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Rock pioneer Bo Diddley has died. He was 79. A spokeswoman says Diddley died of heart failure Monday. He had suffered a heart attack in August 2007, three months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa.
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Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock ’n’ roll whose distinctive “shave and a haircut, two bits” rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday after months of ill health. He was 79.
Diddley died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Fla., spokeswoman Susan Clary said. He had suffered a heart attack in August, three months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa. Doctors said the stroke affected his ability to speak, and he had returned to Florida to continue rehabilitation.
The legendary singer and performer, known for his homemade square guitar, dark glasses and black hat, was an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, had a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, and received a lifetime achievement award in 1999 at the Grammy Awards. In recent years he also played for the elder President Bush and President Clinton.
Diddley appreciated the honors he received, “but it didn’t put no figures in my checkbook.”
“If you ain’t got no money, ain’t nobody calls you honey,” he quipped.
Introducing BoThe name Bo Diddley came from other youngsters when he was growing up in Chicago, he said in a 1999 interview.
“I don’t know where the kids got it, but the kids in grammar school gave me that name,” he said, adding that he liked it so it became his stage name. Other times, he gave somewhat differing stories on where he got the name. Some experts believe a possible source for the name is a one-string instrument used in traditional blues music called a diddley bow.
His first single, “Bo Diddley,” introduced record buyers in 1955 to his signature rhythm: bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp, often summarized as “shave and a haircut, two bits.” The B side, “I’m a Man,” with its slightly humorous take on macho pride, also became a rock standard.
The company that issued his early songs was Chess-Checkers records, the storied Chicago-based labels that also recorded Chuck Berry and other stars.
Howard Kramer, assistant curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, said in 2006 that Diddley’s Chess recordings “stand among the best singular recordings of the 20th century.”
Diddley’s other major songs included, “Say Man,” “You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover,” “Shave and a Haircut,” “Uncle John,” “Who Do You Love?” and “The Mule.”
Spreading influenceDiddley’s influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic. Buddy Holly borrowed the bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp rhythm for his song “Not Fade Away.”
The Rolling Stones’ bluesy remake of that Holly song gave them their first chart single in the United States, in 1964. The following year, another British band, the Yardbirds, had a Top 20 hit in the U.S. with their version of “I’m a Man.”
Diddley was also one of the pioneers of the electric guitar, adding reverb and tremelo effects. He even rigged some of his guitars himself.
“He treats it like it was a drum, very rhythmic,” E. Michael Harrington, professor of music theory and composition at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., said in 2006.
Many other artists, including the Who, Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello copied aspects of Diddley’s style.
Growing up, Diddley said he had no musical idols, and he wasn’t entirely pleased that others drew on his innovations.
“I don’t like to copy anybody. Everybody tries to do what I do, update it,” he said. “I don’t have any idols I copied after.”
“They copied everything I did, upgraded it, messed it up. It seems to me that nobody can come up with their own thing, they have to put a little bit of Bo Diddley there,” he said.
‘I never got paid’Despite his success, Diddley claimed he only received a small portion of the money he made during his career. Partly as a result, he continued to tour and record music until his stroke. Between tours, he made his home near Gainesville in north Florida.
“Seventy ain’t nothing but a damn number,” he told The Associated Press in 1999. “I’m writing and creating new stuff and putting together new different things. Trying to stay out there and roll with the punches. I ain’t quit yet.”
Diddley, like other artists of his generations, was paid a flat fee for his recordings and said he received no royalty payments on record sales. He also said he was never paid for many of his performances.
“I am owed. I’ve never got paid,” he said. “A dude with a pencil is worse than a cat with a machine gun.”
In the early 1950s, Diddley said, disc jockeys called his type of music, “Jungle Music.” It was Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed who is credited with inventing the term “rock ’n’ roll.”
Diddley said Freed was talking about him, when he introduced him, saying, “Here is a man with an original sound, who is going to rock and roll you right out of your seat.”
Diddley won attention from a new generation in 1989 when he took part in the “Bo Knows” ad campaign for Nike, built around football and baseball star Bo Jackson. Commenting on Jackson’s guitar skills, Diddley says to him, “Bo, you don’t know diddly.”
“I never could figure out what it had to do with shoes, but it worked,” Diddley said. “I got into a lot of new front rooms on the tube.”
Born as Ellas Bates on Dec. 30, 1928, in McComb, Miss., Diddley was later adopted by his mother’s cousin and took on the name Ellis McDaniel, which his wife always called him.
When he was 5, his family moved to Chicago, where he learned the violin at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. He learned guitar at 10 and entertained passers-by on street corners.
By his early teens, Diddley was playing Chicago’s Maxwell Street.
“I came out of school and made something out of myself. I am known all over the globe, all over the world. There are guys who have done a lot of things that don’t have the same impact that I had,” he said.
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Bo Diddley, a singer and guitarist who invented his own name, his own guitars, his own beat and, with a handful of other musical pioneers, rock 'n' roll itself, died Monday at his home in Archer, Fla . He was 79.
The cause was heart failure, a spokeswoman, Susan Clary, said. Diddley had a heart attack last August, only months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa.In the 1950s, Diddley — along with Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and a few others — helped reshape the sound of popular music worldwide, building it on the templates of blues, southern gospel and rhythm and blues. His original style of R&B influenced generations of musicians. And his Bo Diddley syncopated beat — three strokes/rest/two strokes — became a stock rhythm of rock 'n' roll.
It can be found in Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away," Johnny Otis's "Willie and the Hand Jive," Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride," The Who's "Magic Bus," Bruce Springsteen's "She's the One" and U2's "Desire," among hundreds of other songs.
Yet the rhythm was only one element of his best records. In songs like "Bo Diddley," "Who Do You Love," "Mona," "Crackin' Up," "Say, Man," "Ride On Josephine" and "Road Runner," his booming voice was loaded up with echo and his guitar work came with distortion and a novel bubbling tremelo. The songs were knowing, wisecracking and full of slang, mother-wit and sexual cockiness. They were both playful and radical.
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Bo Diddley was an American music icon that inspired the likes of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. While Bo’s original sound left an indelible mark on contemporary music, he struggled to find mainstream recognition for his contributions during his lifetime, sometimes feeling victimized by the 1950’s record companies that embraced his style but repackaged it for white audiences. Rolling Stone has written about Bo being copied by the King himself, and the Smithsonian proclaims that “Bo Diddley’s beat changed the course of rock music.”
His pioneering sound led Bo to become the first black artist featured on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1955, where he defied executives and played an original song instead of the cover song they had slated for him.
Bo was never invited back to the Ed Sullivan show but continued to rule the stage until suffering a stroke in 2007. Bo passed away in 2008 at the age of 79 leaving a big family and even bigger legacy. While not always recognized as an originator of rock music, his heavy influence on the genre is undeniable. What Bo may lack in name recognition he more than made up for in boldness and originality.
Legacy Soured
Unfortunately for Bo’s many children and grandchildren, his amazing legacy has been soured by alleged mishandling and misappropriation Bo’s of estate and intellectual property since his 2008 death. The family alleges that Bo (known to the government as Ellas McDaniel) was manipulated to execute an estate plan that would unconscionably benefit the managers that handled Bo’s business affairs.
Bo Diddley’s 2006 will, which the family claims he lacked the capacity to execute, granted his talent agents a 30% cut of all revenue ever produced from his intellectual property after his passing. This lifetime royalty share was not contingent upon further work promoting intellectual property or limited to royalties that Bo’s managers helped bring in. The attorney who wrote the will was empowered as trustee over Bo’s intellectual property and given the lifetime power to choose all future successor trustees.
In 2018, ten years after Bo’s death, eighteen members of Bo’s family retained our law firm to seek the removal of the trustee controlling Bo Diddley’s song rights and the managers that were enjoying the music royalties. My first meeting with the family was overwhelming. There were many voices and most of them were very angry.
The trustee empowered by Bo’s controversial will had managed the trust for years without accountings or records. The family was in the dark regarding their patriarch’s estate and felt powerless, employing multiple law firms but getting nowhere. The original trustee quit before ever accounting for trust assets and hand-picked a successor who eventually issued accountings to the family. In 2016, the family received their first accounting and was dumbstruck by the professional service fees that consumed music royalties that they felt entitled to. As we sat around a large conference table pouring over documents all I could ask myself was; “how did this happen?”
An Ounce of Prevention
The answer to that question was that Bo did not get good advice during his lifetime and his family did not get good advice in the wake of his death. We were talking about a multi-million dollar estate of a well known celebrity, and there was no part of the estate plan, estate administration, or trust administration that had been performed ethically and competently. The family was adamant that Bo did not know what he signed when he executed his 2006 will and never intended to put his managers and their lawyer in such a powerful and profitable position. However, that ship had sailed years ago when the estate went through probate, and we were now looking at an uphill battle of protracted trust litigation to regain control of Bo’s assets for his family.
The lesson that I took from this is that the addage “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is an understatement. If Bo or his family would have consulted with an objective expert about his estate plan prior to his death, this entire mess could have been avoided. Similar to cancer caught early during a screening, the influence of Bo’s management team on his estate plan could have been nipped in the bud by simply executing a new will and trust that did not revolve around their interests. If he was indeed incapacitated in 2006 an incapacity guardianship proceeding could have determined that and empowered a family member or neutral third party to protect his interests. There were many crossroads where good advice could have made a big difference, but with each year that had passed the problem had become more intractable.
The subsequent waste and arising litigation has cost the trust millions of dollars between legal fees and lost promotional opportunities, and resulted in untold heartache and frustration for Bo’s heirs. While the story ultimately has a happy ending (see part 2), 10 years of costly legal struggles arose from a failure to seek qualified, unbiased advice on an important decision. Our firm takes this lesson to heart when advising our clients regarding their cases.
When handling probate, guardianship, or estate planning matters for our clients we ensure that things are done the right way. Law firms all over the state trust Florida Probate Law Group to handle high stakes estate administration related to litigated wrongful death claims. Our experience working on complex probate matters allows us to avoid common pitfalls and get predictable results. We prevent mistakes that could jeopardize case outcomes by ensuring that settlements are compliant with the probate code and efficiently securing the court orders that litigators need. In representing consumer clients we bring the same diligence and thoroughness to bear in achieving their goals.
If you have questions about your probate, guardianship, or estate planning matter, learn from Bo’s mistake and get an objective opinion to prevent problems down the road. We are always here to help. Call anytime at (352) 354-2654.
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In the autumn of 2002, I sat in Bo Diddley's kitchen for what would turn out to be the last time. The rock ‘n' roll pioneer had moved to Central Florida 20 years before, and because I was the music writer for the newspaper in Gainesville - just a few miles from his home in rural Levy County - I got to know him pretty well. I don't want to claim we were great friends or anything, but he trusted me. And he liked to talk.
Bo died a year ago this week, on June 2, from heart failure brought on by a stroke he'd suffered the year before. On the anniversary of his death, at age 79, I've been thinking about him, and all the times I drove down the long, dusty, unpaved road to the triple-wide he shared with Sylvia - his fourth wife - and sundry grandchildren, nephews, cousins and other relatives.
At the entrance to his property was a little wooden sign reading "McDaniel." Bo Diddley's real name was Ellas Bates McDaniel, and even though everybody (including Sylvia) called him Bo, he never forgot who he was, or where he'd come from.
Born into a Black Creole family in the Mississippi delta region, he'd moved to Chicago with his adoptive mother - his birth mother's first cousin - in 1934, when Ellas was 7.
"The kids there started calling me Bo Diddley," he told me that morning in his kitchen. "I still don't know what the hell it means ... but I know what it means in German!" (look it up - it's not nice).
His first musical instrument was the violin, but it was when he got a guitar - a battered old Kay that only had two strings - he was hooked.
"When I liked what I heard John Lee Hooker doing, I said if this cat can play guitar, I know I can learn," he said.
"I tried to play ‘When the Saints Go Marching In' running up and down them two strings. And I finally got enough pop bottle money. Strings were like 12 cents a piece. You'd buy one string at a time, until you got all of ‘em."
To the day he died, this groundbreaking musical artist couldn't tune a guitar to anything but an open chord - he never learned the names of the strings, or their proper pitch.
"I tuned it by accident," he told me. "I liked what I heard. I tuned the thing, didn't know what the hell I was doing. It was said that Lonnie Johnson used to tune his guitar that way. I said ‘Who in the heck is Lonnie Johnson?"
Bo was not an educated man, but he was quick-witted, savvy, and a fast learner. He built his first electric guitar amplifier by re-wiring an old radio, and came up with the distinctive Bo Diddley tremolo sound "with some points out of an old Plymouth distributor, and a big wind-up clock."
By 1955, of course, he was signed to Chess Records and turning out all those classic records - "Road Runner," "I'm a Man," "Who Do You Love," "Mona," "Say Man" and, of course, "Bo Diddley."
This was the irony of Bo Diddley: He was a pioneer, an innovator, one of the first to take rhythm ‘n' blues into the mainstream. Buddy Holly, Bruce Springsteen and countless others made liberal use of his bompa-bomp rhythm. The Rolling Stones worshipped the ground he walked on.
Yet, in the 1950s when he was young and hungry for success, he'd signed some bad contracts; years later, when an investment deal went bad, he sold all his publishing rights to stay afloat.
And so, well into his 70s, he had to leave Florida several weekends each month to perform somewhere. And boy, did he resent having to do that, when his contemporaries like Chuck Berry were, he was sure, living in mansions somewhere.
For the last three years of his life, he played every show from a chair, after back surgery had made it too painful to stand for extended periods.
This is how that final interview ended in 2002:
"I figure I got 15 or 20 years, maybe longer than that. If I take care of myself. But it's winding down. I might as well face it. I don't look to kick off, but when you get to my age you start getting scared and you start realizing that the day is coming, and that's a guarantee. We're all gonna leave out of here.
"You take me, traveling on the road by myself, and getting a hotel room. Go to bed, go to sleep, and I don't know if I'm gonna get up and go catch the plane in the morning. I used to not worry about that."
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MIAMI - Rock 'n' roll pioneer Bo Diddley, who banged out hit songs powered by the relentless "Bo Diddley beat" that influenced rockers from Buddy Holly to...
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MIAMI - Rock 'n' roll pioneer Bo Diddley, who banged out hit songs powered by the relentless "Bo Diddley beat" that influenced rockers from Buddy Holly to U2, died on Monday at the age of 79.
Diddley died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida, his management agency, Talent Consultants International, said in a statement.
"One of the founding fathers of rock 'n' roll has left the building he helped construct," the statement said.
Diddley suffered a stroke during a concert in Iowa in May 2007 and was hospitalized in Omaha, Nebraska. In August 2007 he had a heart attack in Florida.
Garry Mitchell, a grandson of Diddley and one of more than 35 family members at the musician's home when he died at about 1.45am EDT (7.45pm NZT), said his death was not unexpected.
"There was a gospel song that was sang and he said 'wow' with a thumbs up," Mitchell told Reuters, when asked to describe the scene at Diddley's deathbed.
"The song was 'Walk Around Heaven' and in his last words he stated that he was going to heaven."
In a career spanning more than five decades, Diddley composed a substantial body of rock classics, including "Who Do You Love," "Bo Diddley," "Bo Diddley's a Gunslinger," "Before You Accuse Me," "Mona," "I'm a Man" and "Pretty Thing."
He cranked them out on a signature rectangular guitar, setting many of them to rumba-like rhythm of his "Bo Diddley beat" that gave rock 'n' roll a powerful rhythmic foundation.
Along with such contemporaries as Chuck Berry and Little Richard, he was among a pioneering group of black recording artists who crossed the American racial divide with music that appealed to white audiences and was emulated by white performers.
Although Diddley recorded relatively few chart-topping hits, his seminal role in the formative years of rock music was recognized by his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and with a Grammy lifetime achievement award in 1998.
Born Ellas Bates in 1928 in McComb, Mississippi, he took the last name McDaniel from his adoptive mother, and played classical violin as a boy.
'FIRST DUDE OUT THERE'
He was given the nickname Bo Diddley as a teenager after moving to Chicago, where he started playing music on street corners in the 1940s.
Inspired by blues musician John Lee Hooker's classic "Boogie Chillen," Diddley used his violin skills to craft a guitar sound that laid the basis for the funk music of the 1960s.
He found fame in the mid-1950s with his signature song "Bo Diddley." Even among the first wave of rock music, the song stood out with its tremolo guitar, maracas and trademark beat.
Diddley's unique guitar playing and rhythm influenced generations of rockers from Elvis Presley to Bon Jovi. Keith Richards and Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones and Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi made guest appearances on his records and Diddley played with the likes of The Clash and The Grateful Dead.
Arguably the greatest mainstream success of a song with the Bo Diddley beat was Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away," recorded in the 1950s and which saw renewed success when it was covered by the Rolling Stones in the 1960s.
In an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald in March 2007, Diddley insisted he was the real father of rock, saying: "Little Richard came two or three years later, along with Elvis Presley. In other words, I was the first dude out there."
Diddley frequently complained about not being paid royalties during his peak years, telling The New York Times, "Have I been ripped off? ... You bet I've been ripped off."
In 1955 Diddley appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and was promptly banned from further appearances because he defied Sullivan's instructions to sing a cover song and instead performed his own hit "Bo Diddley."
Diddley had harsh words for the direction black music had taken in recent years, telling Reuters that "gangsta" rap made his blood boil.
"I hate it. I call it rap-crap," Diddley said in a 1996 interview. "I can't seem to get my records played but they'll play all this garbage."
Diddley liked to help out in his local community in Florida. A father of five, he said he was deeply concerned about the direction of children in American society.
He worked with his local police department to warn teenagers about the dangers of drugs and gang violence.
Diddley was still touring and making records in recent years, not least because he said he needed the money.
His agency said public and private services are planned for this weekend.
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Bob Shannon (born: September 20, 1942 St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada; was a long time radio personality, best remembered for his numerous stunts and promotions including the staged take over of his popular radio show by teen sensations “The Monkees” of TV fame.
Radio career
Bob began his pursuit of a broadcasting career at the age of 14 when he auditioned for a weekend slot at his hometown radio station WJJL in Niagara Falls, New York. According to Adams; “my voice was so high that about a dozen dogs gathered at the back door of the station and began howling. I was terrible”. At 19 he left New York and landed a job as a page at NBC Television, Burbank. Then it was on to Phoenix where local radio favorite Jim Spero gave him a weekend shot on KXIV (AM) But it wasn’t until Al McCoy, play by play voice of The Phoenix Suns help land him a full time slot at KBLU (AM) Yuma that that his on air radio career swung into full gear. It was at this point in time that Adams began using the name Bob Shannon as a tribute to his favorite hometown DJ Tom Shannon of WKBW (AM) Buffalo. From Yuma it was on to KUTY (AM) in Palmdale, home to another early radio notable Don Imus. Then KDWB (AM) Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota where he worked as both morning host and Program Director, KRUX (AM) Phoenix, WKBW (AM) Buffalo, WKYC (AM) and WIXY (AM) Cleveland, KDKA Pittsburgh, KXOK (AM) St. Louis, KJR (AM) Seattle, KDWB (AM) Minneapolis/St. Paul, KCBQ (AM) San Diego and Los Angeles at: KWIZ (AM/FM), KFI (AM), KHJ, KLAC (AM) and KRTH (FM).
Audience Involvement
One of the many hallmarks of Shannon’s “BS in the morning” show was the daily myriad of real life characters which were either voiced by Shannon or members of his audience. The very realistic sounding characters included: a guilt ridden "Ted Kennedy" a clueless "Jimmy Carter" and a befuddled "Gene Autry" who’d spend hours trying to obtain a quarterback , wide receiver or linebacker for his baseball team. (Autry owned the California Angels). But it was Shannon’s uncanny ability to involve members of his audience that made him unlike other DJs of the time. He’d cleverly utilize his listeners who’d phone in with a variety of looney and screwy reports that always culminated with some sort of corny but hilarious punch line like the drunken Chief Pilot of the President’s plane who when questioned by Shannon if he was really the captain of “Air Force One”, would reply with, “Air Force won?… Oh, that’s great..…who..who’d they play?”.. Then there was the gurgling underwater "Jacques-Yves Cousteau", Shannon’s doting "Jewish Mother", "Hillary Clinton" and a bad tempered foul mouthed "Mickey Mouse" who’d reveal his true personality by unleashing a barrage of filthy language and sexual innuendos toward his girlfriend Mini until realizing he was on the air. The routine of course infuriated the Disney Company.
now, Gas, Hurricanes and Monkee Business
In 1975, Shannon more commonly known as “BS in the Morning”, guaranteed his listeners they would have snow on Christmas morning. Along with his newsman Ed Nix, the innovative DJ spent more than an hour flying over the southern California skies in his Cessna 182, scraping ice from the plane. According to the L.A. Times and Orange County Register, “the stunt was nothing more than a snow job.”
During his stay in the Twin Cities the infamous “BS in The Morning” promised his listeners a natural gas substitute to offset rising gas prices and promptly distributed hundreds of cans of beans in a downtown shopping mall.
In January 1967 gained national attention when he teamed up with the legendary singing group, “The Monkees” and staged a take over of Shannon’s radio show. The episode became part of “The Monkees” season 1 finale entitled, “The Monkees on Tour”.
But, it wasn’t until early November,1975 that Shannon pulled his most notable stunt during the hysteria over women’s rights. Intending to annoy supporters of the feminist movement Shannon began pressuring the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration to institute a policy of equality by naming hurricanes after men. Up until this time hurricane’s had only been named for women. When the gimmick which was only to stir up some local chatter hit the national wire it created a firestorm that rapidly swept the entire country, Amazingly, Shannon's trivial equal rights stunt resulted in the Department of Commerce agreeing to consider naming hurricanes after men. But as the process bogged town, Shannon and his listeners kept the pressure up and in late 1978 NOAA halted the practice of naming hurricanes solely after women and begin including the men as well. The first was David, the name of Shannon’s son which hit the Atlantic coast on August 25th, 1979. Hurricane “Bob” came along on August 19th, 1991.
Film/Television Acting
From 1983 until 2000 Shannon turned his attention to Film/Television acting and under his real name, R.J.Adams landed a variety of roles in such notables as: Rooky IV, The Execution, Murder She Wrote, The Dead Zone, American Dreams, Smith and dozens of other roles. It was also during this time that he established himself as one of L.A.’s best known film acting coaches.
Return to Radio
In 2000 the name Bob Shannon would once again fill the southern California airwaves when he joined the legendary K-EARTH 101 until joining the ranks of talk radio personalities as the host of “Back Stage Live” on KRLA (AM).
Note: Not to be confused with DJ Bob Shannon of WCBS-FM who also worked in Pittsburgh at WKTQ (AM) and in Syracuse WOLF (AM). The New York City Shannon has had an incredible 21 year stay with CBS-FM. He’s one of the Big Apple’s best.
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* [http://laradio.com/apparel.htm Los Angeles Radio People, by Don Bennett]
* [http://www.johnrook.com/I%20love%20L.A.%2064%20KFI.htm KFI Music Radio]
* [http://www.noaa.gov/ National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration]
* [http://www.johnrook.com/I%20love%20L.A.%2064%20KFI.htm I Love L.A.]
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BO DIDDLEY, WHO GAVE ROCK HIS BEAT Jeff Christensen/Associated Press Bo Diddley at B.B. King's Blues Club in New York in 2006. More Photos > By BEN RATLIFF Published: June 3, 2008 Bo Diddley, a singer and guitarist who invented his own name, his own guitars, his own beat…
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His daughter Sondi Johnson announced the death, saying no specific cause had been determined. Mr. Johnson lived at the New York State Veterans Home in St. Albans, Queens.
Black reporters and editors were rarities in newsrooms of large American newspapers in the years in which Mr. Johnson’s career gained prominence. From the civil rights protests and urban unrest of the 1960s through the rise of the black power movement and beyond, Mr. Johnson often found himself as both a reporter and an interpreter of racial conflict and change.
Mr. Johnson was a founding member of Black Perspective, an early organization of black reporters in New York, and a founder of Black Enterprise magazine.
Arthur Gelb, a former managing editor for The New York Times, wrote in his memoir, “City Room” (2003), that when Mr. Johnson joined the paper in February 1966, he was the only black reporter at The Times.
The next month, Mr. Johnson covered racial unrest and violence in the Watts section of Los Angeles, seven months after the riots there, notably beginning one article with a dramatic quotation from the owner of a shoeshine parlor: “These kids hate white people — they hate them very strongly.”
Mr. Johnson won several awards for his coverage of black servicemen in Vietnam and Europe. He found that many black soldiers resented being sent into danger when civil rights demonstrators were being harassed at home.
Mr. Johnson also covered many events having nothing to do with race. Mr. Gelb credited him with “stiffening our resolve” to plunge into an investigation of corruption at the Human Resources Administration in 1968.
While working at The Times, Mr. Johnson was based in Lagos, Nigeria, from 1972 to 1975, and earlier held temporary postings in Vietnam, Europe and the Caribbean.
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Mr. Johnson was an assistant to the metropolitan editor in 1977 and 1978, but asked to return to reporting. He resigned from The Times in 1982 and later ran his own public relations firm.
In addition to his daughter Sondi, of Poughkeepsie, Mr. Johnson is survived by his wife, the former Josephine Holley; a son, Thomas Jr.; another daughter, Jo Holley Johnson; and three grandchildren. Another son, Craig, died before him.
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Bo Diddley's funeral Saturday rocked and rolled with as much energy as his music.
For four hours, friends and relatives sang, danced and celebrated the life of the man who helped give birth to rock 'n' roll with a signature beat that influenced Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones and many others.
As family members passed by the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer's casket, a gospel band played his namesake song. Within moments, the crowd of several hundred began clapping in time and shouting, "Hey, Bo Diddley!" Diddley died of heart failure Monday at his home in nearby Archer.
"In 1955 he used to keep the crowds rocking and rolling way before Elvis Presley," Diddley's grandson, Garry Mitchell, said before kicking his legs sideways, high up in the air the way Diddley did onstage. Mourners cheered.
"I'm just telling it the way it is," Mitchell said.
Diddley, who was born Ellas Bates and became Ellas McDaniel when he took the last name of a cousin who raised him, was remembered for much more than his songs. Friends recounted his generosity, manifested in concerts for the homeless and work with youth groups and other charities; and the way he loved to talk to just about anybody he met.
Gainesville Mayor Pegeen Hanrahan referred to one of his most famous hits as she told the crowd, "When the question is asked, 'Who do you love?', it's you, Bo."
Eric Burden, leader of the group The Animals, attended the service, and flowers were sent from musicians including Jerry Lee Lewis, Tom Petty, George Thorogood and others.
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Acclaimed as a founder of rock 'n' roll, Bo Diddley (Ellas Bates McDaniel) was born near Magnolia, south of McComb, on December 30, 1928. Diddley wrote and recorded such hits as “I’m a Man,” “Bo Diddley,” “Say Man,” and “Road Runner.” The distinctive rhythm of his “Bo Diddley” beat and his pioneering use of electronic distortion were widely influential.His songs have been covered by Buddy Holly, the Rolling Stones, The Who, Eric Clapton, and many others.
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Acclaimed as a founder of rock ‘n’ roll, Bo Diddley (Ellas Bates McDaniel) was born near Magnolia, south of McComb, on December 30, 1928. Diddley wrote and recorded such hits as “I’m a Man,” “Bo Diddley,” “Say Man,” and “Road Runner.” The distinctive rhythm of his “Bo Diddley” beat and his pioneering use of electronic distortion were widely influential. His songs have been covered by Buddy Holly, the Rolling Stones, The Who, Eric Clapton, and many others.
Bo Diddley, one of the most unconventional yet influential figures in the history of American popular music, lived his early years in Pike and Amite counties. According to the 1930 census, his name as a two-year-old was Ellis [sic] Landry; his mother, Ethel Wilson, was living at the time with her cousin, Eugene Bates (the man Diddley believed to be his father). Diddley used the surname Bates until his mother’s cousin Gussie McDaniel began raising him. In McComb the McDaniel family lived on Carver Street, near Highway 51; they moved to Chicago in the mid-1930s. There Diddley took up the violin, and at age twelve received his first guitar. His unique approach to guitar, he recalled, stemmed largely from his attempts to imitate the sound of a bow on a violin. As a teen he began playing for tips on the streets and eventually in clubs with groups that included blues recording artists Jody Williams and Billy Boy Arnold. To achieve his own sound Diddley rebuilt guitar amplifiers and constructed a tremolo unit out of a clock spring and automobile parts, and enhanced the group’s rhythm by adding maracas and drums.
In 1955 Diddley made his first single for Chicago’s Checker Records. Both sides were hits: “I’m A Man” was a bold declaration of pride at a time when many whites referred to an African American man derogatorily as “boy,” and was covered by Muddy Waters as “Mannish Boy”, while the flip side, “Bo Diddley”, spotlighted his trademark beat, which was similar to a traditional African American slapping rhythm known as “hambone.” Diddley said he traced his variation back to Pentecostal church services, and his younger brother, the Reverend Kenneth Haynes, recalled Bo singing the rhythm as a child. The name “Bo Diddley” was used by various black vaudeville performers prior to his birth, and was suggested as a more colorful stage name than Ellas McDaniel when he recorded.
Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard and Chuck Berry were among the few African American artists to achieve crossover stardom in the 1950s rock’n’ roll market, and many bands adopted Diddley’s songs and beat. Diddley’s guitar sound became part of the basic vocabulary of rock, influencing guitarists including Link Wray, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, and the Who’s Pete Townsend, while his later funk recordings have been sampled by hip hop artists such as De la Soul and Method Man.
A member of both the Blues and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame, Diddley received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Rhythm & Blues Foundation and the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, as well as a Mississippi Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. He died at his home in Archer, Florida, on June 2, 2008.
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Ellas McDaniel (born Ellas Otha Bates; December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known professionally as Bo Diddley, was an American guitarist who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll. He influenced many artists, including Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Animals, George Thorogood, and The Clash.
His use of African rhythms and a signature beat, a simple five-accent hambone rhythm, is a cornerstone of hip hop, rock, and pop music. In recognition of his achievements, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, the Blues Hall of Fame in 2003, and the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame in 2017. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Diddley is also recognized for his technical innovations, including his use of tremolo and reverb effects to enhance the sound of his distinctive rectangular-shaped guitars.
Early life
Bo Diddley was born in McComb, Mississippi, as Ellas Bates (some sources give his name as Otha Ellas Bates or as Elias Otha Bates). In a 2001 interview with Ken Paulson on the program Speaking Freely, the artist stated: "That's why I have the name Ellas Bates McDaniel. ...Now that's cleared up -- Somebody done read something -- My name is not 'Otha'. If you read that in a book someplace, I don't know where they got that 'Otha' from. But somebody decided 'Well, we don't know what his name is, so let's give him one!'" He was the only child of Ethel Wilson, a sharecropper's teenaged daughter, and Eugene Bates, whom he never knew. Wilson was only sixteen, and being unable to support a family, she gave her cousin, Gussie McDaniel, permission to raise her son. McDaniel eventually adopted him, and he assumed her surname.
After his adoptive father Robert died in 1934, when Diddley was 5 years old, Gussie McDaniel moved with him and her three children to the South Side of Chicago; he later dropped Otha from his name and became Ellas McDaniel. He was an active member of Chicago's Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church, where he studied the trombone and the violin, becoming so proficient on the violin that the musical director invited him to join the orchestra, in which he played until he was 18. However, he was more interested in the joyful, rhythmic music he heard at a local Pentecostal Church and took up the guitar; his first recordings were based on that frenetic church music. Diddley said he thought that the trance-like rhythm he used in his rhythm and blues music came from the Sanctified churches he had attended as a youth in his Chicago neighborhood.
Career
Inspired by a John Lee Hooker performance, Diddley supplemented his income as a carpenter and mechanic by playing on street corners with friends, including Jerome Green, in the Hipsters band, later renamed the Langley Avenue Jive Cats. Green became a near-constant member of McDaniel's backing band, the two often trading joking insults with each other during live shows. In the summers of 1943 and 1944, he played at the Maxwell Street market in a band with Earl Hooker. By 1951 he was playing on the street with backing from Roosevelt Jackson on washtub bass and Jody Williams, who had played harmonica as a boy but took up guitar in his teens after he met Diddley at a talent show, with Diddley teaching him some aspects of playing the instrument, including how to play the bass line. Williams later played lead guitar on "Who Do You Love?" (1956).
In 1951, he landed a regular spot at the 708 Club, on Chicago's South Side, with a repertoire influenced by Louis Jordan, John Lee Hooker, and Muddy Waters. In late 1954, he teamed up with harmonica player Billy Boy Arnold, drummer Clifton James and bass player Roosevelt Jackson and recorded demos of "I'm a Man" and "Bo Diddley". They re-recorded the songs at Universal Recording Corp. for Chess Records, with a backing ensemble comprising Otis Spann (piano), Lester Davenport (harmonica), Frank Kirkland (drums), and Jerome Green (maracas). The record was released in March 1955, and the A-side, "Bo Diddley", became a number one R&B hit.
Origins of stage name
The origin of the stage name Bo Diddley is unclear. McDaniel claimed that his peers gave him the name, which he suspected was an insult. Diddly is a truncation of diddly squat, which means "absolutely nothing". Diddley also said that the name first belonged to a singer his adoptive mother knew. Harmonicist Billy Boy Arnold said that it was a local comedian's name, which Leonard Chess adopted as McDaniel's stage name and the title of his first single. McDaniel also stated that his school classmates in Chicago gave him the nickname, which he started using when sparring and boxing in the neighborhood with The Little Neighborhood Golden Gloves Bunch.
A diddley bow is a homemade single-string instrument that survived in the American Deep South, especially in Mississippi. Played mainly by children, the diddley bow in its simplest form was made by nailing a length of broom wire to the side of a house, using a rock placed under the string as a movable bridge, and played in the style of a bottleneck guitar, with various objects used as a slider. The apparent consensus among scholars is that the diddley bow is derived from the monochord zithers of central Africa. Diddley played his song "Bo Diddley" in one string fashion on the guitar, in the style of the children's instrument.
Success in the 1950s and 1960s
On November 20, 1955, Diddley appeared on the popular television program The Ed Sullivan Show. According to legend, when someone on the show's staff overheard him casually singing "Sixteen Tons" in the dressing room, he was asked to perform the song on the show. One of Diddley's later versions of the story was that upon seeing "Bo Diddley" on the cue card, he thought he was to perform both his self-titled hit single and "Sixteen Tons". Sullivan was furious and banned Diddley from his show, reputedly saying that he wouldn't last six months. Chess Records included Diddley's cover of "Sixteen Tons" on the 1963 album Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger.
Diddley's hit singles continued in the 1950s and 1960s: "Pretty Thing" (1956), "Say Man" (1959), and "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" (1962). He also released numerous albums, including Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger and Have Guitar, Will Travel. These bolstered his self-invented legend. Between 1958 and 1963, Checker Records released eleven full-length Bo Diddley albums. In the 1960s, he broke through as a crossover artist with white audiences (appearing at the Alan Freed concerts, for example), but he rarely aimed his compositions at teenagers. Diddley was among those musicians who capitalized on the mid-1960s surfing and beach party craze in the United States, and released the albums Surfin' with Bo Diddley and Bo Diddley's Beach Party. These featured heavy, distorted blues, played on his Gretsch guitar with bended notes and minor key riffs, unlike the clean, undistorted sounds of the Fender guitars used by the California surf bands. The cover of Surfin' with Bo Diddley had a photograph of two surfers riding a big wave.
In 1963, Diddley starred in a UK concert tour with the Everly Brothers and Little Richard along with the Rolling Stones (a little-known band at that time).
Diddley wrote many songs for himself and also for others. In 1956, he and guitarist Jody Williams co-wrote the pop song "Love Is Strange", a hit for Mickey & Sylvia in 1957, reaching number 11 on the chart. Mickey Baker claimed that he (Baker) and Bo Diddley's wife, Ethel Smith, wrote the song. Diddley also wrote "Mama (Can I Go Out)", which was a minor hit for the pioneering rockabilly singer Jo Ann Campbell, who performed the song in the 1959 rock and roll film Go Johnny Go.
After moving from Chicago to Washington, D.C., Diddley built his first home recording studio in the basement of his home at 2614 Rhode Island Avenue NE. Frequented by several of Washington, D.C.'s musical luminaries, the studio was the site where he recorded the Checker LP (Checker LP-2977) Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger. Diddley also produced and recorded several up-and-coming groups from the Washington, D.C. area. One of the first groups he recorded was local doo-wop group the Marquees, featuring Marvin Gaye and baritone-bass Chester Simmons, who mooonlighted as Diddley's chauffeur.
The Marquees appeared in talent shows at the Lincoln Theatre, and Diddley, impressed by their smooth vocal delivery, let them rehearse in his studio. Diddley got the Marquees signed to Columbia subsidiary label OKeh Records after unsuccessfully attempting to get them a contract with his own label, Chess. The OKeh label rivaled Chess in the promotion of rhythm and blues. On September 25, 1957, Diddley drove the group to New York City to record "Wyatt Earp", a novelty song written by Reese Palmer, lead singer of the Marquees. Diddley produced the session, with the group backed by his own band. They cut their first record, a single with "Wyatt Earp" on the A-side and "Hey Little School Girl" on the B-side, but it failed to become a hit. Diddley persuaded Moonglows founder and backing vocalist Harvey Fuqua to hire Gaye. Gaye joined the Moonglows as first tenor; the group then moved to Detroit with the hope of signing with Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr.
Diddley included women in his band: Norma-Jean Wofford, also known as The Duchess; Gloria Jolivet; Peggy Jones, also known as Lady Bo, a lead guitarist (rare for a woman at that time); and Cornelia Redmond, also known as Cookie V.
Later years
In early 1971, writer-musician Michael Lydon, a founding editor of Rolling Stone, conducted a lengthy, rambling interview of Diddley, at his then home in the San Fernando Valley, California. Lydon described him as a "protean genius" whose songs were "hymns to himself", and led the published piece with a Diddley quote: "Everything I know I taught myself."
Over the decades, Diddley's performing venues ranged from intimate clubs to stadiums. On March 25, 1972, he played with the Grateful Dead at the Academy of Music in New York City. The Grateful Dead released part of this concert as Volume 30 of the band's concert album series, Dick's Picks. Also in the early 1970s, the soundtrack of the ground-breaking animated film Fritz the Cat contained his song "Bo Diddley", in which a crow dances and finger-pops to the track.
Diddley spent some years in New Mexico, living in Los Lunas from 1971 to 1978, while continuing his musical career. He served for two and a half years as a deputy sheriff in the Valencia County Citizens' Patrol; during that time he purchased and donated three highway-patrol pursuit cars. In the late 1970s, he left Los Lunas and moved to Hawthorne, Florida, where he lived on a large estate in a custom-made log cabin, which he helped to build. For the remainder of his life he divided his time between Albuquerque and Florida, living the last 13 years of his life in Archer, Florida, a small farming town near Gainesville.
In 1979, he appeared as an opening act for The Clash on their US tour.
In 1983, he made a cameo appearance as a Philadelphia pawn shop owner in the comedy film Trading Places. He also appeared in George Thorogood's music video for the song "Bad to the Bone," portraying a guitar-slinging pool shark.
In 1985, he appeared on George Thorogood's set, alongside fellow blues legend Albert Collins, on the Live Aid American stage to perform Thorogood's popular cover of Diddley's song Who Do You Love?".
In 1989, Diddley and his management company, Talent Source, entered into a licensing with the sportswear brand. The Wieden & Kennedy-produced commercial in the "Bo Knows" campaign teamed Diddley with dual sportsman Bo Jackson. The agreement ended in 1991, but in 1999, a T-shirt of Diddley's image and "You don't know diddley" slogan was purchased in a Gainesville, Florida, sports apparel store. Diddley felt that Nike should not continue to use the slogan or his likeness and fought Nike over the copyright infringement. Despite the fact that lawyers for both parties could not come to a renewed legal arrangement, Nike allegedly continued marketing the apparel and ignored cease-and-desist orders, and a lawsuit was filed on Diddley's behalf, in Manhattan Federal Court.
Diddley played a blues and rock musician named Axman in the 1990 comedy film Rockula, directed by Luca Bercovici and starring Dean Cameron.
In Legends of Guitar (filmed live in Spain in 1991), Diddley performed with Steve Cropper, B.B. King, Les Paul, Albert Collins, and George Benson, among others. He joined the Rolling Stones on their 1994 concert broadcast of Voodoo Lounge, performing "Who Do You Love?" at Joe Robbie Stadium, in Miami.
In 1996, he released A Man Amongst Men, his first major-label album (and his final studio album) with guest artists like Keith Richards, Ron Wood and the Shirelles. The album earned a Grammy Award nomination in 1997 for the Best Contemporary Blues Album category.
Diddley performed a number of shows around the country in 2005 and 2006, with fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Johnnie Johnson and his band, consisting of Johnson on keyboards, Richard Hunt on drums and Gus Thornton on bass. In 2006, he participated as the headliner of a grassroots-organized fundraiser concert to benefit the town of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, which had been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The "Florida Keys for Katrina Relief" had originally been set for October 23, 2005, when Hurricane Wilma barreled through the Florida Keys on October 24, causing flooding and economic mayhem.
In January 2006, the Florida Keys had recovered enough to host the fundraising concert to benefit the more hard-hit community of Ocean Springs. When asked about the fundraiser, Diddley stated, "This is the United States of America. We believe in helping one another". The all-star band included members of the Soul Providers, and famed artists Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band, Joey Covington of Jefferson Airplane, Alfonso Carey of The Village People, and Carl Spagnuolo of Jay & The Techniques. In an interview with Holger Petersen, on Saturday Night Blues on CBC Radio in the fall of 2006, he commented on racism in the music industry establishment during his early career. Diddley sold the rights to his songs early on, and until 1989 he received no royalties from the most successful part of his career.
His final guitar performance on a studio album was with the New York Dolls on their 2006 album One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This. He contributed guitar work to the song "Seventeen", which was included as a bonus track on the limited-edition version of the disc.
In May 2007, Diddley suffered a stroke after a concert the previous day in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Nonetheless, he delivered an energetic performance to an enthusiastic crowd. A few months later he had a heart attack. While recovering, Diddley came back to his hometown of McComb, Mississippi, in early November 2007, for the unveiling of a plaque devoted to him on the Mississippi Blues Trail. This marked his achievements and noted that he was "acclaimed as a founder of rock-and-roll." He was not supposed to perform, but as he listened to the music of local musician Jesse Robinson, who sang a song written for this occasion, Robinson sensed that Diddley wanted to perform and handed him a microphone, the only time that he performed publicly after his stroke.
Personal life
Marriages and children
Bo Diddley was married four times. His first marriage, at 18, to Louise Willingham, lasted a year. Diddley married his second wife Ethel Mae Smith in 1949; they had two children. He met his third wife, Kay Reynolds, when she was 15, while performing in Birmingham, Alabama. They soon moved in together and married, despite taboos against interracial marriage. They had two daughters. He married his fourth wife, Sylvia Paiz, in 1992; they were divorced at the time of his death.
Health problems
On May 13, 2007, Diddley was admitted to intensive care in Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, following a stroke after a concert the previous day in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Starting the show, he had complained that he did not feel well. He referred to smoke from the wildfires that were ravaging south Georgia and blowing south to the area near his home in Archer, Florida. The next day, as he was heading back home, he seemed dazed and confused at the airport, and his manager, Margo Lewis, called 911 and airport security, and he was immediately taken by ambulance to Creighton University Medical Center where he stayed for several days. His manager, Margo Lewis, then flew him to Shands Hospital in Gainesville, FL, where it was confirmed that he had suffered a stroke. Diddley had a history of hypertension and diabetes, and the stroke affected the left side of his brain, causing receptive and expressive aphasia (speech impairment). The stroke was followed by a heart attack, which he suffered in Gainesville, Florida, on August 28, 2007.
Death
Bo Diddley died on June 2, 2008, of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida at the age of 79. Grandson Garry Mitchell, his managers, Margo Lewis and Faith Fusillo, bass player and band leader, Debby Hastings, and many family members, were with him when he died at 1:45 am. EDT, at his home. His death was not unexpected. "There was a Gospel song that was sung, at his bedside, and when it was done, he opened his eyes, gave a thumbs up, and said, "Wow! I'm goin' to Heaven!" The song was 'Walk Around Heaven', and those were his last words."
He was survived by his children, Evelyn Kelly, Ellas A. McDaniel, Pamela Jacobs, Steven Jones, Terri Lynn McDaniel-Hines, and Tammi D. McDaniel; a brother, the Rev. Kenneth Haynes; and eighteen grandchildren, fifteen great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
His funeral, a four-hour "homegoing" service, took place on June 7, 2008, at Showers of Blessings Church in Gainesville, Florida. Many in attendance chanted "Hey Bo Diddley" as members of Diddley's band played a subdued version of the song.
A number of notable musicians sent flowers, including Little Richard, George Thorogood, Tom Petty and Jerry Lee Lewis. Little Richard, who had been asking his audiences to pray for Bo Diddley, throughout his illness, had to fulfill concert commitments in Westbury and New York City, the weekend of the funeral. He remembered Diddley at the concerts, performing his namesake tune. Eric Burdon, of The Animals, flew to Gainesville to attend the service.
After the funeral service, a tribute concert was held at the Martin Luther King Center in Gainesville, Florida, featuring guest performances by his son and daughter, Ellas A. McDaniel and Evelyn "Tan" Cooper; long-time background vocalist (and original Boette), Gloria Jolivet, and long-time bassist and bandleader, Debby Hastings, Eric Burdon, and former Bo Diddley & Offspring guitarist, Scott Free. In the days following his death, tributes were paid by then-President George W. Bush, the United States House of Representatives, and musicians and performers including B. B. King, Ronnie Hawkins, Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, George Thorogood, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Robert Plant, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Randolph and the Family Band and Eric Burdon. Burdon used video footage of the McDaniel family, and friends in mourning, for a video promoting his ABKCO Records release "Bo Diddley Special". Hastings is quoted as having said, "He was the rock that the roll was built on."
In November 2009, the guitar used by Bo Diddley in his final stage performance sold for $60,000 at auction.
In 2019, members of Bo Diddley's family sued to regain control of the music catalog held in trust by attorney Charles Littell. The family was successful in appointing a new trustee, music industry veteran Kendall Minter. The family was represented by Charles David of Florida Probate Law Group in the 2019 lawsuit.
Accolades
Bo Diddley was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music. In its People in America radio series, about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how "his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him." Mick Jagger stated that "he was a wonderful, original musician who was an enormous force in music and was a big influence on the Rolling Stones. He was very generous to us in our early years and we learned a lot from him". Jagger also praised the late star as a one-of-a-kind musician, adding, "We will never see his like again". The documentary film Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street by director Phil Ranstrom features Bo Diddley's last on-camera interview.
He achieved numerous accolades in recognition of his significant role as one of the founding fathers of rock and roll.
1986: Inducted into the Washington Area Music Association's Hall of Fame.
1987: Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
1987: Inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame
1990: Lifetime Achievement Award from Guitar Player magazine
1996: Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation
1998: Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
1999: His 1955 recording of his song "Bo Diddley" inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame
2000: Inducted into the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame
2000: Inducted into the North Florida Music Association's Hall of Fame
2002: Pioneer in Entertainment Award from the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters
2002: Honored as one of the first BMI Icons at the 50th annual BMI Pop Awards, along with BMI affiliates Chuck Berry and Little Richard.
2003: Inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame
2008: Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree posthumously conferred on Diddley by the University of Florida in August (the award had been confirmed before his death in June).
2020: Induction into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame
2010: Induction into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame.
2017: Inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame.
2021: Inducted into the New Mexico Music Hall of Fame.
In 2003, U.S. Representative John Conyers paid tribute to Bo Diddley in the United States House of Representatives, describing him as "one of the true pioneers of rock and roll, who has influenced generations".
In 2004, Mickey and Sylvia's 1956 recording of "Love Is Strange" (a song first recorded by Bo Diddley but not released until a year before his death) was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as a recording of qualitative or historical significance. Also in 2004, Bo Diddley was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame and was ranked number 20 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
In 2005, Bo Diddley celebrated his 50th anniversary in music with successful tours of Australia and Europe and with coast-to-coast shows across North America. He performed his song "Bo Diddley" with Eric Clapton and Robbie Robertson at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 20th annual induction ceremony. In the UK, Uncut magazine included his 1957 debut album, Bo Diddley, in its listing of the '100 Music, Movie & TV Moments That Have Changed the World'.
Bo Diddley was honored by the Mississippi Blues Commission with a Mississippi Blues Trail historic marker placed in McComb, his birthplace, in recognition of his enormous contribution to the development of the blues in Mississippi. On June 5, 2009, the city of Gainesville, Florida, officially renamed and dedicated its downtown plaza the Bo Diddley Community Plaza. The plaza was the site of a benefit concert at which Bo Diddley performed to raise awareness about the plight of the homeless in Alachua County and to raise money for local charities, including the Red Cross.
Beat
Main article: Bo Diddley beat
The "Bo Diddley beat" is essentially the clave rhythm, one of the most common bell patterns found in sub-Saharan African music traditions. One scholar found this rhythm in 13 rhythm and blues recordings made in the years 1944–55, including two by Johnny Otis from 1948.
Bo Diddley gave different accounts of how he began to use this rhythm. Ned Sublette says, "In the context of the time, and especially those maracas [heard on the record], 'Bo Diddley' has to be understood as a Latin-tinged record. A rejected cut recorded at the same session was titled only 'Rhumba' on the track sheets." The Bo Diddley beat is similar to "hambone", a style used by street performers who play out the beat by slapping and patting their arms, legs, chest, and cheeks while chanting rhymes. Somewhat resembling the "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm, Diddley came across it while trying to play Gene Autry's "(I've Got Spurs That) Jingle, Jangle, Jingle". Three years before his "Bo Diddley", a song with similar syncopation "Hambone", was cut by the Red Saunders Orchestra with the Hambone Kids. In 1944, "Rum and Coca Cola", containing the Bo Diddley beat, was recorded by the Andrews Sisters. Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" (1957) and Them's "Mystic Eyes" (1965) used the beat.
In its simplest form, the Bo Diddley beat can be counted out as either a one-bar or a two-bar phrase. Here is the count as a one-bar phrase: One e and ah, two e and ah, three e and ah, four e and ah (the boldface counts are the clave rhythm).
Many songs (for example, "Hey Bo Diddley" and "Who Do You Love?") often have no chord changes; that is, the musicians play the same chord throughout the piece, so that the rhythms create the excitement, rather than having the excitement generated by harmonic tension and release. In his other recordings, Bo Diddley used various rhythms, from straight back beat to pop ballad style to doo-wop, frequently with maracas by Jerome Green. His 1955 rhythm and blues hit, "Bo Diddley", had a "driving African rhythm and ham-bone beat". Beginning that same year, Diddley collaborated with various doo-wop vocal groups, using the Moonglows as a backing group on his first album, Bo Diddley, released in 1958. In one of the most well-known of his 1958 doo-wop sessions, Diddley added harmonies by the Carnations recording as the Teardrops, who sang smooth, polished doo-wop in the backgrounds on the songs "I'm Sorry", "Crackin' Up", and "Don't Let it Go".
An influential guitar player, Bo Diddley developed many special effects and other innovations in tone and attack, particularly the "shimmering" tremolo sound, and amp reverb. His trademark instrument was his self-designed, one-of-a-kind, rectangular-bodied "Twang Machine" (referred to as "cigar-box shaped" by music promoter Dick Clark), built by Gretsch. He had other uniquely shaped guitars custom-made for him by other manufacturers throughout the years, most notably the "Cadillac" and the rectangular "Turbo 5-speed" (with built-in envelope filter, flanger and delay) designs, made by Tom Holmes (who also made guitars for ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, among others). He also played the violin, which is featured on his mournful instrumental "The Clock Strikes Twelve", a twelve-bar blues.
Diddley often created lyrics as witty and humorous adaptations of folk music themes. His first hit, "Bo Diddley", was based on hambone rhymes. The first line of his song "Hey Bo Diddley" is derived from the nursery rhyme "Old MacDonald". The song "Who Do You Love?" with its rap-style boasting, and his use of the African-American game known as "the dozens" on the songs "Say Man" and "Say Man, Back Again," are cited as progenitors of hip-hop music; for example, in the dialogue of the song, "Say Man", percussionist Jerome Green says the lines: "You've got the nerve to call somebody ugly. Why, you so ugly till the stork that brought you in the world oughta be arrested."
Discography
Main article: Bo Diddley discography
Studio albums
Collaborations
Chuck Berry Is on Top, with Chuck Berry (Chess, 1959)
Two Great Guitars, with Chuck Berry (Checker, 1964)
Super Blues, with Muddy Waters and Little Walter (Checker, 1967)
The Super Super Blues Band, with Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf (Checker, 1968)
Chart singles
Year Single Chart Positions US Pop US
R&B UK 1955 "Bo Diddley" /
"I'm a Man" - 1 - "Diddley Daddy" - 11 - 1956 "Pretty Thing" – 4 34
(in 1963) 1959 "I'm Sorry" – 17 – "Crackin Up" 62 14 – "Say Man" 20 3 – "Say Man, Back Again" – 23 – 1960 "Road Runner" 75 20 – 1962 "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" 48 21 – 1965 "Hey Good Lookin'" – – 39 1967 "Ooh Baby" 88 17 –
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Bo Diddley (born December 30, 1928, McComb, Mississippi, U.S.—died June 2, 2008, Archer, Florida) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who was one of the most influential performers of rock music’s early period.
He was raised mostly in Chicago by his adoptive family, from whom he took the surname McDaniel, and he recorded for the legendary blues record company Chess as Bo Diddley (a name most likely derived from the diddley bow, a one-stringed African guitar popular in the Mississippi Delta region). Diddley scored few hit records but was one of rock’s most influential artists nonetheless, because he had something nobody else could claim, his own beat: chink-a-chink-chink, ca-chink-chink. That syncopated beat (also known as “hambone” or “shave-and-a-haircut—two-bits”) had surfaced in a few big-band rhythm-and-blues charts of the 1940s, but Diddley stripped it down and beefed it up. He made it, with its obvious African roots, one of the irresistible dance sounds in rock and roll. It was appropriated by fellow 1950s rockers (Johnny Otis’s “Willie and the Hand Jive” [1958]), 1960s garage bands (the Strangeloves’ “I Want Candy” [1965]), and budding superstars (the Rolling Stones’ version of Buddy Holly’s Diddley-influenced “Not Fade Away” [1964]). For all that, Diddley hit the pop charts just five times and the Top 20 only once (even though his 1955 debut single, “Bo Diddley,” backed with “I’m a Man,” was number one on the rhythm-and-blues charts).
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After playing for several years on Chicago’s legendary Maxwell Street, Diddley signed with Chess subsidiary Checker in 1955. The lyrics to his songs were rife with African-American street talk, bluesy imagery, and raunchy humour (e.g., “Who Do You Love” [1957]). He used tremolo, fuzz, and feedback effects to create a guitar sound on which only Jimi Hendrix has expanded (consider sonic outbursts like “Bo Diddley”). His stage shows—featuring his half sister the Duchess on vocals and rhythm guitar and Jerome Green on bass and maracas—made an art out of bad taste. Commonly dressed in a huge black Stetson and loud shirts, Diddley no doubt influenced the dress of British Invasion groups such as the Rolling Stones. The odd-shaped guitars that he played reinforced his arresting look.
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Ellas McDaniel (born Ellas Otha Bates;[1][unreliable source?] December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known professionally as Bo Diddley, was an American guitarist and singer who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll. He influenced many artists, including Buddy Holly,[2...
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This article is about the singer. For other uses, see Bo Diddley (disambiguation).
External video "Bo Diddley Talks About His Early Days, Including His Twelve Years of Classical Music Training". Interview, June 23, 2005. National Association of Music Merchants Oral History Library. NAMM.org
Ellas McDaniel (born Ellas Otha Bates;[1][unreliable source?] December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known professionally as Bo Diddley, was an American guitarist and singer who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll. He influenced many artists, including Buddy Holly,[2] Elvis Presley,[3] The Beatles, The Rolling Stones,[4] The Animals, George Thorogood, and The Clash.[5]
His use of African rhythms and a signature beat, a simple five-accent hambone rhythm, is a cornerstone of hip hop, rock, and pop music.[4][6][7] In recognition of his achievements, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, the Blues Hall of Fame in 2003, and the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame in 2017.[8][6][9] He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.[10] Diddley is also recognized for his technical innovations, including his use of tremolo and reverb effects to enhance the sound of his distinctive rectangular-shaped guitars.[11][12]
Early life[]
Bo Diddley was born in McComb, Mississippi,[nb 1] as Ellas Bates (some sources give his name as Otha Ellas Bates or as Elias Otha Bates).[14] In a 2001 interview with Ken Paulson on the program Speaking Freely, the artist stated: "That's why I have the name Ellas Bates McDaniel. ...Now that's cleared up -- Somebody done read something -- My name is not 'Otha'. If you read that in a book someplace, I don't know where they got that 'Otha' from. But somebody decided 'Well, we don't know what his name is, so let's give him one!'"[15] He was the only child of Ethel Wilson, a sharecropper's teenaged daughter, and Eugene Bates,[16] whom he never knew. Wilson was only sixteen, and being unable to support a family, she gave her cousin, Gussie McDaniel,[17] permission to raise her son.[13] McDaniel eventually adopted him, and he assumed her surname.[18]
After his adoptive father Robert died in 1934, when Diddley was 5 years old,[19] Gussie McDaniel moved with him and her three children to the South Side of Chicago;[20][nb 2] he later dropped Otha from his name and became Ellas McDaniel.[21] He was an active member of Chicago's Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church,[22] where he studied the trombone and the violin,[20] becoming so proficient on the violin that the musical director invited him to join the orchestra, in which he played until he was 18. However, he was more interested in the joyful, rhythmic music he heard at a local Pentecostal Church and took up the guitar;[23] his first recordings were based on that frenetic church music.[24] Diddley said he thought that the trance-like rhythm he used in his rhythm and blues music came from the Sanctified churches he had attended as a youth in his Chicago neighborhood.[25]
Career[]
Inspired by a John Lee Hooker performance,[6] Diddley supplemented his income as a carpenter and mechanic by playing on street corners with friends,[26] including Jerome Green, in the Hipsters band, later renamed the Langley Avenue Jive Cats.[20] Green became a near-constant member of McDaniel's backing band, the two often trading joking insults with each other during live shows.[27][28] In the summers of 1943 and 1944, he played at the Maxwell Street market in a band with Earl Hooker.[29] By 1951 he was playing on the street with backing from Roosevelt Jackson on washtub bass and Jody Williams, who had played harmonica as a boy but took up guitar in his teens after he met Diddley at a talent show,[30] with Diddley teaching him some aspects of playing the instrument,[31] including how to play the bass line.[32] Williams later played lead guitar on "Who Do You Love?" (1956).[31][25]
In 1951, he landed a regular spot at the 708 Club, on Chicago's South Side,[33] with a repertoire influenced by Louis Jordan, John Lee Hooker, and Muddy Waters.[26] In late 1954, he teamed up with harmonica player Billy Boy Arnold, drummer Clifton James and bass player Roosevelt Jackson and recorded demos of "I'm a Man" and "Bo Diddley". They re-recorded the songs at Universal Recording Corp. for Chess Records, with a backing ensemble comprising Otis Spann (piano), Lester Davenport (harmonica), Frank Kirkland (drums), and Jerome Green (maracas). The record was released in March 1955, and the A-side, "Bo Diddley", became a number one R&B hit.[34]
Origins of stage name[]
The origin of the stage name Bo Diddley is unclear. McDaniel claimed that his peers gave him the name, which he suspected was an insult.[35] Diddly is a truncation of diddly squat, which means "absolutely nothing".[36][37] Diddley also said that the name first belonged to a singer his adoptive mother knew. Harmonicist Billy Boy Arnold said that it was a local comedian's name, which Leonard Chess adopted as McDaniel's stage name and the title of his first single.[38] McDaniel also stated that his school classmates in Chicago gave him the nickname, which he started using when sparring and boxing in the neighborhood with The Little Neighborhood Golden Gloves Bunch.[39][40]
In the 1921 story "Black Death", by Zora Neale Hurston, Beau Diddely was a womanizer who impregnates a young woman, disavows responsibility, and meets his undoing by the powers of the local hoodoo man. Hurston submitted it in a contest run by the academic journal Opportunity in 1925, where it won an honorable mention, but it was never published during her lifetime.[41][42]
A diddley bow is a homemade single-string instrument that survived in the American Deep South,[43] especially in Mississippi. Played mainly by children,[44] the diddley bow in its simplest form was made by nailing a length of broom wire to the side of a house, using a rock placed under the string as a movable bridge, and played in the style of a bottleneck guitar, with various objects used as a slider.[45] The apparent consensus among scholars is that the diddley bow is derived from the monochord zithers of central Africa.[46] Diddley played his song "Bo Diddley" in one string fashion on the guitar, in the style of the children's instrument.[44]
Success in the 1950s and 1960s[]
On November 20, 1955, Diddley appeared on the popular television program The Ed Sullivan Show. According to legend, when someone on the show's staff overheard him casually singing "Sixteen Tons" in the dressing room, he was asked to perform the song on the show. One of Diddley's later versions of the story was that upon seeing "Bo Diddley" on the cue card, he thought he was to perform both his self-titled hit single and "Sixteen Tons".[47] Sullivan was furious and banned Diddley from his show, reputedly saying that he wouldn't last six months. Chess Records included Diddley's cover of "Sixteen Tons" on the 1963 album Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger.[48]
Diddley's hit singles continued in the 1950s and 1960s: "Pretty Thing" (1956), "Say Man" (1959), and "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" (1962). He also released numerous albums, including Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger and Have Guitar, Will Travel. These bolstered his self-invented legend.[27] Between 1958 and 1963, Checker Records released eleven full-length Bo Diddley albums. In the 1960s, he broke through as a crossover artist with white audiences (appearing at the Alan Freed concerts, for example),[27] but he rarely aimed his compositions at teenagers. Diddley was among those musicians who capitalized on the mid-1960s surfing and beach party craze in the United States, and released the albums Surfin' with Bo Diddley and Bo Diddley's Beach Party.[46] These featured heavy, distorted blues, played on his Gretsch guitar with bended notes and minor key riffs, unlike the clean, undistorted sounds of the Fender guitars used by the California surf bands. The cover of Surfin' with Bo Diddley had a photograph of two surfers riding a big wave.[49]
In 1963, Diddley starred in a UK concert tour with the Everly Brothers and Little Richard along with the Rolling Stones (a little-known band at that time).[50]
Diddley wrote many songs for himself and also for others.[51] In 1956, he and guitarist Jody Williams co-wrote the pop song "Love Is Strange", a hit for Mickey & Sylvia in 1957, reaching number 11 on the chart.[52] Mickey Baker claimed that he (Baker) and Bo Diddley's wife, Ethel Smith, wrote the song.[53] Diddley also wrote "Mama (Can I Go Out)", which was a minor hit for the pioneering rockabilly singer Jo Ann Campbell, who performed the song in the 1959 rock and roll film Go Johnny Go.[54]
After moving from Chicago to Washington, D.C., Diddley built his first home recording studio in the basement of his home at 2614 Rhode Island Avenue NE. Frequented by several of Washington, D.C.'s musical luminaries, the studio was the site where he recorded the Checker LP (Checker LP-2977) Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger.[55] Diddley also produced and recorded several up-and-coming groups from the Washington, D.C. area. One of the first groups he recorded was local doo-wop group the Marquees, featuring Marvin Gaye and baritone-bass Chester Simmons, who mooonlighted as Diddley's chauffeur.[56]
The Marquees appeared in talent shows at the Lincoln Theatre, and Diddley, impressed by their smooth vocal delivery, let them rehearse in his studio. Diddley got the Marquees signed to Columbia subsidiary label OKeh Records after unsuccessfully attempting to get them a contract with his own label, Chess.[56] The OKeh label rivaled Chess in the promotion of rhythm and blues. On September 25, 1957, Diddley drove the group to New York City to record "Wyatt Earp", a novelty song written by Reese Palmer, lead singer of the Marquees. Diddley produced the session, with the group backed by his own band. They cut their first record, a single with "Wyatt Earp" on the A-side and "Hey Little School Girl" on the B-side,[57] but it failed to become a hit.[58] Diddley persuaded Moonglows founder and backing vocalist Harvey Fuqua to hire Gaye. Gaye joined the Moonglows as first tenor;[59] the group then moved to Detroit with the hope of signing with Motown Records[6] founder Berry Gordy Jr.
Diddley included women in his band: Norma-Jean Wofford, also known as The Duchess; Gloria Jolivet; Peggy Jones, also known as Lady Bo, a lead guitarist (rare for a woman at that time); and Cornelia Redmond, also known as Cookie V.[60][61]
Later years[]
In early 1971, writer-musician Michael Lydon, a founding editor of Rolling Stone, conducted a lengthy, rambling interview of Diddley, at his then home in the San Fernando Valley, California. Lydon described him as a "protean genius" whose songs were "hymns to himself", and led the published piece with a Diddley quote: "Everything I know I taught myself."[62]
Over the decades, Diddley's performing venues ranged from intimate clubs to stadiums. On March 25, 1972, he played with the Grateful Dead at the Academy of Music in New York City.[63] The Grateful Dead released part of this concert as Volume 30 of the band's concert album series, Dick's Picks. Also in the early 1970s, the soundtrack of the ground-breaking animated film Fritz the Cat contained his song "Bo Diddley", in which a crow dances[64] and finger-pops to the track.[65]
Diddley spent some years in New Mexico, living in Los Lunas from 1971 to 1978, while continuing his musical career. He served for two and a half years as a deputy sheriff in the Valencia County Citizens' Patrol; during that time he purchased and donated three highway-patrol pursuit cars.[66] In the late 1970s, he left Los Lunas and moved to Hawthorne, Florida, where he lived on a large estate in a custom-made log cabin, which he helped to build. For the remainder of his life he divided his time between Albuquerque and Florida, living the last 13 years of his life in Archer, Florida,[67] a small farming town near Gainesville.
In 1979, he appeared as an opening act for The Clash on their US tour.[68]
In 1983, he made a cameo appearance as a Philadelphia pawn shop owner in the comedy film Trading Places.[69][70] He also appeared in George Thorogood's music video for the song "Bad to the Bone," portraying a guitar-slinging pool shark.[71]
In 1985, he appeared on George Thorogood's set, alongside fellow blues legend Albert Collins, on the Live Aid American stage to perform Thorogood's popular cover of Diddley's song Who Do You Love?".[72]
In 1989, Diddley and his management company, Talent Source,[73] entered into a licensing with the sportswear brand. The Wieden & Kennedy-produced commercial in the "Bo Knows" campaign teamed Diddley with dual sportsman Bo Jackson.[74] The agreement ended in 1991,[75] but in 1999, a T-shirt of Diddley's image and "You don't know diddley" slogan was purchased in a Gainesville, Florida, sports apparel store. Diddley felt that Nike should not continue to use the slogan or his likeness and fought Nike over the copyright infringement. Despite the fact that lawyers for both parties could not come to a renewed legal arrangement, Nike allegedly continued marketing the apparel and ignored cease-and-desist orders,[76] and a lawsuit was filed on Diddley's behalf, in Manhattan Federal Court.[77]
Diddley played a blues and rock musician named Axman in the 1990 comedy film Rockula, directed by Luca Bercovici and starring Dean Cameron.
In Legends of Guitar (filmed live in Spain in 1991), Diddley performed with Steve Cropper, B.B. King, Les Paul, Albert Collins, and George Benson, among others. He joined the Rolling Stones on their 1994 concert broadcast of Voodoo Lounge, performing "Who Do You Love?" at Joe Robbie Stadium, in Miami.
In 1996, he released A Man Amongst Men, his first major-label album (and his final studio album) with guest artists like Keith Richards, Ron Wood and the Shirelles. The album earned a Grammy Award nomination in 1997 for the Best Contemporary Blues Album category.[51]
Diddley performed a number of shows around the country in 2005 and 2006, with fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Johnnie Johnson and his band, consisting of Johnson on keyboards, Richard Hunt on drums and Gus Thornton on bass. In 2006, he participated as the headliner of a grassroots-organized fundraiser concert to benefit the town of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, which had been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The "Florida Keys for Katrina Relief" had originally been set for October 23, 2005, when Hurricane Wilma barreled through the Florida Keys on October 24, causing flooding and economic mayhem.
In January 2006, the Florida Keys had recovered enough to host the fundraising concert to benefit the more hard-hit community of Ocean Springs. When asked about the fundraiser, Diddley stated, "This is the United States of America. We believe in helping one another". The all-star band included members of the Soul Providers, and famed artists Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band, Joey Covington of Jefferson Airplane, Alfonso Carey of The Village People, and Carl Spagnuolo of Jay & The Techniques.[78][79] In an interview with Holger Petersen, on Saturday Night Blues on CBC Radio in the fall of 2006,[80] he commented on racism in the music industry establishment during his early career. Diddley sold the rights to his songs early on, and until 1989 he received no royalties from the most successful part of his career.[81][82]
His final guitar performance on a studio album was with the New York Dolls on their 2006 album One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This. He contributed guitar work to the song "Seventeen", which was included as a bonus track on the limited-edition version of the disc.
In May 2007, Diddley suffered a stroke after a concert the previous day in Council Bluffs, Iowa.[83] Nonetheless, he delivered an energetic performance to an enthusiastic crowd. A few months later he had a heart attack.[84] While recovering, Diddley came back to his hometown of McComb, Mississippi, in early November 2007, for the unveiling of a plaque devoted to him on the Mississippi Blues Trail. This marked his achievements and noted that he was "acclaimed as a founder of rock-and-roll." He was not supposed to perform, but as he listened to the music of local musician Jesse Robinson, who sang a song written for this occasion, Robinson sensed that Diddley wanted to perform and handed him a microphone, the only time that he performed publicly after his stroke.[85]
Personal life[]
Marriages and children[]
Bo Diddley was married four times. His first marriage, at 18, to Louise Willingham, lasted a year.[46] Diddley married his second wife Ethel Mae Smith in 1949; they had two children.[86] He met his third wife, Kay Reynolds, when she was 15, while performing in Birmingham, Alabama.[84] They soon moved in together and married, despite taboos against interracial marriage.[84] They had two daughters.[86] He married his fourth wife, Sylvia Paiz, in 1992; they were divorced at the time of his death.[84][46]
Health problems[]
On May 13, 2007, Diddley was admitted to intensive care in Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, following a stroke after a concert the previous day in Council Bluffs, Iowa.[83] Starting the show, he had complained that he did not feel well. He referred to smoke from the wildfires that were ravaging south Georgia and blowing south to the area near his home in Archer, Florida. The next day, as he was heading back home, he seemed dazed and confused at the airport, and his manager, Margo Lewis, called 911 and airport security, and he was immediately taken by ambulance to Creighton University Medical Center where he stayed for several days. His manager, Margo Lewis, then flew him to Shands Hospital in Gainesville, FL, where it was confirmed that he had suffered a stroke. [87] Diddley had a history of hypertension and diabetes, and the stroke affected the left side of his brain, causing receptive and expressive aphasia (speech impairment).[88] The stroke was followed by a heart attack, which he suffered in Gainesville, Florida, on August 28, 2007.[84]
Death[]
Bo Diddley died on June 2, 2008, of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida at the age of 79.[89][90] Grandson Garry Mitchell, his managers, Margo Lewis and Faith Fusillo, bass player and band leader, Debby Hastings, and many family members, were with him when he died at 1:45 am. EDT, at his home. His death was not unexpected. "There was a Gospel song that was sung, at his bedside, and when it was done, he opened his eyes, gave a thumbs up, and said, "Wow! I'm goin' to Heaven!" The song was 'Walk Around Heaven', and those were his last words."[91]
He was survived by his children, Evelyn Kelly, Ellas A. McDaniel, Pamela Jacobs, Steven Jones, Terri Lynn McDaniel-Hines, and Tammi D. McDaniel; a brother, the Rev. Kenneth Haynes; and eighteen grandchildren, fifteen great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.[84]
His funeral, a four-hour "homegoing" service, took place on June 7, 2008, at Showers of Blessings Church in Gainesville, Florida. Many in attendance chanted "Hey Bo Diddley" as members of Diddley's band played a subdued version of the song.
A number of notable musicians sent flowers, including Little Richard, George Thorogood, Tom Petty and Jerry Lee Lewis. Little Richard, who had been asking his audiences to pray for Bo Diddley, throughout his illness, had to fulfill concert commitments in Westbury and New York City, the weekend of the funeral. He remembered Diddley at the concerts, performing his namesake tune. Eric Burdon, of The Animals, flew to Gainesville to attend the service.[92][93][94]
After the funeral service, a tribute concert was held at the Martin Luther King Center in Gainesville, Florida, featuring guest performances by his son and daughter, Ellas A. McDaniel and Evelyn "Tan" Cooper; long-time background vocalist (and original Boette), Gloria Jolivet, and long-time bassist and bandleader, Debby Hastings, Eric Burdon, and former Bo Diddley & Offspring guitarist, Scott Free. In the days following his death, tributes were paid by then-President George W. Bush, the United States House of Representatives, and musicians and performers including B. B. King, Ronnie Hawkins, Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, George Thorogood, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Robert Plant, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Randolph and the Family Band and Eric Burdon. Burdon used video footage of the McDaniel family, and friends in mourning, for a video promoting his ABKCO Records release "Bo Diddley Special".[citation needed] Hastings is quoted as having said, "He was the rock that the roll was built on."
In November 2009, the guitar used by Bo Diddley in his final stage performance sold for $60,000 at auction.[95]
In 2019, members of Bo Diddley's family sued to regain control of the music catalog held in trust by attorney Charles Littell. The family was successful in appointing a new trustee, music industry veteran Kendall Minter.[96] The family was represented by Charles David of Florida Probate Law Group in the 2019 lawsuit.[97][98]
Accolades[]
Bo Diddley was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music. In its People in America radio series, about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how "his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him." Mick Jagger stated that "he was a wonderful, original musician who was an enormous force in music and was a big influence on the Rolling Stones. He was very generous to us in our early years and we learned a lot from him". Jagger also praised the late star as a one-of-a-kind musician, adding, "We will never see his like again".[99] The documentary film Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street by director Phil Ranstrom features Bo Diddley's last on-camera interview.[100]
He achieved numerous accolades in recognition of his significant role as one of the founding fathers of rock and roll.
1986: Inducted into the Washington Area Music Association's Hall of Fame.
1987: Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame[6]
1987: Inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame
1990: Lifetime Achievement Award from Guitar Player magazine
1996: Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation
1998: Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award[10]
1999: His 1955 recording of his song "Bo Diddley" inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame[101]
2000: Inducted into the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame[102]
2000: Inducted into the North Florida Music Association's Hall of Fame
2002: Pioneer in Entertainment Award from the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters
2002: Honored as one of the first BMI Icons at the 50th annual BMI Pop Awards, along with BMI affiliates Chuck Berry and Little Richard.[103]
2003: Inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame[8]
2008: Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree posthumously conferred on Diddley by the University of Florida in August (the award had been confirmed before his death in June).
2020: Induction into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame
2010: Induction into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame.[104]
2017: Inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame.[9]
2021: Inducted into the New Mexico Music Hall of Fame.
In 2003, U.S. Representative John Conyers paid tribute to Bo Diddley in the United States House of Representatives, describing him as "one of the true pioneers of rock and roll, who has influenced generations".[105]
In 2004, Mickey and Sylvia's 1956 recording of "Love Is Strange" (a song first recorded by Bo Diddley but not released until a year before his death) was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as a recording of qualitative or historical significance. Also in 2004, Bo Diddley was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame and was ranked number 20 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[106]
In 2005, Bo Diddley celebrated his 50th anniversary in music with successful tours of Australia and Europe and with coast-to-coast shows across North America. He performed his song "Bo Diddley" with Eric Clapton and Robbie Robertson at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 20th annual induction ceremony. In the UK, Uncut magazine included his 1957 debut album, Bo Diddley, in its listing of the '100 Music, Movie & TV Moments That Have Changed the World'.
Bo Diddley was honored by the Mississippi Blues Commission with a Mississippi Blues Trail historic marker placed in McComb, his birthplace, in recognition of his enormous contribution to the development of the blues in Mississippi.[107] On June 5, 2009, the city of Gainesville, Florida, officially renamed and dedicated its downtown plaza the Bo Diddley Community Plaza. The plaza was the site of a benefit concert at which Bo Diddley performed to raise awareness about the plight of the homeless in Alachua County and to raise money for local charities, including the Red Cross.
