Soul R&B singles on the Chess_ label...

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#		Artist (click for discography and biography of artist)	Title (click song title to play it, read lyrics etc.)	Year	Label
1	recordlabel: Chess 1653 chartposition: RandB #1, US #3, UK #24 weeksinr&bchart: 15 writtenby: Chuck Berry album: After School Session	Chuck Berry	School Day	1957	Chess
2	recordlabel: Chess 1581 chartposition: RandB #1, US #20 weeksinr&bchart: 20 writtenby: Harvey Fuqua, Alan Freed	The Moonglows	Sincerely	1956	Chess
3	recordlabel: Chess 1654 chartposition: RandB #3, US #8 weeksinr&bchart: 16 writtenby: Rex Garvin	Johnnie & Joe	Over the Mountain, Across the Sea	1957	Chess
4	recordlabel: Chess 1671 chartposition: RandB #6, US #8 writtenby: Chuck Berry album: One Dozen Berrys	Chuck Berry	Rock and Roll Music	1957	Chess
5	recordlabel: Chess 1966 chartposition: RandB #7, US #10, UK #39 writtenby: George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin & DuBose Heyward album: Unbelievable / Billy Stewart Remembered	Billy Stewart	Summertime	1966	Chess
6	recordlabel: Chess 1898 chartposition: RandB #2 (1 week), US #10, UK #3 weeksinr&bchart: 14 writtenby: Chuck Berry album: St. Louis To Liverpool	Chuck Berry	No Particular Place To Go	1964	Chess
7	recordlabel: Chess 1683 chartposition: RandB #1, US #2, UK #16 weeksinr&bchart: 11 writtenby: Chuck Berry album: One Dozen Berrys comments: [Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #272]	Chuck Berry	Sweet Little Sixteen	1958	Chess
8	recordlabel: Chess 1903 chartposition: RandB #4, US #11 writtenby: Wilford McKinley & Carl Smith (as Carl William Smith) album: Full Bloom comments: [northern soul]	Jackie Ross	Selfish One	1964	Chess
9	recordlabel: Chess 2049 chartposition: RandB #4, US #19, UK #19 writtenby: Bob Astor, Pigmeat Markham (as Dewey Markham), Dick Allen & Sarah Harvey comments: [southern soul novelty]	Pigmeat Markham	Here Comes the Judge	1968	Chess
10	recordlabel: Chess 1883 chartposition: RandB #7, US #23, UK #27 writtenby: Chuck Berry	Chuck Berry	Nadine (Is It You)	1964	Chess
11	recordlabel: Chess 1760 chartposition: RandB #6, US #52 weeksinr&bchart: 10 writtenby: Etta James and Harvey Fuqua	Etta James & Harvey	If I Can't Have You	1960	Chess
12	recordlabel: Chess 1845 chartposition: RandB #8, US #14 weeksinr&bchart: 11 writtenby: Curtis Mayfield	Jan Bradley	Mama Didn't Lie	1963	Chess
13	recordlabel: Chess 124 chartposition: RandB #9, US #10 writtenby: David Clowney album: Rinky Dink comments: [instrumental]	Dave Baby Cortez	Rinky Dink	1962	Chess
14	recordlabel: Chess 1932 chartposition: RandB #4, US #24 writtenby: Billy Stewart album: I Do Love You / Billy Stewart Remembered	Billy Stewart	Sitting in the Park	1965	Chess
15	recordlabel: Chess 1922 chartposition: RandB #6, US #26 writtenby: Billy Stewart album: I Do Love You / Billy Stewart Remembered comments: [beat ballad]	Billy Stewart	I Do Love You	1965	Chess
16	recordlabel: Chess 1978 chartposition: RandB #11, US #29 writtenby: Sammy Fain & Paul Francis Webster album: Billy Stewart Remembered / Teaches Old Standards New Tricks	Billy Stewart	Secret Love	1966	Chess
17	recordlabel: Chess 1691 chartposition: RandB #2, US #8 weeksinr&bchart: 12 writtenby: Chuck Berry album: Chuck Berry Is on Top comments: [Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #7]	Chuck Berry	Johnny B. Goode	1958	Chess
