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Bo Diddley beat

Index Bo Diddley beat

The Bo Diddley beat is a syncopated musical rhythm that is widely used in rock and roll and pop music. [1]

75 relations: AllMusic, American Girl (Tom Petty song), Bar (music), Bell pattern, Billy Boy Arnold, Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley (song), Bruce Springsteen, Buddy Holly, Clave (rhythm), David Bowie, Desire (U2 song), Dick Dale, Duane Eddy, Elvis Presley, Ethnomusicology, Europa and the Pirate Twins, Faith (George Michael song), Gene Autry, George Michael, Get Me to the World on Time, Hachette (publisher), Hello (band), How Soon Is Now?, I Want Candy, I Wish You Would (Billy Boy Arnold song), Jefferson Airplane, Jingle Jangle Jingle, Johnny Otis, Juba dance, Latin music, Magic Bus (song), Maraca, Music of Cuba, Mystic Eyes, Ned Sublette, New York Groove, No One to Run With, Not Fade Away (song), Panic in Detroit, Please Go Home, Pop music, Red Saunders (musician), Rhythm, Rhythm and blues, Rock and roll, Rolling Stone, Rum and Coca-Cola, Shame, Shame, Shame (Shirley & Company song), Shave and a Haircut, ..., She Has Funny Cars, She's the One (Bruce Springsteen song), Shirley & Company, Stan Ridgway, Sub-Saharan African music traditions, Syncopation, The Allman Brothers Band, The Andrews Sisters, The Clash, The Electric Prunes, The Gainesville Sun, The Independent, The New York Times, The Pretenders, The Rolling Stones, The Smiths, The Strangeloves, The Who, Them (band), Thomas Dolby, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Tremolo (electronic effect), U2, Willie and the Hand Jive, (Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame. Expand index (25 more) »

AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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American Girl (Tom Petty song)

"American Girl" is the second single from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' self-titled debut album.

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Bar (music)

In musical notation, a bar (or measure) is a segment of time corresponding to a specific number of beats in which each beat is represented by a particular note value and the boundaries of the bar are indicated by vertical bar lines.

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Bell pattern

A bell pattern is a rhythmic pattern of striking a hand-held bell or other instrument of the Idiophone family, to make it emit a sound at desired intervals.

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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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Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, known for his work with the E Street Band.

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Buddy Holly

Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known as Buddy Holly, was an American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll.

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Clave (rhythm)

The clave is a rhythmic pattern used as a tool for temporal organization in Afro-Cuban music.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.

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Desire (U2 song)

"Desire" is a song by Irish rock band U2 and the third track on their 1988 album, Rattle and Hum.

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Dick Dale

Richard Anthony Monsour (born May 4, 1937), better known by his stage name Dick Dale, is an American rock guitarist, known as The King of the Surf Guitar.

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Duane Eddy

Duane Eddy (born April 26, 1938) is an American guitarist.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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Ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicology is the study of music from the cultural and social aspects of the people who make it.

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Europa and the Pirate Twins

"Europa and the Pirate Twins" is a song by English artist Thomas Dolby, featured on his 1982 album The Golden Age of Wireless.

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Faith (George Michael song)

"Faith" is a song written and performed by George Michael, from his 1987 debut solo album of the same name.

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Gene Autry

Orvon Grover "Gene" Autry (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998) was an American singer-songwriter, actor, musician, rodeo performer and business tycoon who gained fame as a singing cowboy in a crooning style on radio, in films, and on television for more than three decades beginning in the early 1930s.

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George Michael

Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (25 June 1963 – 25 December 2016), known professionally as George Michael, was an English singer, songwriter, record producer, and philanthropist who rose to fame as a member of the music duo Wham! He was widely known for his work in the 1980s and 1990s, including hit singles such as "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and "Last Christmas", and albums such as Faith (1987) and Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 (1990).

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Get Me to the World on Time

"Get Me to the World on Time" is a song written by Annette Tucker and Jill Jones for the American garage rock band, The Electric Prunes.

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Hachette (publisher)

Hachette is a French publisher.

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Hello (band)

Hello is an English glam rock band.

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How Soon Is Now?

"How Soon Is Now?" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths, written by singer Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr.

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I Want Candy

"I Want Candy" is a song written and originally recorded by the Strangeloves in 1965 that reached No.

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I Wish You Would (Billy Boy Arnold song)

"I Wish You Would" is a song recorded by Chicago blues musician Billy Boy Arnold in 1955.

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Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane, a rock band based in San Francisco, California, was one of the pioneering bands of psychedelic rock.

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Jingle Jangle Jingle

"Jingle Jangle Jingle", also known as 'I've Got Spurs That Jingle Jangle Jingle", is a song written by Joseph J. Lilley and Frank Loesser, and published in 1942.

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Johnny Otis

Johnny Otis (born Ioannis Alexandres Veliotes; December 28, 1921 – January 17, 2012) was an American singer, musician, composer, arranger, bandleader, talent scout, disc jockey, record producer, television show host, artist, author, journalist, minister, and impresario.

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Juba dance

The Juba dance or hambone, originally known as Pattin' Juba (Giouba, Haiti: Djouba), is an African American style of dance that involves stomping as well as slapping and patting the arms, legs, chest, and cheeks.

