161K views · 8.2K reactions | 1955 May 1 Leonard Chess signs Chuck Berry to a recording contract after he came highly recommended by Muddy Waters. Most of Berry's hit records would be recorded for Chess between 1955 and 1966, including "Maybellene", "Roll Over Beethoven", "School Day", "Rock And Roll Music", "Sweet Little Sixteen", Johnny B. Goode" and "No Particular Place to Go". VIDEO HAIL HAIL ROCK AND ROLL | Rockabilly Italia | Facebook

151K views · 3.5K reactions | The life story of legendary record producer Leonard Chess, founder of Chess Records, the label that helped popularize Blues music during the 1950s and '60s. #cinema #education #VintageVibes #bluesmusic #inspirational #BlackHistoryMonth #muddywaters #israel | Super Blues | Facebook

St. Louis was a great blues town, but Chicago was bigger, and Chicago had Muddy Waters. The first time Chuck Berry heard the singer and guitarist, he said, “he cracked open my soul to everything he said in his songs. I felt like I knew him.” Now Berry wanted to meet him. He wanted to meet Waters in the hope that the recording star could give him advice about following in his footsteps. So he drove to Chicago with his high school friend Ralph Burris in his red Ford Country Squire station wagon. T