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Yep! Here’s another Surfadelic comp. dedicated to Bo Diddley, this time filled with “modern day” covers of some of his best known tunes. Here you got garage revival bands as The Fuzztones, The Milkshakes, Thee Headcoatees, The A-Bones, Oblivians, The Gories, The Crawdaddys, well known glam punkers as New York Dolls and Johnny Thunders or aces as Dick Dale, Cub Coda or Greg Prevost (of Chesterfield Kings) doin’ the Bo Dideley’s beat! Dont’t let it go, dig!!!
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“I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wire, I got a cobra snake for a necktie
A brand new house on the road side, and it’s a-made out of rattlesnake hide
Got a brand new chimney put on top, and it’s a-made outta human skull
Come on take a little walk with me baby, and tell me who do you love?
Who do you love? “
Baby, it ain’t over till it’s over!
Last time I thought it was last volume in series but in the meantime I found more Diddlesque goodies. So, here is 5th volume of “Songs Bo Diddley Taught Us” with 37 trax of 60’s garage and rhythm & blues rockers molesting their favorite Bo’s tunes. I’m a road runner baby… Dig!!!
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This is final instalment of “Songs Bo Diddley Taught Us” compilation series which conquers the world. 37 trax of 60’s garage/beat/psych treatment of Bo’s tunes. It’s kinda wyld Diddley beat overdose but you gonna love it. Just check out rippin’, organ driven “Bo Diddley” version by Mighty Manfred & The Wonderdogs and you’ll know. Anyways, you better dig, alright!!!
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Yep! Here’s more of Bo Diddley’s influenced 60’s garage/beat stuff from all over the globe. Gotta dig!!!
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Here are mo’ Bo 60’s garage covers and Diddley beat influenced tunes.
That crazy & raw Bo Diddley’s R&B beat was one of the main influences on mid 60’s teenage rock’n’roll/garage riot all over the globe. Many famous 60’s bands covered Bo’s tunes like The Yardbirds, The Who, The Animals, Rolling Stones and 100s of groups copied Bo’s rave-up style for their own songs. Here is the 2nd volume of “Songs Bo Diddley Taught Us”, another 30 trax of 60’s garage Bo covers and tunes that mimic Bo Diddley style beat. Who do you love ?!
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That crazy & raw Bo Diddley’s R&B beat was one of the main influences on mid 60’s teenage rock’n’roll/garage riot all over the globe. Many famous 60’s bands covered Bo’s tunes like The Yardbirds, The Who, The Animals, Rolling Stones and 100s of groups copied Bo’s rave-up style for their own songs. Here is the first volume of Surfadelic “Songs Bo Diddley Taught Us” collection of 60’s garage covers of Bo’s songs and tunes that mimic Bo Diddley style beat. Some groups like The Shadows Of Knight, Ugly Ducklings, The Litter, Pretty Things, Master’s Apprentices, Downliners Sect, The Sonics or Chocolate Watch Band are well known to the garage aficionados but other bands probably not so… Hush Your Mouth ‘n’ dig!
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This is the very first Surfadelic comp I made way back in 2009. and it was downloaded over 25.000 times. So, it’s kinda very “popular” as it should be, alright! Revisited version has more trax and real nice cover art, indeed!
As ya know, Bo is one of those pioneers of rock’n’ roll, he invented that wyld Bo Diddley beat that influenced all kinsa crazy loosers from Stones, Pretty Things, Kinks, Yardbirds, Downliners Sect, 1000’s of 60’s garage punkers to New York Dolls, The Stooges and bunch of garage revivalists as Thee Headcoats and The Gories. If I must choose between Chuck Berry, Little Richard or Bo, I would go for Mr. Diddley almost anytime. Bo played R&B, blues, rock’n’roll, doo wop, soul and funk. Some said Bo even influenced instrumental surf as he did many rock instros before surf rock craze of the early 60’s.
This comp. mostly includes my favorite Bo’s 60’s recordigs, so there’s no stuff like notorious and zilion times compiled “Hey Bo Diddley”, “I’m a Man”, “Pretty Thing”, “Mona”, “Who Do You Love”, “Diddy Wah Diddy”, “Roadrunner” and other Bo’s classics.
Collection opens with “Let Me Pass” from ’65 LP “500% More Man”. There are two more trax from the same album – “Root Hoot” and “Let the Kid Dance”. It’s Maybe my favorite 60’s Bo slab. Than, there’s “Little Girl” from “Go Bo Diddley” his second Lp from ’59, a classic Bo R&B. From ’60 Lp “Bo Diddley Is A Gunslinger” I picked “Ride On Josephine” and slightly different take on doo wop ballad “No More Lovin'”.
