Me, too -when I was a kid I was watching this with my grandparents on the Ed Sullivan Show... G&G thought that this was the beginning of the Road to Perdition. As it turns out - they were probably right.
Can you imagine being used to listening to Bing Crosby and Doris Day , then out of the blue in walks Bo Diddley with is sound. It must have been a mind blower!
We knew of Bo in Gainesville, Fl. First R&R 45 we got in the 50s. He died about 30 miles west of town. The city music venue on the courthouse square is named for him.
Ok everyone has an opinion but why would you dislike this? This footage should be in our National Archives. This Man is sorely underated. This is where Rock comes from. Do you like Rock music? Well here ya go then!
i saw howling wolf perform years ago. he had to sit on a folding chair to play because of health issues i guess, but you could see and hear the greatness.
People today do not understand how revolutionary this piece of footage is, because they are caught up in today's genres. Not knowing that it is this moment and this man that kick started it all.
It would be wrong to give credit to just one performer, when numerous others, such as Chuck Berry, Elvis and Bill Haley began around the same time, independent of each other, and each forged his own unique signature sound and style.
Ahead of its time. Look at the dudes in the back. Look at all the energy they put into this 1 and a half minute song. This is how you create a masterpiece.
The MAN! Got to meet him during his Levi Blues tour & got pics of him. Coolest, most gracious dude EVER. His backup band-a local act-LOVED him, all 3 shows they just went nuts playing with him & would talk about it for years. First there was happy go lucky, fast cars, dances, falling in love music. Then Bo broke out that power "shave & a haircut, 2 bits" afro-caribbean rhythm and the FIRST-VERY FIRST badass lyrics! What the...?! Riding lions with rattlesnake whips & cobra snake neckties? I'm a man, straight up slow, powerful, masculine... I don't think Bo ever got the credit that Chuck, Little Richard & Elvis got, and it's a crying shame because he's the cornerstone of power rock & roll!!
I've listened to him for the first time right now and the first thought was he'd been ahead of his time. They say it's rock'n'roll, I wouldn't say so - it's something more deep.
Yeah. It is 5/4 bossanova polyrhthym. You can also do it this way: Play a 4/4 pattern in 8th notes in 2 bars. Then on every third hit, play ANOTHER rhythm line. On top of that play C D steps on top of the GF steps in line with that second rhythmic line.
Trust Me, I'm Black! Haha! No. It was at a dude ranch where my company had hosted their annual company picnic. The owners of the ranch hosted a private dinner (barbecue) with an open bar for all of their paying customers (businesses, not consumers). There were mostly white people there, but we were not all rich, I can assure you that.
Bo was a great man who did not see color. Very humble. I went to the University of Florida which is in Gainesville Florida about 10 miles from his home in Archer. Around 94 or 95 he did a free benefit concert for a local charity in a Walmart parking lot. Good times. He really rocked.
+Jesse Garduno Jesse, I don't know if you're aware of this but Bo didn't know how to play the guitar (AT ALL!!) He had his instuments tuned to the key of E and simply bridged his left index finger over the frets to play each cord. That's why his tunes were so primitively structured. He couldn't do it any other way. Most effective, however. The use of maracas was one of his famous innovations that worked like a charm putting the jungle into his stylings. The Stones picked up on the idea and integrated them into any number of their creations. I'm an old Chicago boy who loved Mr. Bo and most everything he did. Cheers
+Rogelio Velazquez Follansbee ... Bo Diddley's playing style wasn't because he didn't know how to play. It was because he had fat fingers and couldn't make a lot of the chords easily. His words by the way...
