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

In addition, Bo Diddley introduced a new beat and unique electric guitar style, heavily influenced by African music and in turn influencing many later artists.

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.

He later performed with Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley and George Thorogood on Thorogood's 1995 live album Live: Let's Work Together.

Early in the 20th century, D. C. was home to many bluesmen, such as Jelly Roll Morton and later rock & roll and rhythm & blues legends Bo Diddley and Roy Buchanan.

They toured Europe, recorded a live album in 1983, and later toured as Bo Diddley's backing group, recording the Hey ... Bo Diddley: In Concert album in 1986.

The performers were The Doors, Plastic Ono Band ( Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Eric Clapton, with Klaus Voormann and Alan White ), Bo Diddley, Chicago Transit Authority ( later renamed " Chicago "), Tony Joe White, Alice Cooper, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys, Gene Vincent, Junior Walker & the All Stars, Little Richard, Doug Kershaw, Screaming Lord Sutch, Nucleus, Milkwood, and Whiskey Howl.

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.

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

On November 20, 1955, African-American rock ' n ' roll singer and guitarist Bo Diddley appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, only to infuriate Sullivan (" I did two songs and he got mad ").

'" Indeed, Diddley seems to have been banned from further appearances, as " the guitarist never did appear on The Ed Sullivan Show again.

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

Musical acts have included: Bernard Allison, Luther Allison, Dave Alvin, Billy Bacon and the Forbidden Pigs, Tab Benoit, Tommy Castro, Albert Collins, Robert Cray, Deke Dickerson, Bo Diddley, Chris Duarte, Lil Ed and the Blues Imperials, Tinsley Ellis, Rick Estrin, Anson Funderburgh, Buddy Guy, the Hacienda Brothers, John Hammond, The Belairs, James Harman, Mark Hummel, Candye Kane, Jay McShann, Matt " Guitar " Murphy, Charlie Musselwhite, Rod Piazza, Ana Popovic, Otis Rush, Doug Sahm, Curtis Salgado, Gina Sicilia, Magic Slim, Watermelon Slim, Son Seals, Koko Taylor, Junior Wells, Kim Wilson, and Link Wray.

King, Bill Doggett, Golden " Big " Wheeler, Billy Branch, Bo Diddley, Bobby " Blue " Bland, Bobby Rush, Buckwheat Zydeco, Buddy Guy, Calvin Jones, Carey Bell, Carl Perkins, Chicago Blues Museum All Stars, Barrelhouse Chuck, Chuck Berry, Clarence " Gatemouth " Brown, Dave Myers, Dion Payton, Dr. John, Eddie Boyd, Eddie C. Campbell, Eddie Vinson, Eddy Clearwater, Etta James, Fenton Robinson, Floyd Jones, Fontella Bass, Hank Ballard, Henry Townsend, Homesick James, Hubert Sumlin, James Cotton, Jerry Portnoy, Jimmy Johnson, Jimmy Rogers, Jimmie Lee Robinson, Jody Williams, John Lee Hooker, Johnnie Taylor, John Brim, Johnny Shines, Johnny Winter, Junior Wells, Keith Richards, Koko Taylor, Little Milton, Little Willie Littlefield, Lonnie Brooks, Lowell Fulson, Louisiana Red, Luther Allison, Lurrie Bell, Magic Slim, Matt Murphy, Memphis Slim, Mick Taylor, The Neville Brothers, The Ice Cream Men, Otis Rush, Pee Wee Crayton, Pinetop Perkins, Ray Charles, Robert Cray Band, Robert Lockwood, Jr., Sam Lay, Otis " Big Smokey " Smothers, Snooky Pryor, Son Seals, Lacy Gibson, Staple Singers, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Sugar Blue, Sunnyland Slim, Taildragger, Taj Mahal, Willie Buck, Willie Dixon, Yank Rachell, Lil ' Ed Williams and the Blues Imperials, and Johnny B. Moore.

* Ed Sullivan suggested Bo Diddley sing a version of the song for his 1955 appearance on Sullivan's television show.

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 ".

On November 20, 1955, Bo Diddley was asked by Sullivan to sing Tennessee Ernie Ford's hit " Sixteen Tons ".

Instead, Diddley sang a rendition of his own song, " Bo Diddley ," angering Sullivan.

* George Thorogood and the Destroyers – " Who Do You Love " ( with Bo Diddley ), " The Sky Is Crying ", " Madison Blues " ( with Albert Collins ) ( JFK 18: 26 );

* February 8 – Bo Diddley records his songs " Hey Bo Diddley " and " Mona " ( aka " I Need You Baby ").

