{"id":4156,"date":"2019-12-04T20:16:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T02:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2019-12-04T20:16:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T02:16:46","slug":"birth-of-rock-roll-project-1954-1959-no-19-1955-rr-songwriting-rr-guitar-and-piano-chuck-berry-and-johnnie-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/birth-of-rock-roll-project-1954-1959-no-19-1955-rr-songwriting-rr-guitar-and-piano-chuck-berry-and-johnnie-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth of Rock &#038; Roll Project 1954-1959: No. 19: 1955: R&#038;R Songwriting: R&#038;R Guitar and Piano:  Chuck Berry and Johnnie Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This track recorded 5-21-1955 at Universal Recording Studio in Chicago.  Chuck Berry, Vocal, Electric Guitar, Songwriter.  Johnnie Johnson, Piano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charles Edward Anderson Berry, born 10-18-1926, St. Louis, MO; died at age 90 on 3-18-2017, Wentzville, MO.  Berry was among the first musicians inducted into the R&amp;R Hall of Fame in 1986.  He received the American Music Award of Merit in 1981 and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnnie Clyde Johnson, born 7-8-1924, Fairmont, W. Va.; died 4-13-2005, age 80, St. Louis, MO.  Inducted into R&amp;R Hall of Fame in 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson served in the U.S. Marine Corp during WW11.  After the war he played Jazz piano with Bobby Troup and other Jazz musicians in Chicago and St. Louis.  He founded a Jazz combo in St. Louis and gave Chuck Berry his first steady job as a professional jazz guitarist in the early 1950s.  Johnson and Berry were in the vanguard of musicians who created the first R&amp;R music in the mid-1950s.<br> Rock on!<br> Mike<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Maybellene-Chuck-Berry-Chess-16041955.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Maybellene &#8211; Chuck Berry &#8211; Chess 1604 (1955)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This track recorded 5-21-1955 at Universal Recording Studio in Chicago. Chuck Berry, Vocal, Electric Guitar, Songwriter. Johnnie Johnson, Piano. Charles Edward Anderson Berry, born 10-18-1926, St. Louis, MO; died at age 90 on 3-18-2017, Wentzville, MO. Berry was among the first musicians inducted into the R&amp;R Hall of Fame in 1986. He received the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newletters","comments-open"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46vzC-152","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4158,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions\/4158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}