Bo Diddley (December 30 1928 - June 2 2008, born Ellas Otha Bates), was an original and influential American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was known as The Originator because of his key role in the transition from blues to rock and roll. He introduced more insistent, driving rhythms and a hard-edged guitar sound on a wide-ranging catalog of songs. He was also known for his technical innovations, including his trademark rectangular guitar. (more)
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Hey Bo Diddley:
Hey Bo Diddley is Bo Diddley's 7th single. The B-side "Mona" was covered by The Rolling Stones. Not to be confused with the song "Bo Diddley".
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Bo Diddley (song):
"Bo Diddley" is a rhythm and blues song first recorded and sung by Bo Diddley at the Universal Recording Studio in Chicago and released on the Chess Records subsidiary, Checker Records in 1955. It became an immediate hit single that stayed on the R&B
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Who Do You Love?:
"Who Do You Love?" is a song written by Bo Diddley, (real name Ellas McDaniel) in 1956. The song has been recorded by many other performers since, including The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Band, The Blues Project, The Doors, George Thorogood, Golden Ea
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Bo Diddley (album):
Bo Diddley is the debut album by rock and roll pioneer and blues icon Bo Diddley. It is a compilation of his singles since 1955. It collects several of his most influential and enduring songs. It was released on the Chess label in 1958.
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Not Fade Away (song):
"Not Fade Away" is a song written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty and performed by Holly; the song's rhythm pattern is one of the classic examples of the Bo Diddley beat. Crickets drummer Jerry Allison pounded out the beat on a cardboard box. It was
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I'm a Man (Bo Diddley song):
"I'm a Man" is a popular American song written and released by Bo Diddley in March 1955 on Checker Records as B-side to his hit "Bo Diddley". The writing credit is under Diddley's name Ellas McDaniel). Based on Muddy Waters' 1951 blues song "She Move
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Two Great Guitars:
Two Great Guitars - Bo Diddley & Chuck Berry is a Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry album which was recorded and released in 1964 and is now considered to be one of rock music's earliest "super session" albums. Both men were friends and Chess Records labelm
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Go Bo Diddley:
Go Bo Diddley is the 1959 second album by Bo Diddley.
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Have Guitar Will Travel:
Have Guitar Will Travel is the third album by rock and roll pioneer and blues icon Bo Diddley. It was released on the Checker Records label in 1960.
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Bo Diddley's Beach Party:
Bo Diddley's Beach Party is the eleventh album by rock musician Bo Diddley. Recorded live in concert in July 1963 at the Beach Club in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, it is one of rock music's earliest live remote recordings.
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Alan Freed:
Alan Freed (December 15, 1921 - January 20, 1965), also known as Moondog, was an American disc-jockey who became internationally known for promoting African-American Rhythm and Blues music on the radio in the United States and Europe under the name o
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I Want Candy:
"I Want Candy" is a song written and originally recorded by The Strangeloves in 1965 that went to number 11 in United States. It is a famous example of a song that uses the Bo Diddley beat (see Bo Diddley).
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Love Is Strange:
"Love Is Strange" was a 1957 Top 40 hit for Mickey & Sylvia, originally released on Groove Records, a division of RCA . The song features a sinuous guitar riff and provocative verbal byplay between Mickey and Sylvia as well as a Latin American beat a
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Checker Records:
Checker Records was started in 1952 as a subsidiary of Chess Records. Like Cadet Records it stopped releasing records around 1971. Its most known artists include young Aretha Franklin, Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, J. B. Lenoir, Lowell Fulson, Litt
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Leonard Chess:
Leonard Chess (March 12, 1917 - October 16, 1969) was a record company executive, founder of Chess Records. Chess was influential in the development of electric blues. He was born Lejzor Czyz in a Jewish community in Motal, Poland (but now within Bel
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Juba dance:
The Juba dance or hambone, originally known as Pattin' Juba (Giouba, Haiti: Djouba), is a style of dance that involves stomping as well as slapping and patting the arms, legs, chest, and cheeks. It is similar to clogging and the jig, and "pattin' Jub
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Mickey & Sylvia:
Mickey & Sylvia was an R&B duo composed of Mickey "Guitar" Baker and Sylvia Vanderpool Robinson. They were the first big seller for Groove Records. Mickey was a music instructor and Sylvia one of his pupils. The duo had a Top 20 hit with "Love Is Str
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Bo Knows:
"Bo Knows" was an advertising campaign for Nike cross-training shoes that ran in 1989 and 1990 and featured professional baseball and American football player Bo Jackson. Jackson was the first athlete in the modern era to play professional baseball a
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The Remains:
The Remains were a mid-1960s rock group from Boston, Massachusetts, led by Barry Tashian. They are best known for being one of the opening acts of The Beatles' final US tour in 1966. Although associated with the garage rock scene, the Remains were hi
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(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame:
(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame is a song written written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. It was originally written for Elvis Presley, and he was the first to perform it. The song is one of the 25 songs Pomus and Shuman wrote for Presley. The relat
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