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Mar 5, 1951
Ike Turner's band, featuring vocalist Jackie Brenston, records "Rocket 88" in Memphis. Hailed by some as the first rock & roll record, it's also the first hit produced by Country Music Hall of Famer Sam Phillips
May 21, 1955
Chuck Berry records "Maybellene," a song inspired by Bob Wills' "Ida Red," at Chicago's Chess Recording Studio, with Willie Dixon on bass. George Jones & Johnny Paycheck have a country hit with the song--with the spelling changed to "Mabellene"--in 1979
Jul 23, 1955
Chess releases Chuck Berry's R&B classic "Maybellene," hailed in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number" among the 500 greatest country singles ever made
Oct 15, 1955
Chess releases Chuck Berry's R&B single "Thirty Days (To Come Back Home)." Just 11 days later, Ernest Tubb records a country version
Apr 16, 1956
Chuck Berry records the rock classic "Roll Over Beethoven," with a reference to Carl Perkins' "Blue Suede Shoes" in the lyrics. In the same Chicago session, he records "Brown Eyed Handsome Man," which Waylon Jennings turns into a country hit; and "Too Much Monkey Business," a future Freddy Weller hit
May 19, 1956
Chess releases Chuck Berry's rock & roll hit "Roll Over Beethoven," which namechecks Carl Perkins' "Blue Suede Shoes"
Jan 6, 1958
Chuck Berry records "Johnny B. Goode" at the Chess Recording Studio in Chicago. The song has a future as a country hit, when Buck Owens remakes it in 1969
Mar 31, 1958
Chess releases Chuck Berry's pop classic "Johnny B. Goode." The song is resurrected as a country hit by Buck Owens in 1969
Jan 14, 1964
Chuck Berry records the original version of "You Never Can Tell." Thirteen years later, Emmylou Harris re-tools the song as a country hit
Feb 20, 1964
Chuck Berry records "Promised Land," with Willie Dixon sitting in, at the Chess Recording Studio in Chicago. The song is destined to climb the country charts after a re-recording by Elvis Presley
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