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| | Bo Diddley - The Originator of the Hambone Beat |
 | | Likewise, "Hey Bo Diddley" is based on the folk song, "Old Macdonald". | | | Bo Diddley (born December 30, 1928 in McComb, Mississippi), "The Originator", is an influential American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. | | | Although Bo Diddley was a breakthrough crossover artist with white audiences, appearing on the Alan Freed concerts, for instance, he rarely tailored his compositions to teenaged concerns. |
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http://www.jeffosretromusic.com/diddley.html
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| | Bo Diddley |
| | Bo Diddley had most of his success in the music business on the RandB charts in the 50's and early 60's. | | | Bo Diddley took his name from a one-stringed African guitar, and usually played a guitar with a rectangular box shape. | | | Some of his best work can be found in his more obscure songs from albums that he made in the 50's. |
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| | Behind The Hits: "Bo Diddley" |
| | Bo didn't know anything about recording, but he had a sound in his head that he wanted to recreate, and he told the sound engineer to feed the maracas through an echo chamber. | | | His first instrument wasn't a guitar - it was a violin. | | | Bo agreed, but live on the air that night, he did what he does best: be and sing "Bo Diddley". |
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http://www.bobshannon.com/stories/Bo.html
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| | PopMatters Music Feature Hard Hitting Blues: Ten Reasons Bo Diddley Is the Forgotten Heavyweight Champion of Rock |
| | Bo Diddley is more important than the Stones, more crucial than the Beatles, more fundamental to rock as a lyricist and an instrumentalist and a conceptualist than Elvis Presley or Buddy Holly or Brian Wilson. | | | Both Buddy Holly and the Animals covered "Bo Diddley", which is weird, because you wouldn't think two different guys would have a hit with a song named for its songwriter. | | | It became his signature style due to his use of it in "Bo Diddley", "Who Do You Love", "Cadillac", "Back Home", and other songs, but it seems to come from a deeper place, a more fundamental part of the heart. |
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http://popmatters.com/music/features/020628-blues7.shtml
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| | Bo Diddley |
| | Diddley became known for his pounding signature beat (bom ba-bom bom, bom bom; later an essential component of rock music) and for his guitar effects, jive talk, and strutting onstage style. | | | Diddley, Bo Diddley, Bo, 1928&;, pioneering African-American rock-and-roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter, b. | | | He studied violin, received his first guitar in 1940, and acquired the nickname “Bo Diddley” (probably from the single-stringed folk instrument called a diddley bow). |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0921528.html
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| | Bo Diddley interview |
| | Bo went back to the studio to re-record the two tracks, which came out as a double A-side single “Bo Diddley” b/w ”I’m A Man. | | | Paul McCartney's version of Bo’s “Crackin’ Up” was on his Live In The Soviet Union album. | | | Decades went by and his songs were recorded by The Rolling Stones, The Animals, Manfred Mann, The Kinks, The Yardbirds and many others. |
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http://www.popentertainment.com/bodiddley.htm
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| | Robert's Review of Bo Diddley at Bull Durham Blues Festival |
| | Bo who was one of the founding fathers of rock and roll as well as being an able blues performer still has the voice, the rhytmn, the humor, and the spirit that made his music so recognizable. | | | Bo played his rectangle silver guitar with various effects through classics including Bo Diddley, and Hey Bo Diddley while playing a surprising amount or reggae flavored songs. | | | I haven't heard his recent albums so I was a little out of touch on the range of his music. |
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http://www.rasman.com/reviews/bdiddley.html
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| | Bo Diddley |
| | The song Bo Diddley sang with the Dead is definitely this one, even though the title given on Dick's Picks 30 is "Hey Bo Diddley." The version by the Dead themselves on 23 May 1972 seems to be fragments from both songs, though it too is titled "Hey Bo Diddley" on "Steppin' Out." | | | There's a lot of confusion between this song and Hey Bo Diddley. | | | (2) titled "Hey Bo Diddley" on the album |
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http://www3.clearlight.com/~acsa/songfile/BODIDDLE.HTM
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| | Amazon.com: His Best : The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection: Music: Bo Diddley |
| | Bo Diddley is without a doubt one of the most influential musicians in the history of rock and roll. | | | The royalities from this song alone should have made Bo a rich man. "Roadrunner" is another song which has been covered many times. | | | "Sounds nice," Bo Diddley tongue-in-cheekily observes of his music in "The Story of Bo Diddley," one of three self-named tunes on this 20-track examination of his classic '50s and '60s Checker Records sides. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000005KQK?v=glance
