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On November 20, 1955, he appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, a popular television variety show, where he infuriated the host.
" I did two songs and he got mad ," Bo Diddley later recalled.
" Ed Sullivan said that I was one of the first colored boys to ever double-cross him.
Said that I wouldn't last six months ".
The show had requested that he sing the Merle Travis-penned Tennessee Ernie Ford hit " Sixteen Tons ", but when he appeared on stage, he sang " Bo Diddley " instead.
This substitution resulted in his being banned from further appearances.

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