CBID - The FAST Singles From Belgium

CBID is never complete as new records and CDs appear and some old rarities are discovered. This section presents interesting additions and corrections to CBID.

Today: Chuck Berry singles on FAST, which is from Belgium indeed.

BELGIUM

Refering to pages 393 & 400, plus 2089 & 2094, because when this Fast label first turned up in the late ‘90s, the labels of 1056 and 1068 proclaimed Made In Holland (that’s why it was placed under Netherlands in Vol.1) which it turned out not to be. Information received after the publication of Vol.1 came from a guy in Belgium who said Fast was actually a Belgian label. As far as we know only 3 releases exists.

Let It Rock / Too Pooped To Pop+

Fast 1056 • 1960

Black label with silver print. The A and B sides are switched here as Too Pooped To Pop was the A-side on the original Chess single, however, it really became a double-sider on the Billboard charts.

Bye Bye Johnny / Worried Life Blues+

Fast 1068 • 1960

Black label with silver print. B-side credited to Chuck Berry Music, probably because the original Chess single didn’t have any credit on this track.

Almost Grown / Johnny B. Goode

Fast International 1081 • 1960

This release has blue labels with silver print and has added International. Misspelling of Johnny as "Johny B. Goode". And this label don’t have Made In Holland as printed on the other two.