Snakebit, Tks for that info. I had no idea why he played the way he did. No matter what, Bo brought us that jungle sound of his that came, I'm guessing, from his South Chicago origins. I played drums in North Chicago R&R bands as a kid and we all tried to imitate him, Maracas and all. We'd listen like hawks to Chicago's black radio stations trying like the dickens to pick up that elusive sound. Isn't that where the Stone's use of maracas came from? The U.S sure was a whole different world back then. I kind of miss it. Tks again for bringing me up to speed. Roge
***** .... I think you are right on maracas ... Everyone goes on about Richards and Jagger forgetting that Brian Jones had a huge part in the Stones sound by introducing different 'World Beat' instrumentation and rhythms into that sound... Go back and listen to Brian Jones era Stones then listen to Post-Jones Stones and you can hear the differences... One thing about Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry is that they get set aside into a niche... Rock and Roll/Rhythm and Blues... but they were first and foremost Blues guys who just sped it up and put a 'dirty' bit to it...
This is it, the epitome of music. Bo diddley, the most underrated and inflentual musician of all time. Only James Brown came close. He influenced both the Beatles & The Rollinng stones, 'nuff said.
@@USNBLUEElvis was rock and roll watered down for white kids to make money. He didn’t have shit on Bo, Chuck, or Little Richard. He’s most important for being a gateway drug for kids who wouldn’t have heard the black stuff without him
@@Dragonflyer74 both blacks and whites loved Elvis music. That’s a known fact. Elvis was a mix of country western, black RB and gospel. Rockabilly is what it became. Elvis had a unique sound just like Bo did. All of them were great and left a legacy. Elvis loved Bo, BB King, Little Richard. He was good friends with Muhammad Ali. Elvis has the title of the King for good reason.
I am 7t I can't go a day without hearing no didley music it picks up my spirit makes me forget my illness that is better then medicine god bless you no didley my name is Ted
This is 1955....forward 10 years later..1965 there is another televised performance of him doing this Bo Diddley song. 1965 he has 3 females on stage with him. That 1965 show is great...technology had advanced...and his performance had matured. Absolutely check it out if you haven't seen it here on you tube...
It's really amazing, this had to be completely unique...the Audience had to feel like they were in the middle of a back to the future movie...all they had ever heard was big-band, frank Sinatra (crooners) and shit-kicker country - then this dude shows up. Thank You BO DIDDLY for introducing the world to the blues and birthing Rock and Roll!!
King Of The Broken-Rhythm Guitar. No (other) artist could come close to topping the legendary R&B original. The sound and the beat would inspire Buddy Holly & The Crickets, The Johnny Otis Show, The Strangeloves, and others, and they're all very good But Bo "broken-rhythm guitar" Diddley ROCKS!! R.I.P. Bo.
@@hamilton59840 It's called "The Bo Diddely Beat" and it's copied by many others: U2 - Desire , The Who - Magic Bus, The Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian, George, Michael - Faith, Buddy Holly - Not Fade Away
I agree it was important and maybe I read your original comment wrong, but I doubt that this performance attracted a larger audience than the Beatles. That doesn't make it worse than them as a performance.
Man, I'd love to see his footwork when he starts dancing like that. Bo was a boxer at one time. He's dancing so smooth, you could balance a glass of ice water on his head.
1950s hip hop. Pretty revolutionary stuff for that time. I imagine people were staring in disbelief at their TVs and radios when they heard this the first time.
I joined the Navy in 1959 and had a passionate love affair with a nurse who was 3 years older than I was. Just 3 years but she liked the Kingston Trio and that type of music while I was solidly into rock and roll. I let her slip away from me in 1961 and have never forgotten her. Nothing like music especially when you are young!
Yes of course Bo Diddley was the star. Now let me say this. His drummer on this video is outstanding. The heart of the Bo Diddley rhythm is the drummer. Who ever that drummer was I would give him a high five star rating. Any one know the name of this drummer????
What you're saying is true but if you have ever played with a band you know every instrument plays a rhythm. Bo Diddley's style of playing the guitar was innovative. At that time, no one was playing in that style. Since that time other guitar players have adapted his style. Listen keenly to his strumming of the guitar in this video. Then go listen to the beginning of Stevie Nick's song Edge of Seventeen aka Whire Winged Dove. You can hear the Bo Diddley style in the Stevie Nicks song. But not taking away from what you said the drummer is playing a unique rhythm ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE DAYS!
