Song

Too Much Monkey Business

Release date: 30 November 1994

"Too Much Monkey Business"
Single by Chuck Berry
from the album After School Session
B-side "Brown Eyed Handsome Man"
Released September 1956 (1956-09)
Format 7" 45 RPM, 10" 78 RPM
Recorded April 16, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois
Genre Rhythm and blues, Rock and Roll
Length 2:56
Label Chess 1635
Writer(s) Chuck Berry
Producer Leonard Chess, Phil Chess
Chuck Berry singles chronology
"Roll Over Beethoven"
(May 1956)		 "Too Much Monkey Business"
(September 1956)		 "You Can't Catch Me"
(November 1956)

"Too Much Monkey Business" is a song written and performed by rock and roll pioneer Chuck Berry. It was released as Chuck's fifth single in September 1956 for Chess Records, and appeared as the third track on Chuck's first solo LP, After School Session in May 1957, as well as the EP of the same name. The song reached #4 on Billboard magazine's R&B Singles chart in 1956.

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