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  • Bo Diddley
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  • Gramophone record
has language
  • eng
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  • Bo Diddley songs
  • Checker Records singles
  • Debut singles
  • Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients
  • Songs released posthumously
  • Songs written by Bo Diddley
  • The Animals songs
  • United States National Recording Registry recordings
  • Number-one singles in the United States
  • 1955 singles
  • 1955 songs
  • Buddy Holly songs
  • Songs based on children's songs
abstract
  • %22Bo Diddley%22 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, %22I'm a Man%22). 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. The song is featured on many of Bo Diddley's compilation albums including His Best.In 2012 the A and B-side pair were added to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry list of %22culturally, historically, or aesthetically important%22 American sound recordings.
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  • Bo Diddley
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  • 5714dec725ac0d8aee3ba95f
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