Because his music touched those of us which where were not within the golden circle of the chosen few, which always had the inside track for every thing. We found our truth in his music, and a few others of the time as well. All of which were so Loved because they reflected our dreams, which were kicked aside daily by the chosen few, and their enablers who ran the system. A poor kid from Oakland never forgot those realities, and where he came from so long ago.
Man, almost all people that know how to feel a real deal and with interested in history and can view how it looks world from our past, all Music lover's is love with Bo Diddley jungle beat... This was a completly new for people at this time, when music was very limited and very simular to each ones. When Bo playing this hipnotyzing jungle beat in thie live performance he was one of the first punk-rocker decision to play something other than Imposed track wich was force on him. This world was a very controlled by system and Bo did one of the first act of freedom and was a sacrificed his person for to show the world a song that has energy, is different than almost all hits and have this specyfic, hipnotyzing vibe ❤
THIS IS ROCK AND ROLL AT IT'S VERY BAD ASS FINEST ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES THIS IS THE SONG THIS IS THE MAN BO DIDDLEY CARLOS GUITARLOS USA HIGHLAND PARK L.A. 90042
This was his one, and only, appearance on the popular Ed Sullivan Show. Sullivan became enraged after this song because he was supposed to sing "Sixteen Tons", but they did this instead. It was all live TV back then, so no way to edit it out.
Great Music. I sponsored one of his concerts 1988 in Schaffhausen (Switzerland) and had a chat with him in his dressing room. I never forget it.Peter Shanahan
A band I played guitar in shared the bill with Bo at a university gig in 1972. It was a great experience. Long story, but one of the most fun gigs I ever played. Bo had the "Diddley Darlings" with him that night. Amazing stuff transpired.
Keith Richards used to wake up Jerome Green the maracas player at the bar when it was time for him to go on when the Stones toured the UK with Bo in '63!
Talk about performing under pressure!. Bo was told not to play his hit record by the boss of the show, Ed Sullivan, but instead to play "16 Tons" (Ernie Ford's big hit). He defied the profoundly "square" Ed and played it anyway. Of course that meant Bo would never be on the show again.
I'm 78 years old. Good times are not forgotten!
me too. I think it had to be one of the earliest real rock songs out there.
Me, too -when I was a kid I was watching this with my grandparents on the Ed Sullivan Show... G&G thought that this was the beginning of the Road to Perdition. As it turns out - they were probably right.
Im 17 and i love this music
We owe so much to these musical pioneers. Thank you, Bo.
Can you imagine being used to listening to Bing Crosby and Doris Day , then out of the blue in walks Bo Diddley with is sound. It must have been a mind blower!
Agree!
Bing was pretty revolutionary hisself back in the 20s, before he became Mainstream Middle America.
murder!
Trust Me, I'm Black! just the normal circle of things.
It was.
14 thumbs down? Bo Diddley was THE original groove master.
Bo Diddley created one of the most unique sounds in Rock & Roll history.
This man might be the most influential musician of modern times.. died with damn near no praise.
We knew of Bo in Gainesville, Fl. First R&R 45 we got in the 50s. He died about 30 miles west of town. The city music venue on the courthouse square is named for him.
Bo Diddley is in the Rock & Roll hall of fame. May he RIP 🙏🏽
I was 8 when I heard this. I was stunned. Changed my life.
Ok everyone has an opinion but why would you dislike this? This footage should be in our National Archives. This Man is sorely underated. This is where Rock comes from. Do you like Rock music? Well here ya go then!
this was my first taste of this kind of music and I never looked back. the drums are almost tribal, and they resonate. He was amazing.
African rhythm. Bo Diddley went back to his roots here.
IKR :D
Bo Diddley, Howling Wolf, Muddy Waters, and Robert Johnson - the four horsemen of Blues, opening the gates of hell to Rock n' Roll...
i saw howling wolf perform years ago. he had to sit on a folding chair to play because of health issues i guess, but you could see and hear the greatness.
People today do not understand how revolutionary this piece of footage is, because they are caught up in today's genres. Not knowing that it is this moment and this man that kick started it all.
