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Diddley Daddy

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"Diddley Daddy" is a song by Bo Diddley. [1]

52 relations: Backing vocalist, Billboard (magazine), Billy Boy Arnold, Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley (song), Brian Jones, Checker Records, Chess Records, Chicago, Chicago Sun-Times, Chris Isaak, Doo-wop, Drum kit, England, Greatest hits album, Harmonica, Harvey Fuqua, Heart Shaped World (Chris Isaak album), His Best (Bo Diddley album), Illinois, Jann Wenner, Lead guitar, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Living Blues, Los Angeles Times, Maraca, MCA Records, Phil Chess, Phonograph record, Pretty Thing, Pretty Things, Rhythm and blues, Road Runner (Bo Diddley song), Rolling Stone, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Singing, Single (music), Stuart Colman, The Daily Telegraph, The Liverbirds, The Moonglows, The Observer, The Rolling Stones, The Standard (Hong Kong), The Washington Times, Tom Petty, United States, Val Wilmer, Vee-Jay Records, ..., You Don't Love Me (Willie Cobbs song), 19th Nervous Breakdown. Expand index (2 more) »

Backing vocalist

Backing vocalists are singers who provide vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billy Boy Arnold

William "Billy Boy" Arnold (born September 16, 1935, Chicago, Illinois) is an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter.

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Bo Diddley

Ellas McDaniel (born Ellas Otha Bates, December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known as Bo Diddley, was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter and music producer who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll.

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Bo Diddley (song)

"Bo Diddley" is a rhythm and blues and rock and roll 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.

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Brian Jones

Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969) was an English musician, best known as founder and the original leader of the Rolling Stones.

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Checker Records

Checker Records is an inactive record label that was started in 1952 as a subsidiary of Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois.

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Chess Records

Chess Records was an American record company, founded in 1950 in Chicago and specializing in blues and rhythm and blues.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Chris Isaak

Christopher Joseph Isaak (born June 26, 1956) is an American rock musician and occasional actor.

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Doo-wop

Doo-wop is a genre of rhythm and blues music that was developed in African-American communities in the East Coast of the United States in the 1940s, achieving mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Greatest hits album

A greatest hits album, sometimes called a "best of" album or a catalog album, is a compilation of songs by a particular artist or band.

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Harmonica

The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock and roll.

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Harvey Fuqua

Harvey Fuqua (July 27, 1929 – July 6, 2010) was an American rhythm-and-blues singer, songwriter, record producer, and record label executive.

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Heart Shaped World (Chris Isaak album)

Heart Shaped World is the third album by Chris Isaak.

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His Best (Bo Diddley album)

His Best is a 1997 greatest hits compilation album by American rock and roll icon Bo Diddley released by Chess and MCA Records on April 8, 1997 (see 1997 in music).

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Jann Wenner

Jann Simon Wenner (born January 7, 1946) is the co-founder and publisher of the popular culture biweekly magazine Rolling Stone, and former owner of Men's Journal magazine.

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Lead guitar

Lead guitar is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure.

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Leonard Chess

Leonard Chess (March 12, 1917 – October 16, 1969) was an American record company executive and the co-founder of Chess Records.

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Little Walter

Marion Walter Jacobs (May 1, 1930 – February 15, 1968), known as Little Walter, was an American blues musician, singer, and songwriter, whose revolutionary approach to the harmonica and impact on succeeding generations earned comparisons for him to such seminal artists as Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix.

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Living Blues

Living Blues: The Magazine of the African American Blues Tradition is a bi-monthly magazine focused on blues music, and America's oldest blues periodical.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Maraca

Maraca, sometimes called rumba shaker, shac-shac, and various other names, is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music.

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MCA Records

MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group (now Universal Music Group), which the label was part of until its dissolution in 2003.

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Phil Chess

Philip Chess (born Fiszel Czyż; March 27, 1921 – October 18, 2016) was an American record producer and company executive, the co-founder with his brother of Chess Records.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Pretty Thing

"Pretty Thing" is a 1955 song written by Chess Records bassist-songwriter Willie Dixon and originally performed by Bo Diddley.

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Pretty Things

The Pretty Things are an English rock band, formed in 1963 in London.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Road Runner (Bo Diddley song)

"Road Runner" is a 12-bar blues song performed by American rock and roll performer Bo Diddley, originally released as a single by Checker Records in January 1960, and later released on the LP record Bo Diddley in the Spotlight.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (popularly known as the Seattle P-I, the Post-Intelligencer, or simply the P-I) is an online newspaper and former print newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Single (music)

In music, a single, record single or music single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record.

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Stuart Colman

Ian Stuart Colman (19 December 1944 – 19 April 2018) was an English musician, record producer and broadcaster.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Liverbirds

The Liverbirds were a British all-female beat group, based in Liverpool, active between 1963 and 1968.

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The Moonglows

The Moonglows were an American R&B group in the 1950s.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London, England, in 1962.

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The Standard (Hong Kong)

The Standard is an English free newspaper in Hong Kong with a daily circulation in 2012 of 200,450.

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The Washington Times

The Washington Times is an American daily newspaper that covers general interest topics with a particular emphasis on American politics.

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Tom Petty

Thomas Earl Petty (October 20, 1950 – October 2, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Val Wilmer

Valerie Sybil Wilmer (born 7 December 1941, Harrogate, England) is a British photographer and writer specialising in jazz, gospel, blues, and British African-Caribbean music and culture.

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Vee-Jay Records

Vee-Jay Records is an American record label founded in the 1950s, located in Chicago and specializing in blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll.

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You Don't Love Me (Willie Cobbs song)

"You Don't Love Me" is a rhythm and blues-influenced blues song recorded by American musician Willie Cobbs in 1960.

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19th Nervous Breakdown

"19th Nervous Breakdown" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it was recorded in late 1965 and released as a single in early 1966. It reached number two on both the US Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart, while topping the NME charts.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diddley_Daddy

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