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Bo Diddley buy his baby diamond ring

If that diamond ring don't shine
He gonna take it to a private eye
If that private eye can't see
He better not take the ring from me

Bo Diddley caught a nanny goat
To make his pretty baby a Sunday coat
Bo Diddley caught a feral cat
To make his pretty baby a Sunday hat

Mojo come to my house with black cat bone
A-take my baby all away from home
Ugly that Mojo, where has he been
Up your house and gone again
Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley have you heard
My pretty baby said she was a bird

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 Charts

The single release was one of Holly's highest-charting singles on the UK Singles Chart, reaching #4 on the week of July 10, 1963, spending a total of 12 weeks on the chart. In the U.S., the song reached #116 on Billboard magazine's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.

Other versions

• The song was performed by a supergroup consisting of Diddley, Muddy Waters and Little Walter on Super Blues in 1967.
• The Grateful Dead backed Diddley himself on the song, at the Academy of Music in New York City, March 25, 1972 (see the official release Dick's Picks Volume 30). They then went on to perform another Diddley song, Hey! Bo Diddley, on May 23, 1972, at the Lyceum Theater in London, England, during their 1972 European tour (see the official release Europe '72: The Complete Recordings).
• The song was featured in Fritz the Cat during a scene in Harlem.

Single by Buddy Holly
from the album Reminiscing
B-side	"It's Not My Fault"
Released	1963
Recorded	1956 and 1962 (overdubs)
Studio	Norman Petty Recording Studios, Clovis, New Mexico
Genre	Rock and roll, rockabilly
Length	2:23
Label	Coral
Songwriter(s)	Ellas McDaniel a.k.a. Bo Diddley
Producer(s)	Norman Petty
Buddy Holly singles chronology
"Brown Eyed Handsome Man" (1963) "Bo Diddley" (1963) "Wishing" (1963)

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Single track listings

US 7"/10" Single

Side one

1. "Bo Diddley"

Side two

1. "I'm a Man"

UK 7" EP

Side one

1. "Bo Diddley"
2. "I'm a Man"

Side two

1. "Diddley Daddy"
2. "She's Fine, She's Mine"

UK 7" Single

Side one

1. "Bo Diddley"

Side two

1. "Detour"

   Cover versions

   Buddy Holly versionBuddy Holly recorded the song in 1956, but it was not released until the LP Reminiscing in 1963 and later became a single release.

   Recording

   Buddy Holly on vocals/guitar and Jerry Allison on drums recorded "Bo Diddley" at one of their earliest sessions with producer/engineer Norman Petty at his recording studio in Clovis, New Mexico, sometime in 1956. In 1962 Norman Petty overdubbed the demo of "Bo Diddley", as well as others, with the Fireballs.

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 He first titled his version "Uncle John" but before he recorded it, he changed the title to his own nickname Bo Diddly, with an "e" added to the song's title and his professional name by one of the Chess brothers.

Reception

Three weeks after Billboard magazine announced the release of "Bo Diddley", on April 30, 1955, the paper announced two remakes of "Bo Diddley" by the Joe Reisman Orchestra and by Jean Dinning of The Dinning Sisters. The Harmonicats released their own version, an instrumental, a few weeks later. "Bo Diddley" went on to become the 17th best selling R&B record of 1955, according to Billboard.

Legacy and awards

This first single was called a "double-sided monster" by All-Music Guide reviewer Richie Unterberger. "Bo Diddley" was infused with waves of tremolo guitar, set to a children's chant. "I'm a Man" was a bump-and-grind shuffle, with a powerful blues riff woven throughout. The outcome was a new kind of guitar-based, blues and R&B-drenched, rock and roll. The song was voted #62 on Rolling Stone magazine's list, "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The song is also a part of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs that shaped Rock and Roll" list. In 1998 "Bo Diddley" was given a Grammy Hall of Fame Award. In 2017, the single was inducted in to the Blues Hall of Fame.

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"Bo Diddley" is a rhythm and blues and rock and roll song first recorded by Bo Diddley at the Universal Recording Studio in Chicago and released on the Chess Records subsidiary Checker Records in 1955. Written by Diddley, its lyrics are based on the traditional lullaby titled "Hush Little Baby", and it prominently features the Bo Diddley beat that the singer made famous. It became an immediate hit single that stayed on the R&B charts for a total of 18 weeks, 2 of those weeks at #1, and seven more weeks than its flipside (the B-side, "I'm a Man"). It was the first recording to introduce African rhythms into rock and roll directly by using the patted juba beat. It was Diddley's first recording and his first hit single. The song is featured on many of Diddley's compilation albums including His Best.

In 2012 the A and B-side pair were added to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry list of "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important" American sound recordings. In 2017, the single was inducted in to the Blues Hall of Fame.

Song

The song is rhythmically similar to hambone, a technique of dancing and slapping various parts of the body to create a rhythm and song. It is lyrically similar to the traditional lullaby "Hush Little Baby". When Diddley started playing with it, his electric guitar amplified the patted juba with his backup musicians on maracas and drums unifying the rhythm. This combination of rock and roll, African rhythms and sanctified guitar chord shouts was a true innovation and is often called a Bo Diddley Beat.

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 21.11.1995 - Legendary manager of Led Zeppelin Peter Grant died from a heart attack aged 60. Known as being one of the shrewdest and most ruthless managers in rock history, Grant secured 90% of concert gate money and intimidated record store owners who dealt in bootlegs. The former wrestler, also worked as a film extra and bodyguard. During the early 60’s Grant worked as a tour manager for Bo Diddley, The Everly Brothers, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent and The Animals.