tree program before, and it is really a great program. The program is primarily for children with incarcerated parents who can't (for obvious reasons) be with or get Christmas presents for their kids, or at least that was the focus as I was aware of it. I actually ran it a couple of years through my local church. Incarcerated individuals would sign up their kids for the program, and we'd get a list of names. We then had to call all of the families on the list for confirmation and to get a couple gift ideas. Then we'd give out the angels to members of the congregation on a few Sundays in November, they'd bring the gifts back to the church, and then we held a (somewhat unique) party where the families could come, pick up the gift(s), have some refreshments, and have a chance to interact with the community. Of course, the last year I ran it was I believe 2005, so a lot has likely changed since then, especially with regards to the pandemic. Looking at it from the link Jay and Amber have provided, it is less focused on the children of inmates and more on people suffering from poverty in general. This could be a change in the focus over the last 16 years to be more inclusive or it could be that it always was that inclusive and the narrower focus was something that our church asked for specifically. Either way, I hope this information helps people understand more about Angel Tree, the work it does, and why it is so important to support it each year.
Chuck Berry was a huge influence on such bands as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and countless others. Listen to the Beatles' song "Back in the USSR" from the White Album and you will see Chuck's unmistakable influence. You might also want to check out: "Nadine," "No Particular Place to Go" and "C'est La Vie (You Never Can Tell)". You'll see why he is considered one of rock's early pioneers!
That's the sound of a Gibson hollow body my friend Chuck Berry spared no expense with his guitar played clean and loud it naturally gives this beautiful sound
Love this song. Jimmy Buffett did a great cover of this, but on the same Xmas album he did one called, "Ho-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Rum" (Santa's run off to the Caribbean...). :)
Oh heck yes - my personal favourite Christmas song of all time. The version recorded live in a church with Ian Anderson playing flute is fantastic, but there's nothing quite like the original studio cut.
@@dbradx It’s been remastered on the official UA-cam channel David. It’s also my favourite Christmas tune closely followed by Christy Moore’s cover of Fairytale in New York by the Pogues ( and Kirsty MacColl)
Glad you finally got around to Chuck Berry. Like BB King he opened for so many bands so I saw him several times. Such a distinctive voice and a fun guy to watch.
Love you two! If you like Chuck Berry, check out Sister Rosetta Tharpe. She was playing rock and roll guitar before there was rock and roll. I love her song "This Train", followed by the more uptempo "Didn't It Rain, Children". Also, if you like Loretta Lynn's stuff, check out the movie "Coal Miner's Daughter" based on her life. You're appreciation of her music will grow.
Chuck Berry is one of the originators of rock and roll. Love anything by Chuck. You know when you hear it--it's Chuck!! I was thrilled that I went to one of his last performances to see him "Duck Walk" across the stage before either of us had passed. Sweet Little Sixteen, Maybelline, School Days, My Ding A Ling, Little Queenie, Roll Over Beethoven, You Never Can Tell. Chuck is also in the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Fine with me if you play a Chuck Berry tune every day!!
The choices a guitarist had as far as the type of sound they could get was limited in Chuck Berrys day and is why many of the guitars of that time sound similar although he did have a distinct instantly recognizable sound. Keep living in the moment it's a nice way to live.
Chuck Berry is a St. Louis legend, if you ever get to St. Louis you have to go to Blueberry Hill bar and Restaurant,great food and just a cool place to hang out and see a show down stairs in either the Duck Room or the Elvis Room. Chuck Berry played there once a month for years, well into his 70s
Definitely listen to Marshmallow World by one of your favorite crooners, Dean Martin. Andy Williams sang the most beautiful version of Little Drummer Boy. Andy Williams hosted a Christmas special on TV for years and in Branson in his later life. Beautiful voice and kinda known for Christmas. He is kinda a crooner too.
The Angel Tree is a great cause. When our home burned down in 2016 2 days before Thanksgiving and all of my grand daughters present burn I was heartbroken but the schools Angel Tree and the Red Cross really came through for them.