“Spend My Life With You”, “Heart-O-Matic Love”, “Cookie Headed Diddley”, “Rock ‘N’ Roll”, and “Moon Baby” are real fine unreleased tracks from “Rare & Well Done” CD.
From “In The Spotlight” LP I took “Craw-Dad”, a classic Diddley’s beat tune that was covered many times, first came to mind The Gories cover.
Instrumental “Aztec” and “Back Home” are from “Bo Diddley Is A… Lover”, 1961. album.
“Bo Meet’s A Monster” is a fun tune for your Haloween party jukebox.
From 1962. LP “Bo Diddley & Company” we have (Extra Read All About) “Ben”, your tipical Bo’s tribal rockin’ beat, R&B rave-up of “Pretty Girl” and soulful blues “Call Me”. “Here ‘Tis” from “Bo Diddley’s A Twister” LP. First heard it as The Yardbirds cover.
“Mama Keep Your Big Mouth Shut” is great tune that was covered by The Pretty Thing and Ugly Ducklings amongst others.
“Pills” and “Jo-Ann” are from ’66 LP “The Originator”. “Pills” was made famous by the legendary NY Dolls cover from their debut slab.
“I Can Tell” from Bo Diddley ’62 is probably my favorite BO’s song, sooo COOL!
“We’re Gonna Get Married” was A-side single from 1966. Great R&B/Soul with superfine girl vocals and beat.
“The Greatest Lover In The World” , single from 1963. So, yeah he was. There’s a cool cover by The Fuzztones.
I would vote “Ooh Baby” the coolest summer tune anytime. It’s like the R&B summer breeze.
Well, “Bo Diddley 1969” sure have to sound like that in ’69. Again, those fabulous girl voices.
With “I’m High Again” & “If The Bible’s Right” Bo’s in the soul/funk teritory and it works just fine.
“I Wonder Why (People Don’t Like Me)” from ’65 Lp “Hey Good lookin'” is a right question for a complicated caracter as Bo was.
“Please Mr.Engineer” is another superfine unissued track, it closes this supercool Surfadelic comp. alright!
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“For a lot of years, this double-album compilation, sort of the Bo Diddley equivalent to Chuck Berry’s The Great 28 or the first two Chuck Berry Golden Decade sets, was the best collection of Diddley’s stuff on the market, containing all of his best known songs and some of the best of his album tracks up through the mid-’60s.” [Bruce Eder]
Yo peoples! As ya already know – “No Bo no party!” Here’s vinyl rip of 2LP set collection in (fake) stereo so the sound is kinda different, more groovie than on other Bo’s comps, that’s the selling point alright! I know you got tons of Bo ‘s stuff but don’t miss this one, you’ll be surprised, dig!!!
Bo Diddley not only is one of the key architects of Rock & Roll, in my eyes he’s also one of the founding fathers of Funk. No one played a guitar that percussively as Bo did back in the ’50s.
This great CD – which also features fantastic liner notes and images of LP cover art – brings together some of the funkiest tracks Bo recorded between 1970 and 1973.
From the masterpiece ‘Black Gladiator’ (1970) come “Elephant Man”, “Black Soul”, “Funky Fly”, “I Don’t Like You” and “Shut Up Woman”.
From ‘Another Dimension’ (1971) – the ill-fated ‘covers’-album – come two Creedence Clearwater Revival updates, but it’s Bo’s self-written funk gems “Pollution” and “Go for Broke” that really put the swing in that LP.
Next up is Diddley’s best-loved funk album, ‘Where It All Began’ (1972). A non-stop, no-filler, all-killer album, it’s only due to time shortage that it isn’t available in its entirety here. The hilarious “Hey Jerome” is fantastic, with another highly infectious ‘ad lib’ from Bo, as is the hardrocking funk opus “Bo Diddley-Itis”. “Infatuation” is a nice, soulful ballad, while “Take It All Off” is more straight-up boogie funk.
From ‘Big Bad Bo’ (1973), Bo’s last album for Chess, come three more sweaty workouts: “Bite You”, “Hit or Miss” and the headbobbing, horn heavy “Stop the Pusher”.
This is GOLD. [soulmakossa]
Real COOL comp. of trax taken from Bo’s four funk albums released in the early 70’s. Although you can dig entire lp’s in the Bo Diddley section of this blog, this is superfine overview of his funky stuff.
You know Bo and Bo knows instros! This is a collection of 50’s and 60’s Bo’s instrumental tunes taken from albums and rare recordings comps. There’s a rhythm, there’s a blues and wyld Bo Diddley beat, alright! Dig!!!
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