Sweet Little Sixteen is a rock and roll song written and originally performed by Chuck Berry, who released it as a single in January 1958. It reached #2 on the American charts, Berry's highest position ever on the charts, with the exception of the suggestive #1 hit "My Ding-A-Ling" in 1972. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked the song #272 on their list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004.
Its subject is fans of Rock and Roll, and specifically a girl, who has just turned sixteen and who is obsessed with Rock and Roll performers. The song talks about her birthday and how she begs her mom and dad to let her go to a concert. The song describes what she wears - "tight dresses and lipstick; she's sporting high heel shoes". It then goes on to say how "tomorrow morning she'll be sweet sixteen and back in class again".
Rock and roll artist Jerry Lee Lewis also covered this song, a known.
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