My father loved this song. He was buried with military honors on October 4th, 2021. We played this before he was dropped. Much love including anyone reading this comment ♥
I ran into Bo Diddley at the Atlanta airport around 2004. He was alone and I had a joyful conversation for about 15 minutes. I told him that I drove my parents nuts playing this song over and over back in 1957, 1958, and 1959....
Wow that’s nice. I’m 57 love the oldies and just heard this recently and it blew my mind. Couldn’t help but think what the kids back then thought like this is next level music. I also listened to it over and over and over.
Music was so good back then, but now with all the computers and softwares people can fake music, they can fake their voices, they can fake all they want... But I agree, it's hard to believe this came out in the 50's...
I am 80, Haley, Buddy, Elvis, Fats, Duane Eddy’s twangy, & Bo Diddley were on all the Juke boxes-- -- Everywhere even in FREDDYS BAR in Frankfurt am/ main west Germany in 1960, I was there. & “don’t you just know it” by Huey smith, now Huey was rock & roll, you young’uns gotta play Huey
Born in 46, first 45 I wver bought. Drove my family nutz by playing this a million times in a row.”. Bo signed his promo photo for me, calling me “the Worlds Greatest Bass Player. What a guy❤
This song rocks to no end....imagine hearing it in the 50s...rockin that hypnotic all brand new electric chugga chugga. Drums are grooving...amazing good immortal tune.
Bo Diddley was one of the first artists that jumped the color line and appealed to white kids all over the country. Hundreds of black performers owe their careers to this man!
My parents bought me a transistor radio in 1964. I was 11 years old. I stayed up at night to hear wolfman jack and bo diddley . my god, he is the greatest he stands alone , king of rock and roll. k
@@joshn938 You're right. It's easy to forget now that R&B and rock&roll were NOT "pop" music then. It was still very much "outsider" music. Thank you for your reply!
One of the most important figures in music history. Without him, Rock and its subsequent offshoots simply wouldn't have been. Rest in peace, Bo, and thank you.
Jennifer Brigitte Classical players had been using vibrato for hundreds of years before him. Also tremolo and vibrato are totally unrelated concept. I have no idea where you got this info but it’s false.
My dad used to blast this on his stereo in the 70's, and i love it till this day, my dads gone now but this was played at his funeral as us kids felt this was his favorite song. This song will always remind me of him. R.I.P dad.😢
Bo was one of the 1st stars I seen when I was a teenager back in the 50's. This "green" white kid went to a rock concert and saw some amazing early rock stars. Bill Haley and the Comets, Big Joe Turner, The Platters, Clyde McPhatter, LaVern Baker, The Drifters, Jimmy Reed, and others. I went to every live show I could get tickets to. A friend of mine worked in the ticket office of our local arena and I always got front row seats back then. Those are memories that I'll never forget! Did that from the 50's clear up thru the early 2000's!
I was 13 in 1955 and was mesmerized by Bo Diddley and its rhythms. He and the band were giving a live "concert" in a parking lot, and I was there! That experience never left me.
The switch of music into rock and roll was the most interesting transition of music in history. They formed up a new sound that can be argued about for eternity but that few years in the fifties was a bottle of lighting bugs shining at night and the sun coming up, The beat and move of it all.
Gary Cooper that was a beautiful post, (rare). Your analogy is perfect and beautifully sad for the harsh realities that were going to consume the rest of these visionaries careers and lives. I love listening to Bo playing the referee/distracting 'fool' between peacocking Muddy and Menacing wolf on those couple of 3 blues greats albums that chess(?)did. 3 fireflies...
Bo Diddley turns up all over early 1970s punk rock; the New York Dolls, Iggy and the Stooges, Buzzcocks, Suicide, the Clash etc. All very 'rhythm-oriented' artists...
Imagine being around listening to this for the first time back then music was so safe then this super talented groove a monster shakes everything up his sound is just amazing
Bo Didley , pure class !!! MASSIVE influence on Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, to name a few .... Such an important figure in American , World , Rock & Roll !!! Much respect .........