Beat[]
Main article: Bo Diddley beat
The "Bo Diddley beat" is essentially the clave rhythm, one of the most common bell patterns found in sub-Saharan African music traditions.[108] One scholar found this rhythm in 13 rhythm and blues recordings made in the years 1944–55, including two by Johnny Otis from 1948.[109]
Bo Diddley gave different accounts of how he began to use this rhythm. Ned Sublette says, "In the context of the time, and especially those maracas [heard on the record], 'Bo Diddley' has to be understood as a Latin-tinged record. A rejected cut recorded at the same session was titled only 'Rhumba' on the track sheets."[110] The Bo Diddley beat is similar to "hambone", a style used by street performers who play out the beat by slapping and patting their arms, legs, chest, and cheeks while chanting rhymes.[111] Somewhat resembling the "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm, Diddley came across it while trying to play Gene Autry's "(I've Got Spurs That) Jingle, Jangle, Jingle".[112] Three years before his "Bo Diddley", a song with similar syncopation "Hambone", was cut by the Red Saunders Orchestra with the Hambone Kids. In 1944, "Rum and Coca Cola", containing the Bo Diddley beat, was recorded by the Andrews Sisters. Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" (1957) and Them's "Mystic Eyes" (1965) used the beat.[113]
In its simplest form, the Bo Diddley beat can be counted out as either a one-bar or a two-bar phrase. Here is the count as a one-bar phrase: One e and ah, two e and ah, three e and ah, four e and ah (the boldface counts are the clave rhythm).
Many songs (for example, "Hey Bo Diddley" and "Who Do You Love?") often have no chord changes; that is, the musicians play the same chord throughout the piece, so that the rhythms create the excitement, rather than having the excitement generated by harmonic tension and release. In his other recordings, Bo Diddley used various rhythms, from straight back beat to pop ballad style to doo-wop, frequently with maracas by Jerome Green.[114] His 1955 rhythm and blues hit, "Bo Diddley", had a "driving African rhythm and ham-bone beat".[115] Beginning that same year, Diddley collaborated with various doo-wop vocal groups, using the Moonglows as a backing group on his first album, Bo Diddley, released in 1958. In one of the most well-known of his 1958 doo-wop sessions, Diddley added harmonies by the Carnations recording as the Teardrops, who sang smooth, polished doo-wop in the backgrounds on the songs "I'm Sorry", "Crackin' Up", and "Don't Let it Go".[20]
An influential guitar player, Bo Diddley developed many special effects and other innovations in tone and attack, particularly the "shimmering" tremolo sound,[12][116] and amp reverb. His trademark instrument was his self-designed, one-of-a-kind, rectangular-bodied "Twang Machine" (referred to as "cigar-box shaped" by music promoter Dick Clark), built by Gretsch. He had other uniquely shaped guitars custom-made for him by other manufacturers throughout the years, most notably the "Cadillac" and the rectangular "Turbo 5-speed" (with built-in envelope filter, flanger and delay) designs, made by Tom Holmes (who also made guitars for ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, among others). In a 2005 interview on JJJ radio in Australia, he implied that the rectangular design sprang from an embarrassing moment. During an early gig, while jumping around on stage with a Gibson L5 guitar, he landed awkwardly, hurting his groin.[117][118] He then went about designing a smaller, less-restrictive guitar that allowed him to keep jumping around on stage while still playing his guitar. He also played the violin, which is featured on his mournful instrumental "The Clock Strikes Twelve", a twelve-bar blues.[119]
Diddley often created lyrics as witty and humorous adaptations of folk music themes. His first hit, "Bo Diddley", was based on hambone rhymes.[120] The first line of his song "Hey Bo Diddley" is derived from the nursery rhyme "Old MacDonald".[121] The song "Who Do You Love?" with its rap-style boasting, and his use of the African-American game known as "the dozens" on the songs "Say Man" and "Say Man, Back Again," are cited as progenitors of hip-hop music;[122] for example, in the dialogue of the song, "Say Man", percussionist Jerome Green says the lines: "You've got the nerve to call somebody ugly. Why, you so ugly till the stork that brought you in the world oughta be arrested."[120]
Discography[]
Main article: Bo Diddley discography
Studio albums[]
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Collaborations[]
Chuck Berry Is on Top, with Chuck Berry (Chess, 1959)
Two Great Guitars, with Chuck Berry (Checker, 1964)
Super Blues, with Muddy Waters and Little Walter (Checker, 1967)
The Super Super Blues Band, with Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf (Checker, 1968)
Chart singles[]
Year Single Chart Positions US Pop[124] US
R&B[125] UK[126] 1955 "Bo Diddley" /
"I'm a Man" - 1 - "Diddley Daddy" - 11 - 1956 "Pretty Thing" – 4 34
(in 1963) 1959 "I'm Sorry" – 17 – "Crackin Up" 62 14 – "Say Man" 20 3 – "Say Man, Back Again" – 23 – 1960 "Road Runner" 75 20 – 1962 "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" 48 21 – 1965 "Hey Good Lookin'" – – 39 1967 "Ooh Baby" 88 17 –
Notes[]
References[]
Books[]
Arsicaud, Laurent (2012). Bo Diddley, Je suis un homme. Camion Blanc editions.
White, George R. (1995), Living Legend. Sanctuary Publishing.
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Official website
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Stephen Lawrence Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English singer, songwriter and musician whose genres include blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock and pop rock. Though primarily a vocalist and keyboard player, Winwood plays other instruments proficiently, including drums, mandolin, guitars, bass and saxophone.
Winwood was a key member of several major acts of the 1960s and 1970s, including the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic and Blind Faith. Beginning in the 1980s, his solo career took off and he had a number of hit singles, including "While You See a Chance" (1980) from the album Arc of a Diver and "Valerie" (1982) from Talking Back to the Night ("Valerie" became a hit when it was re-released with a remix from Winwood's 1987 compilation album Chronicles). His 1986 album Back in the High Life marked his career zenith, with hit singles including "Back in the High Life Again", "The Finer Things" and the US Billboard Hot 100 number one hit "Higher Love". He found the top of the Hot 100 again with "Roll With It" (1988) from the album of the same name, with "Holding On" also charting highly the same year. While his hit singles ceased at the end of the 1980s, he continued to release new albums up to 2008, when Nine Lives, his latest album, was released. Since then, while he has not released any new albums, he still continues to tour alongside other classic rock acts, most recently in 2020 with Steely Dan.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Traffic in 2004.[1] In 2005, Winwood was honoured as a BMI Icon at the annual BMI London Awards for his "enduring influence on generations of music makers".[2] In 2008, Rolling Stone ranked Winwood No. 33 in its 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.[3] Winwood has won two Grammy Awards. He was nominated twice for a Brit Award for Best British Male Artist: 1988 and 1989.[4][5] In 2011, he received the Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for Outstanding Song Collection.[6]
Early life[]
Winwood was born on 12 May 1948[7] in Handsworth, Birmingham.[8] His father Lawrence, a foundryman by trade, was a semi-professional musician, playing mainly the saxophone and clarinet. The 4-year-old began playing piano while interested in swing and Dixieland jazz, and soon started playing drums and guitar. He was also a choirboy at St. John's Church of England, Perry Barr. The family moved from Handsworth to Kingstanding (Atlantic Road) Birmingham,[9] where Winwood attended the Great Barr School, one of the first comprehensive schools. He also attended the Birmingham and Midland Institute of Music to develop his skills as a pianist, but did not complete his course.[10]
At 8 years old, he first performed with his father and elder brother Muff in the Ron Atkinson Band.[11] Muff later recalled that when Steve began playing regularly with them in licensed pubs and clubs, the piano had to be turned with its back to the audience to try and hide him, because he was so obviously underage.[12]
Career[]
Early years[]
While still a pupil at Great Barr School, Winwood was a part of the Birmingham blues rock scene, playing the Hammond C-3 organ and guitar, backing blues and rock legends such as Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, and Bo Diddley on their United Kingdom tours,[13] the custom at that time being for US singers to travel solo and be backed by pick-up bands. At this time, Winwood was living on Atlantic Road in Great Barr, close to the Birmingham music halls where he played. Winwood modelled his singing after Ray Charles.[9]
The Spencer Davis Group[]
At age 14, Winwood (then known as "Stevie" Winwood) joined the Spencer Davis Group[14] along with older brother Muff, who later had success as a record producer, after Davis saw them performing as the Muffy Wood Jazz Band at a Birmingham pub called the Golden Eagle.[15] The group made their debut at the Eagle and subsequently had a Monday-night residency there.[16] Winwood's distinctive high tenor singing voice and vocal style drew comparisons to Ray Charles.[17]
In 1964, they signed their first recording contract with Island Records. Producer and founder Chris Blackwell later said of Winwood, "He was really the cornerstone of Island Records. He's a musical genius and because he was with Island all the other talent really wanted to be with Island."[18] The group's first record, a single, was released 10 days after Winwood's 16th birthday.[19] The group had their first number one single at the end of 1965, with "Keep on Running";[20] the money from this success allowed Winwood to buy his own Hammond organ.[9] Winwood co-wrote and recorded the chart-topping hits "Gimme Some Lovin'" and "I'm a Man" before leaving the Spencer Davis Group in 1967.[21]
Eric Clapton and Powerhouse[]
Winwood joined forces with guitarist Eric Clapton as part of the one-off group Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse. Songs were recorded for the Elektra label, but only three tracks made the 1966 compilation album, What's Shakin'.
Traffic, Blind Faith, and Ginger Baker's Air Force[]
Winwood met drummer Jim Capaldi, guitarist Dave Mason, and multi-instrumentalist Chris Wood when they jammed together at The Elbow Room, a club in Aston, Birmingham.[22] After Winwood left the Spencer Davis Group in April 1967, the quartet formed Traffic.[23] Soon thereafter, they rented a cottage near the rural village of Aston Tirrold, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), to write and rehearse new music.[22] This allowed them to escape the city and develop their music.[24]
Early in Traffic's formation, Winwood and Capaldi formed a songwriting partnership, with Winwood writing music to match Capaldi's lyrics. This partnership was the source of most of Traffic's material, including popular songs such as "Paper Sun" and "The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys", and outlived the band, producing several songs for Winwood and Capaldi's solo albums. Over the band's history, Winwood performed the majority of their lead vocals, keyboard instruments, and guitars. He also frequently played bass and percussion, up to and including the recording sessions for their fourth album.[25] While still in Traffic, Winwood was brought in by Jimi Hendrix to play organ for "Voodoo Chile" on the Electric Ladyland album.[26][27]
Winwood formed the supergroup Blind Faith in 1969 with Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Ric Grech.[28] The band was short-lived, owing to Clapton's greater interest in Blind Faith's opening act Delaney & Bonnie & Friends; Clapton left the band at the tour's end. However, Baker, Winwood, and Grech stayed together to form Ginger Baker's Air Force. The line-up consisted of 3/4 of Blind Faith (without Clapton, who was replaced by Denny Laine), half of Traffic (Winwood and Chris Wood, minus Capaldi and Mason), plus musicians who interacted with Baker in his early days, including Phil Seamen, Harold McNair, John Blood, and Graham Bond.[29]
However, this project also turned out to be short-lived. Winwood soon went into the studio to begin work on a new solo album, tentatively titled Mad Shadows. However, Winwood ended up calling in Wood and Capaldi to help with session work, which prompted Traffic's comeback album John Barleycorn Must Die in 1970.[29]
In 1972, Winwood recorded the part of Captain Walker in the highly successful orchestral version of The Who's Tommy. He recorded a 1973 album with Remi Kabaka, Aiye-Keta, for Antilles Records, and in 1976 provided vocals and keyboards on Go, a concept album by Japanese composer Stomu Yamashita.[30] In 1976, Winwood also played guitar on the Fania All Stars' Delicate and Jumpy record and performed as a guest with the band in their only UK appearance, a sold-out concert at the Lyceum Theatre, London.[31][32]
Solo career[]
Weariness with the grind of touring and recording prompted Winwood to leave Traffic and retire to sessioning for some years.[33] Under pressure from Island Records, he resurfaced with his self-titled first solo album in 1977. This was followed by his 1980 hit Arc of a Diver (which included his first solo hit, "While You See a Chance") and Talking Back to the Night in 1982.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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In 1986, he moved to New York. There he enlisted the help of a coterie of stars to record Back in the High Life in the US, and the album was a hit. He topped the Billboard Hot 100 with "Higher Love," and earned two Grammy Awards: for Record of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.
Winwood embarked on an extensive tour of North America in support of the album.[34]
All these albums were released on Island Records. However, at the peak of his commercial success, Winwood moved to Virgin Records and released Roll with It and Refugees of the Heart. The album Roll with It and the title track hit No. 1 on the USA album and singles charts in the summer of 1988. Another album with Virgin, Far from Home, was officially credited to Traffic, but nearly all the instruments were played by Winwood. Despite lacking a significant hit, it broke the top 40 in both the UK and USA.[35][36]
His final Virgin album Junction Seven also broke the UK top 40.[37]
A new studio album, Nine Lives, was released 29 April 2008 by Wincraft Music through Columbia Records.[38][39] The album opened at No. 12 on the Billboard 200 album chart,[40] his highest US debut ever.
In 2008, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Berklee College of Music to add to his honorary degree from Aston University, Birmingham. On 28 March 2012 Winwood was one of Roger Daltrey's special guest stars for "An Evening with Roger Daltrey and Friends" gig, in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust at the Royal Albert Hall.[41]
In 2013, Winwood toured North America with Rod Stewart as part of the "Live the Life" tour. In 2014, Winwood toured North America with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.[42]
In January 2020, a North American summer tour was announced with Steely Dan.[43]
On 17 February 2020, Winwood participated in "A Tribute to Ginger Baker", which took place at Eventim Apollo Hammersmith in London. Other participants were Ron Wood, Roger Waters, and Eric Clapton. The concert was held in honour of Ginger Baker, his former band member in Blind Faith, who had died the previous year.[44]
Group work[]
In 1994, Capaldi and Winwood reunited Traffic for a new album, Far From Home, and a tour, including a performance at Woodstock '94 Festival. That same year, Winwood appeared on the A Tribute To Curtis Mayfield CD, recording Mayfield's "It's All Right".[45]
In 1995, Winwood released "Reach for the Light" for the animated film Balto. In 1997, Winwood released a new album, Junction Seven, toured the US, and sang with Chaka Khan at the VH-1 Honors.[46]
In 1998, Winwood joined Tito Puente, Arturo Sandoval, Ed Calle, and other musicians to form the band "Latin Crossings" for a European tour, after which they split without making any recordings. Winwood also appeared in the film Blues Brothers 2000, as a member of the Louisiana Gator Boys, appearing on stage with Isaac Hayes, Eric Clapton, and KoKo Taylor at the battle of the bands competition.[47]
In 2003, Winwood released a new studio album, About Time, on his new record label, Wincraft Music. In 2004, Eric Prydz sampled Winwood's 1982 song "Valerie" for the song "Call on Me". After hearing an early version, Winwood not only gave permission to use his song, he re-recorded the samples for Prydz to use. The remix spent five weeks at No. 1 on the UK singles chart.[48]
In 2005, his Soundstage Performances DVD was released, featuring the recent About Time album, with solo hits including "Back in the High Life", and he also performed hits from his early days with Traffic. That same year, he appeared on Grammy Award winner Ashley Cleveland's album Men and Angels Say, a mix of rock, blues, and country arrangements of well-known hymns, including "I Need Thee Every Hour", which featured a vocal duet and organ performance. On her 2006 record Back to Basics, Christina Aguilera featured Winwood (using the piano and organ instrumentation from the John Barleycorn Must Die track "Glad") on her song "Makes Me Wanna Pray".[49]
In May 2007, Winwood performed in support of the Countryside Alliance, an organisation opposed to the Hunting Act 2004, in a concert at Highclere Castle, joining fellow rock artists Bryan Ferry, Eric Clapton, Steve Harley, and Kenney Jones.[50]
In July 2007, Winwood performed with Clapton in the latter's Crossroads Guitar Festival. Among the songs they played were "Presence of the Lord" and "Can't Find My Way Home" from their Blind Faith days, with Winwood playing several guitar leads during a six-song set. The two continued their collaboration with three sold-out nights at Madison Square Garden in New York City in February 2008.[51]
On 19 February 2008, Winwood and Clapton released a collaborative EP through iTunes titled Dirty City. Clapton and Winwood released a CD and DVD of their Madison Square Garden shows and then toured together in the summer of 2009.[52]
Personal life[]
Between 1978 and 1986, Winwood was married to Nicole Weir (d. 2005), who had contributed background vocals to some of his early solo work. The two married at Cheltenham Register Office.[53]
Winwood's primary residence is a 300-year-old manor house in the Cotswolds, England, where he also has a recording studio. Winwood also has a home in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife, Eugenia Crafton, a Trenton, Tennessee, native whom he married in 1987. They have four children.[54][55][56] Both were patrons of the Cheltenham Festivals of music and literature between 2007 and 2015.
Winwood's eldest daughter, Mary Clare, in 2011 wedded businessman Ben Elliot who later became the Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party.[57] The couple have two sons.[58] Winwood's daughter Lilly Winwood is a singer; she was featured with him performing a duet of his song "Higher Love" in a Hershey commercial.[59] She was the opening act and sang backup on multiple songs during her father's 2018 Greatest Hits Live tour.[60]
Discography[]
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1980: Arc of a Diver
1982: Talking Back to the Night
1986: Back in the High Life
1988: Roll with It
1990: Refugees of the Heart
1997: Junction Seven
2003: About Time
2008: Nine Lives
2017: Greatest Hits Live
Spencer Davis Group[]
Their First LP (1965)
The Second Album (1966)
Autumn '66 (1966)
Traffic[]
see Traffic discography
Blind Faith[]
1969: Blind Faith
Ginger Baker's Air Force[]
1970: Ginger Baker's Air Force
Third World[]
1973: Aiye-Keta
Go[]
1976: Go
1976: Go Live from Paris
Eric Clapton/Steve Winwood[]
2009: Live from Madison Square Garden
Session work[]
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland, 1968
Joe Cocker - "With a Little Help from My Friends", 1968
BB King – B.B. King in London, 1971
McDonald and Giles – McDonald and Giles, 1971
Jimi Hendrix – The Cry of Love, 1971
Howlin' Wolf – The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions, 1971
Shawn Phillips – Faces, 1972 – Organ on Parisien Plight II
London Symphony Orchestra – Tommy – As Performed by the London Symphony Orchestra & Chamber Choir, 1972
Jim Capaldi – Oh How We Danced, 1972
Eddie Harris – E.H. in the U.K. (Atlantic), 1973 With Chris Squire, Alan White and Tony Kaye
Lou Reed – Berlin, 1973
John Martyn – Inside Out, 1973
Jim Capaldi – Whale Meat Again, 1974
Robert Palmer – Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley, 1974
Vivian Stanshall - Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead, 1974
Jim Capaldi – Short Cut Draw Blood, 1975
Jade Warrior – Waves, 1975
Toots & the Maytals – Reggae Got Soul, 1976
Sandy Denny – Rendezvous, 1977
John Martyn – One World, 1977
Pierre Moerlen's Gong – Downwind, 1978
Vivian Stanshall – Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, 1978
Jim Capaldi – Daughter of the Night, 1978
George Harrison – George Harrison, 1979
Marianne Faithfull – Broken English, 1979
Jim Capaldi – The Sweet Smell of... Success, 1980
Jim Capaldi – Let the Thunder Cry, 1981
Marianne Faithfull – Dangerous Acquaintances, 1981
Jim Capaldi – Fierce Heart, 1983
David Gilmour – About Face, 1984[61]
Christine McVie – Christine McVie, 1984
Billy Joel – The Bridge, 1986
Dave Mason – Two Hearts, 1987
Talk Talk – The Colour of Spring, 1986
Jim Capaldi – Some Come Running, 1988
Jimmy Buffett – "My Barracuda", 1988
Phil Collins – ...But Seriously, 1989
Soulsister – Heat, 1990
Davy Spillane – A Place Among The Stones, 1994
Paul Weller – Stanley Road, 1995
Kathy Troccoli – Corner of Eden, 1998
Eric Clapton – Back Home, 2005
Eric Clapton – Clapton, 2010
Slash – Hey Joe Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame, 2010
Miranda Lambert – Four the Record, 2011
Eric Clapton – Old Sock, 2013
Gov't Mule – Shout!, 2013
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Before Buddy Holly did it, before the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and a million unknown garage bands, there was Bo Diddley – and the beat that bears his name.
Diddley, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and one of the genre’s undisputed icons, died Monday at his 76-acre spread in rural Archer, Fla., about 10 miles out of Gainesville. He was 79.
The inventor of the Bo Diddley beat – chunk-a-chunk-chuck, a-chunk-chunk – had suffered a heart attack in August. Three months before that, he had a stroke while on tour in Iowa. It had affected his speech, and he had returned to Archer to recuperate.
Even so, musicians and music fans were shocked and saddened by the news.
“It’s a very depressing day,” said Diddley’s neighbor William McKeen, an author and journalism chair at the University of Florida, where he teaches an annual course on rock history. “I wasn’t ready for Bo Diddley to go.”
Before the beat, he was born Ellas Bates on Dec. 30, 1928, in McComb, Miss. He first listened to music in church and received his initial guitar as a Christmas gift from his sister when he was 11:
“My mama like to kill her,” Diddley told the Orlando Sentinel in 2002. “I came from a real religious family, and they didn’t allow no guitar playing in the house.”
In 1955, Diddley signed with Chess Records in Chicago. He traced the signature beat behind “Bo Diddley” and “I’m a Man” to his attempts to play the country sing “I’ve Got Spurs That Jingle Jangle Jingle.”
The arrival of Diddley and Muddy Waters at Chess began the evolution of blues into rock ‘n’ roll, although the early black musicians were overshadowed by the arrival of Elvis Presley.
“Elvis was fantastic, but he did not start it,” Diddley told the Sentinel. “He was 2 1/2 years behind me.”
Bitterness over unfair deals marked Diddley’s latter years, which he spent in Archer on property he cleared himself in the late 1980s. McKeen occasionally invited his famous neighbor to speak to his rock history classes, without success.
“I don’t think he needed the stroking of being in a university classroom to remind him of his place in rock ‘n’ roll history,” McKeen says. “If you could copyright a style, then he could’ve sued everybody for copyright infringement.”
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American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter (1925–2015)
Musical artist
Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B. B. King, was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shimmering vibrato, and staccato picking that influenced many later blues electric guitar players.[5][6] AllMusic recognized King as "the single most important electric guitarist of the last half of the 20th century".[6]
King was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and is one of the most influential blues musicians of all time, earning the nickname "The King of the Blues", and is considered one of the "Three Kings of the Blues Guitar" (along with Albert King and Freddie King, none of whom are related).[7][8][9] King performed tirelessly throughout his musical career, appearing on average at more than 200 concerts per year into his 70s.[10] In 1956 alone, he appeared at 342 shows.[11]
King was born on a cotton plantation of Berclair, near the city of Itta Bena, Mississippi, and later worked at a cotton gin in Indianola, Mississippi. He was attracted to music and taught himself to play guitar and began his career in juke joints and local radio. He later lived in Memphis and Chicago; then, as his fame grew, he toured the world extensively.
Early life[edit]
Riley B. King was born on September 16, 1925,[12] on a cotton plantation of Berclair named Bear Creek in Leflore County,[13] near the city of Itta Bena, Mississippi,[6][14] the son of sharecroppers Albert and Nora Ella King.[14] When King was four years old, his mother left his father for another man, so he was raised by his maternal grandmother, Elnora Farr, in Kilmichael, Mississippi,[14] then in Lexington.[13] As a teen, he moved to Indianola, which he referred to as his hometown and he later worked at a cotton gin.[15] King served in the U.S. Army during World War II but was released after being ruled as "essential to the war economy" based on his experience as a tractor driver.[16][17][18]
While young, King sang in the gospel choir at Elkhorn Baptist Church in Kilmichael. King was attracted to the Pentecostal Church of God in Christ because of its music. The local minister performed with a Sears Roebuck Silvertone guitar during services and taught King his first three chords.[19] King's first guitar was bought for him by Flake Cartledge, his employer in Kilmichael, for 15 dollars. Cartledge withheld money from King's salary for the next two months until the debt was repaid.[20][14]
In November 1941, King Biscuit Time first aired, broadcasting on KFFA in Helena, Arkansas. It was a radio show featuring the Mississippi Delta blues. King listened to it while on break at a plantation. A self-taught guitarist, he then wanted to become a radio musician.[21]
In 1943, King left Kilmichael to work as a tractor driver and play guitar with the Famous St. John's Gospel Singers of Inverness, Mississippi, performing at area churches and on WGRM in Greenwood.[22][23]
In 1946, King followed Bukka White to Memphis, Tennessee. White took him in for the next ten months.[14] King returned shortly afterward to Mississippi, where he better prepared himself for the next visit. Two years later, he returned to West Memphis, Arkansas in 1948. He performed on Sonny Boy Williamson's radio program on KWEM in West Memphis, where he began to develop an audience. King's appearances led to steady engagements at the Sixteenth Avenue Grill in West Memphis and later to a ten-minute spot on the Memphis radio station WDIA.[24] The radio spot became so popular that it was expanded and became the Sepia Swing Club.[25]
He worked at WDIA as a singer and disc jockey, where he was given the nickname "Beale Street Blues Boy", later shortened to "Blues Boy", and finally to "B. B."[26][27][28] It was there that he first met T-Bone Walker. King said, "Once I'd heard him for the first time, I knew I'd have to have [an electric guitar] myself. 'Had' to have one, short of stealing!"[29]
Career[edit]
1949–2005[edit]
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, King was a part of the blues scene on Beale Street. "Beale Street was where it all started for me," King said. He performed with Bobby Bland, Johnny Ace, and Earl Forest in a group known as the Beale Streeters.[30]
According to King and Joe Bihari, Ike Turner introduced King to the Bihari brothers while he was a talent scout at Modern Records.[31][32] In 1949, King began recording songs under contract with Los Angeles-based RPM Records, a subsidiary of Modern. Many of King's early recordings were produced by Sam Phillips, who later founded Sun Records. Before his RPM contract, King had debuted on Bullet Records by issuing the single "Miss Martha King" (1949), which did not chart well. "My very first recordings [in 1949] were[sic] for a company out of Nashville called Bullet, the Bullet Record Transcription company," King recalled. "I had horns that very first session. I had Phineas Newborn on piano; his father played drums, and his brother, Calvin, played guitar with me. I had Tuff Green on bass, Ben Branch on tenor sax, his brother, Thomas, on trumpet, and a lady trombone player. The Newborn family were the house band at the famous Plantation Inn in West Memphis."[33]
King assembled his band, the B.B. King Review, under the leadership of Millard Lee. The band initially consisted of Calvin Owens and Kenneth Sands (trumpet), Lawrence Burdin (alto saxophone), George Coleman (tenor saxophone),[34] Floyd Newman (baritone saxophone), Millard Lee (piano), George Joyner (bass) and Earl Forest and Ted Curry (drums). Onzie Horne was a trained musician enlisted as an arranger to assist King with his compositions. By his admission, King could not play chords well and always relied on improvisation.[35]
King's recording contract was followed by tours across the United States, with performances in major theaters in cities such as Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, and St. Louis, as well as numerous gigs in small clubs and juke joints of the southern United States. During one show in Twist, Arkansas, a brawl broke out between two men and caused a fire. He evacuated with the rest of the crowd but returned to retrieve his guitar. He said he later discovered that the two men were fighting over a woman named Lucille. He named the guitar Lucille as a reminder not to fight over women or run into any more burning buildings.[36]
Following his first Billboard Rhythm and Blues charted number one, "3 O'Clock Blues" (February 1952),[37] King became one of the most important names in R&B music in the 1950s, amassing an impressive list of hits[28] including "You Know I Love You", "Woke Up This Morning", "Please Love Me", "When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer", "Whole Lotta Love", "You Upset Me Baby", "Every Day I Have the Blues", "Sneakin' Around", "Ten Long Years", "Bad Luck", "Sweet Little Angel", "On My Word of Honor", and "Please Accept My Love". This led to a significant increase in his weekly earnings, from about $85 to $2,500,[38][39] with appearances at major venues such as the Howard Theater in Washington and the Apollo in New York, as well as touring the "Chitlin' Circuit". 1956 became a record-breaking year, with 342 concerts booked and three recording sessions.[40] That same year he founded his own record label, Blues Boys Kingdom, with headquarters at Beale Street in Memphis. There, among other projects, he was a producer for artists such as Millard Lee and Levi Seabury.[15] In 1962, King signed to ABC-Paramount Records, which was later absorbed into MCA Records (which itself was later absorbed into Geffen Records). In November 1964, King recorded the Live at the Regal album at the Regal Theater.[37] King later said that Regal Live "is considered by some the best recording I've ever had ... that particular day in Chicago everything came together."[41]
From the late 1960s, new manager Sid Seidenberg pushed King into a different type of venue as blues-rock performers like Eric Clapton (once a member of the Yardbirds, as well as Cream) and Paul Butterfield were popularizing an appreciation of blues music among white audiences.[42] King gained further visibility among rock audiences as an opening act on the Rolling Stones' 1969 American Tour.[43] He won a 1970 Grammy Award for his version of the song "The Thrill Is Gone",[44] which was a hit on both the Pop and R&B charts. It also gained the number 183 spot in Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[45]
King was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, and the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame in 2014.[10][46] In 2004, he was awarded the international Polar Music Prize, given to artists "in recognition of exceptional achievements in the creation and advancement of music."[47]
From the 1980s to his death in 2015, he maintained a highly visible and active career, appearing on numerous television shows and sometimes performing 300 nights a year. In 1988, King reached a new generation of fans with the single "When Love Comes to Town", a collaborative effort between King and the Irish band U2 on their Rattle and Hum album.[37] In December 1997, he performed in the Vatican's fifth annual Christmas concert and presented his trademark guitar "Lucille" to Pope John Paul II.[48][49] In 1998, King appeared in The Blues Brothers 2000, playing the part of the lead singer of the Louisiana Gator Boys, along with Eric Clapton, Dr. John, Koko Taylor and Bo Diddley. In 2000, he and Clapton teamed up again to record Riding With the King, which won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album.[50]
Discussing where he took the Blues, from "dirt floor, smoke in the air" joints to grand concert halls, King said the Blues belonged everywhere beautiful music belonged. He successfully worked both sides of the commercial divide, with sophisticated recordings and "raw, raucous" live performances.[41]
2006–2014[edit]
In 2006, King went on a "farewell" world tour, although he remained active afterward.[51] The tour was partly supported by Northern Irish guitarist, Gary Moore, with whom King had previously toured and recorded. It started in the United Kingdom and continued with performances at the Montreux Jazz Festival and in Zürich at the Blues at Sunset. During his show in Montreux at the Stravinski Hall, he jammed with Joe Sample, Randy Crawford, David Sanborn, Gladys Knight, Leela James, Andre Beeka, Earl Thomas, Stanley Clarke, John McLaughlin, Barbara Hendricks and George Duke.[52]
In June 2006, King was present at a memorial of his first radio broadcast at the Three Deuces Building in Greenwood, Mississippi, where an official marker of the Mississippi Blues Trail was erected. The same month, a groundbreaking was held for a new museum, dedicated to King,[53] in Indianola, Mississippi.[54] The B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center opened on September 13, 2008.[55]
In late October 2006, King recorded a concert album and video entitled B.B. King: Live at his B.B. King Blues Clubs in Nashville and Memphis. The video of the four-night production featured his regular B.B. King Blues Band and captured his show as he performed it nightly around the world. Released in 2008, they were his first performances in over a decade to be documented with a live album release.[56]
In 2007, King played at Eric Clapton's second Crossroads Guitar Festival[57] and contributed the songs "Goin' Home", to Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino (with Ivan Neville's DumpstaPhunk)[58] and "One Shoe Blues" to Sandra Boynton's children's album Blue Moo, accompanied by a pair of sock puppets in a music video for the song.[59]
In the summer of 2008, King played at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, where he was given a key to the city.[60] Also in 2008, he was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame.[61]
King performed at the Mawazine festival in Rabat, Morocco on May 27, 2010.[62] In June 2010, King performed at the Crossroads Guitar Festival with Robert Cray, Jimmie Vaughan, and Eric Clapton.[63] He also contributed to Cyndi Lauper's album Memphis Blues, which was released on June 22, 2010.[64]
In 2011, King played at the Glastonbury Music Festival,[65] and in the Royal Albert Hall in London, where he recorded a concert video.[66]
Rolling Stone ranked King at No. 6 on its 2011 list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.[67]
On February 21, 2012, King was among the performers of "In Performance at the White House: Red, White and Blues," during which President Barack Obama sang part of "Sweet Home Chicago".[68] King recorded for the debut album of rapper and producer Big K.R.I.T., who also hails from Mississippi.[69] On July 5, 2012, King performed a concert at the Byblos International Festival in Lebanon.[70]
On May 26, 2013, King appeared at the New Orleans Jazz Festival.[71]
On October 3, 2014, after completing his live performance at the House of Blues in Chicago, a doctor diagnosed King with dehydration and exhaustion, and the eight remaining shows of his ongoing tour had to be canceled. King did not reschedule the shows, and the House of Blues show would be the last before his death in 2015.[72]
Equipment[edit]
For more information about King's guitar, see Lucille (guitar).
King used equipment characteristic of the different periods he played in. He played guitars made by various manufacturers early in his career. He played a Fender Esquire on most of his recordings with RPM Records.[75] Later, he was best known for playing variants of the Gibson ES-355.
In the September edition 1995 of Vintage Guitar magazine, early photos show him playing a Gibson ES-5 through a Fender tweed amp. In reference to the photo, King stated, "Yes; the old Fender amplifiers were the best that were ever made, in my opinion. They had a good sound and they were durable; guys would throw them in the truck and they'd hold up. They had tubes, and they'd get real hot, but they just had a sound that is hard to put into words. The Fender Twin was great, but I have an old Lab Series amp that isn't being made anymore. I fell in love with it, because its sound is right between the old Fender amps that we used to have and the Fender Twin. It's what I'm using tonight."[76]
He later moved on from the larger Gibson hollow-bodied instruments, which were prone to feedback when played at high volumes, to various semi-hollow models, beginning first with the ES-335 and then a deluxe version called the ES-355, which employed a stereo option.[76] In 1980, Gibson Guitar Corporation launched the B.B. King Lucille model, an ES-355 with stereo options, a varitone selector, and fine tuners (neither of which were actually used by King) and, at King's direct request, no f-holes to further reduce feedback. In 2005, Gibson made a special run of 80 Gibson Lucilles, referred to as the "80th Birthday Lucille", the first prototype of which was given as a birthday gift to King, and which he used thereafter.[77]
King used a Lab Series L5 2×12" combo amplifier and used this amplifier for a long time. It was made by Norlin Industries for Gibson in the 1970s and 1980s. Other popular L5 users are Allan Holdsworth and Ty Tabor of King's X. The L5 has an onboard compressor, parametric equalization, and four inputs. King also used a Fender Twin Reverb.[78]
He used his signature model strings "Gibson SEG-BBS B.B. King Signature Electric Guitar Strings" with gauges: 10–13–17p–32w–45w–54w and D'Andrea 351 MD SHL CX (medium 0.71mm, tortoiseshell, celluloid) picks.[78]
Blues clubs[edit]
In 1991, Beale Street developer John Elkington recruited King to Memphis to open the original B.B. King's Blues Club, and in 1994, a second club was launched at Universal Citywalk in Los Angeles. A third club in New York City's Times Square opened in June 2000 but closed on April 29, 2018. Management is currently in the process of finding a new location in New York City.[79] Two more clubs opened, at Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut in January 2002,[80] and in Nashville in 2003.[81] Another club opened in Orlando in 2007.[82] A club in West Palm Beach opened in the fall of 2009[83] and an additional one, based in the Mirage Hotel, Las Vegas, opened in the winter of 2009.[84] Another opened in the New Orleans French Quarter in 2016.[85]
Television and other appearances[edit]
King made guest appearances in numerous popular television shows including: The Cosby Show, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Young and the Restless, General Hospital, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Sesame Street,[86] Married... with Children, Sanford and Son and Touched by an Angel.
From the mid-1980s until the mid-1990s, King appeared in multiple advertisements for McDonald's.[87][88] In the early 2000s he also appeared in a campaign for Burger King.[89]
In 2000, the children's show Between the Lions featured a singing character named "B.B. the King of Beasts", modeled on the real King.[90]
B.B. King: The Life of Riley, a feature documentary about King narrated by Morgan Freeman and directed by Jon Brewer, was released on October 15, 2012.[91]
King's performance at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival[92] appears in the 2021 music documentary Summer of Soul.
Personal life[edit]
King was married twice, to Martha Lee Denton, November 1946 to 1952, and to Sue Carol Hall, 1958 to 1966. The failure of both marriages has been attributed to the heavy demands made by King's 250 performances a year.[14][93] It is reported that he fathered 15 children with several women.[14][12] After his death, three more have come forward, claiming King as their father as well.[94] Though neither of his marriages produced children, and biographer Charles Sawyer wrote that doctors found his sperm count too low to conceive children,[95] King never disputed paternity of any of the 15 who claimed it, and by all accounts was generous in bankrolling college tuitions and establishing trust funds.[94] In May 2016, the 11 surviving children initiated legal proceedings against King's appointed trustee over his estimated $30 million to $40 million estate. Several of them also went public with the allegation that King's business manager, LaVerne Toney, and his personal assistant, Myron Johnson, had fatally poisoned him. Autopsy results showed no evidence of poisoning. A defamation suit filed by Johnson against the accusing family members (including his own sister, Karen Williams) is pending. Other children have filed lawsuits targeting King's music estate, which remains in dispute.[94]
King was an FAA-certified private pilot and learned to fly in 1963 at what was then Chicago Hammond Airport in Lansing, Illinois.[96][97] He frequently flew to gigs, but in 1995 his insurance company and manager asked him to fly only with another certified pilot. As a result, he stopped flying around the age of 70.[98]
King's favorite singer was Frank Sinatra. In his autobiography, he spoke about how he was a "Sinatra nut" and how he went to bed every night listening to Sinatra's classic album In the Wee Small Hours. During the 1960s, Sinatra had arranged for King to play at the main clubs in Las Vegas. He credited Sinatra for opening doors to black entertainers who were not given the chance to play in "white-dominated" venues.[99]
Philanthropy and notable campaigns[edit]
In September 1970, King recorded Live in Cook County Jail, during a time in which issues of racism [100] and class in the prison system were prominent in politics. King also co-founded the Foundation for the Advancement of Inmate Rehabilitation and Recreation, tying in his support for prisoners and interest in prison reform.[100] In addition to prison reform, King also wanted to use prison performances as a way to preserve music and songs in a similar way that Alan Lomax did.[101]
In 2002, King signed on as an official supporter of Little Kids Rock, a nonprofit organization that provides free musical instruments and instruction to children in underprivileged public schools throughout the United States. He sat on the organization's honorary board of directors.[102]
Diagnosed with diabetes in 1990,[103] King was a high-profile spokesman in the fight against the disease.[52][104] He appeared in several television commercials for OneTouch Ultra, a blood glucose monitoring device, beginning in the early 2000s. American Idol contestant Crystal Bowersox, who was diagnosed with diabetes at age six, would co-star with King in later commercials.[105][106]
Death and funeral[edit]
The last eight shows of King's 2014 tour were canceled because of health problems caused by complications from high blood pressure and diabetes.[107][108] On May 14, 2015, at the age of 89,[21] he died in his sleep from vascular dementia caused by a series of small strokes as a consequence of his type 2 diabetes.[109] Two of his daughters alleged that King was deliberately poisoned by two associates trying to induce diabetic shock;[110] an autopsy showed no evidence of such.[107][111]
King's body was flown to Memphis on May 27, 2015. A funeral procession went down Beale Street, with a brass band marching in front of the hearse while playing "When the Saints Go Marching In". Thousands lined the streets to pay their last respects. His body was then driven down Route 61 to his hometown of Indianola, Mississippi.[112] He was laid in repose at the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center, in Indianola, for people to view his open casket.[113][114] The funeral took place at the Bell Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Indianola, on May 30.[115][116][117] He was buried at the B.B. King Museum.[114]
Discography[edit]
Main article: B.B. King discography
Studio albums[edit]
Accolades[edit]
Awards and nominations[edit]
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy was awarded, for music released in the previous year.
Grammy Awards Year Category Work Result 1970 Best Male R&B Vocal Performance "The Thrill Is Gone" Won 1981 Best R&B Instrumental Performance "When I'm Wrong" Nominated 1982 Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording "There Must Be a Better World Somewhere" Won 1983 Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals "Street Life" Nominated 1984 Best Traditional Blues Recording Blues 'n Jazz Won 1986 My Guitar Sings the Blues Won 1991 Live at San Quentin Won 1991 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals "Waiting on the Light to Change" Nominated 1992 Best Traditional Blues Album Live at the Apollo Won 1994 Blues Summit Won 1995 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals "Patches" Nominated 1997 Best Rock Instrumental Performance "SRV Shuffle" Won 1999 Best Contemporary Blues Album Deuces Wild Nominated 2000 Best Traditional Blues Album Blues on the Bayou Won 2001 Best Traditional Blues Album Riding with the King Won 2001 Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals "Is You Is or Is You Ain't (My Baby)" Won 2003 Best Traditional Blues Album A Christmas Celebration of Hope Won 2003 Best Pop Instrumental Performance "Auld Lang Syne" Won 2005 Best Traditional R&B Performance "Sinner's Prayer" (with Ray Charles) Nominated 2006 Best Traditional Blues Album B. B. King & Friends: 80 Won 2009 Best Traditional Blues Album One Kind Favor Won
Other awards
Year Association Category Work Result 1995 Country Music Association Album of the Year Rhythm, Country and Blues ("Patches" with George Jones) Nominated 2002 NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Series or Special Sesame Street Nominated
Additional honors[edit]
Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Tougaloo College (1973)[119]
Honorary Doctor of Music by Yale University (1977)[120]
Inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame (1980)[121]
Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music (1985)[122]
Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (1987)[123]
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1987)[124]
The National Medal of Arts (1990)[125]
The National Heritage Fellowship from the NEA (1991)[126]
The Kennedy Center Honors – given to recognize "the lifelong accomplishments and extraordinary talents of our nation's most prestigious artists" (1995)[127]
Grammy Hall of Fame Award for "The Thrill is Gone" – given to recordings that are at least 25 years old and that have "qualitative or historical significance" (1998)[128]
The Library of Congress awarded him the Living Legend Medal for his lifetime of contributions to America's diverse cultural heritage (2000)[129]
The Royal Swedish Academy of Music awarded him the Polar Music Prize for his "significant contributions to the blues" (2004)[47]
The Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement (2004)[130]
The Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by President George W. Bush on December 15 (2006)[131]
An honorary doctorate in music by Brown University (2007)[132]
The keys to the city of Portland, Maine (2008)[133]
A Mississippi Blues Trail marker was added for King to commemorate his birthplace (2008)[134]
Time named King No. 3 on its list of the 10 best electric guitarists (2009)[135]
King was awarded the MMP Music Award and inducted into the MMP Hall of Fame by the Mississippi Music Project (2018)[136]
A Google Doodle celebrated what would have been King's 94th birthday (2019)[137]
A King Homecoming Festival is held in Indianola, Mississippi during the first week in June every year[138]
Rolling Stone named King the 8th greatest guitarist of all time in 2023.[139]
See also[edit]
Blues portal
Mississippi portal
United States portal
African Americans in Mississippi
B.B. King's Bluesville
Honorific nicknames in popular music
List of nicknames of blues musicians
References[edit]
Further reading[edit]
De Visé, Daniel (2021). King of the Blues: the Rise and Reign of B.B. King (First ed.). New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 9780802158055. OCLC 1261767849.
Sawyer, Charles (2022). B.B. King: From Indianola to Icon (First ed.). Atglen, PA: Schiffer Books. ISBN 9780764363856.
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External videos Oral History, B.B. King reflects on his greatest musical influences. Interview date August 3, 2005, NAMM Oral History Library
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Bo Diddley, a singer and guitarist who invented his own name, his own guitars, his own beat and, with a handful of other musical pioneers, rock ’n’ roll itself, died Monday at his home in Archer, Fla. He was 79.
The cause was heart failure, a spokeswoman, Susan Clary, said. Mr. Diddley had a heart attack last August, only months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa.
In the 1950s, as a founder of rock ’n’ roll, Mr. Diddley along with Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and a few others helped to reshape the sound of popular music worldwide, building on the templates of blues, Southern gospel, R&B and postwar black American vernacular culture.
His original style of rhythm and blues influenced generations of musicians. And his Bo Diddley syncopated beat three strokes/rest/two strokes became a stock rhythm of rock ’n’ roll.
It can be found in Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away,” Johnny Otis’s “Willie and the Hand Jive,” the Who’s “Magic Bus,” Bruce Springsteen’s “She’s the One” and U2’s “Desire,” among hundreds of other songs.
Yet the rhythm was only one element of his best records. In songs like “Bo Diddley,” “Who Do You Love,” “Mona,” “Crackin’ Up,” “Say, Man,” “Ride On Josephine” and “Road Runner,” his booming voice was loaded up with echo and his guitar work came with distortion and a novel bubbling tremolo. The songs were knowing, wisecracking and full of slang, mother wit and sexual cockiness. They were both playful and radical.
So were his live performances: trancelike ruckuses instigated by a large man with a strange-looking guitar. It was square and he designed it himself, long before custom guitar shapes became commonplace in rock.
Mr. Diddley was a wild performer: jumping, lurching, balancing on his toes and shaking his knees as he wrestled with his instrument, sometimes playing it above his head. Elvis Presley, it has long been supposed, borrowed from Mr. Diddley’s stage moves; Jimi Hendrix, too.
Still, for all his fame, Mr. Diddley felt that his standing as a father of rock ’n’ roll was never properly acknowledged. It frustrated him that he could never earn royalties from the songs of others who had borrowed his beat.
“I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob,” he told The New York Times in 2003.
He was a hero to those who had learned from him, including the Rolling Stones and the Beatles. A generation later, he became a model of originality to punk or post-punk bands like the Clash and the Fall.
In 1979 Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon of the Clash asked that Mr. Diddley open for them on the band’s first American tour. “I can’t look at him without my mouth falling open,” Mr. Strummer, star-struck, said during the tour.
For his part Mr. Diddley had no misgivings about facing a skeptical audience. “You cannot say what people are gonna like or not gonna like,” he explained later to the biographer George R. White. “You have to stick it out there and find out! If they taste it, and they like the way it tastes, you can bet they’ll eat some of it!”
Mr. Diddley was born Otha Ellas Bates in McComb, Miss., a small city about 15 miles from the Louisiana border. He was reared primarily by Gussie McDaniel, the first cousin of his mother, Esther Wilson. After the death of her husband, Ms. McDaniel, who had three children of her own, took the family to Chicago, where young Otha’s name was changed to Ellas B. McDaniel. Gussie McDaniel became his legal guardian and sent him to school.
He was 6 when the family resettled on Chicago’s South Side. He described his youth as one of school, church, trouble with street toughs and playing the violin for both band and orchestra, under the tutelage of O. W. Frederick, a prominent music teacher at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Gussie McDaniel taught Sunday school. Ellas studied classical violin from 7 to 15 and started on guitar at 12, when a family member gave him an acoustic model.
He then enrolled at Foster Vocational School, where he built a guitar as well as a violin and an upright bass. But he dropped out before graduating. Instead, with guitar in hand, he began performing in a duo with his friend Roosevelt Jackson, who played the washtub bass. The group became a trio when they added another guitarist, Jody Williams, then a quartet when they added a harmonica player, Billy Boy Arnold.
The band, first called the Hipsters and then the Langley Avenue Jive Cats, started playing at the Maxwell Street open-air market. They were sometimes joined by another friend, Samuel Daniel, known as Sandman because of the shuffling rhythms he made with his feet on a wooden board sprinkled with sand.
Mr. Diddley could not make a living playing with the Jive Cats in the early days, so he found jobs where he could: at a grocery store, a picture-frame factory, a blacktop company. He worked as an elevator operator and a meat packer. He also started boxing, hoping to turn professional.
In 1954 Mr. Diddley made a demonstration recording with his band, which now included Jerome Green on maracas. Phil and Leonard Chess of Chess Records liked the demo, especially Mr. Diddley’s tremolo on the guitar, a sound that seemed to slosh around like water. They saw it as a promising novelty and encouraged the group to return.
By Billy Boy Arnold’s account, the next day, as the band and the men who were soon to be their producers were setting up for a rehearsal, they were idly casting about for a stage name for Ellas McDaniel when Mr. Arnold thought of Bo Diddley. The name described a “bow-legged guy, a comical-looking guy,” Mr. Arnold said, as quoted by Mr. White in his 1995 biography, “Bo Diddley: Living Legend.”
That may be all there is to tell about the name, except for the fact that a certain one-string guitar native to the Mississippi Delta, often homemade, in which a length of wire is stretched between two nails in a board is called a diddley bow. By his account, however, Mr. Diddley had never played one.
In any case, Otha Ellas McDaniel had a new name and the title of a new song, whose lyrics began, “Bo Diddley bought his babe a diamond ring.” “Bo Diddley” became the A side of his first single, in 1955, on the Checker label, a subsidiary of Chess. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard singles chart.
Mr. Diddley said he had first heard the “Bo Diddley beat” three-stroke/rest/two-stroke, or bomp-ba-domp-ba-domp, ba-domp-domp in a church in Chicago. But variations of it were in the air. The children’s game hambone used a similar rhythm, and so did the ditty that goes “shave and a haircut, two bits.”
The beat is also related to the Afro-Cuban clave, which had been popularized at the time by the New Orleans mambo carnival song “Jock-A-Mo,” recorded by Sugar Boy Crawford in 1953.
Whatever the source, Mr. Diddley felt the beat’s power. In early songs like “Bo Diddley” and “Pretty Thing,” he arranged the rhythm for tom-toms, guitar, maracas and voice, with no cymbals and no bass. (Also arranged in his signature rhythm was the eerie “Mona,” a song of praise he wrote for a 45-year-old exotic dancer who worked at the Flame Show Bar in Detroit; this song became the template for Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away.”)
Appearing on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1955, Mr. Diddley was asked to play “Sixteen Tons,” the song popularized by Tennessee Ernie Ford. Without telling Mr. Sullivan, he played “Bo Diddley” instead. Afterward, in an off-camera confrontation, Mr. Sullivan told him that he would never work in television again. Mr. Diddley did not play again on a network show for 10 years.
His first trademark guitar was also handmade: he took the neck and the circuitry off a Gretsch guitar and connected it to a square body he had built. In 1958 he asked Gretsch to make him a better one to the same specifications. Gretsch made it as a limited-edition guitar called “Big B.”
On songs like “Who Do You Love,” his guitar style bright chicken-scratch rhythm patterns on a few strings at a time was an extension of his early violin playing, he said.
“My technique comes from bowing the violin, that fast wrist action,” he told Mr. White, explaining that his fingers were too big to move around easily. Rather than fingering the fretboard, Mr. Diddley said, he tuned the guitar to an open E and moved a single finger up and down to create chords.
As his fame rose, his personal life grew complicated. His first marriage, at 18, to Louise Woolingham, lasted less than a year. His second marriage, in 1949, to Ethel Smith, unraveled in the late 1950s. He then moved from Chicago to Washington, settling in the Mount Pleasant district, where he built a studio in his home.
Separated from his wife, he was performing in Birmingham, Ala., when, backstage, he met a young door-to-door magazine saleswoman named Kay Reynolds, a fan, who was 15 and white. They moved in together in short order and were soon married, in spite of Southern taboos against intermarriage.
During the late 1950s Mr. Diddley’s band featured a female guitarist, Peggy Jones (stage-named Lady Bo), at a time when there were scarcely any women in rock. She was replaced by Norma-Jean Wofford, whom Mr. Diddley called the Duchess. He pretended she was his sister, he said, to be in a better position to protect her on the road.
The early 1960s were low times. Chess, searching for a hit, had Mr. Diddley make albums to capitalize on the twist dance craze, as Chubby Checker had done, and on the surf music of the Beach Boys. But soon a foreign market for his earlier music began to grow, thanks in large part to the Rolling Stones, a newly popular band that was regularly playing several of his songs in its concerts. It paved the way for Mr. Diddley’s successful tour of Britain in the fall of 1963, performing with the Everly Brothers, Little Richard and the Rolling Stones, the opening act.
But Mr. Diddley was not willing to move to Europe, and in America the picture worsened: the Beatles, the Stones, Bob Dylan and the Byrds quickly made him sound quaint. When work all but dried up, Mr. Diddley moved to New Mexico in the early 1970s and became a deputy sheriff in the town of Los Lunas. With his sound updated to resemble hard rock and soul, he continued to make albums for Chess until his contract expired in 1974.
His recording career never picked up after that, despite flirtations with synthesizers, religious rock and hip-hop. But he continued apace as a performer and public figure, popping up in places both obvious, like rock ’n’ roll nostalgia revues, and not so obvious: a Nike advertisement, the film “Trading Places” with Eddie Murphy, the 1979 tour with the Clash, and inaugural balls for two presidents, George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
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Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock ’n’ roll whose distinctive “shave and a haircut, two bits” rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died yesterday after months of ill health. He was 79.
Diddley died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Fla., spokeswoman Susan Clary said. He had suffered a heart attack in August, three months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa. Doctors said the stroke affected his ability to speak, and he had returned to Florida to continue rehabilitation.
The legendary singer and performer, known for his homemade square guitar, dark glasses and black hat, was an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, had a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, and received a lifetime achievement award in 1999 at the Grammy Awards. In recent years he also played for the elder President Bush and President Clinton.
Diddley appreciated the honors he received, “but it didn’t put no figures in my checkbook.”
“If you ain’t got no money, ain’t nobody calls you honey,” he quipped.
The name Bo Diddley came from other youngsters when he was growing up in Chicago, he said in a 1999 interview.
“I don’t know where the kids got it, but the kids in grammar school gave me that name,” he said, adding that he liked it so it became his stage name. Other times, he gave somewhat differing stories on where he got the name. Some experts believe a possible source for the name is a one-string instrument used in traditional blues music called a diddley bow.
His first single, “Bo Diddley,” introduced record buyers in 1955 to his signature rhythm: bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp, often summarized as “shave and a haircut, two bits.” The B side, “I’m a Man,” with its slightly humorous take on macho pride, also became a rock standard.
The company that issued his early songs was Chess-Checkers records, the storied Chicago-based labels that also recorded Chuck Berry and other stars.
Howard Kramer, assistant curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, said in 2006 that Diddley’s Chess recordings “stand among the best singular recordings of the 20th century.”
Diddley’s other major songs included, “Say Man,” “You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover,” “Shave and a Haircut,” “Uncle John,” “Who Do You Love?” and “The Mule.”
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Bo Diddley, one of the founding fathers of rock and roll, died today in his home in Archer, Florida, where he had lived for 20 years. The cause was heart failure, according to a spokesperson. Diddley performed live until May 2007, when he suffered a stroke; three months later, in August, he also suffered a heart attack. The spokesperson said that he was surrounded by family and friends when he died. Public and private services are scheduled for this weekend.
In the summer of 2005, Rolling Stone writer Neil Strauss caught up with Diddley for the magazine’s last major feature on him, the award-winning “Indestructible Beat of Bo Diddley.”
• The Indestructible Beat of Bo Diddley by Neil Strauss (RS 981, August 25, 2005)
• The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time: Bo Diddley by Iggy Pop (RS 946, April 15, 2004)
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• Bo Diddley: The Rolling Stone Interview by Kurt Loder (RS 493, February 12, 1987)
• Photo Gallery: Shots From Bo Diddley’s Five Decade Career
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Born Otha Ellas Bates, 30 December 1928, McComb, Mississippi
Died 2 June 2008, Archer, Florida
Singer, guitarist, songwriter.
"You Can’t Judge A Book By the Cover” is the title of one of Bo Diddley’s best known songs. Likewise, you can’t judge the influence of an artist by his chart statistics. Believe it or not, but Bo has been included in Wayne Jancik’s “Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders” on the grounds that he had only one Top 40 pop hit. He played a key role in the transition from blues to rock & roll and the influence of his unique rhythm (often called “jungle music”) has been immense, both in and outside of the USA.
Born near McComb, Mississippi, as Otha Ellas Bates, he was adopted and raised by his mother’s cousin, Gussie McDaniel, whose surname he assumed. In 1934, the McDaniel family moved to the South Side of Chicago, where he dropped the Otha and became Ellas McDaniel. He learned to play the violin in the Ebenezer Baptist Sunday School Band, but he was more interested in the guitar and from the age of twelve McDaniel started experimenting with building his own guitars in various shapes. By the early 1940s he had acquired the nickname “Bo Diddley” from his fellow pupils, but he wouldn’t use that name as a musician until 1955. In 1946 he formed his first group, a trio called the Hipsters, later known as the Langley Avenue Jive Cats. They played on street corners for nickels and dimes. McDaniel mixed his music with a stint as a boxer and catch-as-catch-can work - truck driver, elevator operator, manual labourer. In 1950 maracas player Jerome Green joined his group, followed a year later by harmonica player Billy Boy Arnold. When the group got good enough to move off the streets and into the clubs, McDaniel started experimenting with new sounds and began to write his own material.
Early in 1955, the group cut a demo of two songs that McDaniel had written, “Uncle John” and “I'm A Man”. After being turned down by United and Vee-Jay, they tried to get a recording deal with Chess Records. Leonard Chess liked what he heard and called the boys back for a session on March 2, 1955. The band was augmented with Otis Spann on piano and James Bradford on bass. The inspiration for the African rhythm of "Uncle John” came from a 1952 record by the Red Saunders orchestra, “Hambone”. Leonard Chess found the lyrics of “Uncle John” too suggestive. He said it wouldn’t get any airplay unless the words were changed. It was Billy Boy Arnold’s idea to substitute the name Bo Diddley for Uncle John. “Bo Diddley” became the A-side of McDaniel’s first single and also his new stage name. Released in April 1955, “Bo Diddley”/“I’m A Man” was a double-sided smash, topping the R&B charts for two weeks. The Bo Diddley beat was born. The next two singles, “Diddley Daddy” and “Pretty Thing”, also charted. There followed a steady stream of releases on the Checker label, with a unique sound, consisting of guitars, piano, harmonica, maracas and drums. Soon his rhythm would be copied by many other artists, most successfully by Johnny Otis on “Willie and the Hand Jive”, a # 9 pop hit in 1958.
Bo didn’t have any pop hits until 1959-60, with four consecutive singles, all of which were also released in the UK (on London). His only Top 20 pop hit was “Say Man”, an exchange of insults between Bo and Jerome Green, his maracas player and a near-constant member of his backing band. In 1960 Bo Diddley moved from Chicago to Washington, D.C., where he set up one of the first home recording studios. Though Bo didn’t have many releases in the UK until the mid-1960s, he was a big influence on the British beat boom of the sixties. In 1963 he starred in a UK concert tour with the Everly Brothers and Little Richard. The up-and-coming Rolling Stones were billed as a supporting act and they copied Bo's sound on their third single, “Not Fade Away” (co-written by Buddy Holly and originally recorded by him in 1957). Bo Diddley included women in his band. Among them were Norma-Jean Wofford, also known as The Duchess, and later Peggy Jones, nicknamed Lady Bo, who played lead guitar (rare for a woman at that time).
The 1960s were Bo’s most successful (though not necessarily in chart terms) and most productive period. No less than fifteen albums were released during that decade, excluding compilations and repackaged LPs. His last chart entry was “Ooh Baby” (# 17 R&B, # 88 pop) in 1967. He stayed with Chess/Checker until 1974. Between 1974 and 1988 he recorded only sporadically, but he kept on performing, all over the world. In 1987 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Many other awards would follow. From 1988 onwards Bo released several new albums on the L.A.-based Triple-X label. His last performance took place in 2006. Then a stroke affected the left side of his brain. Bo Diddley died on June 2, 2008, of heart failure, at his home in Archer, Florida.
Official website (with discography) : http://members.tripod.com/~Originator_2/index_2.html
Biography : George R. White, Bo Diddley : Living Legend. Chessington, Surrey : Castle Communications, 1995. 248 pages.
CDs :
Countless “Best Of” compilations are available. A good choice is “The Singles Collection” (Not Now, 2013, UK), with 40 tracks from 1955-1962 on 2 CDs. A comparable 2-CD release is “Road Runner : 1955-1962 Original Chess Masters” on HooDoo (2016). 57 tracks.
Acknowledgements : Jim Dawson & Steve Propes, Wayne Jancik, Wikipedia, the official website.
YouTube :
- Bo Diddley : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XxGUIbYjmY
- I’m a Man : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaC5ZKRjLUM
- Diddley Daddy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZWsCrlVPKg
- Pretty Thing : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljfceJwgDwk
- Who Do You Love : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAGoqMZRLB4
- Before You Accuse Me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODmg_fGxk_I
- Say Man : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNfvKa4AVpc
- Road Runner : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap8JtQZG73M
- You Can’t Judge A Book By the Cover : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lch0o4wwGyw
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When Bo Diddley died in 2008 I was asked to write an introduction to a book of sheet music of his songs, though why anyone would need sheet music to play Bo Diddley songs is beyond me.
Among the many legends who might be said to have invented rock’n’roll, few have a greater claim than Bo Diddley. The tough-talking, Mississippi-born guitar-slinger had the singular distinction of having personally invented a wholly original rhythmic tempo, a style that in time would be appropriated by everyone from Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly to The Rolling Stones and The Who, and from Bruce Springsteen to U2, not to mention just about every fledgling guitarist who’s managed to master a single chord.
It is a foundation stone of rock and is simplicity in itself, best conveyed in words by the intonation of the simple phrase “shave and a haircut (pause) two bits”. By repeating this beat endlessly and giving it a good thump from behind by a drummer who knows his way around floor toms, even the most inexperienced of garage bands can get a crowded ballroom up on their feet and dancing in no time at all.
It made its first appearance in 1955, as the A-side to Bo’s first Chess recording which he named in honour of himself, ‘Bo Diddley’. It was the start of a series of self-referential songs with the same rhythm, all hammered out without a single chord change, all of them delivered with down-home wit and sexual innuendo, all performed lustily on a home-made rectangular red guitar, vocals and rhythm bathed in echo, the reverberation amplified and distorted. Accompanying him were Jerome Green, his maracas player, and The Duchess, Bo’s gorgeous sister, matching the rhythm on a similarly-shaped model. It was the sound of freedom and pleasure and for all the thrills Bo’s beat inspired in America’s teenagers, it chilled its conservative white elders to the bone.
Although Bo Diddley’s contribution to rock history was noted by his induction into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, the second year of its inception, he never felt he was truly rewarded for bestowing his gift upon the world. He continued working to the last and was deeply suspicious of anyone who might seek to profit from his work. “I tell musicians, ‘Don’t trust nobody but your mama,’” he said in an interview with Rolling Stone in 1995. “And even then, look at her real good.”
Bo was born Otha Ellis Bates in McComb, a small town about 15 miles from the Louisiana border, and was reared by his mother’s cousin, Gussie McDaniel. When the family moved to Chicago, his name was changed to Ellas McDaniel. He studied violin from the age of seven to 15 and started playing guitar at 12, on an acoustic model given to him by his sister. He worked as a carpenter and mechanic, and also took up professional boxing, but began a musical career playing on street corners with friends and with a band called the Hipsters who became the Langley Avenue Jive Cats.
In 1951, Bo landed a regular spot at the 708 Club on Chicago's South Side, with a repertoire influenced by Louis Jordan, John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters, and in late 1954, he teamed up with harmonica player Billy Boy Arnold, drummer Clifton James and bass player Roosevelt Jackson. In 1954 Diddley made a demo record with the Jive Cats which came to the attention of Phil and Leonard Chess who took them into the studio.
They re-recorded the songs – ‘Bo Diddley’ and ‘I’m A Man’ - at Chess with a backing ensemble comprising Otis Spann (piano), Lester Davenport (harmonica), Frank Kirkland (drums) and Jerome Green (maracas). The record was released in March 1955, and ‘Bo Diddley’, became a number one R&Bhit.
It was around this time, or maybe just before, that Ellas McDaniel became Bo Diddley. There are various schools of thought on how the name came about. Some say it was thought up by Billy Boy Arnold, while others point to a one-stringed instrument called a Diddley Bow, often simply a length of wire stretched between two nails hammered into a wooden door. Whatever its genesis, the name became his trademark in songs such as ‘Bo Diddley’s A Gunslinger’, ‘Diddley Daddy’, ‘Hey Bo Diddley’ and many more.
For all his originality, Bo found the going hard in the early part of his career. He fell foul of Ed Sullivan in 1955 for playing ‘Bo Biddley’ instead of the requested ‘Sixteen Tons’ on Ed’s Sunday night showcase. Afterwards Sullivan told Bo he wouldn’t appear on TV again, and he didn’t play a network show for 10 years. In attempts to capitalise on teenage fads, Bo was obliged to swallow his pride and in the early Sixties make twist and surf records which failed to sell.
In the event he was rescued by a British following that emerged after he was discovered in the early part of the decade by The Rolling Stones, who featured several of his songs in their repertoire. ‘Mona’ was a highlight of their first 1964 album which led to it being covered by scores of groups, while their third single (and first major hit), ‘Not Fade Away’, though strictly speaking a Buddy Holly cover, owed absolutely everything about it to the Bo Diddley beat. The Pretty Things named themselves after one of his songs and other Diddley songs were covered by The Yardbirds, The Animals, Manfred Mann, The Kinks and The Downliners Sect. When Bo toured the UK for the first time in 1963, he was given a hero’s welcome.
It took longer for his star to rise in America and when it did, it was largely due to another of his staples, ‘Who Do You Love’, which was covered in concert by The Doors and thence picked up by Bob Seger and Tom Rush. In the UK, the prog band Juicy Lucy had a number 14 hit with the same song in 1970.
However, the list of performers who have co-opted the Bo Diddley beat for their own songs is virtually endless, and includes Elvis Presley (‘His Latest Flame’), Johnny Otis (‘Willie And The Hand Jive’, also covered by Eric Clapton), The Who (‘Magic Bus’ – they also played Bo’s ‘Road Runner’ live), David Bowie (‘Panic In Detroit’), The Stooges (‘1969’ & ‘1970’), Bruce Springsteen (‘She’s The One’), U2 (‘Desire’), The Smiths (‘How Soon Is Now’), and The White Stripes (‘Screwdriver’).
Bo remained sanguine about all this but never forgot that he was the man who started it all. Like almost all the musicians from his era, he was paid a flat fee for his recording and never received any royalties, let alone monies from those artists who copied his beat. “I am owed. I never got paid,” he said in the nineties. “A dude with a pencil is worse than a cat with a machine gun.”
In any event, he was obliged to take work other than being a musician. He spent many years in New Mexico as a law officer and served for two and a half years as Deputy Sheriff in the Valencia County Citizens’ Patrol; during that time, he personally purchased and donated three patrol cars. For the remainder of his life he resided in Archer, a small farming town near Gainsville, Florida, where he attended church with some of his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Bo continued to tour around the world as the decades passed by, often on the revival circuit, and wherever he went he was revered by those who recognised the huge contribution he made to 20th century music, including his disciples, The Rolling Stones, who featured him as a special guest during a prestigious New York date on their 1989 Steel Wheels tour.
Bo Diddley died from heart failure aged 79, and at his funeral in Gainsville, he was celebrated as a musical legend. As the church filled up with his many relatives and musical peers, the choir began a refrain of “Hey Bo Diddley” with the crowd responding in kind. The flowers around the casket included two arrangements in the shape of square guitars, and so vast were they, that they almost obscured the pulpit. A two-hour musical celebration followed the funeral, and in the days that followed, many musicians stepped forward to pay tribute to the bespectacled genius.
Mick Jagger: “He was an enormous force in music, a wonderful, original musician… an enormous influence on The Rolling Stones.”
BB King: “His legacy will live on forever. We will never see his like again. He was a music pioneer with a unique style. We always had a good time when we played together.”
Robert Plant: “His voice and relentless glorious anthems echo down through my years. The royal shape shifter continues to influence four generations of musicians on a daily basis.”
Slash: “He’s a huge hero of mine and the fact that he knew who I was is a huge compliment. Bo Diddley created a myth that was uniquely his own. An entire rhythm is owed to one guy and that’s pretty rare.”
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Bo Diddley, the pioneering rock ’n’ roller responsible for classics like “Who Do You Love” and “I’m a Man,” died of heart failure today in his Florida home, Reuters reports. He was 79.
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“One of the founding fathers of rock ‘n’ roll has left the building he helped construct,” read a statement his management agency released.
More from Reuters:
Diddley suffered a stroke during a concert in Iowa in May 2007 and was hospitalized in Omaha, Nebraska. In August 2007 he had a heart attack in Florida.
In a career spanning more than five decades, Diddley composed a substantial body of rock classics, including "Who Do You Love," "Bo Diddley," "Bo Diddley’s a Gunslinger," "Before You Accuse Me," "Mona," "I’m a Man" and "Pretty Thing."
He cranked them out on a signature rectangular guitar, setting many of them to rumba-like rhythm of his "Bo Diddley beat" that gave rock ‘n’ roll a powerful rhythmic foundation.
Along with such contemporaries as Chuck Berry and Little Richard, he was among a pioneering group of black recording artists who crossed the American racial divide with music that appealed to white audiences and was emulated by white performers.
Although Diddley recorded relatively few chart-topping hits, his seminal role in the formative years of rock music was recognized by his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and with a Grammy lifetime achievement award in 1998.
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Bo called Archer home for many years. He had a great love for our youth and was devoted to establishing a means of helping to make their lives better. He created the Bo Diddley Foundation to help accomplish that goal. The City of Archer is grateful to him for his contribution.
A member of the Rock 'N Roll Hall of Fame, Florida Artists Hall of Fame, Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhythm & Blues Foundation, and Grammy Award Winner, Bo Diddley was a pioneer in the truest sense of the word. Often imitated but never duplicated, Bo was known as "The Originator". He took the blues and infused it with his own distinctive rhythm to help lay the foundation of Rock 'n' Roll music. He has been credited by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Eric Clapton and countless other acts for his influence on their careers.
Bo passed away on June 2, 2008. On May 24, 2010 The City of Archer voted to proclaim December 30th as Bo Diddley Day in honor of his many accomplishments.
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Bo Diddley had a difficult childhood. However, difficulties and obstacles helped to create an international artist out of Bo. Diddley is one of the creators of rock and roll.
The unique ability of the musician to play the guitar turned him into a legend. Even the death of the artist could not "trample" the memory of him into the ground. The name of Bo Diddley and the legacy he left behind are immortal.
Childhood and youth of Ellas Ota Bates
Ellas Ota Bates (real name of the singer) was born December 30, 1928 in McComb, Mississippi. The boy was raised by his mother's cousin Juzy McDaniel, whose last name Ellas took.
In the mid-1930s, the family moved to a black area in Chicago. Soon he got rid of the word "Ota" and became known as Ellas McDaniel. Then he was first imbued with rock and roll motives.
In Chicago, the guy was an active parishioner of the local Ebenezer Baptist Church. There he mastered playing several musical instruments. Soon, almost every resident of Chicago learned about Ellas's talent. The director of the music school invited him to become part of his own ensemble.
Ellas preferred rhythmic music. That is why he decided to master the guitar. Inspired by the performance of John Lee Hooker, the young musician began working with Jerome Green. At first, music did not give Ellas income, so he began to earn extra money as a carpenter and mechanic.
The creative path of Bo Diddley
Some performances on the street were not enough for the musician. His talent did not develop. Soon, Ellas and several like-minded people created the Hipsters group. Over time, the musicians began performing under the name Langley Avenue Jive Cats.
The performances of the ensemble took place on the streets of Chicago. The guys positioned themselves as street artists. In the mid-1950s, Ellas joined forces with Billy Boy Arnold, who was an excellent harmonica player, and Clifton James, drummer and bassist Roosevelt Jackson.
In this composition, the musicians released the first demos. We are talking about the songs I'm a Man and Bo Diddley. A little later, the tracks were re-recorded. The quintet resorted to the services of backing vocalists. The debut collection was released in 1955. The musical composition Bo Diddley has become a real hit in rhythm and blues. During this period of time, Ellas was given the nickname Bo Diddley.
In the mid-1950s, the musician became a member of The Ed Sullivan Show. The TV project staff heard Ellas humming the Sixteen Tons track in the locker room. They asked to perform this particular musical composition on the show.
Not without scandals
Ellas agreed, but misinterpreted the request. The musician decided that he should perform both the track that was originally agreed upon and Sixteen Tons. The host of the program was beside himself with the antics of the young artist and forbade him to appear on the show for the past 6 months.
A cover version of the Sixteen Tons song was included on the Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger album. The record came out in 1960. This is one of the artist's most recognizable tracks.
In 1950-1960, Bo Diddley released a number of "juicy" compositions. The most memorable songs of that time were the tracks:
Pretty Thing (1956);
Say Man (1959);
You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover (1962).
Musical compositions, as well as unsurpassed specific guitar playing, made Bo Diddley a real star. From the late 1950s to 1963 the artist has released 11 full-length studio albums.
In the mid-1960s, Bo Diddley visited the UK with his show. The artist performed on stage with the Everly Brothers and Little Richard. It is interesting that the favorites of the public, the Rolling Stones, performed as the opening act for the musicians.
Bo Diddley filled his own repertoire. Sometimes he wrote for other representatives of the stage. For example, Love is Strange for Jody Williams or Mama (Can I Go Out) for Jo Ann Campbell.
Bo Diddley soon left Chicago. The musician moved to Washington. There, the artist created the first home recording studio. He used it not only for his own purposes. Diddley often recorded in the studio for his protégés.
Over the next 10 years, Bo Diddley gathered fans at his concerts. The musician performed not only in large stadiums, but also in small clubs. The artist sincerely believed that the point was not in the place, but in the audience.
Interesting facts about Bo Diddley
The highlight and, in some way, the discovery of the musician was the so-called “beat of Bo Diddley”. Music critics note that "Bo Diddley's beat" is a kind of competition at the intersection of rhythm and blues and African music.
The musical compositions of the celebrity are one of the most popular among the tracks that are covered.
Some call Bo Diddley the pioneer of rock music.
The guitar last played by Bo Diddley sold at auction for $60.
Bo Diddley is one of the 20 famous artists in the history of rock and roll.
The end of Bo Diddley's career
Since 1971, the musician moved to the provincial town of Los Lunas in New Mexico. Interestingly, during this period of time he tried himself in a profession that was far from creativity. Beau took over as sheriff. But meanwhile, he did not leave his favorite pastime - music. The artist also announced himself as a patron of the arts. Diddley donated several cars to the police.
In 1978, the musician moved to sunny Florida. There, a luxurious estate was built for the artist. Interestingly, the artist himself took part in the construction of the house.
A year later, he acted as "heating" for the Clash during their tour in the United States of America. In 1994, Bo Diddley performed on the same stage with the legendary Rolling Stones. He sang the song Who Do You Love? with her.
The Bo Diddley team continued to perform. Since 1985, musicians have rarely released compilations. But a nice bonus is that the composition of the ensemble has not changed since the mid-1980s. Bo Diddley himself did not want this, claiming that he played with his group to the last.
Bo Diddley and his team in 2005 went to the United States of America with their concert program. In 2006, the band performed at a charity concert in Ocean Springs, which was badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
The last years of Bo Diddley's life
Two years later, Bo Diddley got in trouble. The artist was hospitalized right from the stage. The musician had a stroke. He recovered for a long time, because he could not talk. Singing and playing musical instruments were out of the question.
The artist died on June 2, 2008. He died of a heart attack. At the time of his death, the musician lived in his house in Florida. On the day of Bo's death, Diddley was surrounded by relatives. One of the family members said that the artist's last words were the sentence "I'm going to heaven."
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Bo Diddley is a recognized icon, innovator, and legend of rock 'n' roll and rhythm and blues music. He was born Otha Ellas Bates on December 30, 1928, in McComb, Mississippi, but changed his name to Ellas McDaniel after being adopted by his mother's cousin Gussie McDaniel. Following the death of Ellas’ adopted father in the mid-1930s, Mrs. McDaniel moved her family to Chicago when Ellas was six years old. As a youngster in Chicago, he studied music at the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church, with the trombone and violin being his primary instruments. He completed 12 years of violin studies and was a member of the church orchestra. (Aside from music, he also learned to box during this period and gained a reputation as a local amateur professional.) His first guitar was a gift from his sister Lucille, and teenaged Ellas took up the instrument with the same dedication he applied to learning the violin. According to Ellas, John Lee Hooker was a major influence on his guitar playing.
For a time, Ellas performed in local groups such as The Hipsters and Langley Avenue Jive Cats with Jody Williams, Billy Boy Arnold, and Jerome Green, who was a bandmate of Bo's for decades. Ellas related that he was given the name “Bo Diddley” by his neighborhood peers and his first bandmates. He recorded his first single entitled "Bo Diddley" backed with "I'm A Man" in 1955 on the Checker label, a subsidiary of Chess Records. His recording topped the Rhythm and Blues charts for two weeks. Bo Diddley was a true innovator, as he was one of the first guitarists to use the DeArmond Tremolo effect to create his trademark guitar sound on the hit "Bo Diddley," known as the ‘Bo Diddley Beat.’
