We all know and love the classics - Johnny B, Maybelline, Beethoven, Memphis, etc. and respect the master for all his work. But many of the lesser known songs are just as great - Nadine, Monkey Business, etc.

I only have The Great 28 and Hail! Hail!. What else should I get? In what order?

Thanks, CB II (and all others) for your help.

Some of my favorites:

Brown Eyed Handsome Man (written about me!)
Nadine
Run Rudolph
Memphis
No Particular Place
all the rest!

Merry Christmas!

Here's mine

The complete 50's and 60's Chess Recordings







HMN

Together We'll Always Be, Mad Lad, I Gotta find My Baby, I Will Not Let You Go, I Love You, London Berry Blues, Rockin' The Philharmonic and on and on.........

That's a tough one. Well, ALL OF THEM.The same thing goes with The Stones; I am an unconditional lover.
Rock and Roll,
Mops

You Never Can Tell always does it for me. Love it in Pulp Fiction.

Cest la vie

Seconds Elmo's list.

Can't argue with HonestMan's selections!

Me, today I'd say "Nadine," "Memphis, Tennessee," "You Never Can Tell," "Promised Land," and "Little Marie." So many classics are hard to choose favorites. It's like asking your favorite Stones songs. Too many to decide.

Back In The USA
Sweet Little Rock 'n' Roller
Little Queenie

I love the stuff he did in London in the sixties. I think was better than his " great 28." dear dad, jaguar and the thunder bird, and others. CB is extremelr Brilliant man. This stuff can be smooth but not wimpy like a modern day rod sterart song more like a great Sinatra song but with the Balls of pure rock.some killer blues and jazz influenced songs as well.

Go Dawgs!

all of 'em, but if i were to pick one: nadine and if were to pick my fave version: john hammond's version from Hot Tracks with the Nighthawks....john recorded this berry tune several times....

I love all of them. Many of my top listers are a bit more obscure than the average person.

1. Back to Memphis.
2. Dear Dad.
3. Downbound train.
4. Your a long way from Saint Louis (incredible tune).
5. Bye, Bye Johnny.
6. Confessin the Blues.
7. Deep Feeling.
8. Almost Grown.
9. Liverpool Drive.
10. Promised Land.

The list is constantly changing but 1 & 2 are pretty much always in the top 10.

CBII

Wee Wee Hours is my favorite....

Working midnights in the steel mills of Gary, Indiana at the time. This song meant a lot to me....

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CBII
I love all of them. Many of my top listers are a bit more obscure than the average person.

1. Back to Memphis.
2. Dear Dad.
3. Downbound train.
4. Your a long way from Saint Louis (incredible tune).
5. Bye, Bye Johnny.
6. Confessin the Blues.
7. Deep Feeling.
8. Almost Grown.
9. Liverpool Drive.
10. Promised Land.

The list is constantly changing but 1 & 2 are pretty much always in the top 10.

nice choices, cb - but dad didn't write #6!!! tsk tsk tsk....

ever heard Dave Edmunds' "Dear Dad"? great version!

DOH! Your absolutely correct. Still a great one to hear.

CBII

My Top 5 :

Route 66
Little Queenie
Run Rudolph Run
No Particular Place
Confessin the Blues

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Let It Rock. How many people can put out a CD called The Great Twenty-Eight?

"won't have to worry 'bout that broken-down raggedy Ford"

Honestman, thanks for the recommendation - I just ordered the Chess box!

This time of year for me it's this one -- natch!

Just got the Anthology and have been listening a lot.

Agree with everything so far, but what about You Can't Catch Me!!!

cause if you get too close, you know i'm gone like a cooooool breeze


(Probably the Coolest science-fiction song ever written too)

Always loved You Never Can Tell

Love all that. Especially Too Much Monkey business (it is my personal hymn)).
And - Back in USA.

1. Blues For Hawaiians
2. Sweet Little Sixteen
3. Rock and Roll Music
4. Roll Over Beethoven
5. Little Queenie
6. No Particular Place to Go
7. Almost Grown
8. Too Much Monkey Business
9. Beautiful Delilah
10. Memphis, Tennessee

but he's got his distinctive style/sound and if you like one song, you surely do like them all

BLUES FOR HAWAIIANS - the melody ain't his but it's such a nice chilling song. SWEET LITTLE SIXTEEN is the best rock and roll song ever, period. check out 1978 Stones version, it does not get any wilder. then ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN has nice lyrics and BEAUTIFUL DELILAH. and Faces' cover of MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE rocks.

oh, and by the way. can we make a full list of Chuck's songs recorded by the Stones? the ones I love:

Carol
Let It Rock
Little Queenie
Bye Bye Johnny
Sweet Little Sixteen

Reeling & Rocking

Chuck makes a (sort of) political statement at 1:58 :

Too many great songs to say which is favorite so I'll say which is my least favorite; My Ding-a-Ling. Of all the great songs Chuck has written, how is that this one, and correct me if I'm wrong, was his only number 1? My head shakes in bewilderment...