@Slim Pickens Chronology....you ever heard of it? Try it out! Ok, I'll save you a bit of time....Elvis started Rock'n'Rolling in 1954.....Bo Diddley in 1955. What does that tell you?
@Slim Pickens I lived through that time. I was a dj in the 50's. I knew many of the performers back then such as Chuck Berry, Johnny Otis, Fats Domino and many more. Not one black person back then disliked Elvis. Infact it was whites who were against him. Sadly, since he died, idiots like you, with no understanding of either the 50's or its music come out with this bullshit. Elvis was indeed white but he had a black soul inside. Grow up!
I could listen to this rhythm for hours. How does one come up with a rhythm like this? Totally unique and sounded like nothing from that era. Groundbreaking. It’s not TOO cool! Amazing.
This sure brings me back!! My drill sergeant (Staff Sergeant Ernie Johnson) in basic training (Ft. Ord, US Army '67) used to sing this to us while we marched double time (sort of a jogging trot for the non-vets out there)!! We loved it, and it worked well for our relentless running pace,... for the next few miles!! ;D
White people espec older white people considered this jungle music but the thing they feared the most were the white seventeen and twenty year olds grooving and going to the black concerts. Many performers were forced to play to all black or all white audiences enforced by the white racist police and local politicians. to Avoid trouble. Which has recently been replaced with. For your safety. You can t buy gas during the first twelve years of covid. For your safety You can t wear white socks during the first twelve years of covid For your safety. Write a song alan jackson or the dixie chicks or tim mcgraw or rob riggle about not being able to take a leak in your own house without a mask on. Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The gov all you men fought and died for. Doesn t believe in that anymore. Instead of fighting the germans the country is now run by the germans. They won
@@davidhallett8783 The audience was filled with white and black kids way back then. The leaders were apparently more prohibitive than most people at that time. However, most people knew good music and a really good band and did not care about color. I know because the young people in that audience are now about the same age as me. We loved R&B, the Blues, and Motown and still do.
March 2, 1955 - Bo Diddley has his first recording session at Universal Recording Studio in Chicago, where he laid down “Bo Diddley”, which went on the top the US R&B chart by the following June.
On this day in 1975 {May 16th} Bo Diddley performed "Bo Diddley" on the NBC-TV program 'The Midnight Special'*... Exactly twenty years earlier on May 16th, 1955 the song was at #3 on Billboard's R&B Best Sellers in Stores chart; the following week it would peak at #2 {for 1 week}, the week it was at #2 the #1 record was "Unchained Melody" by Roy Hamilton... On the same 'TMS' show he also performed "Crackin' Up"; in 1959 it would peak at #62 on the Top 100 and stay on the chart for 5 weeks... Bo Diddley, born Ellas Otha Bates, passed away on June 2nd, 2008 at the age of 79... May he R.I.P. * The show's theme for this episode was a 'retro tribute' to pop acts of the late 1950s and early 1960s; but Mr. Diddley was certainly no pop act...
Never got credit, but teen-aged Billy Boy Arnold who was McDaniels' harp player came up with the name Bo Diddley and wrote most of the lyrics. Arnold is still with us and a legendary blues figure in his own right.
I'm not one to comment usually but must say loved Bo since day 1 first heard from original records of my father instantly falling. Who do I ❤? Goes without sayin
BO AND Little Richard have never been given their due, as founders of rock and roll, as a pasty white American I knew this truth back in my garage playing days in the sixties!
I saw Bo once, said "My Dad saw you in '57 and I saw you in '97." He just laughed. #boknows
My father loved this song. He was buried with military honors on October 4th, 2021. We played this before he was dropped. Much love including anyone reading this comment ♥
Yes. Mr. Diddley. Is. All. That. An. Some. More. Played. That. Guitar. Like. He. Knows. What. He Is. Durning. ❤Aman. Love. You. Man. 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
Aman
I ran into Bo Diddley at the Atlanta airport around 2004. He was alone and I had a joyful conversation for about 15 minutes. I told him that I drove my parents nuts playing this song over and over back in 1957, 1958, and 1959....