It would be wrong to give credit to just one performer, when numerous others, such as Chuck Berry, Elvis and Bill Haley began around the same time, independent of each other, and each forged his own unique signature sound and style.
Trust Me, I'm Black! I trust you, because your black.
i trust you both because i am Hartmut. You understand? ;-)
Hartmut Writh Most expubidently!
Don't forget Ike Turner.
Listen to the beat...That's straight out of Congo..Man went back to his roots.
Bo used to refer to his sound as "jungle music".
In fact, it is similar to Carribean music, which is similar to west African yoruba music
Bingo
Its a cuban beat, can’t think of the instrument name but its like sticks they clack together.
@@mateomarquez4343 Claves?
Ahead of its time. Look at the dudes in the back. Look at all the energy they put into this 1 and a half minute song. This is how you create a masterpiece.
soothing tropical chords over a driving African beat. Brilliant
The MAN! Got to meet him during his Levi Blues tour & got pics of him. Coolest, most gracious dude EVER. His backup band-a local act-LOVED him, all 3 shows they just went nuts playing with him & would talk about it for years. First there was happy go lucky, fast cars, dances, falling in love music. Then Bo broke out that power "shave & a haircut, 2 bits" afro-caribbean rhythm and the FIRST-VERY FIRST badass lyrics! What the...?! Riding lions with rattlesnake whips & cobra snake neckties? I'm a man, straight up slow, powerful, masculine... I don't think Bo ever got the credit that Chuck, Little Richard & Elvis got, and it's a crying shame because he's the cornerstone of power rock & roll!!
Oh, jeez, good for you. I'm jealous!
Maracas on a rock n roll song !
Pure genius . Love the evolution of rock n roll .
the groove that never grows old
Before BO DIDDLEY, there was nothing!
Bill Haley and Elvis!
@@visaodissidente5560 yep, this was '55.....Haley was doing similar to this back in '50
*Cough* Jackie Brenston
@@bluephalanx Jackie Brenston was doing R&B, not R&R.
No there wasn't all musicians get inspired by others.
I've listened to him for the first time right now and the first thought was he'd been ahead of his time. They say it's rock'n'roll, I wouldn't say so - it's something more deep.
Yeah. It is 5/4 bossanova polyrhthym. You can also do it this way: Play a 4/4 pattern in 8th notes in 2 bars. Then on every third hit, play ANOTHER rhythm line. On top of that play C D steps on top of the GF steps in line with that second rhythmic line.
Saw him perform at a private party in 1990. Absolutely the best party/concert I ever attended. I will never forget that night.
I bet they was all rich white folks at that party.
Trust Me, I'm Black! Haha! No. It was at a dude ranch where my company had hosted their annual company picnic. The owners of the ranch hosted a private dinner (barbecue) with an open bar for all of their paying customers (businesses, not consumers). There were mostly white people there, but we were not all rich, I can assure you that.
Bo was a great man who did not see color. Very humble. I went to the University of Florida which is in Gainesville Florida about 10 miles from his home in Archer. Around 94 or 95 he did a free benefit concert for a local charity in a Walmart parking lot. Good times. He really rocked.
One of the best guitar players of all time: Bo Diddley.
+Jesse Garduno
Jesse, I don't know if you're aware of this but Bo didn't know how to play the guitar (AT ALL!!) He had his instuments tuned to the key of E and simply bridged his left index finger over the frets to play each cord. That's why his tunes were so primitively structured. He couldn't do it any other way. Most effective, however. The use of maracas was one of his famous innovations that worked like a charm putting the jungle into his stylings. The Stones picked up on the idea and integrated them into any number of their creations. I'm an old Chicago boy who loved Mr. Bo and most everything he did. Cheers
+Rogelio Velazquez Follansbee ... Bo Diddley's playing style wasn't because he didn't know how to play. It was because he had fat fingers and couldn't make a lot of the chords easily. His words by the way...
