Johnny B. GoodeChuck Berry
Johnny B. Goode
1958 · From Chuck Berry Is on Top
Chuck Berry's intro lick is rock's opening statement, a country boy's origin myth now drifting past the solar system.
★ 9.8
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Showing 11 songs from 1958
All I Have to Do Is Dream
1958
Two live takes in Nashville, Chet Atkins on guitar, and a harmony that topped three Billboard charts at once.
★ 7.7
La Bamba (Ritchie Valens)
1958
Cut as the B-side of Donna, a Veracruz son jarocho with Carol Kaye on rhythm and Earl Palmer driving.
★ 7.6
Summertime BluesEddie Cochran
Summertime Blues
1958
Cochran overdubbed his own bass voice for the boss and the senator, Earl Palmer drumming behind the great teenage complaint.
★ 7.4
Good Golly, Miss Molly
1958 · From Little Richard
Little Richard lifted the piano intro straight off Rocket 88, and Earl Palmer's drums do the rest.
★ 7.4
Sweet Little Sixteen
1958 · From One Dozen Berrys
Lafayette Leake's piano, Willie Dixon's bass, and a melody Brian Wilson borrowed so closely he lost the copyright.
★ 6.9
Come Fly With Me
1958 · From Come Fly with Me
Cahn and Van Heusen wrote it to order, and Billy May's first Sinatra arrangement made travel sound like swagger.
★ 6.7
Lonely Teardrops
1958
Berry Gordy wrote it before Motown existed, and arranger Dick Jacobs sped the ballad into Wilson's signature record.
★ 6.3
C'mon Everybody
1958
Earl Palmer on drums, Guybo Smith on bass, a B-side flipped into a number six hit in Britain.
★ 6.0
For Your Precious LoveJerry Butler
For Your Precious Love
1958
Butler's baritone over a doo-wop crawl; the billing change to his name split the group and handed Mayfield the lead.
★ 5.7
Yakety Yak
1958
King Curtis honks the tenor break, later echoed in Yakety Sax, while Leiber and Stoller turn chores into comedy.
★ 5.6