Covering the decade from 1955 to 1964, each volume consists of a two-LP set of 24 songs recorded by Berry.

The first volume reached number 72 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart.

[6] The third volume, which included only two hit singles among its tracks, did not chart.

In 1967, Rolling Stone noted that the first volume was "the album you must get" when "looking for the Chuck Berry standards".

This is the track listing as released in the US and most other markets: The UK version of this album switched out 2 of the songs on the final side, and a sticker described the last 5 songs as "previously unreleased.