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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.
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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On May 13, 2007, Bo Diddley was admitted to intensive care in Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, following a stroke after a concert in Council Bluffs, Iowa on May 12.
The next day, as Bo Diddley was heading back home, he seemed dazed and confused at the airport.
His manager, Margo Lewis, called 911 and airport security and Bo was immediately taken by ambulance to Creighton University Medical Center and admitted to the Intensive-care unit, where he stayed for several days.
After numerous tests, it was confirmed that Bo Diddley had suffered a stroke.
That was the first and last time that Bo Diddley performed publicly after suffering a stroke.

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Bo Diddley achieved numerous accolades in recognition of his significant role as one of the founding fathers of rock and roll.
* 2002: Bo Diddley was honored as one of the first BMI Icons at the 50th annual BMI Pop Awards.
In 2003, U. S. Representative John Conyers paid tribute to Bo Diddley in the United States House of Representatives describing him as " one of the true pioneers of rock and roll, who has influenced generations ".
On such occasions, Bo and Luke usually have to rescue their adversaries as an inevitable precursor to defeating the bad guys ; in other instances, the Dukes and Hogg and Rosco mutually join forces to tackle bigger threats to Hazzard or one of their respective parties.
More mature and rational than his cousin Bo, he is typically the one who thinks of the plan that will get the two out of whatever trouble they have gotten into.
An ex-stock car driver, Bo is the one who, in the earlier episodes at least, drives The General Lee most of the time ( very early episodes suggest that it belongs solely to him ; Luke is said to have a car that Cooter had wrecked shortly prior to the start of the opening episode, " One Armed Bandits ").
Rosco frequently initiated car chases with Bo and Luke Duke ( whom Hogg wanted to get rid of due to them constantly exposing his corrupt schemes ), but the Duke boys were usually able to easily elude Rosco by outwitting him, with him usually meeting some accident in his patrol car as a result ( from which he would nearly always escape uninjured-only two episodes, the fourth season's " Coltrane Vs. Duke " and season six's " Too Many Roscos " toy with the concept of him being hurt during one of these escapades ).
According to various Chinese and Korean records, the southern part of Khabarovsk Krai was originally occupied one of the five semi-nomadic Shiwei, the Bo Shiwei tribes and the Black Water Mohe tribes living respectively on the west and the east of the Bureinsky and the Malyi Khingan ranges.
According to the Bei Shi ( Dynastic History of Northern Dynasties ) and the Sui Shu ( Chronicles of the Sui Dynasty ), both Chinese records, this area belong originally to the territory one of the five semi-nomadic Shiwei, the Bo Shiwei tribes ().
In August 1964, Checker Records released the album Two Great Guitars recorded by rock and roll pioneers Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley which is one of rock music's first recorded guitar jam sessions.
Bo Johansson left Molde after only one season in the club, and on Christmas Eve was Arild Stavrum announced as the new Molde-coach.
Furthermore, another inconsistency was that one of the original premises of The Dukes of Hazzard was that Bo and Luke were on probation, which would seemingly preclude them ( but not Coy or Vance ) from leaving the state of Georgia, much less the United States.
* The lord Bo Jonsson Grip was probably the one who was best acquainted with the geography of the Swedish kingdom since he owned more than half of it.
The lord, Bo Jonsson Grip, was probably the one who was best acquainted with the geography of the Swedish kingdom since he owned more than half of it.
By April 1980 Orion's first set of movie releases had yielded one hit — 10, starring Dudley Moore and Bo Derek — and a host of also-rans, including The Great Santini, based on a Pat Conroy novel about a Southern family, A Little Romance, and Promises in the Dark.
Written by Bo Jangeborg, author of the earlier ZX Spectrum program The Artist and The Artist II, it offered pixel editing in all four graphics modes, conversion of graphics from one mode to another and some basic animation functions.
The family has one dog, Figgie, a Portuguese water dog who was trained by Dawn Sylvia-Stasiewicz, the same dog trainer who trained the Obama Family's dog, Bo, as well as Ted Kennedy's dogs.
There was one titan engine for each of these nine planeswalkers: Commodore Guff, Tevesh Szat, Bo Levar, Daria, Taysir, Freyalise, Kristina, Lord Windgrace, and of course Urza himself.
Recently, he has featured his latest Gretsch, a custom white Billy Gibbons / Bo Diddley signature Gretsch Jupiter Thunderbird in the music video for " Another Way to Die ", this guitar is also used on his concerts with The Dead Weather, but he also uses a black left-handed one since Sea of Cowards came out.
The Three Hundred Tang Poems also has two poems by Li Bo addressed to Meng Haoran, one in his praise and one written in farewell on the occasion of their parting company.
The " Bo ′" truck is under one end of the unit, and has two powered axles, while the "( A1A )" truck under the other end of the unit has one powered axle, one idle axle, and another powered axle.

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