Shaw does a music special on Saturdays. Last Saturday she featured Chuck Berry.
Here's a snippet from Wikipedia's article on Chuck Berry.
"Berry lived in Ladue, Missouri, approximately 10 miles (16 km) west of St. Louis. He also had a home at "Berry Park", near Wentzville, Missouri where he lived part-time since the 1950s and was the home in which he died. This home, with the guitar-shaped swimming pool, is seen in scenes near the end of the film Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll. He regularly performed one Wednesday each month at Blueberry Hill, a restaurant and bar located in the Delmar Loop neighborhood of St. Louis, from 1996 to 2014."
Berry Park? Been there. Blueberry Hill? Been there.
When I was going to college in St. Louis I belonged to a local fraternity. (Because I had some friends in it already.) The fraternity held a gathering called "The June Bustout" near the end of the school year. It was an all day affair held at Berry Park. There was a band at night and around midnight Chuck Berry would show up and play a few songs with the band.
Near the end of Berry's career, when he was playing at Blueberry Hill (in the Duck Room downstairs) some of us made sure to get there to see him before he quit performing altogether. He played with his daughter's (Ingrid) group. He had dementia and he could only get through a few songs. She would always finish the show.
Posts
3 comments:
Thanks for sharing your first hand history with us, Mike. I really appreciate it. My husband had Bill Haley and the comets at his high school prom! Eastern Pennsylvania.
Some excellent memories.
Like EC said, excellent memories. Wasn't he the one that did the Twist and The Peppermint Twist?
Post a Comment