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Bo Diddley (song)

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"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. [1]

78 relations: Album, AllMusic, Audio engineer, Billboard (magazine), Blues Hall of Fame, Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley beat, Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger, Bob Seger, Brown Eyed Handsome Man, Bubbling Under Hot 100, Buddy Holly, Checker Records, Chess Records, Chicago, Clovis, New Mexico, Coral Records, Dick's Picks Volume 30, Diddley Daddy, Drum kit, Electric guitar, Europe '72: The Complete Recordings, Fritz the Cat (film), Grammy Award, Grammy Hall of Fame, Guitar, Hey! Bo Diddley, His Best (Bo Diddley album), Hush, Little Baby, I'm a Man (Bo Diddley song), Instrumental, Janis Joplin, Jean Dinning, Jerry Allison, Jerry Murad's Harmonicats, Juba dance, Leonard Chess, Library of Congress, List of Billboard number-one rhythm and blues hits, Little Walter, Live Bullet, Lullaby, Lyceum Theatre, London, Maraca, MCA Records, Muddy Waters, National Recording Registry, Norman Petty, Out of the Shadows (The Shadows album), Phil Chess, ..., Phonograph record, Record producer, Reminiscing (Buddy Holly album), Rhythm and blues, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Rock and roll, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rockabilly, Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, Singing, Smokin' O.P.'s, Stand in the Fire, Super Blues, Teegarden & Van Winkle, The Dinning Sisters, The Fireballs, The Recording Academy, The Shadows, TiVo Corporation, UK Singles Chart, United States, Universal Music Group, Warren Zevon, Who Do You Love? (Bo Diddley song), You Don't Love Me (Willie Cobbs song), 1972 in music, 1976 in music. Expand index (28 more) »

Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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AllMusic

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

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Audio engineer

An audio engineer (also sometimes recording engineer or a vocal engineer) helps to produce a recording or a performance, editing and adjusting sound tracks using equalization and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound.

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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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Blues Hall of Fame

The Blues Hall of Fame is a music museum located in Memphis, Tennessee.

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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 beat

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

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Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger

Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger is the fifth studio album by American rock and roll pioneer Bo Diddley released in December 1960 by Checker Records.

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Bob Seger

Robert Clark Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist.

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Brown Eyed Handsome Man

"Brown Eyed Handsome Man" is a rock and roll song written and recorded by Chuck Berry, originally released by Chess Records in September 1956 as the B-side of "Too Much Monkey Business." It was also included on Berry's 1957 debut album, After School Session.

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Bubbling Under Hot 100

Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (also known as Bubbling Under the Hot 100) is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.

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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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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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Clovis, New Mexico

Clovis is the county seat of Curry County, New Mexico, United States, with a population of 37,775 as of the 2010 census, and a 2014 estimated population of 39,860.

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Coral Records

Coral Records was a subsidiary of Decca Records formed in 1949.

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Dick's Picks Volume 30

Dick's Picks Volume 30 is the 30th installment of the Grateful Dead's archival series.

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Diddley Daddy

"Diddley Daddy" is a song by Bo Diddley.

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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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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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Europe '72: The Complete Recordings

Europe '72: The Complete Recordings is a box set of live recordings by the rock band the Grateful Dead.

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Fritz the Cat (film)

Fritz the Cat is a 1972 American adult animated comedy film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Grammy Hall of Fame

The Grammy Hall of Fame is a hall of fame to honor musical recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Hey! Bo Diddley

"Hey! Bo Diddley" is Bo Diddley's eighth single released by Checker Records (not to be confused with the song "Bo Diddley", released as a single in April 1957 by Checker Records).

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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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Hush, Little Baby

"Hush, Little Baby" is a traditional lullaby, thought to have been written in the Southern United States.

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I'm a Man (Bo Diddley song)

"I'm a Man" is a rhythm and blues song written and recorded by Bo Diddley in 1955.

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Instrumental

An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics, or singing, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a Big Band setting.

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Janis Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) nicknamed The Pearl, was an American rock, soul and blues singer and songwriter, and one of the most successful and widely-known female rock stars of her era.

