Holly indeed sometimes played with black musicians Little Richard and Chuck Berry, and incorporated the Bo Diddley beat in several songs.

Ellas Otha Bates ( December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008 ), known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter ( usually as Ellas McDaniel ), and rock and roll pioneer.

In late 1954, he teamed up with harmonica player Billy Boy Arnold, drummer Clifton James, and bass player Roosevelt Jackson, and recorded demos of " I'm A Man " and " Bo Diddley ".

The record was released in March 1955, and the A-side, " Bo Diddley ", became a # 1 R & B hit.

McDaniel adopted the stage name Bo Diddley The origin of the name is somewhat unclear, as several differing stories and claims exist.

Bo Diddley himself said that the name first belonged to a singer his adoptive mother was familiar with, while harmonicist Billy Boy Arnold once said in an interview that it was originally the name of a local comedian that Leonard Chess borrowed for the song title and artist name for Bo Diddley's first single, and guitar craftsman Ed Roman reported that another ( unspecified ) source says it was his nickname as a Golden Gloves boxer.

" I did two songs and he got mad ," Bo Diddley later recalled.

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.

Diddley was an excellent story teller whose stories varied from time to time, however, Diddley contended to friends and family that he was not trying to double-cross Sullivan and attributed the " misunderstanding " to the fact that ; when he saw " Bo Diddley " on a cue card, he was under the impression he was to perform two songs, " Bo Diddley " and " Sixteen Tons ".

Chess included Diddley's recording of " Sixteen Tons " on the album Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger, which was originally released in 1960.

He released a string of albums whose titles, including Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger and Have Guitar, Will Travel, bolstered his self-invented legend.

Between 1958 and 1963, Checker Records released 11 full-length albums by Bo Diddley.

The album title Surfing with Bo Diddley was a boast about his influence on surf guitarists.

Bo Diddley was one of the first American male musicians to include women in his band, including " The Duchess " Norma-Jean Wofford, Peggy Jones ( aka " Lady Bo "), Cornelia Redmond ( aka Cookie ), and Debby Hastings, who led his band for the final 25 years of his performing career.

After moving from his home in Chicago to Washington, D. C., he set up one of the first home recording studios where he not only recorded the album Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger but he recorded his valet, Marvin Gaye.

Bo Diddley touring Japan with Japanese band Bo Gumbos.

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* November 20 – Bo Diddley makes his television debut on Ed Sullivan's Toast Of The Town show for the CBS-TV network.

As well as its regular car chases, jumps and stunts, the show relied on character familiarity, with Deputy Cletus replacing Deputy Enos in the third and fourth season, and Coy and Vance Duke temporarily replacing Bo and Luke ( due to a salary dispute ) in the fifth season, being the only major cast changes through the show's run ( Ben Jones and James Best both left temporarily during the second season due to different disputes with producers, but both returned within a couple of episodes ).

The show included entertainers such as Frankie Lymon, The Supremes, Marian Anderson, Louis Armstrong, Pearl Bailey, LaVern Baker, Harry Belafonte, James Brown, Godfrey Cambridge, Diahann Carroll, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Bill Cosby, Count Basie, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bo Diddley, Rocío Dúrcal, Duke Ellington, Lola Falana, The 5th Dimension, Ella Fitzgerald, The Four Tops, Aretha Franklin, Dick Gregory, W. C. Handy, Lena Horne, The Jackson 5, Mahalia Jackson, Eartha Kitt, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Little Anthony & The Imperials, Moms Mabley, Johnny Mathis, The Miracles ( later known as Smokey Robinson & the Miracles ), Melba Moore, The Platters, Leontyne Price, Richard Pryor, Lou Rawls, Della Reese, Nipsey Russell, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, The Temptations, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Tina Turner ( at the time known as " The Ike & Tina Turner Revue "), Leslie Uggams, William Warfield, Dionne Warwick, Dinah Washington, Ethel Waters, Flip Wilson, Jackie Wilson, Nancy Wilson, and Stevie Wonder.

* November 20 – Bo Diddley makes his debut TV appearance on Ed Sullivan's " Toast Of The Town " show on CBS.

The show also featured the Bay City Rollers, Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods and The Cowsills, with selected appearances by Merrill Osmond, Tony DeFranco and Danny Bonaduce.

The song was also covered by Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods and by Candlewick Green, a winning act on the UK talent show Opportunity Knocks.

They have also been made into cartoon characters on the comedy show 2DTV, and face masks in Avid Merrions Bo Selecta.

In late 2009, a popular investigative television show on China Central Television aired a critical story on Bo ’ s anti-crime drive, expressing concern over the apparent disregard for the legal process.