I have seen in 1 interview, with Ian Paice, the drummer for Deep Purple, the video was a video on Keith Moon, the drummer for The Who. The name of this interview video is Sina's Tribute to Keith Moon (2017 behind the scenes) the interview starts at the 4 minutes and 10 seconds mark. Ian Paice said in the 60's and 70's, that they were all self-taught and found a lot of things by mistake, I do know that electric guitars do have on the guitar buttons and a lever that changes things and the amps do also have control buttons.
Chuck Berry is a huge influence on probably just about every guitarist in the world today. Grandfather of rock 'n roll maybe debatable but he's certainly one of them.
The amps back in the 50s and earlier didn’t have integrated circuits and solid state electronics. Most amps used vacuum tubes for the circuits which produced that warm tone. The distortion came from running things as full blast as they could which is where distortion got another name “overdrive” for the overdriven amps.
Even today most guitar players favor tube amps for their warm sound that is easy to distort. They use effects pedals to alter their sound and add cool sounds.
While we're in the Christmas mode, I have a suggestion! Back in the 50s/60s there was a country/gospel crooner with a really deep bass voice named Tennessee Ernie Ford. He recorded a beautiful Christmas record I think was called My Favorite Christmas songs. The song you should look for is his version of "Oh Holy Night" It is simply awesome!
He where one of the first for sure, and as you have seen his walk you must also have found where Angus (AC DC) got his inspiration for walks across the stage from ;)
I always love seeing the two of them enjoy the music to their own different beats... J's head is bopping to the Tempo and Amber is swaying to the rythm!!
A lot of what made 50s music sound the way it does is the limitations of the recording equipment. You have to remember that at this time, recordings were done live in the studio with the whole band playing at once because they only had one channel to record to on a reel to reel tape. There were no overdubs, no mixing, it was all straight to tape. Les Paul (a legendary guitarist, producer, and inventor) invented multi-track recording; he would record one channel, then play along with the playback while recording on another reel to reel machine. When the first actual two-channel recorder came along in the 60s, it changed everything. Then 4-track, 8-track, etc., etc., came along. It's part of the reason bands in the late sixties became so experimental.
Back in the day, amps had tubes in them, versus the circuitry of more modern amps. A lot of audiophiles love the tube sound, as they think it’s a ‘warmer’ sound.
Chuck's is the original! A rock version of Rudolph. Love this song! It's been covered by tons of singers. Yes, Little Richard & Chuck Berry started R&R.
There is a Documentary called Hail Hail Rock and Roll about Chuck Berry filmed here in St. Louis on his 60the birthday featuring his show at Blueberry hill with Kieth Richards and Eric Clapton among others
You might have heard the version sung by Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead. That's my personal favorite version. But Chuck was awesome. He is the Godfather of rock and roll guitar.
Fun Fact AC/DC's guitarist Angus Young used to dig Chuck Berry's Music & style Angus even adopted Chuck's Guitar duck walk & made it his own in time as well. AC/DC even made their music Mantra basically strictly playing Rock & Roll
Love your reactions. Another Christmas request, please react to Trans Siberian Orchestra's Christmas Eve/Sarajevo. Orchestra plus guitars and electric violins. You will love it! Thank you.
Chuck is such a classic. Jordan have you named your ax? Chuck did Maybaleen, wrote a song about it. Thanks for stepping I to the time machine, it's cool. Smile
Here was CB's setup at that time: 1957 Gibson ES-350T guitar plugged into a Fender Showman Reverb amp. One (fairly inexpensive) way you could simulate this sound today is with a Grote Semi-Hollow guitar plugged into a Fender Champion 20 amp.
He’s just so good :D Glad you reacted to this! Not a Christmas song, though I think of it as a winter song, but maybe look into Blood, Sweat, and Tears “God Bless the Child”? It’s got horns a plenty for Amber and that good bluesy feel for Jay :)
If you want to hear nost of the Christmas music from times past, you would have started in July! But, you need to hear, Grandma got runned over by a reindeer! Lots of fun!