Snakebit,
Tks for that info. I had no idea why he played the way he did. No matter what, Bo brought us that jungle sound of his that came, I'm guessing, from his South Chicago origins. I played drums in North Chicago R&R bands as a kid and we all tried to imitate him, Maracas and all. We'd listen like hawks to Chicago's black radio stations trying like the dickens to pick up that elusive sound. Isn't that where the Stone's use of maracas came from? The U.S sure was a whole different world back then. I kind of miss it. Tks again for bringing me up to speed. Roge
***** .... I think you are right on maracas ... Everyone goes on about Richards and Jagger forgetting that Brian Jones had a huge part in the Stones sound by introducing different 'World Beat' instrumentation and rhythms into that sound... Go back and listen to Brian Jones era Stones then listen to Post-Jones Stones and you can hear the differences... One thing about Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry is that they get set aside into a niche... Rock and Roll/Rhythm and Blues... but they were first and foremost Blues guys who just sped it up and put a 'dirty' bit to it...
Tremolo on Ed Sullivan. 100 years ago. Wait, it's only 65 years ago? Close enough. See you in 35 years.
This is it, the epitome of music. Bo diddley, the most underrated and inflentual musician of all time. Only James Brown came close. He influenced both the Beatles & The Rollinng stones, 'nuff said.
I would agree with everything you said except James was equal in my eyes.
Elvis also set a standard as well.
Yeah, for style over substance and the obsessive idolization of "rockstars".@@USNBLUE
@@USNBLUEElvis was rock and roll watered down for white kids to make money. He didn’t have shit on Bo, Chuck, or Little Richard. He’s most important for being a gateway drug for kids who wouldn’t have heard the black stuff without him
@@Dragonflyer74 both blacks and whites loved Elvis music. That’s a known fact. Elvis was a mix of country western, black RB and gospel. Rockabilly is what it became. Elvis had a unique sound just like Bo did. All of them were great and left a legacy. Elvis loved Bo, BB King, Little Richard. He was good friends with Muhammad Ali. Elvis has the title of the King for good reason.
I am 7t I can't go a day without hearing no didley music it picks up my spirit makes me forget my illness that is better then medicine god bless you no didley my name is Ted
Hello from sunny Kazakhstan)
Bo Diddley, thanks for your song's!
I grew up on this stuff; guess I was lucky. All I knew was this was great music. B L M
Got to love his leg work to
Testify. The man had moves.
This is 1955....forward 10 years later..1965 there is another televised performance of him doing this Bo Diddley song. 1965 he has 3 females on stage with him. That 1965 show is great...technology had advanced...and his performance had matured. Absolutely check it out if you haven't seen it here on you tube...
It's really amazing, this had to be completely unique...the Audience had to feel like they were in the middle of a back to the future movie...all they had ever heard was big-band, frank Sinatra (crooners) and shit-kicker country - then this dude shows up. Thank You BO DIDDLY for introducing the world to the blues and birthing Rock and Roll!!
Yea, youre right. Friend. ))
King Of The Broken-Rhythm Guitar.
No (other) artist could come close to topping
the legendary R&B original.
The sound and the beat would
inspire Buddy Holly & The Crickets,
The Johnny Otis Show, The Strangeloves, and others,
and they're all very good
But Bo "broken-rhythm guitar" Diddley ROCKS!!
R.I.P. Bo.
one of the underappreciated godfathers of rock (and roll) music!
Lots of pure African rhythm, and before the square guitar and ladies. I gave him a ride home in my VW one night in 1975. He was his own man.
You gave Bo Diddley a ride home in your VW, back in 75? Were you smoking the wacky tobacky at the time?
He started on a Square Guitar, he was making his own combining Cigar box Guitar construction and electric pickups
This is pure rock and roll
Ed Sullivan introduced him as a "folk blues" musician. Guess th eterm rock'n'roll wasn't current yet
This is the rockin' R&B of the 50's,
with the unique "broken rhythm" beat. 😊
@@hamilton59840 It's called "The Bo Diddely Beat" and it's copied by many others: U2 - Desire
, The Who - Magic Bus, The Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian, George, Michael - Faith, Buddy Holly - Not Fade Away
Rock music origins in the 1950's.
Man were they good, in their sharp suits... clever lyrics ... and genius instrumental accompaniment.
