Sweet Little Sixteen
| Sweet Little Sixteen | |
|---|---|
| Chuck Berry | |
| publication | 1958 |
| Genre (s) | Rock and roll |
| Author (s) | Chuck Berry |
| Award (s) | Rolling Stone Magazine : The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time |
| Cover versions | |
| 1966 | The Animals |
| John Lennon | |
| Bruce Springsteen | |
| The Beatles | |
Sweet Little Sixteen is a rock 'n' roll song written and first recorded by Chuck Berry . It was released on Chess 1683 in January 1958. The song reached number 2 on the American charts and number 1 on the Billboard R&B charts, which the track occupied for three weeks. Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song 274 of the 500 greatest songs of all time in 2004.
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The lyrics tell of rock 'n' roll fans, especially a young girl (“She's just got to have about half a million framed autographs”). She begs to be allowed to attend a concert (“Oh daddy daddy I beg of you whisper to mommy it's all right with you”). Then the song describes what the girl is wearing (“Tight dress and lipstick she's sportin 'high heel shoes”). But the next day she is the good girl again and goes to school (“Oh, but tomorrow morning she'll have to change her trend and be sweet sixteen and back in class again”).
Cover versions
There are cover versions of, for example
- The Animals
- The Beatles
- Pat Boone
- Eddie Cochran
- Marianne Faithfull
- John P. Hammond
- John Lennon
- Jerry Lee Lewis
- Little Richard
- Udo Lindenberg (as sweet little sixteen , on the album Lindenbergs Rock Revue , 1978, translated with Horst Königstein )
- The rattles
- The Rolling Stones
- The Searchers
- Bruce Springsteen
- Ringo Starr
- Ten Years After
Others
- The song was inspired by a teenage autograph collector who Chuck Berry met on tour.
- After a plagiarism dispute, Chuck Berry obtained rights to the Beach Boys song Surfin 'USA , which used the melody.
Individual evidence
- ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. Record Research Ltd., 1994, p. 48
- ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top 40 R&B and Hip-Hop Hits. 1942-2004 . New York, NY Billboard Books, 2006, p. 40
- ↑ Chuck Berry - sweet little sixteen . Magistrix.de. Retrieved on August 17, 2010. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Sweet Little Sixteen by Chuck Berry . Song facts. Retrieved August 17, 2010.