This song is "the" original version that Chuck Berry wrote back in 1958. Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams did a cover version of this song back in 1987.
Finally! A rockin' Christmas song! Now you gotta check out Stevie Nicks doing 'Silent Night', Joan Jett doing 'Little Drummer Boy', The Waitresses doing 'Christmas Wrapping', Jimi Hendrix doing 'Little Drummer Boy, Silent Night, Auld Lang Syne' Medley. And just to go metal and bash out, Tom Angelripper doing 'Jingle Bells' and X-mas Project doing 'Mary's Boy Child'
Bryan Adams covered this for the CD "A Special Christmas" that was a fund raiser for The Special Olympics (GREAT Christmas CD BTW). They did some more for a couple of years after that as well.
???AMBER?? We knew Jordan is a Teacher. He Talks About it A lot !! Had impression you were Stay at Home MOM. Now finding out you're a Teacher too. WOW !!
"The blues had a baby and they named it rock n roll" - Muddy Waters. "Muddy Waters invented electricity" - Crossroads. Muddy helped Chuck as well as his other influence Sister Rosetta Sharpe.
An unconventional Christmas song is: "A Spaceman Came Traveling" Chris DeBurgh the writer/original singer. Celtic Woman did an incredible job of it too.
My cousin played bass for Chuck for 15 years and did the oldies tours with him and a lot of other old groups like Little Richard, Bo Diddly, and many others.
You should dive into Bo Diddly
Give your cousin a high five. Sounds like an awesome experience.
I wonder if it is true I have heard from several sources that Chuck was hard on his band
@@oldermusiclover Like most rock stars he had an ego but as long as you did your job the way he liked he was fine. He was very particular about how you did it, though.
@@craigreid7178 thanks for the comeback have read about horror shows when he would change songs change keys ect
Can never go wrong with Chuck Berry. He wasn't the first rock & roll artist, in fact it could be argued that there really wasn't a single first rock & roll artist, since different components of what came to be called rock & roll were invented by different people. But he certainly was one of the pioneers and in my mind the best of the really early guys who did it. He was from the same era as Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and while they're both fine, to my mind Chuck Berry is the best of the lot. As you both noted in the video his guitar style was both distinctive and exceptional and he was probably the single biggest influence with regards to how electric guitars "should" sound in rock & roll across the genre. He sort of set the template that all of the various guitar styles used in rock nowadays evolved from.
Back then though you could consider Berry a shredder!
Don't forget Elvis with the 2 others you mentioned.
The Rock Hall has a whole floor dedicated to the pioneers of Rock & the Blues it came from. Elvis is credited for bringing the sound together commercially on the radio. Some stations would not play Black artists. Changing social views from the teens of the time encouraged stations to open up to the "Black sound".
@@rebeccalipps8007 Yes that's due to a white kid that sounded black, which was Elvis.
@@Coolrockndad Yes, Elvis was the white guy that employed the Black sound
"You Never Can Tell" by Chuck is a great song. It was used in the movie "Pulp Fiction"
You know Chuck is who Angus got the walk from.🤠
Johnny be Good, and run run Rudolph, (both similar songs) are 12 bar blues. 12 bar blues are one of the most prominent chord progressions in popular music. The blues progression has a distinctive form in lyrics, phrase, chord structure, and duration. Couple that with the gear Chuck Berry used and you begin to understand the Chuck Berry sound. At the risk of sounding esoteric CB used a semi-hollow Gibson guitar he used either his 1957 Gibson ES-350T which was fitted with Gibson's then-new P.A.F. humbuckers, or he used his1956 Gibson ES-350TN which was loaded with P-90s.(P-90s and humbuckers are the pickups which turn vibration into electrical signals and are well suited for hollow-body guitars giving a warm crisp sound to blues guitar playing) These two guitars were used on the majority of Berry's Chess Records
How do you reckon a Gibson sounds compared to a Gretch. The Gibson Les Paul short necks sound more punchy/attack, but they are no hollow bodied. The larger hollow bodies have resonance.
