This is the definitive collection of classic Diddley, including I'm a Man; Who Do You Love; Bo Diddley; Say Man; Pretty Thing; You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover; Road Runner; Mona; Diddley Daddy; Pills , and 10 more.
Digitally remastered two-fer containing a pair of albums from the Rock 'n' Roll legend (plus two bonus tracks): Bo Diddley (1957) and Go Bo Diddley (1959). The two bonus tracks are taken from the same recording sessions, but were not included on either album. It also contains a 16-page booklet including rare photos, vintage memorabilia, detailed liner notes and more. Rattle & Roll Records. 2010.
By the time of these recordings, Bo Diddley was a recording star with a string of hits and classic tracks and was living in Washington, D.C. with a fairly basic recording studio in the basement of his Rhode Island Avenue home. There, he self-produced demos, finished recordings and sent them to Chess Records in Chicago. This was, at the time, simply revolutionary; recording artists didn't own their own studios and produce their own recordings. Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, and James Brown were soon to change that, but these recordings and Bo Diddley were there first.
All 54 tracks on these two CDs were recorded over a 13 month period in Bo's basement studio and delivered to Chess. Many went on to be the crux of such classic Diddley LPs as In The Spotlight, Bo Diddley Is A Gunslinger, and Bo Diddley Is A Lover, and included such key Bo tracks as "Ride On Josephine," "Live My Life," and the title track to Gunslinger. 17 others are previously unreleased, while many others are simply rare.
Some of the recordings are demo raw, while others as polished as any Bo Diddley track. The music is also as lively and as diverse as you'd expect from Bo: rockers, novelties, instrumentals, blues, doo wop ballads et al. His band at the time is present more often than not: Jerome Green on maracas; Peggy Jones on guitar; Clifton James on drums; with a rotating piano seat including Otis Spann, Lafayette Leake and more.
Like the previous two Hip-O Select collections of Bo Diddley's historic Chess recordings, this double CD comes with great period photos, in-depth liner notes and track-by-track research courtesy of George R. White, Bo's biographer and discographer.
On March 8, 2011, Hip-O Select is proud to present the first reissue of Bo Diddley's Beach Party, the legendary rocker's first live album ever. A rough `n' tumble affair recorded live at a raucous Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, beach club on July 5 and 6, 1963, the album presents the Rock `n' Roll Hall Of Famer blasting his way through ten songs, nine originals plus an instrumental take on Chuck Berry's "Memphis."
In the liner notes for the package, critic/deejay Chris Morris says that it's a "live album that bristles with almost punk-like energy. Kicking off with a Diddley-fied cover of Chuck Berry's 1959 recording `Memphis,' Beach Party blazes through a hot set of cornerstone numbers - `Gunslinger,' `Hey Bo Diddley,' `Road Runner' and `Crackin' Up' (retitled `What's Buggin' You') - plus such oddities as an instrumental take on `On Top Of Old Smokey' and an adaption of...'Mr. Custer'... Bo & Co. tore up `the redneck Riviera' with their raucous, beat-crazed attack and exuberant songs."
We couldn't have said it any better ourselves, and for the first time since its original release in late 1963, Bo Diddley's Beach Party will once again be available to rock your blues away.
2011 collection containing the A and B-sides of every single released by the amazing Bo Diddley between his debut in 1955 to 1958. This collection features such iconic hits recorded countless times since by acts like The Rolling Stones, as "Bo Diddley, "I'm A Man", "Mona", "Who Do You Love" and "Pretty Thing". Bo Diddley was one of a handful of artists whose recordings helped reshape popular music during the 1960s and his importance cannot be overstated. Jasmine.
Digitally remastered two-fer containing a pair of albums from the Rock 'n' Roll legend (plus two bonus tracks): Bo Diddley (1957) and Go Bo Diddley (1959). The two bonus tracks are taken from the same recording sessions, but were not included on either album. It also contains a 16-page booklet including rare photos, vintage memorabilia, detailed liner notes and more. Rattle & Roll Records. 2010.