Don’t want to come off jealous but tell you what - I’d have paid to be there :-D
Wow that’s nice. I’m 57 love the oldies and just heard this recently and it blew my mind. Couldn’t help but think what the kids back then thought like this is next level music. I also listened to it over and over and over.
Bo Didley needs a documentary or a biopic. His life story has not been told .
No diddley
I agree
So does Dion, Roy Orbison ,Chuck Berry and others.
Read a book.
@@bigduke5902 ?????
I can't believe this is from 1955, it sounds like it's from another dimension
Obviously you don't live in the real world.
MIKECNW Tosser.
Music was so good back then, but now with all the computers and softwares people can fake music, they can fake their voices, they can fake all they want...
But I agree, it's hard to believe this came out in the 50's...
way ahead of his time. How many rockers stole from him!
Bo is the REAL king of rock...
thank you mafia 2 for giving us this music ❤❤❤❤
Ong
Love him or hate him, he was truly ahead of his time.
Hate him?
@@JoeBat95 he.was.great.not.like.the.junk.we.have.now
I went this this guy's last show before he died. I got my ticket signed by him. So fucking cool
Damn, man! You HOLD on to that...!!
I bet you I could get at least 5$ for that on ebay! ;) (just teasing you)
I am 80, Haley, Buddy, Elvis, Fats, Duane Eddy’s twangy, & Bo Diddley were on all the Juke boxes-- -- Everywhere even in FREDDYS BAR in Frankfurt am/ main west Germany in 1960, I was there. & “don’t you just know it” by Huey smith, now Huey was rock & roll, you young’uns gotta play Huey
Maudlin
“Ha Ha Ha Ha” - Huey smith
Born in 46, first 45 I wver bought.
Drove my family nutz by playing this a million times in a row.”.
Bo signed his promo photo for me, calling me “the Worlds Greatest Bass Player.
What a guy❤
This song rocks to no end....imagine hearing it in the 50s...rockin that hypnotic all brand new electric chugga chugga. Drums are grooving...amazing good immortal tune.
The man was unique and a total genius.
Still rockin out to this masterpiece in 2023 and I’m 56!
When this came out I can only imagine their minds were blown away, completely!
Bo Diddley was one of the first artists that jumped the color line and appealed to white kids all over the country. Hundreds of black performers owe their careers to this man!
My parents bought me a transistor radio in 1964. I was 11 years old. I stayed up at night to hear wolfman jack
and bo diddley
. my god, he is the greatest
he stands alone , king of rock and roll. k
I got my radio when I was 7. I started listening to Rockabilly and never went back. I love Bo Diddley!
Hello Joan
This still gets me off.
Back in 1955 it must have sounded like it came from Mars.
back in 55 Elvis was just coming out you had to have been there mr. soul LOL
Imagine being used to hearing Bing Crosby, Doris Day, and Nat King Cole, and suddenly THIS explodes on your radio....mind-blowing for anyone in 1955!
Mr. Soul '69 imagine playing it on your brand new 55 Chevy radio. !!
@@joshn938 indeed!
@@joshn938 You're right. It's easy to forget now that R&B and rock&roll were NOT "pop" music then. It was still very much "outsider" music.
Thank you for your reply!
A pure masterpiece! That guitar tho!
I always keep replaying it again and again in 2022
I'm in brother..
Hell yes.
Mafia II nostalgia
2020 !
@@officialman yes
Modded Games just replayed it for like the 20th time. My all time favorite game
RIP Henry Tomasino
Yess
Bo, was just pure bad ass. George Thurgood respected his talent so much, he put him in a music video.
He was on stage with Thorogood at Live Aid; as was Albert Collins.
Well he DID steal bad to the bone from him damn near note for note
George respected Bo. His tribute song to him is awesome.
@@ganymeade5151 Yes sir, they were both kinda like father/son legends.
Forever Bo Diddley 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Hello Marie
Hello
One of the most important figures in music history. Without him, Rock and its subsequent offshoots simply wouldn't have been. Rest in peace, Bo, and thank you.
rite on
It's hardy sad when people die of old age.