@@highpath4776 I appreciate the question but I wouldn't be able to answer questions relating to different guitars my knowledge is limited but if you find your answer you can let me know Thanks
Great song! We need more Chuck! You've done "Johnny B Goode", but you should check out "Maybelline", "Sweet Little Sixteen", "Rock and Roll Music", and a funny little song called "My Ding-a-Ling".
Another Chuck Berry classic that Jay and Amber should react to a song called "You Can Never Tell" from 1964.
and “Nadine” 🥰
Enthusiastically agree! IMO Chuck is the father of Rock and Roll. More Chuck!
Let's not pervert the channel.
Maybelline
The Waitresses “Christmas Wrapping” was a 1980s Holiday hit that rocks! I think your family would enjoy it.
great female Friday suggestion!
Easily my favourite Christmas song
It's a cute song with a cute story. But man, too many lyrics! It sounds like she's having trouble jamming them into the music.
Anything Chuck Berry is worth a listen! One of the all-time greats. For something non-Christmas and a little naughty, you should listen to his version of “My Ding-A-Ling”. It is a hoot, but he does a good job of keeping it family friendly while the adults know why it is naughty.
LOVE the suggestion !
That song is so funny.
Was just listening to "My-Ding-A-Ling" at the rink last night! Was wondering how Amber would react...
Yes!!!!!
That's stupid. Don't try to make the channel nasty.
Amber’s Smile shirt reminds me of one of my favorite sayings…”Smiles are like Hugs. Their only value is in giving them away.” I like to think that the more smiles we give away the better the world is for everyone.
What a great choice - my Dad was a big Chuck Berry fan, so we heard this a lot every Christmas. I think the version Jordan is thinking of is Bryan Adams' take on it that came out for the original Very Special Christmas album back in the 80s. He did a great job of it and it gets a lot of airplay on the radio. Peace and love to you and the fam!
The A Very Special Christmas albums are rock and pop stars singing Christmas songs to benefit the Special Olympics. There are around 8 of them now but my favorite is the first one.
"Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" -- By The Pointer Sisters
"Winter Wonderland" -- By Eurythmics
"Do You Hear What I Hear?" -- By Whitney Houston
"Merry Christmas Baby" -- By Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band
"Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" -- By The Pretenders
"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" -- By John Cougar Mellencamp
"Gabriel's Message" -- By Sting
"Christmas In Hollis" -- By Run-D.M.C.
"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" -- By U2
"Santa Baby" -- By Madonna
"The Little Drummer Boy" -- By Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
"Run Rudolph Run" -- By Bryan Adams
"I Wish Everyday Could Be Like Christmas" -- By Jon Bon Jovi
"The Coventry Carol" -- By Alison Moyet
"Silent Night" -- By Stevie Nicks
A more recent original you will enjoy is "Hey, Santa!" by Brian Setzer Orchestra. Brian Setzer is the singer/guitar player from Stray Cats.
Chuck Berry is the first guitar hero... and 1 of the founders of Rock n' roll music! 🤘🤘🔥
A classic rock ‘n’ roll Christmas song… I remember watching Chuck Berry singing this song on TV. Over 50 years ago and we’re still singing to it. I remember watching American bandstand and everybody jitterbugging to this Christmas hit from Chuck Berry it seems like yesterday.
Here's my Chuck Berry list: Maybelline, Brown Eyed Handsome Man, Roll Over Beethoven, Too Much Monkey Business, Rock and Roll Music, Reelin' and Rockin', Sweet Little Sixteen, Around and Around, Memphis, Little Queenie, Back in the U.S,A,, Bye Bye Johnny, Down The Road Apiece, Nadine (Is It You?), Promised Land, No Particular Place To Go, Viva Viva Rock 'n' Roll, and, last but not least, Chuck's Beat.
You should try “I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” by Gayla Peevey. She is originally from Oklahoma. Oh, and listen to it with the kids, they’ll love it!
Seconded!!