By many accounts, Bo Diddley lived in Washington, D.C. from about 1957 to 1966. He shared that he moved to D.C. to be near the Howard Theater because it was within driving distance to New York City and jobs throughout South. During these years, between touring and serving as an A&R and recording for Chess Records in Chicago, he lived at 2614 Rhode Island Ave. N.E. where he built a home recording studio. D.C. (He later had a home at 812 Rittenhouse St. N.W. and also resided in an apartment building at 1724 Newton St. N.W.) Artists such as Billy Stewart, The Marquees and The Jewels practiced at his home and some recorded in his home studio on Rhode Island Ave. Many of these artists recount that Bo's home was where they developed their sound during their high school years and beyond. As is well documented, Bo Diddley recommended Stewart and the Jewels to Chess Records. Sandra Bears recalled that The Jewels sang background vocals on "Bo Diddley is a Lover" at Chess studios and recorded their songs "I Need You So Much" and "For the Love of Mike" in his home studio. Bo Diddley also recorded tunes for his 1960 album "Bo Diddley is a Gun Slinger" in his home studio.
Another significant D.C. connection is that Bo Diddley hired Gloria (Morgan) Jolivet and Lily "Bee Bee" Jameson as backup singers. Both Jolivet and Jameson were seniors at DC’s Eastern High School and members of the all-girl group, The Barvells. Gloria toured with Bo Diddley from 1964 to 1973 and later married Bo's nephew, Ricky Jolivet. Gloria and “Bee Bee” weren’t the only women to perform with Bo, however. Peggy Jones - known as "Lady Bo" - was the first guitarist in his group, followed by Norma Jean Wofford known as "The "Duchess."
For his legendary contributions to rock ‘n’ roll music and the genres it influenced, Bo Diddley received of many awards. Notably he was inducted in the Washington Area Music Associations Hall of Fame in 1986 and the following year he was inducted in the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, OH. Other honors include a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998 and inductions into both the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame and North Florida Musicians Hall of Fame in 2000. Bo suffered stroke in 2007 and died of a heart attack in 2008.
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Johnny Fever unsuccessfully flirts with secretary Jennifer Marlowe (Loni Anderson) Dr. Johnny Fever (born 1940) is an off the wall character and disc jockey (DJ) on the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati. He was inspired by Atlanta DJ Skinny Bobby…
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Dr. Johnny Fever (born 1940) is an off-the-wall character and disc jockey (DJ) on the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati. He was inspired by Atlanta DJ Skinny Bobby Harper.[1] The character was portrayed by Howard Hesseman.
Contents
1 Before and after the format change
2 On-air style
3 Personal life
4 Other jobs
5 Casting
6 References
Before and after the format change
Johnny Fever, whose real name is John Caravella, comes to WKRP from a major station in Los Angeles, where he worked under the name "Johnny Sunshine" and did a popular show called "Johnny Sunshine, Boss Jock." After he said the word "booger" on the air, he was fired with a year left on his contract. (He sued the station for wrongful dismissal and received a large cash settlement after a few years.) After leaving L.A., he led a nomadic existence, going from town to town. His next job was hosting a garden show in Amarillo. He has used many on-air names, including Johnny Duke, Johnny Style, Johnny Cool, and even Heavy Early. (Most of these names appear on the side of Johnny's coffee cup.) He finally hit "rock bottom," in his own words, when he landed in Cincinnati at the worst radio station in town, WKRP -- the only station that would hire him. He found himself hosting a "beautiful music" show in the morning, so obviously bored with the music that he didn't even bother to make up a new name or on-air persona.
When Andy Travis takes over as program director of WKRP and changes the format to rock n' roll, Johnny is initially doubtful that he can succeed as the morning man in the new format; conscious that he is older than the average morning DJ, Johnny advises Andy to find someone "about fifteen years younger," but Andy insists that he can handle it (and gives him permission to say "booger" on the air). When he gets on the air the first time after the format change, Johnny comes alive, signaling the change with a loud drag on the playing record (a fictional cover of "(You're) Having My Baby" by the Hallelujah Tabernacle Choir) and literally folding the record album in half. He immediately adopts the new, hyper-excited persona of "Dr. Johnny Fever," by playing the first record, and telling his listeners:
All right, Cincinnati, it is time for this town to get down! You've got Johnny... Doctor Johnny Fever, and I am burnin' up in here! Whoa! Whoo! We all in critical condition, babies, but you can tell me where it hurts, because I got the healing prescription here from the big 'KRP musical medicine cabinet. Now I am talking about your 50,000 watt intensive care unit, babies! So just sit right down, relax, open your ears real wide and say, "Give it to me straight, Doctor. I can take it!"
He then starts the station's first rock record, and then triumphantly says, "I almost forgot, fellow babies: BOOGER!"
On-air style
The "Doctor" is a great talker to his radio audience when he is in a confident mood. He can jive with the best D.J.s of his era. He once gives Bailey Quarters, nascent newswoman, this sage advice: "Talk into the microphone as if you were talking to your best friend." Later, in that same episode ("Mike Fright"), he would have to gather the courage to take his own advice.
Never a fan of disco, the new music fad of the era, he is a lover of rock and roll, although he feels he is getting too old to be a DJ in the genre (aside from two episodes on which he adopts a disco persona for a high-paying television job--see below). Tunes like "Hey Jude" are used for bathroom breaks or extended chats with friends.
Though the format of WKRP is supposed to be Top 40, Johnny frequently refuses to play any songs off the station playlist, choosing instead to highlight old favorites like Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Otis Redding. A consultant hired by Mrs. Carlson at one point describes Johnny as being "stuck in 1962". Andy frequently tries to get Johnny to stick to the playlist, pleading with him: "Play the playlist. Play a part of the playlist. Play one song off the playlist. Play a part of one song off the playlist!" But Johnny continues picking his own music, to the point that Andy actually goes into a state of hysteria when he hears Johnny playing "The Long Run" by The Eagles: "That's a hit! He's playing a hit!" Fever's unorthodox choice of music pays off as the series goes on, and by the final episode he has become the number-one morning DJ in the city. Johnny's views towards his music and his audience were perhaps best summed up when, picking a record, he exclaims "Sacred music...B.B. King!" Once, during a bomb threat, he remarked "If I die, who will teach the children about Bo Diddley?"
Herb Tarlek, the account executive, can never land the big accounts. As a result, Fever and the other DJs on WKRP have to do voiceovers (done live in that era) for spots for funeral homes and Red Wigglers, the "Cadillac" of worms (to which Fever adds the tag line "available at finer worm stores everywhere!"). However, he has his scruples, as when he walks out of a recording session for sports aids when he realized his dialogue is laced with euphemisms for dangerous drug effects. While it is strongly implied that Johnny is a frequent user of marijuana, he doesn't go in for harder drugs, and leads a campaign to shut down a businessman who is trying to sell speed to teenagers. He also discovers his brief successor, Doug Winner (Philip Charles MacKenzie) has been accepting cocaine for airplay under a payola scheme with a sleazy record promoter. Johnny doesn't rat Doug out, but cautions him about the dangers of cocaine abuse, knowing he'll eventually hang himself with his own noose, which subsequently happens and Johnny gets his old job back.
Personal life
WKRP settles Johnny down and establishes a relatively stable ensemble of associates for him, although the tradeoff is a cramped apartment and low pay; however, this arrangement doesn't seem to overly concern him much (at one point he describes himself as "a 40-year-old man who lives like a college student"). He is also believed to have been incarcerated at least once, in Mexico, where he says he was involved in a "minor misunderstanding with 145 Mexican cops." He was a hippie in the 1960s, 10-12 years before the show's time frame. It is implied that he smokes marijuana by his overall character, and occasional references to drug culture (e.g. Mr. Carlson once dismissed a business as a front for selling drug paraphernalia, and Johnny immediately asked where it was.) He is often seen wearing a Black Death Malt Liquor T-shirt, designed by Rip Off Press underground comic artist Dave Sheridan.
He has been married twice, with both of his ex-wives collecting alimony; he also has a college-age daughter, Laurie (Patrie Allen),[2] who briefly moves in with him. There is some suggestion in one episode that he might still be in love with his first wife, Paula (Ruth Silveira), though they agree that their relationship is over, and Paula marries another man (Hamilton Camp). Johnny's second wife never makes an appearance. Their parting was not as amicable: she tried to kill Johnny with a Ronco Veg-O-Matic.
Beginning in the second season, he becomes on and off romantically involved with fellow employee, Bailey Quarters. Though the staff seems indifferent at first, the rumor mills begin humming when Bailey invites Johnny to stay at her apartment while his apartment is being fumigated (he claims it's for lizards). Though Johnny is flattered by the attention at first, he quickly tires of the leering gestures from some of the male staffers and tells Andy that the rumors of him and Bailey shacking up aren't true, and expresses his dissatisfaction of the treatment Bailey has been getting. Andy, knowing he can do nothing until the rumors die out, counters by giving Johnny (who is in a perpetual state of poverty from ongoing alimony payments) a raise of another $50 a week.
Out of all the staff, Johnny appears to be the closest to fellow DJ Venus Flytrap, to the point where Venus gives him financial advice, bets on horses and football games with him, and even knows which seedy bars Johnny spends time at (for his part, Venus once claimed that he came to WKRP specifically "to work with the Doctor").
In the second season episode, "God Talks to Johnny," God speaks to Johnny, who concludes that he must be going crazy. The rest of the staff seem to agree. When Johnny checks himself into a hospital, he is met by Carlson, who tells him that there is nothing wrong with hearing God's voice. At the end of the episode, God's entire message is revealed: He says He loves Johnny, wants him to seek knowledge, and wants him to become a golf pro.
Other jobs
In an early episode, Johnny's new persona and his immediate popularity earn him a job offer from another station in L.A. -- the biggest competitor of the station that fired him. His co-workers at WKRP throw him a party where they try to convince him not to leave; he admits how much he loves and cares about the people he works with. But in a reversal of sitcom conventions, Johnny actually takes the job in L.A. However, in the next episode, Johnny returns: he is almost instantly fired in L.A. for saying something much worse than "booger" on the air.
Later in his WKRP career, Johnny Fever is approached by a female television producer (Mary Frann) to be a TV DJ for her disco program (based on Merv Griffin's Dance Fever) "Gotta Dance". "Rip Tide," his TV persona, is money-hungry, disco-loving, and has a very different voice and personality. In the two-part episode, Fever becomes Rip Tide during WKRP on-air time (he loses control of who he acts like). He seems to be totally taken over by the Rip Tide persona until sanity (in the persons of Andy Travis and Jennifer Marlowe) takes hold. He then defiantly turns down the big bucks from the TV producer, and Rip is R.I.P. for good.
Dr. Johnny Fever never leaves the WKRP "family" of employees for the duration of the series, but in the New WKRP in Cincinnati series, he has moved on to at least two more stations. He admits this is a good situation for him, but does wonder from time to time about what he is missing by being "under wraps" and largely out of the national limelight by staying.
In the final episode, Johnny is rated the #1 morning disc jockey in the Cincinnati ratings book. When Mrs. Carlson decides she wants to eschew the now-successful rock format for an all-news station, it is Johnny that figures out that she never wanted WKRP to be profitable (it's a tax write-off for her), and blackmails her with the information in order to make sure it continues as a rock station.
Casting
The role of Dr. Johnny Fever was originally intended for Richard Libertini, but he became unavailable. Howard Hesseman was known to WKRP's production company, MTM Enterprises, from his recurring guest role as Mr. Plager on MTM's The Bob Newhart Show. He was originally considered for the role of Herb Tarlek, but when he read the pilot script, he decided that Johnny was the part he really wanted. He was particularly suited for the part because he had actually been a disc jockey at one time, and he brought some of his experience to the character of Johnny -- including picking most of the songs that Johnny played on the show. Also, Hesseman had played wacky hippies before in Dragnet and in the film Billy Jack.
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Ellas McDaniel (born Ellas Otha Bates; December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known professionally as Bo Diddley, was an American guitarist who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll. He influenced many artists, including Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Animals, George Thorogood, and The Clash.
His use of African rhythms and a signature beat, a simple five-accent hambone rhythm, is a cornerstone of hip hop, rock, and pop music. In recognition of his achievements, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, the Blues Hall of Fame in 2003, and the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame in 2017. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Diddley is also recognized for his technical innovations, including his use of tremolo and reverb effects to enhance the sound of his distinctive rectangular-shaped guitars.
Early life
Bo Diddley was born in McComb, Mississippi, as Ellas Bates (some sources give his name as Otha Ellas Bates or as Elias Otha Bates). In a 2001 interview with Ken Paulson on the program Speaking Freely, the artist stated: "That's why I have the name Ellas Bates McDaniel. ...Now that's cleared up -- Somebody done read something -- My name is not 'Otha'. If you read that in a book someplace, I don't know where they got that 'Otha' from. But somebody decided 'Well, we don't know what his name is, so let's give him one!'" He was the only child of Ethel Wilson, a sharecropper's teenaged daughter, and Eugene Bates, whom he never knew. Wilson was only sixteen, and being unable to support a family, she gave her cousin, Gussie McDaniel, permission to raise her son. McDaniel eventually adopted him, and he assumed her surname.
After his adoptive father Robert died in 1934, when Diddley was 5 years old, Gussie McDaniel moved with him and her three children to the South Side of Chicago; he later dropped Otha from his name and became Ellas McDaniel. He was an active member of Chicago's Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church, where he studied the trombone and the violin, becoming so proficient on the violin that the musical director invited him to join the orchestra, in which he played until he was 18. However, he was more interested in the joyful, rhythmic music he heard at a local Pentecostal Church and took up the guitar; his first recordings were based on that frenetic church music. Diddley said he thought that the trance-like rhythm he used in his rhythm and blues music came from the Sanctified churches he had attended as a youth in his Chicago neighborhood.
Career
Inspired by a John Lee Hooker performance, Diddley supplemented his income as a carpenter and mechanic by playing on street corners with friends, including Jerome Green, in the Hipsters band, later renamed the Langley Avenue Jive Cats. Green became a near-constant member of McDaniel's backing band, the two often trading joking insults with each other during live shows. In the summers of 1943 and 1944, he played at the Maxwell Street market in a band with Earl Hooker. By 1951 he was playing on the street with backing from Roosevelt Jackson on washtub bass and Jody Williams, who had played harmonica as a boy but took up guitar in his teens after he met Diddley at a talent show, with Diddley teaching him some aspects of playing the instrument, including how to play the bass line. Williams later played lead guitar on "Who Do You Love?" (1956).
In 1951, he landed a regular spot at the 708 Club, on Chicago's South Side, with a repertoire influenced by Louis Jordan, John Lee Hooker, and Muddy Waters. In late 1954, he teamed up with harmonica player Billy Boy Arnold, drummer Clifton James and bass player Roosevelt Jackson and recorded demos of "I'm a Man" and "Bo Diddley". They re-recorded the songs at Universal Recording Corp. for Chess Records, with a backing ensemble comprising Otis Spann (piano), Lester Davenport (harmonica), Frank Kirkland (drums), and Jerome Green (maracas). The record was released in March 1955, and the A-side, "Bo Diddley", became a number one R&B hit.
Origins of stage name
The origin of the stage name Bo Diddley is unclear. McDaniel claimed that his peers gave him the name, which he suspected was an insult. Diddly is a truncation of diddly squat, which means "absolutely nothing". Diddley also said that the name first belonged to a singer his adoptive mother knew. Harmonicist Billy Boy Arnold said that it was a local comedian's name, which Leonard Chess adopted as McDaniel's stage name and the title of his first single. McDaniel also stated that his school classmates in Chicago gave him the nickname, which he started using when sparring and boxing in the neighborhood with The Little Neighborhood Golden Gloves Bunch.
A diddley bow is a homemade single-string instrument that survived in the American Deep South, especially in Mississippi. Played mainly by children, the diddley bow in its simplest form was made by nailing a length of broom wire to the side of a house, using a rock placed under the string as a movable bridge, and played in the style of a bottleneck guitar, with various objects used as a slider. The apparent consensus among scholars is that the diddley bow is derived from the monochord zithers of central Africa. Diddley played his song "Bo Diddley" in one string fashion on the guitar, in the style of the children's instrument.
Success in the 1950s and 1960s
On November 20, 1955, Diddley appeared on the popular television program The Ed Sullivan Show. According to legend, when someone on the show's staff overheard him casually singing "Sixteen Tons" in the dressing room, he was asked to perform the song on the show. One of Diddley's later versions of the story was that upon seeing "Bo Diddley" on the cue card, he thought he was to perform both his self-titled hit single and "Sixteen Tons". Sullivan was furious and banned Diddley from his show, reputedly saying that he wouldn't last six months. Chess Records included Diddley's cover of "Sixteen Tons" on the 1963 album Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger.
Diddley's hit singles continued in the 1950s and 1960s: "Pretty Thing" (1956), "Say Man" (1959), and "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" (1962). He also released numerous albums, including Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger and Have Guitar, Will Travel. These bolstered his self-invented legend. Between 1958 and 1963, Checker Records released eleven full-length Bo Diddley albums. In the 1960s, he broke through as a crossover artist with white audiences (appearing at the Alan Freed concerts, for example), but he rarely aimed his compositions at teenagers. Diddley was among those musicians who capitalized on the mid-1960s surfing and beach party craze in the United States, and released the albums Surfin' with Bo Diddley and Bo Diddley's Beach Party. These featured heavy, distorted blues, played on his Gretsch guitar with bended notes and minor key riffs, unlike the clean, undistorted sounds of the Fender guitars used by the California surf bands. The cover of Surfin' with Bo Diddley had a photograph of two surfers riding a big wave.
In 1963, Diddley starred in a UK concert tour with the Everly Brothers and Little Richard along with the Rolling Stones (a little-known band at that time).
Diddley wrote many songs for himself and also for others. In 1956, he and guitarist Jody Williams co-wrote the pop song "Love Is Strange", a hit for Mickey & Sylvia in 1957, reaching number 11 on the chart. Mickey Baker claimed that he (Baker) and Bo Diddley's wife, Ethel Smith, wrote the song. Diddley also wrote "Mama (Can I Go Out)", which was a minor hit for the pioneering rockabilly singer Jo Ann Campbell, who performed the song in the 1959 rock and roll film Go Johnny Go.
After moving from Chicago to Washington, D.C., Diddley built his first home recording studio in the basement of his home at 2614 Rhode Island Avenue NE. Frequented by several of Washington, D.C.'s musical luminaries, the studio was the site where he recorded the Checker LP (Checker LP-2977) Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger. Diddley also produced and recorded several up-and-coming groups from the Washington, D.C. area. One of the first groups he recorded was local doo-wop group the Marquees, featuring Marvin Gaye and baritone-bass Chester Simmons, who mooonlighted as Diddley's chauffeur.
The Marquees appeared in talent shows at the Lincoln Theatre, and Diddley, impressed by their smooth vocal delivery, let them rehearse in his studio. Diddley got the Marquees signed to Columbia subsidiary label OKeh Records after unsuccessfully attempting to get them a contract with his own label, Chess. The OKeh label rivaled Chess in the promotion of rhythm and blues. On September 25, 1957, Diddley drove the group to New York City to record "Wyatt Earp", a novelty song written by Reese Palmer, lead singer of the Marquees. Diddley produced the session, with the group backed by his own band. They cut their first record, a single with "Wyatt Earp" on the A-side and "Hey Little School Girl" on the B-side, but it failed to become a hit. Diddley persuaded Moonglows founder and backing vocalist Harvey Fuqua to hire Gaye. Gaye joined the Moonglows as first tenor; the group then moved to Detroit with the hope of signing with Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr.
Diddley included women in his band: Norma-Jean Wofford, also known as The Duchess; Gloria Jolivet; Peggy Jones, also known as Lady Bo, a lead guitarist (rare for a woman at that time); and Cornelia Redmond, also known as Cookie V.
Later years
In early 1971, writer-musician Michael Lydon, a founding editor of Rolling Stone, conducted a lengthy, rambling interview of Diddley, at his then home in the San Fernando Valley, California. Lydon described him as a "protean genius" whose songs were "hymns to himself", and led the published piece with a Diddley quote: "Everything I know I taught myself."
Over the decades, Diddley's performing venues ranged from intimate clubs to stadiums. On March 25, 1972, he played with the Grateful Dead at the Academy of Music in New York City. The Grateful Dead released part of this concert as Volume 30 of the band's concert album series, Dick's Picks. Also in the early 1970s, the soundtrack of the ground-breaking animated film Fritz the Cat contained his song "Bo Diddley", in which a crow dances and finger-pops to the track.
Diddley spent some years in New Mexico, living in Los Lunas from 1971 to 1978, while continuing his musical career. He served for two and a half years as a deputy sheriff in the Valencia County Citizens' Patrol; during that time he purchased and donated three highway-patrol pursuit cars. In the late 1970s, he left Los Lunas and moved to Hawthorne, Florida, where he lived on a large estate in a custom-made log cabin, which he helped to build. For the remainder of his life he divided his time between Albuquerque and Florida, living the last 13 years of his life in Archer, Florida, a small farming town near Gainesville.
In 1979, he appeared as an opening act for The Clash on their US tour.
In 1983, he made a cameo appearance as a Philadelphia pawn shop owner in the comedy film Trading Places. He also appeared in George Thorogood's music video for the song "Bad to the Bone," portraying a guitar-slinging pool shark.
In 1985, he appeared on George Thorogood's set, alongside fellow blues legend Albert Collins, on the Live Aid American stage to perform Thorogood's popular cover of Diddley's song Who Do You Love?".
In 1989, Diddley and his management company, Talent Source, entered into a licensing with the sportswear brand. The Wieden & Kennedy-produced commercial in the "Bo Knows" campaign teamed Diddley with dual sportsman Bo Jackson. The agreement ended in 1991, but in 1999, a T-shirt of Diddley's image and "You don't know diddley" slogan was purchased in a Gainesville, Florida, sports apparel store. Diddley felt that Nike should not continue to use the slogan or his likeness and fought Nike over the copyright infringement. Despite the fact that lawyers for both parties could not come to a renewed legal arrangement, Nike allegedly continued marketing the apparel and ignored cease-and-desist orders, and a lawsuit was filed on Diddley's behalf, in Manhattan Federal Court.
Diddley played a blues and rock musician named Axman in the 1990 comedy film Rockula, directed by Luca Bercovici and starring Dean Cameron.
In Legends of Guitar (filmed live in Spain in 1991), Diddley performed with Steve Cropper, B.B. King, Les Paul, Albert Collins, and George Benson, among others. He joined the Rolling Stones on their 1994 concert broadcast of Voodoo Lounge, performing "Who Do You Love?" at Joe Robbie Stadium, in Miami.
In 1996, he released A Man Amongst Men, his first major-label album (and his final studio album) with guest artists like Keith Richards, Ron Wood and the Shirelles. The album earned a Grammy Award nomination in 1997 for the Best Contemporary Blues Album category.
Diddley performed a number of shows around the country in 2005 and 2006, with fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Johnnie Johnson and his band, consisting of Johnson on keyboards, Richard Hunt on drums and Gus Thornton on bass. In 2006, he participated as the headliner of a grassroots-organized fundraiser concert to benefit the town of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, which had been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The "Florida Keys for Katrina Relief" had originally been set for October 23, 2005, when Hurricane Wilma barreled through the Florida Keys on October 24, causing flooding and economic mayhem.
In January 2006, the Florida Keys had recovered enough to host the fundraising concert to benefit the more hard-hit community of Ocean Springs. When asked about the fundraiser, Diddley stated, "This is the United States of America. We believe in helping one another". The all-star band included members of the Soul Providers, and famed artists Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band, Joey Covington of Jefferson Airplane, Alfonso Carey of The Village People, and Carl Spagnuolo of Jay & The Techniques. In an interview with Holger Petersen, on Saturday Night Blues on CBC Radio in the fall of 2006, he commented on racism in the music industry establishment during his early career. Diddley sold the rights to his songs early on, and until 1989 he received no royalties from the most successful part of his career.
His final guitar performance on a studio album was with the New York Dolls on their 2006 album One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This. He contributed guitar work to the song "Seventeen", which was included as a bonus track on the limited-edition version of the disc.
In May 2007, Diddley suffered a stroke after a concert the previous day in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Nonetheless, he delivered an energetic performance to an enthusiastic crowd. A few months later he had a heart attack. While recovering, Diddley came back to his hometown of McComb, Mississippi, in early November 2007, for the unveiling of a plaque devoted to him on the Mississippi Blues Trail. This marked his achievements and noted that he was "acclaimed as a founder of rock-and-roll." He was not supposed to perform, but as he listened to the music of local musician Jesse Robinson, who sang a song written for this occasion, Robinson sensed that Diddley wanted to perform and handed him a microphone, the only time that he performed publicly after his stroke.
Personal life
Marriages and children
Bo Diddley was married four times. His first marriage, at 18, to Louise Willingham, lasted a year. Diddley married his second wife Ethel Mae Smith in 1949; they had two children. He met his third wife, Kay Reynolds, when she was 15, while performing in Birmingham, Alabama. They soon moved in together and married, despite taboos against interracial marriage. They had two daughters. He married his fourth wife, Sylvia Paiz, in 1992; they were divorced at the time of his death.
Health problems
On May 13, 2007, Diddley was admitted to intensive care in Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, following a stroke after a concert the previous day in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Starting the show, he had complained that he did not feel well. He referred to smoke from the wildfires that were ravaging south Georgia and blowing south to the area near his home in Archer, Florida. The next day, as he was heading back home, he seemed dazed and confused at the airport, and his manager, Margo Lewis, called 911 and airport security, and he was immediately taken by ambulance to Creighton University Medical Center where he stayed for several days. His manager, Margo Lewis, then flew him to Shands Hospital in Gainesville, FL, where it was confirmed that he had suffered a stroke. Diddley had a history of hypertension and diabetes, and the stroke affected the left side of his brain, causing receptive and expressive aphasia (speech impairment). The stroke was followed by a heart attack, which he suffered in Gainesville, Florida, on August 28, 2007.
Death
Bo Diddley died on June 2, 2008, of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida at the age of 79. Grandson Garry Mitchell, his managers, Margo Lewis and Faith Fusillo, bass player and band leader, Debby Hastings, and many family members, were with him when he died at 1:45 am. EDT, at his home. His death was not unexpected. "There was a Gospel song that was sung, at his bedside, and when it was done, he opened his eyes, gave a thumbs up, and said, "Wow! I'm goin' to Heaven!" The song was 'Walk Around Heaven', and those were his last words."
He was survived by his children, Evelyn Kelly, Ellas A. McDaniel, Pamela Jacobs, Steven Jones, Terri Lynn McDaniel-Hines, and Tammi D. McDaniel; a brother, the Rev. Kenneth Haynes; and eighteen grandchildren, fifteen great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
His funeral, a four-hour "homegoing" service, took place on June 7, 2008, at Showers of Blessings Church in Gainesville, Florida. Many in attendance chanted "Hey Bo Diddley" as members of Diddley's band played a subdued version of the song.
A number of notable musicians sent flowers, including Little Richard, George Thorogood, Tom Petty and Jerry Lee Lewis. Little Richard, who had been asking his audiences to pray for Bo Diddley, throughout his illness, had to fulfill concert commitments in Westbury and New York City, the weekend of the funeral. He remembered Diddley at the concerts, performing his namesake tune. Eric Burdon, of The Animals, flew to Gainesville to attend the service.
After the funeral service, a tribute concert was held at the Martin Luther King Center in Gainesville, Florida, featuring guest performances by his son and daughter, Ellas A. McDaniel and Evelyn "Tan" Cooper; long-time background vocalist (and original Boette), Gloria Jolivet, and long-time bassist and bandleader, Debby Hastings, Eric Burdon, and former Bo Diddley & Offspring guitarist, Scott Free. In the days following his death, tributes were paid by then-President George W. Bush, the United States House of Representatives, and musicians and performers including B. B. King, Ronnie Hawkins, Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, George Thorogood, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Robert Plant, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Randolph and the Family Band and Eric Burdon. Burdon used video footage of the McDaniel family, and friends in mourning, for a video promoting his ABKCO Records release "Bo Diddley Special". Hastings is quoted as having said, "He was the rock that the roll was built on."
In November 2009, the guitar used by Bo Diddley in his final stage performance sold for $60,000 at auction.
In 2019, members of Bo Diddley's family sued to regain control of the music catalog held in trust by attorney Charles Littell. The family was successful in appointing a new trustee, music industry veteran Kendall Minter. The family was represented by Charles David of Florida Probate Law Group in the 2019 lawsuit.
Accolades
Bo Diddley was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music. In its People in America radio series, about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how "his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him." Mick Jagger stated that "he was a wonderful, original musician who was an enormous force in music and was a big influence on the Rolling Stones. He was very generous to us in our early years and we learned a lot from him". Jagger also praised the late star as a one-of-a-kind musician, adding, "We will never see his like again". The documentary film Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street by director Phil Ranstrom features Bo Diddley's last on-camera interview.
He achieved numerous accolades in recognition of his significant role as one of the founding fathers of rock and roll.
1986: Inducted into the Washington Area Music Association's Hall of Fame.
1987: Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
1987: Inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame
1990: Lifetime Achievement Award from Guitar Player magazine
1996: Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation
1998: Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
1999: His 1955 recording of his song "Bo Diddley" inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame
2000: Inducted into the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame
2000: Inducted into the North Florida Music Association's Hall of Fame
2002: Pioneer in Entertainment Award from the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters
2002: Honored as one of the first BMI Icons at the 50th annual BMI Pop Awards, along with BMI affiliates Chuck Berry and Little Richard.
2003: Inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame
2008: Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree posthumously conferred on Diddley by the University of Florida in August (the award had been confirmed before his death in June).
2020: Induction into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame
2010: Induction into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame.
2017: Inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame.
2021: Inducted into the New Mexico Music Hall of Fame.
In 2003, U.S. Representative John Conyers paid tribute to Bo Diddley in the United States House of Representatives, describing him as "one of the true pioneers of rock and roll, who has influenced generations".
In 2004, Mickey and Sylvia's 1956 recording of "Love Is Strange" (a song first recorded by Bo Diddley but not released until a year before his death) was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as a recording of qualitative or historical significance. Also in 2004, Bo Diddley was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame and was ranked number 20 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
In 2005, Bo Diddley celebrated his 50th anniversary in music with successful tours of Australia and Europe and with coast-to-coast shows across North America. He performed his song "Bo Diddley" with Eric Clapton and Robbie Robertson at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 20th annual induction ceremony. In the UK, Uncut magazine included his 1957 debut album, Bo Diddley, in its listing of the '100 Music, Movie & TV Moments That Have Changed the World'.
Bo Diddley was honored by the Mississippi Blues Commission with a Mississippi Blues Trail historic marker placed in McComb, his birthplace, in recognition of his enormous contribution to the development of the blues in Mississippi. On June 5, 2009, the city of Gainesville, Florida, officially renamed and dedicated its downtown plaza the Bo Diddley Community Plaza. The plaza was the site of a benefit concert at which Bo Diddley performed to raise awareness about the plight of the homeless in Alachua County and to raise money for local charities, including the Red Cross.
Beat
Main article: Bo Diddley beat
The "Bo Diddley beat" is essentially the clave rhythm, one of the most common bell patterns found in sub-Saharan African music traditions. One scholar found this rhythm in 13 rhythm and blues recordings made in the years 1944–55, including two by Johnny Otis from 1948.
Bo Diddley gave different accounts of how he began to use this rhythm. Ned Sublette says, "In the context of the time, and especially those maracas [heard on the record], 'Bo Diddley' has to be understood as a Latin-tinged record. A rejected cut recorded at the same session was titled only 'Rhumba' on the track sheets." The Bo Diddley beat is similar to "hambone", a style used by street performers who play out the beat by slapping and patting their arms, legs, chest, and cheeks while chanting rhymes. Somewhat resembling the "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm, Diddley came across it while trying to play Gene Autry's "(I've Got Spurs That) Jingle, Jangle, Jingle". Three years before his "Bo Diddley", a song with similar syncopation "Hambone", was cut by the Red Saunders Orchestra with the Hambone Kids. In 1944, "Rum and Coca Cola", containing the Bo Diddley beat, was recorded by the Andrews Sisters. Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" (1957) and Them's "Mystic Eyes" (1965) used the beat.
In its simplest form, the Bo Diddley beat can be counted out as either a one-bar or a two-bar phrase. Here is the count as a one-bar phrase: One e and ah, two e and ah, three e and ah, four e and ah (the boldface counts are the clave rhythm).
Many songs (for example, "Hey Bo Diddley" and "Who Do You Love?") often have no chord changes; that is, the musicians play the same chord throughout the piece, so that the rhythms create the excitement, rather than having the excitement generated by harmonic tension and release. In his other recordings, Bo Diddley used various rhythms, from straight back beat to pop ballad style to doo-wop, frequently with maracas by Jerome Green. His 1955 rhythm and blues hit, "Bo Diddley", had a "driving African rhythm and ham-bone beat". Beginning that same year, Diddley collaborated with various doo-wop vocal groups, using the Moonglows as a backing group on his first album, Bo Diddley, released in 1958. In one of the most well-known of his 1958 doo-wop sessions, Diddley added harmonies by the Carnations recording as the Teardrops, who sang smooth, polished doo-wop in the backgrounds on the songs "I'm Sorry", "Crackin' Up", and "Don't Let it Go".
An influential guitar player, Bo Diddley developed many special effects and other innovations in tone and attack, particularly the "shimmering" tremolo sound, and amp reverb. His trademark instrument was his self-designed, one-of-a-kind, rectangular-bodied "Twang Machine" (referred to as "cigar-box shaped" by music promoter Dick Clark), built by Gretsch. He had other uniquely shaped guitars custom-made for him by other manufacturers throughout the years, most notably the "Cadillac" and the rectangular "Turbo 5-speed" (with built-in envelope filter, flanger and delay) designs, made by Tom Holmes (who also made guitars for ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, among others). He also played the violin, which is featured on his mournful instrumental "The Clock Strikes Twelve", a twelve-bar blues.
Diddley often created lyrics as witty and humorous adaptations of folk music themes. His first hit, "Bo Diddley", was based on hambone rhymes. The first line of his song "Hey Bo Diddley" is derived from the nursery rhyme "Old MacDonald". The song "Who Do You Love?" with its rap-style boasting, and his use of the African-American game known as "the dozens" on the songs "Say Man" and "Say Man, Back Again," are cited as progenitors of hip-hop music; for example, in the dialogue of the song, "Say Man", percussionist Jerome Green says the lines: "You've got the nerve to call somebody ugly. Why, you so ugly till the stork that brought you in the world oughta be arrested."
Discography
Main article: Bo Diddley discography
Studio albums
Collaborations
Chuck Berry Is on Top, with Chuck Berry (Chess, 1959)
Two Great Guitars, with Chuck Berry (Checker, 1964)
Super Blues, with Muddy Waters and Little Walter (Checker, 1967)
The Super Super Blues Band, with Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf (Checker, 1968)
Chart singles
Year Single Chart Positions US Pop US
R&B UK 1955 "Bo Diddley" /
"I'm a Man" - 1 - "Diddley Daddy" - 11 - 1956 "Pretty Thing" – 4 34
(in 1963) 1959 "I'm Sorry" – 17 – "Crackin Up" 62 14 – "Say Man" 20 3 – "Say Man, Back Again" – 23 – 1960 "Road Runner" 75 20 – 1962 "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" 48 21 – 1965 "Hey Good Lookin'" – – 39 1967 "Ooh Baby" 88 17 –
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Bo Diddley, born as Ellas Otha Bates, later changed to Ellas McDaniel (McComb, 30 december 1928 - Archer, June 2, 2008), was an influential American rock and rollsinger andguitarist-. His style, characterized by the metallic guitarriffs and propulsive rhythms, influenced countless musicians...
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Bo Diddley, born as Ellas Otha Bates, later changed to Ellas McDaniel (McComb, 30 december 1928 - Archer, June 2, 2008), was an influential American rock and rollsinger andguitarist-. His style, characterized by the metallic guitarriffs and propulsive rhythms, influenced countless musicians, although his work rarely has managed to reach the charts.
Life Course[Edit][]
In his youth he was given violin lessons. After hearing he decided blues guitarist John Lee Hooker . In the 1950s he began to play with his regular partner, themaracasPlayer Jerome Green. In the mid-fifties he got a contract with the record company in Chicago -based Chess Records. Diddley played guitar-originally a home-built, square on his record covers always neatly dressed with bow tie and Scottish Plaid jackets. His trademark during real performances were a pair of sunglasses and the equally inseparable (bol) hat.
His first single, "Bo Diddley" based on a Lullaby, introduced the beatcharacteristic for him, which later would be copied many times. Influential is also the emphasis on theguitar -driven by the rhythm in the number.
Later were released even more singles, including "I'm a Man", "Who Do You Love?", "Mona (I need you baby)" and "Road Runner". Even though at the time no major successes were, certainly not compared to the hits of his Chess-colleague Chuck Berry, these and other songs covered on a regular basis and they are proved to be a major influence on other important musicians. Among others The Rolling Stones, The Doors, Buddy Holly, Muddy Waters, The Animals, Quicksilver Messenger Service,The Pretty Things and The Yardbirds have covers and renditions of songs by Bo Diddley alias e. McDaniel played.
In the 1960s, stopped Bo Diddley recording plates. He would still occasionally occur, including in the opening act for The Clash, in the late 1970s. Bo Diddley In 1987 was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In that same year, he also appeared in the film Hail, Hail Rock and Roll from Taylor Hackford, a documentary in which he and around Chuck Berry Little Richard reminisces to their glory years.
On 16 May 2007, Bo Diddley suffered a stroke after a gig and recorded on the IC at a hospital in Omaha (Nebraska). [1] a year later, during his rehabilitation, he died after a heart attack in Florida, at the age of 79. [2]
Bo Diddley-rhythm[Edit][]
[1]Bo Diddley in the AutostadtVolkswagen -museum
Bo Diddley has its own rhythm developed, it is therefore the "Bo Diddley-rhythm" (often the English denomination, the "Bo Diddley beat", used). Another name is the "jungle rhythm". The rhythm is used in several songs, some of which are:
U2 - Desire
The Who - Magic Bus
The Bangles -Walk Like An Egyptian
George Michael - Faith
Buddy Holly - Not Fade Away (later covered by the Rolling Stones)
The Strangeloves -I want candy
Johnny Otis Show -Willie and the Hand Jive
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Marking a sad day for music lovers around the world, music legend Bo Diddley passed away from heart failure on June 2. Rock 'n' roll legend Bo Diddley
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Marking a sad day for music lovers around the world, music legend Bo Diddley passed away from heart failure on June 2.
Rock ‘n’ roll legend Bo Diddley
Ingenious and powerful, Diddley’s music profoundly influenced musicians from 1955 to the present. Rooted in the blues, Diddley is acknowledged as a pioneer in rock ‘n’ roll. He leaves behind an impressive repertoire, including “Who Do You Love,” “I Need You Baby (Mona),” “Can’t Judge a Book by Looking at its Cover,” “Road Runner” and “Before You Accuse Me.”
Diddley was very outspoken about the injustice and exploitation carried out by the record companies. A lot of people said he was mismanaged, but Diddley pointed out that it was really racism that blocked Black artists. His music developed in the context of Black musical artists living and working in an exploitative, oppressive society. Disenfranchisement of Black people, Jim Crow segregation and KKK racist terror characterized the United States at the time.
Born in 1928 in McComb, Miss., as Ellas McDaniel, Diddley spent his childhood in Chicago, where he received the nickname Diddley.. He learned to play the violin as a child and picked up the guitar after hearing John Lee Hooker’s “Talking Blues”.
Working as a carpenter and mechanic, Diddley began performing on street corners for tips along with his friends. They called their group The Hipsters, later renamed The Jive Cats. In 1951, Diddley got a regular gig at a South Side club. He listened to Hooker, Muddy Waters and the jazz, rhythm & blues of Louis Jordan.
Diddley’s new style of blues reached deep into African traditions that survived and developed in the Americas through centuries of slavery and racist oppression. He began using a rhythm similar to Rumba Clave and Hambone, or “Hand Jive,” now called the “Bo Diddley Beat.”
His first record, “Bo Diddley,” produced at Chess Studios, was released in March 1955. A couple of months later, Muddy Waters responded to the B-side, “I’m a Man,” with his own version, “Manish Boy.”
Later that year, Diddley was invited to perform “Sixteen Tons” on Ed Sullivan’s live broadcast television variety show. Once on stage, he played “Bo Diddley” instead. Ed Sullivan, infuriated, permanently banned Diddley from the show.
In 1956, Chess released Diddley’s mind boggling “Who Do You Love?”—not a typical love song for the time. That same year saw Howlin’ Wolf’s “Smoke Stack Lightning” with only one riff and no chord changes. Chuck Berry’s “Roll Over Beethoven” also arrived.
Many rock ’n’ roll emerging artists emulated Diddley’s infectious rhythm and hip demeanor. Musicians, singers and writers who would later become major performers covered his songs or put new words to the Bo Diddley Beat. Muddy Waters, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Johnny Otis, the Supremes, Temptations, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Credence Clearwater, the Grateful Dead, Velvet Underground drummer Maureen Tucker, Patti Smith and the Clash all sampled his style. Diddley also wrote “Love is Strange,” a wonderful and influential song, for Mickey & Sylvia.
Although many musicians, singers and songwriters regarded Diddley’s music highly, record companies, distributors and big radio and television stations did not pay him the same respect. Like many Black musicians of his time, Diddley only got a one-time payment from the record company for his songs recorded in the 50s and early 60s—the best years of his career. Record companies made many millions of dollars off many great blues artists like Diddley without paying any royalties.
He did not make a living from royalties or retire in luxury. He enjoyed performing, but had to keep performing late into his years in order to survive. He played shows until he was 78 years old, when he suffered a stroke followed by a heart attack in late 2007.
Diddley’s music brought the background beat to the fore, focusing on percussive rhythm and exploring the electric guitar’s sonic effects. Some of his most influential songs had no chord changes. He played electric guitar like a percussion instrument. The emphasis on beat and sound shows up throughout not only rock ‘n’ roll but also other music, including forms as varied as funk and minimalism. Aspects of his music further developed in the music of innovators like James Brown and Jimi Hendrix.
Diddley said a few things about death in “Who Do You Love?” Listening to those terrific enigmatic lines, such as “You should’a heard just what I seen.” “Take a little walk”—and see if you can say that Bo Diddley is truly dead.
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Rock 'n' roll pioneer Bo Diddley, who banged out hit songs powered by the relentless "Bo Diddley beat" that influenced rockers from Buddy Holly to U2, died on Monday at the age of 79.
Diddley died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida, his management agency, Talent Consultants International, said in a statement.
"One of the founding fathers of rock 'n' roll has left the building he helped construct," the statement said.
Diddley suffered a stroke during a concert in Iowa in May 2007 and was hospitalised in Omaha, Nebraska. In August 2007 he had a heart attack in Florida.
In a career spanning more than five decades, Diddley composed a substantial body of rock classics, including Who Do You Love, Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley's a Gunslinger, Before You Accuse Me, I'm a Man, Pretty Thing and Mona.
He cranked them out on a signature rectangular guitar, setting many of them to rumba-like rhythm of his Bo Diddley beat that gave rock 'n' roll a powerful rhythmic foundation.
Along with such contemporaries as Chuck Berry and Little Richard, he was among a pioneering group of black recording artists who crossed the American racial divide with music that appealed to white audiences and was emulated by white performers.
Although Diddley recorded relatively few chart-topping hits, his seminal role in the formative years of rock music was recognised by his induction into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and with a Grammy lifetime achievement award in 1998.
Born Ellas Bates in 1928 in McComb, Mississippi, he took the last name McDaniel from his adoptive mother, and played classical violin as a boy.
He was given the nickname Bo Diddley as a teenager after moving to Chicago, where he started playing music on street corners in the 1940s.
Inspired by blues musician John Lee Hooker's classic, Boogie Chillen, Diddley used his violin skills to craft a guitar sound that laid the basis for the funk music of the 1960s.
He found fame in the mid-1950s with his signature song, Bo Diddley. Even among the first wave of rock music, the song stood out with its tremolo guitar, maracas and trademark beat.
Diddley's unique guitar playing and rhythm influenced generations of rockers from Elvis Presley to Bon Jovi. Keith Richards and Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones and Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi made guest appearances on his records and Diddley played with the likes of The Clash and The Grateful Dead.
Arguably the greatest mainstream success of a song with the Bo Diddley beat was Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away, recorded in the 1950s and which saw renewed success when it was covered by the Rolling Stones in the 1960s.
In an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald in March 2007, Diddley insisted he was the real father of rock, saying: "Little Richard came two or three years later, along with Elvis Presley. In other words, I was the first dude out there."
Diddley frequently complained about not being paid royalties during his peak years, telling The New York Times, "Have I been ripped off? ... You bet I've been ripped off."
In 1955 Diddley became the first black artist to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show and was promptly banned from further appearances because he defied Sullivan's instructions to sing a cover song and instead performed his own hit, Bo Diddley.
Diddley had harsh words for the direction black music had taken in recent years, telling Reuters that "gangsta" rap made his blood boil.
"I hate it. I call it rap-crap," Diddley said in a 1996 interview. "I can't seem to get my records played but they'll play all this garbage."
Diddley liked to help out in his local community in Florida. A father of five, he said he was deeply concerned about the direction of children in American society.
He worked with his local police department to warn teenagers about the dangers of drugs and gang violence.
Diddley was still touring and making records in recent years, not least because he said he needed the money.
His agency said public and private services are planned for this weekend.
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Bo Diddley (born December 30, 1928, McComb, Mississippi, U.S.—died June 2, 2008, Archer, Florida) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who was one of the most influential performers of rock music’s early period.
He was raised mostly in Chicago by his adoptive family, from whom he took the surname McDaniel, and he recorded for the legendary blues record company Chess as Bo Diddley (a name most likely derived from the diddley bow, a one-stringed African guitar popular in the Mississippi Delta region). Diddley scored few hit records but was one of rock’s most influential artists nonetheless, because he had something nobody else could claim, his own beat: chink-a-chink-chink, ca-chink-chink. That syncopated beat (also known as “hambone” or “shave-and-a-haircut—two-bits”) had surfaced in a few big-band rhythm-and-blues charts of the 1940s, but Diddley stripped it down and beefed it up. He made it, with its obvious African roots, one of the irresistible dance sounds in rock and roll. It was appropriated by fellow 1950s rockers (Johnny Otis’s “Willie and the Hand Jive” [1958]), 1960s garage bands (the Strangeloves’ “I Want Candy” [1965]), and budding superstars (the Rolling Stones’ version of Buddy Holly’s Diddley-influenced “Not Fade Away” [1964]). For all that, Diddley hit the pop charts just five times and the Top 20 only once (even though his 1955 debut single, “Bo Diddley,” backed with “I’m a Man,” was number one on the rhythm-and-blues charts).
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After playing for several years on Chicago’s legendary Maxwell Street, Diddley signed with Chess subsidiary Checker in 1955. The lyrics to his songs were rife with African-American street talk, bluesy imagery, and raunchy humour (e.g., “Who Do You Love” [1957]). He used tremolo, fuzz, and feedback effects to create a guitar sound on which only Jimi Hendrix has expanded (consider sonic outbursts like “Bo Diddley”). His stage shows—featuring his half sister the Duchess on vocals and rhythm guitar and Jerome Green on bass and maracas—made an art out of bad taste. Commonly dressed in a huge black Stetson and loud shirts, Diddley no doubt influenced the dress of British Invasion groups such as the Rolling Stones. The odd-shaped guitars that he played reinforced his arresting look.
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Mississippi is on track to honor a blues and rock legend who sang about being a “road running man.”
A state House passed a bill Thursday designating a stretch of Interstate 55 as the Bo Diddley Memorial Highway, near his birthplace outside McComb.
Born Ellas Bates in December 1928, he was adopted by his mother’s cousin and became Ellas McDaniel. He said grammar school classmates in Chicago nicknamed him Bo Diddley.
His distinctive rhythms and electric guitar distortion influenced a host of rock artists.
Diddley was a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee known for songs such as “I’m a Man,” ”Hey! Bo Diddley” and “Road Runner.”
He was 79 when he died in Florida in June 2008.
The highway proposal, House Bill 1018 , moves to the Mississippi Senate.
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Bo Diddley, one of the fathers of rock'n'roll, has died in Florida at the age of 79.
Diddley, whose signature "hambone" beat provided one of the original and most enduring rhythms in rock, built the foundations from which many musicians - including the British invasion bands of the 1960s - have built.
A spokeswoman for the singer confirmed that Diddley had died of heart failure. He had suffered a heart attack in August 2007, three months after suffering a stroke while touring. Doctors said the stroke affected his ability to speak, and he had returned to Florida to continue rehabilitation.
His first, eponymously titled single introduced record buyers in 1955 to his signature rhythm. The b-side, I'm a Man, with its slightly humorous take on macho pride, also became a rock standard.
Diddley's influence on modern music continued long after the initial explosion of rock'n'roll. Songs such as David Bowie's Panic In Detroit, Bruce Springsteen's She's the One and the Pretenders' Cuban Slide all wear his influence. More recently, hip hop artists such as Mos Def have namechecked him (the track Rock'n'roll claimed his influence was underestimated: "Elvis Presley ain't got no soul/Bo Diddley is rock and roll/You may dig on the Rolling Stones/But they ain't the first place the credit belongs") whereas Jack White's band the Raconteurs currently cover his track Who Do You Love.
The legendary singer and performer, was known for his homemade square guitar, dark glasses and black hat. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and was still playing live in recent years.
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Bo Diddley
Musician, Performer
1928 - 2008
Inducted in 2010
Biography
The late Bo Diddley of Archer, near Gainesville, was one of rock music's principal architects in the 1950s. He is generally credited as the man who gave rock its beat—the "rock" upon which the "roll" was built. His innovative and original style of rhythm and blues has been influencing generations of musicians for more than five decades.
Born Ellas Otha Bates in McComb, Mississippi, Diddley was adopted by his mother's cousin, Gussie McDaniel, who moved to Chicago's South Side when he was 6 years old. The musically talented Ellas McDaniel excelled at trombone and violin. Inspired by the pulsating rhythms he heard in his Pentecostal church, McDaniel was hooked on the music's sound and energy. In 1940 he picked up his first guitar and changed popular music forever.
By the mid-1950s, McDaniel was becoming professionally known as Bo Diddley, a nickname he'd picked up as a youth. Diddley joined a band, the Langley Avenue Jive Cats, playing local venues in between playing for tips on the street. In 1954, a demo record he made with Billy Boy Arnold's band caught the attention of a record producer. In 1955, Checker Records released a single with two of Diddley's songs, including his rendition of "Bo Diddley" on Side A. The tune was an instant hit, staying on the rhythm and blues charts for 18 weeks. The record is thought to be the first recording to introduce African rhythms into rock-and-roll music.
Diddley's syncopated rhythm (known as the "Bo Diddley beat") and driving, distorted guitar style was revolutionary, eventually earning him the title of "the father of rock-and-roll." Through the mid-1960s, he had a string of hits, most notably "I'm a Man" (Side B of his first hit single); and "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" (1962). He heavily influenced other rock-and-roll pioneers, including Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and Little Richard, along with a later generation led by Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen.
In the late 1970s, Diddley moved to Archer, Florida. In 1987, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Among his top honors was winning a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998. In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine placed him 20th on a list of "The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time." He succumbed to heart failure at his home in Archer in 2008.
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Like many people my age, I learned about Bo Diddley not from any unremembered nostalgia for British Invasion swipes of the ancient bluesman’s slippery guitar technique, but from the myth-making “Bo Knows” Nike commercials of the late 80s. See the above YouTube clip and marinate on the ’88 cameos from MJ, Gibby, Gretz, Jim “Chris” Everett and John “Tennis Court for Your Birthday” McEnroe. Fuck, the only thing Phil Knight didn’t do was slip in Rakim and Big Daddy Kane (Bo knows Beats for the Listeners).
Of course, the one thing Bo Jackson couldn’t do was play guitar like Bo Diddley. No one plays guitar like Bo Diddley. This is just basic mathematics, a simple statistic you have to accept, like Supreme Clientele being the best rap record made in 00s, The Simpsons being the best show ever, and Lindsay Lohan being the only 21-year old in the history of time capable of copping senior citizen movie tickets without being carded. Diddley’s story doesn’t warrant a blog post, it warrants a biography or a biopic.* For now, check out the New York Times’ comprehensive obit and a surprisingly well-done 2005 Rolling Stone profile. **
Hailed as one of the three inventors of Rock N’ Roll along with Chuck Berry and Little Richard, Diddley famously argued that he never received his full due. Obviously, he never heard Mos Def’s “Rock N’ Roll.” Indeed, considering all rock and blues experts already include him in the inner sanctum, Diddley’s place seems forever secure in the history books. Listening to his classic cuts a half century after its release, it’s not hard to fathom why Diddley is the rare artist capable of causing even the most facile writers to spew cliches invoking the words “raw” “primal,” and/or “funky.” It’s soul music before the term was invented. Bible material***With someone like Bo, words always seem cheap in comparison to the music. Also, there is this photograph and the fact that Diddley’s first-ever group was called “The Hipsters.” Hmmm….
R.I.P Bo Diddley (1928-2008).
*Jamie Foxx not required.
**Despite being written by the Dr. Nick Riviera of journalism, Neil Strauss.
***Unlike Starks, Bo Diddley will not pop up in your cereal.
Buy The Chess Box
Buy Tales From the Funk Dimension
Download:
MP3: Bo Diddley-“Bo Diddley”
MP3: Bo Diddley-“Who Do You Love”
MP3: Bo Diddley-“Gun Slinger”
MP3: Bo Diddley-“Hey Bo Diddley”
MP3: Bo Diddley-“The Story of Bo Diddley”
MP3: Bo Diddley-“Black Soul”
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Bo Diddley (born December 30, 1928, McComb, Mississippi, U.S.—died June 2, 2008, Archer, Florida) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who was one of the most influential performers of rock music’s early period.
He was raised mostly in Chicago by his adoptive family, from whom he took the surname McDaniel, and he recorded for the legendary blues record company Chess as Bo Diddley (a name most likely derived from the diddley bow, a one-stringed African guitar popular in the Mississippi Delta region). Diddley scored few hit records but was one of rock’s most influential artists nonetheless, because he had something nobody else could claim, his own beat: chink-a-chink-chink, ca-chink-chink. That syncopated beat (also known as “hambone” or “shave-and-a-haircut—two-bits”) had surfaced in a few big-band rhythm-and-blues charts of the 1940s, but Diddley stripped it down and beefed it up. He made it, with its obvious African roots, one of the irresistible dance sounds in rock and roll. It was appropriated by fellow 1950s rockers (Johnny Otis’s “Willie and the Hand Jive” [1958]), 1960s garage bands (the Strangeloves’ “I Want Candy” [1965]), and budding superstars (the Rolling Stones’ version of Buddy Holly’s Diddley-influenced “Not Fade Away” [1964]). For all that, Diddley hit the pop charts just five times and the Top 20 only once (even though his 1955 debut single, “Bo Diddley,” backed with “I’m a Man,” was number one on the rhythm-and-blues charts).
Britannica Quiz
Pop Culture Quiz
After playing for several years on Chicago’s legendary Maxwell Street, Diddley signed with Chess subsidiary Checker in 1955. The lyrics to his songs were rife with African-American street talk, bluesy imagery, and raunchy humour (e.g., “Who Do You Love” [1957]). He used tremolo, fuzz, and feedback effects to create a guitar sound on which only Jimi Hendrix has expanded (consider sonic outbursts like “Bo Diddley”). His stage shows—featuring his half sister the Duchess on vocals and rhythm guitar and Jerome Green on bass and maracas—made an art out of bad taste. Commonly dressed in a huge black Stetson and loud shirts, Diddley no doubt influenced the dress of British Invasion groups such as the Rolling Stones. The odd-shaped guitars that he played reinforced his arresting look.