He invented the tremolo guitar that added the vibrato. As far as I'm concerned, he is in the Mt. Rushmore of Rock n Roll
Bill Haley was doing R&R 2 years before Diddley.
Jennifer Brigitte Classical players had been using vibrato for hundreds of years before him. Also tremolo and vibrato are totally unrelated concept. I have no idea where you got this info but it’s false.
This is where Rock & Roll started,.
The amazing mr Bo Diddley!!!!!...
My dad used to blast this on his stereo in the 70's, and i love it till this day, my dads gone now but this was played at his funeral as us kids felt this was his favorite song. This song will always remind me of him. R.I.P dad.😢
Its 8 months late but sincerest regards to you and may he rest in peace.
Solid..
@@Bennahr_Fettthanks much
The best songs are not the ones you hear, but ones you feel. The rhythms are perfectly in the pocket.
I saw him A N D Chuck Berry in Houston Texas....
1972 & 1973🎸🎶
If it wasn't for this man we wouldn't have Rock and Roll...it would just be rock music
Revolutionary
Silky smooth strumming hand
Bo was one of the 1st stars I seen when I was a teenager back in the 50's. This "green" white kid went to a rock concert and saw some amazing early rock stars. Bill Haley and the Comets, Big Joe Turner, The Platters, Clyde McPhatter, LaVern Baker, The Drifters, Jimmy Reed, and others. I went to every live show I could get tickets to. A friend of mine worked in the ticket office of our local arena and I always got front row seats back then. Those are memories that I'll never forget! Did that from the 50's clear up thru the early 2000's!
Did you ever get to see Eddie Cochran?
lover please ,please come back don't take the train rolling down the track, great tune
@ bigdancd yo sho nuff hip young man
How was Frankie lymon on stage
Full of beauty.
He was a wonderful man I had the pleasure of meeting him. He cooked and being meals to our car lot in Florida. I always wanted a Hard rock jacket
Sat and had beer with him in T.O in the early 60's. He was a great guy and I was only a kid.
There are so many great singers from the 1950s who all were all great singers all great songs it's such a shame that it's all changed now real shame
Bo Diddley and that square guitar awesome
Birth of heavy.. 55
Yet another excellent recommendation Mr. Lynch!
Innovator and inspiration to the greats we love now.
Imagine being down by the lake with your best girl in an open top listening to Bo Diddley. I watched Pleasantville last week.
Here thanks to Mafia 2, fantastic soundtrack even better game. My all time favorite game!
I was 13 in 1955 and was mesmerized by Bo Diddley and its rhythms. He and the band were giving a live "concert" in a parking lot, and I was there! That experience never left me.
Always heard this song as a military cadence. What a grooving jam 😎
Bo Diddley was just THE most! A unique talent. Brilliant guitarist, great voice, he had style to the max.
Love the music and clothes !!!! Won't see it again 60s
This song makes the little hairs on my arm stand you....sounds just as good today as it did back in the 1950's.....
I cannot imagine what the music world would be like if Bo had not been a part of it.
Dieu apparaît là où on l’attend le moins à travers ses fils!..Bo Diddley éternellement !❤️❤️❤️❤️
I first heard Bo Diddley while in the navy,I was in a locker club in Long Beach and they played Bo Diddley on the PA system! Great times!
You feel this one in your bones
This was one rockin dude. From Bronson, Florida.🎤🎸🎹🥁🎻🎤
Remember it well...was 15 at the time...1955...Wes Paul earlier, then BO, put the electric guitar on the map....Great sound!
You mean Les Paul!
How in the world could someone make such amazing songs with like 3 chords??? Fucking genius
Hypnotic. Really only one chord. The others occur on the instrumental break and inbetween. vocal phrases.
Naming a song after your band is one thing, but it takes some grand ballsiness to do it as a solo artist. But Bo had it.
The switch of music into rock and roll was the most interesting transition of music in history. They formed up a new sound that can be argued about for eternity but that few years in the fifties was a bottle of lighting bugs shining at night and the sun coming up, The beat and move of it all.
