Bo Diddley Special II (TSP radio show 04/03/05)

To commemorate 50 years of Bo Diddley’s music. With thanks to David Blakey, keeper of the Bo Diddley Originator home page, for suggesting this show.

  1. Bo Diddley, ‘Bo Diddley’, Master # 7788 recorded 2 March 1955
  2. ‘I Can Tell’
  3. ‘(Extra Read All About) Ben’
  4. ‘Diddling’
  5. ‘Help Out’
  6. ‘Give me a Break’
  7. ‘Diana’
  8. ‘Bo’s Bounce’
  9. ‘Bo’s a Lumberjack’
  10. ‘Pills’
  11. ‘Not Guilty’
  12. ‘Jo Ann’
  13. ‘Hong Kong Mississippi’
  14. ‘Yakky Doodle’
  15. ‘Bo’s Vacation’
  16. ‘Do the Frog’
  17. ‘Congo’
  18. ‘500% More Man’
  19. ‘Down Home Special’ (1956)
  20. ‘Let Me Pass’
  21. ‘Bo Meets the Monster’ (1964)
  22. ‘Stop My Monkey’
  23. ‘Willie and Lillie’ (1958)
  24. ‘Limbo’
  25. ‘Bo Diddley is a Lover’
  26. ‘Puttentang’
  27. ‘Aztec’
  28. ‘Africa Speaks’
  29. ‘Bo Diddley is Loose’
  30. ‘You Can’t Judge a Book by Looking at the cover’
  31. ‘Pretty Girl’
  32. ‘Sad Sack’
  33. ‘Mama Don’t Allow No Twistin’

2, 4, 6, 8, 30, 32, 33 from Bo Diddley, USA CHECKER LP 2984 (1962) (original release)
3, 5, 7, 9, 31 from Bo Diddley & Company, USA CHECKER LP 2985 (1962) (original release)
10, 12, 14, 16, 24, 26, 28 from The Originator, USA CHECKER LP 3001 (1966) (original release)
11, 13, 15, 17, 25, 27, 29 from Bo Diddley is a Lover, USA CHECKER LP 2980 (1961) (original release)
18, 20, 22 from 500% More Man, USA CHECKER LP 2996 (1965) (original release)
19, 21, 23 from Chess Masters : Bo Diddley Volume 2 (compilation), PRT RECORDS CXMD 4009 2 x LP

The Sound Projector radio show,
originally broadcast on Resonance 104.4 FM