Almost Grown (song)
" Almost Grown" is a song written and recorded by Chuck Berry.
It was released as a double A- side with" Little Queenie".
The song is featured in the 1973 film" American Graffiti".
Leigh Harris
Leigh Harris( July 27, 1954- September 21, 2019), born New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, nicknamed Little Queenie, was a New Orleans R&B and jazz singer and songwriter.
Eric Boswell (songwriter)
Eric Boswell( born Eric Simpson, July 18, 1921 – November 29, 2009) was an English composer of popular songs and folk music, most famous for writing the children's Christmas song" Little Donkey".
Run Rudolph Run
" Run Rudolph Run" is a Christmas song popularized by Chuck Berry, written by Johnny Marks and Marvin Brodie and published by St. Nicholas Music( ASCAP).
The song was first recorded by Berry in 1958 and released as a single on Chess Records.
It has since been covered by numerous other artists, sometimes with the title" Run Run Rudolph".
The song is a 12- bar blues, musically similar to Berry's very popular and recognizable song" Johnny B. Goode", and melodically identical to his song" Little Queenie", the latter of which was released shortly after, in 1959.
Little Queenie
"Little Queenie" is a song written and recorded by Chuck Berry.
It was released in 1959 as a double A-side single with "Almost Grown" and included on "Chuck Berry Is on Top" (1959), Berry's first compilation album.
He performed the song in the movies "Go, Johnny Go!"
(1959) and "Hail!
Hail!
Rock 'n' Roll" (1987).
It has been covered by many artists, including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and REO Speedwagon.
One year earlier, Berry had released "Run Rudolph Run", a Christmas song with the same melody.
The song was recorded on November 19, 1958 in Chicago, Illinois.
Backing Berry on vocals and guitar were either Johnnie Johnson or Lafayette Leake on piano, Willie Dixon on bass, and Fred Below on drums.
The song peaked at number 80 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart.
In a song review for AllMusic, Matthew Greenwald calls it an "incredible rock & roll anthem" and "one of the greatest dance/sex ritualistic classics.
" It is included several of Berry's compilation albums, including "The Great Twenty-Eight" and "Chuck Berry's Golden Decade".
English glam-rock band T-Rex's Mark Bolan, discussing their hit "
Bang a Gong
(Get It On)claimed to have written the song out of his desire to record Chuck Berry's "Little Queenie", and said that the riff is taken from the Berry tune.
In fact, a slightly edited line ("And meanwhile, I'm still thinking") from "Little Queenie" is said at the fade of "Get It On".
Cocaine Blues
" Cocaine Blues" is a Western Swing song written by T. J." Red" Arnall, a reworking of the traditional song" Little Sadie".
Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music.
Nicknamed the "Father of Rock and Roll", Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive with songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "
Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958).
Writing lyrics that focused on teen life and consumerism, and developing a music style that included guitar solos and showmanship, Berry was a major influence on subsequent rock music.
Born into a middle-class African-American family in St. Louis, Missouri, Berry had an interest in music from an early age and gave his first public performance at Sumner High School.
While still a high school student he was convicted of armed robbery and was sent to a reformatory, where he was held from 1944 to 1947.
After his release, Berry settled into married life and worked at an automobile assembly plant.
By early 1953, influenced by the guitar riffs and showmanship techniques of the blues musician T-Bone Walker, Berry began performing with the Johnnie Johnson Trio.
His break came when he traveled to Chicago in May 1955 and met Muddy Waters, who suggested he contact Leonard Chess, of Chess Records.
With Chess, he recorded "Maybellene"—Berry's adaptation of the country song "Ida Red"—which sold over a million copies, reaching number one on "Billboard" magazine's rhythm and blues chart.
By the end of the 1950s, Berry was an established star, with several hit records and film appearances and a lucrative touring career.
He had also established his own St. Louis nightclub, Berry's Club Bandstand.
However, he was sentenced to three years in prison in January 1962 for offenses under the Mann Act—he had transported a 14-year-old girl across state lines.
After his release in 1963, Berry had several more hits, including "No Particular Place to GoYou
Never Can Tell", and "Nadine".
But these did not achieve the same success, or lasting impact, of his 1950s songs, and by the 1970s he was more in demand as a nostalgic performer, playing his past hits with local backup bands of variable quality.
However, in 1972 he reached a new level of achievement when a rendition of "My Ding-a-Ling" became his only record to top the charts.
His insistence on being paid in cash led in 1979 to a four-month jail sentence and community service, for tax evasion.
Berry was among the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on its opening in 1986; he was cited for having "laid the groundwork for not only a rock and roll sound but a rock and roll stance.
" Berry is included in several of "Rolling Stone" magazine's "greatest of all time" lists; he was ranked fifth on its 2004 and 2011 lists of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll includes three of Berry's: "Johnny B. GoodeMaybellene", and "Rock and Roll Music".
Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" is the only rock-and-roll song included on the Voyager Golden Record.
Alexander Courage
Alexander Mair" Sandy" Courage Jr.( December 10, 1919
May 15, 2008) was an American orchestrator, arranger, and composer of music, primarily for television and film.
He is best known as the composer of the theme music for the original" Star Trek" series.
Walter Robinson (composer)
Walter Robinson is an African American composer of the late 20th century.
He is most notable for his 1977 song" Harriet Tubman", which has been recorded by folk musicians such as Holly Near, John McCutcheon, and others.
He is also the composer of several operas.
Alonso Mudarra
Alonso Mudarra( c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar- shaped string instrument.
He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar.

Question: Where did the composer of song Little Queenie graduate from?
Answer: Sumner High School