18	recordlabel: Chess 1916 chartposition: RandB #16, US #41, UK #26 writtenby: Chuck Berry album: St. Louis To Liverpool	Chuck Berry	Promised Land	1964	Chess
19	recordlabel: Chess 1924 chartposition: RandB #10, US #31 writtenby: Tony Clarke comments: [pop soul]	Tony Clarke	The Entertainer	1965	Chess
20	recordlabel: Chess 1907 chartposition: RandB #3, US #41 writtenby: Billy Davis [Roquel Davis] & Leonard Caston album: Shades of a Genius comments: [ballad]	Mitty Collier	I Had A Talk With My Man	1964	Chess
21	recordlabel: Chess 1626 chartposition: RandB #2, US #29 weeksinr&bchart: 7 writtenby: Chuck Berry album: Rock, Rock, Rock OST comments: [Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #97]	Chuck Berry	Roll Over Beethoven	1956	Chess
22	recordlabel: Chess 2158 chartposition: RandB #31, US #85, UK #51, US dance #1 writtenby: Big Al Downing, Lance Quinn & Andrew Smith	Al Downing	I'll Be Holding On	1974	Chess
23	recordlabel: Chess 1629 chartposition: RandB #6 US #25 weeksinr&bchart: 7 writtenby: Billy Davis [Roquel Davis], Harry Pratt and Charles Sutton	The Moonglows	See Saw	1956	Chess
24	recordlabel: Chess 1675 chartposition: RandB #4, US #20 weeksinr&bchart: 6 writtenby: Edwin Charles, Helen Stanley, Barry Golder and Roy Calhoun comments: [ballad]	Lee Andrews & the Hearts	Tear Drops	1957	Chess
25	recordlabel: Chess 1661 chartposition: RandB #5, US #73 weeksinr&bchart: 6 writtenby: Percy Mayfield comments: [ballad]	The Moonglows	Please Send Me Someone to Love	1957	Chess
26	recordlabel: Chess 1705 chartposition: RandB #9, US #22 weeksinr&bchart: 9 writtenby: Marshall Paul album: Look! It's The Moonglows comments: [love ballad]	Harvey & The Moonglows	Ten Commandments of Love	1958	Chess
27	recordlabel: Chess 1722 chartposition: RandB #3, US #32 weeksinr&bchart: 13 writtenby: Chuck Berry album: Chuck Berry Is on Top	Chuck Berry	Almost Grown	1959	Chess
28	recordlabel: Chess 2131 chartposition: RandB #42, UK #1, US #1 writtenby: Chuck Berry album: The London Chuck Berry Sessions	Chuck Berry	My Ding-a-Ling	1972	Chess
29	recordlabel: Chess 1760 chartposition: RandB #6, US #52 writtenby: Etta James and Harvey Fuqua	Etta James & Harvey Fuqua	If I Can't Have You	1960	Chess
30	recordlabel: Chess 1700 chartposition: RandB #9, US #18 weeksinr&bchart: 8 writtenby: Chuck Berry Is on Top	Chuck Berry	Carol	1958	Chess
31	recordlabel: Chess 1635 chartposition: RandB #4 weeksinr&bchart: 6 writtenby: Chuck Berry album: After School Session	Chuck Berry	Too Much Monkey Business	1956	Chess
32	recordlabel: Chess 1904 chartposition: RandB #10, US #51 writtenby: Maurice McAlister and Gerald Sims	The Radiants	Voice Your Choice	1964	Chess
33	recordlabel: Chess 1635 chartposition: RandB #5 weeksinr&bchart: 8 writtenby: Chuck Berry album: After School Session comments: B side to "Too Much Monkey Business" in the US	Chuck Berry	Brown Eyed Handsome Man	1956	Chess
34	recordlabel: Chess 1665 chartposition: RandB #11, US #45 weeksinr&bchart: 5 writtenby: Jerry Abbott, Lee Andrews, Doug Henderson and Mimi Uniman comments: [ballad] First released on Main Line 102 in 1957	Lee Andrews & the Hearts	Long Lonely Nights	1957	Chess
35	recordlabel: Chess 2160 chartposition: RandB #42, US #39, US Dance #5 writtenby: Jimmy Ruffin album: Jimmy Ruffin	Jimmy Ruffin	Tell Me What You Want	1974	Chess
36	recordlabel: Chess 1953 chartposition: RandB #10, US #97 writtenby: Ronald Saunders	Mitty Collier	Sharing You	1966	Chess
