YOU CAN'T CATCH ME
CHUCK BERRY
SONGWRITER: CHUCK BERRY
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: ROCK, ROCK, ROCK
LABEL: CHESS RECORDS
GENRE: ROCK
YEAR: 1956
Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18,
1926–March 18, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who
pioneered rock and roll.
Nicknamed the "Father
of Rock and Roll", he refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive with
songs such as "Maybellene"
(1955), "Roll Over
Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll
Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode"
(1958). Writing lyrics that focused on teen life and consumerism, and
developing a music style that included guitar solos and showmanship,
Berry was a major influence on subsequent rock music.
Born into a middle-class black family in St. Louis, Berry
had an interest in music from an early age and gave his first public
performance at Sumner High
School. While still a high school student he was
convicted of armed robbery and was sent to a reformatory, where he was held from 1944 to 1947. After his release, Berry settled
into married life and worked at an automobile assembly plant. By
early 1953, influenced by the guitar riffs and showmanship
techniques of the blues musician T-Bone Walker,
Berry began performing with the Johnnie
Johnson Trio. His break came when he traveled
to Chicago in May 1955 and met Muddy Waters,
who suggested he contact Leonard Chess, of Chess Records. With
Chess, he recorded "Maybellene"—Berry's adaptation of the country
song "Ida Red"—which
sold over a million copies, reaching number one on Billboard magazine's rhythm
and blues chart.
By
the end of the 1950s, Berry was an established star, with several hit records
and film appearances and a lucrative touring career. He had
also established his own St. Louis nightclub, Berry's Club Bandstand. He was
sentenced to three years in prison in January 1962 for offenses under the Mann Act—he had
transported a 14-year-old girl across state lines for the purpose of having
sexual intercourse. After his release in 1963, Berry had several more
successful songs, including "No Particular
Place to Go", "You Never Can
Tell", and "Nadine". However,
these did not achieve the same success or lasting impact of his 1950s songs,
and by the 1970s he was more in demand as a nostalgia performer, playing his
past material with local backup bands of variable quality. In 1972 he reached a
new level of achievement when a rendition of "My Ding-a-Ling"
became his only record to top the charts. His insistence on being paid in cash
led in 1979 to a four-month jail sentence and community service, for tax evasion.
Berry was among the first musicians to be
inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame on its opening in 1986; he was cited
for having "laid the groundwork for not only a rock and roll sound but a
rock and roll stance." Berry is included in several of Rolling Stone magazine's "greatest of all time" lists; he was ranked
fifth on its 2004 and 2011 lists of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs
That Shaped Rock and Roll includes three
of Berry's: "Johnny B. Goode", "Maybellene", and "Rock
and Roll Music". Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" is the only rock-and-roll
song included on the Voyager
Golden Record
Rock, Rock, Rock! is a 1956 musical drama film conceived, co-written and co-produced by Milton Subotsky and directed by Will Price. The
film is an early jukebox musical featuring performances by established rock and roll singers of the era, including Chuck Berry,
LaVern Baker, Teddy Randazzo, the Moonglows, the Flamingos, and the Teenagers with Frankie Lymon as lead singer. Later West Side
Story cast member David Winters is also featured. Famed disc jockey Alan Freed made an
appearance as himself.
The movie has a fairly simple plot: teenage
girl Dori Graham (played by then 13-year-old Tuesday Weld, with a
credited Connie Francis dubbed in as Dori's singing voice) can't persuade her dad to buy her
a strapless gown and has to get the money together herself in time for the prom. Jack Collins plays the frustrated dad.
Valerie Harper made her debut in a brief appearance as an extra seated at the
center table during the performance of "Ever Since I Can Remember" by
Cirino and the Bowties and can be seen after the performance of Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers. This was also Frankie Lymon &
the Teenagers' film debut.
Almost every member of the cast was signed to
a record label at the
time, which was credited along with each star. In 1984, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its copyright
registration in the 28th year after publication. The film's numerous musical
numbers may have been copyrighted separately, however.
I bought a brand-new air-mobile
It was custom-made, it was a Flight De Ville
With a powerful motor and some hideaway wings
Push in on the button and you will hear her sing
Now you can't catch
me, baby you can't catch me
'Cause if you get too close
You know I'm gone like a cool breeze
New Jersey Turnpike
in the wee, wee hours
I was rolling slowly 'cause of drizzling showers
Here come a flat-top, he was moving up with me
Then come waving goodbye in a little old souped-up jitney
I put my foot in my tank and I began to roll
Moaning siren, it was a state patrol
So I let out my wings and then I blew my horn
Bye-bye New Jersey, I've become airborne
Now you can't catch
me, baby you can't catch me
'Cause if you get too close
You know I'm gone like a cool breeze
Flying with my baby
last Saturday night
Wasn't a gray cloud floatin' in sight
Big full moon shining up above
Cuddle up honey, be my love
Sweetest little thing I ever seen
I'm gon' name you
Maybellene
Flying on the beam, set on flight control
Radio tuned to rock and roll
Two, three hours done passed us by
Altitude dropped to 505
Fuel consumption, way too fast
Let's get on home before we run out of gas
Now you can't catch
me, no baby, you can't catch me
'Cause if you get too close
You know I'm gone like a cool breeze.
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