The first ever rock and roll performance on main stream tv
I think Chuck Berry played tv a few months earlier.
Bill Haley "Crazy Man, Crazy", 2 years before.
Jerome Green on the Maracas!! So much passion out of these 4
He changed music forever right here
Leave it to Jerome.
Jerome!
Bo Diddley would`ve been 87 today. Born 30th December, 1928. R.I.P.
Bo Diddley death is on 2007
Took reall balls to support bo, in a time when all was in decline, a true legend...
Saw him and this group at Lu-Anns in Dallas 1962
Met him at an outdoor concert in the late 60s. Had to cut the convo short. He wanted to watch Ike & Tina. So did we.
Brilliant! The confidence, the insouciance, the energy. Dawning of a new day. One of the great inspirations for Presley.
Bo Diddley is the GODDAMN MAN and you better know it!!
The KING
Bo Diddley is God of rock and roll!
Wow, still sounds fresh and unique.
November 20, 1955 - This is the most important popular music performance in the History of The Ed Sullivan Show.
Gee, was it REALLY more popular than Beatles appearances?
Yes.
I agree it was important and maybe I read your original comment wrong, but I doubt that this performance attracted a larger audience than the Beatles. That doesn't make it worse than them as a performance.
Jerry Stanaway before the beetles
The originals that's all I am saying
bo diddley got an alley cat, to make pretty baby a sunday hat.
Man, I'd love to see his footwork when he starts dancing like that. Bo was a boxer at one time. He's dancing so smooth, you could balance a glass of ice water on his head.
1950s hip hop. Pretty revolutionary stuff for that time. I imagine people were staring in disbelief at their TVs and radios when they heard this the first time.
It's Rock & Roll not Hip-Hop.
you must be fun at parties huh chairman, you clearly don't understand music history
One of my favorite songs of all time!
The rawness this music has is amazing
out of all of the thousands of so called gentlemen i have experienced so far, Bo was one of the finest!
Bo was not good, he was simply the best ever.
He along with chuck berry invented rock and roll.
so did John Lee Hooker Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Muddy Watters, Robert Johnson and Sister Rosetta Tharp. You forgot some. and Jackie Brenston.
In the history of Rock and Roll this was truly a Reallie Reallie Big Shoee.. RIP Sir.
Yeah. :)Amazing drums and great song;)
It doesn't get any better than this 😉
Bo Diddley beat..! his guitar technique's amazing..
Amazing guitar. Well, and rhythm section too.
I’d love to know the names of the guys in the band!
Bo Diddley Rock And Roll's First Rebel.
God of rhythm.
First time I heard this it was like a thunderbolt
I joined the Navy in 1959 and had a passionate love affair with a nurse who was 3 years older than I was. Just 3 years but she liked the Kingston Trio and that type of music while I was solidly into rock and roll. I let her slip away from me in 1961 and have never forgotten her. Nothing like music especially when you are young!
Amazing. Just amazing. Still holds up in 2019
Yes of course Bo Diddley was the star. Now let me say this. His drummer on this video is outstanding. The heart of the Bo Diddley rhythm is the drummer. Who ever that drummer was I would give him a high five star rating. Any one know the name of this drummer????
Someone said his name was Clifton James.
It is Clifton James. RS mag even ranked him among the greats of all drummers, so yea...
What you're saying is true but if you have ever played with a band you know every instrument plays a rhythm. Bo Diddley's style of playing the guitar was innovative. At that time, no one was playing in that style. Since that time other guitar players have adapted his style. Listen keenly to his strumming of the guitar in this video. Then go listen to the beginning of Stevie Nick's song Edge of Seventeen aka Whire Winged Dove. You can hear the Bo Diddley style in the Stevie Nicks song. But not taking away from what you said the drummer is playing a unique rhythm ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE DAYS!
Because his music touched those of us which where were not within the golden circle of the chosen few, which always had the inside track for every thing. We found our truth in his music, and a few others of the time as well. All of which were so Loved because they reflected our dreams, which were kicked aside daily by the chosen few, and their enablers who ran the system. A poor kid from Oakland never forgot those realities, and where he came from so long ago.