37	recordlabel: Chess 1664 chartposition: RandB #12, US #57 weeksinr&bchart: 1 writtenby: Chuck Berry album: One Dozen Berrys	Chuck Berry	Oh! Baby Doll	1957	Chess
38	recordlabel: Chess 1709 chartposition: RandB #13, US #47 weeksinr&bchart: 3 writtenby: Chuck Berry album: Chuck Berry Is on Top	Chuck Berry	Sweet Little Rock and Roller	1958	Chess
39	recordlabel: Chess 1612 chartposition: RandB #7 writtenby: Muddy Waters (as McKinley Morganfield) album: Trouble No More (Singles 1955 1959) comments: [blues]	Muddy Waters	Trouble, No More	1956	Chess
40	recordlabel: Chess 1620 chartposition: RandB #7 writtenby: Bernie Roth (as Bernard Roth) comments: [blues]	Muddy Waters	Forty Days and Forty Nights	1956	Chess
41	recordlabel: Chess 1963 chartposition: Cashbox RandB #7 writtenby: C. Berry	Chuck Berry	Havana Moon	1966	Chess
42	recordlabel: Chess 1906 chartposition: US #14, UK #23 writtenby: Chuck Berry album: St. Louis To Liverpool	Chuck Berry	You Never Can Tell	1964	Chess
43	recordlabel: Chess 1729 chartposition: RandB #16, US #37 weeksinr&bchart: 8 writtenby: Chuck Berry album: Twist	Chuck Berry	Back in the U.S.A.	1959	Chess
44	recordlabel: Chess 1771 chartposition: RandB #12, US #78 writtenby: Willie Dixon	Etta James & Harvey Fuqua	Spoonful	1960	Chess
45	recordlabel: Chess 2013 chartposition: RandB #13, US #68 writtenby: Robert Miller	Laura Lee	Dirty Man	1967	Chess
46	recordlabel: Chess 1618 chartposition: RandB #8 weeksinr&bchart: 3 writtenby: Burnett album: Moanin' In The Moonlight comments: [Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #285]	Howlin Wolf	Smoke Stack Lightning	1956	Chess
47	recordlabel: Chess 1615 chartposition: RandB #8 weeksinr&bchart: 5 writtenby: Chuck Berry album: After School Session	Chuck Berry	No Money Down	1956	Chess
48	recordlabel: Chess 2136 chartposition: Cashbox R&B #19, US #27, UK #18 writtenby: Chuck Berry album: The London Chuck Berry Sessions	Chuck Berry	Reelin' and Rockin'	1972	Chess
49	recordlabel: Chess 1630 chartposition: RandB #9 writtenby: Willie Dixon comments: [blues]	Muddy Waters	Don't Go No Farther	1956	Chess
50	recordlabel: Chess 109 chartposition: RandB #9 weeksinr&bchart: 2 writtenby: Dave Crawford	The Moonglows	We Go Together	1956	Chess
51	recordlabel: Chess 1704 chartposition: RandB #9 writtenby: Willie Dixon comments: [blues]	Muddy Waters	Close to You	1958	Chess
52	recordlabel: Chess 1632 chartposition: RandB #8 weeksinr&bchart: 1 writtenby: Howlin' Wolf (as Chester Burnett) album: Moanin' In The Moonlight comments: [blues]	Howlin Wolf	I Asked For Water	1956	Chess
53	recordlabel: Chess 1641 chartposition: RandB #10 weeksinr&bchart: 1 writtenby: Rex Garvin comments: [ballad]	Johnnie & Joe	I'll Be Spinning	1957	Chess
54	recordlabel: Chess 1925 chartposition: RandB #14, US #91 writtenby: Gerald Sims	The Radiants	It Ain't No Big Thing	1965	Chess
55	recordlabel: Chess 1628 chartposition: RandB #11 weeksinr&bchart: 3 writtenby: P. Gayten	Bobby Charles	Only Time Will Tell	1956	Chess
56	recordlabel: Chess 2030 chartposition: RandB #16, US #93 writtenby: Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham (as Lindon Oldham)	Laura Lee	Up Tight, Good Man	1967	Chess
57	recordlabel: Chess 1812 chartposition: RandB #12 weeksinr&bchart: 6 writtenby: Buddy Guy	Buddy Guy	Stone Crazy	1962	Chess