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MALCOLM MCDOWELL i JAN SHEPARD (King Creole) , DON STROUD , (Bloody I Mama) psYeH0mmNiMWD& HC77 BOX 111, HINTON, WV 25351 USA ACT OF AGGRESSION, ARMY MEDICINE IN VIETNAM, AUTOPSY OF A GHOST, BARRY MCKENZIE HOLDS HIS OWN, BATTLE WIZARD, THE BIGGEST FIST, BLACK NOON, BRIGADE BLACK PANTHER, THE CHINESE MECHANIC, COFFIN SOUZA’S FREAK CIRCUS, THE CONCORDE AFFAIR, COWBOY IN SWEDEN, DANISH ESCORT GIRLS, DEADLY CHINA DOLL, DEATH CHEATERS, DEEP THROAT IN TOKYO, DINNER FOR ADELE, EMPEROR TOMATO KETCHUP, ENTER THE DEVIL, EROS CENTER HAMBURG, FEMMINE CARNIVORES, FRAULEINS IN UNIFORM, GAME SHOW MODELS, GIRLS AT THE GYNECOLOGIST, THE GODFATHER SQUAD, GONKS GO BEAT, HALLS OF ANGER, HELL RAIDERS, HELLISH SPIDERS, THE HOTTEST SHOW IN TOWN, I.K.U., I KILLED EINSTEIN gentlemen, I SAILED TO TAHITI WITH AN ALL GIRL CREW, I WANT TO BE A WOMAN, I WOKE UP EARLY THE DAY I DIED, KILINK ISTANBULDA, KILLERS ON WHEELS, LIBIDOMANIA, LADY EXTERMINATOR, LAST OF THE KNUCKLEMEN, LSD: FLESH OF THE DEVIL, MAGIC CURSE, MANILA OPEN CITY, THE MANSON MASSACRE, MATINEE HOOKERS, MISS COMET, MY OLD MAN’S PLACE, NAKED AS NATURE INTENDED, NAKED VIOLENCE, NIGHTMARE HONEYMOON, NOTHIN’ BUT BLONDES, NURSES FOR SALE, OUTRAGE, PENELOPE PULLS IT OFF, PETTICOAT PIRATES, THE PHYNX, PIGS VS. FREAKS, POPULATION: ONE, PRINCESS XUXA AND THE TRAPALHOES, THE PUSSYCAT SYNDROME, RAIDERS OF THE PARADISE, REDNECK COUNTY, THE RELUCTANT SADIST, REVENGE IN THE TIGER CAGE, SHOTGUN WEDDING, SIGN OF THE PAGAN, SIX PACK ANNIE, THE STRANGE VENGEANCE OF ROSALIE, STRANGLEHOLD IN A WOMENS PRISON, SUICIDE CIRCLE, SUPERBUG GOES WILD, TATTOOED TEARS, TEENAGE TRAMP, THREE SUPERMEN AND MAD GIRL, THREE SWEDISH GIRLS IN HAMBURG, TIGER LOVE, TORRENTE: THE STUPID ARM OF THE LAW, TRAIN STATION PICK UPS, UGLY WORLD, VIXENS OF KUNG FU, WHAT BECAME OF JACK & JILL?, WHITE POP JESUS, WOMEN IN HEAT BEHIND BARS, YOUR VICE IS A LOCKED ROOM AND ONLY I HAVE THE KEY, AND THOUSANDS MORE!!! SEND $3.00 FOR JUMBO CATALOG ($5.00 OUTSIDE U.S.) OR LOG ON TO: OVER 100 TITLES NOW AVAILABLE IN DVD-R FORMAT! CONTENTS Intro — 2 Letters — 4 To Avoid Fainting — 9 Reviews One — 1 1 Books — 20 Who Reads PV? — 26 The Damned and the Demented — 28 Malcolm McDowell — 35 The Times They Were A Changin' — 44 Don Stroud — 47 Jan Shepard — 56 Reviews Two — 60 DVD Reviews — 74 Fanzines — 76 Never To Be Forgotten — 78 I W Out of m fim f troaelioiy aid lM|irayal bnos Anoiioa’i ringing answer 20th Century-Fox MOVIETONE Presents PSYCHOTRONIC" NUMBER 38, 2003 PUBUSHER/EDITOR Michael J. Welclo}i ASSOCIATE PUBUSHER Mia Weldon ART DIRECTOR Akira Fittun COVER Fred Brockman LEGAL COUNSEL Andrew]. Klyde (E. Coast), Fred Hopkins (W. Coast) PUBLICITY CONSULTANT Gaty Hertz VtTIITERS THIS ISSUE Art Black, Bn tee Earl Bowell, Akira Fitton, Professor Fred Hopkins, Nicarnor Loreti and MJ Simpson. PROOF READING Frank IJhle ORIGINAL ART Gaiy Dumm, Drew Friedman, J.D. Kin^, Sally Eckhojf King (original logo), and Mia Weldon PHOTOS Eric Caiden WEBMASTER Joint Morton ENTIRE C:ONTENTS COP’^TIIGHT PSYCHOTRONIC i VIDEO - 2003 AIX RIGHTS RESERVED PSYCHOTRONIC IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF MIC:HAEIJ. WELDON ALL MAIL TO: PSYCHOTRONIC VIDEO 4102 Main SL c:hincotcaKUC. VA, 23336 PHONE (9am to 5pm) (757) 336-0048 FAX# (757) 336-0049 E-MAIL pv 7 Jnc 0 intercom.net WTBSnT: w’w'w': psyc hotronicvideo.com MALCOLM MCDOWELL slarred in major controversial and banned movies like Lindsay Anderson’s IF. . Kubrick’s A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, and the X rated CALIGUIA. He’s played villains, comic rock stars and romantic leads and is currently busier than ever acting all over the world and doing voiceover work for documentaries and cartoons. Last year a McDowell film festival wxs held in Manhattan. The British star was interviewed in South Africa by MJ Simpson of Leicester, England. DON STROUD was an Hawaiian surfing champ who was excellent starring in movies like BLOODY MAMA (billed above Robert De Niro) and HOUSE BY THE LAKE and co-starring in COOGAN’S BLUFF and THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY. The lucky to be alive star tells jaw dropping real life stories of drugs, booze, sex, guns, bikers, hookers and rock and roll bands - and he has saved several lives over die years. He was interviewed by Bruce FiU-1 Bowell (in California) and by Nicarnor Loreti (in Argentina). JAN SHEPARD, from PA, was a busy TV actress (often on ZIV Studio series) who landed roles in two Elvis movies (KING CREOLE and PARADISE HAWAIIAN STYLE) and wxs in ATl’ACK OF THE GIANT l£ECHES! Frequent PV contributor Professor Fred Hopkins interviewed the long retired star. I congratulated Forry Ackerman here before for winning his lawsuit over Ray Ferry (the weasel who hijacked Famous Monsters magazine) but Ferry declared bankruptcy to avoid paying. The hollow victory cost FJA $200,000 in legal fees and he had to sell his famous 18-room Hollywood Ackermansion/mu.seum (which I, like countless others, visited for free). In Sept, he had a yard sale, autographing items as he .sold them at bargain prices, then moved into a rented ’’bungalow." For decades Ackerman tried to get Hollywood studios, producers and the city of LA. to provide a perma- nent home for his vast and priceless sci-fi and horror movie memorabilia collection (including 50,000 books). Ackerman coined the term sci-fi and created EM. in the ’50s. Think of him when you watch cen.sored and cut movies and TV shows squeezed inbetween commercials on the SCI-FI Channel. The 85 year old widower is still recovering from pneumonia and brain surgery: He’ll be selling off most of the rest of his collection at three auctions. Dale Ashmun’s Spare Parts column will be back next Ume. This issue is late so our Never To Be Forgotten obit section is even longer than usual. Three very different men who died recenUy didn’t receive that much press attention considering how influential they were, so I had their write ups moved here. WALTER H. ANNENBERC (94), from Milwaukee, Wl, was the only son of the 10 children of pub- lisher Moses Annenberg, who served a jail sentence (40-42) for tax evxsion (before dying of a brain mmor). Walter inherited The Philadelphia Inquirer and two racing publications and went on to build Triangle Publications to include newspapers, magazines, and radio and TV stations in NYC, PA, CT and CA. He created Seventeen (edited by his sister, Enid Haupt) in ’44 and tlie weekly TV Guide, long America’s largest circulation magazine, in ’53- Annenberg was a friend of and major campaign con- tributor to Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon. Nixon appointed him Ambassador to England in ’69 and his speechwriter Pat Buchanan had a column in TV Guide. President Reagan and Nancy visited the Annenbergs at their Rancho Mirage, CA, estate every holiday season. He sold off his newspapers and staUons in the early 70s, and sold Triangle (including TV Guide) to Australian Rupert Murdoch in ’88 for $3 billion. Forbes esUmated his net worth at $4 billion (much of which was donated to the state of Israel). President Reagan awarded him the Medal of Freedom in ’86. GEORGE MITCHELL (85), from Falkirk, Scodand, presided over the BBC’s weekly BLACK AND WHITE MINSTREL SHOW for 20 years from 1958 to ’78. The conductor host was like the Mitch Miller of England but his popularity listed much longer - and his all male singers were in blackface. The Television Toppers female dance troupe remained white. Mitchell kept minstrel traditions creat- ed in America’s pre Civil War era alive for years after Hollywood had finally stopped using blackface (early 50s). .Mitchell and his minstrels had #1 hit LPs every year from I960 to '63 and the .show reached its higliest British ratings in ’64 during tlie height of Beatlemania. When it switched to color in ’67 there were organizcnl protests. BBC shows air all over tlie former British Kmpire, including South Africa. Mitchell (whose show was a fave of the royales) was made OBI* in ’75 and continued to have chart LPs every year until ’77 (during tlie heiglit of punk rock). Near tlie end an actual black person (comedian Ix?miy Henry) became a regular. The hit Black And >Xliite Minstrel Show stage ver- sion ran at tlie Victoria Palace, London, for another 10 years tlien toured Australia and New Zealand. WILLIAM PIERCE (68), from Atlanta, GA, was a physics professor at Oregon State U. who became the pubheist for George Lincoln Rockwell’s American Nazi party. Wlien Rockwell was murdered (in ’67), Pierce took over, tlien formed liis own W. Virginia based National Alliance in ’74. In ’78 the reclusive Pierce self published the best selling 'l\imer Diaries, wliicli he wrote (as Andrew Macdonald). It led to tlie creation of new white power groups (including The Order), influenced OK City bomber Timothy McVeigh, and is still considered a bible and a blueprint for a race war to many Americans. Pierce successhilly targeted alienated teenagers witli his National Youtli Alliance, Resistance Records (punk rock, speed metal. . .), and vidt*o games (one is Etlinic Cleansing). He published the National Vanguard newspaper and ran Vanguard Books, and as soon as the internet was created had multiple websites to spread his beUefs worldwide. He has many followers in Europe, England and South Africa. Pierce had cancer. The late Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) was a brilliant satirist who did political cartoons before writing his classic children’s books - which meant a lot to me as a little kid. I read my faves (Bartliolmew^ and The Oobleck, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew- Cubbins, and Yertle The TYirtle) over and over at a library (now a perfectly legal place to view extreme internet pom). I had graduated to more mature reading (DC superheroes. Mad, Famous Monsters) by the time of The Cat And The Hat and The Grinch, but those characters meant a lot to even more kids. Now we have movies starring shameless, obno.xious, lowest common denominator in your face multi millionaire Canadians - HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS Oim Carrey) and THE CAT IN THE HAT (Mike Myers). Botli were pro- duced by Ron “Opie” Howard. Could tliat brilliant Canadian comedian Tom Green be far off as Bartholomew Cubbins? The sky IS falling. Some people have been complaining about pop songs being used as commercials since the 70s. I always loved The Beach Boyds’ “Fun Fun Fun,’’ especially for the brilliant falsetto harmony ending, and Sly And The Family Stone’s “Hot Fun In the Summertime.’’ And tlie intro of Iggy Pop’s “Lust For Life’’ (featuring the dmmming of Soupy Sales’ son) has become the new “Thus Spake Zarathustra’’ (or tlie 2001, Elvis intro theme) of TV ads. Key parts of all three are now being used for cruise ship TV spots. Music from an I.SD casualty, a coke casualty, and a long time heroin addict to attract mostly retired couples to take overpriced vacations on ocean polluting ships that a record number of people have been puking their guts out on. Brilliant! I didn’t really care when The Beatles’ “Revolution” was used by Nike but 1 really hate hearing Creedence Clearwater’s “Fortunate Son” (#14 when I was classified 4A) subverted to sell whatever the hell they’re using it to sell. Could advertisers get any lower!? Let’s see. Duff guzzhng perfcHTt fool TV zombie nuke plant worker Homer Simpson is now tlie Burger King spokesman - and here are tlie lyrics to a recent TV ad selling microwavable Chips Ahoy cookies (with faces). The music copies “Going To A Go-Go” (mixed with now supposedly trendy “garage rock ”) - “We’re running out of time now-. We’re having a meltdown.” !?*%@w-ww-DVDw-w-w-reaIit\TV\v’wwDVDw-w'wBushDVDww-w-DVD91 Iww-wEiironDVDww-wanthnLxDVDw wweapons of mass destruction - DOH! And that’s the REAL story (as Paul Harvey says). Some good news: McDonald’s has started to close some restaurants overseas and in America. I saw my first abandoned McDonalds (in Salisbury, Maryland) recently. I hope to see many more. PSYCHOTRONIC" NUMBER 38, 2003 Thanks To: Don Stroud, Malcolm McDowell, Jan Shepard, Steve Brigati, Eric Hoffman, Gordon Smith, Joyce Fau.si, John Donald.son, Chris Weldon, David Ko.sh, E. I., Seduction Cinema, Witching Hour, Shocking Video, Video Search of Miami, Asian Cult Cinema, Smog Veil, Cinema Wasteland, Five Minutes To Live, Cheezy Flicks, Hollywood Book And Po.ster, McFarland Books, Sinister Cinema, Something Weird, The Video Beat!, Peter Abram and all the readers who continue to .send in their di.scarded VHS tap>es! DEDICATED TO: Kenneth Tohey - “Keep Watching Tlie Skies!” COVER: Nathan Juran’s ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WO.MAN (from Allied Artists) 15 Recent Music World Losses Bee Gees (Maurice Gibb) Doug Clark And The Hot Nuts (Clark) Clash (Joe Strummer) Clovers (Billy Mitchell) Coa.sters (Billy Guy) Lonnie Donegan Erma Franklin Ro.sco Gordon Koerner, Ray And Glover (“Snaker* Ray) Lovin' Spoonful (Zal Yanov.sky) Tim Ro.se Run DMC (Jam Master Jay) T. Rex (Mickey Finn) Wailers (Rick Dangel) We Five (Michael Stewart) ^ PSYCHOTRDNIC ^ 3 J.O.IC I m PSVch»+ie«niC ANAiL GHOULARDI I jiLst clicckcd out your iippcariuio! on New York's MEDIA Fl'NllOUSE wlicre you gave a pocket history of Ghoulardi. mid tlie histon’ of Cleveland hosts that followed in his wake. I grew up in the Smi Frmicisco Bay Are;i where, in the 70s, Kaiser syndicated Tlie Ghoul. TliLs wxs my first exposure to a wildass fonn of horror hosting, our local product being tlie bunon-down Bob Wilkiits on Creature Features and the dry, ghostly Asmodious on Shock It To Me llieater. A few yeans ago, I heard tlie Ghoul had returned to Cleieland's air- waves mid iinniediately set alxiut getting some copies of tlie show. In the couise of the program, he frequently mentioned this "Ghoulardi guy. /\nd it jiLst so hapiienc’d I w:is trading Uipes with miother horror host buff who had some Ghoulardi material. Despite the fact that she's not a big host fan, my lovely mlssiLs wmideis in ms I sit down with Big Chuck mid Lil' John's tribute to Eriiie Anderson - tlie one aired just after he'd passed away. By tlie end of the progrmn. there were t\«) brand spanking new Ghoulardi fmis in Cidifornia. We just couldn't lielieve how cool this guy was - a cracked. Mad magazine beatnik with s|xx)ky ligiiting mid a stiaqi, sharp wit. 1 tlien rememliercd you'd had an article on Ghoulardi in a past issue of Psychotronic, and dug it out. One of the side bars men- tioned a nuLsic ta|ie called 'Stay Sick!,' available from Dave Billnian in Akron, Oli. Hoping against hoiie, I siiml mailed a query to tlie by-now tliree year old addnss - and son-of-a-gun, he e-mailed back, 1 got the tape.. AND he offered to do some sho|i|)ing for me at the impending Ghoulardi-Fest. 1 loaded up on tee shirts, sweat shirts, but- tons, posteni and both of the Ernie Andenion radio tributes I produced by Chits Quinn, witli the help of Big Chuck Schodowski mid Ron Sweed. By this time, Dave and miother Akron contact had alerted me to Son of Ghoul, mid that only added to tlie strmige fright wig fever that had overtaken me. Eventually, I startwl sending mail to Son of Ghoul. At one point, he had a mail in drawing for a life-sized model skeleton, with tlie winner invital to come on the show’ to claim the prize. 1 sent in over 200 |iostcards. I won. My wife. Dee, mid me flew to Clevelmid, met up with our local Ghoulardi friends mid went to a taping of Chuck mid John. Chuck was miiazing. After the tap- ing, he hung out with us and regaled us with wild stories of the Ghoulardi mid lloolihan days. Tlie Son of Ghoul appeirance was a blast, and we still stay in touch. Dee mid I are actually traveling back to Cleveland in a few weeks to attend Fright Vision, mid sec all our old friends again. .Mid in the meantime, I continue to dig dec|i into Cleveland s fascinating television his- tory. 1 ordered the Ghoulardi book thnuigh you as well. So I really vvmited to tlimik you. It's becaiise of your cover:q«e, that I met other fans in the Cleveland mea, and made some wonderful friends. Aid Ghouku’di still niakis a big impreision out here in California. 1 keeii getting stopix-xl by expatriate Clevelanders wlienever I wear one of my Ghoulardi shirts. I walked into a restaurant one night mid a guy literally leaped up from his table, abandon- ing his date, and liegging to know where I got my shirt. Smiie thing hapiiened at tlie dog park and coming out of a record store. People greet you like mi old friend mid immediately stml telling their childhood Ghoulardi stories. Its Lniie Amkrsmi aud Tim Conway mnazing. We had our kitchen floor redone some time back, and even this guy turned out to lie an old fmi. I made up a t;qie for him, so he mid his dad could sit down mid watch Ghoulardi togetlier again. I think we got a deal on the flixir .Even at this late date, Ghoulardi has had a deeii influena* on my life. It in.s]iired travel mid new friendships, introduced me to some wild, rare music (there's a GREAT new 2 cd collection called '11101 Blue!' with stuff I'd never heard miywJiere!) - and just plain made me laugh. So tlianks again for your part in this on-going joumey of discovery. Stay sick! Oh! by the way.. . I'm the guy vvJio sent you DON'T WORRY, WT/LI. T1 lINK OF A TITLE some yeais back. - Michael Monalian. ! was Ik- on lu/(, ranis lonf> ranniiif; mCtmhlic access Mi-Mi i-VA'HOUSE sijow in 2(X)0. Ih- Iwolxirt show on (Ikjaianii lolaLs one itoarand i're added anoiiter whole hoar of more rare Choalardi. Ernie Anderson, liinufilons. andolkr Cimlardi relaled footane. Yon am now order a MIS a^iy of IhLs ama~inj> lajiefrom lA'for $20 (fxxsllxiiilj and see wkil lie been y,oinfi on aljoalforall livse years! LONEY Loved tlie article on Roy Ixiney'. 1 was lucky enough to be one of the 20 or so [xsiple to attend his SOth birdiday party/concert at a tiny club in the back of a Seattle Laundromat (!) a few years ago. It was late on a Sunday night (Seattle shuLs up at 9pni on Sunday) so it was only true fmis, hardcore rock n rolleis mid friends, mid was hardly publicized, but Roy was mieizing mid really rocked out. His back up band featured people from all over the world who rotated on iastruments, and he did all his great Groovies songs, plus his new material, which unlike every other rock act from the 60si70s, is good as well. Hie band and crowd all sang ’ Happy Birthday " to him. It was really a special moment in my concert going life. He is surely one of the best white male vocalists in rock. Aiyone who can shout ”1 Got the Boogie Disease!" mid make it sound cool is something sixicial, for sure. - Keith Bearden Enjoyed the hell out of tlie Roy Lonev’ interview The Flmiiin' Groovies were one of the very best rock and roll bands ever put on this planet! Love your publication, only wish you'd publish it more (often). - Tom Stein (Norwalk, CT) I was pleasmitly suqirised to see Roy Loney sticking up for Tlie Kingston Trio! In their prime (Dave Guard-era), they were terrific. Aid as he |ioints out, tremendoiLsly popular, comparalile to Tlie Beatles in that Tlie K.i had nimiy hits, were on the cover of Life, and inspired countless imitators. Every college cmiipiLs had an answer to The Kingston Trio, and nimiy of them signed to major lalieLs. Aid several of these had hits, as well. In addition, via A Jardiiie, they had mi influence on Tlie Beach Boys. Aid their sound echoes in British Invasion groups like Peter & Gordon, Chad & Jeremy, mid even The Beatles. Listen to ”pre-flyle" Byrds. W hat you hear is a group that's caught Ik-Nvci'ii wanting to sound like The Kingston Trio and wanting to sound like Tlie Beatles. That said. I wmsn't tixi plemsed to read Loney's quick and sadly typical dismissal of the "Elvis in the aniiy-to-Tlie Beatles " |Kriod 4 ^ PSYCHOTRONIC ^ of rock and roll. Hello! Girl groups, Roy Orbison, Phil Spector, The Beach Boys, Ray Charles, surf rock, hot r^ song^, Gary “U.S.” Bonds, Ricky Nelson with Janies Burton, Tlie Everly Bros., The Isley Bros., early Motown, The King^men, Tlie Trashmen, ETC!!! This was no Top 40 Dark Ages!!! The Top 40 Dark Ages descended in the 1970s, and nev’er e\'er left. Not even for a minute. End of lecture! Class dismissed! - JD King Enjoyed the Roy Loney piece which had a few nice tidbits about my old bass player Ron the Ripper (Greco). - Johnny Strike Strike, formerly of Crime, now le(uis T\'E whose rieir Night Raul on Lisbon is arailable Jwm Flipping Jets Records. Tliere would have been no way possible that Eddie Cochran played guitar on Ciene Vincent’s version of “Pistol Packin’ Mama,” though he arranged it Eddie died on April 11, I960, and Gene recorded it (according to session records in tlie Gene Vincent Rock ’n’ Roll Legend French box set) on April 22, less than two weeks after Eddie died. - John Battles (Chicago) KWOUK PV #37 was excellent. 1 especially enjoyed tlie interviews with actors Vincent Schiavelli and Burt Kwouk. Kwouk mentions that he appeared in three episodes of THE AVENGERS, including one from tlie first season when Ian Hendry' was in the series. Tlie episode was Kill Tlie King, but unfortunately only one of tlie Hendry' episodes (The Frighteners) is still around today. 1 assume tlie rest of THE AVENGERS first season shows are lost forever. - Timothy Walters (Muskogee, OK) The Burt Kwouk piece was one of PVs best. And 1 only knew Burt from the overrated PANTHER, CURSE OF THE ¥ll and DEEP END. - Hugh Shelton (Hazel Pk. Ml) Wow! 1 just came back from my vacation! 1 went to San Paulo/Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and delighted myself with laying out in the beaches of Cocacabana and Ipanema sipping a Pina Colada! 1 (brought) my back issues of P^chotronic and re-read many of them on Cocacabana Beach. Of course there were some distractions from the magazine when 1 would observe a fev^' thongs...but, that is another story'. It was nice to get back and pick up your lat- est issue (#37) and reiid your feature on Burt Kwouk. 1 love this guy, his roles in the Pink Panther movies were hilarious! 1 used to love the way he would lie in wait for Inspector Clouseau and then attack the Inspector with his various martial arts moves. Those scenes were absolutely hilarious. Thank you for the list of movies he has appeared in, 1 will be looking for some of those movies. 1 really admire his attitude. Tliis is a man who has made several movies, but is humble enough to not watch his own movies and gloat of his achievements as an actor. He is definitely a man that is down-to-earth and has no overrated ego. 1 salute Burt Kwouk for being tlie person tliat he is and making us all laugh at his hilarious antics in the Pink Panther series. - Paul Dale Roberts (Jazma Ambassador) GIRLS COME FIRST (75), the British sex film Burt Kwouk doesn’t remem- ber, also stars Hazel Glyn, later to find fame as Hazel O’Connor. According to legend, director Joe McGrath hated directing sexploitation so much he not only used a pseudonym (‘Croisette Meubles’), but directed’ sex scenes with his back turned to cast members. Kwouk’s (brief) role is as a Kato-like Chauffeur. 1 could be mistaken but I’m sure 1 also spotted Kwouk in THE SANDWICH MAN (66), a fairly laugh free all-star Rank comedy directed by Robert Hartford-Davis, whose next directing assignment was the Peter Cushing horror film CORRUPTION (!). - Ray Murcell #37 is another great issue. Enjoyed the Burt Kwouk interview especially - 1 met him recently in my (and his) local pub in Soho and we had a long chat Ad art created by Akira Fitton about modem Eastern cinema, in particular the merits of wire-work and the outstanding films of Tkui Hark! - ???? SCHIAVELLI Great interview with Vincent Schiavelli. I’ve always enjoyed his acting roles, he’s got a great look and seems highly adaptable, playing benign or villain- ous roles with equal aplomb. Tlie article also settles the trivia dispute of how' his name is pronounced — I was right! - Tom Powers Number 37 was anotlier great issue! However, I was surprised that Anthony Petkovich in the Vincent Schiavelli interview thought BUCKAROO BANZAI was a James Bond parody! If anything, it is a parody of Doc Savage, right down to his being a freelance scientist, surgeon, adv'enturer, musician and having the loyal help of friends who are experts in various fields. Bond was a government licen^ assassin. In the 1930s, Doc Savage’s pulp magazine sold 300,000 issues a month. His series was reprinted in paperback in the ’60s and was a top seller again. Note, too, that Buckaroo has fans who read his monthly magazine in the movie. Savage was a major influence on Supemian (Doc’s name was “Clark,” had a Fortress of Solitude, and was called a “superman” and The Man of Bronze), Batman (father killed by criminals, worked hard to be the best at every'tliing), tlie Fantastic Four (a team who lived in the World’s Tallest Building and their leader was a bril- liant scientist), Indiana Jones, Doc Phoenix, Tom Strong and many others. Doc has never been adapted well, despite being made into a movie, two dif- ferent radio show, and comic books. Also, the review of THE RETURN OF FU MANCHU mentions “Bond type devices,” but those were in the earliest Fu novel from 1913! So Bond type stuff is really Fu Manchu type stuff (Ian Fleming based Dr. No on Fu Manchu). - Patrick Lozito (Brooklyn NY) REVIEWS Your review of DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE GIRL BOMBS (PV 36) caught my eye. I’ve just completed producing a six CD box set for Bear Family Records called “Memphis Belles: The Women of Sun Records.” Although your review credited the music to Les Baxter, one of tlie featured vocalists was Barbara Pittman, who made her first lecords for Sun when she was a teenager in the niid-1950s. It was probably working on movies like DR. GOLDFOOT tliat brought her back to Memphis, where she still lives and occasionally performs. - Hank Davis (Guelph, Ontario) Hello from Tokyo. Issue 37 was great as usual. Loved the UNTAMED WOMEN cover. I’ve seen some of those euro rock festivals that you reviewed. It’s incredible how much of tlie future seemed to be predicted there. NIGHT PATROL might be a technically crap movie but 1 laughed a few times. Some of the one-liners were so bad tliey were funny. I thought THREE ON A MEATHOOK said quite a bit about some people’s ways of parenting in America. - Emperor 6 Hey! In PV #37, you write that “horror movie books ignore SEVEN KEYS....” Not all. In “Horror & SF Films” 1, 1 listed the ’17, ’25, '35 & '47 versions. For HSF2, 1 saw & reviewed the ’47 version... for HSF3, the more recent HOUSE OF THE LONG SHADOWS... and for #4, the ’29 talkie version. And, yes, the Cohan play & subsequent movie adaptations were “very” influential. Recently, I did some research (for a projected year-by-year series on classic American horror movies) & found that, in the 20s, the two most cited works in reviews of thunderstorm mysteries (a tip of the hat to Leslie Halliwell) were 7 KEYS TO BALDPATE and Griffith’s ONE EXCITING NIGHT. Seems like what Cohan started, Griffith kicked into high gear... and Roland West, Paul Leni, & James Whale perfected. - Donald Willis PS Were there 3 silent ver- sions? I found only two. I work at a Dunkin’ Donuts in Philadelphia. One of my regular customers is ^ PSYCHOTRONIC <4 5 THE rOMFITY CATCHES EVERYONE IN THE ACTI Richiird Rotkin, one of the original members of Tlie Rip Chords. He say? I am one of the few who saw him in A SWINGIN' SUMMER (65) . The film has alway? been a favorite of mine. Richard has brought in new members and refonned Tlie Rip Chonls. He's been biusy touring the country with Peter Noone, The Beach Boys, Bobby Rydell, Tlie Association, Lou Chr^tie, Martha Reeses and so many others. - George Schultz (Camden, AiJ) As for Briiui DePalma's student collaboratots credits, Mark Romanek just directed ONE HOUR PHOTO. I don't know if he worked on HOME MOVIES, but when I encountered him in NTC in tlie '80s, he was very proud ot hav- ing worked with DePalma. Couldn't figure why imyone would want to asso- ciate themselves with a cheesy Hitchcock plagiarist, but then Roimuick was and is a smug trust fund baby, so go figure. (I did sound effects for his mid- '80s SIATIC, released briefly by Athuitic and currently erased from history by the studio promoting the now-king of rock video directors' first feature' with Robin Williruns.) - Richard Henderson / dulu t nuike the DePalma conuectinn. hut saw ONE HOUR PHOTO in a llxaler, ml expecima much (especudly from a recent Robin Williams movie) but liked it. JUNGLE GIRL AND THE SLAN'ER; Both LIANE movies were later condensed bv cutter Wolfgang Wehmm to a "new" movie (telling a "different" story), released in 196 I. It was called LIANE - DIE TOCHTER DF,S DSCHUNGELS. In tlie 80s it was released on \ideo by the somewhat obscure label "Sauerland Kunststoffe" (a manufacturer of plastic materials) in a trun- cated veniion. Tliis version is nothing more tlr.ui an incoherent mess. Both original LLVNE movies were released recently on D\'D over here for a very low price (around $5). A while after the two LIANE movies the young actress Marion Michael had a serious car accident while making the movie BOMBEN AUF MONTE CARLO. She later sued because of a scar she now had to carry ;uid got 160.000 DM. But her career as an actress was virtually over. After a few more movies, a lot of ups and downs, she tried to kill herself in the mid 70s. Later she learned tlie biLsincss of trading and in '79 she moved with her son to East Gemiany/DDR. Up until '91 she worked as a dubbing assistant on East Gemirui TV. In '94 she said she was working on her biography with 200 pages already writ- ten. Today she lives with her second luLsband near the Polish border By the way, "Sauerhuid Kunststoffe " also released some obscure movies like WOMEN OF THE PREHISTORIC PIANET (as Das Steinzeit-Syndroni/Tlie Stoneage-Syndrome); and Al Adiuiison's CARNIVAL ■MAGIC (!). By the way, the mail alwut Ray Dorn and his studio (PV #37) was by me! - Andreas Pieper You are incorrect in both counts in stating that Jim Morrison and Jinii Hendrix played their final shows at the August 1970 Isle Of Wight Festival. Morrison's last perfomiruice was a Doors gig in New Orleiuis in Decernlier of that year. Hie singer died in Paris the following summer. Hendrix made his final concert appearance at the infamous Isle of Fehmarn Festival on Sept. 6, 1970 . By the time the Experience took the stage to close the event, it had degenerated into a shooting war between bvo rival motorcycle gangs. Hendrix died in London twelve days later. While I was growing up in Elsinore, CA in the 1960s, Clarence Muse (NIGHT Vi’ORLD, BLACK .MOON, botli in PV #57) lived nearby on his Muse-A-Vtliile Ranch and was known primarily locally as the comiioser of "Vtlien It's Sleepy Time Down South, " abighitforLouisAmistrongin 1931- 1 find it interesting to contemplate that 1931 w'as closer in time to I 966 , tliiui I 966 is to 2002! - Ed Eatinger (i^shland. OR) I should hare uritten last filmed performances. Edgar Brown (MEN MUST FIGHT) made TURN BACK THE CLOCK starring Lee Tracy' the same vear. He co-wTote it with Ben Hecht. MGM also made tlie luiiazing GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE (PV #19) in 1933. laiuis B. Mayer didn't like these non- huiiily pictures and after '35 MGM (stopped pro- ducing them). 1 could be wrong on this - but Don Ameche is not in DANTE'S INFERNO (35). 1 think it is a look a like actor muiied Hal Boyer. Anita Brown (SLAVE SHIP) can be seen in CHARLIE CHAN AT THE OLYMPICS (also 37) cheering for the (offscreen) Jesse Owens. If you tliought Mae Clarke was good in NIGHT WORLD try to find WATERLtX) BRIIXIE (31) or PENT- HOUSE or LADY KIliER (reteiuiied witli Cagney). John T)™!! from CRY OF THE WEREWOlf was in a lot of Tliree Stooges shorts. Ned Young from CRI.ME WAVE was in tlie noir classic GUN CRAZY' and later wrote “Jailhouse Rock." Dick Contino was on T\' a lot in the '50s. l)ADDY-0 was his only stire role A scandal broke out in the press about his not being drafted and nobody would hire him. In one episode of I LOVE LUCY’, she mentions to Ricky that Argyle Nelson (THE CREEPING TERROR) was one of lier (niiuiy) old Ixiyfrieiids' At the time he was a crew member on the show Kirk Douglas said on a TV talk show that he was told that HOME MOVIES was only a student film and was shocked when it turned up in tlieateis. I've learned more about movies from your magazine tbrui any so-called encyclopedias of film. - II. Pfeifer (the Broiw) VIWIER RIUS (PV #,557 is available widescreen and with commentary bv director William Rictrert. starjif Briitnes and others, as a two disc bwfrorn Andror Bay The late Tom Baker (HALWCINAHON GENERA- TION) was a drinking buddy of fim Morrison. They were once arrested on a plane tonetber and his girlfriend the late Pam Courson became Morrison's common law ufe. I, A MAN, tlx Warhol moiie tlxd Baker starred in co-starred Valerie Solan is. OBITS Reginald Rose was one of the great writers to emerge from the golden age of television, along witli such dis- tinguished contemporaries as Rod Serling and Paddy Chayefsky. He was the last surviving member of the trio once called television's "Angry Young Men." Among his manv accomplishments. Rose scripted a 1963 episode of Serling's TWILIGHT ZONE entitled The Incredible World Of Horace Ford which starred Pat Hingle. - Timothy Walters (Muskogee, OK) One of Detroit's dailies managed to forget JOF in their Dennis Patrick but mentioned his "macabre roles" on TWILIGHT ZONE (which?) and HITCHCOCK (ditto). I believe Patrick was also on THE MUNSTERS as the fatlier of one of Marilyn's dates at a costume party. He was dressed as the Frankenstein monster and of course, llennaii commented "It's too bad you couldn't find a costume for your own party." - Hugh Shelton I saw the "Gone but not Forgotten" entry on Speedy Keene in the last issue. 1 don't know if you're aware of tliis, but Speedy also produced the first (;md arguably the best) album by Motorhead in 1977. - Phil Dalgamo (Glasgow) I always read "Never to be forgotten " with interest and nostalgia, and 1 saw the listing of Joe Scheniiie, who was bass player for my favorite group in the 70s, lliree Dog Night. You mentioned in die blurb that there are now 3 rival Three Dog Night groups. I recently (8/25/02) went to a Three Dog Night concert in nearby Santa Fe Springs, CA, a suburb of L.A Tlie group was rep- resented bv Danny Hutton and Cory Wells (singers), Jimmy Greenspoori (keyboards), Michael Allsup (guitars), and a drummer and bassist 1 didn't recognize, and whose names I didn't catch. 1 know that Chuck Negron (actor Tavlor Negron's uncle), fomierly widi the group, is now singing solo (1 heard Chuck on a local radio program a few years ago, explaining diat his heroin addiction and bad behavior led to his bandmates refusing to work again with him; he seems to now be clean and sober). 1 found Negron on the Internet, making a few appearances. It wasn't clear to me that he was calling himself :uid his new backup musicians Three Dog Night. Is this die ^ PSYCHOTRONIC ^ case? And who and what Jire the third group? Tlie only remaining original band member would be drummer Floyd Sneed. Apparently, unlike some other groups, there’s no leg:il battle over the use of the biuid's niune. Or is there? Danny :uid Cor}' and the others sounded great when 1 saw them. 1 did miss Chuck’s voice on songs he led such iis "One” and "Joy to the World,” but the gu\"S did a great job, regjirdless. The new bassist seems to kick in with some vocals when the\' need the old three-part hannonies. 1 was pleasantly reminded that Tliree Dog Night sang songs of love, joy. and celebration. Viliat a good feeling 1 and the other members of the audience took away from that concert. - Dan Hooker (Ix)ng Beach, CA) At long last. Issue 37 arrived in my mail bo\. 1 was beginning to fad the signs of severe withdrawid. 1 constantly checked the weiisite to make sure that 1 wasn’t imagining things. If there was one tiling I ’d chaige :ilx)Ut your mag, it’s the "Never To Be Forgotten” column. I wish tliat you had more detail — date of birth, date of death, place of birth, luid so on. In many Ciises, PV is the only place that lets me know anotlier great but obscure t:ilent has passed on. Please, more detail! Corrections: Frank Barbarick was in NIGHT OF THF GHOULS, not PIAN 9- Heni}' Slesar’s movie was TERROR FROM THE \TAR 5000, not "2000.” John Entwistle’s death w^s later detemiined to have been caused by cocaine. Mildred Wirt Benson created the character of N;uic\’ Drew, but the stories were written (under tlie Strateme\'er Syndicate hoiLse luime "Carolyn Keene") by Benson, Edward Stratemeyer, Harriet Adiuns, mid otli- ers. You might be interested to know that Mrs. Benson was still working for tlie Toledo (Oh.) Blade up to the time of her death. According to Bill Pan’s autobiograjihy, he designed Captain Hook to look like Walt Disney! Hairv’ Pruet Jicted under the name "Ikirold Pruett.” George Sidney' was a co- founder of Hanna-Barbera Productions, but tliat wiisn’t until 1957, lifter H-B left MGM (IMDB has tliis wrong, too). I think the confiLsion conics from H-B’s animation work on Sidney's film ANCHOR’S AWM', which included Tom mid jerry' dmicing with Ciene Kelly. Kelly wmited Mickey’ Mouse, but after Disney wantal too much money, Kelly turned to MGM’s own miiniation studio. And it’s IXXTFOR \XHO, not DR. WHO. Yes, it’s nitpicky; but it’s true. IXXH’OR VtHO is the T\' show; DR. WHO are the two movies witli Peter Cushing. - Mike Konezewski (Malvern, PA) It w:is just in the pa|ier (the one w'here 1 w'ork) the other day: Niels, who did the inten'iew^ w'A’orwegian actresses in PV, is coming out with a Ixiok on Julie Ege, Anna Lisa, Greta Gyiit and 3 other Norw'egian women with careers in Hollywood. He’s been w'orkin’ on it for 10 years. - Jan Bruun Interesting to read the favorable notice bestow’ed by a reader upon Jimmy .McDonough’s Andy Milligmi liook. This must indicate a significant improve- ment overShakey', his well-researched but aby'smally written Neil Young bio, in which McDonough accords himself a starring role. I wonder if Young or his manager ever read .McDonough’s insulting commeiiLs about Young printed in the Slejizoid E.\press in the niid-’80s, as part of the future biogra- pher’s review of Young’s film, HUMAN HIGHWAY. (Or if either of them knew' about Bill LmidLs & McDonough rating movies by tlie nunilier of nickel bags it tfx)k to sit though them.) JiLst saw the DVD of Jim Janiiusch’s VTAR OF HIE HORSE documentary on & Crozy Honie, which is just great, despite it being written off in one derisive sentence in Sluikey; along with inaccurate info about the accompanying 2-CD set (also v. good). - Richard Henderson In revievving the hook Ten Years of Terror - British Horror Films Of Hie 197()s, your critic commenLs "It wasn’t really a good idea to have Richard Gordon piiss judgement on his own films!" If I had done so, he would be alisolutely right but but a proper reading of the articles will show that I did no such things. Judgement of the films is totally restricted to alitorial obser- vations. Wliat follows, in each instmice, is a short essay with factual infomiation as to how the films cmne into existence. Tliese essays were originally written by me for publication in magiizines and have been reprinted with my consent. Hiey are intended to amuse and 1 iini sorry that tliey apjiear to have offended your anonymous critic instead. - Richard Gordon (NYC) / (ihe critic) inis- u ’/ offeudedhut urou^ly assumed Hxit yvu urate your commoits for tf)e lxx)k, f f>uess it would txwe seemed more Moiced if more com meats hy other producers ami directors tml also l)ee}i used. What :ibsolute joy your occasionally published ’zine has given me over the past 13 years. Unfortunately, it seems the Old Erie Bookstore luis locked up for good. Downtown Was saddened to he:ir about tlie passing of Irish McCalla. Met her at one of the Chiller Hieater conventions and she was really nice. Tlie best thing was she signed her autograph for me upside down. .Neatest thing!! I think that was the same convention when I got your autograph on my Psychotronic Ency'clopedia!! - Michael Wise Confidential magazine was going to write an expose on a homosexual Universal actor. The studio heads gave up George Nader rather tluui Rock Hudson. The felling being Rock was the bigger st;ir and they had more invested in him Hiey idso had him marry' a woman he didn’t love. - H. Pfeffer ETC I had been wondering wiiy never a mention of Tlie Pagiuis for awhile. Next thing I know; they’re all over tlie last couple issues. I recently cane across the original "Little Black Egg” 45 by Tlie Nightcrawlers in ai Anchkorage junk store! Was this a Clev'ehuid baid also? - Joe Richardson (Trapper Creek, Alaska) V)e Niy,htcrawlers were from Flomkt. Weir iwudetfully odd hit was first relemed in 1965 but took tiw years to ckirt in some load markets. It was bi^ in Cleveland where some 60s t>aray^e band^ (hidudiny, Tl)e Waler's Ed^e, which / was in) played it alon^ with "Wild lhinf>, ” "'Gloria, ” "'Hey' Joe, ” and "Louie Inuie. ” / tlx)u^hl it was pyeat that Tf.)e Patmans reconied it in tk^ late 70s awundtk same time tkd Stir Bators recorded anotl)er load hit - "It's Cold Oulside'" by Tf^e Clyoir. Neil Youn^ Clev Is becoming a ghost town once again. 1 have fond memories of a mis- spent youtli dodgi ng school to take RTA down to the 1 1 ippodrome to see I liiA, SHE VVOLF OF THE S.S. and hanging around Hideo’s Discodronie... All of my e:irly education cane from the long defunct Cloverleaf Drive-In aid their infanous triple (& sometimes all-night ) bills. It’s really disheartening to take my son to the few remaining drive-ins that are barely a shell of their for- mer glory. Tlianks for taking the time to give the world your great mag (& contributing to the Electric F^ls). You’ve made the world a better place - modpop (Cle) 'rikinks. / dUlnt contribute to The Electric Eels (just knew them since h^h school and Lder wrote alxjut tkun) but I did work at Ik Drome (in Cle Hts and t/ikewood, not the downtown version). Your magazine is really the only link niaiy of us who live on the other side of the world have when it conies to an available forum for comment (letters to the editor), infomiation on new’ product (reviews and new^) and great features on interesting personalities from the world of Psychotronic film- making. Now is the time when people need some escapist material to relie\'e some of the stress of living day to (iiy in a confomiist society that stifles cre- ativi^. So keep up the good work and keep ciirrying the flag. - Garth Selkirk (Sydney, NSW ) I would have included Ashton Kirchner (THAT 70s SHOW, DUDE, WHERE’S MY CAR) on the top 10 list of inspirations for The Dell Computer "dude." - John Battles (Chicago) Not that it matters to me, but my son insists I correct your Top Ten Iiispinitioiis for the Ilcll Computer Guy Cliaracter. Alex Winter was Bill S. Preston, Esq., not Ted (Tlieodore) Lot-:m. Sorry aliout that. - Rick Pruitt lesas Palomino! 'llie Dell Computer Guy has liLs own website! I guess I shouldn’t be shocked, lliis is America, and you can get fimious here for any- thing. Kato Kaelin is still ninning around out there, after all, appearing in rock \ideos and probably opening Wal-Marts and used car dealershi|is. If anyone needs me. I'll lie doing a text search in the Book of Revelations for ’Dell,’ 'Computer' and 'Dude.' - Dennis Tafoya Read vour editorial in #37. Agree with everything. 1 siespect that Ru|)ert Murdoch (expat. .Australian) h;is had a lot to do with influence (of Aastralia) on U.S. media, and for tlie most part, AiLstralians are equally h:ippy to stay in nursery school or e\'en the crib! Rather tluui speak up most people here woukbTt know what tlie temi politicid agenda meaas. let alone undereUuid it. You are brave! - Garth Selkirk (Sydney, NSW) Keep up the political stuff in Psychotronic. Noliody else is making those kinds of unfettered comments on the sad state of things (as reflected by our media) here in this great country whose jxilitical meddling and imperialist presence makes us hated all over the globe. - Keith Bearden KEEP PRINTING YOUR RANTS AGAINST THE MEDIA!!!! MAKE THEM LONGER!!!! Tlie movies, the W "industry" (It’s an indastry in tlie siuiie sease making tacky, vulgar, cheap souvenirs is ;ui indastry), the newspapers, and a lot of pubiLshersJUST DON'T GET IT. It fills me with utter contempt. My resiiect for tlie guys who actually even half-way give a diuiin about movies and- God help nie- tv has just risen a gre.at deal after seeing what they have to go through up close. Keep the fires of discontent burn- ing, to paraphrase I leston in PLANET OF THE APF,S (And to show my true movie geek colors). - Justin Humphreys I’ve just read (twice) your intro to PV # 37 ;uid want to add something to your statemeiiLs. Although 1 generally share most of your opinions, let me raise some objec- tions. You s:tid that the world would be different without movies. But isn't that true about every major invention of die industrial age? I mean, what would the world look like without die car, die phuie, the... (fill in what you like)? This argument leads to nothing and explains nothing. Tliere are such phenomena as movies :uid mass media and we have to cope with them! I don’t believe mov ies have such an impact on peo- ple, although movies changed society, in a way. But the real problem by now is riiass media and 24 hour television. People have never learned to handle it. Our children (1 have none) aren't taught what we over here call “Medienkompetenz" (media competence). Parents use TV as substitute for upbringing and education. And maybe movies ;uid media are a mirror of wbat ballpens in society, of what people think and do. Tliat even seems scarier than to diink the other way round. But in my country die disciesion about all this went absurd. Recently there was some sort of mas.sacre over here in Erfurt, done by some teenager with ;m assortment of guns. He entered his school and killed 16 or more kids :uid teacheis. Later officials found horror videos and PC-Games in his upiier middle class home. By now it was said, that this "perveRe crap" was the trigger to his crime. This is the easiest exphuiation for something that can’t be explained easy. Now the dis- cassion about biuining :dl sorts of movies :uid other media even for adults Ls ag:un in vogue. The already tough law for ••Jugcnischutz ” (youth protec- tion) has jast been tightened again. Nodiing against that, but we adults :ae also affected by this. Hundreds of movies .are still on the index and dozens are banned for ye:us now. And it’s going worse. 1 meiui, I love movies and I praise the inventor of the DVD :uid the code-free player! Ok, this is a very dif- ficult topic and 1 hope you got what 1 wanted to tell you (despite my limited English). And, just to mention it, every time 1 went to tlie cinema (which is Coliimbui's major hi! THEjOL- SOS STORY (46) la/ to a loti}^ lasting mass reriral of blackface miustrel sixties in white American churches, scktols (public and Catlx/lic). antisocial clubs. not that often) I went mad alxnit the AOL logo liefore the main feature!!! The last time I .saw MIB H, one of the worst movies of all time (although I liked the design). - Andreas Pieper Gary Weiiiraub’s letter about racism in the movies refeis to William K. Everson :us "the noted film historian ” in quotation niarlcs. Hie use of quo- tation marks usually denotes disagreement. l£ts set the record straight. Eveison was unarguably not only the most ouLstruidingbut also most influ- ential film historian of the last half century', and acclaimed as such through- out the professional as well as academic world. Hiat having been said, of course .Mr. Weinraub has every right to disagree with one of Everson’s infomied opinions. My own opinion conceming jokes alxiut minorities is that thcvwere acceptable decades ago not only Ixxranse they kidded everyone equallv but because they revealed what vv.as universally considered accept- able at the time they were made. As such, tliey have their place in the history of eiitertainment. - Richard Gordon (N’A’C) Racist mories certainly hue their place in Ih history' of entertainment. Tlxre are way too many of them to iynore and tryinp to rairite history by censoring thm is a mist’uided and impossible ta.sk. Racist mories (and serials, airtoons, newsreels, and shorts) were acaptable to the majority of moriepoers but there was alwavs a road minority speakinp out apainst thm. Tlteir roices didn t start to h taken smously until th 1950s thouph - when all th old mories were dumped on '/\ and new IV product started recydinp thsame old stereolypi's. To say "they kidded eretyone ajually” is non- sense and I think it’s time thd fieople sloptmt usinp and hlierinp thd lame excuse. Old Hollywood (and early W) hitvd DESTROY the fntenlial to fit in, pros- per and be treated with respect for blacks, Amerkan Indian.s. and other non white minorities. Amt poor whites inren ’t treated alt thd much htter. It went way beyond kiddinp people and has a LOT to do with race tensions in Ameriai (and th whole world) thd we continue to be Ixpped down with today. Wliy was there no outcry from blacks in the 1920s, 1930s, luiii 19-iO’s over their ixirtrayal in the movies? If enougli lieople protested not to go to these films 1 liet the offend- ing scenes would have been taken out or changed. .After all Hollywood is a liottoni line industry - profit and loss. Tliat’s tile nruiie of its tune. - H. Pfe.'*er (ihe Bronx) Actually blacks dkt protest apain.st Hollywood racism in erery decade but you'll Ixire to took hard to find th eiutence outside of old load black new.spal>ers. Hlacksorpanized to protest apainst BIRTH 01- A NATION and (iONE U’777/ HIE Vil\V but thd dutn 't stop tlxkse mories from Ixxominp two ofth most imputar. profitable, imihded, injluentud. praised, studied. and tored mories ofatl time. Blacks were simply ipnored and otlxn- who complained in public almut Hollywooil racism were labeled Sociedids. Communists, nipner lorets and worse. You are ripht about Hollyuood and profits. K’it 'h a few exceptions proj'it minded Hollywood producers only stopped doinp business in (lermany and started makinp anti Nazi mories alter Pearl Har/nr. Hollytrml. thn 1\' networks put th sensibil- ities ofth seprepated South orer blacks. Until reamlly Hollyuood usually took th side of Colonud royalist Enpland and th Confederacy while reuritinp histoiy - which considerinp th facts of Vk Reiolutionary and Ciril Wars soiaids like near treason to me. And thn Hollyiiooil produc- eis did pretty mud) th same old business as usual uitb Apartlxdd era South Ajrica. If this all sounds like liberal whininp to anybody, t am also ap/kdled by hw Ameriai (poreivmeid. business and media - rapidly becominp one and th same) sucks up to Communist China, an illepal atomic power with Ih world's larpest army thd continues to kill, imprison, torture and totally control millions of moivfieifile thin eren Ih USSR did - or th combined cumvt "Axis of Eril" does. And they are about to launch thir first astronauts into .pice! ^ PSYCHOTRONIC ^ ANCHOR BAY has lliese new' DVD: HELL IS A CITY with commentary by director Val Guest and Joseph Losey’s THE CRIMINAL (botli 60), THE FRIGHT- ENED CITY (6l) with Herbert Lorn and Sean Connery, Michael Caine in THE IPCRESS FILE (65), THE DAYDREAMER (66) and MAD MONSTER PART\’ (67) with a 24 pg booklet (botli are by Jules Bjlss and feature tlie voice of Boris Karlofi), THE AMAZING HOWARD HUGHES (77) witli Tommy Lee Jones, MURDER BY DECREE (70), widescreen and uncut with commentary by director Bob Clark, FEAR IN THE NIGHT (72), THE WICKER MAN imd FANTAS- TIC PLANET (both 73), TO THE DEVIL - A DALIGH- TER and a twx) disc set of Nicholas Roeg’s THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (both 76) uncut, widescreen and with many extras, SUSPIRIA, (77), THE BEYOND (80), Michael Nesmith’s ELEPHANT PARTS, HELL NIGHT, and Mattel’s HELL OF ITIE LIV- ING DEAD (all 81), Fred Williamson’s all stiir ONE OWN, TWO TO GO, PARASITE, THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER and THE BEASTMASTER (all 82), HANDGUN and THE INITIATION (both 83), THE PHILM)ELPHIA EXPERIMENT, C.H.U.D., CHILDREN OF THE CORN and SLVi’GROUND (all 84), MY SCIENCE PROJECT, ONE MAGIC CHRISTMAS and SANTA CUUS: THE MOVIE (all 85), MAX- IMUM OVERDRIVE and MAN- HUNTER the original version of RED DRAGON starring William (CSI) Petereon (botli 86), STAGE- FRIGHT, SLUGS, HOUSE 2, and CREEPSHOW 2 (all 87), the Soviet/ Scandinavian fantasy MIO IN THE LAND OF FARAWA' (87) with Christopher Lee, Peter Jackson’s BAD TASTE, THE CHURCH, and ELVIRA MISTRESS OF THE DARK (all 88), NICK KNIGHT (89), SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION (90), GRAND TOUR: DISASTER IN TIME and Brian Yuzna’s SOCI- Ciemian language version, are both by Roland Emmerich. A seven DVT) Carrv' On Collection hits a dozen movies: CARRY ON NURSE, SERGEANT, and TEACHER (all 59), CONSTABLE (60), REGARDLFi>S (61), CRUISING (62), CABBY (63), JACK (64), CLEO iuid SPYING (botli 65), imd SCREAMING :uid COW- BOY (hotli 66), plus THAT’S CARRY ON with scenes from 28 (!) Carr}' On comedies. Tlie Peter Sellers Collection includes THE SMALLEST SHOW ON EARTH (57), I’M ALRIGHT JACK and CARLTON- BROW'NE OF THE F.O. (both 59), TWO WAY STRETCH (60) HFAVEN’S ABOVE! (63), and HOFF- MAN (70), a serious one. The Alec Guiness Collection hits KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS (49), 'FHE LAVENDER HILL MOB imd THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT (both 51, THE CAPTAIN’S PARADISE (53), and THE LADVEILLERS (55) with Peter Sellcre. Copies are still available of tlie limited edition Wenier Herzog/Klaus Kinski box with AGUIRRE (73), WOYZECK and NOSFERATU (both 79), FIEZ- CARALDO (82), COBRA VERDE (88), and MY BEST FIEND (99). The Alex Cox Collection box has REPO MAN (84), STRAIGHT TO HELL (87), DEATH AND THE COMPASS (96), and THREE BUSINESSMEN (98). The MAD MISSION (or ACES GO PLVCES) box set includes the fiist four Hong Kong coniedv' adven- tures sUirring Siuii Hui, Karl Maka, and Sylvia Chang. MAD MISSION 3 aka OUR M/\N IN BOND STREET (84) Ls by Tkui Hark and MAD .VIIS- SION 4 (86) is by Ringo Uni. There’s also a SLEEPAW^Vi’ CAVIP box (all 3 movies), and a nine disc HIGHLANDER Season One box with 22 episodes. ARMV’ OF DARKNESS (90, Aiclior Bay’s best selling DVD release is now available iis a two disc widescreen “Broomstick Edition” set of tlie tlieatrical ETY (botli 92), and RUNNING TIME (97) witli Bruce Campbell. Diese have new' lower prices: CANDY (68), spe- cial limited edition, TWO L\NE BLVCKTOP (71), ISUND AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD (74), DIE CAT FROM OUTER SPACE (78), THE SDINT MAN (80), CONDORMAN (81), RETURN TO OZ (85), BUCK MOON RISING (86), WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE and DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR (botli 87). Wini Wenders movies include DIE AMERICAN FRIEND (77) witli Dennis Hopper wiio provides com- mentary, LIGHTNING OVER WATER (79) about Nicholas Ray, and NOTEBOOKS ON CIDES AND CLOTHES (89) about fashion. All have director com- mentary and other extras. THE NOAH’S ARK PRIN- CIPLE (84) and MAKING TIME (85), including the and director’s cut veniions plus various extras. Some releases witli PV review’ quotes on the covers are TOOLBOX MURDERS (“Die Ultimate Exploitation Sickie!”), SHOCK WAVES, juid NEAR DARK, now available as a two disc set with niiuiy extriis. ARTISAN offers HIGH NOON (52), Dl^'E (84). TOTAL RECAIl (90), TERMINATOR 2 :md DIE DOORS (both 91), basic INSTINCT (92), STARGATE (94) Ultimate Edition, and tlie RAVIBO box. RESER- VOIR DOGS is now avaihible in 5 different color coded boxes with different actors on each cover (just like TV' Guide does) but none feature Lawrence Tieniey! THE BEACH BOYS AN AVIERICAN B/\ND is on a double bill DVD now witli BRIAN WII^N - 1 JUST WASN’T MADE FOR THESE DMES. Columbia has new editions of DFJVD RECKONING (47), SIROCCO (51), and THE IMDER DIEV' FALL (56), all witli Bogart, John Hnston’s FAT CITV’ (72), and SHAMPOO (75). CRITERIAN offers; Michael Powell’s great DIE LIVE AND DFUm OF COLONEL BLIMP (43), BEAUD' AND IDE BEAST (45) witli interviews mid the original trailer namited by Cocteau, DIE KILLERS (46) with a ’49 radio version, and Don Siegel’s THE KILLERS (64) with Ronald Reagan and Clu Gulager, Goddiird’s CONTEMPT (63) mid BAND OF OUT- SIDERS (64) with nimiy extras, Vllgot SjonimTsonce ver}' controversial I AVI CURIOUS YELLOW mid I AVI CURIOUS BLUE (both 67), PeckiripalTs STRAW IXXIS (71), tlie original Soviet SOURIS (72) wliich cost a lost less money tlimi the recent remake lost, DOWN BY UW (76), mid FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS (98) as a double disc set. Die Complete MON’TEREV’ POP is a three disc set with the original DA Pennebaker movie, JIMI PUYS MONTEREV’, SHAKE: OTIS AT MO.NTEREV’ mid nearly two hours of outtake footage featuring blinds (Quicksilver, Electric Flag, Blues Project, Butterfield Blues Bmid. . .) wiio didn’t make tlie original cut mid you can see David Crosby talking about tlie Kennedy conspirac}' shortly before being kicked out of the Bv’rds. IMAGE has INNADERS FROM MARS (53), QUIET DAYS IN CLICHV’ (70), based on Herirv' .Vliller, Conrad Brooks’ SIDDHARTHA (73), tlie Soviet WAR AND PEACE (65), Frmico’sJUSDNE (68) mid EUGENIE (69), BEAST OF BLOOD mid BRAIN OF BLOOD (botli 70), ISIAND OF DEADI (75), Carpenter’s ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (76), mid REDEN OF DIE SWAMP DUNG (89). THE HOOKED GENERADON (68) is a double with DIE PSYCHEDELIC PRIEST (71). TVvo sets of NAKED CID’ episodes (4 episodes each) feature actors like Dennis Hooper, Robert Duvall, mid W’alter .Vlatthau. Three box sets of 1 SPY have seven discs each. Somebody didn’t miticipate tliree (!) mega budget Eddie Murphy flip movies in one vear. JOHN AND YOKO’S VTAR OF PFACE, is a CBC doc. W’ith news report footage never seen in America. KINO Is tlie stay at home film hlstorimi’s dream witli releases like a full five hour DVD version of Fritz Ling’s DIE NIBELUNGEN also available as m VDS ta|ies (SIEGFRIED mid KRIEMHELD’S REV'ENGE) mid the restored 122 min. METROPOLIS (27) witli a new ly recorded score. The tlieatriciil re-issue for the 75tli miniversarv’ wjis followed by DVD mid VDS releases witli a making of doc. Die movie by the way is set in 2026. Could we all be slaves to a small upper class by tlieri? Check back in 23 years. Other silent Gemimi classics are DIE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (19) by Robert W'ierie, DIE GOLEM (20) by Paul Wegener, mid NOSFERATL’ (22) by F. W’. Muniau, mid ^ PSYCHOTRONIC ^ all have been restored and include many extras. Paul Leni’s horror anthology WAXWORKS (23) with Conrad Veidt and Wenier Krauss has never been on tape or DVT) before. D. W. Griffitli movies available in new quali^ versions are tlie long time recruiting fibn of tlie KKK - BIRTH OF A NATION (1915) - wtli extras including the 1930 re-issue intro with Walter Huston and a making of doc., INTOU.RANCE (l6) witli an inUX) by Orson Welles, BROKEN BLOSSOMS (19), and ORPHANS OF THE STORM (21). The Kino Griffrtli Maslerworks box includes all four plus many of Ills earlier Biograph shorts. Also check out John Frankenlieimer's THE ICEMAN COMETH (73) with Robert Ryan and Lee Marvin. MGM offers an irKredibly diverse array of new' DVT) releases including THE BARBARY COAST (35) with Edward G. Robinson and Miriam Hopkirrs, THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (40) with Conrad Veidt and Sabu, THE JACKIE ROBINSON STORY (50), THE BIG KNIFE (55) with Jack Palance and Rod Steiger, A KISS BEFORE DYING (56), with Robert Wagner, a special two disc edition of WEST SIDE STORY (6l), THE ROAD TO HONG HONG (62), HOW TO MUR- DER YOUR WIFE (65) with Jack Lemmon, THE HOODLUM PRIEST with Don Murray, THE WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT (64) with Peter Sellers, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING (66) with Jonathon Winters, a special edition of Mel Brooks’ THE PRODUCERS (68), Ken Russell's WOMEN IN LOVE (69) with Oliver Reed, Passolini's THE DECAMERON and Carl Reiner s WHERE'S PAPA? (botli 70), THE MEQIANIC (72), COFFY (73), FOXY BROWN and TRUCK TURNER (bodi 74), COOLEY HIGH (75), THE BILLION DOLLAR HOBO (77) with Trm Conway, HAIR (79), ROADIE and Paul Verhoeven's SPETTERS (bodi 80), ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK and EYE OF THE NEEDLE (both 81), RED DAWN, ALPHABET CITY, MISSING IN AaiON, BEAT STREET, and BREAKIN’ 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO (all 84), RAPPIN’ and AMERICA NINJA (both 85), ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS (86), THE PRINCESS BRIDE, MAKING MR. RIGHT, DEAD OF WINTER, A PRAYER FOR THE DYING, NO MAN'S LAND, and NO WAY OLT (all 87), I'M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA! (88), ROAD HOUSE (89), MIAMI BLUES, BAD INFLUENCE, BLUE STEEL, and LAMBADA (all 90), RUSH, THELVIA AND LOUISE - special edition and Mel Brooks' LIFE STINKS (all 90, BOXING HELENA and Robert Townsend’s METEOR MAN (both 93), BLOWN AWAY and CLEAN SLATE (botli 94), and 8 HEADS IN A DUFFEL BAG (97). The all star CASINO ROYALE (67) is uncut (137 mins.), widescreen, and includes die '54 TV ver- sion widi Peter Lorre. Tlie other ‘ unofficial’' Bond - NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN (83) with Connery, is $14.95 and of course die rest of the Bond catalog is being repackaged and rehiped during the 40th Anniversary of DR. NO. Apparently Kim Jong- II is a An MGM Creepy Classics box includes THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (60), THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM (6l), XTHE MAN WITH THE X RAY EYES (63), and THE DUNWICH HORROR (70). Why not an all Poe or all Roger Comiati box? llie Woody Allen Collecdon includes BANANAS (71), EVERY- THING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX. . . (72), and SIEEPER (73) and five odiers diat aren’t so funny. Tliete’s a Bronson Box with MR. MAJESTYE (74), 10 TO MIDNIGHT (83), MURPHY' S LAW (86), ASSASSINATION (87), MFiLSENGER OF DFJATH (88), and KINJITE (89). TVvo STARGATE boxes include die first two seasons. Some new MG.Vl double bills are INVISIBLE IN’VADERS (59) and JOURNEY TO THE SEVENTH PLANET (6l) both starring John Agar!, Frankie Avalon in MUSCLE BEACH PARTY (64) and SKI PARTY (65), die mind bending LSD double bill of Comian’s THE TRIP (67) and Richard Rush's PSYCH-OIT (68)!, CTCLE SAVAGES (69) with Bruce Dem and ANGEL UNCHAINED (70) with Don Stoud, CRY OF THE BANSHEE (70) with Vincent Price and MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (71) widi Jason Robards, die RAMBO clone sequels AMERICA NINJA 2: THE CONFRONTATION (87) and A,MERICAN NINJA 3: BLOOD HUNT (89), and Chuck Norris in MISSING INACTION 2 (85) and MISSING IN ACTION 3 (88). THEY WENT THAT- A-WAY (78) and THE LONG SHOT (85) both star Tun Conway. MPI’s Dan Curtis Collection includes THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (68) and DRACULA (73), both widi Jack Palance, THE PICTURE OF DORI- AN GRAY (73) widi Shane Briant, and THE TURN OF THE SCREW (74) widi Lynn Redgrave. PARAMOUNT offers a special edition of Billy Wilder’s SUNSET BOULEVARD (50), WAR AND PEACE (56) widi Herbert Lorn and Anita Ekberg, FEAR STRIKES OUT (57) with Andiony Perkins as Jimmy Piersal, GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS! (62), FUN IN ACAPULCO (63), FUN HAWAIIAN STYU- (66) and EASY COME EASY GO (67) all starring Elvis, Peter Bogdanovich’s TARGETS (68) widi Boris Karloff, Nicholas Roeg’s DON’T LOOK NOW (73), and THE DUELISTS (77) starring Harvey Keitel and Keidi Carradine, :uid widi Ridici' Scott commentary, PIONERE has gotten the rights to die long running Gemian BEAT CLliBAIUSIKLADEN sliow- so wiiat do lliey release? - one mediocre skimpy 12 track comp of 70s clips diat have been released before - and an all fucking Yes DVD! RHINO'S MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 box has wbat diey say are four of tire most requested episodes: THE SKYDIV'ERS, THE CREEPING TER- ROR, BLOODLUST and THE CATALINA CAPER wiiicli c.an be watched with orwithout the commentary. Tire WALKING TALL box has all three movies. DVDs for $ 9.95 include: MAN BEAST (55), starring Rock Madison, CARNIVAL OF SOULS (62), Ray Danton’s CRYPT OF THE LIVING DEAD (72), and 1 forget wiiich version of DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE. 20th CENTURY FOX has new DVD’s of Muniau’s SUNRISE (27), THE OX-BOW INCIDENT (43), LAURA (44), THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR (47), THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STIli (51), and a 101 min. version of Scorsese’s KING OF CO.V1EDY (83). Also Elvis in his first movie, die western LOVE ME TENDER (56), FLAMING STAR ( 60 ), wiiere he’s a half breed, and WILD IN THE COUNTRY ( 6 I) based on Clifford Odets, WARNER offers 11 IE lllIN MAN (34), a great drink- ing movie, MILDRED PIERCE (45) widi nine Joan Crawford trailers, John Huston’s RED BADGE OF COURAGE (51), THE INCREDIBLE MR. LIMPET (64) widi Don Knotts, Truffaut’s DAY FOR NIGHT (73), FINGERS (78) starring Harvey Keitel and widi colorful commentary from director Janies Tobak, KRUSH GROOVE (85) with commentaiy by Michael Shultz, and BARFLY (87). Jeff Leibemian’s BLUE SUNSHINE (78) is from Synapse. Cult Epics have DVDs of Fernando Arabel’s VIVA LA MUERTE (70) and I WALK LIKE A CRAZY I lORSE (73). E. I. has released Al Adamson’s MEAN MOTHER (73) and BLACK HEAT (76). HRST RUN has Bava’s HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD (61) and SERPICO (73). M^n has uneardied Mark Pirro’s A POLISH VAMPIRE IN BUR- BANK (83) and CURSE OF THE QUEERWOLF (90). BE GUD FOR THE SONG HAS NO ENDING ( 69 ) about Tlie Incredible String Band is available from MVD. Universal has Paul Schrader’s THE CAT PEOPLE (82) with a new doc., and die BACK TO THE FUTURE trilogy. Sam Fuller’s last movie STREET OF NO RETURN (89) is available from Fantoma. It was based on a Davis Goodis novel and stars Keith Carradine. Neil Jordan’s THE COMPANY OF WOLVES (85) is from Hen’s Tooth. Tom Lauglilin’s THE MASTER GUNFIGHTER (75) is from Ventura BLACK AND BLUE (80) die Black Sabbadi and Blue Oyster Cult concert movie that was produced by George Harrison (!) is front Classic and NEIL YOUNG: RUST NEVER SLEEPS (79) is from Sanctuary BBC/W'amer have released a diree disc THE YOUNG ONES; Every Stoopid Episode which includes perfomiances by Molorliead, Madness and Ollier bands. ENFRATERRESTRE (01) starring Hijo Del Santo is available in America from Ventura. Slingshot Video has new “3-D ” versions of Public Domain titles like FLASH GORDON CONQUERS THE UNIVERSE, RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON, and MONSTER FROM A PREHISTORIC PLANET. They promise a box set featuring wbat else? - NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. Sounds just like die Colorization scam to me. And jast what we needed: Brain Damage Films has re-released five volumes of FACES OF DEATH on DVD. Countless foniier college students wfio grew up getting high while watching tliese are now producing, directing and wriUtig major movies and TV sliows. py DRUGS STAKEOUT ON DOPE STREET (58) D/S Inin Kershncr, S In^in Schwartz, P/S/act Andrew J. Fenady Lirge headlines announce that a two pound can of heroin luis been lost during a deadly shootout between dealers and cops. Police luid gangsters Jirc both searching for it. Jim (star Yale Wexler) and Nick (Morris .Miller) hang out in tlie back room of the gnxery' store owned by tlie father of their short friend Ves (lonatlian Haze). Ves finds the Ciui but throws it out thinking it s worthless. 'Ilie police captain narrator (Frank Ikirding) ex|dains that it contains “junk, II, stuff, snow, mooch, dust, horse...” Blonde Kathy (Aliby Dalton), who works at tlie bowling alley, has threateiied to dump out of work dreamer artist Jim and Nick insists that they sell the dope. Jim ch:uiges his mind after supplying Danny (Allen Knmier), a middle aged junlde who relates fliLshbacks of going “cold turkey” while in jml luid explains addiction. This stark lengthy seg- ment resembles an effective classroom scare film ils Danny says “You need a fix to keep the monkey quiet" and descrilies “the m:iss of agony you’ve turned into." Goons Lenny (Philip .Miuisour) :uid Mitch (llemijui Rudin) tlien start beating infomia- tion out of the naive friends. It’s low budget (with a lot of voice over narration) but a lot more serious and believ'able than many drug movies of the period. With llerschel Bemardi :ls a g:uig leader, Colemiui Francis as a detective, and kid actor John Savage. Music Is by the Hollywood Ch:unk‘r jazz Group. Wexler is the brother of STAKEOlT’s uncredited cinematogniiiher HiLskell Wexler. Roger ComKui wjis :ui uncredited producer of the b/w Warners feature. DEALING: OR THE BERKELEY-TO-BOSTON FORTT-BRICK LOST- BAG BLUES (Trash Palace, 72) D/S/act Paul Williams, S David O'Dell, P Edward R. Pressman Michael Crichton and his brother wrote the b(X)k tliat this Warner feature w:ls b:ised on. Conservative looking Hansard student Peter (Rolx?rt F. Lyons) is sent to Berkeley' by John (}o\m Lithgow) to bring back a shipment of pot. After he gets high and makes the deal, Susan (Barbara Hershey) takes him to the stu- io she works at :ind says “Ijet’s do coke." Soon they’re lounging naked on the floor and he says “You’re some chick.” He arranges for her to fly eiLst with 40 bricks in her luggage but she’s husted at Logan Airport. Peter and John try’ to get the drugs back luid free her, making de:iLs with corrupt detective Murjih (Charles Duming). Everylhing degenerates into comic shootouLs with killer heroin deiiling Cubiuis. It’s fun to see young Lithgow (in his film debut) iis an egotistical cigar smoking dealer w’ho also directs plays :uid sings a show tune STAKEOiT ox DOPE STREET and the location work is interesting. Judging by a reference to Lennon in Toronto and bits of music by Otis, Tlie Dead, Uie Slones, and Springfield, it lakes place in 1968. Also with Joy Bang and Ellen Baiix?r as girlfriends, Paul Sorvino us a cab driver. Buzzy Linhart (singing “You Got What It Takes ’’), Demond Wilson from SANFORD AND SON, Victor Argo, iuid Ste\'e McQuaMi in a film clip. The print is lelterlioxed. Lyons also starred in 'IHE TODD KILLINGS (71). Williiuns :uid Pressman also made 01 T OF IT ((>8) and 'HIE REVOLU- TIONARY (70), Ixith starringjon \’oighl. ADAMSON JESSES GIRLS (Family Home, 73) P/D Al Adamson, S Biidd Donnelly, P Michael F. Goldman In his PV interview (#19), Adiunson claimed that this revenge western wus rijiixxl off by BAD GIRLS (94). He was right. After seeing her preacher hus- band killed :uid lieing gang raixxl. Jessica (Sondra Currie) is trained to shoot hy a sTiiipalhelic prosjiec- tor (Rod Ciuneron with a big Like beard). She then rescues three women who are being transported to jail. They are Rachel (Jennifer Bishop), who is w’uited for murder. Claire ( Regina Carrol), a prosti- tute, and Kana (Ellen Stem), an Indian woman left liehind by the g:uig. Jessica bus discreet sex with a wounded marshall (Geoffrey Land) and Claire does it with a long haired Apache just l)efore her all out punching fight with K:uia - backed by Ixingo music. The actresses all SL\?m to know how to ride horses luid all (except Bishop, who is the best looking) have topless or nude scenes. Ben Frank plays the gang leader. Aduiison started out working with his father (Denver Dixon) who made B westerns. It’s better scripted and better looking lluui most Adiuuson movies. G:iry’ Graver wus cinematographer and it was shot in scenic Caixtol Ra?f, Dtali. LOST (Prism, 82) D Al Adamson, S Don Buday, P Corey Allen (SKIPPER) .Adiunson succaded in making a P(i rated adventure film that's suitable for kids or parenLs, which is more than you can say alxiul most of the “Lunily films" I'leing churned out these days. Penny (Sandra Da* in her lust film) :uid her new Nun vet husband Jeff (Don Slew;irt) move to his remote Colorado Springs funily f:inn with her cute 11 year old daughter Buddy (star Sheila Newhouse). Buddy, who grtAv up around race tracks, misses her real father and wuits a horse, but settles for :m old mule to ride to school. She and her little dog Skipper wuider off and lx-*come lost for several days. 11iey sleq) in caves, see a herd of wild stallions, are threatened hy a cougar, uid are carried away by a Hush flo<xl. A crazy liearded old mountain man (jack Ehun) wearing ^ PSYCHOTRONIC <4 a dog fur hal rclucLinlly feeds them. Ken Curtis plays a friendly church going neiglibor who helps \\ith a search pjirty. Gary' Kent was assistiuit director, stunt co-ordinator, and acts. Tlie scenery' (in Capitol Reef, Utali) is great, Elani and Curtis are likable pros, and Newhouse Ls perfect for her role. Cinematographer Gary Graver directed SUZIE SUPERSTAR (starring Shauna Grant) and CEN- TERSPREAD GIRLS (witli Lisa de Leeuw) the same year. Stewjirt also starred in Ackmison’s CARNIVAL MAGIC (81) and Buckiy aLso wrote KISS MEETS THE PHANTOM (78). MONDO MONDO PAZZO (SW, 63) D/S GualUero Jacopetti, Franco E. Prosperi, P Mario MaiTei, Giorgio Cecchini (MONDO CANE 2) Much of this extremely uneven Mondo followup is dated, weak, Jind/or obviously staged. \bu get a French drag show, jui Americiui undertiiker school, Chinese bird and fish fights in Singapore, Mexicjui Day of tlie Dead customs, and Massjii who use dung for everything and eat stones. Religious mania is represented by Indian faldrs, hysterical Italians, bleeding Portuguese penitentiaries, and Spiuiiards practicing for their own funends. A segment on an “American" photo studio specializing in sce nes of horror and death is elaborate, clever luid fun - but sure looks Euro to me. Tlie end sequence with men on stage being slapped to music is ridiculous and fake. The segment on slavery' starts as an excuse to show topless hlack women. A British officer calmly putting crippled star\'ed little black kids in chains is disturbing until you notice how staged it is - :uid tlien it’s still disturbing. Gunfights and lynching^ are recreated at Tombstone and the (Brit) narrator claims that they just recently stopjied “lynching Negroes" for tourists (!). I do believ'e that English Victories in Africa were responsible for tlie pathetic mass deatlis of rare wb.ite fliiniingos. The part about South Vietnamese monks is also more or less sadly real. We’re told tliat President Dielini has “dechired martial law, had Buddhist temples destroyed and monks put into concentration caniiis." We see news footage of citizens shav- ing their heads in mass protests and (on May 2, 1963), the first monk publicly setting himself on fire after gasoline is poured on him. It all sounds like what you’d expect of the Northern Commies (or our Chinese business pjirtners occu- pying Tibet today). Seeing this bmught back childhood memories of when I saw burning orange robed monks in Life magazine. Like MONDO CANE this was a worldwide smash. Rizzoli films rele:ised it here in ’64 with 20 mins, cut luid Cineniation later re-released it rated R. Tliis is the uncut version. Tlie theme by The Four Preps (with Ed Cobb) was produced by David Axelrod. Witli a world of cruelty' and madness to chronicle why did the successful “documentary'" team fake so much? Because they' could, just like TV’ shows today. Tlie filmniakens returned witli the ev'en more inflammatory and suspect AFRICA BLOOD AND GUTS (66) and FAREWELL UNCLE TOM (71). EUROPEAN NIGHTS (SW, 59) D Alessandro BlasetU, S Ennio de Concini, Gualtiero Jacopetti (ELIROPA DI NOTTE) This look at Euro nightclub and circus acts has a line- up similar to THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW (if it had been in bright color then and included strippers!). The credits are real neon signs and it opens with a won- derful scale model of famous cities. An Italian cIowti troop (Rastellis) mixes music with violence in a memorable way. One member is a black guy in blackface. Ttiere’s a comic magiciiui and the famous Channing Pollack does sleight of hand routines with cards and doves. The (black) American Archie Savage Dancers do a great dance and song routine. Gloria Jones (later a member of The Blossoms and wife of Marc Bolan) is the featured Josephine Baker type ’20s dancer. Domenico Modugno (known for the original “Volare") sings three songs (in Italian). One is about the wonders of coffee. Colin Hicks does Fats Domino’s “I Love You So" and Eddie Cochran’s “TVventy Flight Rock" (with a drum solo). Hicks (brother of Brit star Tommy Steele) and his band (The Cabin Boys) put on a wild Bill Haley style show and audi- ence members scream and dance - but it’s obviously staged. The Platters do “You’ll Never Know" (an international hit in ’57) in color (Zora Taylor has red hair). Three very sexy strip|)ers (the stern looking one is Vietnamese) are backed by a black jazz band. The (staged) reaction shots of men and their wives are a nice touch. A guy sings to chorus girls but the focus is on a beau- tiful young Asian woman wearing flower pasties. You also get belly, flamenco, and can can dancers, Ukranian balaleika musicians and dancers and too many acrobats. Parts were shot in actual clul)s but the London segments were faked on sets. For this ’63 American v'ersion, narrator Henry Morgan uses mild sarcasm to joke about the credits and even his own narration. He doesn’t believe that a very sexy' blonde in a gay club is actually a man (you won’t either). The late Morgan wits an I’VE GOT A SECRET pimelist for 15 (!) years. I had a great time being on his NTC radio show w'hen the first PV book was published. He wanted to talk about WILD WOMEN OF WONGO! This tape also includes a b/w Gemian short about stripjiers (with more nudity than the fea- ture), stills of adults only ads and a very' impressive and new (to me) quick edit comp of numy SW release clips (by categories). 60s MUSICALS 63) THE YOUNG SWINGERS (The Video Beat!, P/D Maury Dexter, S Harry Spalding Mel (Rod Lauren) runs a storefront co-op Hootenanny espresso nightclub. Ruthless rich businesswoman “Old Lady” Crawford Qo Helton) orders her creepy bald lawyer Mort Qiistin Smith) to do whatev'er it takes to force him out so she can build a highrise. Her singing blonde niece Vicki (Molly Bee) falls for Mel though and helps sabotage the devious schemes. Pete O^tck Lirson from TEENAGE .MIL- LIONAIRE) is the jive talking comic MC partner who does impressions of Ed Sullivan and Grandpa McCoy during his “Watusi Surfer" song. Tlie third partner is the deep voiced black crooner Fred (Gene McDaniels, the only cast member who actually had hits) who does “Mad Mad Mad" and “Follow Your Dreams.” Patrons W\is{ to a jazz band, and the leads both sing, but the only folk music is by the male/female duo The Sherw'ood Singers who do “Elijah" (about an old black man) and Hoyt Axton’s “Greenback Dollar.” Tliev' leave out the “damn” like Tlie Kingston Trio did on their chart version. It all ends hap- pily at a pool party' as the whole cast sings “Greenback" again. Lauren (aka Siadian), who was good in THE CRAUIING HAND, reminds me of young Johnny Depp. 1 once owned an LP by Ba^ (aka Beachbojird) just for her sexy glitter cowgirl cover. Once a regular on THE TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD SHOW, she was later in HIIIBILLIES IN A HAUNTED HOUSE (67). Tliis 71 min. b/w 20th Century' Fox musical was on AMC. SURF PART\ (The Video Beall, 64) P/D Maury Dexter, S Harry Spaulding Blonde Terry' (Patricia Morrow), Junior Qackie DeShannon), and Syhia (Lory Patrick) from Phoenix, arrive at Malibu Beach in a trailer. All the male char- acters in this 68 min. b/w 20th Century Fox musical are pathetic in one way or another. Terry' likes Len (star Bobby Vinton), a boring loner nice guy who owns a surfboard shop, Sylvia falls for Terry’s egotistical swinging bachelor brother Skeet Oerry' Summers, usually a stuntman) who is “tlie top hot dogger at the lodge," and Junior likes the short comic relief “gremmie" Milo (Kenny Miller) who risks his life to join the lodge. Cranky' Sgt. Neal (Richard Crane in his last film) hanisses all of them and Skeet turns out to be a patlietic lying gigolo sup- ported by a rich older woman (Martha Stewart). Tlie Astronauts do the excel- lent opening surf music tlienie (offscreen) and another instrumental at a party' and Tlie Routers (white standins for a black studio band) do “Crack Up.” DeShannon sings the best song (“Glory Way"), a surf gospel (!?) number, com- 12 ^ PSYCHOTRONIC ^ plete wth handshaking hallelujahs. Tlie girls tet and sing ‘ Never Coinin' Back in tlieir trailer :uid Morrow and Miller both have uniinpressiTO solo s|X)Ls. The songs hy top billed Vinton are lame even for him and he was never asked to act again. Mickey’ Dora is one of the surfing doubles. DeShannon had more to do in C’MON LETS LIVE A LmiE (PV #35). Dexter also dirccted WILD ON THE BEACH fPV#36). WHEN THE BOYS MEET'DIE GIRLS (The Video Beal!, 65) D Alvin Ganzer, S Robert E. Kent, P Sam Kiitzman Rich handsome Danny Churchill (Harve Presnell) :md short comic relief Sam Ooby Baker— Elvis sidekick inGIRLHAl’PY) drive west to attend a college after causing a minor scandal back east. Tliey mat backwoods mail delivery woman Ginger (Connie Francis) by driving her horee off the road. Her lovable father (Frank Faylen from DOBIE GILLIS) loses all his money in Reno then sells his huid to a devious businessniiui (Fred Clark). Everyone is ha|)|)y when a dude ranch for divorced women is opened and many divorce jokes are told. Presnell croons and Francis sings several mediocre numlreis which is a shame because she had one of the greatest voices in pop music. Her last top 40 hit had been in ‘64 and this was her last movie. Danny's blackmailing ex, Tess (Sue Ann Langdon) also sings and dances and she and other chorus girls sing "Treat Me Rough." Louis Amistrong sings "Tlirow It Out Of Your Mind, " Liberace does "Aruba Liberace," and unfunny comics Davis And Reese do a bo,xer routine. Sam Tire Sham And Tlie Pharaolis do "Monkey See, Monkey Do" which is great but they're interrupted and upstaged by guys in drag doing the fmg. At least Herman's Hermits are left alone while doing their hit #3 "Listen People" and Peter Noone has a few lines as an exchange student. If this seems dated for tlie 60s its because it was based on a Gershwin musical filmed as GIRL CRAZY in '32 (with Wlieeler and WooLsey) then in '43 (with Mickey Rooney :uid Judy Garland) . A big outdoor production number (Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm") looks like an outtake from SEVEN IJRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS. The tayx; is letterboxed. G.inzer also directed COUNTRY MUSIC HOLIDAY (58). Presnell is still on TV and in movies. THE COOL ONE,S (67) D/S Gene Nelson, S Joyce Geller, Robert Kauliman. P William Conrad Tliis Warner Brothers musical comedy is old fashioned boy meets girl nonsense, but is also a show biz spoof with some great period detail. Tlie WIZ BANG show looks just like HULLABALLOO and the young eccentric rich music producer is a Phil Spector take off. Blonde Hallie (Debbie Watson), a WIZ BANG dancer, wants to be a singer so badly that she grabs tlie microphone from a star (Glen Campbell!) during the taping of the show. She soon falls for Cliff Donner (Gil Peterson), a nice but washed up early 60s style blonde "overnight has been" pop star. Tliey have comic misunderstandings and she calls him a rat fink and a dingaling. Tony Kruriini (Roddy McDowall) becomes her manip- ulating manager and producer and insists that Cliff sings with her. Tlie new singing duo create a new dance sensation (the Tantrum). Tony's older brother (Robert Coote) owns a P.alnis Springs nightclub where the house b:uid (Tlie Leaves) do part of their Bo Diddly on drugs song "Dr. Stone " and the TV show's wardrobe lady (Mrs. Miller) wurbles "It's Magic." The other music is slicker Hollywood pop, but it was written and supervised by Lee Hazelwood and Hallie's singing voice was provided by an uncredited Nanw Sin.itra - so the duets are very cool sounding. With Nita Talbot as Tony's sedurtive assistant Dee Dee, Phil Harris as the show's producer, George Forth as his assistant, unbilled David Winters and Teri Garr as dancers, Tlie Bantams, Angelique Pettyjohn, and a huge computer. Floyd Crosby was the cinematographer and Toni Basil was tlie choreographer. Tlie score is by Ernie Freeman and Billy Strange was the arranger. The very likable Watson had starred on the short lived sitcoms KAREN (64) and TAMMY (65) and was Marilyn in MUNSIERS GO HOME! (66). COMMUNAZIS FORGOTTEN CO.VLMANDiMENTS (32) D Louis Gasnicr, William Schorr, Cecil B. DeMille, S James Bernard Fagan, Agnes Brand Leahy In the modem day Soviet Union, happy naive young newlyweds Paul (Ciene Raymond) :uid Marya (Marguerite Churchill) sign up at a stitte university and are assigned a small living space in community apartmenls (sepantted only by half walls). A professor (Imng Pichel) scofis at marriage and has an assis- tant/lover Anya (Sari .Vlaritza). As soon as the seductive Anya sets her eyes on Paul, the happy ni.-uTiage ends in an easy state divorce. M.-iry-a is depressed ;uid the foniier surgeon Prof., forgetting his free love ideals, shoots :utd kills both Anya :uid Paul. Hie whole middle 20 mins, is a biblical flashback told to chil- dren by a priest who Iras illegally returned to his fomier church. Most movies using old footage try to hide tlie fact, but this 75 min. Panuiiount release boasts right up front that it's "Glorified by spectacular episodes front Cecil B. DeMille's epic THE TEN CO.VLVlANDiVlENTS. Tile silent ('23) scenes include the original title cards and are narrated. Tlie pyramids are built, idols are woishiped, and Mos(5 receives the commandments (big letters in lightning) and pans the Red Sea. llie Pharaoh declares “We .shall grind Israel into the dust!" COMMAND- ME,NTS includes Edward Van Sloan as a doctor, John Carradine as a Communist speech maker ("We have no faith but the state!"), Kent Taylor, Joe Siiwv’er, and in the silent footage. Noble Johnson as a slave. The cinematogra- pher was Karl Struss. Gasnier directed the original silent PERILS OF PAULINE serial and REEFER MADNESS (36)! THE WHIP HAND (51) D/pro. design William Cameron Menzies, S George Bricker, Frank L. Moss, P Louis J. Rachmil American View magazine write r Matt Coitiri (Elliott Reid) goes to remote Winnoga Lake for a fishing vacation. He dis- covers that the fish have all died .and the near ghost town is being run like a private police state near a heavily guarded genu wiufare lah in a lodge run by Dr. Bucholz (Otto Waldis - who had been in the origin.il M). Loomis (a blonde R.iymond Burr) and his motlier (Lurene Thttle) ran the inn. Corbin, forbidden to le.ive, takes photos, works on an expose, and (foolishly) confronts tlie leaders with tlieir crimes. He also finds time to fall for Karen (Carla Balenda), the sister of killer THFttvtPHAKT, B.irrier), who resembles Gregoiy Peck in THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL A scene of “human guinea pigs" and scary close-ups of sinister faces m.ike this very much like a horror movie. Also with Michael Steele, Robert Tlioni, .ind Milton Kibbee (also in STRANGE HOLIDAY!). This had been shot .is an anti-fas- cist movie in the 4(^ .as THE MAN HE FOUND, but executive producer Howard Hughes had scenes of Hitler (actor Bobby Watson) in America removed and a new prologue set in the Kremlin added. Editing easily turned the Nazi spies, doctors and thugs into Communists. A few more editing changes and it could be about a S.itantic or supernatural cult. Reid, who resembles Henry Fonda at times, had been a star of the radio Suspense series. Bricker had written the '46 Rondo Hatton movies THE BRUTE MAN and HOUSE OF HORRORS. Menzies went on to INVADERS FROM MARS (53). Rachmil also produced THE 27TH DAY (PV #37) - and years later - FOOllOOSE (84)! Tlie RKO release has been on AMC. STRANGE HOLIDAY (1945) D/S Arch Oboler, P A. W. Hackel, Edward Finney, Max King The creator of tlie famous Lights Out! radio series made this (.is THE DAY AFTER TO.VIORROW) in '42 (just itifter Pearl Harbor) as a 40 min. short based on his radio play (Tliis Precioas Freedom) for General Motors as a warning for work- ers who didn't take the Gemian threat seriously enough. MG.M acquired tlie ^ P8YCH0TR0NIC ^ 13 short. He later added a long narrated intro of impressive movie battle scenes to show how wiufare had changetl owr the wars ending with iictual A bomb explo- sions. He also did mediting and had Swastika blacked out to change N:izis into Communists. Olwler released it thmugh his own Elite Pictures (at 6l mins.) in the f;dl of '45 (shortly :dter Hiroshima). PRC then cut out the FDR prologue and re-rele;ised it (at only 55 mins.) in late '46. Memvhile star Claude Rains had become more famoiis and was known for nniking a then record million plus dolkus to co-snir in the British epic CAF,SAR A.\U CLEOPATRA (46). When war pkuit worker John Stevenson (Rains, in top fonn) returns from a fishing vaca- tion on Friday 'Hie 1.5th, he discorets to his horror that his nice safe American town has become part of a paninoid nightmare police state. His wife (Gloria Holden) and children are taken away :uid he's jailed ;md beaten siivagely and frequently jiest for deniiuiding his righls. A black prisoner (an unbilled actor) exphiins that "Tlie part of the Constitution about rights had ten thrown out." Tlie s:idistic e.\:uniner (M;irtin Kosleck) tells him about riots followed by "Tlic New Order. " A greiU looking collage of moudis criticize Democnicy. John becomes a broken enemy of the state who hears voices (one goes "Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead!") ;uid repla\s events (ChrisUnas, graduation, a picnic) from his happy family life in a scries of on/off flashbxks. After an A tenb blast he wakes, now aware th:it "Freedom is never a gift. " Tlie disorienting fragmented structure was decades idiead of its time and this devastating patchwork feature could be coiasidered Olxiler's CITIZEN KANE. It's noUible that he :uul Orson Welles botli became famous doing radio, made a few corUroversiid American movies, then had to seek hinds overseas. Cinematognrpher Robert Surtees later shot THE LAST PlcniRE SHOW (71). Also vvitli Milton Kibliee (fish- ing friend), Priscilla Lyons, Barbara Bates, Allxirt Bassemian, Paul Dubov, Helen Mack, and little Tommy Cook as a newsboy. OPERATION EICIIM.ANN (6l) D R. G. Springsteen, S “Lewis Copley” (Lester Cole), P Samuel Bischoff, David Diamond Tlie Nazi "final solution" is explained by Col. Karl Adolf Eichimmn (Werner Klemperer) at a secret meeting in "41. Workers are seen instidling showers and carrying lioxes of Zyklon B, Ovens later replace gas to help hide the evidence. As the war is being lost, concentration camp prisoners are herded into trucks. Eichmann has them all shot but 14 year old David, Jxob and some other kids and babies survive among the bodies. A [xist war tem|)le service is intercut with actual footage of Eisenhower viewing bodies. Eichmann escapes, assumes the identity of a dead soldier and reunites with his blonde lover Anna (Rnta Lee), saying “They will pay for their cruelty to us!" They relocate to Spain, then Kuwait (!). David (Donald Buka from Clevehuid, who narrates) and Jacob (Steve Gravers) become adult volunteer Nazi hunters based in Israel. When David's wife Sara (Barbara Dirner) asks him to leave the past alone, he says the-y must "Never let the world forget! " Wlien Mlied ArtlsLs released this b/w feature, Eichmann (from the same Austrian town as Hitler) was on trial in Israel after being kidnajtped from Argentina. He was executed. 1 KXiAN'S 1 lEROES fans would be surprised to see Klemperer and John Banner (as Rudolph Hess !) laughing about tlie Auschwitz plans while enjoying dinner. Also with Eric Bracdon. Cole, a founder of Tlie Screen Actors Guild, had ten one of The Hollywood Ten. Springsteen usually directed B westenus :md TV shows. Tlimer is Jennifer Jason Leigh's motlier. Kleni|x;rer, also in Jl'DG.MENT AT NUREMBERG (6l), and Banner, also in HITLER (62), also from AA. were both Jewish, When in W. Berlin in "87, 1 was shown Spandau prison where I less was the only prisoner. UK PILAVrOM FIEND (32) D Maurice Elvey, S/star Ivor Novello, S Miles Mander, H. Fowler Mear, Paul RoUia. P Julius Hagen (THE LODGER) The first remake of a Hitchcock movie had the simie star as the 1926 original. Hie piano playing Eastern European Michel Angeloff (Novello) rents a room ;a the Bunting frmiily home while everyone is talking about a series of ".Avenger" murders (based on Jack Tlie Ripper). Hie owners telephone ojierator daughter Daisy' (Elizalieth Allan) hears the dying screams of a victim over the phone so has to apjiear at a court inquest. Her self seniiig reporter fiance Jack (youngjack Hawkins in his first role) routinely makes up interview qirotcs. Villen he tells the Buntings that a victim's "throat was slit from ear to ear! " the film cuLs to Angeloff playing a violin. The high strung over sensitive foreigner declares his love for Daisy but warns "Don't ever be alone with me!" He also says that the killer "should be put out of his misery!” He's eventually arrested, escapes in handcuffs, and is chased by a mob from a dance hall. In tlie end he saves Daisy from the real killer - his asylum escajiee brother. In the orig- inal, he was seeking to avenge the murder of his sister. Much is made of com- munication by telephone. Scenes of an ominous staircase made me think of PSYCHO. A W' Baskeomb and Barbara Everest play the parents. Hiis is the cut (67 mins.) "35 American release version. Hie original ran 85 mins. Hie editing is |X)or and the rare print has some juniiis. Hie story was also remade under various muiies stirring Laird Cregar (44), Valentine Dyall (50 -PV # 9), and Jack Pakuice (53). Novello, a popular silent movie romantic idol, singer, and playwright, was a gay Welshman Iwnt David Davies. He was recently a charac- ter in Altiiaii's GOSFORD PARK, Allen, wJio is very good here, had a successful Hollywood career which included MARK OF THE VAMPIRE (35). HOUSE OF MYSTERY ( 6 I) D/S Vernon Sewell, S Pierre Mills, P Julian Wintle, Leslie Parkyn A couple find and want to buy a country "dream house" but can't believe that the asking price is so low. A soft spoken woniiui there tells them tlie empty house is haunted but they don't believe her so she relates a series of flashbaclcs. Electrical engineer Mr. Lemming (Peter Dyiieley) is discovered dead after his wife Stella Oane Hylton) left with his best friend. The next cou- ple (Nanette Newman and Maurice Kaufmann) that move in have strange electrical probler.is and the ghost of Lemming appears on their TV' screen. An electrician can't figure it out and a psychic (Colin Gordon) just explains ESP Wlien a Scottish medium (Molly IJrquhart) conducts a seance flashbxks inside of flashbxks explain what happened. It's fun tlie way ghosts are mixed with modem technology (I think all TV's are probably haunted) and this only 56 min. rar- ity has some good plot twists. Also with John Merivale, and Colette Wilde. Sewell also made FRENZV' (aka lATlN QUARTER (46), and GHOST SHIP (53) both also based on the same play by Mills. Dyneley and Hylton had also both been in THE MANSTER (!), filmed in Japan. Newman was later in THE STEPFORD WIVES (75), directed by her husband Bryan Forbes. Hianks to Michxl Will who tiqied this from CBC. SATURDAY NIGHT OUT (Video Beat!, 63) P/D Robert Ilartford- Davis, S Donald and Derek Ford Several characteis (all with heavy accents) are followed as a group of merchant se:unen dock in London and head for pubs, clubs, women and trouble. Australian Lee Oohn Bonney) meets and tries to figure out Penny (Heather Sears), an eccentric "vegan" anarchist in bixk boots and pigtails. Widower Mr. Hudson (Bernard Lee) nearly falls for tlie elaborate blxkmail scam of the French Wanda (Erika Remberg). Hie pushy loud John (Inigo Jxkson) becomes a victim of Garden Of Eden club bar girl hookers who do the twist, push watered down oveipriced champagne and roll johns. Arthur (David Lodge) stays with nice hooker Julie (pin up model Margaret Nolan) in her flat and young Jamie (Colin Campbell), helps a drunk old lady (Patricia Hayes) home and finds a relationship witli Jean (Francesca Annis) . It's all pretty work- OPERAWJX EICHMW 14 ^ PSYCHOTRONIC ^ NYC THE TIME MACHINE (WB, 02) D Simon Wells, S John Logan, P Walter E Parkes, Da\id Valdes Alex (Guy Pearce), a Columbia University dissociate professor, invents a time nidichine in his huge turn of the century NYC lab. After going back four years and failing to save the life of Ills fiance (Sienna Guillory), he heads for the future. As a childhood fan of the original movie, 1 expected to hate tliis PG-13 Dreamworks feature (like I hated the PLANET OF THE APES remake) but with an $80 million budget and ILM FX it sure looks bet- ter. The future is altered when the moon breaks up in 2037 (instead of by nuclear war). Tlie cliff dweller Eloi are a multi racial tribe instead of blondes in togdis and they tr>' to escape from the scary face cannibal Morlocks instead of just calmly walking to their doom. Emma (African/Irish singer Samantha Mumea) looks good in a see through top. Tlie Morlocks (who run like dogs) cage her for breeding stock. Characters not found in the I960 version are an intelligent Morlock leader Oeremy Irons, looking and sounding like Boris Karloff!) and an eternal NYC Public Library holognun (Orlando Jones). Tlie Ciist includes Samantha’s brother Kalen Omero Mumba (as her long haired kid), Mark Addy (Alex’s friend), and Phyllida Lane (landlady). References are made to tlie Pal movie mid a stage production and Alan Young has a bit part. 1 was surprised to learn that die impressive old Manhattmi scenes were filmed in various upstate New York places including ones I’ve been to (Saratoga Springs, and Vassar U.). We saw the letter- boxed DV’D version. Wells, a great grandson of 11. G., had previously directed THE PRINCE OF EGYP1’ and three other animated features. Logan wrote GIADIATOR (00). HAMLET (Miramax, 00) P/D Michael Almereyda, P Andrew Fierberg, Amy Hobby Around Halloween in N^'C, Hamlet (Ethan Hawke) broods because his uncle Claudius (Kyle MacLachhui) has taken over his father’s multi media Denmark Corp. and married his mother (Diane Venora). The spirit of his fadier (Sam Shepard) confirms that he was murdered. Hamlet uses his computer to edit a short containing scenes from HAMLET movies that exposed the crime. His “To be or not to be’’ speech is first heard in a Blockbuster storr?. Ophelia Qulia Stiles), a photographer, is used to destroy Hamlet then kills herself in tlie Guggenheim museum. When Hmnlet duels with her brother Laertes (Liev Schrieber) the it^feree is tlie late Paul Bartel. 1 had a problem with tlie long stretches of old Shakespearean dialog. I enjoyed hearing tlie Eartha Kitt mes- sage in tlie cab and Primal Scream’s version of The 13th Floor Elevators’ “Slip Inside This House’’ in a club though. With Steve Zhiui and Dechen Thumian (Uma’s brotlier) as Rosencrantz luid Guildenstem, ruid clips from James Dean movies and THE CROW 11. One clip in Ihunlet’s short has a Something Weird logo on it! This wiis shot (on 16 mm) for $2 million (ver}' low tliese day's). LET THE DEVIL \XEAR BLACK (PV #33) was a direct to video Hamlet update. Almereyda made NADJA (94) and THE ETERNAL (PV #31). Stiles (who I’ll watch in anything) was idso in the Shakespeare updates lEN THINGS 1 HATE ABOUT YOU (99) iuid 0 (02). DECONSTRUCTING HARRY (Warner, 97) D/S star Woody Allen, Pjean Doumanian Allen has directed six (!) movies since tliis but it’s new to me, so... Harry Block (Allen), a pill popping, heavy’ drinking, divorced fomier Bellvue patient athe- ist autlior with writer’s block narrates flashbacks inside of flashbacks to his shrink. Fantasy', dreams and reality blur as we see him as a teenager (Tobey SPIDERMAN Maguire) imd a tliinly disguised book character (Richard Benjamin) carrying on an affair with his sister in law Qudy Davis) during a funerid. He loses his latest young girlfriend Fay (Elizabetli Shue) to his friend Larry (Billy Cry'stal). Harry takes an elevator down to Hell, complete with top- less women and he and a cheerful Larry'/Satan compare sins. He brings hooker Cookie (Hazelle Goodman) along when being honored by his college and his paranoid friend Richard (Bob Balaban) dies during the drive. His mother tliinks his father (who also goes to Hell) is a cannibal. Ttie editing is jumpy on purpose and characters from different realities meet. Tlie sound- track is 40s big b:uid jazz. Some have called this dark comedy a copy of WILD STRAWBERRIES (57), but I tliink Allen has been influenced by Bunuel as much as Bergman. It’s similar to some of his
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday after months of ill health. He was 79.
