Bo Diddley - Crackin Up
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2012
- Bo Diddley - vocal & guitar, Clifton James or Frank Kirkland - drums
Willie Dixon - bass, Jerome Greene - maracas. Backing vocals
The Carnations aka The Teardrops; Harvey Arrington, Tommy
Blackwell, Carl Hatton, Edward Kennedy, Matthew Morales.
Recorded December 1956, Originall Checker #924.
Album: Bo Diddley 'I'm A Man - The Chess Masters 1955-1958'
Read a comment that said this song saved teenage Jim Morrison’s life. Here’s a paraphrased quote from Jim:
“I was lying in bed wondering if I could will myself dead without having to do anything and I started to feel like I could jump off a building or throw myself in front of a train pretty easily, when this song came on the radio. I jumped out of bed and was dancing around my room. I felt so alive. Not holding on. But ALIVE. Then I had to hear that song again...Every waking hour, I just kept thinking about that song. I waited three days to hear it again. By then, the need to die passed”
-Jim Morrison
Amazing story, this is certainly one of Bo’s uniquely structured tunes, very melodic, one of my favorites by him.
I sure wish jim could've kept that feeling. What a loss for the rock world.
Hey man he was my friend , I jammed with him and his family for 30 years, and we were the last group to play at his wake. When you pulled in the driveway way out in Bronson, FL. the sign said "Ellias McDaniel". Man you couldn't be interested in a cooler dude. Bo was one of a kind. Very kind .
One of the greatest musicians of the 20 century
@@Dan-mi7hn Right!
Yes. I had the pleasure meeting him once at the Hard Rock Cafe, the restaurant part, in Stockholm 1996 (I think it was) We had a long chat and he was a very interesting and humble man. One of a kind as you say.
Bo really shaped the true sound of rock n roll more than anybody else! Built his own guitars too! How seriously COOL! 👍😎
There's nothing better than a great song that is 2 minuts long
Pretty cool voice and guitar
The song that saved a teenage Jim Morrison's life.
That's how I discovered this song, it was in a book where it said, he think about suicide and he listen this
"Cuando Bo Diddley salvò a un joven Jim Morrison de cometer suicidio".
En 1959 Alexandria, Virginia, era un tranquilo suburbio de Washington, D.C. Popular por las familias de empleados del gobierno y por el personal militar que ahí habitaba. En enero, los Morrison se movieron a una casa confortable en la avenida Woodlawn 310, un domicilio al cual Jimmy tuvo disponibilidad para llamar durante dos años y medio.
Por la noche, solitario, deprimido y aislado de su familia, a Jimmy le gustaba desvelarse escuchando el radio, las estaciones bíblicas, sorprendido por los evangelistas sureños hablando del apocalipsis y la humanidad ardiendo en llamas y por los DJ`S de las estaciones AM de Rock and Roll de la frontera Mexicana, las cuales se escuchaban en Norteamérica. Una noche Jimmy pensó en suicidarse, pero entonces, repentinamente se escuchò en el radio "Crackin Up" de Bo Diddley, una canciòn de broma acerca de enloquecer.
Jimmy no tuvo màs que reír y eso le hizo sentir mejor, le hizo sentir que la vida valìa la pena ser vivida.
Bo Diddley, creador del Rock And Roll negro , salvò la vida a Jimmy esa noche.
I'me here too for the same reason ☺️ To pay honors
@@hunny945
So am I.
What a song in these ruff times
Awesome. Loved loved loved Bo Diddley
On this day in 1975 {May 16th} Bo Diddley performed "Crackin' Up" on the NBC-TV program 'The Midnight Special'...
Sixteen years earlier on July 6th, 1959 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #62 and spent 5 weeks on the Top 100...
It reached #14 on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart...
Bo Diddley, aka Ellas Otha Bates, passed away on June 2nd, 2008 at the age of 79...
R.I.P. Mr Diddley and Robert Weston Smith {aka Wolfman Jack; 1938 - 1995}
Are you Barry who always comments on songfacts?
Dig that crazy Magnatone vibrato!
Is this a great song or what?! Nice cha cha beat, Love it! Thank you for the posting, and the memory. Beth Wishes!