Man, almost all people that know how to feel a real deal and with interested in history and can view how it looks world from our past, all Music lover's is love with Bo Diddley jungle beat... This was a completly new for people at this time, when music was very limited and very simular to each ones. When Bo playing this hipnotyzing jungle beat in thie live performance he was one of the first punk-rocker decision to play something other than Imposed track wich was force on him. This world was a very controlled by system and Bo did one of the first act of freedom and was a sacrificed his person for to show the world a song that has energy, is different than almost all hits and have this specyfic, hipnotyzing vibe ❤
Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley are the true Kings of Rock and Roll.
Are you kidding me, they're instrumental but Lil Richard is the creator.
@@aarondigby5054 no, I'm not kidding you, believe it or not.
Sleepy LaBeef enlightened me, of Bo Diddley's genius.
THIS IS ROCK AND ROLL
AT IT'S VERY BAD ASS FINEST
ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES
THIS IS THE SONG
THIS IS THE MAN
BO DIDDLEY
CARLOS GUITARLOS USA HIGHLAND PARK L.A. 90042
What it'd give to be apart of this classic generation of music
I have educated the Chally boys, James and Harry, to Bo Diddly - they will thank me 20 years from now.
Ground breaking right there
i know the Sound from the 1st LP by the Animals the track is named "The Story of Bo Diddley". That was 1965. Very nice.
Rock And Roll's first Rebel.
The Animals also covered "Road runner" also 1965. Very nice song.
SUPER !!! Fantastic R n B.....😍
i love the back story to this performance , makes this even better, so cool
I watch this concert in 2024 😮
Unforgettable ! What a beat ! RIP sir !
what a wonderful sound unlike music today musics got not hart or balls today
Mmmm, Tremolo. BO KNOWS!
The man was a master. I love when he let's his legs go!
He was supposed to play 16 tons and history was made.
Love the way bro stepped it back, nice dance groove.
This was his one, and only, appearance on the popular Ed Sullivan Show. Sullivan became enraged after this song because he was supposed to sing "Sixteen Tons", but they did this instead. It was all live TV back then, so no way to edit it out.
It was rare to see an electric bass back then.
Great Music. I sponsored one of his concerts 1988 in Schaffhausen (Switzerland) and had a chat with him in his dressing room. I never forget it.Peter Shanahan
I had the pleasure of doing a show with Mr Diddley,he treated me with respect and is one of the nicest famous person I ever met..
Where at?
Famous people * if you're going to lie atleast use proper grammar.
A band I played guitar in shared the bill with Bo at a university gig in 1972. It was a great experience. Long story, but one of the most fun gigs I ever played. Bo had the "Diddley Darlings" with him that night. Amazing stuff transpired.
40 years ahead of time
TODA UNA LEYENDA NOTABLE MUSICO QUE INSPIRO A TODA UNA GENERACION GRACIAS X SU INFINITO LEGADO MAESTRO BOB ...MARAVILLOSA MUSICA☯️✌️☮️
so raw and uncut ! f;n wow
THIS IS AMAZING
Got to see the man live and what a treat it was
That driving rhythm, the great lyrics .. none other than Bo Didley
He started it all
The definition of rhythm and cool.
Comparing this to the angsty gangsty stuff we have today makes my brain bleed
Bo, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Chuck Berry, and Little Richard created rock and roll. End of story.
Not long enough. I came out the womb that year. Now I know why. Bo!
Hello 👋 Phyllis,
How are you doing hope your having a wonderful holidays over there with you and your family
Keith Richards used to wake up Jerome Green the maracas player at the bar when it was time for him to go on when the Stones toured the UK with Bo in '63!
rock n roll artist extraordinaire
Talk about performing under pressure!. Bo was told not to play his hit record by the boss of the show, Ed Sullivan, but instead to play "16 Tons" (Ernie Ford's big hit). He defied the profoundly "square" Ed and played it anyway. Of course that meant Bo would never be on the show again.
and its clave too. great groove
R.I.P. Bobby Parker