The Bo Diddley song " Who Do You Love " contains an extensive series of puns about a man hoodooing his lover.

" Bo Diddley " is a medley of " Bo Diddley " and " Who Do You Love?

" Please Set a Date " and their remake of the Bo Diddley song " Who Do You Love?

In 2009, they started using the Bo Diddley song " You Can't Judge A Book by Its Cover " in commercials.

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Other performers include: Howard Huntsberry, Marshall Crenshaw, Brian Setzer, and Bo Diddley performing a new version of his blues classic " Who Do You Love?

Subsequent singles included their version of the Bo Diddley song " Oh Yeah " ( which reached No. 39 nationally ), " Bad Little Woman " (# 91 ), and the powerhouse " I'm Gonna Make You Mine " (# 90 ), which can be seen as a precursor to hard rock.

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A guitarist, Craig went on to have international success as a singer / songwriter, achieving Australian and UK hit singles with his remake of the Bo Diddley song " I Need You Baby ( Mona )", as well as his self penned " Amanda ", " One Reason Why " and " On My Own ".

In 2002, he featured on the Bo Diddley tribute album, Hey Bo Diddley-A Tribute !, performing the song " Who Do You Love ".

In 2002, he was featured on the Bo Diddley tribute album Hey Bo Diddley-A Tribute !, playing piano on the songs " Pills ", " I'm A Man " and " Before You Accuse Me ".

The band's first single, " Emergency Ward " c / w their version of the Bo Diddley song " Who Do You Love ", was actually a Ward Austin single featuring Python Lee Jackson as backing group.

Tracks: Are You a Boy Or Are You a Girl / Mr. Tambourine Man / House of the Rising Sun / Marie Elena / Bo Diddley / Memphis, Tennessee // What the New Breed Say / Take It Or Leave It / I'll Keep on Seeing You / Linguica / Susie Q / I've Got a Woman

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Cheat You Fair includes the last recorded interview by Bo Diddley and is considered by many to be the definitive work on Maxwell Street.

In rock and roll, they are probably most identified with Bo Diddley, who wrote the song " Bring it to Jerome " about his maraca player, Jerome Green ( who also played maracas for Chuck Berry ).

* The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: The Coasters, Eddie Cochran, Bo Diddley, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Bill Haley, B.

Music historian Robert Palmer has noted that the style's influences are quite diverse, and include the Afro-Caribbean " Bo Diddley beat ", elements of " big band swing " and Latin music like the Cuban son and " Mexican rhythms ".

Diddley claims that his peers gave him the nickname, which he first suspected to be an insult.

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.

That was the first and last time that Bo Diddley performed publicly after suffering a stroke.

* 2002: Bo Diddley was honored as one of the first BMI Icons at the 50th annual BMI Pop Awards.

The " Bo Diddley beat " ( 1955 ) is perhaps the first true fusion of 3-2 clave and R & B / rock ' n ' roll.

Also at the first rehearsal were guitarist Geoff Bradford and vocalist Brian Knight, both of whom refused to join the band citing objections to playing the Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley songs preferred by Jagger and Richards.

The first recorded version of " Love is Strange " was performed by Bo Diddley, who recorded his version on May 24, 1956 with Jody Williams on lead guitar.

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.

Rock music's origins lie mostly in the music of the American South, and many stars from the first wave of 1950s rock and roll such as Bo Diddley, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Fats Domino, and Jerry Lee Lewis hailed from the Deep South.

One of the first generation of blues artists to take up the electric guitar, in 1942, she combined her Louisiana-country roots with Memphis blues to produce her own unique country-blues sound ; along with Big Bill Broonzy and Tampa Red, she took country blues into electric urban blues, paving the way for Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Little Walter, and Jimmy Rogers to travel from the small towns of the south to the big cities of the north.

The first batch of songs to leak came from an in-house compilation cassette that contained " Leave My Kitten Alone ", " One After 909 " ( from 1963 ), " If You've Got Trouble ", " Christmas Time ( Is Here Again )", " That Means a Lot ", " Come and Get It ", " Dig a Pony " ( unedited version ), and two medleys from the Get Back / Let It Be sessions: " Rip It Up / Shake, Rattle and Roll " and " Not Fade Away / Bo Diddley ".

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

On March 2, 1955, the Chess brothers recorded their first rock and roll artist, Bo Diddley.

" On November 5, 2002, BMI named him its first country songwriting Icon, placing him alongside R & B legends Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and James Brown as the only recipients of that award.