58	recordlabel: Chess 1714 chartposition: UK #36, US #69 writtenby: Johnny Marks and Marvin Brodie comments: US B side to "Merry Christmas Baby" in the US	Chuck Berry	Run Rudolph Run	1958	Chess
59	recordlabel: Chess 1609 chartposition: RandB #14 weeksinr&bchart: 1 writtenby: Bobby Charles (as Robert Guidry)	Bobby Charles	Later Alligator	1956	Chess
60	recordlabel: Chess 1643 chartposition: RandB #14 weeksinr&bchart: 1 writtenby: Jimmy Rogers	Jimmy Rogers	Walking by Myself	1957	Chess
61	recordlabel: Chess 1820 chartposition: RandB #18, US #79 writtenby: Billy Stewart album: I Do Love You / Billy Stewart Remembered	Billy Stewart	Reap What You Sow	1962	Chess
62	recordlabel: Chess 2159 chartposition: RandB #19, US #96 writtenby: Solomon Burke and Jerry Styner	Solomon Burke	You and Your Baby Blues	1975	Chess
63	recordlabel: Chess 1654 chartposition: RandB #15 weeksinr&bchart: 1 writtenby: Rex Garvin	Johnnie & Joe	My Baby's Gone, On, On	1957	Chess
64	recordlabel: Chess 1941 chartposition: Cashbox R&B #21, US #97 writtenby: Billy Stewart	Billy Stewart	How Nice It Is	1965	Chess
65	recordlabel: Chess 1747 chartposition: RandB #18, US #42 writtenby: Chuck Berry album: Rockin' at the Hops	Chuck Berry	Too Pooped to Pop (Casey)	1960	Chess
66	recordlabel: Chess 1954 chartposition: Cashbox RandB #19 writtenby: Ashford, Simpson, Armstead	Maurice & the Radiants	I Want To Thank You Baby	1966	Chess
67	recordlabel: Chess 1871 chartposition: RandB #20 writtenby: A. Smith and Clay Hammond	Mitty Collier	I'm Your Part Time Love	1963	Chess
68	recordlabel: Chess 1919 chartposition: RandB #24, US #93 weeksinr&bchart: 10 writtenby: Jan Bradley, Don Tally	Jan Bradley	I'm Over You	1965	Chess
69	recordlabel: Chess 1716 chartposition: US #60 writtenby: Chuck Berry album: Chuck Berry Is on Top	Chuck Berry	Anthony Boy	1959	Chess
70	recordlabel: Chess 2037 chartposition: RandB #35, US #68 writtenby: Leonard Caston and Andrew Lloyd Webber (as Lloyd Webber)	The Radiants	Hold On	1968	Chess
71	recordlabel: Chess 1918 chartposition: RandB #26, US #91 writtenby: Billy Davis [Roquel Davis] and Leonard Caston album: Shades of a Genius	Mitty Collier	No Faith, No Love	1965	Chess
72	recordlabel: Chess 1714 chartposition: US #71 writtenby: Lou Baxter and Johnny Moore comments: [christmas]	Chuck Berry	Merry Christmas Baby	1958	Chess
73	recordlabel: Chess 1868 chartposition: RandB #25, US #70 writtenby: Billy Stewart album: I Do Love You / Billy Stewart Remembered	Billy Stewart	Strange Feeling	1963	Chess
74	recordlabel: Chess 1991 chartposition: RandB #41, US #74 writtenby: Peter	Billy Stewart	Every Day I Have the Blues	1967	Chess
75	recordlabel: Chess 2144 chartposition: RandB #29, US #101 writtenby: C. C. Williamson, Trevor Lawrence and Gabriel Mekler album: Etta James	Etta James	All the Way Down	1973	Chess
76	recordlabel: Chess 1926 chartposition: Cashbox R&B #29, US #95 writtenby: Chuck Berry	Chuck Berry	Dear Dad	1965	Chess
77	recordlabel: Chess 1861 chartposition: US #76 writtenby: Dave Baby Cortez and Julia Clowney	Dave Baby Cortez	Organ Shout	1963	Chess
78	recordlabel: Chess 1722 chartposition: Cashbox R&B #39, US #80 writtenby: Chuck Berry album: Chuck Berry Is on Top comments: US B side to	Chuck Berry	Little Queenie	1959	Chess
79	recordlabel: Chess 1743 chartposition: RandB #26 writtenby: Berry Gordy, Roquel Davis and Gwen Gordy	The Falcons	Just for Your Love	1959	Chess
