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The Animals |
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Miscellaneous |
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The Story of Bo Diddley |
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Now lets hear the story of Bo Diddley |
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And the Rock n Roll scene in general |
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Bo Diddley was born Ellis McDaniels |
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In a place called McCoom, Missississipi about 1926 |
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He moved to Chicago about 1938 |
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Where his name was eventually changed to Bo Diddley |
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He practiced the guitar everyday and sometimes into the night |
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Till his papa's hair began to turn white |
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His Pa said "Son, listen hear, I know |
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You can stay but that guitar has just gotta go" |
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So he pulled his hat down over his eyes |
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Headed out for them Western Skies |
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I think Bob Dylan said that |
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He hit New York City |
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He began to play at the Apollo in Harlem |
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Good scene there everybody raving |
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One day, one night, came a Cadillac with four head lights |
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Came a man with a big, long, fat, cigar said, |
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"C'mere son, I'm gonna make you a star" |
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Bo Diddley said, "Uh..whats in it for me?" |
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Man said, "Shut your mouth son, |
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play the guitar and you just wait and see" |
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Well, that boy made it, he made it real big |
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And so did the rest of the rock n roll scene along with him |
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And a white guy named Johnny Otis took Bo Diddleys rhythm |
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He changed it into hand-jive and it went like this |
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In a little old country town one day |
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A little old country band began to play |
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Add two guirtars and a beat up saxophone |
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When the drummer said, boy, those cats begin to roam |
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Oh baby oh we oh oh |
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Ooh la la that rock and roll |
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Ya hear me oh we oh oh |
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Ooh la la that rock and roll |
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Then in the U.S. music scene there was big changes made |
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Due to circumstances beyond our control such as payola |
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The rock n roll scene died after two years of solid rock |
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And you got discs like, ah... |
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Take good care of my baby |
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Please don't ever make her blue and so forth |
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About, ah, one year later in a place called Liverpool in England |
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Four young lads with mop haircuts began to sing stuff like, ah... |
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It's been a hard days night and I've been working like a dog and so on |
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In a place called Richmond in Surrey, whay down in the deep south |
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They got guys with long hair down their back singing |
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I wanna be your lover baby I wanna be your man yeah and all that jazz |
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Now we've doing this number, Bo Diddley, for quite some time now |
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Bo Diddley visited this country last year |
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We were playing at the Club A Gogo in Newcastle, our home town |
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The doors opened one night and to our surprise |
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W alked in the man himself, Bo Diddley |
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Along with him was Jerome Green, his maraca man, |
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And the Duchess, his gorgeous sister |
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And a we were doing this number |
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Along with them came the Rolling Stones, the Mersey Beats, |
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They're all standing around diggin' it |
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And I overheard Bo Diddley talkin' |
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He turned around to Jermone Green |
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And he said, "Hey, Jerome? What do you think these guys |
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Doin' our..our material?" |
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Jerome said, "Uh, where's the bar, man? Please show me to the bar..." |
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He turned around the Duchess |
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And he said, "Hey Duchess...what do you think of these young guys |
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Doin' our material?" |
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She said, "I don't know. I only came across here |
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To see the changin' of the guards and all that jazz." |
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Well, Bo Diddley looked up and said to me, |
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With half closed eyes and a smile, |
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He said "Man," took off his glasses, |
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He said, "Man, that sure is the biggest load of rubbish |
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I ever heard in my life..." |
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Hey Bo Diddley |
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Oh Bo Diddley |
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Yeah Bo Diddley |
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Oh Bo Diddley |
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Yeah Bo Diddley |