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Jean Dinning

Jean Dinning (March 29, 1924 – February 22, 2011) was an American singer and songwriter, best known for co-writing, with her then-husband, Red Surrey, the 1959 hit song "Teen Angel", the most popular version of which was sung by her brother Mark Dinning.

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Jerry Allison

Jerry Ivan Allison (born August 31, 1939) is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the Crickets and co-writer of their hits "That'll Be the Day" and "Peggy Sue", recorded with Buddy Holly.

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Jerry Murad's Harmonicats

Jerry Murad's Harmonicats were an American harmonica-based group.

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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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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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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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List of Billboard number-one rhythm and blues hits

Listed here are Billboard magazine's number-one rhythm and blues hits from 1942 to 1959.

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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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Live Bullet

‘Live’ Bullet is a live album by American rock band Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, released in April 1976.

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Lullaby

A lullaby, or cradle song, is a soothing song or piece of music that is usually played for (or sung to) children.

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Lyceum Theatre, London

The Lyceum Theatre (pronounced ly-CEE-um) is a 2,100-seat West End theatre located in the City of Westminster, on Wellington Street, just off the Strand.

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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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Muddy Waters

McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician who is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".

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National Recording Registry

The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States." The registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, which created the National Recording Preservation Board, whose members are appointed by the Librarian of Congress.

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Norman Petty

Norman Petty (May 25, 1927 – August 15, 1984) was an American musician and record producer who is best known for his association with Buddy Holly and the Crickets, who recorded in his studio.

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Out of the Shadows (The Shadows album)

Out of the Shadows is a 1962 rock album by British group The Shadows.

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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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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Reminiscing (Buddy Holly album)

Reminiscing is a compilation album by American rock and roll icon Buddy Holly.

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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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Robert Randolph and the Family Band

Robert Randolph and the Family Band is an American funk and soul band led by pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph (Robert Jermaine Randolph, born August 8, 1977, Irvington, New Jersey).

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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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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, recognizes and archives the history of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have had some major influence on the development of rock and roll.

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Rockabilly

Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating back to the early 1950s in the United States, especially the South.

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Rolling Stone

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

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Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time

"The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" was the cover story of a special issue of Rolling Stone, issue number 963, published in December 2004, a year after the magazine published its list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

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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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Smokin' O.P.'s

Smokin' O.P.'s is the fifth studio album by American rock singer-songwriter Bob Seger, released in 1972 (see 1972 in music).

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Stand in the Fire

Stand in the Fire is a live album by American singer-songwriter Warren Zevon, released December 26, 1980.

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Super Blues

Super Blues is a 1967 studio album by a blues supergroup consisting of Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, and Little Walter.

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Teegarden & Van Winkle

Teegarden & Van Winkle were an American musical duo, composed of Skip Knape (electronic organ, organ pedal bass, vocals), and David Teegarden (drums, vocals).

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The Dinning Sisters

The Dinning Sisters were an American sisters singing group, active from 1941 to 1955.

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The Fireballs

The Fireballs, sometimes billed as Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs, were an American rock and roll group, particularly popular at the end of the 1950s and in the early 1960s.

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The Recording Academy

The Recording Academy (formerly the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences or NARAS) is a U.S. organization of musicians, producers, recording engineers, and other recording professionals.

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The Shadows

The Shadows (originally known as The Drifters) were an English instrumental rock group, and were Cliff Richard's backing band from 1958 to 1968, having also collaborated again on numerous reunion tours.

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TiVo Corporation

TiVo Corporation (formerly Rovi Corporation and Macrovision Solutions Corporation) is an American technology company.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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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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Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group (also known in the United States as UMG Recordings, Inc. and abbreviated as UMG) is an American global music corporation that is a subsidiary of the French media conglomerate Vivendi.

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Warren Zevon

Warren William Zevon (January 24, 1947 – September 7, 2003) was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician.

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Who Do You Love? (Bo Diddley song)

"Who Do You Love?" is a song written by American rock and roll pioneer Bo Diddley.

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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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1972 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1972.

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1976 in music

A list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1976.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Diddley_(song)

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