Maybellene

Maybellene is Chuck Berry's first ever released single. The song was adapted from the traditional fiddle tune "Ida Red". It was released in July 1955 and reached number 5 on the Billboard rock charts and was a number 1 R&B hit. Rolling Stone magazine wrote of it "Rock & roll guitar starts here."

Here Chuck Berry performs his song to a very sedate and formal crowd as he moves around the stage with his famous moves which comes across quite funny and odd looking.


And here the Replacements perform the song live quite early in their career back in 1981. Its loose, its drunken, its sloppy and singer Paul Westerberg barely even knows the lyrics as he makes them up as he goes.