BYE BYE JOHNNY

Created on 06/12/2005
Latest update on 26/10/2023

Artist: Chuck Berry
Author: Chuck Berry
Label: Chess
Year: 1960

Listened carefully to the end of Roll 'Em Pete (see there).

Covers:

1963:

Rattles

1963:

Rolling Stones

1964:

Billy Bridge [French version with Mickey Baker on guitar]

1966:

Monty [as Le Collège]

1974:

Mud

1975:

Status Quo

1975:

Blue Rock [hit B]

1976:

Eddie & The Hot Rods

1983:

Bruce Springsteen [in Johnny Bye Bye; first two lyric lines identical, the rest is about Elvis' death]

2023:

Van Morrison [on his 45th album Accentuate The Positive; might as well look to be his 145th one!]

Darkness On The Edge Of Town outtake Let's Go Tonight also holds elements of Bye Bye Johnny.

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