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| | Bo Diddley |
| | Throughout the sixties, Diddley's work was covered by many UK artists, such as the Rolling Stones, the Kinds, Manfred Mann and the Animals. | | | Diddley's career slowed down in the '70s; he released a few unremarkable records, including The Black Gladiator and Where It All Begins. | | | He found his first hit in the ditty "Bo Diddley" in 1955, recorded at Chess studios with Otis Spann and Lester Davenport. |
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http://www.wirthentertainment.com/bo_diddley.htm
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| | The Father Who Knows Best: Bo Diddley Gets Strict |
| | The real testament to the power of Bo's music may be that almost forty years after its release, the self-titled Bo Diddley is still his highest selling release and still his favorite. | | | While Bo Diddley is now trying to avoid breaking something, there is something that Bo Diddley did break and that was the unyielding ground of popular music in the early 1950s. | | | And although Bo admits to recording "quite a few bombs," it is impossible to imagine rock and roll without his signature "chink-a-chink-a-chink, a-chink-chink" sound. |
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http://www.penduluminc.com/MM/articles/diddley.html
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| | Bumbershoot - Bo Diddley |
| | Bo Diddley created a proto-rock n roll with his first Chess Records single "Bo Diddley/I'm A Man." He went on to record the now-household "Who Do You Love?" and "You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover" among many others. | | | Upon hearing John Lee Hooker for the first time, Chicago-bred Bo Diddley ditched his classical violin training in favor of the electric guitar. | | | Aside from his signature hits, Diddley also wrote one of the first commentaries on drug-addiction, "Pills", later covered by the New York Dolls. |
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http://www.bumbershoot.org/lineup/artist/bo-diddley
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| | Bo Diddley |
| | Recordings by Bo Diddley are not easy to find, but the Internet's leading music shop usually has them. | | | The picture at left shows Bo Diddley performing on stage in 1968, still looking pretty much as he did in the wonderful rhythm & blues revues of the fabulous 50s. | | | Clicking on the CD NOW image will take you directly to a list of available Bo Diddley recordings. |
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| | Rolling Stone : 20) Bo Diddley |
| | The Stones covered Bo Diddley, and the Yardbirds did "I'm a Man," and the Pretty Things did his song "Pretty Thing." My band in high school, the Iguanas, did a few of his songs, including "Road Runner," and you can hear a bit of him in the Stooges. | | | People listen to Bo Diddley recordings and think, "Oh, you can just go bonk-de-bonk-bonk, de-bonk-bonk, and you got a Bo Diddley beat." But it isn't that easy. | | | You can be damn well sure that Jack White has studied Bo's records. |
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| | Bo Diddley |
| | His first record was a two-sided No. 1 R&B hit, "Bo Diddley/I'm a Man," both of which had the trademark Bo Diddley back beat and call-and-response pattern. | | | In the meantime, he continues to tour extensively and has a new album on Triple X Records due in the fall. | | | Born Otha Ellas Bates McDaniel on Dec. 30, 1928, in McComb, Miss., Diddley moved to Chicago at age 7 and studied the violin before discovering the guitar, which his mother called "the devil's music." |
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| | Ink 19 :: Bo Diddley |
| | The naturally musically inclined young Bo absorbed this music, and after a short career as a Golden Gloves boxer, he began playing guitar on street corners. | | | The Stones and the Animals covered a number of Bo's tunes, and the Pretty Things took their name from an early Bo song. | | | Everyone from Buddy Holly to the Clash to Bruce Springsteen has incorporated the "Bo Diddley Beat," which is as recognizable as Chuck Berry's signature opening guitar lick. |
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| | Bo Diddley Master Blues Artist Exhibit Page Blues Hall of Fame ® |
| | At the turn of the century, his 1955 debut recording of his song "Bo Diddley" was nominated as one of the 365 songs of the century, named as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of | | | That award is inscribed with the following few simple words that succinctly validate Bo Diddley's contribution to popular music: "In recognition of your unique and indelible influence on generations of music makers". | | | 1955 AD Bo Diddley records his debut hit "Bo Diddley"/"I'm A Man" (Checker 814). |
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| | Bo Diddley Disses Rap. MetaFilter |
| | Bo only made a comment about lyrical content, about "what he's hearing," and didn't say anything about the entire genre except what the journalist indirectly attributed to him. | | | March 2, 2003 8:47 PM Bo Diddley is no fan of rap music. | | | That said, an AP analysis of what Bo Diddley says about rap is three degrees removed from anything important (with all due respect to the AP, Bo Diddley, and rap). |