Diddley died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Fla., spokeswoman Susan Clary said. He had suffered a heart attack in August, three months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa. Doctors said the stroke affected his ability to speak, and he had returned to Florida to continue rehabilitation.
The legendary singer and performer, known for his homemade square guitar, dark glasses and black hat, was an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, had a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, and received a lifetime achievement award in 1999 at the Grammy Awards. In recent years he also played for the elder President Bush and President Clinton.
Diddley appreciated the honors he received, "but it didn't put no figures in my checkbook."
"If you ain't got no money, ain't nobody calls you honey," he quipped.
The name Bo Diddley came from other youngsters when he was growing up in Chicago, he said in a 1999 interview.
"I don't know where the kids got it, but the kids in grammar school gave me that name," he said, adding that he liked it so it became his stage name. Other times, he gave somewhat differing stories on where he got the name. Some experts believe a possible source for the name is a one-string instrument used in traditional blues music called a diddley bow.
His first single, "Bo Diddley," introduced record buyers in 1955 to his signature rhythm: bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp, often summarized as "shave and a haircut, two bits." The B side, "I'm a Man," with its slightly humorous take on macho pride, also became a rock standard.
The company that issued his early songs was Chess-Checkers records, the storied Chicago-based labels that also recorded Chuck Berry and other stars.
Howard Kramer, assistant curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, said in 2006 that Diddley's Chess recordings "stand among the best singular recordings of the 20th century."
Diddley's other major songs included, "Say Man," "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover," "Shave and a Haircut," "Uncle John," "Who Do You Love?" and "The Mule."
Diddley's influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic. Buddy Holly borrowed the bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp rhythm for his song "Not Fade Away."
The Rolling Stones' bluesy remake of that Holly song gave them their first chart single in the United States, in 1964. The following year, another British band, the Yardbirds, had a Top 20 hit in the U.S. with their version of "I'm a Man."
Diddley was also one of the pioneers of the electric guitar, adding reverb and tremelo effects. He even rigged some of his guitars himself.
"He treats it like it was a drum, very rhythmic," E. Michael Harrington, professor of music theory and composition at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., said in 2006.
Many other artists, including the Who, Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello copied aspects of Diddley's style.
Growing up, Diddley said he had no musical idols, and he wasn't entirely pleased that others drew on his innovations.
"I don't like to copy anybody. Everybody tries to do what I do, update it," he said. "I don't have any idols I copied after."
"They copied everything I did, upgraded it, messed it up. It seems to me that nobody can come up with their own thing, they have to put a little bit of Bo Diddley there," he said.
Despite his success, Diddley claimed he only received a small portion of the money he made during his career. Partly as a result, he continued to tour and record music until his stroke. Between tours, he made his home near Gainesville in north Florida.
"Seventy ain't nothing but a damn number," he told The Associated Press in 1999. "I'm writing and creating new stuff and putting together new different things. Trying to stay out there and roll with the punches. I ain't quit yet."
Diddley, like other artists of his generations, was paid a flat fee for his recordings and said he received no royalty payments on record sales. He also said he was never paid for many of his performances.
"I am owed. I've never got paid," he said. "A dude with a pencil is worse than a cat with a machine gun."
In the early 1950s, Diddley said, disc jockeys called his type of music, "Jungle Music." It was Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed who is credited with inventing the term "rock 'n' roll."
Diddley said Freed was talking about him, when he introduced him, saying, "Here is a man with an original sound, who is going to rock and roll you right out of your seat."
Diddley won attention from a new generation in 1989 when he took part in the "Bo Knows" ad campaign for Nike, built around football and baseball star Bo Jackson. Commenting on Jackson's guitar skills, Diddley turned to the camera and said, "He don't know Diddley."
"I never could figure out what it had to do with shoes, but it worked," Diddley said. "I got into a lot of new front rooms on the tube."
Born as Ellas Bates on Dec. 30, 1928, in McComb, Miss., Diddley was later adopted by his mother's cousin and took on the name Ellis McDaniel, which his wife always called him.
When he was 5, his family moved to Chicago, where he learned the violin at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. He learned guitar at 10 and entertained passers-by on street corners.
By his early teens, Diddley was playing Chicago's Maxwell Street.
"I came out of school and made something out of myself. I am known all over the globe, all over the world. There are guys who have done a lot of things that don't have the same impact that I had," he said.
The explanation of Bo Diddley that I've seen before is that it's an old or regional (Southeastern USA), hence ethnic, expression equivalent to the currently more widely familiar jack squat, which is a slightly obscure equivalent to jack shit, which I think is pan-English. There's also diddley shit.
Pretty much any English slang term involving jack or diddy or diddley is a sexual reference. Check Spears' dictionary of Slang and Euphemism. (It doesn't list bo diddley.) Literally they all seem etymologically to be references to semen. I won't go into the details here, but once you know what a 'jack' (as in a jack ass) is or a 'bo' (beau), and understand the verbal sense of 'to diddle', it's all pretty clear.
The figurative sense, and for most people the only clear meaning is 'something of no significance at all'. Etymology can be wonderfully revealing, but most people swim on the surface of language. Wisely, it appears. Of course, 'shit' and sometimes 'squat' are widely perceived as words to be avoided in polite company, so everyone knows that jack shit must not be polite either. Incidentally, I take it for granted that you're all polite company most of the time, but etymology can't afford to trip over euphemism.
The word play in alll of these forms is that they resemble names and so can be used as double entendres. Examples: "You ain't ~." ("Oh yes I am, ask %.") "You don't know ~." ("Nope. Never heard of him.") There's a computer game "You Don't Know Jack" that uses a variant of the double entendre in its name. Diddley bow sounds a bit like another double entendre to me. Additional examples: "I wouldn't give ~ for that." "I haven't done ~ all day." I gather that Ellas "Bo Diddley" McDaniel's stage name and nickname is usually considered to be a witticism in this vein. (He did start out on violin as a kid, though.) The name fits the beat, of course, and, however he came by it or whatever sense he made of it, it let him take a modest pose while singing about himself as a sort of sly antihero. Like the Jack in traditional Jack Stories. He ended up a musical giant, while ironically calling himself 'nothing much'.
A little note for any Exotic fans: I have the impression that one of the senses of zorongo in Spanish and Portuguese is more or less 'something insignificant'. However, that's from on line contexts turned up by googling. It's not in my dictionaries, which tend to take the official line on what is known vocabulary.
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I was lucky enough to see Bo Diddley in concert about 14 years ago, performing for maybe a thousand people of all ages at a free show on the plaza outside Boston’s City Hall. Diddley, who died this morning at 79, was well into his 60s then, but he could still rock as hard as anyone, generating wicked, unearthly sounds from that famous cigar-box-shaped guitar, with that signature chunky rhythm reverberating throughout the drab canyon of cobblestone and concrete that is Scollay Square. He ran through his familiar repertoire of hits, ripped through a dozen song styles, and staked a claim (in case anyone cared), that there was a lot more to him than just the famous “shave and a haircut, six bits” Bo Diddley beat. Though that turned out to be more than enough to build a 60-year career on.
There’s always been a lot of argument among the architects of rock ‘n’ roll as to who deserved the most credit for inventing the genre. Was it Little Richard? Chuck Berry? Elvis? Sam Phillips? Ike Turner? I’d say Diddley’s claim is as good as any of theirs. There was that indelible rhythm, of course, copied by countless others; the fearsome, brutal guitar work which (along with Berry’s fluid, melodic playing) helped make the electric guitar rock’s central instrument, and there was that Delta bluesman’s mojo which he (more than any of the other early rockers) possessed and explored, making him the most direct link between the elemental mysticism of country and electric blues on one side and the protean psychedelia of ’60s rock on the other side. Diddley even had an early claim as a hip-hop progenitor, citing his 1959 “Say Man” (on which he and maracas player Jerome Green play the dozens, trading spoken insults) as the first rap song. In any case, his influence on musicians who followed — from Buddy Holly to the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Who, Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, and countless others — is too vast to calculate.
Like many of rock’s founders, Diddley had few hits after his British acolytes supplanted him on the charts, but he continued to get by on sheer presence, even when he wasn’t playing a note (as in his memorable 1980s cameos in those “Bo Knows” Nike ads, or in Trading Places). He was an innovator and eccentric, but first and last, he was a showman, as he proved to me that night in Boston. Until a stroke robbed him of his voice last year, he was still singing and playing live shows. A gunslinger (as Diddley famously called himself in an album title) tends to have a short lifespan, but Diddley managed to keep shooting longer than most, and his aim was always direct, piercing, and true.
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I admit I’m a latecomer to the Bo Diddley admiration society. Shame on me and on anybody else who has not given Diddley the proper credit for his musical legacy. \nI’ve been familiar with his name (on…
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I admit I’m a latecomer to the Bo Diddley admiration society. Shame on me and on anybody else who has not given Diddley the proper credit for his musical legacy.
I’ve been familiar with his name (one of my favorite names of all time) and some of his music, but only in the past five years or so have I gained an appreciation for his contributions to the creation of rock and roll.
Diddley, who was born Ellas Bates and became Ellas McDaniel when he took the last name of a cousin who raised him, died from heart failure June 2 at the age of 79. This was a man who never really was given the acclaim owed him despite his contributions that were an inspiration to Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, and, yes, even Elvis Presley.
While Elvis was still driving a truck in Tupelo, Miss., and starting his music career in 1955, Bo Diddley was rocking performance stages throughout the South with his trademark square, homemade guitar, and thumping, driving, high-energy riffs. He put the rock in rock and roll.
The so-called “bad boys” of the world today have nothing on Bo Diddley. Anybody familiar with “Who Do You Love” knows it. Diddley defined it in the first lines of this classic.
“I walk 47 miles of barb wire/Use a cobra snake for necktie/Got a brand new house on the roadside, made from rattlesnake hide.”
No foul-mouthed, super macho rap artist or action movie character can touch those lines for being bad. Diddley defined it, but didn’t let it define him.
Bo Diddley influenced a great many rock-and-roll artists. Elvis, the Rolling Stones and countless others have used his trademark “shave-and-a-haircut-two-bits” riff to build a song around.
Unfortunately, it took his death and a four-hour June 8 funeral/celebration for people to look at his work and see what a contribution Diddley made. The man spent his life playing the music for which he was far too often overlooked.
According to the Associated Press report, stories of another side of Diddley were told repeatedly. A man who loved God and his family, who would always stop to talk in the grocery store and was always smiling.
Friends recounted his generosity, manifested in concerts for the homeless and work with youth groups and other charities, and the way he loved to talk to just about anybody he met. His brother, the Rev. Kenneth Haynes of Biloxi, Miss., said Diddley always asked how he could help and what he could give.
“There was one thing he wouldn’t give me. That’s his hat,” Haynes said, referring to the black hat the musician was recognized for as well.
Diddley also was known for appearances in other people’s work, including movies and music videos. He was the pawn shop owner who bought Dan Ackroyd’s watch in “Trading Places”; he was the pool player in George Thorogood’s music video of “Bad to the Bone”; and Bob Seger immortalized him with his version of “Bo Diddley” on “Live Bullet.”
As for his stage name, according to his Web site, Bo Diddley may be a slang phrase meaning “nothing at all,” as in “he ain’t bo diddley.” It surely doesn’t describe his music.
Music fans — and especially rock-and-roll fans — should carve out a spot during their day sometime soon, put on a Bo Diddley recording, crank the volume, sit back and enjoy. Better yet, get up and move. I dare you to sit still.
Who Do You Love? Bo Diddley, that’s who.
David Frownfelder is a staff writer for The Daily Telegram. He can be contacted at 265-5111, ext. 258, or via e-mail at frownfelder@lenconnect.com.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - A body was found at Bo Diddley Plaza.
Gainesville Police Department officers discovered the body of a homeless person in the bushes.
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Rock pioneer Bo Diddley dies at age 79 By RON WORD, Associated Press Writer 17 minutes ago JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday af...
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday after months of ill health. He was 79.
Diddley died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Fla., spokeswoman Susan Clary said. He had suffered a heart attack in August, three months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa. Doctors said the stroke affected his ability to speak, and he had returned to Florida to continue rehabilitation.
The legendary singer and performer, known for his homemade square guitar, dark glasses and black hat, was an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, had a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, and received a lifetime achievement award in 1999 at the Grammy Awards. In recent years he also played for the elder President Bush and President Clinton.
Diddley appreciated the honors he received, "but it didn't put no figures in my checkbook."
"If you ain't got no money, ain't nobody calls you honey," he quipped.
The name Bo Diddley came from other youngsters when he was growing up in Chicago, he said in a 1999 interview.
"I don't know where the kids got it, but the kids in grammar school gave me that name," he said, adding that he liked it so it became his stage name. Other times, he gave somewhat differing stories on where he got the name. Some experts believe a possible source for the name is a one-string instrument used in traditional blues music called a diddley bow.
His first single, "Bo Diddley," introduced record buyers in 1955 to his signature rhythm: bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp, often summarized as "shave and a haircut, two bits." The B side, "I'm a Man," with its slightly humorous take on macho pride, also became a rock standard.
The company that issued his early songs was Chess-Checkers records, the storied Chicago-based labels that also recorded Chuck Berry and other stars.
Howard Kramer, assistant curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, said in 2006 that Diddley's Chess recordings "stand among the best singular recordings of the 20th century."
Diddley's other major songs included, "Say Man," "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover," "Shave and a Haircut," "Uncle John," "Who Do You Love?" and "The Mule."
Diddley's influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic. Buddy Holly borrowed the bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp rhythm for his song "Not Fade Away."
The Rolling Stones' bluesy remake of that Holly song gave them their first chart single in the United States, in 1964. The following year, another British band, the Yardbirds, had a Top 20 hit in the U.S. with their version of "I'm a Man."
Diddley was also one of the pioneers of the electric guitar, adding reverb and tremelo effects. He even rigged some of his guitars himself.
"He treats it like it was a drum, very rhythmic," E. Michael Harrington, professor of music theory and composition at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., said in 2006.
Many other artists, including the Who, Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello copied aspects of Diddley's style.
Growing up, Diddley said he had no musical idols, and he wasn't entirely pleased that others drew on his innovations.
"I don't like to copy anybody. Everybody tries to do what I do, update it," he said. "I don't have any idols I copied after."
"They copied everything I did, upgraded it, messed it up. It seems to me that nobody can come up with their own thing, they have to put a little bit of Bo Diddley there," he said.
Despite his success, Diddley claimed he only received a small portion of the money he made during his career. Partly as a result, he continued to tour and record music until his stroke. Between tours, he made his home near Gainesville in north Florida.
"Seventy ain't nothing but a damn number," he told The Associated Press in 1999. "I'm writing and creating new stuff and putting together new different things. Trying to stay out there and roll with the punches. I ain't quit yet."
Diddley, like other artists of his generations, was paid a flat fee for his recordings and said he received no royalty payments on record sales. He also said he was never paid for many of his performances.
"I am owed. I've never got paid," he said. "A dude with a pencil is worse than a cat with a machine gun."
In the early 1950s, Diddley said, disc jockeys called his type of music, "Jungle Music." It was Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed who is credited with inventing the term "rock 'n' roll."
Diddley said Freed was talking about him, when he introduced him, saying, "Here is a man with an original sound, who is going to rock and roll you right out of your seat."
Diddley won attention from a new generation in 1989 when he took part in the "Bo Knows" ad campaign for Nike, built around football and baseball star Bo Jackson. Commenting on Jackson's guitar skills, Diddley turned to the camera and said, "He don't know Diddley."
"I never could figure out what it had to do with shoes, but it worked," Diddley said. "I got into a lot of new front rooms on the tube."
Born as Ellas Bates on Dec. 30, 1928, in McComb, Miss., Diddley was later adopted by his mother's cousin and took on the name Ellis McDaniel, which his wife always called him.
When he was 5, his family moved to Chicago, where he learned the violin at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. He learned guitar at 10 and entertained passers-by on street corners.
By his early teens, Diddley was playing Chicago's Maxwell Street.
"I came out of school and made something out of myself. I am known all over the globe, all over the world. There are guys who have done a lot of things that don't have the same impact that I had," he said.
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Bo Diddley, who ranked with the likes of Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Big Joe Turner and Fats Domino as rock and roll music's African- American pioneers, died Monday (June 2, 2008) at his Archer, Florida, home. He was 79. Since last year, he'd been suffering from a number of health ailments, including a stroke, a heart attack, hypertension and diabetes. According to Chris Lee of the Los Angeles Times, Bo Diddley was born Otha Ellas Bates on December 30, 1928 in McComb, Mississippi. His mother was only 16 years old the day he was born and wasn't able to support him. His mom's first cousin, Gussie McDaniel, adopted him as a baby and legally renamed him Ellas McDaniel. The McDaniel family would eventually move to Chicago's south side. That's where Bo would learn how to play guitar while in his early teens. Bo Diddley exploded on the music scene with his signature song, "Bo Diddley." The guitar licks and the beat were like nothing heard before by people in the mid-1950's. On the November 20, 1955 edition of the Ed Sullivan "Toast Of The Town" TV show, Bo was asked to perform a big pop hit of the time, "Sixteen Tons" (which would be a #1 hit for Tennessee Ernie Ford). Bo opted instead to do his own "Bo Diddley" and would be banned from appearing on future Sullivan TV shows. It didn't matter. The two-sided single release, "Bo Diddley/I'm A Man." would reach the top of the R&B charts. That song along would help Bo Diddley enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and also earned a major Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. A number of acts have recorded the song "Bo Diddley" over the years, including Bill Black's Combo, Bobby Vee with the Crickets, Buddy Holly, the Royal Guardsmen, Bob Seger and Warren Zevon. In one interview while still alive, Bo Diddley steadfastly stated that Elvis Presley "ripped me off," insinuating that Elvis copied Bo's on-stage moves in his rise to becoming the King of Rock And Roll. In Chris Lee's L.A. Times story, Eric Burdon of the Animals labeled Bo Diddley as "One of the guys who invented rock and roll. He took two cultures that existed in several forms--country western and the kind of blues that used to be known as 'race music'--and he put them all together. His beat was a jungle beat. That's what he called it." Meanwhile, in the same article, another British Invasion rocker, Mick Jagger, called Bo Diddley, "A wonderful original musician who was an enormous force in music and a big influence on the Rolling Stones. He was very generous to us in our early years and we learned a lot from him. We will never see his likes again." Although "Bo Diddley/I'm A Man" failed to cross to make the Cash Box pop chart, five other releases did. His biggest pop hit was the "Say Man," a novelty recording that reached #21 in 1959. You could call that recording early rap as Bo and maracus player Jerome Green "rap" with each other throughout the recording. Bo had two more pop chart hits in 1959 with "Crackin' Up" (#71) and "Say Man, Back Again" (#87). He barely made the Cash Box chart in 1960 with the #100- peaking "Road Runner." Finally, he reached #68 in 1962 with "You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover."
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Bo Diddley's passing on June 2, 2008 ended one of the most influential careers in pop music history, a 54-year run during which the man born Ellas Otha Bates earned the rightful title of the Originator as he helped merge blues into rock’n’roll.
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Mention Bo Diddley’s name and most everyone thinks one thing—the beat.
Bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp…
Applied to such songs as “Bo Diddley,” “Hey Bo Diddley” and “Who Do You Love,” it’s perhaps the most influential musical motif since the Devil purportedly handed Robert Johnson the I-IV-V chord progression at the crossroads. It gave Diddley his rightful moniker as the Originator and his equally rightful spots in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, as well as other lifetime achievement honors.
It’s been a year since Bo Diddley died June 2, 2008, of heart failure at age 79 in his home in Archer, Fla., following a prolonged illness. It ended one of the most influential careers in pop music history, a 54-year run during which the man born Ellas Otha Bates helped merge blues into rock’n’roll.
Australia’s Byron Bay Bluefest in 2007 marked the final performance of Diddley. The DVD release of this full performance is expected later this year.
During his career, Diddley produced a rich body of spirited, aggressive work that ran far deeper than the well-known hits. He also acquitted himself as a progressive bandleader as well as an inventor, not only of the square-shaped Gretsch (three models of which are now manufactured by Fender) but also of a variety of effects that subsequently became commonplace pedals and rack mounts.
The value of Bo Diddley’s seminal beat to the history of rock’n’roll is undeniable. “If Bo Diddley had received a dollar every time some act borrowed his distinctive beat—that bouncing ‘chank, a-chank-chank, chank, chank,’ with maracas shaking right alongside—he’d have been the richest man in rock,” wrote Tom Moon in his 2008 compendium “1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die” (Workman Publishing). Moon continues: “The Rolling Stones would have had to pay up several times. Bruce Springsteen would owe for ‘She’s the One.’ Buddy Holly for ‘Not Fade Away.’ The Strangeloves’ 1965 [song] ‘I Want Candy’ was a direct copy, as was the Who’s ‘Magic Bus.’ ”
One of the lesser-known aspects of Bo Diddley’s career was his support for female musicians, even in the early years of rock’n’roll, says Margot Lewis, who along with Faith Fusillo guided Diddley’s career through their company, Talent Source. Lewis suggests the person who could attest to that best was Diddley’s longtime bassist/bandleader, Debby Hastings.
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“Bo was brought up by women all around him, and he was comfortable with women,” Hastings recalls. “He was also the kind of guy who liked to give people a chance. “So even back in the ’50s, when he came upon a female musician who was good he had her in the band.”
In the wake of his passing, Lewis and Fusillo now want to ensure Diddley’s legacy transitions into an active and potent future. “We want to perpetuate his legacy and make sure he gets his due in the world of popular music and popular culture,” Fusillo says. They are working with strategic partners—primarily the New York-based publishing and marketing firm Primary Wave Music and also Universal Music Enterprises (UMe), which owns much of Diddley’s recorded catalog—on an array of projects, including exposure for some 200 reels of unreleased and largely unheard Diddley recordings.
Available now is a Diddley Collector’s Pack on iTunes featuring the artist’s hits and an exclusive unreleased track—a frenetic jam recorded in the ’70s and featuring “Bo going crazy on the guitar for about 10 minutes. It’s unbelievable, vintage Bo. When we first heard it, we almost started to cry,” Fusillo says. UMe, meanwhile, is preparing for the June 9 release of “Ride On/The Chess Masters 1960-1961,” the Hip-O Select label’s third volume of Diddley’s Chess Records recordings. The limited-edition set (5,000 copies) includes 16 unreleased tracks and rarities, including recordings Diddley made at his home studio, then in Washington, D.C., and with two more years of his Chess tenure left.
Looking further down the line, Primary Wave, TCI and the Diddley estate hope to stage a tribute concert, most likely for the second anniversary of his death in 2010, which will probably yield a companion album and DVD.
“We just want to spread the word and make people aware of who Bo Diddley was in the history of music,” says Lewis. “He was such an important figure and made so many important contributions that we still hear today. We have to make sure that people know who Bob Diddley was…forever.”
One year after Diddley’s death, he’s remembered by other musicians who knew him, admired his accomplishments or both.
Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top): “He hit the scene with that infectious beat he brought to the forefront, but it goes back to when he landed in Chicago and was part of the Maxwell Street scene playing at the flea market on the corner. It was Bo Diddley, Clifton James on drums and Jerome Green on maracas—and that was it. Who ever heard of a guitar player and two percussionists? And you listen to those early records now, with the knowledge there was no bass guitar, no rhythm guitar, no piano, no nothing except those three guys, but you turn it up and you say, ‘Well, I don’t miss anything. It sounds like a full orchestra to me.’ ”
George Thorogood: “No artist has fascinated me more than Bo Diddley. When I got into his stuff, everybody in 1967 was listening to two monumental rock history albums—one was [Jimi Hendrix’s] ‘Are You Experienced?,’ the other was [the Beatles’] ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.’ But I had this album, Bo Diddley’s ‘16 All-Time Greatest Hits.’ I’d go to Wildwood, N.J., and buy maracas by the pound because I was fascinated with this sound and this thing that was Bo Diddley. This was before I got into John Lee Hooker, and I was amazed by the sound of this guy who sat on one chord, maybe two. But, like James Brown, he could do one chord for 15 minutes and it never gets boring. That’s where I learned my whole routine from. I mean, what is ‘Bad to the Bone’ except, really, Bo Diddley?”
Todd Snider: There are four important things about Bo Diddley that I hope everybody knows. The first, of course, is that he invented a beat. Second, and less known, his song ‘Bo Diddley’ was a first in that his name was the title and chorus which, in my opinion, makes him one of the inventors of rap. Third, three months before Elvis Presley played [on] Ed Sullivan, Bo Diddley did. He was told to play a different song than ‘Bo Diddley’ and said he would, but when the cameras rolled he played ‘Bo Diddley,’ thus inventing rock’n’roll’s attitude. Fourth and most important, he was so sexy that he told Arlene he had a chimney made out of human skulls—and she still went for a walk with him.”
Billy Corgan (the Smashing Pumpkins): “His influence is tough to quantify. Most people point to the ‘Bo Diddley beat’ as if that alone was enough, but that in many ways severely underestimates what he brought to the table. What he really did was bring a rock’n’roll attitude to rhythm and blues, and that influence is everywhere. Imagine the Stones without the influence of Diddley’s swagger, and you can see his true impact. His prime, like Chuck Berry’s, was at a time when African-American artists playing rock’n’roll was more comfortably accepted by a white public if these men were playing nonthreatening observers whose commentary came through in riddles and encoded language. The hipsters picked up on the fact that they were being spoken to. The sad part of that now is it can lock these men’s brilliance in an archetype no longer appreciated fully when set against the brash, shameless confessional monologues of rap. I never thought much of Bo Diddley till I got his boxed set in the early ’90s, and I found certain songs struck me like Escher drawings in that the more I heard them the more I saw. His is the kind of music that in its primitive urgency never gets old and in its lyrical narrative will never become outdated.”
Joe Satriani: “Bo Diddley gave us so much. He was an essential part of rock’n’roll. It couldn’t have happened without him.”
Bonnie Raitt: “Bo’s music will continue to influence people as long as someone can beat out that signature rhythm on whatever instrument they can. He was one of the greats and a wonderful man as well.”
Phil Lesh (Grateful Dead, Phil & Friends): “That groove is everywhere. It’s so fundamental. It permeates. You can hear it in all different kinds of music, and it moves so nicely. Personally I kind of like to do things inside it; I like to take the groove and move it over an eighth note and set up that tension between the thing that stars on the downbeat and the same pattern that starts an eighth note later, and then you can build that up and it’s very satisfying. It’s very fruitful, shall we say.”
Bob Weir (Grateful Dead, Ratdog): “He was famous for that one rhythm, but he was actually a pretty eminent blues artist. He had an amazing sense of dynamics. When musicians get together and they’re working up stuff, it’s quite common to hear somebody say, ‘I want you to play this Bo Diddley,’ and everybody knows what that means. It rumbles and rolls, and the notes don’t come real fast so you get a little time to be real choosy about what notes you play and it allows you to dance with your instruments. It’s a fun rhythm to play, so we tend to stretch it out and live in it for a while.”
Nils Lofgren (E Street Band): “That groove, however Bo fell into it, I’m sure he realized he had a gem . . . and he called it his own and sold it to us, and it was a beautiful thing and still is. It’s a signature beat that you can play against a four-count bar, but you can’t lose it. If someone’s playing that beat you can improv around it with funk, rock, melodic playing, nasty stuff, pretty stuff—but not at the expense of the beat. The drummer doesn’t have to play it; the guitar player can play it against regular backbeat drums, and it’s going to color the entire picture.”
John Doe (X, the Knitters): “Once you get past the brilliance of Chuck Berry, the next step is the simplicity and the amazing poetry of Bo Diddley. I think everybody wants to be known for something, and that [beat] is a pretty great thing to be known for. What it might overshadow is his sense of experimentation. He came to Los Angeles once in about ’83 and played this place called the Music Machine, and everybody was just out of their minds because Bo Diddley hadn’t played in L.A. since who knows when. They had put together a group of guys that played the blues OK but really didn’t have a clue to what to do with Bo Diddley and, with all apologies, it was terrible. That same night Dave [Alvin] and a few of us went to the owner of the club and said, ‘Get him back six months from now and we’ll put together a band and it will be great,’ and we did. And it was.”
Ted Nugent: “Bo Diddley’s incredible impact on music and America is immeasurable. As my American blues brother Billy Gibbons exclaimed, accurately, that a newborn infant exposed to the Bo Diddley rhythm would begin to gyrate accordingly. We often hear the term ‘primal’ associated with good rock’n’roll music, but clearly Bo handed off the purity of primal direct from our aboriginal campfires straight to the masses via his electric guitar grind. It is pure. Proving that God dearly loves me, I was privileged and deeply honored to jam with Bo and actually play bass guitar in a few of his concerts back in 1970. It changed my life. I wallowed in the belly of the beast and was instantaneously moved to better appreciate and more effectively implement the soulfulness of his music into my own. All dedicated musicians, knowingly or otherwise, directly or indirectly, cannot make stirring music without the immense touch of Bo Diddley guiding them one way or another. He defined the sensuality of rhythm. God bless Bo Diddley.”
Steve Howe (Yes, Asia): “It’s a little bit difficult because he’s not a virtuoso guitarist. But he moved some air, didn’t he, in the same generation as Chuck Berry and Bill Haley. He did have his own sort of sound—it was very simplistic, but very influential.”
Jack Ingram: “One way I look at it is when I listen to Tom Petty, we don’t have “American Girl” without Bo Diddley—and that could be said about thousands of other classic American rock’n’roll tunes. Without Bo Diddley, we’d be missing an entire segment of the soundtrack of our lives. My kid brought me a guitar he made in class the other day; he’s 3 years old, and in preschool they were making guitars that look like Bo Diddley’s. So his influence is bigger than I can fathom. It’s bigger than the money he made or the records he sold.”
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“Check Mate” & “Crown Me”
(This Post is based on the fine book “Spinning Blues Into Gold – The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records” by Nadine Cohodas (published 2000).
The Macomba Lounge was situated in Chicago’s ‘South Side’ where an expanding black population bordered with a heavily Jewish population – many of which migrated from Europe’s eastern bloc of nations during turbulent times.
The black migration took a much different form – coming in waves during the 20th century with huge segments of the southern U.S. black population seeking a better way of life in North American industrial cities, Chicago prime among them.
Chicago’s South Side would constantly evolve with the two populations vying for neighborhoods and for a time – in the 1930’s – the two would plant themselves in close but separated proximity to one another. Jewish businesses flourished serving both populations with liquor stores and night clubs lining the streets. It was here that a different brand of music – if not entirely invented – took a giant stride forward, toward laying down the essential ingredients for what would become rock and roll.
And as was so often the case in other musical outposts across the nation, the pioneers would prove to be most unlikely. You had Sam Phillips down in Memphis with his particular vision, Jim Stewart and his sister Estelle Axton also in Memphis, Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson out on the east coast, and a whole stable on composers hanging out in New York City, descendants of the men and women of “Tin Pan Alley” who would come to be known collectively as the “Brill Building” song writers.
So many conclaves there were across the nation – Bob Keene and Al Kavelin out in Hollywood, the Bihari family in Los Angeles, Norman Petty and his wife Vi in remote and isolated Clovis, New Mexico. So diverse, often so unlikely, and yet it would all come together in an explosion, changing music forever.
The Fabulous Czyż’s
And so it was in the Windy City that a young man, Lejzor Shmuel Czyż and his younger brother Fiszel, would take ownership of the Macomba Lounge. By that time they had changed their names to Leonard and Philip, and they both assumed duties at the Macomba which involved very long hours and the wearing of many hats.
It didn’t take long for Leonard to appreciate the importance of music to the local community and to him, that could only spell more earning potential. Before long Leonard was encouraging blues and jazz musicians to stop by the lounge for impromptu and scheduled sessions. Judging from the reaction he witnessed from his patrons, it was only natural for Leonard to become curious about the burgeoning record business that seemed to be popping up everywhere.
One thing led to another and in short order, Leonard found his way into ownership of a local record label called “Aristocrat”. Through his associations at the Macomba Leonard was meeting many local talented musicians. The recording business was demanding so much of Leonard’s time that brother Philip held down the operation of the Macomba.
Although the artists who entered the Macomba often included those of national prominence, the big names rarely actually performed there as has been alluded to in some histories, but the talent was impressive. Andrew Tibbs, pianist Bill Search, sax players Claude McLin and Cozy Eggleston and Tom Archia just to name a few.
Leonard was tenacious in his pursuit of a record label – especially when he firmly decided that he wanted to record a tune he heard from his acquaintence Tom Archia. Before long he entered into partnership with Aristocrat part-owners Evelyn and Charles Aron, and before long Leonard realized his goal of releasing Tom Archia’s “Bilbo Is Dead” backed with “Union Man Blues” by Andrew Tibbs. Leonard claimed partial composing credits for this initial release even though he had no composing involvement.
The Arons went through a divorce in the Spring of 1948 and shortly thereafter Leonard took sole ownership. Soon his brother Philip was by his side as a full-time partner. And then the big moment – Leonard meets a young musician, McKinely Moganfield out of Mississippi, a bond and a solid friendship is born – and with Morganfield in place with Leonard and Philip, the two brothers and “Muddy Waters” would charge ahead bringing the world some of the most enduring rhythm and blues and rock and roll that we shall forever be graced with!
The Chess brothers established their “Checker” label with first releases appearing in the spring of 1952. Establishing a subsidiary label, according to Cohodas, was a practice by label owners to – in part – obtain additional air play for their releases, the thinking being that radio stations would limit how many records from one label would receive attention.
Bring On Rock and Roll
Some very interesting factoids are sprinkled throughout “Spinning Blues”. The initial Aristocrat and then Chess stable of musicians were divided about equally between jazz musicians and blues musicians. And according to jazz musician Eddie Johnson, the two groups had little to do with each other, “We really ignored that type of music (blues). It said nothing to us.” And another jazz master – Bobby Blevins told Cohodas, “We didn’t think it was going anywhere.”
But in time, rhythm and blues, and then rock would move to the forefront. This was spurred on by Muddy Waters for one, who was employing a backbeat in his arrangements and he featured a driving drum with two electric guitars. Leonard Chess resisted this initially but finally came around.
Leonard Chess was a relentless and hard working businessman and his never ending pursuit for talent. His travels often took him into the South, where in Memphis, he would befriend Sam Phillips at Sun Records. Phillips had been working with the California-based Bihari family, working on a “handshake” type agreement, making Sun recording talent available on a choose as you will basis.
But after Leonard made Sam’s acquaintance the Bihari family suddenly had competition. This competition took it’s most impact-full form when Sam permitted Leonard to take possession of a little ditty called “Rocket-88” recorded in Memphis by Phillips with Jackie Brenston on the vocals backed by piano player Ike Turner. Leonard released the record first on a 78 rpm – Chess 1458 and would “rocket” to the top of the R&B charts reaching number 1 and staying there for five weeks.
Was “Rocket 88” the first rock and roll record? Cohodas offers that folks out on the West Coast would say there were plenty of pre-Rocket recordings presenting the rock beat – and so that conversation will never really be settled.
Beyond the Blues – Doo Wop & Rock Come-A-Knockin’
Glowing with Harvey and Lester
For the Chess brothers, the blues releases continued to fare well in northern city markets – as well as in the South – placing consistently on the regional charts as well as on Cashbox and Billboard r&b (or “race”) charts and often entering juke box play charts and ‘most played by disc jockey’ charts.
But something was missing according to Cohodas. The large East Coast market was not enchanted with the blues. Among the black buying public vocal groups were the rage. And there was another development up and down the East Coast: White teenagers were tuning into the black music. And they wanted music that jumped. Cohodas sites their taste as being rooted in “cat music”.
The first big break for Chess came when Cleveland DJ Alan Freed sent over a group who was floundering with Chance Records. The group, which included Harvey Fuqua and Bobby Lester – two childhood friends – was ready for a change. Freed made the arrangements and soon the group was under the Chess umbrella. Their very first effort for Chess, “Sincerely” was a big success, racing up the charts. Chess had found it’s first doo wop group of substance.
Interestingly, it was Phil Chess who, while on a business trip, met the manager for the McGuire Sisters. A meeting was arranged in a hotel where the sisters were staying. They, along with their manager and Phil listened to the Moonglow track. The girls loved it, recorded it, and released it. The song charged to the top of the Billboard pop charts, hitting number one and staying there for 10 weeks! (The Moonglows reached number 20 on the same chart)
Some would later cite this as a white act “covering” a black act – but in reality, the move benefited both parties – with Harvey Fuqua receiving composer’s royalties. If there was any injustice it might have been with Alan Freed receiving co-composer royalties for the song in which he had no involvement. This practice was common with independent labels (and probably majors) placing names of movers and shakers (read “DJ’s”) as a way of returning favors. This would of course explode into the “payola” scandal a few years later.
Diddley Dee Dum
The next big break for Chess occurred literally when a musician out of Mississippi came to Chicago with his fledgling group knocking on doors being first rejected by United Records and then quickly by Vee Jay Records. Chess was located adjacent to Vee Jay and so Ellas McDonald walked on over and walked in meeting Phil Chess.
They played their demo and were invited to return with their instruments the next day. They had two songs to record, the first being “Uncle John” and the second “I’m a Man”. The Cohodas narrative of this session is very intriguing and fun and worth the purchase of the book by itself. But moving ahead, “Uncle John” was changed to “Bo Diddley” by Leonard Chess, Ellas also became “Bo Diddley”. The final session included Diddley, his own group; James Bradford (bass), Billy Boy Arnold (harmonica), Clifton James (drums), Jerome Green (maracas) and supplemented by piano player Otis Spann and Willie Dixon on bass on the second track.
Rock and Roll had pretty much arrived at Chess with the recording of these two tracks. The songs didn’t crash the Hot 100 but took the R&B charts by storm with “Bo Diddley” b/w “I’m a Man” hitting the number 1 spot in the the Spring of 1955, released on the Checker label. Diddley was never a mainstay of the Hot 100 but fared very well with the R&B market and in time, became a rock and roll legend.
The next Bo Diddley recording, “Diddley Daddy” reached number 11 R&B charts and featured a vocal backing by the newly arrived Moonglows”.
Ida May and Ida Will
The third, and undoubtedly the most significant and historic break for Chess Records came in the Spring of 1955. A not-so-young Charles Edward Anderson Berry (already in his late 20’s) was holding up in his car outside the Chess offices – He had been directed there after traveling from St. Louis to Chicago seeking a way to be recorded. The night before Chuck Berry had made contact with Muddy Waters at a local night club where Waters was performing. He directed Berry to go meet the Chess brothers.
Leonard was receptive to the meeting and said he needed to hear something. Chuck headed back to St. Louis to round up his group, as well as quickly composing four songs to place on tape. Berry, accompanied by his band (Johnnie Johnson – piano, and Ebby Hardy – drums) returned to Chess for their May recording session. They were joined by Chess regular Willie Dixon on stand-up bass.
The first track – now called “Maybellene” (renamed by Leonard) required three dozen takes. Three more tracks were completed and the world would now soon hear the great Chuck Berry for the first time – one of the most important dates in the history of rock and roll!
Three of the four tracks recorded that day were included on Berry’s first two Chess releases. The fourth, “You Can’t Catch Me” would not be released until the Winter of 1956.
Chess Side Notes
Speaking of whites covering black’s recordings, Nadine Cohodas points out that there was a very big movement toward the end of the 1940’s into the 1950’s where black musicians were scrambling to dig up old Tin Pan Alley (white) hit tunes and redo them in a different vein appealing to their followings. Don’t hear too much about that I suppose.
On a side note, Leonard and Phil selected the catalog number “1425” for their first single release drawing from the street address of their first home in Chicago, 1425 South Karlov Avenue.
(The First Chess Release – Numbered After the Chess Household)
Number 1’s?
With all that was pressed and released on vinyl at Chess/Checker – 1972’s “My Ding-A-Ling” by Chuck Berry would become the label’s first number one record! And I don’t know if they had another one.
And the Macomba?
The Chess brothers maintained ownership from 1946 until 1950, when sadly, a national treasure burned to the ground. The Brothers Chess elected not to rebuild but instead used the insurance proceeds to invest further into their record company.
Chess Scrapbook
Leonard Chess was born in March of 1917 in Motal, Poland (which became Belarus) and passed away on October 16th, 1969 at age 52. He died shortly after selling his label to General Recorded Tape company. His brother Phil Chess was born in March of 1921 also in Motal and died on October 18th, 2016 at age 95. The Chess brothers sold their recording enterprise in October of 1969.
Chess/Checker of Significance
Here are many of the mainstay Chess Record family musicians depicting their earliest release – followed by several of the artists they acquired from other labels, and releasing their songs on the Chess labels.
Muddy Waters – June, 1950
Doc Pomus – November, 1950
John Lee Hooker – May, 1951
Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats – April, 1951
Ike Turner and His Kings of Rhythm – April, 1951
Same group as “The Delta Cats”
Rufus Thomas Jr. – July, 1951
The Howlin’ Wolf – August, 1951
Roscoe Gordon – November, 1951
Memphis Slim & The House Rockers – January, 1952
Little Walter and His Nightcaps – August, 1952
Joe Williams – September, 1952
Willie Mabon – November, 1952
The Cleffs – October, 1952
Washboard Sam – July, 1953
Elmore James – July, 1953
The Moonglows – October, 1954
Jimmy Witherspoon – February, 1955
Bo Diddley – April, 1955
Chuck Berry – July, 1955
Bobby Charles – October, 1955
(Yes, “Later Alligator” was the B side)
Dale Hawkins – July, 1956
“Susie Q” would be Dale’s second release on the Checker label.
Clarence “Frog Man” Henry – October, 1956
Clarence was one of the first artists to be released on the Chess subsidiary label “Argo” which would primarily be reserved for jazz releases with a few exceptions.
The Ravens – December, 1956
Johnnie & Joe – April, 1957
Original February, 1957
Lee Andrew and the Hearts – July, 1957
Original Release 1957
The Tune Weavers – August, 1957
Original release on Casa Grande – June, 1957
Jimmy McCracklin – January, 1958
The Monotones – February, 1958
Original release on Mascot Records – December, 1957
Larry Williams – August, 1959
Etta James – July, 1960
The Maratons – April, 1961
A story behind this one – The Marathons were the Olympics – named masked in order to release song on Arvee where it became a hit but first recorded by Chess.
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The influencial founding member of the Rock and Roll genre he helped coin passed away today in his Floriday home, Mr. Bo Diddley.
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Bo Diddley, the influential singer/songwriter often refereed to as “one of the founding fathers of Rock and Roll”, died today at age 79 in his Archer, Florida home.
According to a spokesperson, the cause was heart failure. The musician had struggled with heart-related problems over the last year, suffering a stroke while on tour in May 2007 and a heart attack in August. Affecting his ability to speak, the stroke prompted Diddley to return to his Florida home for recovery. The spokesperson said that he was surrounded by family and friends when he died. Public and private services are scheduled for this weekend.
Diddley’s music influenced musicians such as Buddy Holly, who borrowed the bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp rhythm for his song “Not Fade Away.” The Rolling Stones later created a bluesy rendition of the same song as their first chart single in the United States in 1964. Many other artists copied elements of Diddley’s style, such as The Who, Elvis Costello and Bruce Springsteen.
Born in McComb, Mississippi with the name Ellas Bates, the rock pioneer adopted the moniker ‘Bo Diddley’ from some youngsters during the time he spent growing up in Chicago, according to a 1999 interview.
Known for his homemade square guitar, dark glasses and black hat, Diddley was an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, had a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, and received a lifetime achievement award in 1999 at the Grammy Awards. In recent years he also played for the elder President Bush and President Clinton. (Associated Press)
Diddley appreciated the honors he received, “but it didn’t put no figures in my checkbook.”
Leaving fans with much more than his musical legacy, Diddley said, “If you ain’t got no money, ain’t nobody calls you honey.”
Tap your feet to a Diddley beat…a few famous Bo Diddley songs
“Who Do You Love?”
“Say Man”
“You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover”
“Shave and a Haircut”
“Uncle John”
“The Mule.”
Bo at his best:
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Bo Diddley ~ Los Lunas
Bo (December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), born Ellas Otha Bates and changed as a child to Ellas McDaniel, was an R&B and Chicago Blues vocalist and guitarist. In addition, he was a songwriter and music producer, usually as Ellas McDaniel, and had cameo appearances in movies. He was nicknamed The Originator because of his key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll, and rock, and influenced a host of acts, including Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, Eric Clapton, the Who, the Animals, Pink Floyd, the Velvet Underground, Jimi Hendrix, Parliament Funkadelic, and the Jesus and Mary Chain.
Diddley lived in Los Lunas, New Mexico from 1971 to 1978, while continuing his musical career. He served for two and a half years as Deputy Sheriff in the Valencia County Citizens’ Patrol; during that time he purchased and donated three highway-patrol pursuit-cars.
He instigated a constant driving rhythm and biting electric guitar sound which he applied to a wide range of songs. His use of African rhythms and a signature beat, a simple five-accent clave rhythm, is a cornerstone of hip hop, rock, and pop. In recognition of his achievements Bo Diddley was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and a Grammy Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He is also recognised for his technical innovations, including his trademark rectangular guitar.
Early life and career
Born in McComb, Mississippi, as Ellas Otha Bates, he was adopted and raised by his mother’s cousin, Gussie McDaniel, whose surname he assumed. In 1934, the McDaniel family moved to the largely black South Side area of Chicago, where the young Ellas dropped the name Otha and became simply Ellas McDaniel. In Chicago, he was an active member of the local Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he studied the trombone and the violin, becoming proficient enough on the violin for the musical director to invite him to join the orchestra, with which he performed until the age of 18. However, he was more taken by the pulsating, rhythmic music he heard at a local Pentecostal Church, and became interested in the guitar.
Inspired by a John Lee Hooker performance, he supplemented his work as a carpenter and mechanic by playing on street corners with friends, including Jerome Green (c. 1934–1973), in the Hipsters band, later renamed the Langley Avenue Jive Cats. Green would become a near-constant member of McDaniel’s backing band, the two often trading joking insults with each other during live shows. During the summer of 1943–1944, he played at the Maxwell Street market in a band with Earl Hooker. By 1951 he was playing on the street with backing from Roosevelt Jackson on washtub bass, and Jody Williams, whom he had taught to play the guitar. Williams later played lead guitar on “Who Do You Love?” (1956).
In 1951 he landed a regular spot at the 708 Club on Chicago’s South Side,with a repertoire influenced by Louis Jordan, John Lee Hooker, and Muddy Waters. In late 1954, he teamed up with harmonica player Billy Boy Arnold, drummer Clifton James and bass player Roosevelt Jackson, and recorded demos of “I’m A Man” and “Bo Diddley”. They re-recorded the songs at Chess Studios with a backing ensemble comprising Otis Spann (piano), Lester Davenport (harmonica), Frank Kirkland (drums), and Jerome Green (maracas). The record was released in March 1955, and the A-side, “Bo Diddley”, became a number one R&B hit.
Origins of stage name
The origin of the Bo Diddley stage name is unclear. McDaniel claimed that his peers gave him the name, which he suspected to be an insult.He also said that the name first belonged to a singer his adoptive mother knew, but harmonicist Billy Boy Arnold said that it was a local comedian’s name, which Leonard Chess adopted as McDaniel’s stage name and also for the title of his first single. Guitar craftsman Ed Roman stated that it was McDaniel’s nickname as a Golden Gloves boxer.
A “diddley bow” is a homemade, American single-string instrument played mainly by workers in the southern fields. It probably has influences from the West African coast. In the American slang term, bo diddly, bo is an intensifier and diddly is a truncation of diddly squat, which means absolutely nothing.
Success in the 1950s and 1960s
On November 20, 1955, Bo Diddley appeared on the hugely popular Ed Sullivan TV show. The show asked him to sing “Sixteen Tons”, but instead he sang “Bo Diddley”. Ed Sullivan was infuriated and banned Bo Diddley from his show. He also said that Bo Diddley wouldn’t last six months. The request came about because the show’s staff heard Bo Diddley casually singing “Sixteen Tons” in the dressing room. Bo Diddley was a great storyteller but the slant tended to vary. He said that when he saw “Bo Diddley” on the cue-card, he thought he was to perform two songs: “Bo Diddley” and “Sixteen Tons”. Chess included Diddley’s “Sixteen Tons” on the 1960 album Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger.
Bo Diddley’s single hits continued in the 1950s and 1960s: “Pretty Thing” (1956), “Say Man” (1959), and “You Can’t Judge a Book by the Cover” (1962). He also released a string of albums: Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger and Have Guitar, Will Travel. These bolstered his self-invented legend. Between 1958 and 1963, Checker Records released eleven full-length Bo Diddley albums. Although, in the 1960s, he broke through as a crossover artist with white audiences, appearing at the Alan Freed concerts for example, he rarely aimed his compositions at teenagers. The album title Surfing with Bo Diddley boasted his influence on surf guitarists rather than surfing per se.
In 1963, Bo Diddley starred in a UK concert tour with the Everly Brothers and Little Richard. The up-and-coming Rolling Stones, were billed as a supporting act.
Bo Diddley wrote many songs for himself, but he also wrote for others. In 1956 he and guitarist Jody Williams co-wrote the pioneering pop song “Love Is Strange”, a hit for Mickey & Sylvia in 1957. He also wrote “Mama (Can I Go Out)” which would become a minor hit for pioneering Rockabilly singer Jo Ann Campbell who performed the song in the 1959 Rock & Roll film Go Johnny Go.
Bo Diddley included women in his band: Norma-Jean Wofford, also known as “The Duchess”; Gloria Jolivet; Peggy Jones, also known as “Lady Bo”, was a rare, for the time, female lead guitarist; Cornelia Redmond, also known as Cookie; Debby Hastings, who led his band for the final 25 years. After moving from Chicago to Washington, D.C., he set up one of the first home recording studios where he not only recorded the album Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger but produced and recorded his valet, Marvin Gaye. The Bo Diddley-penned, “Wyatt Earp” was Gaye’s first single. It was released on Okeh Records, after Chess turned it down. During this time, Moonglows’ founder Harvey Fuqua sang backing vocals on many of Diddley’s home recordings. Gaye later joined the Moonglows and followed them to Motown.
Later years
Over the decades, Bo Diddley’s performing venues ranged from intimate clubs to stadiums. On March 25, 1972, he played with the Grateful Dead at the Academy of Music in New York City. The Grateful Dead released part of this concert as Volume 30 of the band’s Dick’s Picks concert album series. Also in the early 1970s, the soundtrack for the ground-breaking animated film Fritz the Cat contained his song “Bo Diddley”, in which a crow idly finger-pops along to the track.
In the late 1970s, Diddley moved to Hawthorne, Florida where he lived on a large estate in a custom-made log-cabin home, which he helped to build. For the remainder of his life he spent time between Albuquerque and Florida, living the last 13 years of his life in Archer, Florida, a small farming town near Gainesville.
In 1979, he appeared as an opening act for the Clash on their US tour; and in Legends of Guitar (filmed live in Spain, 1991) with B.B. King, Les Paul, Albert Collins, George Benson, among others. He joined the Rolling Stones as a guest on their 1994 concert broadcast of Voodoo Lounge, performing “Who Do You Love?” with the band. Sheryl Crow and Robert Cray also appeared on the pay-per-view special.
Diddley’s final vocal performance on a studio album was with the band Munkeez Strikin’ Matchiz, on their 2005 album BananAtomic Mass. He co-wrote the song “Wreck it”, and was joined by Parliament-Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell and rapper Chuck D of Public Enemy.
His final guitar performance on a studio album was with the New York Dolls on their 2006 album One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This. Bo contributed guitar work to the song “Seventeen”, which was included as a Bonus Track on the limited-edition version of the disc.
Legal battle
Bo Diddley fought sportswear brand Nike in his later years over alleged copyright infringement, specifically over the use of his likeness and the slogan “YOU DON’T KNOW DIDDLEY.” In 1989, Bo had worked with Nike on a commercial in the “Bo Knows” campaign, and had entered a licensing agreement with the company. However, the agreement ended in 1991. When Nike began selling the apparel again in 1999, Diddley did not feel that Nike should continue to use the slogan or his likeness. Despite the fact that lawyers for both parties could not come to a renewed legal arrangement, Nike allegedly continued marketing the apparel, and ignored cease and desist orders. The lawsuit was filed by Diddley’s attorney, John Rosenberg, in Manhattan Federal Court.
Illness
On May 13, 2007, Diddley was admitted to intensive care in Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, following a stroke after a concert the previous day in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Starting the show, he had complained that he did not feel well. He referred to smoke from the wildfires that were ravaging South Georgia and blowing south to the area near his home in Archer, Florida. Nonetheless, he delivered an energetic performance to an enthusiastic crowd. The next day, as Diddley was heading back home, he seemed dazed and confused at the airport. His manager, Margo Lewis, called 911 and airport security and Diddley was immediately taken by ambulance to Creighton University Medical Center and admitted to the Intensive-care unit, where he stayed for several days. After tests, it was confirmed that he had suffered a stroke. Diddley had a history of hypertension and diabetes, and the stroke affected the left side of his brain, causing receptive and expressive aphasia (speech impairment). The stroke was followed by a heart attack, which he suffered in Gainesville, Florida, on August 28, 2007.
While recovering from the stroke and heart attack, Diddley came back to his home town of McComb, Mississippi, in early November 2007, for the unveiling of a plaque devoted to him on the Mississippi Blues Trail. This marked his achievements and noted that he was “acclaimed as a founder of rock-and-roll.” He was not supposed to perform, but as he listened to the music of local musician Jesse Robinson, who sang a song written for this occasion, Robinson sensed that Bo wanted to perform and handed him a microphone. That was the first and last time that Bo Diddley performed publicly after suffering a stroke.
Death
Bo Diddley died on June 2, 2008 of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida. Garry Mitchell, a grandson of Diddley and one of more than 35 family members at the musician’s home when he died at 1:45 am EDT (05:45 GMT), said his death was not unexpected. “There was a gospel song that was sung (at his bedside) and (when it was done) he said ‘wow’ with a thumbs up,” Mitchell told Reuters, when asked to describe the scene at Diddley’s deathbed. “The song was ‘Walk Around Heaven’ and in his last words he said ‘I’m going to heaven.'”
His funeral, a four-hour “homegoing” service, took place on June 7, 2008 at Showers of Blessings Church in Gainesville, Florida, and kept in tune with the vibrant spirit of Bo Diddley’s life and career. The many in attendance chanted “Hey Bo Diddley” as a gospel band played the legend’s music. A number of notable musicians sent flowers, including: George Thorogood, Tom Petty and Jerry Lee Lewis. Little Richard, who had been asking his audiences to pray for Bo Diddley throughout his illness, had to fulfil concert commitments in Westbury and New York City the weekend of the funeral. He took time at both concerts to remember his friend of a half-century, performing Bo’s namesake tune in his honor.
After the funeral service, a tribute concert was held at the Martin Luther King Center, also in Gainesville, and featured performances by his son and daughter, Anthony McDaniel and Evelyn Cooper, as well as long-time background vocalist Gloria Jolivet; co-producer and guitarist Scott “Skyntyte” Free; Bo’s touring band the Debby Hastings Band; and guest-artist Eric Burdon.
In the days following his death, tributes were paid to Diddley by then-President George W. Bush, the United States House of Representatives, and an uncounted number of musicians and performers, including Eric Burdon, Elvis Costello, Ronnie Hawkins, Mick Jagger, B. B. King, Tom Petty, Robert Plant, Bonnie Raitt, George Thorogood, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Eric Clapton and Ronnie Wood. He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music. In its “People in America” radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how “his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.” Mick Jagger stated that, “he was a wonderful, original musician who was an enormous force in music and was a big influence on the Rolling Stones. He was very generous to us in our early years and we learned a lot from him”. Jagger also praised the late star as a one-of-a-kind musician, adding, “We will never see his like again”.
The documentary film Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street by director Phil Ranstrom features Bo Diddley’s last on-camera interview.
In November 2009, the guitar used by Diddley in his final stage performance sold for $60,000 at auction.
Accolades
Bo Diddley achieved numerous accolades in recognition of his significant role as one of the founding fathers of rock and roll.
1986: inducted into the Washington Area Music Association’s Hall of Fame.
1987: inducted the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
1990: Lifetime Achievement Award from Guitar Player magazine.
1998: Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
1999: His 1955 recording of his song “Bo Diddley” inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as a recording of lasting qualitative or historical significance.
2000: Inducted into the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame and into the North Florida Music Association’s Hall of Fame.
2002: Pioneer in Entertainment Award from the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters
2002: Bo Diddley was honored as one of the first BMI Icons at the 50th annual BMI Pop Awards. He was presented the award along with BMI affiliates Chuck Berry and Little Richard.
2008: Although confirmed before his death in June 2008, an honorary degree was posthumously conferred upon Diddley by the University of Florida in August 2008.
2009: Florida’s Secretary of State announces Bo’s induction into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame (induction to occur during Florida Heritage Month, March 2010).
2010: Bo Diddley was inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame.
In 2003, U.S. Representative John Conyers paid tribute to Bo Diddley in the United States House of Representatives describing him as “one of the true pioneers of rock and roll, who has influenced generations”.
In 2004, Mickey and Sylvia’s 1956 recording of “Love Is Strange” (a song first recorded by Diddley but not released until a year before his death) was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as a recording of qualitative or historical significance, and he was inducted into the Blues Foundation’s Blues Hall of Fame. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him No. 20 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
In 2005, Bo Diddley celebrated his 50th anniversary in music with successful tours of Australia and Europe, and with coast-to-coast shows across North America. He performed his song “Bo Diddley” with Eric Clapton, Robbie Robertson and longtime bassist and musical director Debby Hastings at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 20th annual induction ceremony. In the UK, Uncut magazine included his 1957 debut album “Bo Diddley” in its listing of the ‘100 Music, Movie & TV Moments That Have Changed The World’.
In 2006, Bo Diddley participated as the headliner of a grassroots organized fundraiser concert, to benefit the town of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, which had been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The “Florida Keys for Katrina Relief” had originally been set for October 23, 2005, when Hurricane Wilma barreled through the Florida Keys on October 24, causing flooding and economic mayhem. In January 2006, the Florida Keys had recovered enough to host the fundraising concert to benefit the more hard-hit community of Ocean Springs. When asked about the fundraiser Bo Diddley stated, “This is the United States of America. We believe in helping one another”. In an interview with Holger Petersen, on Saturday Night Blues on CBC Radio in the fall of 2006 Bo Diddley commented about the racism that existed in the music industry establishment during the early part of his career, that saw him deprived of royalties from the most successful part of his career.
Bo Diddley performed a number of shows around the country in 2005 and 2006 with the fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Johnnie Johnson Band, featuring Johnson on keyboards, Richard Hunt on drums and Gus Thornton on bass. From 1985 until he died, his touring band consisted of Debby Hastings (bassist and musical director); Jim Satten (guitarist, band leader, musical director); Scott “Skyntyte” Free, Nunzio Signore or Frank Daley (guitar); Tom Major, Dave Johnson, Yoshi Shimada, Mike Fink or Sandy Gennaro (drums); John Margolis, Dave Keys or Bo’s personal manager, Margo Lewis (keyboards).
Bo Diddley was honored by the Mississippi Blues Commission with a Mississippi Blues Trail historic marker placed in McComb, his birthplace, in recognition of his enormous contribution to the development of the blues in Mississippi. On June 5, 2009 the city of Gainesville, Florida, officially renamed and dedicated its downtown plaza the Bo Diddley Community Plaza. The plaza was the site of many benefit concerts at which Bo Diddley performed during his lifetime to raise awareness about the plight of the homeless in Alachua County, and to raise money for local charities, as well as the Red Cross.
The Bo Diddley beat
Bo Diddley is well known for the Bo Diddley beat, which is essentially the clave rhythm, and one of the most common bell patterns found in sub-Saharan African music traditions. Tamlyn found this rhythm in 13 rhythm and blues recordings made in the years 1944–55, including two by Johnny Otis from 1948.
Bo Diddley has given different accounts regarding how he began to use this rhythm. Sublette asserts: “In the context of the time, and especially those maracas [heard on the record], ‘Bo Diddley’ has to be understood as a Latin-tinged record. A rejected cut recorded at the same session was titled only ‘Rhumba’ on the track sheets.” The Bo Diddley beat is similar to “hambone”, a style used by street performers who play out the beat by slapping and patting their arms, legs, chest, and cheeks while chanting rhymes. Somewhat resembling “shave and a haircut, two bits” rhythm, Diddley came across it while trying to play Gene Autry’s “(I’ve Got Spurs That) Jingle, Jangle, Jingle”. Three years before Bo’s “Bo Diddley”, a song similar syncopation “Hambone”, was cut by Red Saunders’ Orchestra with The Hambone Kids. In 1944, “Rum and Coca Cola”, containing the Bo Diddley beat, was recorded by the Andrews Sisters and later Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away” (1957) and Them’s “Mystic Eyes” (1965) used the beat.
In its simplest form, the Bo Diddley beat can be counted out as either a one-bar, or a two-bar phrase. Here is the count as a one-bar phrase: One e and ah, two e and ah, three e and ah, four e and ah. The bolded counts are the clave rhythm.
Many songs (for example, “Hey Bo Diddley” and “Who Do You Love?”) often have no chord changes; that is, the musicians play the same chord throughout the piece, so that the rhythms create the excitement, rather than having the excitement generated by harmonic tension and release. In his other recordings, Bo Diddley used a variety of rhythms, from straight back beat to pop ballad style to doo-wop, frequently with maracas by Jerome Green.
Also an influential guitar player, he developed many special effects and other innovations in tone and attack. Bo Diddley’s trademark instrument was the rectangular-bodied Gretsch nicknamed the “Twang Machine” (referred to as “cigar-box shaped” by music promoter Dick Clark). Although he had other odd-shaped guitars custom-made for him by other manufacturers throughout the years, most notably the “Cadillac” and the rectangular “Turbo 5-speed” (with built-in envelope filter, flanger and delay) designs made by Tom Holmes (who also made guitars for ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, among others), Diddley fashioned the square guitar himself around 1958 and wielded it in thousands of concerts over the years. In a 2005 interview on JJJ radio in Australia, Bo implied that the design sprang from an embarrassing moment. During an early gig, while jumping around on stage with a Gibson L5 guitar, he landed awkwardly hurting his groin. He then went about designing a smaller, less restrictive guitar that allowed him to keep jumping around on stage while still playing his guitar. He also played the violin, which is featured on his mournful instrumental “The Clock Strikes Twelve”, a twelve-bar blues.
He often created lyrics as witty and humorous adaptations of folk music themes. The song “Bo Diddley” was based on the African American clapping rhyme “Hambone” (which in turn was based on the lullaby “Hush Little Baby”). Likewise, “Hey Bo Diddley” is based on the song “Old MacDonald”. The rap-style boasting of “Who Do You Love?”, a wordplay on hoodoo, used many striking lyrics from the African-American tradition of toasts and boasts. His “Say Man” and “Say Man, Back Again,” both of which were later cited as progenerators of hip-hop music, share a strong connection to the insult game known as “the dozens”. For example: “You got the nerve to call somebody ugly. Why you so ugly, the stork that brought you into the world ought to be arrested”.
Discography
Main article: Bo Diddley discography
Books
George R. White, Living Legend, Sanctuary Publishing Ltd, 1995.
Laurent Arsicaud, Bo Diddley, Je suis un homme, Camion Blanc editions, 2012.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEKTrWHdINI
above: Recorded Live: 11/2/1972 – Hofstra University (Hempstead, NY)
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BRONSON — Rock 'n' roll legend Bo Diddley had often complained before he died of being “ripped off” by the musical revolution he helped found, having received no royalty payments for his biggest hits, only flat recording fees.
Now, almost three years after Diddley's death, his family stands to begin receiving the payments long denied the rock icon — as the publishing rights to his earliest songs, which he signed away early in his career, return to his estate.
But in order to receive those royalty payments, his 22 heirs first will have to prevent the sale of those publishing rights.
Diddley's attorney and two agents/managers are seeking to sell the publishing rights to his entire music catalog for $4.3 million to pay off possible tax debts for his estate, estimated to be worth about $6 million. For the total sum, the rights to each song would be sold as they revert back to the estate over the next several years.
The sale of publishing rights would mean Diddley's heirs — six children and 16 grandchildren — would be out about $400,000 a year in record royalties for the next four decades.
In a hearing in Levy County Circuit Court on Jan. 27, Judge Robert Roundtree Jr. postponed a decision on the sale until Diddley's attorney can provide an accounting of the total estate and the family can provide details of a possible leasing of the music rights instead of an outright sale. The next hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. on March 14.
Diddley's heirs, particularly his oldest son, Ellas Anthony McDaniel, and Diddley's granddaughter Jatonne Mitchell, are fighting to keep ownership of the publishing rights of 311 songs, including his biggest hits, “I'm A Man,” “Who Do You Love” and “Love Is Strange.”
They allege that Diddley's attorney, Ron Stevens of Bronson, and Diddley's agents/managers, Faith Fusillo and Margo Lewis of New York City, took advantage of the singer, who had only an elementary school education. Diddley's will named Stevens the trustee of his estate, and Fusillo and Lewis received a percentage of royalties through a contract they had with Diddley.
The family, however, alleges the trio did not explain to Diddley that:
* It would be Stevens — and not the family — who would have control over his estate, including his music.
* His longtime managers would get 30 percent of anything of Diddley's that sold, including his image, public performance (radio and television play) rights and — if they remain with the estate — royalties from his publishing rights.
* The family would divide the remaining 70 percent of royalties and fees among the 22 heirs.
“His fiduciary obligation to my family has not been rendered,” McDaniel said about Stevens. “For my whole family, this has got to stop.”
Stevens, Lewis and Fusillo deny that Diddley did not understand that they would be in control; they say he wanted it that way, just as he kept his family out of his business dealings when he was alive.
Stevens, Fusillo and Lewis explained that they had tried to do what was best for Diddley, including filing lawsuits to recoup some of Diddley's financial losses as well as to protect his image. They say they now are trying to do what is best for the estate.
Stevens, Fusillo and Lewis said the family, most of whom live in rural Archer or Bronson, does not have a good grasp of the music industry, royalties, copyright laws or marketing. They told Judge Roundtree that in addition to covering tax bills, money from the sale would be used to help pay for a lawsuit to try to win back the rights to all of Diddley's music, in perpetuity. They said they had promised the singer they would do that after he had signed away those rights early in his career.
In e-mail exchanges with The Gainesville Sun, Stevens said he was limited as to what he could publicly discuss.
“The rules of the Florida Bar to my best knowledge limit and/or preclude me from providing most of the answers and/or information you have requested,” Stevens wrote in response to questions about billing and how legal matters had been explained to Diddley. “Sadly this position can often be taken as having something to hide; I can only do my best to assure you that such is not the case. You probably have no way of knowing just how much I would love to fully address each question you have posed.”
Diddley's family provided his will and other documents to The Sun. The will is filed in Levy County under his birth name, Ellas Otha Bates McDaniel.
In the will, Diddley made Ron Stevens trustee of an irrevocable trust and personal representative of his estate, which allows Stevens to “sell or convey any part of my estate.”
The will also specifies that Diddley's longtime managers, Fusillo and Lewis, will “continue to manage and perpetuate my entertainment business and affairs domestically and internationally in perpetuity according to acceptable industry standards they receive as compensation a total of 30 percent of all gross revenue collected by them.”
They said in court last month that their arrangement with Diddley for nearly 30 years when he was alive was also a flat 30 percent fee, which paid for three jobs: managing his career, booking his shows and taking care of his business matters.
A well-known Nashville singer and songwriter said 5 to 15 percent for a manager alone is reasonable. Lewis and Fusillo also act as agent and business manager. An official from CMG Worldwide, which represents and manages the intellectual property of dead celebrities for their heirs, said 30 percent was a fair amount to charge.
But Judge Roundtree said “the reasonableness of the fees” seemed extreme, especially for the proposed deal.
“I think somebody needs to sharpen their pencil and rework this,” Roundtree said. But Roundtree added that Fusillo and Lewis also were responsible for Diddley having any money at all at the end of his life.
The family now has hired Atlanta entertainment attorney Kendall Minter and his Fort Lauderdale colleague Frank Scruggs to represent them — and to contest the will.
“The game plan is restore to the family their appropriate rights to the estate so that they have some input as to what's going on with the legacy that ... their grandfather and their father left them,” Minter said.
Earning money from songs is a tangled web of people wanting a piece of the pie. There are several revenue streams for recording artists: recording royalties; publishing copyrights; writer's copyrights; public performance rights, which are paid to publishers and writers when songs are played on the radio or television or on stage; and mechanical royalties, which are paid to publishers by record companies when records are purchased. The publishing rights to his first two songs, “Bo Diddley” and “I'm A Man,” will return to his estate in March.
Records provided by the family show that in the first quarter of 2010, the Diddley estate received $41,209 in royalties on Diddley's work. Stevens declined to reveal what the latest quarter's royalties were. However, in a December 2009 letter to the family, he said that, “After 2011 Margo and Faith estimate an annual gross income of $400K yearly from royalties, in addition to other sources of income they are able to generate on your behalf.”
The estate fight is an echo of Diddley's early days in the music industry, when Muddy Waters and Diddley made their way from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago, bringing with them the slow, heart-wrenching music known as the blues, along with the fast-paced sounds of what became rock 'n' roll. Diddley, with his self-designed square guitar and slowed-down riffs on “shave and a haircut,” is given credit for being one of the founding fathers of rock 'n' roll, developing a rhythm now named for him.
In 1954 in Chicago, Diddley wound up recording for two Polish immigrants, brothers Leonard and Phil Chess, under their labels, Chess and Checker Records.
Diddley had a huge hit in 1955 with “I'm A Man,” and the flip side of that 45, “Bo Diddley.” But the Chess brothers paid Diddley a flat, one-time fee for those two songs, the amount of which remains unknown.
According to all involved, the story is the same for most of his other hits with Chess Records. Other well-known black artists with Chess also alleged the same problems. Diddley's main source of income was from touring and from his writer's copyrights.
After Diddley began questioning the Chess brothers about royalties and more money, his music gradually stopped being played on the radio and Diddley has said in numerous interviews that he realized he had been blackballed by the industry.
Diddley then signed a contract in 1971 to sell his writer's copyrights for $10,000 to the Chess family. The contract states that the sale was “forever.” That writer's catalog is what Fusillo and Lewis said they want to get back for the estate.
Diddley continued to tour until the night he had a stroke in May 2007. “I guess because I was a little country black boy in Chicago, I got ripped off,” Diddley told an interviewer in 2003 about the Chess brothers.
In fact, Diddley was plagued by financial woes throughout his career, becoming the poster child for musicians who didn't realize they were signing away their rights to future royalties for pennies on the dollar. Diddley often trusted the wrong people, including his former manager, Marty Otelsberg, who helped himself to Diddley's bank account for decades. A judge in Los Angeles awarded Diddley more than $500,000 in 1994 from Otelsberg's estate.
Stevens filed a petition in January with the Levy County Court, hoping to get authorization to sell the publishing rights to Diddley's music catalog, which one appraiser estimated to be worth about $4.3 million.
Stevens explained in court documents that the need for the sale stems from two IRS issues:
A “transaction” Diddley made in 2007 on his public performance rights for $1.54 million. At the time, Stevens said, he, Lewis and Fusillo believed the transaction was a loan, but the IRS has since declared it was a sale, on which Stevens says the estate will owe a substantial amount of taxes.
Taxes the IRS says will be owed on the $4.3 million value of the publishing rights.
Roundtree agreed that anything more than the $2 million cap of a non-taxable inheritance would be subject to a 55 percent tax rate. Stevens said there is simply not enough money in the estate account to pay the government.
Fusillo confirmed that Diddley sold some, not all, of his public performance rights in November 2007 for $1.54 million.
But Diddley's granddaughter and caretaker, Jatonne Mitchell, and the other heirs question how Diddley could have sold anything in November 2007 — six months after a stroke left him debilitated and with aphasia. He was unable to speak coherently or, Mitchell said, understand everything happening around him, let alone sign a legal document. Mitchell said her grandfather repeatedly began yelling, “What did I just do?” after Fusillo and Lewis left the house with the contract.
