St. Louis to Liverpool is the seventh studio album by American rock and roll musicianChuck Berry. Released in 1964 byChess Records, it peaked at number 124 on the USBillboard album chart, the first of Berry's studio albums to appear on the chart.[2] Music criticDave Marsh calledSt. Louis to Liverpool "one of the greatest rock and roll records ever made".[3]
Wishing to capitalize on his popularity during theBritish Invasion, Berry and Chess Records fashioned this album to appeal to young buyers.St. Louis to Liverpool includes four of the five charting singles he enjoyed in 1964, the final year he would have multiple records appearing on theBillboard Hot 100: "No Particular Place to Go", "You Never Can Tell", "Promised Land", and "Little Marie", a sequel to "Memphis, Tennessee". The additional eight tracks included the fourB-sides of those singles: "Our Little Rendezvous", a B-side from 1960; a previously unreleased alternate take of his 1958 Christmas single "Merry Christmas Baby"; an instrumental outtake from a 1950s session; and "Liverpool Drive", a recent instrumental.
On April 13, 2004, the Chronicles division of theUniversal Music Group remastered the album for CD with three bonus tracks as part of its 50th-anniversary commemorative of Chess Records, including "O'Rangutang", the flip side of the fifth of his 1964 charting singles "Nadine (Is It You?)", and a track that had appeared on the 1990 rarities albumMissing Berries. In 2008,Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab reissued the album withBerry Is on Top on an Ultradisc II Gold compact disc.