Gary Cooper that was a beautiful post, (rare). Your analogy is perfect and beautifully sad for the harsh realities that were going to consume the rest of these visionaries careers and lives. I love listening to Bo playing the referee/distracting 'fool' between peacocking Muddy and Menacing wolf on those couple of 3 blues greats albums that chess(?)did. 3 fireflies...
I wish I could take a trip back minus all the racism
Bo Diddley turns up all over early 1970s punk rock; the New York Dolls, Iggy and the Stooges, Buzzcocks, Suicide, the Clash etc. All very 'rhythm-oriented' artists...
As good as it gets.
He had a great voice!
I'm so grateful that my parents brought me up on this music. Their generation.
the song that invented the beat that everyone else copied
Yeah, First heard Bo Diddley when Ah was 13 years old, an Ah was hooked on Rhythm an Blues. Real R&B!! Not what they call R&B now.
Liz Mac r&b is still good you just don't like it
Esta es la clave de son cubano imberbe musical ‼️
the beat is much older than this song
yep, songs like Faith (George Michael) Mr Brownstone (GNR) Persiana America (Soda Stereo) Tren al sur (prisioneros) to name a few
I saw AND HEARD this legendary guitarist twice in Houston, Texas in 1972 & 1973.🎶🎸
where?
cool guitar sounds
Imagine being around listening to this for the first time back then music was so safe then this super talented groove a monster shakes everything up his sound is just amazing
Bo Didley , pure class !!! MASSIVE influence on Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, to name a few .... Such an important figure in American , World , Rock & Roll !!! Much respect .........
There ought to be a museum just for Bo’s guitar collection.
This dude, Les Paul and Chuck Berry were messing things up in 1955....changing music forever !
dont forget Mickey Baker and Johnny 'guitar' Watson a year or two earlier.
Elvis and Bill Haley were well ahead.
@Slim Pickens Chronology....you ever heard of it? Try it out! Ok, I'll save you a bit of time....Elvis started Rock'n'Rolling in 1954.....Bo Diddley in 1955. What does that tell you?
@Slim Pickens evidence please? Or shut up.
@Slim Pickens I lived through that time. I was a dj in the 50's. I knew many of the performers back then such as Chuck Berry, Johnny Otis, Fats Domino and many more. Not one black person back then disliked Elvis. Infact it was whites who were against him. Sadly, since he died, idiots like you, with no understanding of either the 50's or its music come out with this bullshit. Elvis was indeed white but he had a black soul inside. Grow up!
I miss you dad,love you with all my heart!!!!😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
This song makes me bounce up and down. Bo Diddley!
I grew up this stuff. He was awesome.
I always loved this. My mom bought me my first 45rpm of Bo Diddley to play at my13th birthday. Great memories.
He's one of the pioneers of rock 'n' roll
One of the true Rock & Roll Kings! Best beat ever!
Bo's Rythym is just amazing. Rythym Master.
Brilliant. Original artist. He is something special.
Timeless
I could listen to this rhythm for hours. How does one come up with a rhythm like this? Totally unique and sounded like nothing from that era. Groundbreaking. It’s not TOO cool! Amazing.
Nothing from this era either and was cool, one of the best songs of all time.
He got it from African religious chantm.czcams.com/video/Wqvx2evI0eE/video.html
* henry tomasino dancing *
on a serious note, this song is absolutely phenomenal.
This sure brings me back!! My drill sergeant (Staff Sergeant Ernie Johnson) in basic training (Ft. Ord, US Army '67) used to sing this to us while we marched double time (sort of a jogging trot for the non-vets out there)!! We loved it, and it worked well for our relentless running pace,... for the next few miles!! ;D
if you don't know bo diddley, you don't know rock n roll.
Loved his music, great sound
I was allowed to live normally a week ago without knowing this song. Now that I known it, I don't know what would I do if it had never existed.
KICK ASS SONG. Get Down Bo.
One of the OG's of ROCK AND ROLL!!!
Best song of the 1950s.
I've always loved the "shave and a haircut" rhythm, and that wonderful guitar twang. First heard this song when I was still a baby.