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| | Mona - streaming audio, new rock and roll version of an old Bo Diddley song. |
| | The legendary Bo Diddley (down on both knees in the prayer position) invented the "Bo Diddley" beat, the weird shaped guitars, and as far as I know is the only songwriter ever to write a hit song with his own name as the title. | | | I performed Bo's song countless times in many different bands but I had no plan to record it. | | | Mona - streaming audio, new rock and roll version of an old Bo Diddley song. |
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| | Bo Diddley -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | In fact a new generation of artists profoundly reinterpreted the sounds of the rhythm-and-blues pioneers of the 1950s—Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Sam Cooke, and Ray Charles—whose music... | | | There is also information on his longtime collaborator Lady Bo and a list of other contributing musicians, along with the story on Diddley's unique square guitars. | | | Includes a biography and career overview, discography, audio clips, and a list of film, television, and music video appearances. |
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| | Bo Diddley Laid Up - Oct 22, 2004 - E! Online News |
| | Diddley rep Robert Rowland said the singer would be back in action for his Saturday night performance in Connecticut, as well as for a Halloween concert in Texas. | | | He was a frequent fixture on the R&B charts in the '50s, '60s and '70s with modestly titled tunes like "Bo Diddley," "Hey! | | | He has served as inspiration to rock 'n' rollers from Buddy Holly and the Rolling Stones to U2 and George Michael and has been covered by the likes of the Yardbirds ("I'm a Man") and George Thorogood ("Who Do You Love?"). |
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| | Hey Bo Diddley: A Tribute! CD Review |
| | A number of years ago, in a conversation with Phil and Don Everly, Don said, the first time he heard Bo was at a friends house, and it completely changed his life-check out the rhythmic power E chords the Everly's use and you're listening to Bo Diddley. | | | Taj Mahal starts things rolling with "Bo Diddley." Taj simply re-creates the song with his own special attack. | | | I can't think of one rocker or bluester in the business that hasn't borrowed from Bo Diddley, including myself. |
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| | Bo Diddley : The EP Collection - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect |
| | This superior 22-track album collects material originally released on Bo Diddley's British EPs. | | | Bo Diddley : The EP Collection - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect | | | Apart from functioning handily as a better-than-average greatest-hits collection, this album includes several rarely-heard tracks such as "Bo Meets the Monster," "Rooster Stew," "Bo's a Lumberjack," "Hong Kong, Mississippi," and "Put the Shoes on Willie." ~ Roundup Newsletter, All Music Guide |
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| | The Bo Diddley Chat |
| | Enorman: i have seen Bo in concert and he is electric with a big E | | | BoDiddley: The original lyrics to 'Bo Diddley' 'Uncle John' will be released | | | Nightrain: 1955 Checker Records release BO'S first record "Bo Diddley"/"I'm A Man". |
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| | Tower Records - His Best - Bo Diddley |
| | Outside of purchasing Bo's key studio albums, or shelling out for the comprehensive box set, HIS BEST is the Bo Diddley disc to have, since it covers all of his essential hits, from "Roadrunner" to "I'm a Man" to "Hey! | | | Also here, of course, are the infectious, hugely influential Bo Didley beat, the rumbling, ch-chinking guitar, Bo's neo-blues wails and self-mythologizing lyrics, and everything else that makes this music some of the absolute best and most important in the chapters of early rock & roll. | | | Personnel: Bo Diddley (vocals, guitar, violin); Jerome Green (vocals, maracas); Peggy Jones (guitar, background vocals); Jody Williams, Ricky Jolivet (guitar); Edward Drennon (electric violin); Billy Boy Arnold, Little Walter, Lester Davenport (harmonica); Otis Spann, Lafayette Leake (piano); |
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| | Bo Diddley |
| | The 3-piece rock maple neck has an ebonized rosewood fingerboard with "dot" pearl inlays, a 1957 style headstock, and a special Bo Diddley signature on the truss rod cover. | | | The G6138 is a faithful reproduction of the famous rectangle-shaped guitar Gretsch built for Bo back in 1958. | | | For five decades, Bo Diddley has been turning heads with his great chops, incredible showmanship and outrageous guitars. |
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| | Bo Diddley Albums |
| | Albums recorded by Bo Diddley, including release dates and current CD availability. | | | If you came straight to this page, click on the button below to explore the rest of this site: there are album lists for over 800 artists, links to a wide range of music-related sites (magazines, record companies, shops and equipment manufacturers for example) and HiFi-related sites (mainly manufacturers). | | | You Can't Judge A Book By Looking At The Cover |
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| | According to Jim: Bo Diddley - TV.com |