In response, Bo utilized his connections to have the show ’ s host temporarily banned from the airwaves, and its producer moved to another program.

Gu Kailai, the wife of purged Chinese leader Bo Xilai, received a show trial in 2012.

His first show with the band was September 12, 1985 at Poor David's Pub in Dallas, when the band was backing Bo Diddley.

Chappell was front-burner for most of her time on the show, first when her character Carly was featured in a romance with lead character Bo Brady ( Peter Reckell, Robert Kelker-Kelly ), and then in a complex, Byzantine storyline that featured her heretofore unknown secret identity as a European blueblood.

In it she played Bo Duke's love interest, " Diane " who was also the head of a traveling stunt-thrill show.

Another TV show that used the theme was The Dukes of Hazzard, in which the protagonists ( Bo and Luke Duke ) were constantly being set up by the County Commissioner ( Boss Hogg ) and Sheriff ( Rosco P. Coltrane ).

Among the best known features of the show were the " Dagenham Dialogues " between Pete and Dud, which were rambling, surreal conversations often running for five or even ten minutes, " The Leaping Nuns of the Order of St Beryl ", " Superthunderstingcar " ( a parody of Thunderbirds and other Sylvia and Gerry Anderson puppet shows ), Moore's interviews with Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling, and the " rhythmic voodoo " R & B singer Bo Dudley-though the fame of these almost certainly owes much to the fact they still exist in vision, unlike much of the series.

Schneider is best known for his role of Bo Duke on the popular TV show The Dukes of Hazzard.

Gaffney went on to team up with Jennifer Saunders with a recurring role as Bo in the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous ; in 2004, talks of a spin-off show began but nothing surfaced.

David was also a guest presenter on The Saturday Show ( BBC TV series ) and the BBC Scotland Children in Need Appeal, and he took part in Avid Merrion's comedy show ' Bo Selecta ' on Channel 4 In 2003 Sneddon and the show drew negative press from the UK tabloid media such as The Sun.

From 1977 to 1982, the group reached perhaps the height of its success with its own hit syndicated television show Sha Na Na, featuring guests such as James Brown, the legendary punk rock band the Ramones, and musicians such as Little Richard, Bo Diddley and Chubby Checker.

Another annual show people looked forward to was on the Friday before the Michigan – Ohio State football game, when J. P. would bring in Ron Kramer, Millie Schembechler ( Bo was busy ...), a few members of the Michigan marching band and other Wolverine luminaries for a pep rally to send the Maize ' n Blue off to, back then, usually victory.

" She was eliminated on the following night's results show — leaving Carrie Underwood and Bo Bice to battle it out in the finale.

During a show in 2004, Limbaugh was not at the microphone for the last segment of the second hour ( it was only about ten seconds ), and Snerdley came on instead: " This is Bo Snerdley, Rush will be right back on the EIB Network.

Therefore, an undetermined number of Republicans cast ballots in the open Democratic primary election and chose the candidate who they believed would most likely lose the general election to their nominee, Howard " Bo " Callaway.

( Bo himself declined comment, but later in an open letter to a reader suggested that all of the views were, indeed, correct — that Jiang's fatal errors were to drain the energy of his people, but that he was indeed a loyal man, willing to lay down his life in a futile attempt to reestablish Shu.

The Bombardier trains are made up of six permanently connected cars, forming an open corridor for the entire length of the train ( 2 ' 2 '+ Bo ' Bo '+ Bo ' Bo '+ Bo ' Bo '+ Bo ' Bo '+ 2 ' 2 ' formation ).

Bo Xilai was the fourth child of prominent Communist Party leader Bo Yibo, who served as Minister of Finance in the early years of the People's Republic of China but who fell from favor in 1965 for supporting more open trade relations with the West.

A day after Wang's leave, several overseas Chinese-language news websites posted an open letter allegedly penned by Wang, which sharply criticized Bo as a " hypocrite " and " the greatest gangster in China " and accused Bo of corruption.

Bo responded in an unusually open press conference during the 2012 National People's Congress, acknowledging " negligent supervision " of his subordinates, saying he may have " relied upon the wrong person ".

From Fok Bo Chuen, Yuen Kay San learned the 3 open hand forms, Siu Lien Tau, Chum Kiu and the Biu Jee.

* open / closed ( Bo Diddley's " Hey Bo Diddley ")

There was an open air bandstand near the Lim Bo Seng Memorial.

With Anstice's force and the Indian troops attacking Shwedaung from two sides, the roadblocks were soon cleared, but a lucky shot from a Japanese anti-tank gun knocked out a tank on a vital bridge and forced the British to retreat across open fields where Bo Yan Naing ambushed them with 400 men.