Hello Nora
@@mrs.g.9816 yeah I really do. Where are you from if you don't mind?
jam out to this in my car .. people gotta get a taste of good music one way or another
+d jones bo diddley is awesome check out his song before your accuse me!!!
Ohhhhh Yeaaah great
lol
turn it all the way up baby!!!!
To be fair, that's probably what people who blast horrible music out of their car think, too.
Used to dance to this in Junior High. After every phrase, we'd yell "Hey, Bo Diddley!"
Hello Susan
Beyond cool
How can anyone not like this!! What a great sound and beat. Thanks for posting and thank you Bo!!
White people espec older white people considered this jungle music but the thing they feared the most were the white seventeen and twenty year olds grooving and going to the black concerts. Many performers were forced to play to all black or all white audiences enforced by the white racist police and local politicians. to Avoid trouble. Which has recently been replaced with. For your safety.
You can t buy gas during the first twelve years of covid. For your safety
You can t wear white socks during the first twelve years of covid
For your safety. Write a song alan jackson or the dixie chicks or tim mcgraw or rob riggle about not being able to take a leak in your own house without a mask on. Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The gov all you men fought and died for. Doesn t believe in that anymore. Instead of fighting the germans the country is now run by the germans. They won
And put your mask on while you re reading this
For your safety
Das ist ein befehl
@@davidhallett8783 Yawn
@@davidhallett8783 The audience was filled with white and black kids way back then. The leaders were apparently more prohibitive than most people at that time. However, most people knew good music and a really good band and did not care about color. I know because the young people in that audience are now about the same age as me. We loved R&B, the Blues, and Motown and still do.
Bo knows how to shake a leg he got rhythm, he was awesome in his own right and time!!!
Toda la obra de Diddley es fundamental para el R&B and Rock and Roll.
That little "Slide fade" or whatever, Is "Freakin' historic & awesome!!
Back in the day!!! When boy and girl dance together👫 ❤🧡 it
Hello Mary
Mafia 2 brings me here🎉🎉
Same
March 2, 1955 - Bo Diddley has his first recording session at Universal Recording Studio in Chicago, where he laid down “Bo Diddley”, which went on the top the US R&B chart by the following June.
I was born one week before and now i know why.. Had to be on this earth to hear this and what came after...so glad. Love you Bo!
Don't you mean Chess Records?
On this day in 1975 {May 16th} Bo Diddley performed "Bo Diddley" on the NBC-TV program 'The Midnight Special'*...
Exactly twenty years earlier on May 16th, 1955 the song was at #3 on Billboard's R&B Best Sellers in Stores chart; the following week it would peak at #2 {for 1 week}, the week it was at #2 the #1 record was "Unchained Melody" by Roy Hamilton...
On the same 'TMS' show he also performed "Crackin' Up"; in 1959 it would peak at #62 on the Top 100 and stay on the chart for 5 weeks...
Bo Diddley, born Ellas Otha Bates, passed away on June 2nd, 2008 at the age of 79...
May he R.I.P.
* The show's theme for this episode was a 'retro tribute' to pop acts of the late 1950s and early 1960s; but Mr. Diddley was certainly no pop act...
When people say I want candy is so original I get so mad and I was born in 91 😂
Love this song 🎵 ❤️
My dad loved this song. So do I. Shit be knockin'!
Never got credit, but teen-aged Billy Boy Arnold who was McDaniels' harp player came up with the name Bo Diddley and wrote most of the lyrics. Arnold is still with us and a legendary blues figure in his own right.
im 18 years old
and yes,I love this song
Okay
Cool beans I guess?
woooo nobody gives a shit
I'm not one to comment usually but must say loved Bo since day 1 first heard from original records of my father instantly falling. Who do I ❤? Goes without sayin
Great sound. What it must have been like to hear this when it was
first released.
cant live without this song
Hello Joyce
Hello Joyce
This song is for my dad😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
BO AND Little Richard have never been given their due, as founders of rock and roll, as a pasty white American I knew this truth back in my garage playing days in the sixties!