Go, Johnny, Go! (1959)

Chuck Berry: Chuck Berry

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• Chuck Berry : None of that think back jazz for me. I got enough sweat with the present. The past and future can take care of themselves.

• Chuck Berry : I'm a cat, man, but, like, I don't have nine lives.

• Chuck Berry : Gee, he can really wail on a ballad.

• Chuck Berry : That's a swingin' record. I think he's really good.

• Chuck Berry : [singing]  Long distance information, Give me Memphis Tennessee, Try to find the party, Trying to get in touch with me, She would not leave her number, But I know who placed the call...

• Bill Barnett : Tell me Chuck, how is this act you want Alan to see?

  Chuck Berry : Like crazy, man.

  Alan Freed : Aren't we all.

• Chuck Berry : Johnny Melody.

  Alan Freed : You are really gone on him, aren't you?

• Alan Freed : Does Sinatra look like he sounds? Did Como? Or, anybody?

  Chuck Berry : I do.

• Chuck Berry : [singing]  There she is again standin' over by the record machine, Lookin' like a model on the cover of a magazine, She's too cute to be a minute over seventeen, Meanwhile, I was thinkin', She's in the mood, No need to break it, I got the chance, I oughtta take it, And she'll dance, And we can make it, Come on Queenie, Let's shake it! Go, go, go, Little Queenie...

• Alan Freed : Chuck, we struck pay dirt!

  Chuck Berry : Saved by the girl.

• Chuck Berry : We always got Ritchie Valens to soothe your jangled nerve. He's swingin'!

  Alan Freed : Crazy.

  Chuck Berry : Hey! Entertain Mr. Freed. He might even play your record if you rock him enough.

  Ritchie Valens : [singing]  Well, well, now, now baby, Let's just go all night long, Well, on, on, on, on, darlin', I just want you to go more, There won't be no Tutti Frutti, No, not at all, C'mon baby just, Rock, rock, rock...