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. It became an immediate hit single that stayed on the R&B charts for a total of 18 weeks, 2 of those weeks at #1, and seven more weeks than its flipside (the B-side, “I’m a Man”). It was the first recording to introduce African rhythms into rock and roll directly by using the patted juba beat. It was Bo Diddley’s first recording and his first hit single. In 2012, the A and B-side pair were added to the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry list of “culturally, historically, or aesthetically important” American sound recordings. (More from Wikipedia)
Bo Diddley had numerous R&B hits and wrote dozens of songs, like “Bo Diddley”, “Who Do You Love?”, “Oh Yea”, “Road Runner”, “Mona”, and “Bring it to Jerome”.
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