Dear God no
Angel tree was how we did our family shopping every year. Each kid got a kid of corresponding age to shop for and we went wild. It helped us see what our kids wanted but it also was important for them to put somebody else first.
I really like that idea.
Merry CHRISTmas Jay and Amber and your family.
GUITAR SOUNDS - Ok in the late 50's, Fender made Tweed amps (they were covered in tweed cloth). The circuit is designed to sound a certain way. They sound a lot like Chuck Berry. In the early 60's, Fender changed the design of the circuit. Early 60's amps were brown colored, and they have a slightly different sound. In the mid-60's, Fender changed the circuit again, and the amps were black colored - these amps sound different also. Another thing that contributes to the guitar sound in this song is the fact that Chuck Berry is playing a hollow-body electric guitar. Look at the picture - it is thicker than most electric guitars. This guitar has a slightly hollow/echoey sound, compared to thinner semi-hollow guitars, or solid guitars.
You can buy old guitars/amps from the 50's and 60's, but they are expensive. Also, various companies currently make knock-offs of these old instruments, that sound similar, but not exactly the same.
Paper and wax capacitors are pretty hard to find these days, as are 5751 tubes. The 12AX7 replaced the 12AU7, which replaced the 5751. The 5751 tubes and wax capacitors are what give 50's amps their unique sound, as well as the fact that those old amps had no ground connection, so there was a lot of 60Hz hum going on in the power section.
@@Voltor07 See the Uncle Doug Vid /s of building a tube amp from scratch, based around a fender circuit - he tried two different speakers too so you can hear some differences.
The sound of guitar back then is just playing clean - straight into the amp or into the recording console with no effects pedals to make it distort (which weren't invented until the early-to-mid 60s). Amps in the 50s could get some natural distortion if you really cranked them up, but recording engineers discouraged guitarists from doing that in the studio and, on stage, the PA systems weren't very powerful yet, so guitarists tended to not play at full volume, so they wouldn't drown out the drummer and other band members.
Agreed. And this has created a crazy market for the amps and guitars of those days. .. Some of the guitars from that era will easily bring $200,000+.
It has also sparked a lot of debate between analog guitar gear lovers and digital guitar gear gurus…
Which makes Me think that you guys should listen to Night People by You Me At Six. They are a band that has two guitarist… one is analog gear only and the other is a digital gear buff… can you tell the difference?
Wham and the song Last Christmas got to be the next christmas song.
I have done some work with the Angel Tree program before, and it is really a great program. The program is primarily for children with incarcerated parents who can't (for obvious reasons) be with or get Christmas presents for their kids, or at least that was the focus as I was aware of it. I actually ran it a couple of years through my local church. Incarcerated individuals would sign up their kids for the program, and we'd get a list of names. We then had to call all of the families on the list for confirmation and to get a couple gift ideas. Then we'd give out the angels to members of the congregation on a few Sundays in November, they'd bring the gifts back to the church, and then we held a (somewhat unique) party where the families could come, pick up the gift(s), have some refreshments, and have a chance to interact with the community.
Of course, the last year I ran it was I believe 2005, so a lot has likely changed since then, especially with regards to the pandemic. Looking at it from the link Jay and Amber have provided, it is less focused on the children of inmates and more on people suffering from poverty in general. This could be a change in the focus over the last 16 years to be more inclusive or it could be that it always was that inclusive and the narrower focus was something that our church asked for specifically. Either way, I hope this information helps people understand more about Angel Tree, the work it does, and why it is so important to support it each year.
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas. Fun song 🎵
Chuck Berry was a huge influence on such bands as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and countless others. Listen to the Beatles' song "Back in the USSR" from the White Album and you will see Chuck's unmistakable influence. You might also want to check out: "Nadine," "No Particular Place to Go" and "C'est La Vie (You Never Can Tell)". You'll see why he is considered one of rock's early pioneers!
This is such a great song, and virtually identical to his hit just a few months later "Little Queenie."
This is another must hear every Christmas! Love to all!
