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Originally Posted by Gobbiner17
Never Can Tell. I loved Chuck Berry with Maybelline, Nadine, Riding along in my automobile, Johnny B Goode, Sweet Sixteen. When this one came along it was a bit different, I thought it was great but many people said it wasn't as good as his previous. I think some folk were more into guitars and I just happened to like the other instruments as well. Got into jazz after that...
Perhaps you guys know more about the history of this period. Were you listening to non-commercial R & B at the time, or was it not available then?
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Didn't like it much when it first came out, Gobbiner. Was more into his Roll Over Beethoven, Sweet Little Rock & Roller-type stuff, but like it well enough these days. R&B was guitars and harmonicas for me back then. Didn't get into honking sax-type R&B until I picked up an album called "Kings of R&B" in either Marshalls or the Golden Disc Bar on Broadway around '69. It had Wynonie Harris on one side and Tiny Bradshaw on the other. Things were never quite the same after that...