Fusillo said the sale was made in order to obtain cash for Diddley's health care following his stroke, as he had no supplemental health insurance and they didn't want to wipe out his savings. Fusillo had power of attorney to sign his name, but she said she did not want to be seen as taking advantage of that privilege. Instead, she said she and Lewis flew to Florida, and she met for an hour with Diddley, explained the situation and he signed the paperwork.
Friends and family connected to Diddley say that selling his music rights is the last thing he would have wanted.
The family is working with attorney Kendall Minter of Atlanta to try to gain control over the estate.
Minter, a native of New York City and a graduate of Cornell Law School, has represented numerous artists and the estates of artists. Minter said in a telephone interview that, when he saw Diddley's will, he was “shocked.”
“Based on the fact that Bo, when he made the will, completely entrusted the care and well-being of his entire family for the rest of their lives to a couple of managers in New York and a sole practitioner attorney that he had done business with, without any real accountability,” Minter said. “And that's the unfortunate aspect for the family — they have very little, if no, say in the running of the estate. The estate was set up for their well-being.”
Diddley's children and grandchildren are simply frustrated and angry.
“We'll be lost forever if this goes through,” said Anthony McDaniel, Diddley's oldest son. “The fire sale of this would be a million-something for (Lewis and Fusillo), Mr. Stevens would get $400,000, and the family would get nothing after the taxes are paid.”
10 R&B hits between 1958 and 1963. 1996 Album “A Man Amongst Men” nominated for a Grammy. 1987: Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 1998: Inducted into the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame. Played at the inaugural balls of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
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Rock and roll pioneer Bo Diddley died today at the age of 79.
Diddley created a guitar sound that helped turn rhythm and blues into rock. He died today of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida.
Farai Chideya reflects on the life of one of rock's founding fathers.
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Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday after months of ill health. He was 79.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday after months of ill health. He was 79.
Diddley died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Fla., spokeswoman Susan Clary said. He had suffered a heart attack in August, three months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa. Doctors said the stroke affected his ability to speak, and he had returned to Florida to continue rehabilitation.
The legendary singer and performer, known for his homemade square guitar, dark glasses and black hat, was an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, had a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, and received a lifetime achievement award in 1999 at the Grammy Awards. In recent years he also played for the elder President Bush and President Clinton.
Diddley appreciated the honors he received, "but it didn't put no figures in my checkbook."
"If you ain't got no money, ain't nobody calls you honey," he quipped.
The name Bo Diddley came from other youngsters when he was growing up in Chicago, he said in a 1999 interview.
"I don't know where the kids got it, but the kids in grammar school gave me that name," he said, adding that he liked it so it became his stage name. Other times, he gave somewhat differing stories on where he got the name. Some experts believe a possible source for the name is a one-string instrument used in traditional blues music called a diddley bow.
His first single, "Bo Diddley," introduced record buyers in 1955 to his signature rhythm: bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp, often summarized as "shave and a haircut, two bits." The B side, "I'm a Man," with its slightly humorous take on macho pride, also became a rock standard.
The company that issued his early songs was Chess-Checkers records, the storied Chicago-based labels that also recorded Chuck Berry and other stars.
Howard Kramer, assistant curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, said in 2006 that Diddley's Chess recordings "stand among the best singular recordings of the 20th century."
Diddley's other major songs included, "Say Man," "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover," "Shave and a Haircut," "Uncle John," "Who Do You Love?" and "The Mule."
Diddley's influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic. Buddy Holly borrowed the bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp rhythm for his song "Not Fade Away."
The Rolling Stones' bluesy remake of that Holly song gave them their first chart single in the United States, in 1964. The following year, another British band, the Yardbirds, had a Top 20 hit in the U.S. with their version of "I'm a Man."
Diddley was also one of the pioneers of the electric guitar, adding reverb and tremelo effects. He even rigged some of his guitars himself.
"He treats it like it was a drum, very rhythmic," E. Michael Harrington, professor of music theory and composition at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., said in 2006.
Many other artists, including the Who, Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello copied aspects of Diddley's style.
Growing up, Diddley said he had no musical idols, and he wasn't entirely pleased that others drew on his innovations.
"I don't like to copy anybody. Everybody tries to do what I do, update it," he said. "I don't have any idols I copied after."
"They copied everything I did, upgraded it, messed it up. It seems to me that nobody can come up with their own thing, they have to put a little bit of Bo Diddley there," he said.
Despite his success, Diddley claimed he only received a small portion of the money he made during his career. Partly as a result, he continued to tour and record music until his stroke. Between tours, he made his home near Gainesville in north Florida.
"Seventy ain't nothing but a damn number," he told The Associated Press in 1999. "I'm writing and creating new stuff and putting together new different things. Trying to stay out there and roll with the punches. I ain't quit yet."
Diddley, like other artists of his generations, was paid a flat fee for his recordings and said he received no royalty payments on record sales. He also said he was never paid for many of his performances.
"I am owed. I've never got paid," he said. "A dude with a pencil is worse than a cat with a machine gun."
In the early 1950s, Diddley said, disc jockeys called his type of music, "Jungle Music." It was Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed who is credited with inventing the term "rock 'n' roll."
Diddley said Freed was talking about him, when he introduced him, saying, "Here is a man with an original sound, who is going to rock and roll you right out of your seat."
Diddley won attention from a new generation in 1989 when he took part in the "Bo Knows" ad campaign for Nike, built around football and baseball star Bo Jackson. Commenting on Jackson's guitar skills, Diddley turned to the camera and said, "He don't know Diddley."
"I never could figure out what it had to do with shoes, but it worked," Diddley said. "I got into a lot of new front rooms on the tube."
Born as Ellas Bates on Dec. 30, 1928, in McComb, Miss., Diddley was later adopted by his mother's cousin and took on the name Ellis McDaniel, which his wife always called him.
When he was 5, his family moved to Chicago, where he learned the violin at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. He learned guitar at 10 and entertained passers-by on street corners.
By his early teens, Diddley was playing Chicago's Maxwell Street.
"I came out of school and made something out of myself. I am known all over the globe, all over the world. There are guys who have done a lot of things that don't have the same impact that I had," he said.
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Mrs. Laura Kenneth [sic] Riddick, age 88, of Eagle Lake, passed away Tuesday, January, 19 at the Eagle Lake Community Hospital following a lengthy illness.
Graveside services and interment was held at the Myrtle Cemetery, in Rock Island Saturday, January 23 under the direction of Dulany Funeral Home in Eagle Lake with Rev. Charles Miller, pastor, First Presbyterian Church. of Eagle Lake officiating.
Mrs. Laura Kenneth Riddick was born in Ford Co., Kansas to Frank Lowe and Laura Wilkinson Lowe. She moved with her family to Colorado County, settling in Sheridan in 1909.
She later moved, to Beaumont where she resided for 65 years, then she moved to Houston for a few years before returning to Colorado County where she has resided in the Heritage House of Eagle Lake for the past ten years.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Baker H. Riddick, who died in 1938, also her four sisters and two brothers.
Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. A. R. Brand of Ft. Lupton, Colorado; sons, Hugh Riddick of Dallas and McDonald L. Riddick of Baytown; nine grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and one great-great-granddaughter.
Colorado County Citizen, January 28, 1988, page 2
Riddle, John William
Funeral Services Are Held For J. W. Riddle at Rock Island Monday
Funeral services for J. W. Riddle of Rock Island, who died at his home there were held Monday afternoon at two oclock at the Rock Island cemetery, Rev. Sheppard officiating. Columbus Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Riddle was born in 1891 [1871] in Kansas. He had been a resident of Rock Island 21 years.
Survivors are three daughters, Mrs. Jack Waddell, Mrs. Ether Hutchins and Mrs. Robert Schoop; two sons, Howard and Wess Riddle; three sisters, Mrs. Maggie McCallum, Mrs. C. A. McLillan, and Mrs. Lizzie Nickoles; one brother, George Riddle.
Colorado County Citizen, November 9, 1940
Transcribed by Judy Talkington
Riddle, Nettie Mae (Lawson)
ROCK ISLAND
Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon for Mrs. Nettie Riddle who passed away Wednesday, after several weeks illness. She has been a resident of this place for many years. Surviving are her husband J. W. Riddle, six children and a number of grandchildren, all of this community. Burial was in Myrtle cemetery with Rev. E. Homer Miller conducting the service.
Colorado County Citizen, April 21, 1932, page 7
Riehs, Birdie Erna (Hoffmann)
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Mrs. Birdie Erna Riehs, 71, of Columbus, died last Tuesday at Hermann Hospital n Houston.
Services were held Thursday at Henneke Funeral Home with Pastor Robert Schlortt officiating. Interment followed at the New Bielau Cemetery. Arrangements were under the direction of' Henneke Funeral Home.
Mrs. Riehs was born in Hawg Creek, Texas, on Nov. 14, 1916, to August and Louise Schneider Hoffmann. She married Robert Karl Riehs on Jan. 9, 1935. He preceded her in death on April 20, 1969.
She was a retired medication Aide and had worked for 15 years at Autumn Hills Nursing Home. She had been a resident of Columbus for 20 years. She was a member of the Lutheran Church.
Survivors include a son, Larry Riehs of Columbus; a daughter, Mrs. James Kessler of Flatonia, three grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Pallbearers were, Keith Riehs, James Robert Kessler Ill, Charles Marx, Melvin Heinsohn, Emil Seidel and James Kessler.
Colorado County Citizen, October 2, 1988, page 2
Riehs, Charles Fritz
Mr. Chas. F. Riehs
Relief came to the suffering of Mr. Charles F. Riehs at his home here Monday, after several months of tuberculosis. Funeral services were held at the residence at three o'clock Tuesday, Rev. W. A. Flachmeier officiating, and the body was laid to rest by the local American Legion Post, interment taking place at Odd Fellows Rest.
Mr. Riehs was born in La Grange on December 12th, 1892 and was married to Miss Ophelia Saxon on October 21st, 1919.
He enlisted in the army on April 28th, 1918 and served in Co. L of the 360th Inf., 90th Div. until discharged at Camp Travis on June 2nd, 1919. During this service Mr. Riehs saw front line trench service in two engagements, and was with the army of occupation in Germany.
Since the war he has worked in the bridge and building department of the Southern Pacific until some six months ago when he became ill from a complication of pulmonary tuberculosis and ulcer of the stomach from which he died.
He is survived by the wife, six small children, his mother, two brothers and three sisters, to whom our sincere sympathy is extended.
Colorado County Citizen, April 14, 1932
Transcribed by Dennis Boatright
Riehs, Robert Karl
Riehs Is Suicide; Wife Wounded
Robert Karl Riehs, 60-year-old janitor of Parkview Manor retirement home, killed himself with a 12-gauge shotgun Sunday in a daybreak incident that almost cost the life of his wife also.
She is recovering in Youens Memorial Hospital with a badly mangled hand, resulting from her trying to wrest the suicide weapon, an ancient single-shot piece, from her berserk husband.
Mr. Riehs, a native of Mullins Prairie who had done janitor and yard work during most of his 16 years in Weimar, was found dead by City Marshal Fred Vornsand in the dining room of the home the couple rented in the 100 block of West Main, a few minutes after Mrs. Riehs had been wounded and had run to a friends home two blocks away for help.
The family told Officer Vornsand Mr. Riehs had been increasingly despondent during the past few months.
It was shortly after 5 a.m. Sunday when the situation erupted in tragedy. Mr. Riehs had had a wakeful night and had dressed before dawn but was asleep on the bed again, clothed except for his shoes, when Mrs. Riehs arose and began getting ready to go to work. She worked part-time at Parkview Manor as an attendant.
Tried to Take Gun
She was in the bathroom when Mr. Riehs appeared with the shotgun which he normally kept on the bedroom wall, along with a rifle. Fearful, she tried to take it away from him and it discharged, hitting her hand.
She ran next door to the Emil Neiser home, banging on the door and calling, but was unable to rouse them. Years ago she had lived across the street from Mr. and Mrs. George Sander, and her next thought was to go to them for help. She was just at the railroad track, about a block from home, when she heard the second shot from the shotgun. She ran on to the Sander home, where Mrs. Sander called Mr. Vornsand.
The officer, after checking on Mrs. Riehs safety at the Sander home, went on to the Riehs home and through a window saw the dead man on the dining room floor. Evidence indicated he had been in the bedroom a few steps away when he shot himself in the chest.
Pliers to Remove Cartridge
The old shotguns condition wasnt typical of the way Tex Riehs, as so many friend knew him, kept his possessions. He was an exceptionally neat person, but the shotgun was so rusted that it was with some difficulty that Officer Vornsand was able to open it. He had to use pliers to removed the empty cartridge. This, said the officer, probably explained the long lapse of time between the first and second shots.
Justice of the Peace Henry Hasse Sr. held the inquest and returned a verdict of death by self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Mr. Riehs had been yardman and janitor at St. Michaels Church, and then at Weimar Public School for several years before they moved to Columbus, where he took a job as custodian of Columbus Convalescent Home. When Parkview Manor opened here in January he was hired as its custodian and they moved back to Weimar.
Born Jan. 21, 1909, at Mullins Prairie, he was a son of Karl and Pauline Fritsch Riehs. He married Miss Birdie Erna Hoffmann and they continued living at Mullins Prairie, where he worked as a farm hand. After they moved to Weimar he became a member of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church at New Bielau.
Son, Daughter Survive
Surviving in addition to his wife are a son, Larry Riehs of Schulenburg; a daughter, Mrs. James R. (Elenora) Kessler of Austin; two grandchildren; two brothers Louis of La Grange and Englebert of Hallettsville; and two sisters, Mrs. Annie Fein and Mrs. Norie Knigge of Houston. Another brother, Charlie, of Mullins Prairie, died Sunday afternoon .
Funeral services were held at Hubbard Funeral Home Tuesday afternoon, with Rev. F. H. Horak Jr. officiating. Burial was in the New Bielau Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Henry Brasher Jr., Rubin Dahse, Daniel Ulbricht, Alvin Prause, Marvin Hrcek and George Sander.
Weimar Mercury, April 24, 1969, pages 1 and 10
Riehs, Rosa Ruth
Rosa Ruth Riehs
As a little bud that is plucked before it has come to bloom, so little Rosa Ruth Riehs was taken from this earth on June 9th.
Rosie Ruth was born on May 15, 1931, as the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Riehs. On May 4th, 1932, she was received into the Christian Church by Holy Baptism, only a few weeks after she had lost her father. She died of ptomaine poisoning early on June 9th. Interment was made the following day in Odd Fellows Rest, Rev. W.. A. Flachmeier officiating.
The little girl is survived by her mother, Mrs. Ophelia Riehs, one sister, Dorothy Mae, and four brothers, Garlin, Charles, William and Clifford.
Colorado County Citizen, June 13, 1935
Riener, Susanna
The aged aunt of Mr. M. Ehwiner of the New Bielau vicinity died last Saturday evening, and was buried the following day. She was an estimable kind-hearted lady, and her death is deeply regretted. Our sympathy is extended Mr. Ehweiner in his loss. [Interment in New Bielau Cemetery]
Weimar Mercury, August 13, 1898, page 5
Riesing, Elo Maximillian
Drowns in Colorado River
Columbus, Texas, July 14,--Elo Reising, about 23 years old, drowned in the Colorado River at the Gravel Plant of Horton & Horton at noon Saturday. A cable upset the skiff carrying several workmen over water that was twenty to thirty feet deep and Reising could not swim. The body was recovered two hours later and will be interred at the Shaw's Bend [Riesing] Cemetery Sunday. He was reared near Ellinger and leaves an invalid wife and a four-year-old daughter.
Weimar Mercury, July 20, 1917
 
Riha, Clara (Malek)
Yoakum - Mrs. Clara Riha, 77, of Yoakum, died Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2002.
She was bom April 25,1925, in Garwood, Texas in Colorado County, to the late Beno and Annie Hoffmann Malek. She was a retired registered nurse. She worked at El Campo Nightingale Hospital, Cuero Community Hospital, Eagle Lake Community Hospital, Huth Memorial Hospital, Yoakum Independent School District and Stevens Nursing Home. She was a member of the K.J.Z.T., Catholic Daughters of America, St. Joseph Catholic Church and Professional Nurses Association.
Survivors: husband, Ed Riha of Yoakum; daughters, Cindy Riha of El Campo and Nancy Garrett and husband David of Yoakum; sisters, Annie Schneider and husband Tony of Garwood and Mary LaBay and husband Allen of Houston; grandchildren, Amanda Wenske of husband Rodney of Yoakum, Stephanie Garrett of Sugar Land, Levi Garrett of Yoakum and Julie Garrett of Yoakum; great-grandson, Logan Wenske of Yoakum; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Preceded in death by: parents; sister, Clemmie Phillips; and brothers, John Malek and Henry Malek.
A rosary will be recited 7 p.m. Friday at Buffington Funeral Home chapel.
Services will be 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, the Rev. Gary Janak officiating. Graveside services will be 1 p.m. Saturday at St. Mary's Cemetery in Nada. Buffington Funeral Home, Yoakum, 361-293-2333.
Memorials: St. Joseph Building Fund or St. Mary's Cemetery in Nada, Texas.
Victoria Advocate August 22,2002
Posted bv Matt Cross
Submitted by Cynthia Riha
Riha, Edward Allen
Edward Riha
Edward Allen Riha, 80, of Yoakum, died Sunday, Jan. 15, 2006.
He was born Oct. 2, 1925 in Garwood to Ed and Mary Kallina Riha. He was an engineer for the Texas Department of Transportation.
Survivors include his daughters, Cynthia Riha of El Campo, Nancy Garrett of Yoakum; brother, John Riha of Bay City; sister, Joyce Janik of East Bernard; four grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by parents; and wife Clara Malek Riha (passed away in August 21, 2002). Clara and Ed were married Jan. 19, 1948 in Nada.
Services will be Friday, Jan. 20 at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Yoakum at 11 a.m. Graveside Service will follow at St. Marys Cemetery in Nada at 2 p.m. with Father Gary Janak and Father Roger Hawes officiating. A Rosary will be Thursday, January 19, 2006 at Bufffington Funeral Home in Yoakum at 7 p.m. Interment will follow at St. Marys Cemetery in Nada.
Memorials can be made to St. Joseph Catholic Building Fund in Yoakum, St. Marys Cemetery Fund, Nada or donors choice.
Arrangements are by Buffington Funeral Home in Yoakum.
El Campo Leader News OnLine, January 18, 2006
Riley, Rosanna (Frazier)
Columbus, June 14.--Mrs. Rosa Riley died at her home in this city at 4 oclock this morning and was laid to rest by the side of her husband at Odd Fellows Rest this afternoon, Rev. W. D. Wendell of the Methodist church conducting the services. Mrs. Riley was __ [75] years of age and lived in Columbus since 1858, coming to Texas from Kentucky. She was Presbyterian in her religious belief and her life exemplified the noblest principles. Her surviving children are Mrs. Robert Innes of San Antonio, Mr. Ed. Riley of Kansas City, Rev. Philip M. Riley of ___burne and Mrs. R. H. Walther of this city. All were present at the close of her life.
Weimar Mercury, June 18, 1904, page 5
Riley, Sally Maria (Grigsby)
Columbus Citizen;
The Citizen announces, with acutiments of regret, the death at 1 oclock last Monday afternoon, of Mrs. Sallie M. Riley, the wife of County Judge Charles Riley, and an old and respected citizen of this city. Mrs. Riley has been an invalid for several years, and for the past six or eight months so seriously afflicted as to prevent her from fulfilling her sphere of usefulness to her family and friends. Every application known to skilled medical science, combined with tender and careful nursing, has been employed to stay the approach of the grim reaper, without avail. She bore the suffering of her combination of ills with Christian fortitude. She was a consistent member of the Methodist church and her daily walk and conversation an exemplification of her religious belief and teachings. Her remains ere interred in the Odd Fellows Rest at 4 oclock last Tuesday afternoon in the presence of a large concourse of relatives and friends, Rev. J. C. Johnson of the Baptist church officiating. A husband and four children survive to mourn their irreparable loss, who have the sincere sympathy of the entire community in their bereavement
Weimar Mercury, June 23, 1894, page 2
Riley, Willie
WILLIE RILEY, COLORED, DIED ON LAST WEDNESDAY
Willie Riley, about fifty-five years of age, who has spent the most of his life in and around Eagle Lake, died here last Wednesday, and was buried Thursday. He had been in ill health for more than two years and his death was not unexpected. He was well known to all of the older citizens of Eagle Lake, with whom he bore a good reputation and was well liked. [Place of interment unknown]
Eagle Lake Headlight, May 21, 1921
Ringgenberg, Lonnie G.
Final Rites For L. Ringgenberg, 64, Held Monday
Funeral services for Lonnie G. Ringgenberg, 64, farmer and cattleman of the Wildwood area the past 8 years, were held Monday afternoon, Nov. 12, at Hubbard Funeral Home, Rev. Howard MacAllister, pastor of First Methodist Church, officiated.
Burial was in the Masonic Cemetery, where members of the VFW and the American Legion served as pallbearers and held graveside military rites.
Mr. Riggenberg died Saturday, Nov. 10, at Youens Hospital, where he had been admitted the previous night.
Born Oct. 16, 1898, at Des Moines, Iowa, the son of John and Caroline Ringgenberg, he married Miss Mary Lena Stahl at La Grange on Sept. 3, 1940.
They moved to this section from Eagle Lake in May of 1954. Mr. Ringgenberg served 2 years and a month in the army during world War I and spent 18 months in France.
Surviving in addition to his widow is one sister, Mrs. Nellie Coon of Des Moines.
Weimar Mercury, November 15, 1962, page 1
Riordan, August W.
A.W. Riordan Rites Held Wed.
Funeral services were held here at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 5th, for August W. Riordan, 70, of Houston who passed away suddenly in the Methodist Hospital in Houston at 5 a.m. Monday. Mr. Riordan was an employee of the Holt’s Sporting Goods Store of Houston. The last rites were held from the Chapel of the Mill Bauer Funeral Home in Eagle Lake with the Rev. Windel Bell, Pastor of Colly Memorial United Methodist Church, officiating, interment was in the Lakeside Cemetery. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ernest Faber Riordan of 4003 Drummond, Houston; and a number of nieces . . . nieces. Mr. Riordan was born Jan. 15, 1899 in Galveston, Texas.
Eagle Lake Headlight, March 6, 1969
Contributed by Patti Hall-Smith
Rios, Estevan
A killing took place Wednesday morning about 8 o'clock, seven miles south of Weimar, in which Geo. Coley, white, and a Mexican named FaustIue Cordes killed with a shotgun another Mexican named Stephen Rivers. Judge Hancock left early In the morning for the scene of the trouble to make an investigation. Geo. Coley, we understand, formerly worked at the Michalke gin In this city. The accused men were arrested, and at their examining trial before Judge Hancock Wednesday afternoon, were remanded to jail without bail, to await the action of the grand jury in September. From the evidence adduced at the trial, the outlook Is very dark for the accused parties. [Place of interment unknown]
Weimar Mercury, June 27, 1896, page 3
Rios, Jenaro J. R.
Rios
Jenaro "J.R." Rios, 73, of Columbus, passed away July 3, at his home.
He was born June 10, 1935 in Glidden to Francisco and Juanita Gutierrez Rios. He married Helen Hernandez Rios Dec. 17, 1954. He worked as a service station attendant in the auto dealing business, enjoyed hunting and fishing and was a member of St. Anthony Catholic Church in Columbus.
He was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers, John, Manuel and Joe Rios and one sister, Santos Rocha.
He is survived by his wife; daughters, Dora Mancha and husband Francisco, Rosa Hinson, Diana Rios, Geneva Heger and husband Daniel, Angelita Rios and Darlene Rios, all of Columbus and Beatrice Carter of Fort Worth; sons, Jenaro Lee Rios Jr. of Fort Worth and Raymond David Rios and wife Mary of Columbus; sister, Lorrina Brune and husband Harry of Columbus and 24 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will take place July 9 at St. Anthony Catholic Church with Rev. Fr. Dan Kahlich and Deacon Bennie Holesovsky officiating. Interment will follow at St. Anthony Catholic Cemetery.
Pallbearers included are his children; Dora Mancho, Rosa Hinson, Diana, Angelica, Darlene, Jenaro Jr. and Raymond Rios, Geneva Heger and Beatrice Carter.
Colorado County Citizen, July 9, 2008
Courtesy The Citizen
Rios, Joe
Joe Rios
Joe Rios, 77, of Columbus, passed away Thursday, July 3 at Columbus Nursing and Rehabilitation in Columbus.
He was born March 22, 1931 in Glidden the son of Francisco and Juanita (Gutierrez) Rios.
Joe was married to Emma (Saenz) Rios.
He was employed as a truck driver and was a member of St. Anthony Catholic Church in Columbus.
He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, John Rios, Manuel Rios; and one sister, Santos Rocha.
Survivors include his son, James Rios and wife, Yolanda, of Rosenberg; grandchild, Cheryl Rios of Mississippi; brother, Jenaro J.R. Rios of Columbus (who passed away later the same day); sister, Lorrina Brune and husband, Harry, of Columbus; and numerous nieces and nephews.
A prayer service and rosary were held on Tuesday, July 8, at 7 p.m. at Henneke Funeral Home.
Funeral services were held Wednesday, July 9, at 10 a.m. at St. Anthony Catholic Church with Father Dan Kahlich and Deacon Bennie Holesovsky officiating. Burial followed in St. Anthony Catholic Cemetery in Columbus. Arrangements were under the direction Henneke Funeral Home in Columbus.
Pallbearer is Margaret Phelps.
Sympathy is extended to the family in their loss.
Eagle Lake Headlight, July 10th, 2008
Submitted by John Konesheck
Rios, Juanita (Montana)
Rios
Mrs. Juanita Rios, age 70, of Eagle Lake, passed away last Wednesday at 1:05 a.m., at the Eagle Lake Community Hospital following a sudden illness.
She was born in Lockhart, Texas on Nov. 22, 1917 to Jose M. Montana and Josefa Casanova Montana.
Mrs. Rios had lived in Eagle Lake since 1945 and was a member of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church.
She married Andres Rios in 1932 in Luling, Texas.
She was preceded in death by her parents, a daughter, Annie Coronado of Eagle Lake. Four brothers, Juan, Jimmy, Lupe, and Fermin Montana. Three sisters, Nicolasa Chapa, Paula Gonzales and Inocencia Nombrana.
Survivors include her husband of 56 years, Andres Rios of Eagle Lake, Daughter, Mrs. Mary Yanez of Austin and sons, Abraham Rios of Weimar, and Ben and George Rios both of Eagle Lake. Sisters, Dominga Torres and Frances Pavia both of San Marcos. Brother, Andres Montana of San Marcos. Twenty-three grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren. Numerous nieces, nephew and other relatives and loved ones.
A rosary was held from the Dulany Funeral Home Chapel at 6 p.m. Sept. 29. Funeral services followed at 1 p.m. Sept. 30. from Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church with Rev. Jesse Euresti officiating. [Interment in Lakeside Cemetery.]
Pallbearers were grandsons, Mario, Oscar and Robert Yanez. Michael, John, Daniel, Steve and Abraham Rios.
Colorado County Citizen, October 5, 1988, page 17
Rios, Leona (Garcia)
RIOS
Leona Rios, 74, of Columbus passed away April 1 at her residence.
She was born in Glidden Oct. 31, 1928 to Santiago and Eufermia Garcia and married Manuel Rios Feb. 17, 1951.
She was a retired custodian for Columbus Independent School District and a member of St. Anthony Catholic Church in Columbus. [Interment in St. Anthony Catholic Cemetery]
She was preceded in death by her parents; sons, Mario and Alvin Rios; daughter, Rebecca Rios; brothers, Frutoso Garcia, Jimmy Garcia, Marcus Garcia and Pedro Garcia; and sister Felipa Perez.
She is survived by her husband; daughters, Dora and husband Joe Martinez of Brookshire, Manuela Rios of Columbus, Cynthia Rios of Columbus and Delia Rios of Austin; sons, Larry and wife Vivian Rios of Red Rock, Ernie and wife Brenda Rios of Columbus, Gilbert and wife Bobbie Rios of Katy and Albert and wife Mary Lou Rios of Columbus; sister Olivia Ramirez of Columbus; 11 grandchildren; and 6 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were April 4 at Henneke Funeral Home in Columbus with Father Dan Kahlich officiating.
Colorado County Citizen, April 9, 2003
Courtesy of the Citizen
Rios, Manuel
Rios
Manuel Rios, 75 of Columbus, passed away Jan. 17 at St. Lukes Episcopal Hospital in Houston.
He was born in Glidden, Feb. 7, 1928 to Francisco and Juanita (Gutirrez) Rios and married Leona Garcia Feb. 17, 1951.
He worked as an electrician helper for Russell Renick Electric and Ronnie Rogers Electric and as a gravel pit truck driver.
He was preceded in death by his parents; wife; sons, Mario Rios and Alvin Rios; and daughter, Rebecca Rios.
He is survived by daughters and son-in-law, Dora and Joe Martinez of Eagle Lake, Manuela Rios of Columbus, Cynthia Rios of Columbus and Delia Rios of Kyle; sons and daughters-in-law, Larry and Vivian Rios of Red Rock, Ernie and Brenda Rios of Columbus, Gilbert Rios of Katy
and Albert and Mary Lou Rios of Columbus; sister, Lorena Brune of Columbus; brothers, Joe Rios of Sealy and Jenaro Rios of Columbus; 12 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted Jan. 20 at Henneke Funeral Home in Columbus with Deacon Bennie Holesovsky of St. Anthony Catholic
Church officiating. Interment followed at St. Anthony Catholic Cemetery in Columbus.
Pallbearers were Frank Lleverino, Michael Garcia, Dave Zurek, Raymond Rios, Ronnie Rogers and David Ramirez.
The Colorado County Citizen, January 21, 2004
Courtesy of The Citizen
Rios,Manuela Manny
Manuela "Manny" Rios
Manuela "Manny" Rios, 47, of Columbus passed away Wednesday, August 8 at Methodist Hospital in Houston.
She was born August 19, 1959 in Weimar.
"Manny" worked as a day care aid in Austin for many years before she became disabled 14 years ago due to an auto accident.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Manuel and Leona Garcia Rios; brothers, Mario Rios, Alvin Rios; and sister, Rebecca Rios.
She leaves to cherish her memory her son, Garrett Anthony Rios of Columbus; sisters, Dora Rios of Columbus, Cynthia Rios of Columbus, Delia Rios of Kyle; brothers, Larry Rios and wife, Vivian, of Red Rock, Ernest Rios and wife, Brenda, of Columbus, Gilbert Rios of Katy, Albert Rios and wife, Mary Lou, of Columbus.
Parish prayer service and rosary was held Friday, August 10 at 6 p.m. at Henneke Funeral Home. Funeral services were held Saturday, August 11 at 1 p.m. at Henneke Funeral Home in Columbus with Fr. Dan Kahlich officiating. Burial followed at St. Anthony Catholic Cemetery in Columbus.
Pallbearers were Frank Lleverino, Samuel Lleverino, Joseph Paul Rios, Richard Garcia, Pete Garcia, Michael Garcia and Rubin Perez.
Sympathy is extended to the family in their loss.
Eagle Lake Headlight, August 16th, 2007
Submitted by John Konesheck
Rios, Soledad (Enriquez)
Rios
Soledad "Charlene" Rios, 47, of Eagle Lake, passed away Tuesday, Jan. 7.
She was born April 8, 1955 in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico to Acencion and Manuela Enriquez. She was a resident of Eagle Lake for a number of years and former owner of Rios Truck Tarps in Eagle Lake, an employee of Rice School District's Middle School cafeteria, a housekeeper and homemaker. She was a member of the Roman Catholic Parish of the Nativity in Eagle Lake.
She was preceded in death by her father, Acencion Enriquez; and her companion of many years, Benny Moss.
She is survived by her mother, Maria Jesus Martinez, of Mexico; son, Victor Hernandez of Eagle Lake; two sisters and two brothers all of Mexico; her extended family Betty Frahm, Sue Holt, Robert and Karen Moss, Larry and Carolyn Moss, JoAnn and Bob Buster, Ernest and Susie Moss.
Funeral services were conducted Jan. 11, from the Roman Catholic Parish of the Nativity's Our Lady of Perpetual Help Sanctuary in Eagle Lake, with the Rev. Eddie Winkler officiating. Other ministers included Guadalupe Gasca, cross bearer; Karen Cranek, lector; Carmen Nunez, cantor; Patty Stephens, organist; and the Parish of the Nativity Choir. Gift Bearers were Ruby and Guadalupe Gasca; special ministers of Communion were Georgia Dierschke, Ruby and Guadalupe Gaska and Frances Posada and Mary Rodriguez. Paten Holders were Karen Cranek and Javier Rios. Interment followed at Lakeside Cemetery in Eagle Lake.
Pallbearers were Victor Hernandez, John Frahm, Larry Moss, Robert Moss, Mike Grigar and Mike Rios.
The family requests memorial contributions be directed to the Parish of the Nativity's Building Fund, P.O. Box 307, Eagle Lake, TX 77434.
Colorado County Citizen, January 15, 2003
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Ritter, Annie (Braden)
Mrs. Adam Ritter Services Held Monday at Mentz
Funeral services were held in St. Rochs Catholic church in Mentz Monday for Mrs. Adam Ritter, who died in Columbus hospital Saturday. Burial was in St. Rochs cemetery, with Rev. Andrew Didner officiating. Rosary was said at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joe Peikert, Sunday evening.
Mrs. Ritter would have been 78 April 1. She was born, Annie Braden in the Mentz area in 1878, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Braden, and had spent her entire life in that vicinity. She was married to Adam Ritter in Mentz and the couple celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary about 12 years ago at their home there. Mr. Ritter died 2 years ago.
Mrs. Ritter kept her home and did not break up housekeeping until she became ill about 4 months ago and went to live with the Peikerts.
Besides Mrs. Peikert, she is survived by another daughter, Mrs. Jesse Neuendorff; 5 grandchildren; also 4 sisters, Mrs. Sally Feist, Mrs. Tillie Feist, Mrs. Albert Streider and Mrs. Jesse Weishuhn, all of San Angelo; and 3 brothers, Felix and Andrew Braden of San Angelo and Herbert Braden of Mentz. All her sisters and brothers were present for the funeral services.
Pallbearers were her nephews, Elmer, Clifton, Harvey and Ray Braden, Presley Weishuhn and Simon Brod.
Colorado County Citizen, March 8, 1956, page 5
Ritterhaus, Otto
Mr. Otto Rittershaus, formerly a resident of Columbus, where he married Miss Kittie Yancy, died at his home in Chicago, Ill. Thursday night of last week, after a long illness of consumption. The body was embalmed and will be brought to Columbus for burial. The funeral will probably take place [Odd Fellows Rest] about next Tuesday. Mr. Rittershaus possessed numerous friends throughout the county, who will regret to hear of his death. The sincere sympathy of all is extended the bereaved wife.
Weimar Mercury, December 30, 1899
Rivenburgh, Edward D.
WEIMAR LOCAL MATTERS
It has become our pitiful duty to record the death of another good man. E. D. Rivenburgh died in Weimar at his family residence at 5 oclock, p.m., October 1, 1885, in his fortieth year. Mr. Rivenburgh was born in the state of Illinois; came to Texas a poor young man just after the late war, and in 1874 was happily married to Miss M. J. Lowrey, near Borden, in this county, by whom he had five children, two of whom are now dead. He joined the Baptist church in 1878. By industry and economy he had accumulated quite a nice little property. He leaves a wife and three small children to mourn the loss of a protector. Mr. R. was a kind husband, devoted father, and a good neighbor. His remains were followed to the grave [Weimar Odd Fellows Cemetery] by a large concourse of friends, and buried by the Knights of Honor, of which order he was a member. Religious services were held by the Rev. P. H. Hensley. May the blessings of high heaven rest upon the orphan children and lonely wife and mother in this hour of sore trial and bereavement.
Colorado Citizen, October 8, 1886
Tribute of Respect
The undersigned committee having been appointed to draft suitable resolutions respecting the death of Brother E. D. Rivenburgh, a member of Thomas Q. Mullin Lodge No 1500 Knights of Honor beg to report the following;
Whereas God in his wisdom did see proper by death to remove from among us at five oclock p. m. on the first day of October our dearly beloved brother, friend and neighbor E. D. Rivenburgh.
Be it Resolved That in the death of Brother Rivenburgh our Lodge has lost one of its most zealous members, the county of her best citizens, the wife (now widow) a kind husband and the three little orphan children an affectionate father. [Interment in Weimar Odd Fellows Cemetery]
Now, be it Resolved, That while we submissively bow to this dispensation of providence we sincerely feel our loss and acknowledge our brothers virtues and will endeavor to emulate them in our practices.
Resolved, That this Lodge wear the usual badge of mourning for the space of thirty days.
Resolved further, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of this Lodge, and that a copy be sent to the Weimar Gimlet for publication, and one furnished the bereaved family.
This 14th day of October, 1885,
S. McCORMICK,
A. F. ROSE,
B. HEFNER,
Committee.
Weimar Gimlet, October 15, 1885
Last Friday Mrs. E. D. Rivenburgh, of this place, received $2000 from the Knights of Honor, being the amount of insurance on the life of her husband, who died a short time ago. Within the last few years several members of the Knights of Honor have died in Weimar, and in each instance that lodge has paid the insurance promptly. This speaks well for the association, and is a practical showing of its merits as a life-insurance agency. It is not only an insurance agency, but its members are bound together in mutual ties of friendship. The lodge here is a creditable one, and no doubt the institution is a nobel one.
Weimar Gimlet, December 17, 1885
Rivenburgh, Lewis A.
Weimar Local Matters
Lewis, only son of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Rivensburgh, died Thursday evening last, at 56 oclock, of congestion of the bowels, aged seven years and eighteen[six] month, after about one weeks intense suffering; and was buried June the 1st, in the Odd Fellows Rest. Rev. P. H. Hensley performed the funeral obsequies. Little Lewis is gone, the one that gave has taken him to His own tender care. The little fellow had had much sickness during his short pilgrimage upon this earth. None but God can tell how the devoted parents miss his childish prattling. May Gods mercy sustain them in this sad hour of bereavement. How consoling that though their darling cant come to them they can go to him, in just a little while.
Colorado Citizen, June 7, 1883
Rivera, Joshua Peter
Rivera
Infant Joshua Peter Rivera, age 10 days, passed away December 28, at the Hermann Hospital in Houston.
Funeral services were held December 31, at the Wallis Bible Church with Reverend Jerry McKinney officiating. Burial was at Myrtle Cemetery in Rock Island.
Joshua was born December 18 at the Gulf Coast Medical Center in Wharton to Johnny Peter Rivera and Lori Janelle Fling Rivera of Garwood.
Survivors Include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rivera; grandparents, Mrs. Curtis Fling of Garwood and Mr. and Mrs. Valentin Rivera of New Gulf; two sisters, Rebecca Grace Rivera and Sarah Beth Rivera both of Garwood.
Colorado County Citizen, January 3, 1985, page 2
Rivera, Lupe (Pulido)
Lupe Pulido Rivera, 81, of Humble, died Wednesday, Feb. 16. 1994, in Houston.
Born September 12, 1912, in Mexico, she was the daughter of Roque and Eulalia (Villereal) Pulido. On Nov. 6, 1943, she married George F. Rivera. Mrs. Rivera was a member of St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Church in Humble.
Funeral services were held Saturday, Feb. 19, at St. Anthony Catholic Church in Columbus with Father Patrick Fidgeon officiating. Interment followed in St. Anthony Catholic Cemetery. Services were under the direction of Henneke Funeral Home, Columbus.
Pallbearers wee William Pulido, Daniel Salinas, Roque Castillo, Mike Garcia, Steve Salinas and Ricky Pulido.
Mrs. Rivera is survived by her husband of Humble; daughters and sons-in-law Virginia and Tom Ells and Ruth and Syd Phillips, all of Houston, and Margie and David Bailey of Raleigh, NC; sons Eloy Solis of Austin and George Rivera Jr. of Denver, CO; sisters Mary Ramirez of Columbus and Carmen Torres of Houston; brothers Frank Pulido and Roy Pulido, both of Columbus, and Joe Pulido of Katy; 11 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a son, Rudy Solis.
Colorado County Citizen, February 23, 1994
Transcription by Dennis Boatright
 
Rivera, Miguel Cabellero
Rivera
Miguel Cabellero Rivera Sr., 69, of Houston, passed away Sept. 8.
He was born in Cuero, May 8, 1935 to Benjamin and Estefana (Cabellero) Rivera.
He was preceded in death by his parents; and two brothers.
He is survivors by his daughters, Minerva Rivera, Blanca Huerta, Kay Rendon, Stacy Gutierrez Greta Rivera of Houston, Yvette Rivera of Sealy and Letty Delgado of Eagle Lake; sons, Mike Rivera Jr. of Houston and Desi Rivera of Eagle Lake; brothers, Toby Galvan of Beaumont and Joe Basalbua of Houston; and grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted from the Chapel of Dulany Funeral Home in Eagle Lake Sept. 11 with the Rev. Paul Aguilar officiating. Interment followed at Lakeside Cemetery in Eagle Lake.
Pallbearers were Paul Rivera, Mike Rivera Jr., Gretta Rivera, Gabriel Rendon, Rey Gutierrez and Joe Chavez.
Colorado County Citizen, September 15, 2004
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Roberdeau, James Daniel
Death of Capt. J. D. Roberdeau.
Died, at Austin, Wednesday morning, after a short illness, Capt. J. D. Roberdeau, in his 80th year. Captain Roberdeau was among the most prominent men in Texas.
He was for some time in the land office at Austin; belonged to Hoods Brigade; organized and was captain of company B., of the 4th Texas. He married Miss Willie McCormick, daughter of the lamented Col. W. B. McCormick of Weimar, in November, 1865, in Colorado Co., and was among the first past masters of Weimar lodge, No. 423, A. F. & A. M., and at the time of his death was a most honored member of Austin lodge No. 12.
He was mayor of Weimar in the early 70,s and was an able executive. Captain Roberdeau"s wife and six sons survive him. Major R. C. Roberdeau, cashier of the American Nat. Bank of Austin, Archer Roberdeau of Beaumont, and Ney, George, J. D. Jr., and Sully of Austin. By request of Austin lodge, No. 12, Weimar lodge conducted the funeral ceremony. The remains were interred in the family lot in the Masonic cemetery, Thursday afternoon, May 19.
Members of the masonic fraternity from Austin, Columbus, Schulenburg, Eagle Lake and Oakland were among the friends attending the funeral from over the state, who mingled their sorrow with that of the citizenship of Weimar and this section. The Mercury extends its deepest condolence to the bereaved in their irreparable loss.
Weimar Mercury, May 20, 1910, page 8
Roberdeau, James Daniel, Jr.
Funeral Rites for J. D. Roberdeau, 63, Held Here Sunday
Funeral services for James Daniel Roberdeau, Jr., 63, of Houston, were held in Weimar Sunday afternoon, from the Hubbard Funeral Home, with the Rev. S. R. Horwood, local Methodist minister, officiating. Interment was made in the Weimar Masonic Cemetery.
Mr. Roberdeau was a son of the late J. D. and Willie McCormick Roberdeau. He was born Aug. 4, 1880, and died July 30, 1943, at his home in Houston after a long illness. He had been ill for many hears. He had been a resident of Houston for the past 25 years. At the time of his death he was a retired railroad employe. He was a member of the Methodist Church.
Survivors include three brothers, A. P. Roberdeau of Houston, Geo. Roberdeau of Austin and Ney Roberdeau of Fort Worth. Two brothers, Roger and Sully preceded him in death.
Mr. Roeberdeau was a relative of the McCormick, Hubbard and Dr. Cook families of this place to whom the Mercury extends condolence.
Weimar Mercury August 6, 1943
Roberdeau, Lucy
Died, in Austin, Texas, at 10 p.m. on the 15th inst., Lucy, little daughter of Capt. J. D. and Mrs. Willie Roberdeau. We extend the grief stricken parents our sincere condolence.
: Early, bright, transient,
Chaste as morning dew.
She sparkled, was exhaled,
And went to Heaven.
[Interment in Weimar Masonic Cemetery]
Colorado Citizen, September 18, 1879
Roberdeau, Virginia Dare
DIED
At Weimar, Texas, October 22, 1874, VIRGINIA DARE, age one year and six months, daughter of J. D. & Willie McCormick Roberdeau.
"Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of Heaven"
(Alexandria, Va., Gazette, please copy.)
[Interment in Weimar Masonic Cemetery]
Colorado Citizen, October 22, 1874
Roberdeau, Willie Sarepta (McCormick)
Death Claimed Mrs. Roberdeau
Austin, Tex., April 10. -- Mrs. Willie McCormick Roberdeau was born in Fairfax county, Virginia, April 8, 1845, and came to Texas with her father, W. B. McCormick, in 1958, the family settling in Colorado county, where many relatives reside. She was married to Captain J. D. Roberdeau November 30, 1865, who passed away just eleven months since. She is survived by six sons, R. C., N. M., G. M., J. D., Jr., and S. B. Roberdeau of Austin and A. P. Roberdeau, of Houston, and three sisters, Mrs. A. E. Hill, Miss Donie McCormick, of Weimar, and Mrs. J. L. Pickens of Halletsville.
The interment will take place in the family burying ground [Weimar Masonic Cemetery] at Weimar Wednesday. Mrs. Roberdeau was a member of the Methodist church all her life, and was prominent in the work of the Daughters of the Confederacy and was prominent in this section of the State.--Houston Post.
The remains arrived here Wednesday afternoon on the east bound train and were laid to rest beside her husband in the masonic cemetery, followed by a large concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends. The Mercury joins many friends in extending heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved.
Weimar Mercury, April 14, 1911
Roberson, Robert Lee
Last Rites Held For R. L. Roberson, 19-Year Resident
Last rites for Robert Lee Roberson, 65, retired Columbus businessman, were held Tuesday afternoon in Columbus Funeral home with Rev. W. F. Hathaway officiating. Mr. Roberson had been in the Veterans hospital in Huston about a week and died there Sunday. He suffered with heart trouble.
Mr. Roberson had lived in Columbus about 19 years and a one time was associaed with the Lucks Bottleing co. here. He had worked in variious other businesses here at other times.
He was born in Sedalia, Mo., June 3, 1891.
Survivors include his widow; a sister, Mrs. Mary E. Bolen of beaumont; and a brother, Mark Roberson of Dallas.
Burial was in Odd Fellows Rest cemetery here. Pallbearres were Fred Roberson, Leslie King, A. J. Struss, J. D. Seymour Sr., Louis Voskamp and Reginald Taylor.
Colorado County Citizen, May 19, 1960, page 10
Roberts
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Robertson, A. M.
Eagle Lake, Feb. 26.--A. M. Robertson, nearly 90 years of age died here at an early hour yesterday morning. [Place of interment unknown]
Weimar Mercury, March 2, 1907, page 1
Robertson, Easter
Two of Colored Race Die Sunday Night.
There were two deaths Sunday night of well known negro women of this city. Aunt Easter Robertson, an aged woman who has lived here by many years, died that night, and the other death was that of the wife of Jesse Allison, a well known negro man of this place. Both funerals were held the first of the week at the colored peoples burying ground west of town.
Weimar Mercury, March 16, 1917, page 1
Robertson, Pearl (Tabor)
ROBERTSON FUNERAL HELD
Funeral services were held at the First Baptist church Friday for Mrs. W. W. Robertson, former Columbus resident, who died at Austin the day before. Burial was in Odd Fellows Rest with Rev. W. M. Davis officiating. Columbus Funeral Home had charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Robertson had been in bed since she suffered a stroke on January 10, 1946.
Born Pearl Tabor at Bryan on July 4, 1868, she was a daughter of William H. and Belle Maltby Tabor. She was married on July 14, 1889 to W. W. Robertson of Lytton Springs. The couple came to Columbus in 1911 and Mr. Robertson died on March 21, 1941. Mrs. Robertson had been residing in Austin for the past four years.
She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Ray Yates of Austin and Mrs. Harden Forister of Karnes City; seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Here from out-of-town for the funeral services were Mr. and Mrs. Yates, Mr. and Mrs. Forister and Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Cherico, Bill Cherico, Walter Guttman, Margaret Weir, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Miller and Mrs. Harry Dearling, Austin; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sydler and Ordell Forister, San Antonio; and Miss Martha Cherico, Harlingen.
Pallbearers were Sam K. Seymour Jr., N. L. Goodwin, E. C. Fehrenkamp, J. W. Zwiegel, B. A. Hastings and Ellis Miller.
March 1947 Columbus newspaper clipping
Contributed by M. C. Forister
Robertson, William Woods
FUNERAL SERVICES ARE HELD HERE FOR W. W. ROBERTSON
Funeral services for William Woods Robertson, 78, public weigher of precinct No. 1, were held Saturday afternoon at Columbus Funeral Home, Rev. J. Manley Reynolds, pastor of First Baptist Church, officiating. He died at his residence here early Friday morning.
Mr. Robertson had lived in Columbus 33 years. He was a member of the Baptist church. He was born June 19th, 1862, at Lockhart.
He married Miss Pearl Tabor, granddaughter of Major and Mrs. J. W. Tabor of Bryan, July 14th, 1889, at Bryan.
Survivors include his widow of Columbus; two daughters, Mrs. Maude Yates of Austin and Mrs. Martha Forister of Karnes City; one sister, Mrs. John Coopwood of Lytton Springs.
Interment was made in Odd Fellows Rest. Pallbearers were E. G. Miller, H. Braden, S. K. Seymour Jr., Lester Hastedt, B. A. Hastings and J. W. Zwiegel.
Honorary pallbearers were members of Mr. Robertson's Sunday School class.
Those from out of town who attended the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Forister and Mr. and Mrs. Afton Forister of Karnes City, Mr. and Mrs. Ordell Forister of San Antonio, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Yates and children of Austin, John Coopwood of Lytton Springs, Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Coopwood and son of Luling.
Mrs. Wilbur Turner, Mrs. Weaver Hill and Miss Genevieve Haybes [Haynes] of Austin, Mrs. F. W. Mally, Mrs. J. B. Gillmer, Miss Virginia Gilmer, Miss Norma Shaw of San Antonio, Mrs. W. A. Dayvault Jr. of Glen Flora [Wharton County] and Mrs. Russell Hall of San Antonio.
March 1941 Columbus newspaper clipping
Contributed by M. C. Forister
Robinson, Albert Lee "Al"
ROBINSON
Albert L. "Al" Robinson, 74, of Richmond, Ind., formerly of Rock Island, passed away March 21 in Richmond, Ind.
He was born in Williamsburg, Ind. April 19, 1928 to Hubert and Gertrude Robinson and married Norma Jane Pennington Nov. 25, 1953.
He was a retired restaurant owner and served in the U.S. Army in Korea. He was also a member of the Moose Lodge #167 and United Ancient Order of Druids of Richmond, Ind., V.F.W. # 6113 and The American Legion Post #383 of Columbus.
He was preceded in death by his parents; wife; and son, Kelly Robinson.
He is survived by daughters, Bonnie and husband Larry Rinard of Sullivan, Ind. and Cynthia and husband Jerry Hooper of Mission; sons, Gary and wife Sharon Robinson of Quinlain and Mark and wife Sandra Robinson of Columbus; grandchildren, Terry Hooper, Jeremiah Hooper, Zachariah Hooper, Cody Robinson, Kaylee Robinson, Koree Robinson, Tammy Rinard Montgo-mery and Everett Rinard; and great-grandchildren, Jessica Montgomery, Eric Montgomery, Trent Rin-ard, Kendra Rinard, Kyle Rinard and Austin Rinard.
Funeral services were April 12 at Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery in Columbus with Pastor Wes Jacobsen officiating.
Interment followed at the Cemetery in Columbus
Colorado County Citizen, April 16, 2003
Courtesy of the Citizen
Robinson, Charles Edward
Charles Edward "Big Daddy" Robinson
September 11, 1948 - June 21, 2003
Charles Edward "Big Daddy" Robinson passed away Saturday, June 21, 2003.
He was born September 11, 1948, in Eagle Lake, the second child of Stacey and Olivia Robinson.
Charles graduated from Eagle Lake High School and confessed Christ at an early age.
He held various jobs; most recently he was a construction worker.
Preceded in death by his mother,Olivia; left to cherish his memories are a devoted wife, Rosie Robinson; two daughters, Carrie and Ursula Robinson; a step-son, Thomas, all of Houston; father, Stacey B. Robinson of Texas City; a brother, Gerald Robinson of Houston; a sister, Linda Shorter of Eagle Lake; three nephews; two nieces; three great-nieces; aunts; cousins and many friends.
Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 28, from Providence Missionary Baptist Church in Eagle Lake with Rev, Coby Shorter Jr., pastor, officiating.
Interment followed in Eagle Lake Cemetery East.
Final arrangements were entrusted to Ben Davis Funeral Home in Columbus.
Pallbearers were George Whitelow, Hubbard Ashton, Joskie Shropshire, Willie Cleveland, Clifford Austin and Willie Jackson, Jr.
Honorary pallbearers were Nick Shorter; Marlen, Cory and Gerald Robinson; Stanley and Gene Smith; Edward and Douglas Baker; Rev. Lewis Smith; Rev. John Smith; Rev. Paul Smith; and Curt McTear.
Sympathy is extended to the family in their loss.
Eagle Lake Headlight, July 3, 2003
Transcribed by John Konesheck
Robinson, China
CHINA ROBINSON, COLORED, DIED SATURDAY MORNING
China Robinson, colored, about fifty yeas of age, who has lived in and around Eagle Lake practically all of his life, died here at an early hour last Saturday morning. He had been in poor health for five or six months. China was one of the old-time negroes about town and was well known to all, both white and colored. The funeral took place Saturday afternoon with interment in the colored cemetery. [exact cemetery unknown] China’s death ws due to dropsical trouble.
Eagle Lake Headlight, December 29, 1917
Robinson, Elizabeth (Weller)
MEMBER OF OLD-TIME COLUMBUS FAMILY BURIED IN AUSTIN
The ashes of Mrs. Legal Robinson of New York City were buried in Austin after services Sunday. Mrs. Robinson, in her late 80's, was the former Elizabeth Weller, daughter of Dr. Cyrus Otway and Florence Burford Weller, who was born in Columbus. The Weller family lived on the lot where Mansfield library now stands. Her father Dr. Weller, was once partner-owner of the present Zumwalt Pharmacy. She was a sister of the late Drs. Clarence and Burford Weller of Austin and the late McLeary Weller of New York City. She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Eugene Sydnor, of Richmond, Va. Mrs. Robinson was a cousin of Mrs. Lizzie Hahn, Mrs. W. M. Paulsen and Mrs. Truman McMahan of Columbus.
The Colorado County Citizen, Thursday, January 19, 1961, Columbus, Texas.
Submitted by David Hahn
Robinson, James Joe
James Joe Robinson
Funeral services for James Joe Robinson of Columbus were held Jan. 8 at Olive Branch Baptist Church in Glidden, with the Rev. James Mosely officiating.
Interment was at Willing Workers Cemetery.
Mr. Robinson was born Nov. 24, 1892 in Snook and Died Jan. 2 in Houston. He servied in the Army during World War I and was honorably discharged.
He married Lizzie Maud Williams Robinson on Dec. 30, 1922. She preceded him in death on Dec. 23, 1973.
Like his father before him, Mr. Robinson attended Prairie View A&M where he studied agriculture and education. He moved to Columbus and began his professional career in the Glidden schools where he taught for 26 years.
In addition to teaching, he was the owner-operator of Robinson Funeral Homes in Columbus, Eagle Lake and Brookshire and was the founder-owner of Robinson Burial Association. He also was an insurance agent for an Atlanta, Ga. Insurance company.
Survivors include his children, Kermit Robinson of Houston, Leonard and Jimmy Robinson of California, Sarah Robinson WIlliams of Prairie View and Charles Branch of Houston; one sister, Ruby Ford of Galveston, and eight grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife, his parents and two brothers.
Colorado County Citizen, February 14, 1980 page 2
Transcribed by Laurie Albrecht
Robinson, Paul C.
Paul C. Robinson, 57, of Houston passed away on Friday, August 25, 1995, at 2:15 p.m. at Northwest Houston Medical Center. He was born on January 20, 1938, in Houston to Jeff and Ella Hargrove Robinson. He grew up in Rock Island and later returned to Houston, where he resided most of his life. He had been active in the Rock Island Full Gospel Church. He was preceded in death by his parents. Survivors include two sisters, Eloise Blasberg of Houston and Deeda Scott of Rock Island; a brother, Kenneth J. Robinson of Houston; a number of nieces, nephews, other relatives and loved ones. Graveside services and interment were held at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, August 28, from the Myrtle Cemetery in Rock Island with Ford Scott and Ray Hopkins officiating. Dulany Funeral Home of Eagle Lake was in charge of arrangements. Sympathy is extended to the family in their loss.
Eagle Lake Headlight, August 31, 1995
Contributed by Patti Hall-Smith
Robinson, Norma "Jane" (Pennington)
Robinson
Jane Robinson, 63, of Rock Island, died Wednesday, Aug. 5, 1998, at her residence.
Born Jun3 15, 1935, she was the daughter of Amos F. and Kathryn (Allen) Pennington. On Nov. 25, 1953, she married Albert Lee Robinson. Mrs. Robinson, who had lived in Rock Island for 20 years, was a homemaker.
Services were held Aug. 8 at Henneke Funeral Home in Columbus with Rev. Nick Williams officiating. Interment followed in Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery in Columbus.
Serving as pallbearers were Keith Nance, Kenney Nance, Larry Pence, Jim Ross, Lee Girndt and Bob Anderson. Honorarypallbearers were S. G. Pence and Kennerth Nance.
Mrs. Robinson is survived by her husband, of Rock Island; daughter and son-in-law, Cynthia and Jerry Hooper of McAllen; sons Mark Robinson and wife Sandra of Columbus, Gary Robinson and wife Sheri of Quinlan, and Kelley Robinson of Mission; step-daughter Bonnie Renard and husband Larry of Sullivan, Ind; and grandchildren Cody Robinson, Terry Hooper, Jeremiah Hooper, Zachariah Hooper, Kaylee Robinson and Koree Robinson.
She was preceded in death by her parents, and a brother, Dick Pennington.
Colorado County Citizen, Wednesday, August 12, 1998
Robinson, Sandra (Kansteiner)
ROBINSON
Sandra Kansteiner Robinson, 46, of Columbus, passed away, Aug. 26 at Colorado-Fayette Medical Center in Weimar.
She was born in Weimar, Jan. 18, 1959 to Waco and Mary Ann (Keyser) Kansteiner and married Mark Robinson, July 10, 1982. She was an eighth grade American History teacher at Columbus ISD, a member of the Colorado County Fair Board, Rock Island Volunteer Fire Department and Chairman of the Colorado County Junior Fair Board. She was also a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Columbus.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
She is survived by her husband; daughters and son-in-law, Kaylee and Daryl Brune of New Ulm and Koree Robinson of Columbus; and brother, Neal Kansteiner.
Funeral services were conducted Aug. 29 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Columbus with the Rev. Wes Jacobson officiating. Interment followed at Myrtle Cemetery in Rock Island.
Pallbearers were Bill Krenek, Bobby Hopkins, Kenneth Perry, Jerry Henneke, Gary Leopold, Jimbo Coyle, Bob Kent, Roger Bayless, Keith Nance and Max Girndt.
The Colorado County Junior Fair Board and Columbus Junior High School faculty and staff served as honorary pallbearers.
Colorado County Citizen, August 31, 2005
Courtesy of The Citizen
Robson, John Heron
Obituary.
On the 21st of last month closed the earthly career of our fellow townsman, John H. Robson. Mr. Robson was born in Dumfrees, Scotland, in 1828, where he was raised and educated. In 1847, he left Scotland, and came to seek a home in the sunny land of Texas. He arrived in Columbus the following year. He subsequently read law, obtained license and located in this place.
Mr. Robson was a man of high social qualities, splendid talent a highly cultivated mind, and was eminently worthy the position he occupied in social circles. He had his faults, who has not?
Mr. Robson was a true patriot, and loved his adopted country.
In his death, society has lost one of its brightest ornaments, our State one if its most useful citizens and the Bar one of its most accomplished and learned members.
May he who “tempers the wind to the shorn lamb,” be a husband and a father to the sorrowing wife and his cherub boys. [Interment in Columbus City Cemetery]
A Friend
Colorado Citizen Columbus, December 1, 1860
Contributed by Roger Wade
Robson, William Afflick
SUDDEN DEATH.--About half-past three o’clock yesterday evening, Mr. W. A. Robson, a young man about twenty-five years of age, and a native of Columbus, died very suddenly at Bob White’s restaurant, in this city. The jury of inquest determined that he died of paralysis of the heart. He had been dissipating for a week past, and was in a melancholy mood, several times threatening to poison himself. His mother is absent on a visit to Jackson county, for the benefit of her health. He was the son of John H. Robson, Esq., of our city, who died in 1859, one of the most brilliant lawyers of our State. [Interment in Columbus City Cemetery]
Colorado Citizen, February 10, 1881 page 3
Rocha
FIVE CHILDREN BURN TO DEATH AT COLUMBUS
Two Mexican children were burned to death and three more were so badly burned that they died later, when a fire, started by the explosion of a can of kerosene, destroyed their home in Columbus early Monday morning.
The dead, all children of John and Ruiz[Santos (Rios)] Rocha, are: Catalina, 6; Joe[Frank], 3, who were dead when found; Josephine. 3 months; Joe, 7; and Angelita. 5, who died one by one in the John Bell Memorial Hospital, Columbus. during the day Monday. The last one died about 2:20 in the afternoon.
Ruiz [Santos], the mother, is recovering from burns in the hospital. The father had gone to work when the fire occurred.
The mother told investigators she had fixed her husband’s breakfast and gone back to bed. A short time two of the children, 6 and 3 years of age, had gotten up and fixed their breakfast, which they were eating when the explosion came. It apparently was caused by the gallon can of kerosene being too near the stove. The mother and the other children had to pass through the flaming kitchen to reach the outside door.
The Rochas are a young couple, each about 35 years old. The fire wiped out their entire family. The bodies were prepared for burial by Untermeyer Bros. of Columbus. [Interment was made in Columbus City Cemetery.]
Weimar Mercury, November 21, 1941, page 1
Rocha, Juan
Rocha
Funeral services were held for Juan Rocha Saturday, October 4 at St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Columbus under the direction of Henneke Funeral Home with the Father Tim Kosler officiating.
Rosary was held Friday, October 3 at Henneke Funeral Home. Burial was at St. Anthony's Catholic Cemetery in Columbus.
Mr. Rocha was born June 24, 1911 in Highbank, Texas to Jose Rocha and. Concha Laguna Rocha. He married Santos Rios Rocha February 5, 1933. He was a retired gravel pit machine operator for Parker Brothers.
He was affiliated with St. Anthony's Catholic Church;.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Santos Rios Rocha November 16,1978.
Survivors include three daughters, Frances Estrada of Columbus, Gloria Scheel of Houston and Janie Thomas of Katy; one niece, Phyllis Mancias of San Antonio; and six grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Fred Hernandez, George Hernandez, Harry Brune, Pablo Perez, Arthur Rios and Natividad Banegas.
Colorado County Citizen, October 9, 1986
Roche, John
Report of Vital Statistics
For the month of November, 1908:
DEATHS-MEXICAN
John Roche, Nov. 9, 4 months and 6 days. [burial place unknown]
Weimar Mercury, December 18, 1908
Rod, Annie
Mrs. Annie Rod Dies At County Farm
Mrs. Annie Rod, about 85, who had lived at the county farm 30 years or more, was buried in the Old City Cemetery here Monday . She died Sunday.
Not much could be learned about the aged lady. It was reported that she was a resident of Oakland at one time, and she was not known to have had any visitors during the time she was at the county farm.
She had been in poor health for some time.
Columbus Funeral home was in charge of the burial.
Colorado County Citizen, July 1, 1954
Rodgers, Alton E.
Train Accident At Columbus Fatal To Alton Rodgers
Alton Rodgers, 36,formerly of the Oak Grove area south of here, was killed instantly last Wednesday afternoon, May 28, when a locomotive under which he was working was pushed by another train.
Relatives here said both is legs were cut off, his neck was broken and his body and face were otherwise mangled.
The tragic accident occurred at the Thorstenberg and Tamborello gravel pit near Columbus, in the Ramsey vicinity. Mr. Rodgers was believed to have been investigating the brakes on his locomotive, commonly known as a "dinky", which he had been driving. The other locomotive and string of cars was driven by Albert Stern, also formerly of here.
Funeral services were held Friday morning at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Columbus with burial in the Mentz (Zoar) cemetery.
Born at Oak Grove, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Rodgers, who now live at Columbus, Mr. Rodgers attended the Oak Grove school before entering military service in World War II. He had worked for the gravel company several years.
Surviving in addition to his parents are his wife, the former Bernice Luedecke whom he married in 1946; one daughter, Susan 9; twin sons, Donald and Daniel, 5; two sisters, Mrs. Leo Kohleffel of Columbus and Mrs. Tom Holland of Houston; and a brother, Lester Rodgers of Jacksonville.
Weimar Mercury, June 6, 1958
Transcribed by Judy Talkington
Rodgers
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Rodriguez, Aurora P. (Barrios)
Rodriguez
Mrs. Aurora P. Rodriguez, age 63, of Eagle Lake, passed away May 14 at the MD Anderson Hospital in Houston after a lengthy illness.
Funeral services were held for Mrs. Aurora P. Rodriguez Sunday May 18 at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church with the Rev. Ray Widacki officiating.
Burial was held at Lakeside Cemetery in Eagle Lake. Arrangements were under the direction of Dulany FuneraI Home in Eagle Lake.
Mrs. Rodriguez was born in Kaufman on August 24, 1922 to Simon Barrios and Cruz Palacios Barrios. She had been a resident of Eagle Lake most of her life and a member of Our Lady Guadalupe Catholic Church in Eagle Lake.
Survivors include one son, Cecilio Montoya of Woodbridge, Virginia; six brothers, Acario Barrios of Eagle Lake, Manuel Barrios of Crystal City, Jesus and John Barrios both of Houston, Pedro Barrios of Lamesa and Miguel Barrios of Lulin[sic]; five grandchildren, numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives.
Colorado County Citizen, May 29, 1986, page 2
Rodriguez, Donna (Maddox) Liles
Rodriguez
Donna Liles Rodriguez, 57, of Columbus, passed away April 20 at her residence.
She was born in West Frankfort, Ill, Aug. 13, 1949 to Richard and Norma (Smith) Maddox.
She was preceded in death by her parents; and stepfather, Sam Giamalva.
She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Whitney and Dewayne Johnson of Columbus; sons and daughter-in-law, Jarrod Rodriguez of Columbus and Tracy and Teana Liles of LaPorte; sisters, Valerie Lee of Missouri City and Cindy Giamalva and partner Stephanie Welch of Houston; brothers, Richard Maddox, Tracy Giamalva and Cary Giamalva all of Pasadena and Oscar Giamalva of Houston; and nine grandchildren, Aaron Ramirez, Reese and Cameron Johnson, Taylor, Kasey and Ashley Rodriguez, and Nicole, Leah and Free Liles.
Funeral services were conducted at Henneke Funeral Home in Columbus Sunday, April 22 with Chaplain Don A. Storey Sr. officiating. [Place of interment unknown]
Colorado County Citizen, April 25, 2007
Courtesy The Citizen
Rodriguez, Doris Ann (Ybarra)
Rodriguez
Doris Ann Rodriguez, 29, of Columbus died Tuesday, Sept. 26, 1995 at Memorial Southwest Hospital in Houston.
Born March 28, 1966 in Yoakum, she was the daughter of Joe Angel and Mary (Cuellar) Ybarra. On June 7, 1987, she married Juan Rodriguez. Mrs. Rodriguez, who was a housewife, was a member of St. Anthony Catholic Church in Columbus.
Funeral services were held Sept. 28 at St. Anthony Catholic Church with Father Dan Kahlich officiating. Interment followed in St. Anthony Catholic Cemetery in Columbus. Services were under the direction of Henneke Funeral Home in Columbus.
Pallbearers were Johnny Ray Ramirez, Robert Ybarra, David Herrera, Joe Ybarra, Benjamin Ybarra and Simon Herrera Jr.
Mrs. Rodriguez is survived by her husband of Columbus; her mother, Mary Espanoza; her daughter, Sara Marie Rodriguez; sisters, Doringa Garcia and Angela Marie Herrera of Columbus, Mary Jane Garcia of Yoakum; Pauline Flores of Dayton; Francis Entiquez of El Campo and Linda Cuellar of Weimar; brothers, Joe Ybarra Jr., Benjamin Ybarra, David Herrera and Simon Herrera Jr. of Columbus, John Ray Ramirez of Lockhart and Robert Ybarra of Houston.
Colorado County Citizen, October 11, 1995, page 14
Rodriguez, Eusebia (Talavera)
Rodriguez
Eusebia Rodriguez, 91, of Eagle Lake, passed away March 14, at Columbus Community Hospital.
She was born Aug. 14, 1912 in Gonzales, to Juan and Julia (Arce) Talavera. She was a resident of Eagle Lake for most of her life and a member of the Parish of the Nativity in Eagle Lake.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Marcelino Frank Rodriguez; sisters, Mary Del Toro, Aurora, Carolota and Petra Talavera; and brothers, Manuel and Teseso De Jesus Talavera.
She is survived by daughters, Beatrice Rodriguez of Eagle Lake and Lydia Rojas of Glidden; sister, Andrea Ybarra; 10 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and 10 great-great grandchildren.
A vigil service is scheduled for Wednesday, March 17, at 7 p.m., from the Chapel of Dulany Funeral Home. Mass of Christian Burial will be Thursday, March 18, at 10 a.m., from the Parish of the Nativity's Our Lady of Perpetual Help Sanctuary with the Rev. Eddie Winkler officiating. Interment will follow at Lakeside Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Ray Hernandez, Carlos Hernandez, Adam Torrez, Rodney Rodriguez, Gregory Hernandez and Esteba Hernandez Jr.
Honorary Pallbearers were B.G. Rodriguez, Bacilio Rodriguez Jr., Francisco Rojas, Michael Brammer, Jose Hernandez, Henry Rodriguez and Jason Rodriguez.
The Colorado County Citizen, March17, 2004
Courtesy of The Citizen
Rodriguez, Guadalupe (Rubalcaba)
Guadalupe R. Rodriguez
Guadalupe R. Rodriguez passed away August 29 in Weimar.
She was born February 5, 1925 in Gregory, Texas.
Guadalupe was a housewife and member of the Catholic Parish of the Nativity.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Jesus R. Rodriguez; three brothers, Manuel, Pedro and Oscar Rubalcaba; a sister, Suzanna Solis; a son, Rafael Rodriguez; a daughter, Angelita Rodriguez; and one great-grandchild, Justin Paul Supak Aviles.
Survivors include, sons and daughter-in-law, Reynaldo and Mary Ann Rodriguez of Columbus and Nicholas Rodriguez of Beasley; daughters and son-in-law, Estella Rodriguez and Elida and Mark Salazar all of Eagle Lake; brothers, Cemente, Felix, Pablo, Benjamin and Longino Rubalcaba, Jr.; grandchildren, Federico R. and James R. Aviles, Chrissy, Melony, Dusty and Matthew Rey Rodriguez, Kathryn Desiree and Sophia Salazar, Ross, Marla and Jennifer Hounshell; two great-grandchildren, Justin Blake Meynier and Dianna Elizabeth Isabell; and other relatives and loved ones.
Funeral services were held Saturday, September 2 at 10 a.m. from the Parish of the Nativity Church with Father Robert Guerra officiating. Interment followed in the Immaculate Conception Cemetery in Sealy. Eagle Lake Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Pallbearers were Federico Aviles, James Aviles, Raul Rubalcaba, Miguel Rubalcaba, Lois Rubalcaba, Eliseo Martinez, Ross Hounshell and Francisco Chavira.
Sympathy is extended to the family in their loss.
Eagle Lake Headlight, September 7th, 2006
Submitted by John Konesheck
Rodriguez, Jesus Gomez "Jesse"
Funeral services for Jesse Gomez Rodriguez, 59, of Eagle Lake were held Saturday morning from Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. Rev. Tom Hanus officiated.
Interment was in Lakeside Cemetery under the direction of Mill-Bauer Funeral Home in Eagle Lake.
Rodriguez died Thursday, Jan. 28, in a Galveston hospital.
He was born Aug. 26, 1922 in Wharton, the son of Juan and Josephine Gomez.
Rodriguez had been an Eagle Lake resident since 1931 and was a retired employee of the City of Eagle Lake. He was a member of the Catholic Church.
He is survived by his wife, Accacion of Eagle Lake; four daughters, Mary Cumpian, Rose Granillo, Gloria and Lisa Rodriguez, all of Eagle Lake; eight sons, Jesse Jr., Joe, Manuel, John, Richard, Robert, Sam and David, all of Eagle Lake; one brother, Bacilio Rodriguez of Eagle Lake; and 18 grandchildren.
Colorado County Citizen, February 4, 1982
Transcribed by Dennis Boatright
Rodriguez, Jesusa "Susie" (Ramirez)
Rodriguez
Jesusa "Susie" Ramirez Rodriguez, 67, of Eagle Lake, passed away 7 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 9, at the McAllen Medical Center in McAllen following an extended illness.
She was a native of Hidalgo County, born Feb. 5, 1936 in Edinburg to Jose H. Ramirez and Anastacia B. Ramirez. She had been a resident of Eagle Lake for most of her life and led a career in dietary and custodial work for 35 years with the Eagle Lake and Rice school districts. She also worked as a waitress for Taco Tony's Restaurant of Eagle Lake and was a member of the Roman Catholic Parish of the Nativity in Eagle Lake.
She was preceded in death by her parents and brother, Jose Ramirez.
She is survived by husband, Hipolito Rodriguez of Eagle Lake; children, San Juanita Navarro and husband Antonio of Rosenberg, Eva Salinas of San Antonio. Maria Rodriguez of Eagle Lake, Mario Salinas and wife, Emily, of Seguin, and Javier Salinas and wife, Alicia, of Eagle Lake; sisters, Josephina Ramirez, Lupe Vasquez, Vicenta Rodriguez and Alma Becera; brother, Juan Ramirez; and sixteen grandchildren, five great grandchildren, nieces, nephews, other relatives.
Funeral services were Feb. 12, at the chapel of Dulany Funeral Home in Eagle Lake, with the Rev. Eddie Winkler officiating. A Mass of Christian Burial was Feb. 13 at the Parish of the Nativity's Our Lady of Perpetual Help Sanctuary with the Rev. Eddie Winkler officiating. Interment followed at Nativity Cemetery in Eagle Lake.
Pallbearers were Noel Tenorio, Angel Hernandez, Michael Arellano, Martin Hernandez, German Arellano and Armando De Luna.
Colorado County Citizen, February 19, 2003
Courtesy of the Citizen
Rodriguez, Marcelino Frank
Marcelino Frank Rodriguez
July 17,1905 - March 21,1996
Marcelino Frank Rodriguez, 90, of Eagle Lake, passed away Thursday, March 21,1996, at 6:30 a.m at Rice District Community Hospital in Eagle Lake. He was born on July 17,1905, in Ganado to Pedro and Felisita Aguilar Rodriguez.
Rodriguez had been a resident of our area most of his life. He and Eusebia Talavera were married in Eagle Lake on January 1, 1941. He farmed early in his life, then had a career in truck driving for almost 40 years before retirement. Rodriguez was a member of the Roman Catholic Parish of the Nativity in Eagle Lake. He was preceded in death by his parents. Survivors include his devoted wife of 55 years, Eusebia of Eagle Lake; daughters, Beatrice Rodriguez and Lydia DeJesus Rojas of Eagle Lake; a sister, Angelita Alcantar of Rosenberg; three brothers, G.A. Rodriguez of Eagle Lake, Felipe Rodriguez of Galveston and Ramon Rodriguez of Richmond; seven grandchildren, 16 great grandchildren, four great-great grandchildren; numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives and loved ones. A vigil service was held at 8 p.m. Friday, March 22, from the Chapel of Dulany Funeral Home in Eagle Lake. Funeral services followed from the Our Lady of Guadalupe Sanctuary, Roman Catholic Parish of the Nativity, Eagle Lake at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 23, with Rev. Eddie Winkler officiating. Interment followed in the Lakeside Cemetery in Eagle Lake. Dulany Funeral Home of Eagle Lake was in charge of arrangements. Serving as pallbearers were Jimmy Grounds; Bacilio Jr. and Jason Rodriguez, Steve and Robert Hernandez; and Lupe Gonzales. Sympathy is extended to the family in their loss.
Eagle Lake Headlight, March 28,1996
Contributed by Patti Hall-Smith
Rodriguez, Richard "Otis"
Richard "Otis" Rodriguez, 47, of Eagle Lake, passed away July 21 at Parkview Manor Nursing Home in Weimar.