That's the sound of a Gibson hollow body my friend Chuck Berry spared no expense with his guitar played clean and loud it naturally gives this beautiful sound
Keith Richards, of the Rolling Stones, and Chuck Berry's biggest fan, also does a cover of this song!!!
I heard Keef's version first when it came out back in the 70's.
“Same Old Lang Syne” by Dan Fogelberg. Not a Christmas song but takes place on Christmas Eve. And a true story to boot.
Chuck Berry and The duck walk iconic.love his songs ❤
Love this song. Jimmy Buffett did a great cover of this, but on the same Xmas album he did one called, "Ho-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Rum" (Santa's run off to the Caribbean...). :)
You gotta do Greg Lake’s “ I Believe In Father Christmas”
Oh heck yes - my personal favourite Christmas song of all time. The version recorded live in a church with Ian Anderson playing flute is fantastic, but there's nothing quite like the original studio cut.
@@dbradx It’s been remastered on the official UA-cam channel David.
It’s also my favourite Christmas tune closely followed by Christy Moore’s cover of Fairytale in New York by the Pogues ( and Kirsty MacColl)
@@brownwarrior6867 Fantastic, I'm have to check that out - thanks!
This song by Chuck was in "Home Alone". And was covered by quite a few other singers, among them "Bryan Adams" & "Mariah Carey. 🎅🧑🎄🤶⛄☃️🎼🎤🎹🎸
Grandfather or not. His contribution to music cannot be denied. Striped down, raw rock chords on a Christmas carol
And Pentatonix - "The Prayer" - prettiest thing you will all season if not all year!!!!! Really, guys and gals!!!
Glad you finally got around to Chuck Berry. Like BB King he opened for so many bands so I saw him several times. Such a distinctive voice and a fun guy to watch.
Chuck Berry never fails to bring a smile. :)
This song makes me smile
Love you two! If you like Chuck Berry, check out Sister Rosetta Tharpe. She was playing rock and roll guitar before there was rock and roll. I love her song "This Train", followed by the more uptempo "Didn't It Rain, Children". Also, if you like Loretta Lynn's stuff, check out the movie "Coal Miner's Daughter" based on her life. You're appreciation of her music will grow.
Chuck Berry is one of the originators of rock and roll. Love anything by Chuck. You know when you hear it--it's Chuck!! I was thrilled that I went to one of his last performances to see him "Duck Walk" across the stage before either of us had passed. Sweet Little Sixteen, Maybelline, School Days, My Ding A Ling, Little Queenie, Roll Over Beethoven, You Never Can Tell. Chuck is also in the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Fine with me if you play a Chuck Berry tune every day!!
Should do The Carpenters, "Merry Christmas, Darling", and "No Place Like Home for the Holidays".
This is just happy, great music. Wouldn't be Christmas without it. My recommendation,
- Do You Hear What I Hear, from Gladys Knight and the Pips
That's my Chuck originator of the one legged duck walk! Nope it wasn't Angus. Angus got his moves from Chuck.
The choices a guitarist had as far as the type of sound they could get was limited in Chuck Berrys day and is why many of the guitars of that time sound similar although he did have a distinct instantly recognizable sound. Keep living in the moment it's a nice way to live.
Chuck had a hollow or semi hollow body guitar which adds to the distinctive guitar voice. Nice observations
That’s right! Chuck Berry at the ice rink! Such a jumpin’ Xmas song! 🔥🤙
This song was written by Johnny Marks who also wrote Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer and Rocking Around The Christmas Tree.
You should love You Never Can Tell by Chuck Berry. It’s my favorite of his songs.
Agreed - c'est la vie! :)
Chuck Berry is a St. Louis legend, if you ever get to St. Louis you have to go to Blueberry Hill bar and Restaurant,great food and just a cool place to hang out and see a show down stairs in either the Duck Room or the Elvis Room. Chuck Berry played there once a month for years, well into his 70s
Your boy Angus loved Chuck Berry, the duck walk he does in shows is a tribute to Chuck
Definitely listen to Marshmallow World by one of your favorite crooners, Dean Martin. Andy Williams sang the most beautiful version of Little Drummer Boy. Andy Williams hosted a Christmas special on TV for years and in Branson in his later life. Beautiful voice and kinda known for Christmas. He is kinda a crooner too.
