“School Days” by Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry wrote and sang "School Days", which also goes by "School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell)", and Chess put it out as a single in March 1957, following "You Can't Catch Me", then folded it into the After School Session LP a couple of months later. Leonard Chess produced, and the credits give Berry a second guitarist in Quincy Macon, with Forrest Frierson on bass and Ebby Hardy on drums.

It ranks among his best-known songs and gets held up as an anthem for rock and roll itself. Its closing verse, a toast to the music, handed a title to Hail! Hail! Rock and Roll, the 1987 concert documentary on Berry, and people still mistake that phrase for the song's name. Berry recycled much of the arrangement in 1964 for "No Particular Place to Go".

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