Chuck Berry - Anthony Boy

Just for the hell of it, another Chuck Berry song. Again the songwriting is worth noting: like the later "C'est la Vie," which tells a story set in Cajun Louisiana, "Anthony Boy" is set in, and is meant to evoke the flavor of, one of America's ethnic enclaves -- here an Italian-American community in the Northeast. Chuck Berry was and is a sharp-eyed observer of people, and nearly all of his songs are full of telling details about humans and their behavior.