"Maybellene" is one of Chuck's many classics
The Angel Tree is a great cause. When our home burned down in 2016 2 days before Thanksgiving and all of my grand daughters present burn I was heartbroken but the schools Angel Tree and the Red Cross really came through for them.
I have seen in 1 interview, with Ian Paice, the drummer for Deep Purple, the video was a video on Keith Moon, the drummer for The Who. The name of this interview video is Sina's Tribute to Keith Moon (2017 behind the scenes) the interview starts at the 4 minutes and 10 seconds mark. Ian Paice said in the 60's and 70's, that they were all self-taught and found a lot of things by mistake, I do know that electric guitars do have on the guitar buttons and a lever that changes things and the amps do also have control buttons.
Chuck Berry is a huge influence on probably just about every guitarist in the world today. Grandfather of rock 'n roll maybe debatable but he's certainly one of them.
Amber: Check out The Carpenters, "Merry Christmas Darling." It's a classic.
Love some Chuck Berry….. Run, Run Rudolph. Nice to know you are both teachers. My son teaches special needs at the high school level.
The amps back in the 50s and earlier didn’t have integrated circuits and solid state electronics. Most amps used vacuum tubes for the circuits which produced that warm tone. The distortion came from running things as full blast as they could which is where distortion got another name “overdrive” for the overdriven amps.
Even today most guitar players favor tube amps for their warm sound that is easy to distort. They use effects pedals to alter their sound and add cool sounds.
Love watching you both, thank you for being here ❤
While we're in the Christmas mode, I have a suggestion! Back in the 50s/60s there was a country/gospel crooner with a really deep bass voice named Tennessee Ernie Ford. He recorded a beautiful Christmas record I think was called My Favorite Christmas songs. The song you should look for is his version of "Oh Holy Night" It is simply awesome!
I recently started listening to his gospel music even though I’ve known of him practically all my life.
He where one of the first for sure, and as you have seen his walk you must also have found where Angus (AC DC) got his inspiration for walks across the stage from ;)
I always love seeing the two of them enjoy the music to their own different beats... J's head is bopping to the Tempo and Amber is swaying to the rythm!!
Yay!! One of my favorite Christmas songs!! You can hear this in the movie Home Alone when they are running through the airport.
Another fun upbeat one is Paul McCartney 's Wonderful Christmastime. You can't help but smile.
A lot of what made 50s music sound the way it does is the limitations of the recording equipment. You have to remember that at this time, recordings were done live in the studio with the whole band playing at once because they only had one channel to record to on a reel to reel tape. There were no overdubs, no mixing, it was all straight to tape. Les Paul (a legendary guitarist, producer, and inventor) invented multi-track recording; he would record one channel, then play along with the playback while recording on another reel to reel machine. When the first actual two-channel recorder came along in the 60s, it changed everything. Then 4-track, 8-track, etc., etc., came along. It's part of the reason bands in the late sixties became so experimental.
St. Louis is very proud of its native son and originator of Rock and Roll, Chuck Berry.
Back in the day, amps had tubes in them, versus the circuitry of more modern amps. A lot of audiophiles love the tube sound, as they think it’s a ‘warmer’ sound.
Chuck's is the original! A rock version of Rudolph. Love this song! It's been covered by tons of singers. Yes, Little Richard & Chuck Berry started R&R.
Merry Christmas, Jay and Amber!!
There is a Documentary called Hail Hail Rock and Roll about Chuck Berry filmed here in St. Louis on his 60the birthday featuring his show at Blueberry hill with Kieth Richards and Eric Clapton among others
OMG Thank You so Much for this. its one of My fave Christmas Songs
Chuck berry....FATHER of ROCK N ROLL
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer and Have A Holly Jolly Christmas both by an amazing singer Burrell Ives are both great Christmas songs.