Remembered a hippie version from my youth when hearing the Stones version of this on the radio.
And now I'm here, like finding an old friend after years.
Thanks UA-cam :D
So this is where Ike Turner got the concept for his song Boxtop
Cuando por primera vez te vi...
supe que el cielo era para ti y para mi
Very similar to Mickey & Sylvia's "Love Is Strange" from 1956.
Bo Diddley wrote that too.
"What's BUGGIN yeeww???"
Best bo diddley song
Best version, from happy days, before fame. Listened to WLAC Nashville as a boy late 50s.
Same here, high school, lots of catchy tunes of that age.
incredible good love this for ever.
I seen this man in vicer street one of the best. I met him after the show. Agentle man
And yes i shook his hand. Unforgently he died a couple years later. Rip bo
wish I had a dollar in my pocket for every time we played this at sock hops. Birmingham,al.
He had "McDaniels" on the mailbox every time I went out to the ranch in Bronson, FL.
Great song
"Cuando Bo Diddley salvò a un joven Jim Morrison de cometer suicidio".
En 1959 Alexandria, Virginia, era un tranquilo suburbio de Washington, D.C. Popular por las familias de empleados del gobierno y por el personal militar que ahí habitaba. En enero, los Morrison se movieron a una casa confortable en la avenida Woodlawn 310, un domicilio al cual Jimmy tuvo disponibilidad para llamar durante dos años y medio.
Por la noche, solitario, deprimido y aislado de su familia, a Jimmy le gustaba desvelarse escuchando el radio, las estaciones bíblicas, sorprendido por los evangelistas sureños hablando del apocalipsis y la humanidad ardiendo en llamas y por los DJ`S de las estaciones AM de Rock and Roll de la frontera Mexicana, las cuales se escuchaban en Norteamérica. Una noche Jimmy pensó en suicidarse, pero entonces, repentinamente se escuchò en el radio "Crackin Up" de Bo Diddley, una canciòn de broma acerca de enloquecer.
Jimmy no tuvo màs que reír y eso le hizo sentir mejor, le hizo sentir que la vida valìa la pena ser vivida.
Bo Diddley, creador del Rock And Roll negro , salvò la vida a Jimmy esa noche.
Bad ass
fist heard this song b the stones never new it carried such deep roots
+BURRO360 The Rolling Stones love their Blues, their Rhythm and Blues, and have learned a lot from the likes of Bo Diddley, "the Originator". They have done great versions of their own of many a 1950s American original.
And Mickey and Sylvia did Love is strange after this...😊
Excellent !
Listening to this, I can understand how Bo Diddley is also the composer of "Dearest" (aka "Umm Oh Yeah").
Sounds like a mariachi band. I like it.
JaggerIRichards haben das gut verwurstet. Auch gut gemacht.
YES!
What a great tune. Killer 3-chord riff!
A Memory for our savior naem jesus wardeh who is banging bo jnde right now and watching the blue site at the same time.
16/9/2021
معك بشار ، حوّل
كيف عم تفكر انو محمد كتب هيك؟!، أكيد مارح يكتب ع حالو
الAKF ديبحتك
لا كنت عم قلو انو هادا انت يلي عم تحكيني كمان... قصدي عنك انت بشار
فكرتك انت يلي عم تحكيني وتس كمان
masterpeice
elo - lights go down
Bo will allways be rememb ered all over the world
you BUGGIN' me :o)
Клево!!
Thanks for the reply; I did a little web surfing and found that he was born 'Ellas Otha Bates', performed under the name 'Bo Diddly' but when he composed a song he used the name 'Ellas McDaniels'...
I could not find any explanation on the internet why he did this, but I guess it really doesn't matter, for he was just plain great!!!
Thanks again...
He was born elias mcdaniel...
@ Patrick Wall, yeah, i can hear that. But lots of influences possible.
December 30
RIP No Diddley
The roots of Buddy Holly?
Bo Diddley-The Originator
Yessss
sounds like some early ska influence too....
sounds pretty reggae for me
Calypso, as they called it at the time.
Good luck convincing me that's not one of the best songs ever recorded