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Latin music

Latin music (Portuguese and música latina) is a genre that is used by the music industry as a catch-all term for any music that comes from Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking areas of the world, namely Latin America, Spain, and Portugal, as well as music sung in either language.

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Magic Bus (song)

"Magic Bus" is a song written by Pete Townshend during the time that My Generation was being recorded in 1965.

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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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Music of Cuba

The music of Cuba, including its instruments, performance and dance, comprises a large set of unique traditions influenced mostly by west African and European (especially Spanish) music.

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Mystic Eyes

"Mystic Eyes" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison when he was leader of the band Them.

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Ned Sublette

Ned Sublette (born 1951 in Lubbock, Texas) is an American composer, musician, record producer, musicologist, and author.

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New York Groove

"New York Groove" is a song written by English singer/songwriter Russ Ballard, which was a hit for two different artists: the band Hello in 1975, and Ace Frehley in 1978.

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No One to Run With

"No One to Run With" is a song written by Dickey Betts and John Prestia and performed by The Allman Brothers Band.

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Not Fade Away (song)

"Not Fade Away" is a song credited to Buddy Holly (originally under his first and middle names, Charles Hardin) and Norman Petty (although Petty's co-writing credit is likely to have been a formality) and first recorded by Holly and his band, the Crickets.

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Panic in Detroit

"Panic in Detroit" is a song written by English singer David Bowie for the album Aladdin Sane in 1973.

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Please Go Home

"Please Go Home" is a song by British rock 'n' roll band, The Rolling Stones.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Red Saunders (musician)

Theodore Dudley "Red" Saunders (March 2, 1912 – March 5, 1981) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.

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Rhythm

Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".

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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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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Rolling Stone

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

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Rum and Coca-Cola

"Rum and Coca-Cola" is a popular calypso song composed by Lionel Belasco with lyrics by Lord Invader.

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Shame, Shame, Shame (Shirley & Company song)

"Shame, Shame, Shame" is a 1974 hit song written by Sylvia Robinson, performed by American disco band Shirley & Company and released on the Vibration label.

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Shave and a Haircut

"Shave and a Haircut" and the associated response "two bits" is a 7-note musical call and response couplet, riff or fanfare popularly used at the end of a musical performance, usually for comic effect.

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She Has Funny Cars

"She Has Funny Cars" is a song by the band Jefferson Airplane.

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She's the One (Bruce Springsteen song)

"She's the One" is a song by Bruce Springsteen.

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Shirley & Company

Shirley & Company was an American disco group, consisting of Shirley Goodman (1936–2005), Jason Alvarez (now a pastor), Walter Morris, Bernadette Randle, Seldon Powell, Jonathan Williams and Clarence Oliver.

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Stan Ridgway

Stanard "Stan" Ridgway (born April 5, 1954) is an American multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter and film and television composer known for his distinctive voice, dramatic lyrical narratives, and eclectic solo albums.

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Sub-Saharan African music traditions

Sub-Saharan African music traditions exhibit so many common features that they may in some respects be thought of as constituting a single musical system.

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Syncopation

In music, syncopation involves a variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected which make part or all of a tune or piece of music off-beat.

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The Allman Brothers Band

The Allman Brothers Band was an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, United States, in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman (slide guitar and lead guitar) and Gregg Allman (vocals, keyboards, songwriting), as well as Dickey Betts (lead guitar, vocals, songwriting), Berry Oakley (bass guitar), Butch Trucks (drums), and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson (drums).

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The Andrews Sisters

The Andrews Sisters were an American close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie-woogie eras.

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The Clash

The Clash were an English rock band formed in London in 1976 as a key player in the original wave of British punk rock.

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The Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes are an American psychedelic rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1965.

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The Gainesville Sun

The Gainesville Sun is a newspaper published daily in Gainesville, Florida, United States, covering the North-Central portion of the state.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Pretenders

The Pretenders are an English-American rock band formed in Hereford, England, in March 1978.

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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 Smiths

The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982.

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The Strangeloves

The Strangeloves were a band created in 1964 by a New York-based American songwriting production team who pretended to be from Australia.

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The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964.

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Them (band)

Them were a Northern Irish band formed in Belfast in April 1964, most prominently known for the garage rock standard "Gloria" and launching singer Van Morrison's musical career.

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Thomas Dolby

Thomas Morgan Robertson (born 14 October 1958), known by the stage name Thomas Dolby, is an English musician, singer and producer.

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (alternately Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) were an American rock band from Gainesville, Florida.

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Tremolo (electronic effect)

Tremolo, in electronics, is the variation in amplitude of sound achieved through electronic means, sometimes mistakenly called vibrato, and producing a sound somewhat reminiscent of flanging, referred to as an "underwater effect".

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U2

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976.

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Willie and the Hand Jive

"Willie and the Hand Jive" is a song written by Johnny Otis and originally released as a single in 1958 by Johnny Otis Show, reaching #9 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and #5 on the Billboard R&B chart.

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(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame

"(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame" is a song recorded in a hit version by Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music in 1961.

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References

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

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