You might have heard the version sung by Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead. That's my personal favorite version. But Chuck was awesome. He is the Godfather of rock and roll guitar.
Thanks guys, been requesting Chuck.
Merry Christmas from Tennessee
Fun Fact AC/DC's guitarist Angus Young used to dig Chuck Berry's Music & style Angus even adopted Chuck's Guitar duck walk & made it his own in time as well. AC/DC even made their music Mantra basically strictly playing Rock & Roll
Love your reactions. Another Christmas request, please react to Trans Siberian Orchestra's Christmas Eve/Sarajevo. Orchestra plus guitars and electric violins. You will love it!
Thank you.
And Carol Of The Bells
CHRISTMAS CANON
Stray Cat's Brian Setzer Boogie Woogie Santa Claus has the full horn section. Killer! ua-cam.com/video/QXH7SSZFdH4/v-deo.html
What a fun Christmas song you picked to listen to today.
This song was featured in Home Alone. That and on radio stations every Christmas is where most people have heard it.
Elmo & Patsy - Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer
The instrument in Annie's Song was a clarinet, I think. It was a love song he wrote after an argument with his wife.
Love some chuck Berry!! Thank Ya'll
Chuck is such a classic. Jordan have you named your ax? Chuck did Maybaleen, wrote a song about it. Thanks for stepping I to the time machine, it's cool. Smile
Here was CB's setup at that time: 1957 Gibson ES-350T guitar plugged into a Fender Showman Reverb amp. One (fairly inexpensive) way you could simulate this sound today is with a Grote Semi-Hollow guitar plugged into a Fender Champion 20 amp.
We went to an open air concert with Chuck Berry… He was such a character to see…
One of my favorite Christmas songs!😍🤗🙆😂🤩🎶
He’s just so good :D Glad you reacted to this!
Not a Christmas song, though I think of it as a winter song, but maybe look into Blood, Sweat, and Tears “God Bless the Child”? It’s got horns a plenty for Amber and that good bluesy feel for Jay :)
BUCK OWENS - Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy
If you want to hear nost of the Christmas music from times past, you would have started in July! But, you need to hear, Grandma got runned over by a reindeer! Lots of fun!
This song is "the" original version that Chuck Berry wrote back in 1958. Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams did a cover version of this song back in 1987.
Finally! A rockin' Christmas song! Now you gotta check out Stevie Nicks doing 'Silent Night', Joan Jett doing 'Little Drummer Boy', The Waitresses doing 'Christmas Wrapping', Jimi Hendrix doing 'Little Drummer Boy, Silent Night, Auld Lang Syne' Medley. And just to go metal and bash out, Tom Angelripper doing 'Jingle Bells' and X-mas Project doing 'Mary's Boy Child'
Little Saint Nick by the Beach Boys! PLEASE! You & the kids will LOVE it!
CHUCK BERRY "NO PARTICULAR PLACE TO GO"
Bryan Adams covered this for the CD "A Special Christmas" that was a fund raiser for The Special Olympics (GREAT Christmas CD BTW). They did some more for a couple of years after that as well.
???AMBER?? We knew Jordan is a Teacher. He Talks About it A lot !! Had impression you were Stay at Home MOM. Now finding out you're a Teacher too. WOW !!
A MUST HEAR CHRISTMAS CLASSIC,, MARGARET WHITING & JOHNNY MERCER "BABY,, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE" 🎁🎄🎅
The version of Run Rudolph Run with the raspy vocals might have been by Bryan Adams
Have you guys seen him do the “Chicken Walk”? You MUST watch him do that! It’s AWESOME!
"The blues had a baby and they named it rock n roll" - Muddy Waters. "Muddy Waters invented electricity" - Crossroads. Muddy helped Chuck as well as his other influence Sister Rosetta Sharpe.
An unconventional Christmas song is: "A Spaceman Came Traveling" Chris DeBurgh the writer/original singer. Celtic Woman did an incredible job of it too.
Wow. Can't believe I never heard this. Thanks