| | Coincidentally, tickets for Bo Diddley's concert arrive at the house, but Jim wonders if that's some of Cheryl's tests. | | | They have a fight and the next day Cheryl goes out to the movies, leaving Jim in charge of the kids. | | | While Cheryl is sedated, Andy shows up saying he met blues legend Bo Diddley and Jim decides to meet him too, leaving Cheryl unattended. |
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| | Bo Diddley Music |
| | Big Bad Bo 20th Anniversary Of Rock 'n' Roll | | | Help build the largest human-contributed music project online | | | Music »; Bands and Artists » D » Diddley, Bo |
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| | Bo Diddley MP3 Downloads - Bo Diddley Music Downloads - Bo Diddley Music Videos |
| | Bo Diddley MP3 Downloads - Bo Diddley Music Downloads - Bo Diddley Music Videos | | | He only had a few hits in the 1950s and early '60s, but as Bo Diddley sang, "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover." You can't judge an artist by his chart success, either, and Diddley produced greater and more influential music than all but a handful of the... | | | Bluesman Bo Diddley Cancels Concert Oct 21, 2004 |
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| | Gainesville.com The Gainesville Sun Gainesville, Fla. |
| | "I would love to do this because I love all my fans, with them waving and I'm waving back," Diddley said. | | | Local music legend Bo Diddley rearranged his schedule so he could once again be part of the University of Florida's Homecoming parade, only to be told he will not be welcome to ride in Friday's procession. | | | Diddley rode last year in a 1927 Mercedes Roadster owned by his dentist, Dr. Bruce Larrick, who was aghast that the rock 'n' roll icon is being kept out of this year's parade. |
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| | Bo Diddley Lyrics |
| | Song Lyrics » B » Bo Diddley Songs | | | I Just Want To Make Love To You | | | Bo Diddley / Go Bo Diddley - 10-20-2005 |
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| | "Billy-Bo" Jupiter Thunderbird |
| | It was during the recent ZZ Top recordings when the engineering crew and I snaked through the guitar vault searching for that 'certain-something' guitar and there it was! | | | "Some time ago, Bo gave me the guitar as a gift. | | | Designed in '59 from Bo Diddley's talented hand...! |
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| | Drum Lessons Database: Bo Diddley Beat |
| | A good number of his songs incorporated this jungle-like rhythm and helped distinguish his sound | | | Once a drummer or percussionist perfects the single drag in the first measure... | | | Others play it as a rudimental snare groove (New Orleans style) and still others play |
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| | Bo Diddley |
| | Bo was first and foremost a "show dog," and shared some of his most glorious wins with his best buddy and comrade-in-arms, Kimberlie Steele. | | | Bo achieved his ABC Sire of Merit status in 2001, and is also a producer of producers...1 ABC DOM and 1 ABC SOM. | | | Bo is the sire of 8 Champions, including one ABC Dam of Merit and one ABC Sire of Merit. |
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| | Bo Diddley |
| | Bo Diddley: I Don't Sound Like Nobody (1987) (TV).... | | | Celebrate 50 years of the Bo Diddley beat! | | | Find where Bo Diddley is credited alongside another name |
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| | USATODAY.com - Bluesman Bo Diddley cancels concert |
| | GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Bluesman Bo Diddley canceled a concert in California because he needs more time to recover from a toe amputation. | | | Diddley, whose real name is Ellas Bates McDaniel, was hospitalized for a few nights while doctors made sure they wouldn't have to amputate his foot, Free told The Gainesville Sun. | | | Diddley popularized rhythm 'n' blues in the 1950s with hits including Bo Diddley and Mona. |
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| | Diddley, Bo - |
| | Diddley, Bo Diddley (a nickname he acquired in his high school days) was born Otha Ellas Bates in Mississippi. | | | He was adopted, along with three cousins, by his mother's cousin and her partner. | | | By using it you agree to the terms of service, including jurisdiction and limitation of liability provisions. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Essential Bo Diddley: Music |
| | It includes virtually all of the must-have classics (with the exception of "Crackin' Up", unfortunately), but the Chess disc has better liner notes, and some of the new Chess masters have a few extra seconds (or more) appended to the fades, which gives it a slight edge over this otherwise excellent collection. | | | Spectrum's "The Essential Bo Diddley" is really the only single-disc compilation which can compete with MCA/Chess' "His Best". | | | Top of Page : The Essential Bo Diddley |
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| | Bo Jackson BO KNOWS DIDDLEY Poster - Nike 1990 |
| | All images contained on this site are property of their respective rights holders, and may not be copied or reproduced without expressed written consent. | | | This Nike classic features the famous Bo-Bo jam session, direct from a 1990 commercial shoot. | | | Sorry, this poster is now completely sold out. |
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| | BoDiddley's Deli |
| | To get on the mailing list (e-mail or regular) send me an Email: Mailing List | | | For TICKETS call Bo Diddley's Deli (visa/mc) 255-9811 or in person at the downtown Bo's. |
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