80	recordlabel: Chess 1787 chartposition: RandB #26 weeksinr&bchart: 3 writtenby: William Davis and Viola Watkins	The Hollywood Flames	Gee	1961	Chess
81	recordlabel: Chess 2125 chartposition: RandB #31, US #108 writtenby: Wilson Pickett, Willie Schofield and Robert West	Etta James	I Found a Love	1972	Chess
82	recordlabel: Chess 1709 chartposition: US #83 writtenby: Chuck Berry album: Chuck Berry Is on Top comments: US B side to "Sweet Little Rock and Roller" in the US	Chuck Berry	Jo Jo Gunne	1958	Chess
83	recordlabel: Chess 1697 chartposition: US #81 writtenby: Chuck Berry	Chuck Berry	Beautiful Delilah	1958	Chess
84	recordlabel: Chess 1920 chartposition: RandB #38, US #85 writtenby: Carl Smith, Billy Davis [Roquel Davis] and Ronald Ellison	Jackie Ross	Jerk and Twine	1965	Chess
85	recordlabel: Chess 2041 chartposition: RandB #31, US #123 writtenby: Gene Barge and Laura Lee	Laura Lee	As Long As I Got You	1968	Chess
86	recordlabel: Chess 2030 chartposition: Cashbox R&B #40, US #84 writtenby: Leonard Caston and Andrew Lloyd Webber	Laura Lee	Wanted Lover, No Experience Necessary	1967	Chess
87	recordlabel: Chess 2002 chartposition: RandB #34, US #86 writtenby: Sidney Pinchback, Dave Henderson and Warren Haygood album: Billy Stewart Remembered	Billy Stewart	Cross My Heart	1967	Chess
88	recordlabel: Chess 6145 037 chartposition: US #87 writtenby: Willie Schofield album: The Mighty Mighty Dells	The Dells	Bring Back the Love of Yesterday	1974	Chess
89	recordlabel: Chess 1913 chartposition: RandB #46, US #89 writtenby: Carl Smith, Billy Davis [Roquel Davis] and Wilfred McKinley album: In Full Bloom	Jackie Ross	I've Got the Skill	1964	Chess
90	recordlabel: Chess 1912 chartposition: RandB #30, US #54 writtenby: Chuck Berry album: St. Louis To Liverpool	Chuck Berry	Little Marie	1964	Chess
91	recordlabel: Chess 1850 chartposition: US #91 writtenby: David Clowney and Reggie Hall	Dave Baby Cortez	Hot Cakes (1st Serving)	1963	Chess
92	recordlabel: Chess 1734 chartposition: US #93 writtenby: Berry Gordy (as Berry Gordy Jr.) and Smokey Robinson	Smokey Robinson & The Miracles	Bad Girl	1959	Chess
93	recordlabel: Chess 1848 chartposition: US #94 writtenby: Joe Thomas [bluesman] and Howard Biggs	Cookie & His Cupcakes	Got You On My Mind	1963	Chess
94	recordlabel: Chess 1713 chartposition: Cashbox RandB #32 writtenby: H. Fuqua comments: (Harvey Fuqua of The Moonglows)	Harvey	I Want Somebody	1959	Chess
95	recordlabel: Chess 1948 chartposition: Cashbox R&B #41, US #96 writtenby: Raynard Miner, Carl Smith and Billy Davis comments: B side to Mountain Of Love	Billy Stewart	Because I Love You	1966	Chess
96	recordlabel: Chess 1747 chartposition: US #64 writtenby: Chuck Berry album: Rockin' at the Hops	Chuck Berry	Let It Rock	1960	Chess
97	recordlabel: Chess 1834 chartposition: Cashbox RandB #32 writtenby: D. Clowney comments: [instrumental]	Dave Baby Cortez	Happy Weekend	1962	Chess
98	recordlabel: Chess 1896 chartposition: RandB #39, US #99 weeksinr&bchart: 5 writtenby: Clarence Ashe comments: [spoken] originally released on JandS 1466 in 1964	Clarence Ashe	Trouble I've Had	1964	Chess
99	recordlabel: Chess 1832 chartposition: Cashbox R&B #46, US #100 writtenby: Maurice McAlister and Larry Jackson	The Radiants	Father Knows Best	1962	Chess
100	recordlabel: Chess 1948 chartposition: US #100 writtenby: Harold Dorman	Billy Stewart	Mountain of Love	1966	Chess

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