THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
886) Chuck Berry — “It Wasn’t Me”
“As legend, or some old music magazine, has it, an interviewer once asked George Thorogood why he didn’t write more of his own songs, to which he replied ‘Because Chuck Berry already wrote all the f*cking songs that ever needed to be written.’” (https://somuchgreatmusic.com/2018/09/09/george-thorogood-it-wasnt-me-1978/). Here is one of Chuck’s last classic originals, off his ’65 Chess LP Fresh Berry’s. This song is so f*ing good that by the time it’s over, I feel like Keith Richards after being punched in the face (by Chuck). 🙂
Bruce Eder:
Chuck Berry’s last album for Chess, for the next four years, has him back in the U.S., and running smack into the mid-’60s blues revival, playing with the likes of Paul Butterfield and Mike Bloomfield . . . . The material varies from first-rate songs ([including] “It Wasn’t Me[]” . . .) that sound utterly contemporary, to fascinating experiments . . . and filler . . . . He still rocks out, and sounds like he’s having a great time playing blues with Bloom field and Butterfield . . , sounding like an old Chicago bluesman, which, ironically, was the direction he chose to go in during his subsequent four-year stint with Mercury Records. He still does some straight rock & roll — “It’s My Own Business” [see #361] is a great teen rebellion number — and occasionally indulges his taste for music from the islands . . , in what was essentially an era-closing album, and his last attempt at making a contemporary album with his established sound.
https://www.allmusic.com/album/fresh-berrys-mw0000841212
Here’s the version from that Amazon commercial:
Here is George Thorogood and the Destroyers:
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