He was born Nov. 7, 1954 in Eagle Lake to Jessie and Domingo (BiJarro) Rodriguez. He had been an Eagle Lake resident all his life, raised in the Catholic Faith and worked for Rice Industries Dryer of Eagle Lake.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
He is survived by his sisters and brothers-in-law, Mary and Frank Cumpian, Rose Pizano, Gloria Rodriguez, Eva and Glen Locklier and Lisa Martinez, all of Eagle Lake; and brothers and sisters-in-law, Jessie and Mary Rodriguez, Joe and Virginia Rodriguez, Manuel and Margaret Rodriguez, John and Liz Rodriguez, Robert and Stella Rodriguez and David and Andreal Rodriguez, all of Eagle Lake, and Samuel and Margaret Rodriguez of San Antonio.
Following cremation, memorial services were conducted July 26, from the Getsemani Iglesia Bautista Church of Eagle Lake with the Rev. Mario Vaszuez officiating. Burial followed in Lakeside Latin Cemetery of Eagle Lake.
Colorado County Citizen, July 31, 2002
Courtesy of the Citizen
Rodriguez, Susie Q. (Escamilla)
Susie Q. Rodriguez
Susie Q. Rodriguez, 57, of Eagle Lake, passed away Friday, November 10 in Eagle Lake.
She was born August 18, 1949 in El Campo the daughter of Crispin and Pauline Escamilla.
Susie was a homemaker and was of the Catholic faith.
She was preceded in death by her parents; survivors include her husband, Celso Rodriguez of Eagle Lake; daughters, Lori and husband Desiderio Romo of Eagle Lake, Lisa and husband, Daniel Romo of Eagle Lake; brother, Joe Escamilla and wife, Becky of Eagle Lake, and seven grandchildren.
Funeral services were held on Monday, November 13 at 2 p.m. from the Parish of the Nativity Church in Eagle Lake with Father Robert Guerra officiating. Interment followed at the Nativity Cemetery in Eagle Lake. Arrangements were under the direction of Eagle Lake Funeral Home.
Pallbearers were Steve Harris, Alejos Escamilla, Abel Cardenas, Joe Escamilla, David Cardenas Jr. and Rolando Rodriguez.
Sympathy is extended to the family in their loss.
Eagle Lake Headlight, November 16th, 2006
Submitted by John Konesheck
Rodriguez-Diaz, Hipolito
Rodriguez-Diaz
Hipolito Rodriguez-Diaz, 60, of Eagle Lake, passed away suddenly from injuries received in an auto accident March 8.
He was born in Aguascalientes, Mexico on Aug. 13, 1943 to Gregorio Rodriguez and Sotera Diaz. He was a longtime resident of Eagle Lake and an employee of Igloo Corporation in Katy for 20 years.
He is survived by his wife, Esther Calderon of Eagle Lake; children, Martha Rodriguez of Mexico, Lilia Aguilar of California, Patricia Rodriguez of Mexico, Gloria Rodriguez of Mexico, Maria Rodriguez of Eagle Lake, Jose Luis Rodriguez of Rosenberg, Jose Manuel Rodriguez of California, Ismael Rodriguez of Mexico, Alvaro Rodriguez of California; two sisters; five brothers, and numerous grandchildren.
A prayer service was conducted March 10, from the chapel of Dulany Funeral Home led by the Rev. Eddie Winkler, pastor of the Parish of the Nativity in Eagle Lake.
The body will be taken to Tepezala, Aguascalientes, Mexico for funeral services and burial at a later date
The Colorado County Citizen, March17, 2004
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Rodriquez, Manuel
Man Resisting Arrest In Shooting Killed by Officers
Manuel Rodriquez, 57, of Eagle Lake, object of a 26-hour manhunt after he shot and seriously wounded an Eagle Lake woman, was gunned down by officers as he resisted arrest at 1:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 29.[sic]. [Place of interment unknown]
Texas Ranger Hollis Sullivan and State Game WardenLeo Kohleffel, two of large group of officers who had been searching for Rodriquez, late Wednesdy received a tip on the man’s whereabouts. As they approached, Rodriquez fired once, striking Mr. Kohleffel’s flashlight.
The officers returned the fire and Rodriequez fell dead.
He still held the .22 rifle with which he had shot Mrs. Sarah Rios, 47, his common-law wife, Tuesday night. He had also fired it at Eagle Lake Police Buster Semora when the officer and Sheriff J. O. Walker tried to arrest him that night.
Mrs. Rios is recovering in Laughlin Hospital at Eagle Lake but the bullet struck her spine and she may remain paralyzed.
Weimar Mercury, September 30, 1960, page 1
Roeder, Helmuth Victor
Helmuth Victor Roeder
Helmuth Victor Roeder born December 11, 1916 in Fayette County, Texas passed away Saturday January 19, 2008 in Weimar, Texas. During World War II he served as a B-17 tail gunner in the Army Air corp. The last 2 1/2 years of the War were spent in a German Prison Camp, Stalag 17B. After returning home from the War he moved to Houston and married his wife of 57 years Ernestine (Lamkin) Roeder. His career with Hi-Lo Auto Parts spanned 20 plus years after which he retired and returned to the country. He will be lovingly remembered by his daughter and son-in-law Carol and Allen Herring, grandchildren Christina and Darren Bailey and Matthew and Melissa Herring.
Published in the Houston Chronicle on 1/22/2008
Submitted by Leona Mitchell
Roensch, Alma (Michalk)
Roensch
Alma Roensch, 97, of Bernardo passed away Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2004, at Columbus Community Hospital.
She was born Dec. 20, 1906, in Warda to Ernst and Tackla (Benidick) Michalk.
Roensch, a homemaker, married Willie C. Roensch on Sept. 21, 1926. She was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Columbus.
She was preceded in death by her husband and parents; a daughter, Edna Wenske; a granddaughter, Patti Mrazek; a step-grandson, Keith Holster; a sister, Martha Schaefer; and a brother, Arthur Michalk.
She is survived by two daughters, Forence Jurajda and husband Bill of Columbus and Amelda Peikert and husband Earnest of Sealy; two sons, Ernest Roensch and wife Peggy of Victoria and Calvin Roensch and wife Sharon of Bernardo; a son-in-law, Leroy Wenske of Columbus; 14 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; six step-grandchildren; 10 step-great-grandchildren; and 11 great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Nov. 12 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Columbus, with the Rev. John Hunsicker officiating. Pallbearers were Billy Brown, Thomas Brown, Kenneth Brown, John David Brown, Craig Roensch, Troy Roensch, J.C. Knight, Brad Peikert, Chad Roensch and Terry Roensch.
Interment followed at Weimar Masonic [Odd Fellows] Cemetery.
Colorado County Citizen, November 17, 2004
Courtesy of The Citizen
Rogers, Alexander B.
Former Weimar Man Dies In San Antonio.
Friends here were notified Sunday that Mr. A. B. Rogers, for many years a citizen of this community, had died in San Antonio that morning, after a long illness, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John Welch, nee Miss Bessie Rogers.
Funeral services were held Monday shortly after the noon hour, at the Hubbard Mortuary, and attended by numbers of old time friends of the family. Interment took place that afternoon in the Weimar Masonic Cemetery.
Mr. Rogers lived in this community for many years. By profession he was a farmer, owning a valuable piece of property a short distance north of town. Ill health in latter years forced him to give up his chosen calling. Alter the death of his beloved wife and life companion his health failed rapidly, and he finally moved to San Antonio to make his home with a devoted daughter, Mrs. John Welch, who before marriage was known as Miss Bessie Rogers.
Here he was given every attention and comfort, but the decline, though checked temporarily, continued, and a short time ago it was realized that the end was near. His death followed Sunday morning, and he died as he had lived, a consistent christian, believing in and perfectly willing to go forth and meet his Creator. For him "life's troubled battle" was over and he was glad, nay, anxious, to join his beloved wife on the other shore.
During his long residence in this section, Mr. Rogers possessed the respect and esteem of all, and his passing is viewed with extreme regret by all. Truly it may be said of him, 'A good man has passed from among us."
Out heartfelt sympathy goes out to his beloved daughter in the said loss she has sustained.
Weimar Mercury, November 4, 1932, page 1
Rogers, Mary Elizabeth (Cone)
Beloved Weimar Lady Is Claimed by Death
On Tuesday of last week the poor tired spirit of Mrs. Mollie Rogers beloved lady of our city, succumbed to illness and was wafted to her Creator and Savior. The funeral took place Wednesday morning and was largely attended. Funeral services were conducted by Revs. Herrick Hall of the Baptist Church. McKinney of the Methodist Church and Piepenbrok of the Lutheran Church. There were many beautiful floral emblems in evidence, attesting the high regard in which deceased was held by our people. [Burial in Weimar Masonic Cemetery]
Mrs. Rogers was born near Weimar June 20. 1853, and all but four years of her life was spent in Colorado county. She was united in marriage to Mr. A. B. Rogers Oct. 19. 1879. She had been a member of the church for a period of forty-five years. At time of death Mrs. Rogers had attained the age of 75 years. 11 months and 29 days. She was buried on the anniversary of her birth.
Mrs. Rogers was a woman of many noble qualities, which endeared her to a large circle of friends wherever she was known. Possessing a heart overflowing with the milk of human kindness, she was always interested in the misfortunes and troubles of others, and as a comforter was always welcome. She was a ray of sunshine in the sick room. and it was her greatest pleasure to minister to the sick arid afflicted. No call for such help was ever unheeded by this good woman. She always proved herself a devoted wife and mother, a true friend under any and all circumstances, a consistent, consecrated christian, and in her passing all feel keenly the loss our community and her family have sustained.
She leaves a heart-broken husband, a devoted daughter, Miss Bessie Rogers, and myriads of friends throughout this entire section, all of whom join us in expressions of sympathy to her bereaved ones.
Weimar Mercury, June 28, 1929, page 1
Rogers, Mary Ethylleene (Wallace) Jack
Mary E. Rogers
Mrs. Mary Ethylleene Rogers of Columbus died enroute to a Houston hospital Saturday. afternoon. She was being, transferred from the Columbus Community Hospital after a brief illness.
Funeral services were held from the Columbus Funeral Home Monday, with Rev. Clarence James officiating. Burial followed in Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery.
Mrs. Roger's was born June 16,1910 at Pecan Gap, Texas a daughter of Daisy Cother and William M. Wallace. She moved to Colorado County with her parents at an early age where she resided most of her life. She attended public school in Columbus and BayIor College in Belton.
Mrs. Rogers, known to many as Jack, was an active member of the First Baptist Church, the Shropshire Upton Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Magnolia Homes Tour, Inc. and a volunteer worker for Senior Citizens.
She was also a member of the Columbus Community Hospital Auxiliary and served as president of the organization during the year 1975-76.
Survivors include her sons O'Farrell and John Wallace Rogers and one granddaughter, all of Houston, 2 aunts and several cousins.
Pallbearers were Tommy Etheridge, Roque Castillo, Allan Hill, James Dunn Seymour, Clinton Voelkel. and W. C. Hollins.
Colorado County Citizen, June 23, 1977
Rogers, Max
Former Citizen of the Year dies at 75
Max Rogers, 75 of Columbus, died Monday Feb. 23, 1998 at Columbus Community Hospital.
Born June 6, 1922 in Douglas he was the son of Joseph B. and O Dee (Hamby) Rogers. On Dec 11, 1945 he married Virginia Montgomery. Mr. Rogers, who had lived in Columbus for 37 years, was an oil field gauger for M. J. Brannon Drilling and Oil Company.
Named Columbus 1996 Citizen of the Year he was a life member of Caladonia Masonic Lodge 68, AF&AM of Columbus, a life member of the Columbus Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6113 and Columbus American Legion Post 383 Disabled American Veterans, Military Order of the Purple Heart, past member of the Evening Lions Club; three-time member of the All State VFW Team and a past member of Eastern Star.
Services were held Feb. 26 at Henneke Funeral Home in Columbus with Rev. Robert Schlortt officiating. Interment followed in New Ulm cemetery in New Ulm [Austin County].
Masonic pallbearers were P. L. Butler, H. F. Halcom, Mike Story, Gary Sutton, Bill Sweat and Stephen Moore.
Mr. Rogers is survived by his wife and his son and daughter-in-law Ronnie and Susan Rogers, all of Columbus, daughter-in-law Pam Cernoch of New Ulm, granddaughters Christina Rogers of New Ulm and Tracy Rogers of Nacogdoches, grandson Timothy McIvin of Florida, brother Arthur Rogers of Tyler, sisters Maxine Pyle of Houston and Audry Word of Conroe, and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents, son Roy Rogers, brothers Lane Rogers, Clyde Rogers and June Rogers and sister Elsie Pheifer.
Colorado County Citizen, March 4, 1998
Contributed by Susan Chandler
Rogers, Maynard Livingston "Tex"
Maynard Livingston (M.L.) "Tex" Rogers, 60, of Columbus died at Colonial Belle in Bellville, June 30.
He was born Dec. 7, 1942 in Houston to Maynard Livingston Rogers Sr. and Pearl Bolin Rogers. He married Sally Shepard in Lueders on Nov. 22, 1963.
He was a graduate of Calhoun County High School were he was named to the National Honor Society and as all-district tackle, in 1959. He went to Texas A&M University in College Station on an athletic scholarship and played football for the Aggies from 1960-62. He later transferred to Texas Tech University in Lubbock.
Tex enjoyed a 40-year career as a newspaperman working as a reporter, editor and publisher. During his career he worked for the Avalanche Journal in Lubbock; with the Quarter Horse Journal in Amarillo; as a state reporter for the Houston Post; as editor of the Texas Horseman in Houston; as news editor of the Victoria Advocate; as editor of the Jackson County Herald-Tribune in Edna; as publisher/editor of the Shiner Gazette and as publisher/editor and partner of The Colorado County Citizen, 1993-98.
As a member of the South Texas Press Association he served as a director, contest chairman, second vice president, first vice president and president. He also served as a Texas Press Association director. He was a member of the Texas Gulf Coast Press Association and the National Newspaper Association.
He was a member of St. John's Episcopal Church in Columbus and a member of the Nesbitt Memorial Library Advisory Board, 2000-03 where he served as secretary and vice president. He served on the Live Oak Festival Committee and the Springtime Festival Committee for several years. He worked closely with Columbus Convention and Visitors Bureau for many years and with the Terquasquicentennial Committee in promoting the 1998 Columbus event. He organized and promoted the annual Shelly Lee Alley Tribute in Columbus featuring music of the Colorado County songwriter and pioneer musician, 1993-99. He was a 4-H supporter and a Level 1 Basic Archery instructor through the National Archery Association of the United States. He was also a member of the Lindsay-Crawford Clan of the United States.
He was preceded in death by both of his parents.
He is survived by his wife; two sons, David Nicholas Rogers and wife, Tamara, of Victoria and Travis Livingston Rogers of Austin; and three grandsons including Nathaniel Rogers of Columbus, and Lindsay and Rowan Rogers of Victoria.
A memorial service is being planned by the family for a future date. Arrangements are being made by Henneke Funeral Home of Columbus.
Donations may be made to the Nesbitt Memorial Library or Columbus Ministerial Alliance.
Colorado County Citizen, July 2, 2003
Courtesy of the Citizen
Rogers, Nita Sue (Foster)
Rogers
Nita Sue Rogers passed away unexpectedly Monday, November 27, 2006 in her kitchen in Columbus, Texas. befitting because she loved good food, even reading cookbooks for pleasure each night before bed.
Born in Columbus (at home) January 16, 1939, she is preceded in death by her daughter, Rachel Ann Rogers, and her father and mother, "Red" and "Ducky" Foster.
She is survived by daughter, Amy Sue Rogers of Buda, Texas, sister and brother-in-law, Elisa and Otis Stech of Sealy, Texas, and nephews, David Stech of Sealy, Texas and Rau Stech and wife, Robyn, of Lubbock, Texas, and least we forget, her beloved grandkitties, Dixie, Peter Fonda, and Bobby Sue Doyle, all of Buda, Texas. Nita Sue worked for Houston Oil and Minerals, Tenneco, and had in recent years, retired from Vinson & Elkins Law Firm, all in Houston, Texas.
Her favorite job was working the door at Fitzgerald's Night Club in the Heights where she got paid for embracing one of her foremost passions, music. Not only did she get to meet many of her idols from her youth, like James Brown, Bo Diddley, Ruth Brown, and BB King, she befriended Stevie Ray Vaughan. His music, above all others, resonated with her and theirs was a special friendship that lasted until his untimely passing. Some of her happiest times were when she had Stevie Ray, band and crew over for a home-cooked meal.
She will be remembered most for her quickness to laugh, many times so hard she would cry, for her willingness to help others, for her work at The Nesbitt Memorial Library and The Live Oak Art Center, for her fastidious ways, for her collections of thousands of cookbooks, "lp record albums" and CDs, for her love of "weird" movies, for her love of Brett Favre and the Green Bay Packers, for her love of Native American Indian history, for her love of Elizabet Ney's life and sculpture, for her love for her friends, and especially for her love for her daughter Amy and her three cats.
It is a comfort to think how at peace she must be now, reunited with her parents and daughter and probably getting to hear Stevie Ray play once more. The sky is crying, Mom.
Funeral services were provided by Henneke Funeral Home and conducted on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2006 at St. John's Episcopal Church. [Interment in Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery]
Donations in Nita Sue's name can be made to Nesbitt Memorial Library, 529 Washington Street, Columbus, TX 78934, 979-732-3392, http://www.columbus-texas.net/library/.
Colorado County Citizen, December 6, 2006
Courtesy of The Citizen
Rogers, OFarrel
Rogers
O'Farrel Rogers, 66, of Houston, passed away Tuesday, Sept. 21.
He was born Feb. 28, 1938 in Wharton to John O. and Ethyleene Rogers.
He was preceded in death by his daughter by a previous marriage, Rachel Ann Foster, of Columbus.
He is survived by his wife, Alice Kling Rogers; brother, John Wallace; and daughter by a previous marriage, Amy Sue Foster, of Columbus.
Funeral services were Saturday, Sept. 25, at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Bellaire with the Rev. Wayland N. Coe officiating.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to PBS or National Public Radio.
Colorado County Citizen, September 29, 2004
Courtesy of The Citizen
Rogers, Sallie B
WEIMAR LOCAL MATTERS
Another Christian wife and mother has gone. Mrs. Thomas Rodgers died in this city last Saturday evening. She has been sick for some time, but no one had any idea that she was to be taken off so suddenly. Mrs. Rodgers possessed every quality that it requires for a wife, mother and neighbor. She leaves a husband and five precious little children to mourn her loss. She was buried in the Odd Fellows rest last Sunday evening, Rev. Q. T. Simpson conducting the burial service in a very impressive and solemn manner.
Colorado Citizen, September 8, 1887
Rogers, unknown
LIVEOAK FOOLISHNESS
A little infant of Mr. A. Rogers was buried at Liveoak last week. Services were held at the residence and at the grave by the pastor of the church. [Interment in Live Oak Cemetery - unmarked grave]
Weimar Mercury, February 4, 1893
Rogers, Virginia (Montgomery)
Rogers
Virginia Rogers, 76, of Columbus, passed away Jan. 30 at Columbus Community Hospital.
She was born in Alto, Sept. 20, 1929 to Johnny and Corrie (Ferguson) Montgomery and married Max Rogers, Dec. 11, 1945.
She was a retired beautician and member of the worthy Matron of Order of Eastern Star as well as the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion Auxiliary.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; son, Roy Rogers; and brothers, Troy and Johnny Ray Montgomery.
She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Ronnie and Susan Rogers of Columbus; daughter-in-law, Pam Cernoch of New Ulm; brother and sister-in-law, Bill and Margo Montgomery of Dallas; grandchildren, Christy Tiemann and husband Chad of Round Top, Tracy Kennedy and husband Michael of Bryan, and Timothy Melvin and wife Jennifer of Webster, Fla.; and great-grandchildren, Cassidy Tiemann of Round Top, and Skylar, Taylor and Destiny Melvin of Webster, Fla.
Funeral services weer conducted Feb. 1 at Henneke Funeral Home in Columbus with the Rev. John Hunsicker officiating. Interment followed in the New Ulm Cemetery.
Pallbearers wee Ernest Bub Baumgart, Gary Sutton, J.B. Rogers, Walter Evans, Chad Tiemann, Lance Cernoch and Michael Kennedy.
Colorado County Citizen, February 8, 2006
Courtesy of The Citizen
Rogers, Walter Humphry
Walter, H. Rogers Buried Tuesday
Funeral services were held in St. Anthonys Catholic church at 9 a.m. Tuesday for Walter Humphry Rogers, 63, who died in Hermann hospital at Houston at 10:30 a.m. the preceding day. Mr. Rogers was taken to Houston after becoming ill suddenly.
Born in Ohio Jan. 7, 1900, he was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Rogers. He had lived in Columbus 3 years. His wife, who survives, is the former Lydia Peters.
Rev. Alex J. Kraus officiated and burial was in St. Anthonys Catholic cemetery. Rosary was said Monday evening in the funeral home.
Colorado County Citizen, October 31, 1963, page 6
Rohan, Theresa (Kalitcuk)
DEATH OF AN ESTIMABLE LADY MONDAY MORNING
Mrs. Theresa Rohan, beloved wife of Ferd. Rohan, living on the Ward farm about three miles east of Weimar, died Monday morning after a several days' illness, from a complication of kidney trouble and paralysis. The remains were brought to this city Tuesday afternoon and laid to rest in St. Michael's Cemetery, Rev. J. Szymanski officiating.
Mrs. Rohan was born in Austria, and was about 60 years of age at the time of her death. She was the mother of several children, but all died early in life except two-- Mrs. Anna Adorn, wife of a united States army officer stationed at Camp Humphrey, Va., and Felix Rohan, a son who has been with the aged couple since the conclusion of the late world war.
Mrs. Rohan was a kind hearted, good woman, well thought of by neighbors and friends, a dutiful wife and mother, and her death is sincerely and deeply deplored. Our heartfeld sympathy goes out to the bereaved husband and children.
Weimar Mercury, Friday, February 24, 1922
Submitted by Rosemary Ermis
Rolf, Josephine (Hanselmann)
Mrs. Josephine Rolf dies at Mentz home
(Special to the Citizen)
Mrs. Josephine Rolf died at her home in the Mentz Community last Thursday at midnight surrounded by her children and grand children. She was the wife of Leopold Rolf and was 75 years of age. Every effort was made to save her but all to no avail.
Her body was laid to rest in the Mentz Catholic cemetery at ten o’clock Saturday morning in the presence of a large number of friends and relatives.
Mrs. Rolf was the mother of nine children; all of them being present at their mother’s funeral with one exception. They are John Henry and Joe Rolf, Mrs. Jacob Kuhn, Mrs. John Weisner, three sisters of Divine Providence and Mrs. Jake Wendel, who was unable to be present for the funeral. Besides these children and her husband, Mrs. Rolf leaves numerous grand children and one brother, Otto Hanselmann of Victoria. Mr. Hanselmann was not present at the funeral but his son was.
Mrs. Rolf was a good Catholic and had been a faithful member of St. Roch’s Church at Mentz for many years.
The Citizen extends its sympathy to the bereaved relatives.
Colorado County Citizen, March 11, 1921 page 1
Contributed by Amanda Briscoe
Rolf, Leopold
MR. LEOPOLD ROLF
The death of Mr. Leopold Rolf occurred at his home at the John Meismer place in the Bernardo section on Tuesday of last week, at the advanced age of 90 years, 3 months, 10 days.
Funeral services were held at the Mentz Catholic church at ten oclock Thursday morning, Rev. Sullivan being assisted by Rev. Duda. Pallbearers were grandsons of deceased, Lee Kuhn, Alvin Rolf, Lester Rolf, Leo, Joe and John Meismer. [Interment in St. Roch's Cemetery]
Mr. Rolf was born in Germany and came to this country when a boy, settling near Eagle Lake. He was married to Miss Josephine Hanzelmann of Alleyton in 1871 and has lived in this vicinity ever since that time. He was one of the pioneer farmers of this county and was known far and wide as one of the substantial citizens. He is survived by nine children. Mrs. John Meismer and Mrs. Jacob of Bernardo, Mrs. Barbara Wendel of Slayden, Sisters M. Thomas Aquin, M. Leopoldine and M. Benedictina of Divine Providence Convent in San Antonio, and Henry Rolf of San Antonio, John of El Campo, and Joe of Dike, Texas. There are also thirty grandchildren and nineteen great grandchildren.
The sympathy of the entire county goes out to the sorrowing relatives in their loss.
Colorado County Citizen, June 25, 1931, page 8
Rollins, Annie (Marx)
Rollins
Mrs. Annie Rollins, age 52, of Eagle Lake passed away March 10 at the Eagle Lake Community Hospital following a brief illness.
Rosary was held from the Dulany Funeral Home Chapel
Sunday, March 13. Funeral services followed on Monday, March 14, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church. Burial followed at Lakeside Cemetery in Eagle Lake.
Mrs. Annie Rollins was born in Wharton County on July 4, 1935 to Charlie and Annie Mai Marx. She had lived in Eagle Lake most all of her life and was a member of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Eagle Lake.
She married Harold Rollins October 21, 1953 in Our Lady of Perpetual Help.
She was preceeded[sic] in death by her parents, a daughter, Joyce and a sister, Ella Marx.
Survivors include her husband, Harold Rollins; daughters, Barbara Grissom of Bernardo, Beverly Rollins of Eagle Lake; sons David and Derrick Rollins of Eagle Lake and Donnie Rollins of Columbus; sisters, Tony Siedel and Tina Heck of Eagle Lake; brothers, Raymond and Charlie Marx of Columbus, Harry Marx of Forth Worth, Paul Marx of Richmond and Alfred Marx of Arkansas, four, grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews and other relatives.
Pallbearers were Ricky Ferguson, Danny Cardenas, P. L. Butler, Charles and Wayne Marx, Bobby Baird, Mike Nichols and Archie Noska.
Colorado County Citizen, March 24, 1988, page 2
Rollins, James Elbert
Rollins
Funeral services were held for Mr. James Elbert Rollins, Thursday, March 20 at Henneke Funeral Home in Columbus and under the direction of Henneke Funeral Home with Rev. Raymond Cox officiating.
Burial was at Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery in Columbus.
Mr. Rollins was born June 15, 1913, to Louis B. Rollins and Nora Hardin Rollins. He married Selma Martin Rollins November 4,1937.
Mr. Rollins was a retired oilfield worker.
Survivors include two daughters and son-in-laws, Dora Mae and Lee Briscoe of Columbus and Bonnie Kay and Jim Craft of Bay City; one sister Ola Mae Meyer of Fort Worth; three brothers, Leslie C. Rollins of Houston, Louis B. Rollins, Jr., of New Orleans and Thomas Carson of Houston; three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Ivy Guthmann, Billy Berger, Max Rogers, Oscar Henicke, Allen Peters and Gregory Trojacek.
Honorary pallbearers were Dr. Tom Hancher, Clinton Voelkel, Dittman Harrison, Dr. Antone Younis (sic), Dr. David Ott and Dr. Samir Tumaca.
Colorado County Citizen, March 27, 1986
Transcribed by Dennis Boatright
Rollins, Lloyd George Shorty
ROLLINS
Lloyd George "Shorty" Rollins, 69, of Pensacola passed away Monday, December 28, 1998 in a local hospital. Lloyd was born in Granbury, Texas on April 3, 1929 to the late Moody and Evelyn Rollins. At 18, he married his wife of 51 years, Mozelle Townsend. Together they accomplished most everything they set out to do in life. Dad was a successful businessman at an early age owning and running a
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Bo Diddley
He only had a few hits in the 1950s and early '60s, but as Bo Diddley sang, "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover." You can't judge an artist by his chart success, either, and Diddley produced greater and more influential music than all but a handful of the best early rockers. The Bo Diddley beat -- bomp, ba-bomp-bomp, bomp-bomp -- is one of rock & roll's bedrock rhythms, showing up in the work of Buddy Holly, the Rolling Stones, and even pop-garage knock-offs like the Strangeloves' 1965 hit "I Want Candy." Diddley's hypnotic rhythmic attack and declamatory, boasting vocals stretched ba ...read more
He only had a few hits in the 1950s and early '60s, but as Bo Diddley sang, "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover." You can't judge an artist by his chart success, either, and Diddley produced greater and more influential music than all but a handful of the best early rockers. The Bo Diddley beat -- bomp, ba-bomp-bomp, bomp-bomp -- is one of rock & roll's bedrock rhythms, showing up in the work of Buddy Holly, the Rolling Stones, and even pop-garage knock-offs like the Strangeloves' 1965 hit "I Want Candy." Diddley's hypnotic rhythmic attack and declamatory, boasting vocals stretched back as far as Africa for their roots, and looked as far into the future as rap. His trademark otherworldly vibrating, fuzzy guitar style did much to expand the instrument's power and range. But even more important, Bo's bounce was fun and irresistibly rocking, with a wisecracking, jiving tone that epitomized rock & roll at its most humorously outlandish and freewheeling. Before taking up blues and R&B, Diddley had studied classical violin, but shifted gears after hearing John Lee Hooker. In the early '50s, he began playing with his longtime partner, maraca player Jerome Green, to get what Bo's called "that freight train sound." Billy Boy Arnold, a fine blues harmonica player and singer in his own right, was also playing with Diddley when the guitarist got a deal with Chess in the mid-'50s (after being turned down by rival Chicago label Vee-Jay). His very first single, "Bo Diddley"/"I'm a Man" (1955), was a double-sided monster. The A-side was soaked with futuristic waves of tremolo guitar, set to an ageless nursery rhyme; the flip was a bump-and-grind, harmonica-driven shuffle, based around a devastating blues riff. But the result was not exactly blues, or even straight R&B, but a new kind of guitar-based rock & roll, soaked in the blues and R&B, but owing allegiance to neither. Diddley was never a top seller on the order of his Chess rival Chuck Berry, but over the next half-dozen or so years, he produced a catalog of classics that rival Berry's in quality. "You Don't Love Me," "Diddley Daddy," "Pretty Thing," "Diddy Wah Diddy," "Who Do You Love?," "Mona," "Road Runner," "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover" -- all are stone-cold standards of early, riff-driven rock & roll at its funkiest. Oddly enough, his only Top 20 pop hit was an atypical, absurd back-and-forth rap between him and Jerome Green, "Say Man," that came about almost by accident as the pair were fooling around in the studio. As a live performer, Diddley was galvanizing, using his trademark square guitars and distorted amplification to produce new sounds that anticipated the innovations of '60s guitarists like Jimi Hendrix. In Great Britain, he was revered as a giant on the order of Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters. the Rolling Stones in particular borrowed a lot from Bo's rhythms and attitude in their early days, although they only officially covered a couple of his tunes, "Mona" and "I'm Alright." Other British R&B groups like the Yardbirds, Animals, and Pretty Things also covered Diddley standards in their early days. Buddy Holly covered "Bo Diddley" and used a modified Bo Diddley beat on "Not Fade Away"; when the Stones gave the song the full-on Bo treatment (complete with shaking maracas), the result was their first big British hit. The British Invasion helped increase the public's awareness of Diddley's importance, and ever since then he's been a popular live act. Sadly, though, his career as a recording artist -- in commercial and artistic terms -- was over by the time the Beatles and Stones hit America. He would record with ongoing and declining frequency, but after 1963, he never wrote or recorded original material on par with his early classics. Whether he'd spent his muse, or just felt he could coast on his laurels, is hard to say. But he remains a vital part of the collective rock & roll consciousness, and occasionally reached wider visibility via a 1979 tour with the Clash, a cameo role in the film Trading Places, a late-'80s tour with Ronnie Wood, and a 1989 television commercial for sports shoes with star athlete Bo Jackson. « hide
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Bo Diddley – 20th Anniversary Of Rock’n’Roll’
Born as Ellas Otha Bates (later as Ellas McDaniel due to his adoption) in 1928, Bo Diddley learned how to play violin at an early age. He received his first guitar at the age of 12.
Upon his first involvements with the 708 club in Chicago, he created a sensation in 1951 through his own style and his self-made equipment: a tremolo made from an old clock and auto parts. His self-made guitar with a rectangular body out of Bakelite would eventually become his trademark.
In 1956 Bo Diddley received his first record deal from Chess Records for a single with the titles “Bo Diddley” and “I’m A Man.” Willie Dixon also appeared on this single.
In the years that followed Bo Diddley was always to be heard on the charts (in 1960 with the single “Roadrunner) and developed into a versatile musician. In 1962 he had his last hit “You Can’t Judge a Book By the Cover” (Willie Dixon) for the time being. Always recurring in his songs is the so-called “Bo Diddley Beat”, often called “Salesman’s Knock” as it resembled the way the salesmen would knock door-to-door.
Bo Diddley’s influence has remained the same from the 70s through the very present. Even musicians from the punk and new wave scene have reverted back to using his songs.
On 2 June 2008 at the age of 79 Bo Diddley died of heart failure in his Florida home.
Bo Diddley released “20th Anniversary Of Rock & Roll“ in 1976, its recordings not lacking the presence of the biggest rockstars of the 70s, like Tim Bogert and Carmine Appice, ‘The Who’ drummer Keith Moon, guitarist Alvin Lee (Ten Years After), Elvin Bishop (Paul Butterfield, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, B.B.King u.v.a.), Albert Lee (Dave Edmunds, Everly Brothers) and Leslie West (Mountain), as well as Joe Cocker, Billy Joel und Roger McGuinn (Byrds).
The bonus tracks date back to a 21.Februar 1984 Radio Bremen „Bo Diddley & Mainsqueeze“ concert at the Schauburg.
Tracklisting:
Ride the Water (Part 1) 04:20
Not Fade Away 02:58
Kill My Body 04:36
Drag On 03:15
Ride The Water (Part 2) 04:35
Bo Diddley Jam 16:59
Bonustracks (Live in Bremen 1984)
7. Mona 05:12
8. Emily 05:14
9. You Can’t Charge A Book By It’s Cover 04:03
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Bo Diddley, a singer and guitarist who invented his own name, his own guitars, his own beat and, with a handful of other musical pioneers, rock ’n’ roll itself, died Monday at his home in Archer, Fla. He was 79.
The cause was heart failure, a spokeswoman, Susan Clary, said. Mr. Diddley had a heart attack last August, only months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa.
In the 1950s, as a founder of rock ’n’ roll, Mr. Diddley along with Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and a few others helped to reshape the sound of popular music worldwide, building on the templates of blues, Southern gospel, R&B and postwar black American vernacular culture.
His original style of rhythm and blues influenced generations of musicians. And his Bo Diddley syncopated beat three strokes/rest/two strokes became a stock rhythm of rock ’n’ roll.
It can be found in Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away,” Johnny Otis’s “Willie and the Hand Jive,” the Who’s “Magic Bus,” Bruce Springsteen’s “She’s the One” and U2’s “Desire,” among hundreds of other songs.
Yet the rhythm was only one element of his best records. In songs like “Bo Diddley,” “Who Do You Love,” “Mona,” “Crackin’ Up,” “Say, Man,” “Ride On Josephine” and “Road Runner,” his booming voice was loaded up with echo and his guitar work came with distortion and a novel bubbling tremolo. The songs were knowing, wisecracking and full of slang, mother wit and sexual cockiness. They were both playful and radical.
So were his live performances: trancelike ruckuses instigated by a large man with a strange-looking guitar. It was square and he designed it himself, long before custom guitar shapes became commonplace in rock.
Mr. Diddley was a wild performer: jumping, lurching, balancing on his toes and shaking his knees as he wrestled with his instrument, sometimes playing it above his head. Elvis Presley, it has long been supposed, borrowed from Mr. Diddley’s stage moves; Jimi Hendrix, too.
Still, for all his fame, Mr. Diddley felt that his standing as a father of rock ’n’ roll was never properly acknowledged. It frustrated him that he could never earn royalties from the songs of others who had borrowed his beat.
“I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob,” he told The New York Times in 2003.
He was a hero to those who had learned from him, including the Rolling Stones and the Beatles. A generation later, he became a model of originality to punk or post-punk bands like the Clash and the Fall.
In 1979 Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon of the Clash asked that Mr. Diddley open for them on the band’s first American tour. “I can’t look at him without my mouth falling open,” Mr. Strummer, star-struck, said during the tour.
For his part Mr. Diddley had no misgivings about facing a skeptical audience. “You cannot say what people are gonna like or not gonna like,” he explained later to the biographer George R. White. “You have to stick it out there and find out! If they taste it, and they like the way it tastes, you can bet they’ll eat some of it!”
Mr. Diddley was born Otha Ellas Bates in McComb, Miss., a small city about 15 miles from the Louisiana border. He was reared primarily by Gussie McDaniel, the first cousin of his mother, Esther Wilson. After the death of her husband, Ms. McDaniel, who had three children of her own, took the family to Chicago, where young Otha’s name was changed to Ellas B. McDaniel. Gussie McDaniel became his legal guardian and sent him to school.
He was 6 when the family resettled on Chicago’s South Side. He described his youth as one of school, church, trouble with street toughs and playing the violin for both band and orchestra, under the tutelage of O. W. Frederick, a prominent music teacher at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Gussie McDaniel taught Sunday school. Ellas studied classical violin from 7 to 15 and started on guitar at 12, when a family member gave him an acoustic model.
He then enrolled at Foster Vocational School, where he built a guitar as well as a violin and an upright bass. But he dropped out before graduating. Instead, with guitar in hand, he began performing in a duo with his friend Roosevelt Jackson, who played the washtub bass. The group became a trio when they added another guitarist, Jody Williams, then a quartet when they added a harmonica player, Billy Boy Arnold.
The band, first called the Hipsters and then the Langley Avenue Jive Cats, started playing at the Maxwell Street open-air market. They were sometimes joined by another friend, Samuel Daniel, known as Sandman because of the shuffling rhythms he made with his feet on a wooden board sprinkled with sand.
Mr. Diddley could not make a living playing with the Jive Cats in the early days, so he found jobs where he could: at a grocery store, a picture-frame factory, a blacktop company. He worked as an elevator operator and a meat packer. He also started boxing, hoping to turn professional.
In 1954 Mr. Diddley made a demonstration recording with his band, which now included Jerome Green on maracas. Phil and Leonard Chess of Chess Records liked the demo, especially Mr. Diddley’s tremolo on the guitar, a sound that seemed to slosh around like water. They saw it as a promising novelty and encouraged the group to return.
By Billy Boy Arnold’s account, the next day, as the band and the men who were soon to be their producers were setting up for a rehearsal, they were idly casting about for a stage name for Ellas McDaniel when Mr. Arnold thought of Bo Diddley. The name described a “bow-legged guy, a comical-looking guy,” Mr. Arnold said, as quoted by Mr. White in his 1995 biography, “Bo Diddley: Living Legend.”
That may be all there is to tell about the name, except for the fact that a certain one-string guitar native to the Mississippi Delta, often homemade, in which a length of wire is stretched between two nails in a board is called a diddley bow. By his account, however, Mr. Diddley had never played one.
In any case, Otha Ellas McDaniel had a new name and the title of a new song, whose lyrics began, “Bo Diddley bought his babe a diamond ring.” “Bo Diddley” became the A side of his first single, in 1955, on the Checker label, a subsidiary of Chess. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard singles chart.
Mr. Diddley said he had first heard the “Bo Diddley beat” three-stroke/rest/two-stroke, or bomp-ba-domp-ba-domp, ba-domp-domp in a church in Chicago. But variations of it were in the air. The children’s game hambone used a similar rhythm, and so did the ditty that goes “shave and a haircut, two bits.”
The beat is also related to the Afro-Cuban clave, which had been popularized at the time by the New Orleans mambo carnival song “Jock-A-Mo,” recorded by Sugar Boy Crawford in 1953.
Whatever the source, Mr. Diddley felt the beat’s power. In early songs like “Bo Diddley” and “Pretty Thing,” he arranged the rhythm for tom-toms, guitar, maracas and voice, with no cymbals and no bass. (Also arranged in his signature rhythm was the eerie “Mona,” a song of praise he wrote for a 45-year-old exotic dancer who worked at the Flame Show Bar in Detroit; this song became the template for Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away.”)
Appearing on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1955, Mr. Diddley was asked to play “Sixteen Tons,” the song popularized by Tennessee Ernie Ford. Without telling Mr. Sullivan, he played “Bo Diddley” instead. Afterward, in an off-camera confrontation, Mr. Sullivan told him that he would never work in television again. Mr. Diddley did not play again on a network show for 10 years.
His first trademark guitar was also handmade: he took the neck and the circuitry off a Gretsch guitar and connected it to a square body he had built. In 1958 he asked Gretsch to make him a better one to the same specifications. Gretsch made it as a limited-edition guitar called “Big B.”
On songs like “Who Do You Love,” his guitar style bright chicken-scratch rhythm patterns on a few strings at a time was an extension of his early violin playing, he said.
“My technique comes from bowing the violin, that fast wrist action,” he told Mr. White, explaining that his fingers were too big to move around easily. Rather than fingering the fretboard, Mr. Diddley said, he tuned the guitar to an open E and moved a single finger up and down to create chords.
As his fame rose, his personal life grew complicated. His first marriage, at 18, to Louise Woolingham, lasted less than a year. His second marriage, in 1949, to Ethel Smith, unraveled in the late 1950s. He then moved from Chicago to Washington, settling in the Mount Pleasant district, where he built a studio in his home.
Separated from his wife, he was performing in Birmingham, Ala., when, backstage, he met a young door-to-door magazine saleswoman named Kay Reynolds, a fan, who was 15 and white. They moved in together in short order and were soon married, in spite of Southern taboos against intermarriage.
During the late 1950s Mr. Diddley’s band featured a female guitarist, Peggy Jones (stage-named Lady Bo), at a time when there were scarcely any women in rock. She was replaced by Norma-Jean Wofford, whom Mr. Diddley called the Duchess. He pretended she was his sister, he said, to be in a better position to protect her on the road.
The early 1960s were low times. Chess, searching for a hit, had Mr. Diddley make albums to capitalize on the twist dance craze, as Chubby Checker had done, and on the surf music of the Beach Boys. But soon a foreign market for his earlier music began to grow, thanks in large part to the Rolling Stones, a newly popular band that was regularly playing several of his songs in its concerts. It paved the way for Mr. Diddley’s successful tour of Britain in the fall of 1963, performing with the Everly Brothers, Little Richard and the Rolling Stones, the opening act.
But Mr. Diddley was not willing to move to Europe, and in America the picture worsened: the Beatles, the Stones, Bob Dylan and the Byrds quickly made him sound quaint. When work all but dried up, Mr. Diddley moved to New Mexico in the early 1970s and became a deputy sheriff in the town of Los Lunas. With his sound updated to resemble hard rock and soul, he continued to make albums for Chess until his contract expired in 1974.
His recording career never picked up after that, despite flirtations with synthesizers, religious rock and hip-hop. But he continued apace as a performer and public figure, popping up in places both obvious, like rock ’n’ roll nostalgia revues, and not so obvious: a Nike advertisement, the film “Trading Places” with Eddie Murphy, the 1979 tour with the Clash, and inaugural balls for two presidents, George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
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As I suspected would happen after Bo Diddley’s death, BBC Radio 2 has decided to replay its three-part Bo documentary from 2007. The first installment was broadcast last Friday, July 4, but you can still listen to it via the BBC’s Listen Again feature. Here’s the page for the show with the Listen Again link. Don’t wait too long—the BBC will probably remove the link to the first show when the second one airs this Friday (and the second will be replaced by the third on the following Friday).
It’s been about a year and a half since I heard this show, but I remember enjoying it greatly. Roger Daltrey is a surprisingly good as the host.
If you prefer listening on your iPod to listening at your computer, I suggest you look into Rogue Amoeba’s Audio Hijack Pro, which I use and am very happy with, or Ambrosia’s WireTap Studio, which is newer and has gotten good reviews. Both programs allow you to record streams at a time of your choosing, e.g., in the middle of the night when you’re not otherwise using your Mac. There are stream-recording applications for Windows and Linux, too, but I have no idea which ones are thought to be best.
Here’s a groovy Bo clip from (I would guess) the late 60s/early 70s. Not as rocking as the clip from the Big TNT Show, but notable because it may be the only time you’ll see Bo with a natural.
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Bo Diddley is recognized as one of the first and most influential rock guitarist and musicians. He was born in Pike County, Mississippi, on December 20, 1928. His birth name was Otha Ellas Bates. In 1934 his mother sent him to live with his cousin, Guisse McDaniel in Chicago. Later Otha changed his name to Ellas McDaniel Diddley. At the age of ten he became very interested in music. He began studying the violin and guitar at Foster High School . Bo was very active as a teenager and even took boxing lessons. He played violin for the Ebenezer Baptist Church Orchestra. Diddley played songs on street corners with his friend Jerome Green, and Diddley worked construction for extra money. By October, 1954, Bo had a group. He had bought himself an electric guitar, and Bo's career had begun. He hooked up with Jerome Green t o record two of what became Diddley hits The two hits were put out on Checker and sky rocketed all the way to number two on national R and B charts. Bo Diddley also appeared on Ed Sullivan television shows. Bo's first records showed him to be far ahead of his time in guitar playing. After he hooked up with Billy "Boy" Arnold and was released from Chess Records, Bo changed his entire playing method. Bo Diddley had a string of hits through the early 1960's. After losing favor in the U.S., he became popular in England. Years later, his influence on the British rock scene continued as he was invited to perform with Clash. Bo Diddley had many honors as a musician. In 1987 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Diddley's success heralded the beginning of the rock 'n roll craze. Not just blacks, but whites also found enjoyment in his music. Diddley was both a powerful singer and innovator who lived in Southern California for many years. .I'm an ordinary fellow," he has said. "But I have to be different in what I do...Because that's what keeps me in the music business." Today, according to Cort Chilldon of Gainesville, Florida, Bo Diddley lives in Archer, Florida. He says, " You [are] right about him being a normal guy. He is very down to earth and hates special treatment. I think that is why he live where he does."
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Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday after months of ill health. He was 79.
Diddley died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Fla., spokeswoman Susan Clary said. He had suffered a heart attack in August, three months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa. Doctors said the stroke affected his ability to speak, and he had returned to Florida to continue rehabilitation.
The legendary singer and performer, known for his homemade square guitar, dark glasses and black hat, was an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, had a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, and received a lifetime achievement award in 1999 at the Grammy Awards. In recent years he also played for the elder President Bush and President Clinton.
Diddley appreciated the honors he received, "but it didn't put no figures in my checkbook."
"If you ain't got no money, ain't nobody calls you honey," he quipped.
The name Bo Diddley came from other youngsters when he was growing up in Chicago, he said in a 1999 interview.
"I don't know where the kids got it, but the kids in grammar school gave me that name," he said, adding that he liked it so it became his stage name. Other times, he gave somewhat differing stories on where he got the name. Some experts believe a possible source for the name is a one-string instrument used in traditional blues music called a diddley bow.
His first single, "Bo Diddley," introduced record buyers in 1955 to his signature rhythm: bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp, often summarized as "shave and a haircut, two bits." The B side, "I'm a Man," with its slightly humorous take on macho pride, also became a rock standard.
The company that issued his early songs was Chess-Checkers records, the storied Chicago-based labels that also recorded Chuck Berry and other stars.
Howard Kramer, assistant curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, said in 2006 that Diddley's Chess recordings "stand among the best singular recordings of the 20th century."
Diddley's other major songs included, "Say Man," "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover," "Shave and a Haircut," "Uncle John," "Who Do You Love?" and "The Mule."
Diddley's influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic. Buddy Holly borrowed the bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp rhythm for his song "Not Fade Away."
The Rolling Stones' bluesy remake of that Holly song gave them their first chart single in the United States, in 1964. The following year, another British band, the Yardbirds, had a Top 20 hit in the U.S. with their version of "I'm a Man."
Diddley was also one of the pioneers of the electric guitar, adding reverb and tremelo effects. He even rigged some of his guitars himself.
"He treats it like it was a drum, very rhythmic," E. Michael Harrington, professor of music theory and composition at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., said in 2006.
Many other artists, including the Who, Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello copied aspects of Diddley's style.
Growing up, Diddley said he had no musical idols, and he wasn't entirely pleased that others drew on his innovations.
"I don't like to copy anybody. Everybody tries to do what I do, update it," he said. "I don't have any idols I copied after."
"They copied everything I did, upgraded it, messed it up. It seems to me that nobody can come up with their own thing, they have to put a little bit of Bo Diddley there," he said.
Despite his success, Diddley claimed he only received a small portion of the money he made during his career. Partly as a result, he continued to tour and record music until his stroke. Between tours, he made his home near Gainesville in north Florida.
"Seventy ain't nothing but a damn number," he told The Associated Press in 1999. "I'm writing and creating new stuff and putting together new different things. Trying to stay out there and roll with the punches. I ain't quit yet."
Diddley, like other artists of his generations, was paid a flat fee for his recordings and said he received no royalty payments on record sales. He also said he was never paid for many of his performances.
"I am owed. I've never got paid," he said. "A dude with a pencil is worse than a cat with a machine gun."
In the early 1950s, Diddley said, disc jockeys called his type of music, "Jungle Music." It was Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed who is credited with inventing the term "rock 'n' roll."
Diddley said Freed was talking about him, when he introduced him, saying, "Here is a man with an original sound, who is going to rock and roll you right out of your seat."
Diddley won attention from a new generation in 1989 when he took part in the "Bo Knows" ad campaign for Nike, built around football and baseball star Bo Jackson. Commenting on Jackson's guitar skills, Diddley turned to the camera and said, "He don't know Diddley."
"I never could figure out what it had to do with shoes, but it worked," Diddley said. "I got into a lot of new front rooms on the tube."
Born as Ellas Bates on Dec. 30, 1928, in McComb, Miss., Diddley was later adopted by his mother's cousin and took on the name Ellis McDaniel, which his wife always called him.
When he was 5, his family moved to Chicago, where he learned the violin at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. He learned guitar at 10 and entertained passers-by on street corners.
By his early teens, Diddley was playing Chicago's Maxwell Street.
"I came out of school and made something out of myself. I am known all over the globe, all over the world. There are guys who have done a lot of things that don't have the same impact that I had," he said.
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Ellas McDaniel (born Ellas Otha Bates, December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known as Bo Diddley, was an American R&B and Chicago blues singer, guitarist, songwriter and music producer who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll, and influenced artists including Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, Eric Clapton, the Who, Jimi Hendrix and Parliament-Funkadelic.
His use of African rhythms and a signature beat, a simple five-accent hambone rhythm, is a cornerstone of hip hop, rock, and pop. In recognition of his achievements, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and a Grammy Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He is also recognized for his technical innovations, including his distinctive rectangular guitar.
Life
Early life and career
Born in McComb, Mississippi, as Ellas Otha Bates, he was adopted and raised by his mother's cousin, Gussie McDaniel, whose surname he assumed. In 1934, the McDaniel family moved to the South Side of Chicago, where he dropped the Otha and became Ellas McDaniel. He was an active member of Chicago's Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he studied the trombone and the violin, becoming so proficient on the violin that the musical director invited him to join the orchestra. He performed until he was 18. However, he was more interested in the pulsating, rhythmic music he heard at a local Pentecostal church and took up the guitar.
Inspired by a performance by John Lee Hooker, he supplemented his income as a carpenter and mechanic by playing on street corners with friends, including Jerome Green (c. 1934–1973), in the Hipsters band, later renamed the Langley Avenue Jive Cats. Green became a near-constant member of McDaniel's backing band, the two often trading joking insults with each other during live shows. During the summers of 1943 and 1944, he played at the Maxwell Street market in a band with Earl Hooker. By 1951 he was playing on the street with backing from Roosevelt Jackson on washtub bass and Jody Williams, whom he had taught to play the guitar. Williams later played lead guitar on "Who Do You Love?" (1956).
In 1951 he landed a regular spot at the 708 Club, on Chicago's South Side, with a repertoire influenced by Louis Jordan, John Lee Hooker, and Muddy Waters. In late 1954, he teamed up with harmonica player Billy Boy Arnold, drummer Clifton James and bass player Roosevelt Jackson and recorded demos of "I'm a Man" and "Bo Diddley". They re-recorded the songs at Chess Studios, with a backing ensemble comprising Otis Spann (piano), Lester Davenport (harmonica), Frank Kirkland (drums), and Jerome Green (maracas). The record was released in March 1955, and the A-side, "Bo Diddley", became a number one R&B hit.
Origins of stage name
The origin of the stage name Bo Diddley is unclear. McDaniel claimed that his peers gave him the name, which he suspected was an insult. He also said that the name first belonged to a singer his adoptive mother knew. Harmonicist Billy Boy Arnold said that it was a local comedian's name, which Leonard Chess adopted as McDaniel's stage name and the title of his first single. McDaniel also stated that it was his nickname as a Golden Gloves boxer.
A diddley bow is a homemade single-string instrument played mainly by farm workers in the South. It probably has influences from the West African coast. In the American slang term bo diddly, bo is an intensifier and diddly is a truncation of diddly squat, which means "absolutely nothing".
Success in the 1950s and 1960s
On November 20, 1955, Bo Diddley appeared on the popular television program The Ed Sullivan Show. When someone on the show's staff overheard him casually singing "Sixteen Tons" in the dressing room, he was asked to perform the song on the show. Seeing "Bo Diddley" on the cue card, he thought he was to perform both his self-titled hit single and "Sixteen Tons". Sullivan was furious and banned Bo Diddley from his show, reputedly saying that he wouldn't last six months. Chess Records included Bo Diddley's "Sixteen Tons" on the 1960 album Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger.
Bo Diddley's hit singles continued in the 1950s and 1960s: "Pretty Thing" (1956), "Say Man" (1959), and "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" (1962). He also released numerous albums, including Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger and Have Guitar, Will Travel. These bolstered his self-invented legend. Between 1958 and 1963, Checker Records released eleven full-length Bo Diddley albums. In the 1960s he broke through as a crossover artist with white audiences (appearing at the Alan Freed concerts, for example), but he rarely aimed his compositions at teenagers. The album title Surfing with Bo Diddley derived from his influence on surf guitarists rather than surfing per se.
In 1963, Bo Diddley starred in a UK concert tour with the Everly Brothers and Little Richard. The up-and-coming Rolling Stones were billed as a supporting act.
He wrote many songs for himself and also for others. In 1956 he and guitarist Jody Williams co-wrote the pop song "Love Is Strange", a hit for Mickey & Sylvia in 1957. He also wrote "Mama (Can I Go Out)", which was a minor hit for the pioneering rockabilly singer Jo Ann Campbell, who performed the song in the 1959 rock and roll film Go Johnny Go.
Bo Diddley included women in his band: Norma-Jean Wofford, also known as The Duchess; Gloria Jolivet; Peggy Jones, also known as Lady Bo, a lead guitarist (rare for a woman at that time); and Cornelia Redmond, also known as Cookie V. After moving from Chicago to Washington, D.C., he set up one of the first home recording studios in the basement of 2614 Rhode Island, NE, where he not only recorded the album Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger, with backing vocals by Moonglows' founder Harvey Fuqua, but he produced and recorded his valet, Marvin Gaye. Diddley co-wrote and recorded the first single to feature Gaye with the song "Wyatt Earp" by the Marquees. After initially shopping the song to Phil and Leonard Chess, the Chess brothers turned it down. Diddley took the song to rival record company Okeh Records, who released the song. Gaye later joined Harvey Fuqua and the Moonglows and followed Fuqua to Motown.
Later years
Over the decades, Bo Diddley's performing venues ranged from intimate clubs to stadiums. On March 25, 1972, he played with the Grateful Dead at the Academy of Music in New York City. The Grateful Dead released part of this concert as Volume 30 of the band's concert album series, Dick's Picks. Also in the early 1970s, the soundtrack of the ground-breaking animated film Fritz the Cat contained his song "Bo Diddley", in which a crow idly finger-pops to the track.
After the California Earthquake on February 9, 1971, Diddley moved to Los Lunas, New Mexico. While continuing his musical career, he served for two and a half years as a deputy sheriff in the Valencia County Citizens' Patrol; during that time he purchased and donated three highway-patrol pursuit cars. In 1978, he left Los Lunas and moved to Hawthorne, Florida, where he lived on a large estate in a custom-made log cabin, which he helped to build. For the remainder of his life he divided his time between Albuquerque, New Mexico and Florida, living the last 13 years of his life in Archer, Florida, a small farming town near Gainesville.
In the early 1970s, Diddley began to nurture the musical ability exhibited by his daughters Tammi Deane "Tammi Diddley" McDaniel (drums) and Terri Lynn "BoDetta" McDaniel (keyboards), and by the mid 1970s, he and his wife Kay, began booking the girls, as "The Diddley Darlings". By 1981, with the additions of Scott "Skyntyte" Free (guitar and vocals) and Ron Haughbrook (bass and vocals), The Diddley Darlings renamed themselves "Offspring" and began recording songs for the album "Ain't it good to be free". Released on Diddley's own BoKay Records label, Bo Diddley & Offspring performed shows in support around the U.S., including a two-month tour of Europe and several performances behind the "iron curtain" in what was East Germany.
In 1979, he appeared as an opening act for the Clash on their US tour and in Legends of Guitar (filmed live in Spain, 1991), with B.B. King, Les Paul, Albert Collins, and George Benson, among others. He joined the Rolling Stones on their 1994 concert broadcast of Voodoo Lounge, performing "Who Do You Love?".
By the mid 70s, Diddley could no longer afford to maintain a full-time band, and was forced to adopt the use of a "pick-up band". Beginning in the early 80s, Diddley had a non-exclusive agreement with booking agency Talent Consultants International. Agency president Margo Lewis decided that a permanent line-up of musicians would ensure Diddley would have a cohesive sound and enlisted The Jim Satten Band, led by guitarist Jim Satten, as back-up to Diddley. After Satten left, and at the urging of Lewis, bassist Debby Hastings, assumed the position of band leader and the decision to change the name to "the Debby Hastings Band" was made without Diddley's involvement. The Debby Hastings Band also utilized the talents of Nunzio Signore, Scott "Skyntyte" Free or Frank Daley (guitar); Tom Major, Dave Johnson, Yoshi Shimada, Mike Fink or Sandy Gennaro (drums); John Margolis, Dave Keys or personal manager Margo Lewis (keyboards); and Debby Hastings (bassist).
In 1987, Diddley partnered with former Bo Diddley & Offspring guitarist Scott "Skyntyte" Free to form Bad Dad Productions. Placing a focus on home recording, the duo recorded hundreds of recordings, and in the process, produced several of Diddley's albums including "Living Legend" for New Rose Records of France, and both "Breakin' through the B.S.", and "This should not be" for Los Angeles based Triple X Records. In 1992, Diddley performed "This should not be" live, on the NBC Today Show with Stone Phillips.
At the insistence of Diddley, he returned to the use of playing with a non-permanent line-up, and in 2005 and 2006, Diddley performed a number of shows around the country with fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Johnnie Johnson and his band, consisting of Johnson on keyboards, Richard Hunt on drums and Gus Thornton on bass.
In 2006, he participated as the headliner of a grassroots-organized fundraiser concert to benefit the town of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, which had been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The "Florida Keys for Katrina Relief" had originally been set for October 23, 2005, when Hurricane Wilma barreled through the Florida Keys on October 24, causing flooding and economic mayhem. In January 2006, the Florida Keys had recovered enough to host the fundraising concert to benefit the more hard-hit community of Ocean Springs. When asked about the fundraiser, Bo Diddley stated, "This is the United States of America. We believe in helping one another". In an interview with Holger Petersen, on Saturday Night Blues on CBC Radio in the fall of 2006, He commented on racism in the music industry establishment during his early career, which deprived him of royalties from the most successful part of his career.
His final guitar performance on a studio album was with the New York Dolls on their 2006 album One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This. He contributed guitar work to the song "Seventeen", which was included as a bonus track on the limited-edition version of the disc.
In 1989, Diddley entered into a licensing agreement with the sportswear brand Nike. The Wieden & Kennedy produced commercial in the "Bo Knows" campaign, teamed Diddley with dual sportsman Bo Jackson, and resulted in one of the most iconic advertisements in advertising history. The agreement ended in 1991, but in 1999, a T-shirt of Diddley's image and "You don't know diddley" slogan was purchased in a Gainesville, Florida sports apparel store. Diddley felt that Nike should not continue to use the slogan or his likeness, and fought Nike over the copyright infringement. Despite the fact that lawyers for both parties could not come to a renewed legal arrangement, Nike allegedly continued marketing the apparel and ignored cease-and-desist orders, and a lawsuit was filed on Diddley's behalf, in Manhattan Federal Court.
On May 13, 2007, Bo Diddley was admitted to intensive care in Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, following a stroke after a concert the previous day in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Starting the show, he had complained that he did not feel well. He referred to smoke from the wildfires that were ravaging south Georgia and blowing south to the area near his home in Archer, Florida. Nonetheless, he delivered an energetic performance to an enthusiastic crowd. The next day, as he was heading back home, he seemed dazed and confused at the airport. 911 and airport security were called, and he was immediately taken by ambulance to Creighton University Medical Center and admitted to the Intensive-care unit, where he stayed for several days. After tests, it was confirmed that he had suffered a stroke. Bo Diddley had a history of hypertension and diabetes, and the stroke affected the left side of his brain, causing receptive and expressive aphasia (speech impairment). The stroke was followed by a heart attack, which he suffered in Gainesville, Florida, on August 28, 2007.
While recovering from the stroke and heart attack, Bo Diddley came back to his home town of McComb, Mississippi, in early November 2007, for the unveiling of a plaque devoted to him on the Mississippi Blues Trail. This marked his achievements and noted that he was "acclaimed as a founder of rock-and-roll." He was not supposed to perform, but as he listened to the music of local musician Jesse Robinson, who sang a song written for this occasion, Robinson sensed that Bo Diddley wanted to perform and handed him a microphone, the only time that he performed publicly after his stroke.
Death
Bo Diddley died on June 2, 2008, of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida. Garry Mitchell, his grandson and one of more than 35 family members at the musician's home when he died at 1:45 a.m. EDT (05:45 GMT), said his death was not unexpected. "There was a gospel song that was sung (at his bedside) and (when it was done) he said 'wow' with a thumbs up," Mitchell told Reuters, when asked to describe the scene at the deathbed. "The song was 'Walk Around Heaven' and in his last words he said 'I'm going to heaven.'"
His funeral, a four-hour "homegoing" service, took place on June 7, 2008, at Showers of Blessings Church in Gainesville, Florida, and kept in tune with the vibrant spirit of Bo Diddley's life and career. The many in attendance chanted "Hey Bo Diddley" as a gospel band played the legend's music. A number of notable musicians sent flowers, including George Thorogood, Tom Petty and Jerry Lee Lewis. Little Richard, who had been asking his audiences to pray for Bo Diddley throughout his illness, had to fulfil concert commitments in Westbury and New York City the weekend of the funeral. He took time at both concerts to remember his friend of a half-century, performing Bo's namesake tune in his honor.
After the funeral service, a tribute concert was held at the Martin Luther King Center in Gainesville, Florida and featured guest performances by his son and daughter, Ellas McDaniel Jr. and Evelyn "Tan" Cooper; long-time background vocalist Gloria Jolivet; former Offspring guitarist and long-time friend and coproducer of "Bo Diddley put the rock in rock'n'roll," Scott "Skyntyte" Free and Eric Burdon. In the days following his death, tributes were paid by then-President George W. Bush, the United States House of Representatives, and many musicians and performers, including B. B. King, Ronnie Hawkins, Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, George Thorogood, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Robert Plant, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Randolph and the Family Band and Eric Burdon. Burdon used video footage of the McDaniel family and friends in mourning for a video promoting his ABKCO Records release "Bo Diddley Special".
He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music. In its People in America radio series, about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how "his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him." Mick Jagger stated that "he was a wonderful, original musician who was an enormous force in music and was a big influence on the Rolling Stones. He was very generous to us in our early years and we learned a lot from him". Jagger also praised the late star as a one-of-a-kind musician, adding, "We will never see his like again". The documentary film Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street by director Phil Ranstrom features Bo Diddley's last on-camera interview.
In November 2009, the guitar used by Bo Diddley in his final stage performance sold for $60,000 at auction.
All twenty-two beneficiaries of his estate sought a forensic accounting of his estate, but were denied without explanation. The current value is unknown to the heirs.
Accolades
Bo Diddley achieved numerous accolades in recognition of his significant role as one of the founding fathers of rock and roll.
1986: Inducted into the Washington Area Music Association's Hall of Fame.
1987: Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
1990: Lifetime Achievement Award from Guitar Player magazine.
1998: Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
1999: His 1955 recording of his song "Bo Diddley" inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as a recording of lasting qualitative or historical significance.
2000: Inducted into the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame and the North Florida Music Association's Hall of Fame.
2002: Pioneer in Entertainment Award from the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters
2002: Honored as one of the first BMI Icons at the 50th annual BMI Pop Awards, along with BMI affiliates Chuck Berry and Little Richard.
2008: Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree posthumously conferred on Diddley by the University of Florida in August (the award had been confirmed before his death in June).
2009: Announcement of his induction into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame (induction to occur during Florida Heritage Month, March 2010).
2010: Induction into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame.
In 2003, U.S. Representative John Conyers paid tribute to Bo Diddley in the United States House of Representatives. describing him as "one of the true pioneers of rock and roll, who has influenced generations".
In 2004, Mickey and Sylvia's 1956 recording of "Love Is Strange" (a song first recorded by Bo Diddley but not released until a year before his death) was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as a recording of qualitative or historical significance. Also in 2004, Bo Diddley was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame and was ranked number 20 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
In 2005, Bo Diddley celebrated his 50th anniversary in music with successful tours of Australia and Europe and with coast-to-coast shows across North America. He performed his song "Bo Diddley" with Eric Clapton and Robbie Robertson at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 20th annual induction ceremony. In the UK, Uncut magazine included his 1957 debut album, Bo Diddley, in its listing of the '100 Music, Movie & TV Moments That Have Changed the World'.
Bo Diddley was honored by the Mississippi Blues Commission with a Mississippi Blues Trail historic marker placed in McComb, his birthplace, in recognition of his enormous contribution to the development of the blues in Mississippi. On June 5, 2009, the city of Gainesville, Florida, officially renamed and dedicated its downtown plaza the Bo Diddley Community Plaza. The plaza was the site of a benefit concert at which Bo Diddley performed to raise awareness about the plight of the homeless in Alachua County and to raise money for local charities, including the Red Cross.
Beat
The "Bo Diddley beat" is essentially the clave rhythm, one of the most common bell patterns found in sub-Saharan African music traditions. One scholar found this rhythm in 13 rhythm and blues recordings made in the years 1944–55, including two by Johnny Otis from 1948.
Bo Diddley gave different accounts of how he began to use this rhythm. Sublette asserts, "In the context of the time, and especially those maracas [heard on the record], 'Bo Diddley' has to be understood as a Latin-tinged record. A rejected cut recorded at the same session was titled only 'Rhumba' on the track sheets." The Bo Diddley beat is similar to "hambone", a style used by street performers who play out the beat by slapping and patting their arms, legs, chest, and cheeks while chanting rhymes. Somewhat resembling the "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm, Diddley came across it while trying to play Gene Autry's "(I've Got Spurs That) Jingle, Jangle, Jingle". Three years before his "Bo Diddley", a song with similar syncopation "Hambone", was cut by the Red Saunders Orchestra with the Hambone Kids. In 1944, "Rum and Coca Cola", containing the Bo Diddley beat, was recorded by the Andrews Sisters. Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" (1957) and Them's "Mystic Eyes" (1965) used the beat.
Many songs (for example, "Hey Bo Diddley" and "Who Do You Love?") often have no chord changes; that is, the musicians play the same chord throughout the piece, so that the rhythms create the excitement, rather than having the excitement generated by harmonic tension and release. In his other recordings, Bo Diddley used various rhythms, from straight back beat to pop ballad style to doo-wop, frequently with maracas by Jerome Green.
An influential guitar player, Bo Diddley developed many special effects and other innovations in tone and attack. His trademark instrument was his self-designed, one-of-a-kind, rectangular-bodied "Twang Machine" (referred to as "cigar-box shaped" by music promoter Dick Clark) built by Gretsch. He had other uniquely shaped guitars custom-made for him by other manufacturers throughout the years, most notably the "Cadillac" and the rectangular "Turbo 5-speed" (with built-in envelope filter, flanger and delay) designs made by Tom Holmes (who also made guitars for ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, among others). In a 2005 interview on JJJ radio in Australia, he implied that the rectangular design sprang from an embarrassing moment. During an early gig, while jumping around on stage with a Gibson L5 guitar, he landed awkwardly, hurting his groin. He then went about designing a smaller, less restrictive guitar that allowed him to keep jumping around on stage while still playing his guitar. He also played the violin, which is featured on his mournful instrumental "The Clock Strikes Twelve", a twelve-bar blues.
He often created lyrics as witty and humorous adaptations of folk music themes. The song "Bo Diddley" was based on the African-American clapping rhyme "Hambone" (which in turn was based on the lullaby "Hush Little Baby"). Likewise, "Hey Bo Diddley" is based on the song "Old MacDonald". The song "Who Do You Love?" with its rap-style boasting, and his use of the African-American game known as "the dozens" on the songs "Say Man" and "Say Man, Back Again," are cited as progenitors of hip-hop music (for example, "You got the nerve to call somebody ugly. Why, you so ugly, the stork that brought you into the world ought to be arrested").
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I admit I’m a latecomer to the Bo Diddley admiration society. Shame on me and on anybody else who has not given Diddley the proper credit for his musical legacy. \nI’ve been familiar with his name (on…
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I admit I’m a latecomer to the Bo Diddley admiration society. Shame on me and on anybody else who has not given Diddley the proper credit for his musical legacy.
I’ve been familiar with his name (one of my favorite names of all time) and some of his music, but only in the past five years or so have I gained an appreciation for his contributions to the creation of rock and roll.
Diddley, who was born Ellas Bates and became Ellas McDaniel when he took the last name of a cousin who raised him, died from heart failure June 2 at the age of 79. This was a man who never really was given the acclaim owed him despite his contributions that were an inspiration to Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, and, yes, even Elvis Presley.
While Elvis was still driving a truck in Tupelo, Miss., and starting his music career in 1955, Bo Diddley was rocking performance stages throughout the South with his trademark square, homemade guitar, and thumping, driving, high-energy riffs. He put the rock in rock and roll.
The so-called “bad boys” of the world today have nothing on Bo Diddley. Anybody familiar with “Who Do You Love” knows it. Diddley defined it in the first lines of this classic.
“I walk 47 miles of barb wire/Use a cobra snake for necktie/Got a brand new house on the roadside, made from rattlesnake hide.”
No foul-mouthed, super macho rap artist or action movie character can touch those lines for being bad. Diddley defined it, but didn’t let it define him.
Bo Diddley influenced a great many rock-and-roll artists. Elvis, the Rolling Stones and countless others have used his trademark “shave-and-a-haircut-two-bits” riff to build a song around.
Unfortunately, it took his death and a four-hour June 8 funeral/celebration for people to look at his work and see what a contribution Diddley made. The man spent his life playing the music for which he was far too often overlooked.
According to the Associated Press report, stories of another side of Diddley were told repeatedly. A man who loved God and his family, who would always stop to talk in the grocery store and was always smiling.
Friends recounted his generosity, manifested in concerts for the homeless and work with youth groups and other charities, and the way he loved to talk to just about anybody he met. His brother, the Rev. Kenneth Haynes of Biloxi, Miss., said Diddley always asked how he could help and what he could give.
“There was one thing he wouldn’t give me. That’s his hat,” Haynes said, referring to the black hat the musician was recognized for as well.
Diddley also was known for appearances in other people’s work, including movies and music videos. He was the pawn shop owner who bought Dan Ackroyd’s watch in “Trading Places”; he was the pool player in George Thorogood’s music video of “Bad to the Bone”; and Bob Seger immortalized him with his version of “Bo Diddley” on “Live Bullet.”
As for his stage name, according to his Web site, Bo Diddley may be a slang phrase meaning “nothing at all,” as in “he ain’t bo diddley.” It surely doesn’t describe his music.
Music fans — and especially rock-and-roll fans — should carve out a spot during their day sometime soon, put on a Bo Diddley recording, crank the volume, sit back and enjoy. Better yet, get up and move. I dare you to sit still.
Who Do You Love? Bo Diddley, that’s who.
David Frownfelder is a staff writer for The Daily Telegram. He can be contacted at 265-5111, ext. 258, or via e-mail at frownfelder@lenconnect.com.
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Early rock 'n' roll guitar wizard Bo Diddley died near Jacksonville, Florida, Monday, 2 June, of heart failure. He was 79 years old. One of the most primitive of the early rockers, Bo took the blues and folk music of his native Mississippi and combined them with Latin American and African rhythms to come up with his trademark "hambone" beat. VOA's Doug Levine tells us more about the career of Bo Diddley.
Along with the legendary Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley was considered one of the most influential guitarists of the early rock era. His powerful rhythm, which became known as the "Bo Diddley beat" has been imitated by countless musicians.
Born Otha Ellas Bates in Mississippi in 1928, Bo was sent to Chicago to live with an aunt, Gussie McDaniel, who later adopted him. He dropped his first and last names to become Ellas McDaniel. His stage name Bo Diddley came from two sources; the diddley bow, an African stringed instrument, and the slang expression for a mischievous boy.
Bo studied violin at age seven and became a virtuoso. In the early-1940s, while he was in his teens, he taught himself to play guitar, drawing on the influences of jazz artist Louis Jordan and bluesman John Lee Hooker. Bo explained how he developed his trademark sound after his sister bought him his own guitar.
"I took it home and learned how to play on one string, 'When The Saints Go Marching In.' The other strings didn't make a difference," he said. "Then I accidentally tuned it one day the way that I'm tuning it now. I say I'm playing backwards. I don't play like the average guitar player, the cats [musicians] who move their fingers all around like this. I do it in chords, and basically, do almost the same thing."
At age 13, Bo Diddley became a street musician, eventually joining with others to form a street corner band. Driven by maracas, congas and bass, Bo played his infectious, hypnotic guitar phrases. When the band was ready to perform in Chicago nightclubs, he bought an electric guitar so he could get more volume. Bo attracted enough attention to get an audition with Chess Records, the same Chicago label that launched the careers of blues artists Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon, and rocker Chuck Berry.
Bo signed a recording contract with Chess in 1955, and released two songs, "Bo Diddley" and "I'm A Man." Both went to Number Two on the national R&B charts. An appearance on a nationally-televised variety show earned him a spot on a national tour. Bo's next break came in 1959 when "Say Man" appeared on the pop charts.
Bo Diddley's career had a lull until the mid-1960s, when British rock bands such as The Yardbirds, The Rolling Stones, and The Animals started releasing their versions of Bo Diddley's songs. Bo said, at first, he wasn't happy about the young rock bands who "copied" his sound.
"At that time, I was a little bit upset about it because I wasn't educated to accept that, " he said. "I figured if I went and got mine [style], why shouldn't you go and get yours and leave me alone. But then, after a while I started thinking, 'Hey, that's pretty good. I must be doing something right.'"
With renewed interest in his music, Bo continued to release albums throughout the 1960s and 1970s. A series of custom-made guitars were crafted for him, which included oblong, triangular and star shapes, often covered in fur or carpet material.
Like many of the R&B performers from the 1950s and 1960s, Bo was paid a flat fee for his recordings, and said he received no royalty payments on record sales. He also said he was never paid for many of his performances.
"I am owed. I've never got paid," Bo said. Referring to concert promoters and record executives, he added, "A dude with a pencil is worse than a cat with a machine gun."
The ultimate honor came when Bo was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. He had a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998 at the Grammy Awards. In recent years, he also played for the Presidents George H. W. Bush and Clinton. Diddley appreciated the honors he received, but added, "It didn't put no figures in my checkbook."
Bo continued to play in clubs and concert halls throughout the United States until being hospitalized in May 2007, following a stroke during a concert in Iowa. Three months later, Bo suffered a heart attack. The health issues affected his ability to speak. Bo later returned to his Florida home to continue his recovery.
As early as the 1950s, Bo Diddley recorded unusual jazz-flavored instrumental pieces, and experimented with sound effects that made him one of the true innovators of rock guitar.
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Bo Diddley’s rhythm guitarist Peggy Jones (aka Lady Bo) has died aged 75. Jones was born in Eden, Maryland and grew up in New York. By the time she was ten, she was studying opera and playing the ukulele. Jones attended the High School for the Performing Arts as a teenager, specialising in tap, ballet, drama, music theory and several instruments. Two years after buying her first guitar at the age of 15, she joined local group The Bop-Chords. As a member of that group she met Bo Diddley, which led to her becoming the first female guitarist to be hired by a major rock artist. She formed her own side-group The Jewels, later known as Lady Bo And The Family Jewel, while still in Diddley’s band. Her group, which stayed active into the 1990s, recorded the northern soul classic “We Got Togetherness” for MGM Records in 1966. Lady Bo also worked as a session performer on hits including Les Cooper’s “Wiggle Wibble” (featuring her guitar work) and Eric Burdon And The Animals’ “San Francisco Nights” (to which she contributed percussion). Later, Jones performed as Lady Bo And The DC Horns.
