Little Queenie

"Little Queenie"
Single by Chuck Berry
from the album Chuck Berry Is on Top
Released	1959
Genre	Rock and roll
Label	Chess
Writer(s)	Chuck Berry

"Little Queenie" is a song written and recorded by Chuck Berry. It appeared on the 1959 album Chuck Berry Is on Top and was released as a double A-side with "Almost Grown". Berry 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.

7" Vinyl

The song peaked at number 80 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Allmusic calls the song 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.

According to Mark Lewisohn in "The Complete Beatles Chronicles" (p. 363), the Beatles performed "Little Queenie" live from at least 1960 until 1963 (in Liverpool, Hamburg and elsewhere) with Paul McCartney on lead vocal. An audience recording of it was made (in December 1962) and is on Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962. Per author Doug Sulpy in "Drugs, Divorce and Slipping Image" (sec. 22.26) during the massive sessions for the album Get Back John Lennon sang the lead vocal on a fairly brief version of it. Paul McCartney and Wings guitarist Denny Laine recorded a loose jam of it the early 1970s.

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