“Rock And Roll Music” by Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry wrote "Rock and Roll Music" and cut it in Chicago in May 1957, with Leonard and Phil Chess producing and a tight little band at his back: Lafayette Leake on piano, Willie Dixon on bass and Fred Below on drums. Chess put it out as a single that September, on 45 and 78 alike, and the following year it took its place on One Dozen Berrys.

It caught fire straight away, climbing into the American top 10 and to number six on Billboard's R&B singles chart before 1957 was out, and it has only dug in deeper since. Rolling Stone put Berry's version at number 128 on its 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame counts it among the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.