Her husband Wally Malone announced his wife’s passing via Facebook, saying, “Today is one of the saddest days of my life. My wife and partner of 47 years has been called up to that great rock & roll band in the heavens to be reunited with Bo Diddley, Jerome Green and Clifton James. The last hour and a quarter I spent by her side and the last thing I said to her was the quote above regarding Diddley and band. The other thing I added at the end of it is that band doesn’t have a bass player and for them to please hold that seat until it is my time to join them. The incredible part of this is immediately after saying this to her there was a quick sound that came from her and right then her heart stopped beating. Many of you know about the Bo Diddley connection but in case not my wife’s professional stage name is Lady Bo.”
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A spokeswoman said he died of heart failure after suffering a heart attack in August last year.
Three months earlier he was hit by a stroke while touring in the Midwest.
Doctors said the stroke affected his ability to speak, and he had returned to Florida to continue rehabilitation.
The legendary singer and performer was known for his home-made square guitar, dark glasses and black hat.
His first single, "Bo Diddley", introduced record buyers in 1955 to his signature rhythm.
The B side, "I'm a Man" with its slightly humorous take on macho pride, also became a rock standard.
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For a young black singer and guitarist from Chicago with only a minor hit, getting booked on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1955 was a career-making opportunity. Sullivan asked him to sing Tennessee Ernie Ford’s country smash “Sixteen Tons”; instead, the young star unleashed the guitar maelstrom that introduced him to the world, and whose title bore his name: “Bo Diddley.”
The audience went wild, and Sullivan fumed, promising that Diddley would never appear on television again. Later, Diddley recalled the aftermath: “He says to me, ‘You’re the first colored boy ever double-crossed me on a song.’ And I started to hit the dude, because I was a young hoodlum out of Chicago, and I thought ‘colored boy’ was an insult.”
100 Greatest Artists of All Time: Bo Diddley
Diddley was pure masculinity, with songs that shouted his name and proclaimed his skills. With a cigar-box-shape guitar he designed himself, a Stetson on his head and a sound that permanently reoriented the world’s sense of rhythm, Bo Diddley called himself “the Originator.” And when he died at age 79 on June 2nd from heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida, music lost a one-of-a-kind pioneer. “He was by far the most underrated of any Fifties star,” says Phil Spector. “The rhythmic invention, the excellence of the writing, the power of the vocals — nobody else ever did it better.”
Diddley had only one Top 40 pop hit, 1959’s “Say Man,” but the impact of his songwriting, his guitar-playing and that signature “Bo Diddley beat” were as significant as anyone’s contributions in the history of rock & roll. The “one-two-three, one-two” beat — first established on his debut, 1955’s Number One R&B hit “Bo Diddley” — propelled classic songs by Bruce Springsteen (“She’s the One”), U2 (“Desire”), George Michael (“Faith”), the Who (“Magic Bus”) and countless others. “It was like I did the ‘Bo Diddley’ song by accident,” Diddley said. “I just started beating and banging on my guitar. And then I fooled around and got it syncopated right, where it fit the dirty lyrics that I had. And then it just seemed to fall right into place.” If Diddley’s lone contribution to rock & roll had been the Bo Diddley beat, he would already be an immortal. But his legacy is much larger than that. He made records that were built on boasting rhymes decades before LL Cool J or Run-DMC. And he reduced his music to its basic rhythmic core, stripping his sound to the pure primacy of the beat, long before James Brown used a similar approach to transform soul into funk. In Rock & Roll: An Unruly History, Robert Palmer wrote that “what Bo came up with was a comprehensive theory of rhythmic orchestration . . . . The tendency is for every instrument to become a rhythm instrument.”
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“I never heard a rhythm come out of a guitar like that,” says Robbie Robertson, whose breakthrough moment was a slashing solo he played on Ronnie Hawkins’ 1963 cover of “Who Do You Love.” “I first met him when I was 16, and he both fascinated me and scared me at the same time.”
Bo Diddley was born Ellas Otha Bates in McComb, Mississippi, on December 30th, 1928. He never knew his father, and his mother couldn’t afford to raise him, so he was adopted by her cousin Gussie McDaniel. He took on her family’s name, becoming Ellas McDaniel. “My people are from New Orleans, the bayou country — French, African, Indian, all mixed up,” Diddley said. “That’s where my music comes from, all that mixture.” After Gussie’s husband died, she moved her two daughters, her son and Ellas, then around seven, to Chicago. He began taking violin lessons at church. “I used to read all this funny music, like Tchaikovsky,” he told Rolling Stone in 1987. “But then I didn’t see too many black dudes playin’ no violin.”
100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time: Bo Diddley
He picked up the guitar after being astonished by John Lee Hooker. At some point, McDaniel also picked up his unforgettable nickname — though, like much in the Bo Diddley story, its origins are tangled. It has alternately been credited to a street diss meaning “worthless” (as in, “Man, you ain’t bo diddley”); a name he was given during his days as a Golden Gloves boxer; the invention of his harmonica player, Billy Boy Arnold; and as a derivation of the “diddley bow,” a single-string guitar seen on Southern farms.
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Rock pioneer Bo Diddley, who died Monday at the age of 79, leaves behind a sound that helped build a musical genre. Born in Mississippi and raised in Chicago, Diddley played guitar on street corners before being discovered by Chess Records.
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NEAL CONAN, host:
An American original died today. Nobody else looked like Bo Diddley with the shades and that black hat. Nobody else played that homemade square guitar, and while everybody from Buddy Holly to Bruce Springsteen borrowed that distinctive bom bom bom bom bom bah bom bah bom bom, it will be forever known as Bo's beat. Born Ellas Bates in 1928, later known as Ellas McDaniel, Bo told any number of stories about how he got the name. Most often, he said it was a nickname he picked up as a kid on the playgrounds in Chicago.
He first hit the charts in 1955 with the song that bears his name. Chess Records released a string of hits afterwards. Bo always complained that other people made a lot more money off his records than he ever did. And while he welcomed the honors received later in life, including induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, "It didn't put no figures in my checkbook," as he put it. He suffered a stroke while on tour last year in Iowa, then a heart attack, and died today of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida, at the age of 79.
(Soundbite of song "Who Do You Love?")
Mr. BO DIDDLEY: (Singing) I walked 47 miles of barbed wire I used a cobra snake for a neck tie. I got a brand new house on the roadside, Made out of rattlesnake hide. I got a brand new chimney made on top, Made out of human skulls.
Now, come on, take a little walk with me, Arlene, And tell me, who do you love?
Who do you love? Who do you love? Who do you love? Who do you love? Who do you love?
Tombstone hand and a graveyard mind, I'm just 22 and I ain't scared of dying.
Who do you love? Who do you love? Who do you love? Who do you love?
I rode around the town, need a rattlesnake whip, Taking these, Arlene, you don't give me no lip.
Who do you love? Who do you love? Who do you love? Who do you love?
Night was black and the sky was blue, Around the ally, an ice wagon flew. Good old bump and somebody screamed, You should have heard just what I seen.
Who do you love? Who do you love? Who do you love? Who do you love?
Arlene took me by my hand She said, ooh, eeh, boy, you know I understand
Who do you love? Who do you love? Who do you love? Who do you love?
CONAN: Bo Diddley who died earlier today at the age of 79. This is Talk of the Nation from NPR News. I'm Neal Conan in Washington.
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Bo Diddley's attorney and two agents/managers are seeking to sell the publishing rights to his entire music catalog for $4.3 million to pay off possible tax debts for his estate, estimated to be abou…
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BRONSON — Rock 'n' roll legend Bo Diddley had often complained before he died of being “ripped off” by the musical revolution he helped found, having received no royalty payments for his biggest hits, only flat recording fees.
Now, almost three years after Diddley's death, his family stands to begin receiving the payments long denied the rock icon — as the publishing rights to his earliest songs, which he signed away early in his career, return to his estate.
But in order to receive those royalty payments, his 22 heirs first will have to prevent the sale of those publishing rights.
Diddley's attorney and two agents/managers are seeking to sell the publishing rights to his entire music catalog for $4.3 million to pay off possible tax debts for his estate, estimated to be worth about $6 million. For the total sum, the rights to each song would be sold as they revert back to the estate over the next several years.
The sale of publishing rights would mean Diddley's heirs — six children and 16 grandchildren — would be out about $400,000 a year in record royalties for the next four decades.
In a hearing in Levy County Circuit Court on Jan. 27, Judge Robert Roundtree Jr. postponed a decision on the sale until Diddley's attorney can provide an accounting of the total estate and the family can provide details of a possible leasing of the music rights instead of an outright sale. The next hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. on March 14.
Diddley's heirs, particularly his oldest son, Ellas Anthony McDaniel, and Diddley's granddaughter Jatonne Mitchell, are fighting to keep ownership of the publishing rights of 311 songs, including his biggest hits, “I'm A Man,” “Who Do You Love” and “Love Is Strange.”
They allege that Diddley's attorney, Ron Stevens of Bronson, and Diddley's agents/managers, Faith Fusillo and Margo Lewis of New York City, took advantage of the singer, who had only an elementary school education. Diddley's will named Stevens the trustee of his estate, and Fusillo and Lewis received a percentage of royalties through a contract they had with Diddley.
The family, however, alleges the trio did not explain to Diddley that:
* It would be Stevens — and not the family — who would have control over his estate, including his music.
* His longtime managers would get 30 percent of anything of Diddley's that sold, including his image, public performance (radio and television play) rights and — if they remain with the estate — royalties from his publishing rights.
* The family would divide the remaining 70 percent of royalties and fees among the 22 heirs.
“His fiduciary obligation to my family has not been rendered,” McDaniel said about Stevens. “For my whole family, this has got to stop.”
Stevens, Lewis and Fusillo deny that Diddley did not understand that they would be in control; they say he wanted it that way, just as he kept his family out of his business dealings when he was alive.
Stevens, Fusillo and Lewis explained that they had tried to do what was best for Diddley, including filing lawsuits to recoup some of Diddley's financial losses as well as to protect his image. They say they now are trying to do what is best for the estate.
Stevens, Fusillo and Lewis said the family, most of whom live in rural Archer or Bronson, does not have a good grasp of the music industry, royalties, copyright laws or marketing. They told Judge Roundtree that in addition to covering tax bills, money from the sale would be used to help pay for a lawsuit to try to win back the rights to all of Diddley's music, in perpetuity. They said they had promised the singer they would do that after he had signed away those rights early in his career.
In e-mail exchanges with The Gainesville Sun, Stevens said he was limited as to what he could publicly discuss.
“The rules of the Florida Bar to my best knowledge limit and/or preclude me from providing most of the answers and/or information you have requested,” Stevens wrote in response to questions about billing and how legal matters had been explained to Diddley. “Sadly this position can often be taken as having something to hide; I can only do my best to assure you that such is not the case. You probably have no way of knowing just how much I would love to fully address each question you have posed.”
Diddley's family provided his will and other documents to The Sun. The will is filed in Levy County under his birth name, Ellas Otha Bates McDaniel.
In the will, Diddley made Ron Stevens trustee of an irrevocable trust and personal representative of his estate, which allows Stevens to “sell or convey any part of my estate.”
The will also specifies that Diddley's longtime managers, Fusillo and Lewis, will “continue to manage and perpetuate my entertainment business and affairs domestically and internationally in perpetuity according to acceptable industry standards they receive as compensation a total of 30 percent of all gross revenue collected by them.”
They said in court last month that their arrangement with Diddley for nearly 30 years when he was alive was also a flat 30 percent fee, which paid for three jobs: managing his career, booking his shows and taking care of his business matters.
A well-known Nashville singer and songwriter said 5 to 15 percent for a manager alone is reasonable. Lewis and Fusillo also act as agent and business manager. An official from CMG Worldwide, which represents and manages the intellectual property of dead celebrities for their heirs, said 30 percent was a fair amount to charge.
But Judge Roundtree said “the reasonableness of the fees” seemed extreme, especially for the proposed deal.
“I think somebody needs to sharpen their pencil and rework this,” Roundtree said. But Roundtree added that Fusillo and Lewis also were responsible for Diddley having any money at all at the end of his life.
The family now has hired Atlanta entertainment attorney Kendall Minter and his Fort Lauderdale colleague Frank Scruggs to represent them — and to contest the will.
“The game plan is restore to the family their appropriate rights to the estate so that they have some input as to what's going on with the legacy that ... their grandfather and their father left them,” Minter said.
Earning money from songs is a tangled web of people wanting a piece of the pie. There are several revenue streams for recording artists: recording royalties; publishing copyrights; writer's copyrights; public performance rights, which are paid to publishers and writers when songs are played on the radio or television or on stage; and mechanical royalties, which are paid to publishers by record companies when records are purchased. The publishing rights to his first two songs, “Bo Diddley” and “I'm A Man,” will return to his estate in March.
Records provided by the family show that in the first quarter of 2010, the Diddley estate received $41,209 in royalties on Diddley's work. Stevens declined to reveal what the latest quarter's royalties were. However, in a December 2009 letter to the family, he said that, “After 2011 Margo and Faith estimate an annual gross income of $400K yearly from royalties, in addition to other sources of income they are able to generate on your behalf.”
The estate fight is an echo of Diddley's early days in the music industry, when Muddy Waters and Diddley made their way from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago, bringing with them the slow, heart-wrenching music known as the blues, along with the fast-paced sounds of what became rock 'n' roll. Diddley, with his self-designed square guitar and slowed-down riffs on “shave and a haircut,” is given credit for being one of the founding fathers of rock 'n' roll, developing a rhythm now named for him.
In 1954 in Chicago, Diddley wound up recording for two Polish immigrants, brothers Leonard and Phil Chess, under their labels, Chess and Checker Records.
Diddley had a huge hit in 1955 with “I'm A Man,” and the flip side of that 45, “Bo Diddley.” But the Chess brothers paid Diddley a flat, one-time fee for those two songs, the amount of which remains unknown.
According to all involved, the story is the same for most of his other hits with Chess Records. Other well-known black artists with Chess also alleged the same problems. Diddley's main source of income was from touring and from his writer's copyrights.
After Diddley began questioning the Chess brothers about royalties and more money, his music gradually stopped being played on the radio and Diddley has said in numerous interviews that he realized he had been blackballed by the industry.
Diddley then signed a contract in 1971 to sell his writer's copyrights for $10,000 to the Chess family. The contract states that the sale was “forever.” That writer's catalog is what Fusillo and Lewis said they want to get back for the estate.
Diddley continued to tour until the night he had a stroke in May 2007. “I guess because I was a little country black boy in Chicago, I got ripped off,” Diddley told an interviewer in 2003 about the Chess brothers.
In fact, Diddley was plagued by financial woes throughout his career, becoming the poster child for musicians who didn't realize they were signing away their rights to future royalties for pennies on the dollar. Diddley often trusted the wrong people, including his former manager, Marty Otelsberg, who helped himself to Diddley's bank account for decades. A judge in Los Angeles awarded Diddley more than $500,000 in 1994 from Otelsberg's estate.
Stevens filed a petition in January with the Levy County Court, hoping to get authorization to sell the publishing rights to Diddley's music catalog, which one appraiser estimated to be worth about $4.3 million.
Stevens explained in court documents that the need for the sale stems from two IRS issues:
A “transaction” Diddley made in 2007 on his public performance rights for $1.54 million. At the time, Stevens said, he, Lewis and Fusillo believed the transaction was a loan, but the IRS has since declared it was a sale, on which Stevens says the estate will owe a substantial amount of taxes.
Taxes the IRS says will be owed on the $4.3 million value of the publishing rights.
Roundtree agreed that anything more than the $2 million cap of a non-taxable inheritance would be subject to a 55 percent tax rate. Stevens said there is simply not enough money in the estate account to pay the government.
Fusillo confirmed that Diddley sold some, not all, of his public performance rights in November 2007 for $1.54 million.
But Diddley's granddaughter and caretaker, Jatonne Mitchell, and the other heirs question how Diddley could have sold anything in November 2007 — six months after a stroke left him debilitated and with aphasia. He was unable to speak coherently or, Mitchell said, understand everything happening around him, let alone sign a legal document. Mitchell said her grandfather repeatedly began yelling, “What did I just do?” after Fusillo and Lewis left the house with the contract.
Fusillo said the sale was made in order to obtain cash for Diddley's health care following his stroke, as he had no supplemental health insurance and they didn't want to wipe out his savings. Fusillo had power of attorney to sign his name, but she said she did not want to be seen as taking advantage of that privilege. Instead, she said she and Lewis flew to Florida, and she met for an hour with Diddley, explained the situation and he signed the paperwork.
Friends and family connected to Diddley say that selling his music rights is the last thing he would have wanted.
The family is working with attorney Kendall Minter of Atlanta to try to gain control over the estate.
Minter, a native of New York City and a graduate of Cornell Law School, has represented numerous artists and the estates of artists. Minter said in a telephone interview that, when he saw Diddley's will, he was “shocked.”
“Based on the fact that Bo, when he made the will, completely entrusted the care and well-being of his entire family for the rest of their lives to a couple of managers in New York and a sole practitioner attorney that he had done business with, without any real accountability,” Minter said. “And that's the unfortunate aspect for the family — they have very little, if no, say in the running of the estate. The estate was set up for their well-being.”
Diddley's children and grandchildren are simply frustrated and angry.
“We'll be lost forever if this goes through,” said Anthony McDaniel, Diddley's oldest son. “The fire sale of this would be a million-something for (Lewis and Fusillo), Mr. Stevens would get $400,000, and the family would get nothing after the taxes are paid.”
10 R&B hits between 1958 and 1963. 1996 Album “A Man Amongst Men” nominated for a Grammy. 1987: Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 1998: Inducted into the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame. Played at the inaugural balls of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
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Table of Contents
Introduction to Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home
A Brief History of Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home
Funeral Services Offered by Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home
The Facilities at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home
The Team at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home
Community Involvement and Outreach
Grief Support and Resources
Why Choose Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home?
Contacting Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home
Frequently Asked Questions
Introduction to Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home
Located in the heart of Stamps, Arkansas, Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home has been a trusted and compassionate provider of funeral services to the local community for many years. With a rich history and a commitment to excellence, this funeral home has established itself as a beacon of hope and support during difficult times. In this article, we will delve into the history, services, and values of Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home, providing you with a comprehensive understanding of what sets them apart.
A Brief History of Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home
Founded on a foundation of love, respect, and dedication, Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home has been serving the Stamps community since [year]. The funeral home's story began with a vision to provide families with a place to gather, share memories, and celebrate the lives of their loved ones. Over the years, the funeral home has remained committed to this vision, continually adapting to the changing needs of the community while maintaining its core values of compassion, integrity, and professionalism.
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Address: 415 E 1st St, Stamps, AR, 71860
Phone Number: 870-533-2802
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Sammie McDonald, Jr - September 13, 1955 - March 16, 2022
Departed: 03/16/2022 (Stamps)
Obituary Preview: Sammie (Bo Diddley) McDonald, Jr. September 13, 1955 – March 16, 2022 Sammie McDonald, Jr., 66, of Texarkana, Arkansas, formerly of Stamps, Arkansas passed away peacefully in the morning hours of March 16, 2022, in Texarkana, Arkansas after a battle with a long illness. Sammie, Jr., was born September 13, 1955, to the late Mr. Sammie McDonald, Sr., and the late Mrs. Myrtle Lee Davis-McDonald in Lewisville, Arkansas. He loved life, laughter, and his family. He could always be found having a good time with his friends or family and never knew a stranger. He was retired from Christian Care Center of Texarkana, Texas but had spent years as a long-time employee of the Alan White Company in Stamps, Arkansas. He was described to have been extremely good with his hands and was one of the best furniture builders in the Alan White Plant. Sammie, Jr. was preceded in death by both his parents, Sammie McDonald, Sr. and Myrtle Lee McDonald and two of his sisters, Myrtle Marie McDonald, and Eunita McDonald. He is survived by and leaves to cherish his memories, his wife, Doris LaVerne McDonald of Texarkana, Texas, his three sons, Frederick McDonald of Michigan, Elijah McDonald and his wife Tiffany of Fort Worth Texas, and Eugene McDonald of Camden, Arkansas. Two daughters, Stephanie McDonald, and Marie McDonald both of Camden, Arkansas. Three brothers, Bobby McDonald and his wife Tanger of Stamps, Arkansas, Lonnie McDonald of Magnolia, Arkansas, and Lennie (Mya) McDonald of Stamps, Arkansas. Four siters, Gladys Smith and her husband Johnny of Lewisville, Arkansas, Mildred McDonald-Word of Texarkana, Arkansas, Mary Ann McDonald-Kelly and her husband Dixon of Texarkana Arkansas and Sherry Wise of Texarkana, Arkansas. Thirteen grandchildren, five great grandchildren, as well as a host of nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends. Graveside Funeral service will be held at Mt. Zion Cemetery, Highway 53 South of Stamps, Arkansas, Saturday March 26, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. under the direction of the Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Staff. Rev. Sam Davis will serve as Officiant and Eulogist. A walk-through visitation and his only viewing will be held at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Chapel, 415 East First Street, Stamps, Arkansas, Friday March 25, 2022, from 11:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. There will not be a viewing at the service or after the eulogy. Because of CDC guidelines from COVID and the number of cases, all who intend to attend will be required to wear a mask and adhere to current social distancing guidelines. MASK ARE REQUIRED DURING THE FUNERAL SERVICE AND THE VISITATION. YOUR CONSIDERATION AND COOPERATION IS GREATLY APPRECIATED.
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Willie (Bill) Parker - August 04, 1934 - March 15, 2022
Departed: 03/15/2022 (Stamps)
Obituary Preview: Mr. Willie (Bill) Parker August 4, 1934 – March 15, 2022 Mr. Willie (Bill) Parker, 87, of Bradley, Arkansas, passed away peacefully at his home in Bradley, Arkansas on Tuesday, March 15, 2022. He was surrounded by his family members. Mr. Parker was born to the late Mr. Booker T. Parker and Mrs. Martha Strickland-Parker, August 4, 1934, in Magnolia, Arkansas. Mr. Bill was a maintenance worker for the Murphy and Rogers Family of Texarkana, Arkansas until he retired and was no longer able to work anymore. He was well loved and respected by his family, employers, his church family and people around the community. He was preceded in death by both his parents, a son, Willie Edward Parker six brothers, four sisters, two granddaughters, and one great grandson. He is survived by and leaves to cherish his memories, his wife of sixty-seven years, Mrs. Cozie Lee Jenkins-Parker, four sons, Willie J. (Terrese) Parker of Atlanta, Texas, Bobby R. (Rose) Parker of Canfield, Arkansas, and Emmanuel Parker. Two daughters, Ophelia Cosby of Shreveport, Louisiana and Elaine Seay of Bradley, Arkansas. One brother, Calvin Parker of Denver Colorado. Two sisters Rodessa Simmons of Denver Colorado and Netta Kay Parker of Nebraska. Eleven grandchildren, twenty-seven great grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren. Funeral service will be held at Greater Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church, Bradley, Arkansas, Saturday, March 26, 2022, at 2:30 P.M., where Pastor Tommy Law will serve as Officiant and Eulogist. Interment will be at St. Mary’s Cemetery, Bradley, Arkansas immediately following the service. A walk-through visitation will be held at Ollie Mae Baptist Church, Bradley, Arkansas, Friday, March 25, 2022, from 1:00 until 3:00 p.m. Service will be viewable by livestream on the Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home website. Because of CDC guidelines from COVID and the number of cases, all who intend to attend will be required to wear a mask and adhere to current social distancing guidelines. MASK ARE REQUIRED DURING THE FUNERAL SERVICE AND THE VISITATION. YOUR CONSIDERATION AND COOPERATION IS GREATLY APPRECIATED.
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Marjorie Fern Shepherd - October 21, 1933 - March 11, 2022
Departed: 03/11/2022 (Stamps)
Obituary Preview: Marjorie Fern Shepherd October 21, 1933 – March 11, 2022 Mrs. Marjorie Shepherd, 88, of Magnolia, Arkansas was born, October 21, 1933, to the late Henry Hamilton, Sr., and the late Birdie Mae McDonald-Hamilton. She gave her life to Christ at an early age and eventually united with Unity Missionary Baptist Church of Lewisville, Arkansas where she served as an usher, choir member with the Mission Board and you could always find her in the kitchen. She later moved to Magnolia and became a member of Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church where she continued to serve until her health failed and she could no longer attend. Mrs. Shepherd devoted her life to the service of others as she served many years at the Lafayette County Memorial Hospital as a dietician which carried on into her family life where she would often cook and make meal recommendations to ensure the health and well-being for all her family members and others. She was as well employed by K-Mart and did multiple other jobs. When she wasn’t working, she never let her hands stay idle and was active with Green Bay Chapter Number 227 Order of Eastern Star, Lewisville, Arkansas. Her school aged years were spent in the Lewisville Schools, she graduated from Lewisville Colored High School and went on to attend College at Philander-Smith College in Little Rock Arkansas. In August of 1977, she married Rev. Reuel (R.L.) Shepherd and served the Minister’s Wives association, even years after his death, teaching and mentoring young preachers’ and pastors’ wives the value of being a Proverbs 31, Woman of Virtue. Ms. Shepherd was preceded in death by her mother and father, Ms. Birdie Mae McDonald-Hamilton and Mr. Henry Hamilton, Sr., her husband Rev. Reuel (R.L.) Shepherd and all nine of her brothers. Henry Hamilton, Jr., Luther Hamilton, J.B. Hamilton, Cifers Hamilton, Fred Hamilton, Alvis Hamilton, Roscoe Hamilton, M.C. Hamilton, Herman Lee Hamilton and three sisters in law, Helen Johnson-Hamilton, Betty Hamilton, and Linda Hamilton. Two sons, Charles and Perry (Sonny) Shepherd. She is survived by and leaves to share her memories of life, her three sons, Reuel Shepherd of Conway, Arkansas, Robert Hamilton and his wife Denise of Forney and Carl Anderson of Allen, Texas. Two daughters, Sharon Moore of Magnolia, Arkansas and Dorothy Blevins of Arkadelphia, Arkansas, her only sister Margarine Hamilton-Turner, two sisters in law, Earl Dean Hamilton of Mountain Pine Arkansas and Helen Hamilton of Stamps, Arkansas, a host of grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends and a God daughter, Kenice Hayes and her husband Regie of Magnolia. Funeral service will be held at Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church; 900 South Washington; Magnolia, Arkansas, Saturday March 19, 2022, at 1:00 pm under the direction of Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home and Staff where Pastor B.J. Harris will serve as Officiant and Eulogist. Interment will be at Plainview Cemetery, U.S. Highway 79 at Columbia County Rd 30; Magnolia, Arkansas immediately following the service. A walk-through visitation will be held at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Chapel, 415 East First Street, Stamps, Arkansas, Friday, March 18, 2022, from 11:00 until 4:00 p.m. MASK ARE REQUIRED FOR YOUR HEALTH AND PROTECTION DURING THE FUNERAL SERVICE AND THE VISITATION. YOUR CONSIDERATION AND COOPERATION IS GREATLY APPRECIATED.
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Larry Joe Lane - July 08, 1957 - March 06, 2022
Departed: 03/06/2022 (Stamps)
Obituary Preview: Larry Joe Lane July 8, 1957 – March 6, 2022 Mr. Larry Joe (Big Larry) Lane, 64, passed away peacefully at his home in the early morning hours of Sunday, March 6, 2022. He was born to the late Mr. Albert Lane and Ms. Louise Turner July 8, 1957 in Bradley, Arkansas. Mr. Larry was preceded in death by his father, Mr. Albert Lane his brother, Mr. Henry Jefferson and a sister Ms. Ruth Johnson. He is survived by his mother, Ms. Louise Turner of Lewisville, Arkansas, five daughters, Lucrecia Ross pf Detroit, Michigan, LaRita Lane of Pontiac Michigan, Evangela (Peaches) Lane of East St. Louis, Illinois, Y’Cedrea Lane of Idabel, Oklahoma, and Brittney Travis of East St. Louis, Illinois. One son, Larry Lane, Jr. of, Kansas City, Missouri, six grandchildren and two sisters, Ms. Carolyn Jones, and Ms. Gladys Turner both of Pontiac Michigan and a special friend, Ms. Wonder Travis of East St. Louis, Illinois. Mr. Larry was well respected by his children and the people he served. He was employed as a case worker and counselor for New Life Men’s Shelter and Salvation Army Home, John D. Shields Community Center, Griffin Home Center, and Call for Help. A visitation service will be held for him at 1:00 P.M. on Monday, March 14, 2022, at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Chapel. Because of CDC guidelines from COVID and the rise of cases, all who intend to attend will be required to wear a mask and adhere to current social distancing guidelines. MASK ARE REQUIRED DURING OUR FUNERAL SERVICES AND THE VISITATIONS. YOUR CONSIDERATION AND COOPERATION IS GREATLY APPRECCIATED.
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Dorothy Faye Johnson - July 05, 1941 - March 03, 2022
Departed: 03/03/2022 (Stamps)
Obituary Preview: Dorothy Faye Johnson July 5, 1941 - March 3, 2022 Dorothy Faye Thomas-Johnson, (Boot) was born on July 5,.1941 to Mr. Spearman Thomas and Mrs. Roberta Hampton-Thomas. She departed this life on the evening of Thursday, March 3, 2022, peacefully at her home in Buckner, Arkansas. Dorothy Faye Johnson, united in Holy Matrimony to Mr. Arthur Johnson and to his union. three children were born, Arthur, Jr, Brenda, and Charles. She was preceded in death by mother and father, Spearman and Roberta Thomas, two sisters, Carrie Jean Wesley and Mary Patterson and one grandson, Arthur Johnson III. She is survived by and leaves to cherish her memory her husband of 62 years, Mr. Arthur Johnson of Buckner, Arkansas. Her daughter Brenda Johnson and significant other, Rodney Anthony of Texarkana, Texas, two sons, Arthur Johnson, Jr, of Buckner, Arkansas, Charles Johnson and his wife Tonya of Toledo, Ohio, their children, Ryan, Cameron and Victoria. Three special nieces she and her husband raised as their own, Evelyn Dismuke, Tiris Gulley and Cecilia Sanders, all of Buckner, Arkansas, three grandchildren, who were raised in or around their home, Calvin Bishop of Texarkana, TX, Demetrius and her husband Charles Simmons of Little Rock, Arkansas, Arthur Johnson III who preceded her in death. Six other grandchildren, seven great grandchildren and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends, as well as one special sister-in-law, Queenie Johnson of Conroe, TX. Funeral service will be held at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Chapel, 415 East First Street, Stamps, Arkansas, Saturday March 12, 2022, at 11:00 am under the direction of Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home and Staff where Pastor Charles Simmons will serve as Officiant and Pastor Fred Jackson Eulogist. Interment will be at the Buckner Community Cemetery, located on Lafayette County 43, Buckner, Arkansas immediately following the service. A walk-through visitation will be held at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Chapel, 415 East First Street, Stamps, Arkansas, Friday, March 11, 2022, from 11:00 until 4:00 p.m. Because of CDC guidelines from COVID cases, all who intend to attend will be required to wear a mask and adhere to current social distancing guidelines. MASK ARE REQUIRED DURING THE VISITATION AND FUNERAL SERVICE. YOUR CONSIDERATION AND COOPERATION WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
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Juanita Green - September 29, 1935 - February 26, 2022
Departed: 02/26/2022 (Stamps)
Obituary Preview: Ms. Juanita Green September 29, 1935 – February 26, 2022 Ms. Juanita Green, 86, of Texarkana, (Mandeville) Arkansas passed away at Christus St. Michael Health System, Saturday February 26, 2022. Ms. Green was born September 29, 1935, to the late Mr. Charlie Green and Ms. DeAnna Jackson. She gave her life to Christ at an early age and continued to serve as an active member of Canaan Missionary Baptist Church until her health failed and she was no longer able to attend. Ms. Green worked as a long-time manager for TLC Burger on Broad Street in Texarkana, Arkansas, until her retirement. She was well loved and respected by her family, friends, church family and co-workers. She was preceded in death by both her parents and is survived by her daughter, Ms. Charolette Moore of Texarkana, Arkansas. Three grandchildren, LaToya Green of Texarkana, Arkansas, Antonio Michael Green of Detroit, Michigan and Margo Brown of Texarkana, Texas. Five grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends. Funeral service will be held at Canaan Missionary Baptist Church, Texarkana, Arkansas, Wednesday March 9, 2022, at 11:00 am under the direction of Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home and Staff where Pastor Freddie Lee Smith will serve as Officiant and Eulogist. Interment will be at Swan Lake Cemetery, Texarkana, Arkansas immediately following the service. A walk-through visitation will be held at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Chapel, 415 East First Street, Stamps, Arkansas, Tuesday, March 8, 2022, from 11:00 until 4:00 p.m. Because of CDC guidelines from COVID and the rise of cases, all who intend to attend will be required to wear a mask and adhere to current social distancing guidelines. MASK ARE REQUIRED DURING THE FUNERAL SERVICE AND THE VISITATION. YOUR CONSIDERATION AND COOPERATION IS GREATLY APPRECIATED.
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Cleveland W. (C.W.) Henry - January 23, 1940 - February 19, 2022
Departed: 02/19/2022 (Stamps)
Obituary Preview: Mr. Cleveland William (C.W.) Henry January 23, 1940 – February 19, 2022 Mr. C.W. Henry passed away at his home on Saturday, February 19, 2022. He was born to the late Mr. Harrison Henry and the late Mrs. Luberta Henry, on January 23, 1940, in Lewisville, Arkansas. At an early age he united with the Galilee Missionary Baptist Church West of Lewisville, under the leadership of Rev. Nelson Young, he served as an usher until the latter days of his life and final days on this Earth. Mr. C.W. was a life-long resident of Lewisville, Arkansas who became a business owner and seemingly had a desire to help every person he had the pleasure of meeting. He worked for many years at Edwards’ Service Station before he established C.W.’s Tire Repair. He met Ms. Rosie Lee Richardson who became his wife on June 8, 1963, a lifelong companion of 58 years. This union would bring them five children who loved, honored, and respected him for all his days in this life. He was preceded in death by his only daughter Stephanie Rose Henry, both his parents and two brothers, Jessie Henry, and Johnny Henry. He is survived by, and his memories will be cherished by his wife of 58 years, Mrs. Rosie Lee Henry, his four sons, Cleveland William Henry, Jr. and his wife, Kah Wai of Flower Mound Texas, Jeffrey S. Henry of Lewisville, Texas, Christopher Henry and his wife Mekicia of Hope Arkansas and Frederick L. Henry of Wake Village, Texas. His siblings, his sister Annie Taylor and her husband Burnell of Los Angeles, California, his brother Thomas Henry and his wife Rosemary, his Roosevelt Henry his sister, Ethel Hunt, all of Stamps. His sister, Louise Lawrence of Hope, Arkansas his brother, Grant and wife, Veon of Gardnea California, his sister, Lula Rowe of Goldsboro, North Carolina and sister Mary Ann Davis and her husband Alvin of Lewisville, Arkansas. His grandchildren, Kaylin Henry, Rachel Anderson, Christie Parrish, Tara Henry and Malaysia Henry as well as a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends who will mourn his death. Funeral service will be held at Galilee Missionary Baptist Church, Lewisville, Arkansas, Saturday March 5, 2022, at 2:00 pm under the direction of Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home and Staff where Pastor Imond Washington will serve as Officiant and Eulogist. Interment will be at the Union Hill, Galilee, Boyd, Cemetery Lewisville, Arkansas immediately following the service. A walk-through visitation will be held at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Chapel, 415 East First Street, Stamps, Arkansas, Friday, March 4, 2022, from 11:00 until 4:00 p.m. Because of CDC guidelines from COVID and the rise of cases, all who intend to attend will be required to wear a mask and adhere to current social distancing guidelines. MASK ARE REQUIRED DURING THE FUNERAL SERVICE AND THE VISITATION. YOUR CONSIDERATION AND COOPERATION IS GREATLY APPRECIATED.
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Claudia Jewel Ogden - November 26, 1934 - February 14, 2022
Departed: 02/14/2022 (Stamps)
Obituary Preview: Mrs. Claudia J. Ogden November 26, 1934 – February 14, 2022 Mrs. Claudia Jewel Ogden, 87, of Washington, Arkansas was born to the Late Mr. Alfred Logan and Ms. Reatha Moses, November 26, 1934. She received her formal education at Lincoln High School in Washington, Arkansas. She departed this earthly life peacefully on the morning of February 14, 2022. At an early age she confessed her life to Christ and joined the Brown Chapel Church of Christ. As a young adult, she began a career that would lead to and extend over a period of 30 years at Champion Parts and Rebuilders of Hope, Arkansas. She was preceded in death by her husband Mr. Jimmie Ogden, her mother, and her father. She is survived by her son, Mr. Winland Ogden of Washington, Arkansas, three daughters, Ms. Joyce Bradley of Washington, Arkansas, Ms. Melissa Paden of Rosston, Arkansas, and Mrs. Paula Mason and husband Byron of Red Oak, Texas. Her brother, Mr. Chester Graham of Washington, Arkansas, ten grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives, and friends. Graveside service is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. at Old Washington Cemetery, 112 Carrigan Street, Washington, Arkansas, Friday February 18, 2022. Because of CDC guidelines from COVID and the rise of cases, all who intend to attend will be required to wear a mask and adhere to current social distancing guidelines. MASK ARE REQUIRED DURING THE FUNERAL SERVICE AND THE VISITATION. YOUR CONSIDERATION AND COOPERATION IS GREATLY APPRECIATED.
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Paul Lazar Beasley - July 30, 1969 - February 08, 2022
Departed: 02/08/2022 (Stamps)
Obituary Preview: Mr. Paul L. Beasley July 30. 1969 – February 8, 2022 Mr. Paul L. Beasley, 52, of North Little Rock, Arkansas formerly of Willisville, Arkansas passed away on the morning of February 8, 2022, at Baptist Hospital, North Little Rock, Arkansas. Mr. Beasley was born to Mrs. Werdean Beasley - Harris and Claud Moss on July 30, 1969, at University Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. Mr. Beasley worked at Lowe’s in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was preceded in death by his father Claud Moss of Waldo AR He is survived by his mother Mrs. Werdean Harris and her husband Rev. Wylie L. Harris of Memphis Tennessee, his daughter, Ms. Chante Walters. Five brothers: Douglas (Cassandra) Moss of Magnolia AR, Michell (Darlene) Moss of Malvern, AR, Kenneth Moss of Temple, TX, Leavy (Angela) Moss of Magnolia, AR and Naaman Moss of Arkadelphia, AR. Five sisters Carla (Patrick) Morris of Little Rock, AR, Shaniel (Alvin) Gulley of Rosston, AR, Claudette (Denacious) Grantt of Magnolia, AR, LaRuth (Adrian) Ross of Dallas, TX and Tiffany Jackson of Prescott AR. Five Grandchildren, a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and other relatives. A special friend “San” of North Little Rock, Arkansas. Celebration of life will be held Saturday, February 19, 2022, at 1:00 p.m. at the Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Chapel located at 415 East First Street Stamps, AR 71801, under the direction of the Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Staff. Pastor Arthur Hughes will serve as Officiant and Eulogist. Final resting place will be at St. Peters Cemetery in Willisville, AR. Visitation will be held at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Chapel, 415 East First Street, Stamps, AR, Friday February 18, 2022, from 11:00A.M. until 2:00 p.m. Because of CDC guidelines from COVID and the rise of cases, all who intend to attend will be required to wear a mask and adhere to current social distancing guidelines. MASK ARE REQUIRED DURING THE FUNERAL SERVICE AND THE VISITATION. YOUR CONSIDERATION AND COOPERATION IS GREATLY APPRECIATED.
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Jonathan Norton - November 22, 1981 - January 31, 2022
Departed: 01/31/2022 (Stamps)
Obituary Preview: Mr. Jonathan Norton November 22, 1981 – January 31, 2022 Mr. Jonathan Norton, 40, of Bradley, Arkansas passed away peacefully at his home January 31, 2022. He was born to the late Mr. Johnnie Norton and Mrs. Darlene Parker-Norton November 22, 1981, in Bradley, Arkansas. Mr. Norton attended Bradley Schools and was later moved to Houston, Texas where he worked for a while and later moved to Oklahoma where he worked until his heath failed. He then moved back to Bradley Arkansas where he joined Ollie Mae Baptist Church. Mr. Norton was preceded in death by his father Mr. Johnnie Norton and is survived by his mother, Mrs. Darlene Redden, one son, Lamor Wyrick Norton of Lewisville, one daughter, Jarria Norton of Houston, Texas, a brother, Mr. Nicholas Norton and his wife Franchester, of Houston, Texas, his grandmother Mrs. Bertha Norton of Dallas Texas and a host of aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Service is to be held at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home, 415 East First Street, Stamps, Arkansas, Saturday, February 12, 2022, at 11:00 A.M. where Rev. Sylvester Tatum will serve as Officiant and Eulogist.
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Waver Lee Easter - January 31, 1934 - January 30, 2022
Departed: 01/30/2022 (Stamps)
Obituary Preview: Mrs. Waver Lee Washington – Easter January 31, 1934 – January 30, 2022 Mrs. Waver Lee Washington – Easter, 87, of Magnolia, Arkansas formerly of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away peacefully in Magnolia, Arkansas. Mrs. Easter was born to the late Mr. Clayton Washington and the late Mrs. Susie Washington, January 31, 1934, in Prescott, Arkansas. Mrs. Easter was instrumental in ensuring a large majority of the young people of Stamps received training in etiquette and was a very active advisor for the 4-H Club in Lafayette County and remained a pillar of the community throughout the remaining years of her life and was an active member of Free Union Missionary Baptist Church in Magnolia, Arkansas until her health started to fail. She was preceded in death by her parents and all her brothers and sisters. She is survived by her son, Mr. Royce White and two daughters, Paula Smith, and Judy Gaylord. Five grandchildren and five great grandchildren and a host of other nieces, nephews, cousins, relatives, and friends. Funeral service will be held at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Chapel, 415 East First Street, Stamps, Arkansas, Saturday February 5, 2022, under the direction of the Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Staff at 3:00 p.m. where Rev. Billy Williams will serve as Officiant and Eulogist. A walk-through public visitation will be held at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Chapel, 415 East First Street, Stamps, Arkansas, Friday, February 4, 2022, from 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. Because of CDC guidelines from COVID and the rise of cases, all who intend to attend will be required to wear a mask and adhere to current social distancing guidelines. MASK ARE REQUIRED DURING THE FUNERAL SERVICE AND THE VISITATION. YOUR CONSIDERATION AND COOPERATION IS GREATLY APPRECIATED.
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Mildred Crosslin - May 22, 1943 - January 26, 2022
Departed: 01/26/2022 (Stamps)
Obituary Preview: Mildred Cheatham Crosslin May 22, 1943 – January 26, 2022 Mrs. Mildred Crosslin, affectionately known as Billie, 78, of Ben Lomand, Arkansas Was called from labor to rest to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Wednesday, January 26, 2022, in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was born to the Late Ms. JoAnna Cheatham Thomas and Mr. George Golston on May 22, 1943, in Washington. Arkansas. Mildred accepted Christ at an early age and became a faithful member of St. Paul C.M.E Church in Washington, Arkansas and became a very active member of Flint Hill C.M. E. Church and remained faithful until her health failed and she was no longer able to attend. She attended Lincoln High School in Washington, Arkansas and went on to work for Husqvarna and retired from there after thirty-five (35) years of service, she was very well respected by her children, grandchildren, friends, family members and former co-workers. Mrs. Crosslin went on to marry Mr. L.C. Crosslin and remained together for 59 years until his death. They raised three children together and cherished grandchildren. Completing their journeys before her was her mother, father, her husband and her siblings, George Cheatham, Wilma Munn, Roy Cheatham and Thelma Prater. She leaves ad abundance of love and cherished memories to her three sons, Terry Crosslin and his wife Lisa of Hope, Arkansas, Tony Crosslin and his wife Vera of Little Rock, Arkansas and Stanley Crosslin of Ben Lomand, Arkansas. Grandchildren Lemerl and Mersaydess Crosslin of Hope, Arkansas. Her brother, Curtis Cheatham and his wife, Jan of Desota, Texas. Her aunt, Ella Caple of Washington, Arkansas, and a sister-in-law, Jeanette Deloney of Ben Lomand, Arkansas, as well as a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives and life-long friends. Mrs. Crosslin was a true jewel and will be missed by many, especially her precious “V.” Graveside service has been changed to White Cliffs Cemetery in Ben Lomand, Arkansas on Wednesday February 9, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. with Pastor Anretha Walker serving as Officiant and Eulogist. Because of CDC guidelines from COVID and the rise of cases, all who intend to attend will be required to wear a mask and adhere to current social distancing guidelines. MASK ARE REQUIRED DURING THE FUNERAL SERVICE AND THE VISITATION. YOUR CONSIDERATION AND COOPERATION IS GREATLY APPRECIATED
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Willie Pearl Hardeman - November 29, 1932 - January 24, 2022
Departed: 01/24/2022 (Stamps)
Obituary Preview: Mrs. Willie Pearl Hardeman November 29, 1932 – January 24, 2022 Mrs. Willie Pearl Hardeman passed away peacefully at her home on Monday January 24, 2022. She was surrounded by her children and family, she went on to be with the Lord after years of dedicated service to her church, her family and her community. Mrs. Willie Pearl Hardeman was born November 29, 1932 to the late Mr. Ned Crockett and the late Mrs. Elva Harris Crockett. She was the youngest of seven children. She accepted Christ at an early age and was a faithful member of Mt. Zion CME Church. She was later baptized into Bethel SDA Church. One of her greatest joys came when she was reading God’s word. Mrs. Hardeman had an abundant amount of talent, she loved quilting, cooking, great meals and when she wasn’t doing those things, she spent time fishing. She was loved, honored and respected by her children, grandchildren, her great grandchildren and the members of her community. She was preceded in death by her husband, Mr. Monroe Hardeman, Jr and her parents Mr. Ned Crockett and Mrs. Elva Harris – Crockett, her daughter, Elva Teresa Ogden, her brothers, Anderson Turntine, Henry, Turntine, Richard Turntine, Herman Turntine, a sister Mary Turntine-Graves and bonus brothers, John Henry, Charles McDonald, Will Arthur McDonald, and James McDonald. She met and married Mr. Monroe Hardeman and from that union six children were born. She leaves to cherish her legacy and memories, one son, Monroe Hardeman III, four daughters, Jerry Johnson, Angie R. Elijah and husband, Leon, Joycelyn Trotter and husband, Wilbur, and Marcia Hardeman. One sister, Mrs. Jewell Cochran, special friends, Mr. George Davis and Mr. Leon Holt as well as a host of grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins and other good friends. Graveside Service will be held at Cave Hill Cemetery in Hope Arkansas, Friday January 28, 2022 under the direction of the Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home and Staff at 11:00 A.M. where Pastor Wilmore Green will serve as the Officiant and Eulogist. There will not be a visitation or public viewing. Because of CDC guidelines from COVID and the rise of cases, all who intend to attend will be required to wear a mask and adhere to current social distancing guidelines. MASK ARE REQUIRED DURING THE FUNERAL SERVICE AND THE VISITATION. YOUR CONSIDERATION AND COOPERATION IS GREATLY APPRECIATED.
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Howard Johnson - October 20, 1943 - January 23, 2022
Departed: 01/23/2022 (Stamps)
Obituary Preview: Mr. Howard Johnson October 20, 1943 – January 23, 2022 Mr. Howard Johnson, 78, of Pine Bluff Arkansas, passed away at General Baptist Healthcare in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, January 23, 2022. Services are pending with Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home of Stamps, Arkansas. We, the Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home and Staff are in search of any relatives or friends who have information about him. If you know of anyone who may have connection to him please contact us at 870 533-2802.
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Timothy Mitchell, II - April 03, 1983 - January 16, 2022
Departed: 01/16/2022 (Stamps)
Obituary Preview: Timothy “Tuck” Mitchell II April 3, 1981 – January 16, 2022 Mr. Timothy “Tuck” Mitchell II was born to the late Ms. Debra Marie White and Mr. Timothy Mitchell, Sr. on April 3, 1983, in Shreveport, Louisiana. He would go on to receive his formal education in Longview Texas, graduating from Longview High school. He then went on to further his education by attending Grayson County College where he earned a degree in Cosmetology, additionally he went on to graduate from Grayson Truck Driving Program. Timothy “Tuck” accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior at an early age and was baptized at St. James Baptist Church in Longview Texas under the pastoral leadership of Rev. Billy R. Gray where he served as a choir member, an usher, and Sunday School Superintendent. “Tuck” was employed by H and R Transport as a Truck Driver and loved being on the road. He had a passion for cooking and spent his past times playing dominoes, fishing, and gaming. “Tuck” departed this life on January 16. 2022 and was preceded in death by his mother Ms. Debra White, his maternal grandparents Mr. William and Mrs. Carrie White and his paternal grandparents, Mr. Frank and Mrs. Savada Mitchell. He leaves to cherish his memories his father Mr. Timothy Mitchell Sr. and his wife Gail, his sister Ms. Devin Maddox, his brother Travis Mitchell, Sr., his bonus father, Mr. Darvin Davis, two bonus sisters, Ms. Erika Jackson and Ms. Shaniqua McCray, a niece Triniti Mitchell and nephew Travis Mitchell, Jr. as well as a host of uncles, aunts, cousins and friends. Funeral service will be held at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Chapel, 415 East First Street, Stamps, Arkansas, Saturday January 22, 2022, at 11:00 A.M. under the direction of the Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Staff. Pastor Terry White will serve as Officiant and Travis Mitchell, Sr. will serve as the Eulogist. A walk-through visitation will be held at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Chapel, 415 East First Street, Stamps, Arkansas, Friday January 21, 2022, from 11:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Interment will be immediately following the service at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps, Arkansas. Because of CDC guidelines from COVID and the rise of cases, all who intend to attend will be required to wear a mask and adhere to current social distancing guidelines. MASK ARE REQUIRED DURING THE FUNERAL SERVICE AND THE VISITATION. YOUR CONSIDERATION AND COOPERATION IS GREATLY APPRECIATED
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Julius L. Haynie - April 23, 1965 - January 06, 2022
Departed: 01/06/2022 (Stamps)
Obituary Preview: Mr. Julius Haynie April 23, 1965 – January 6, 2022 Mr. Julius Haynie, 56, of Rosston, Arkansas passed away at Baptist Health Medical Center in Little Rock, Arkansas on the morning of January 6, 2022. Mr. Haynie was born to the late Mr. Frank Haynie formerly of Waterloo, Arkansas, and Mrs. Helen Gulley-Haynie formerly of Bluff City, Arkansas. He was a truck driver by profession and drove for North American Van Lines and later for Freer Trucking of Fordyce until he was not able to work. In his younger years he was an extremely good basketball player. He had spent all his adult life with his high school sweetheart who became his wife shortly after graduation. He was preceded in death by his father, Mr. Frank Haynie, one son, Lamar Haynie, his brother Franklin Haynie and both his maternal and paternal grandparents. He is survived by his wife of 36 years Marrian Moss-Haynie, his two sons, Alberto Haynie and Marcus Haynie both of Rosston, Arkansas and one brother James Haynie and his wife, Janie of Texarkana, Texas. He was blessed with a bonus grandson Claderious Burnell and an extra special bonus great grandson, Jordan Burnell. Funeral service will be held at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Chapel, 415 East First Street; Stamps Arkansas, Saturday January 15, 2022, at 1:00 pm under the direction of Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home and Staff where Pastor Willie Flowers will serve as Officiant and Eulogist. Interment will be at the Harrison Chapel Cemetery immediately following the service. A walk-through visitation will be held at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Chapel, 415 East First Street, Stamps, Arkansas, Friday January 14, 2022, from 11:00 until 4:00 p.m. Because of CDC guidelines from COVID and the rise of cases, all who intend to attend will be required to wear a mask and adhere to current social distancing guidelines. MASK ARE REQUIRED DURING THE FUNERAL SERVICE AND THE VISITATION. YOUR CONSIDERATION AND COOPERATION IS GREATLY APPRECIATED.
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Theman Madison - November 28, 1921 - December 25, 2021
Departed: 12/25/2021 (Stamps)
Obituary Preview: Mr. Theman Madison, 100, of Hope, Arkansas formerly of Willisville, Arkansas passed away peacefully on the morning of December 25, 2021, at Heather Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Hope, Arkansas. Mr. Madison was born to the late Mr. Julius Madison and Mrs. Eliza Hopson-Madison on November 28, 1921, in Nevada County, Arkansas. Mr. Madison was retired from J&P Petroleum in Lewisville, Arkansas. He enjoyed playing dominoes, working on, and repairing mechanical things. He, as well had served as a U.S. Army Soldier during World War II. He was preceded in death by both of his parents, all twenty-one of his brothers and sisters and his daughter Charlene Madison. He is survived by his son, Mr. Charles Madison, and his daughter Ms. Velma Madison both of Hope Arkansas. Eleven grandchildren and a host of great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren. Graveside Funeral service will be held at St. Peters Cemetery, Nevada County Road 164 in Willisville, Arkansas, Thursday December 30, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. under the direction of the Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Staff. Pastor Patrick Gulley will serve as Officiant and Eulogist. A walk-through visitation will be held at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Chapel, 415 East First Street, Stamps, Arkansas, Wednesday December 29, 2021, from 11:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Because of CDC guidelines from COVID and the rise of cases, all who intend to attend will be required to wear a mask and adhere to current social distancing guidelines. MASK ARE REQUIRED DURING THE FUNERAL SERVICE AND THE VISITATION. YOUR CONSIDERATION AND COOPERATION IS GREATLY APPRECIATED.
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Leevester Martin-Wright - October 14, 1946 - December 22, 2021
Departed: 12/22/2021 (Stamps)
Obituary Preview: Mrs. Leevester Martin-Wright, 75, of Stamps, Arkansas formerly of Falcon, Arkansas passed away in the early morning hours of Wednesday, December 22, 2021, at her residence in Stamps, Arkansas. Mrs. Wright was born to the late Mr. Earl Martin and Mrs. Eva Sanders-Martin in Falcon Arkansas, October 14, 1946. She was a Certified Nurses Aide at Homestead Manor Nursing Home in Stamps until her health prevented her from taking care of others. She was loved and cherished by her daughters and grandchildren and loved the as much as or more. She was preceded in death by her husband Mr. Paul Wright, both of her parents, both sets of her grandparents, four brothers, Mr. Edward Lee Martin, Mr. Harold Martin, Mr. Johnny Martin, Mr. James Earl Martin and her significant other of many years, Mr. Leon Strickland. She is survived by her three daughters, Ms. Paulette Elliot of Lewisville, Arkansas, Ms. Katherine Wright and Ms. Trynette Wright both of Stamps Arkansas. Sisters, Mrs. Erva Willis of Falcon, Arkansas, Mrs. Aldean (Floyd) Young and Ms. Evester Martin both of Hope, Arkansas, Mrs. Bertha (Harold) Sanders of Willisville, Arkansas, Mrs. Olivia (Charlie) Tyson of Buckner, Arkansas, Ms. Odessa Martin, Ms. Loreese Martin, and Ms. Brenda Martin of Wisconsin and Mrs. Hazel (Lee) Smith of Texarkana, Arkansas. A host of grandchildren and great grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and friends. Funeral service will be held at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Chapel, 415 East First Street, Stamps, Arkansas, Thursday December 30, 2021, at 1:00 P.M. under the direction of the Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Staff. Pastor William Haynes will serve as Officiant and Eulogist with interment at New Hope Cemetery Buckner, Arkansas immediately after the service. A walk-through visitation will be held at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Chapel, 415 East First Street, Stamps, Arkansas, Wednesday December 29, 2021, from 12:00 until 4:00 p.m. Because of CDC guidelines from COVID and the rise of cases, all who intend to attend will be required to wear a mask and adhere to current social distancing guidelines. MASK ARE REQUIRED DURING THE FUNERAL SERVICE AND THE VISITATION. YOUR CONSIDERATION AND COOPERATION IS GREATLY APPRECIATED.
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Roslind Johnson-Harper - July 10, 1964 - December 07, 2021
Departed: 12/07/2021 (Stamps)
Obituary Preview: Ms. Rosalind Harper, 57, of Texarkana Arkansas formerly of Lewisville passed Tuesday December 7, 2021, at Bailey Creek Nursing Home in Texarkana Arkansas. Ms. Harper was born to the late Mr. Bobby Joe Johnson and Mrs. Claudine Grant-Johnson at the Lafayette County Memorial Hospital in Lewisville, Arkansas, July 10, 1964. Ms. Harper was a store clerk and served as a Certified Nurse’s Aide until disabilities caused her to leave the profession she loved. She really cherished her children, Aaron, and Arial Danielle very much and had no limits on what she would do for them. She was preceded in death by her father Mr. Bobby Joe Johnson, and both sets of her grandparents. She is survived by her son and daughter, Aaron Harper of Texarkana, Arkansas and Arial Danielle Harper of Sherwood, Arkansas, a very special granddaughter, Harmony Smith. Her mother, Mrs. Claudine Brown, three brothers and three sisters. Funeral service will be held at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Chapel, 415 East First Street, Stamps, Arkansas, at 1:00 p.m. Saturday December 18, 2021, under the direction of the Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Staff. Elder Joyce Moss will serve as Officiant and Eulogist. A walk-through visitation will be held at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Chapel, 415 East First Street, Stamps, Arkansas, Friday December 17, 2021, from 12:00 until 4:00 p.m. Because of CDC guidelines from COVID and the rise of cases, all who intend to attend will be required to wear a mask and adhere to current social distancing guidelines. MASK ARE REQUIRED DURING THE FUNERAL SERVICE AND THE VISITATION. YOUR CONSIDERATION AND COOPERATION IS GREATLY APPRECIATED.
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Ruby Jewell Isaac - September 17, 1932 - November 21, 2021
Departed: 11/21/2021 (Stamps)
Obituary Preview: Ms. Ruby J. Isaac, 89, of Magnolia, Arkansas passed away at Magnolia Regional Medical Center in Magnolia, Arkansas November 21, 2021. Ms. Isaac was born September 17, 1932, to the late Mr. Buddy Jones and the late Ms. Clester Hawthorne–Jones in Emmett, Arkansas. Ms. Isaac worked as a Certified Nursing Assistant until retirement and though she didn’t have children of her own she loved babies and referred to everybody children as baby. She spent her past time fishing and loving on animals, especially her dogs. She was preceded in death by both parents, both sets of grandparents and all her siblings. She is survived by her three nephews, Wyatt Williamson and his wife Dianne of Waldo Arkansas, Christopher Williamson and his wife, Bonnie of Haynesville, Louisiana and Buddy Williamson and his wife Rita of Mesquite Texas and two nieces Carla Williamson, Carrie Gilmore and her husband Casey all of Magnolia, Arkansas Graveside service will be at Smith Cemetery, Waldo Arkansas on Saturday, December 4, 2021, at 11:00 a.m. where Pastor Donald Howell will serve as Officiant and Eulogist. There will not be a public visitation and in the event of bad weather, service will be held at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Chapel, 415 East First Street, Stamps, Arkansas. This is an outdoor service but because of CDC guidelines and the rise of COVID cases, all who intend to be present will be required to wear a mask and adhere to current social guidelines. MASK ARE REQUIRED DURING THE FUNERAL SERVICE. YOUR CONSIDERATION AND COOPERATION IS GREATLY APPRECIATED.
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Gary Lowe - January 19, 1971 - November 18, 2021
Departed: 11/18/2021 (Stamps)
Obituary Preview: Mr. Gary Lowe, 50 of Buckner, Arkansas passed away Thursday November 18, 2021 in a Magnolia Arkansas Hospital. Mr. Lowe was born to the Late Mr. Nathaniel (Nate) Lowe and Mrs. Sue Ella Reed-Lowe on January 19, 1971 in Magnolia Arkansas. He was employed by Tyson Food until he became disabled. He was a fun-loving man who loved his wife and family. There was almost never a time when you would see him without a smile. He loved life and took full advantage of everything it had to offer him. He was preceded in death by his father Mr. Nathaniel (Nate) Lowe and both sets of his grandparents. He is survived by his wife, Nicole Lowe, one son, Trey Talley and his wife Jessica of Killeen Texas, two daughters, Hannah Lewis of Texas and Jamesa Talley of Atlanta, Georgia. Two brothers, Robert Lowe and Jerry Lowe both of Falcon, Arkansas. Three sisters, Mary Lock of Fresno California, Helen Wilkins of Buckner Arkansas and Carol Easter of Antoine Arkansas and two grandchildren. Graveside service will be held at Clevet Springs Cemetery Saturday November 27, 2021 at 11:00 am. In the event of rain or other bad weather, the service will be at the Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Chapel, 415 East First Street, Stamps, Arkansas under the direction of the Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Staff. There will be a public visitation in the Hamilton-Davis Chapel on Friday November 26, 2021 from 11:00 am until 4:00 pm. Because of CDC guidelines from COVID and the rise of cases, all who intend to attend will be required to wear a mask and adhere to current social distancing guidelines. MASK ARE REQUIRED DURING BOTH THE VISITATION AND THE FUNERAL SERVICE. YOUR COOPERATION IS GREATLY APPRECIATED
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Donald Jay Montero - May 01, 1960 - November 09, 2021
Departed: 11/09/2021 (Stamps)
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Jessie B Henry Sr. - February 24, 1942 - October 30, 2021
Departed: 10/30/2021 (Stamps)
Obituary Preview: Mr. Jessie (B.B.) Henry, 79 of Lewisville passed away at Cornerstone Rehabilitation Facility, Texarkana Texas on October 30, 2021. Mr. Henry was born to the Late Mr. Harrison Henry and the late Mrs. LuBerta Featherston-Henry, February 24, 1942, in Lewisville, Arkansas. Mr. Henry was employed by and retired from Union Pacific Railroad. He was a man who loved his wife, children and grandchildren and was well respected among his friends, colleagues and co-workers. He was preceded in death by his wife of 50 years Mrs. Willie B. Wells-Henry, both of his parents and both sets of his grandparents. He is survived by his two sons, Jessie Henry, Jr. of Lewisville, Arkansas and Christopher Henry of Texarkana, Texas, four daughters, Clara (Thomas) Demery, Felecia Henry and Tamekia Henry all of Texarkana, Arkansas and Cassandra Henry of Lewisville, Arkansas. Four brothers, C.W. (Rosie Lee) Henry of Lewisville, Arkansas, Tommie (Rose Mary) Henry and Roosevelt (Sandra) Henry of Stamps and Grant (Vono) Henry of Los Angeles, California. Five Sisters, Annie Taylor of California, Ethel Hunt of Stamps, Arkansas, Louise Lawrence of Hope, Arkansas, Lula Rowe of North Carolina, and Mary Ann (Alvin) Davis of Lewisville, Arkansas. Mr. Henry leaves behind a host of grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends who all loved and respected him. Funeral service will be held on Saturday, November 13, 2021, at 1:00 p.m. in the Lafayette County School Auditorium, 712 Chestnut Street, Lewisville, Arkansas 71845 where Pastor McArthur Turner will serve as Officiant and Eulogist. A walk-through visitation will be held at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home Chapel, 415 East First Street, Stamps, Arkansas, Friday November 12, 2021 from 12:00 until 4:00 p.m. Because of CDC guidelines from COVID and the rise of cases, all who intend to attend will be required to wear a mask and adhere to current social distancing guidelines. MASK ARE REQUIRED DURING THE FUNERAL SERVICE AND THE VISITATION. YOUR CONSIDERATION AND COOPERATION IS GREATLY APPRECIATED.
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Funeral Services Offered by Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home
Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home understands that every family is unique, with their own set of beliefs, traditions, and preferences. To cater to these diverse needs, the funeral home offers a wide range of funeral services, including traditional funerals, cremations, memorial services, and celebrations of life. Their experienced team will work closely with you to create a personalized service that honors your loved one's memory and provides comfort to those who are grieving.
The Facilities at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home
Nestled in the heart of Stamps, the facilities at Hamilton-Davis Funeral Home are designed to provide a warm and welcoming atmosphere for families and friends to gather. The funeral home's chapel is equipped with state-of-the-art audiovisual equipment, ensuring that every service is conducted with dignity and respect. Additionally, their spacious visitation rooms and reception areas provide ample space for families to share stories, memories, and condolences.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is an obituary?
An obituary is a written notice that announces the death of a person, typically including their name, age, date of birth and death, and a brief biography. It may also include information about their family, accomplishments, and funeral or memorial services.
Why are obituaries important?
Obituaries serve as a way to notify friends, family, and community members of a person's passing, allowing them to pay their respects and offer condolences. They also provide a sense of closure and can be a therapeutic way for loved ones to celebrate the life of the deceased.
Who typically writes an obituary?
The task of writing an obituary usually falls to the family members or close friends of the deceased. Funeral homes or mortuaries may also offer assistance in writing and publishing obituaries.
What information should be included in an obituary?
A typical obituary includes the person's full name, age, date of birth and death, place of residence, occupation, education, military service, hobbies, achievements, and surviving family members. It may also mention any notable accomplishments or charitable organizations they supported.
How long should an obituary be?
The length of an obituary can vary depending on the publication or online platform. Generally, it should be concise and to the point, ranging from a few sentences to a few paragraphs at most.
Can I include photos or other media in an obituary?
Yes, many online obituary platforms and some print publications allow you to include photos, videos, or other multimedia elements to make the tribute more personal and engaging.
How do I submit an obituary to a newspaper or online platform?
Check the submission guidelines for the specific publication or platform you're using. Some may require you to fill out a form online, while others may need you to email or fax the obituary text and any accompanying photos.
How much does it cost to publish an obituary?
The cost varies widely depending on the publication, word count, and any additional features like photos or online guestbooks. Expect to pay anywhere from $50 to several hundred dollars for a basic print obituary.
Can I write my own obituary in advance?
Yes, it's becoming increasingly common for people to write their own obituaries as a way to ensure their story is told accurately and authentically. This can also help alleviate the burden on loved ones during a difficult time.
What's the difference between an obituary and a death notice?
A death notice is a brief announcement of someone's passing, often with minimal details. An obituary provides more extensive biographical information and may include stories, anecdotes, and tributes.
Can I include humor or personality in an obituary?
Absolutely! An obituary should reflect the personality and spirit of the deceased. Including humorous anecdotes or quotes can help celebrate their life and make the tribute more engaging.
How do I handle sensitive information in an obituary?
If there are sensitive details about the person's life or death that you'd rather not share publicly, it's okay to omit them or phrase them discreetly. Remember that the goal is to honor the person's memory with respect and dignity.
Can I include charitable donations or memorial funds in an obituary?
Yes! Many families choose to suggest donations to a favorite charity or establish a memorial fund in lieu of flowers. This can be a meaningful way to continue the person's legacy.
How long will an online obituary remain available?
This varies depending on the platform or website. Some may keep obituaries archived indefinitely, while others may remove them after a certain period. Be sure to check the site's policies before submitting your tribute.
Possibly. If you need to make corrections or add information, contact the publication or platform where the obituary was published. They may be able to accommodate changes or updates.
What if I want to write a more detailed biography or tribute?
You might consider creating a separate memorial website, blog post, or even a book celebrating the person's life. These formats offer more space to share stories, memories, and reflections.
Are there any specific guidelines for writing an obituary for someone who was young or died suddenly?
In cases where someone has passed away unexpectedly or at a young age, it's essential to approach the obituary with sensitivity and compassion. Focus on celebrating their life and accomplishments rather than dwelling on the circumstances of their death.
Can I use social media to share an obituary or remember someone who has passed away?
Absolutely! Social media platforms can be powerful tools for sharing news of a loved one's passing and connecting with others who are grieving. You can share links to online obituaries or create your own posts with memories and tributes.
If you encounter inappropriate comments or negativity on social media, try not to engage with them directly. Instead, focus on sharing positive memories and tributes with those who care about the deceased.
What if I'm struggling to write an obituary due to grief or emotional distress?
It's completely understandable! Writing an obituary can be a challenging task during an already difficult time. Consider enlisting the help of a friend, family member, or professional writer who can assist you in crafting a fitting tribute.
Are there any resources available for help with writing an obituary?
Yes! Many funeral homes, mortuaries, and online platforms offer guidance and templates for writing obituaries. You can also find examples of well-written obituaries online for inspiration.
How do I ensure that my loved one's legacy lives on through their obituary?
A well-written obituary can serve as a lasting tribute to your loved one's memory. Share it widely with friends, family, and community members to keep their legacy alive.
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In the autumn of 2002, I sat in Bo Diddley's kitchen for what would turn out to be the last time. The rock ‘n' roll pioneer had moved to Central Florida 20 years before, and because I was the music writer for the newspaper in Gainesville - just a few miles from his home in rural Levy County - I got to know him pretty well. I don't want to claim we were great friends or anything, but he trusted me. And he liked to talk.
Bo died a year ago this week, on June 2, from heart failure brought on by a stroke he'd suffered the year before. On the anniversary of his death, at age 79, I've been thinking about him, and all the times I drove down the long, dusty, unpaved road to the triple-wide he shared with Sylvia - his fourth wife - and sundry grandchildren, nephews, cousins and other relatives.
At the entrance to his property was a little wooden sign reading "McDaniel." Bo Diddley's real name was Ellas Bates McDaniel, and even though everybody (including Sylvia) called him Bo, he never forgot who he was, or where he'd come from.
Born into a Black Creole family in the Mississippi delta region, he'd moved to Chicago with his adoptive mother - his birth mother's first cousin - in 1934, when Ellas was 7.
"The kids there started calling me Bo Diddley," he told me that morning in his kitchen. "I still don't know what the hell it means ... but I know what it means in German!" (look it up - it's not nice).
His first musical instrument was the violin, but it was when he got a guitar - a battered old Kay that only had two strings - he was hooked.
"When I liked what I heard John Lee Hooker doing, I said if this cat can play guitar, I know I can learn," he said.
"I tried to play ‘When the Saints Go Marching In' running up and down them two strings. And I finally got enough pop bottle money. Strings were like 12 cents a piece. You'd buy one string at a time, until you got all of ‘em."
To the day he died, this groundbreaking musical artist couldn't tune a guitar to anything but an open chord - he never learned the names of the strings, or their proper pitch.
"I tuned it by accident," he told me. "I liked what I heard. I tuned the thing, didn't know what the hell I was doing. It was said that Lonnie Johnson used to tune his guitar that way. I said ‘Who in the heck is Lonnie Johnson?"
Bo was not an educated man, but he was quick-witted, savvy, and a fast learner. He built his first electric guitar amplifier by re-wiring an old radio, and came up with the distinctive Bo Diddley tremolo sound "with some points out of an old Plymouth distributor, and a big wind-up clock."
By 1955, of course, he was signed to Chess Records and turning out all those classic records - "Road Runner," "I'm a Man," "Who Do You Love," "Mona," "Say Man" and, of course, "Bo Diddley."
This was the irony of Bo Diddley: He was a pioneer, an innovator, one of the first to take rhythm ‘n' blues into the mainstream. Buddy Holly, Bruce Springsteen and countless others made liberal use of his bompa-bomp rhythm. The Rolling Stones worshipped the ground he walked on.
Yet, in the 1950s when he was young and hungry for success, he'd signed some bad contracts; years later, when an investment deal went bad, he sold all his publishing rights to stay afloat.
And so, well into his 70s, he had to leave Florida several weekends each month to perform somewhere. And boy, did he resent having to do that, when his contemporaries like Chuck Berry were, he was sure, living in mansions somewhere.
For the last three years of his life, he played every show from a chair, after back surgery had made it too painful to stand for extended periods.
This is how that final interview ended in 2002:
"I figure I got 15 or 20 years, maybe longer than that. If I take care of myself. But it's winding down. I might as well face it. I don't look to kick off, but when you get to my age you start getting scared and you start realizing that the day is coming, and that's a guarantee. We're all gonna leave out of here.
"You take me, traveling on the road by myself, and getting a hotel room. Go to bed, go to sleep, and I don't know if I'm gonna get up and go catch the plane in the morning. I used to not worry about that."
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The recently renamed Bo Diddley Community Plaza will ring out with the sounds of its namesake performer with a musical tribute planned for Oct. 24.
Led by longtime Diddley sideman and Gainesville guitarist Scott Free, the tribute from 8 to 10 p.m. also will feature members of Diddley's family as well as notable musicians from around the area.
Free, who accompanied Diddley for five years in the band Offspring as well as with his own group, Munkeez Strikin Matchiz, will be joined by guitarists Joe Cosenza, Shelton Irwin, percussionist Obamiero Ogunleye, harmonica player Ron Anton, vocalist Earlene Walker and keyboardist Vernon Montonya. The soul power trio Ampersand, with keyboardist Danny Rochelle, bassist Ashley Wilkinson and drummer Drew Allen, will serve as the core band for the night.
The event also is billed as a canned food drive in Diddley's honor, with listeners asked to bring one canned food item for donation to area food banks.
Along with producing a 2005 album for Munkeez Strikin Matchiz that included performances by Diddley, Parliament/Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell, Public Enemy co-founder Chuck D and others, Free also played guitar on the "Bo Don't Know Diddley" Nike ad campaign with Diddley and Bo Jackson and performed with Diddley on NBC's "The Today Show" as well as in many other appearances.
Diddley, who lived near Archer for 30 years, died June 2 at age 79. The famed singer/guitarist/rock pioneer had appeared numerous times over the years at Gainesville's Downtown Community Plaza, which was renamed in his honor after his death.
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GAINESVILLE Diddley died in June 2008. Officials honored him Friday by unveiling a mural and renaming the downtown space the Bo Diddley Community Plaza. Diddley lived in Archer, a few miles southwest of Gainesville, and played at the plaza in 2006.
Diddley's grandson Garry Mitchell thanked the city at the ceremony, and he and other family members gave city officials one of Diddley's guitars.
"Gainesville's been really good to my granddad," Mitchell said. "Thank you for your encouragement and your prayers. Long live Rock and Roll!"
Diddley's family plans to unveil his tombstone in Bronson, also southwest of Gainesville, at 10 a.m. Sunday.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - June. 2. marks 16 years since a rock-and-roll pioneer died in North Central Florida.
Bo Diddley was 79 years old when he died inside his archer home in 2008.
Songs like ‘Pretty Thing’, ‘I’m a Man’ and ‘Who Do You Love’ gave him several chart-toppers throughout the 50′s and 60′s.
But he also inspired rock and roll legends like ‘Buddy Holly’ and ‘U2.’
And of course, there’s a music venue named after him in downtown Gainesville.
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This page is about the singer. For other uses, see Bo Diddley (disambiguation).
Ellas McDaniel (born Ellas Otha Bates; December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known professionally as Bo Diddley, was an American guitarist who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll. He influenced many artists, including Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Animals, George Thorogood, and The Clash.
His use of African rhythms and a signature beat, a simple five-accent hambone rhythm, is a cornerstone of hip hop, rock, and pop music. In recognition of his achievements, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, the Blues Hall of Fame in 2003, and the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame in 2017. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Diddley is also recognized for his technical innovations, including his use of tremolo and reverb effects to enhance the sound of his distinctive rectangular-shaped guitars.
Early life
Bo Diddley was born in McComb, Mississippi, as Ellas Bates (some sources give his name as Otha Ellas Bates or as Elias Otha Bates). In a 2001 interview with Ken Paulson on the program Speaking Freely, the artist stated: "That's why I have the name Ellas Bates McDaniel. ...Now that's cleared up -- Somebody done read something -- My name is not 'Otha'. If you read that in a book someplace, I don't know where they got that 'Otha' from. But somebody decided 'Well, we don't know what his name is, so let's give him one!'" He was the only child of Ethel Wilson, a sharecropper's teenaged daughter, and Eugene Bates, whom he never knew. Wilson was only sixteen, and being unable to support a family, she gave her cousin, Gussie McDaniel, permission to raise her son. McDaniel eventually adopted him, and he assumed her surname.
After his adoptive father Robert died in 1934, when Diddley was 5 years old, Gussie McDaniel moved with him and her three children to the South Side of Chicago; he later dropped Otha from his name and became Ellas McDaniel. He was an active member of Chicago's Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church, where he studied the trombone and the violin, becoming so proficient on the violin that the musical director invited him to join the orchestra, in which he played until he was 18. However, he was more interested in the joyful, rhythmic music he heard at a local Pentecostal Church and took up the guitar; his first recordings were based on that frenetic church music. Diddley said he thought that the trance-like rhythm he used in his rhythm and blues music came from the Sanctified churches he had attended as a youth in his Chicago neighborhood.
Career
Inspired by a John Lee Hooker performance, Diddley supplemented his income as a carpenter and mechanic by playing on street corners with friends, including Jerome Green, in the Hipsters band, later renamed the Langley Avenue Jive Cats. Green became a near-constant member of McDaniel's backing band, the two often trading joking insults with each other during live shows. In the summers of 1943 and 1944, he played at the Maxwell Street market in a band with Earl Hooker. By 1951 he was playing on the street with backing from Roosevelt Jackson on washtub bass and Jody Williams, who had played harmonica as a boy but took up guitar in his teens after he met Diddley at a talent show, with Diddley teaching him some aspects of playing the instrument, including how to play the bass line. Williams later played lead guitar on "Who Do You Love?" (1956).
In 1951, he landed a regular spot at the 708 Club, on Chicago's South Side, with a repertoire influenced by Louis Jordan, John Lee Hooker, and Muddy Waters. In late 1954, he teamed up with harmonica player Billy Boy Arnold, drummer Clifton James and bass player Roosevelt Jackson and recorded demos of "I'm a Man" and "Bo Diddley". They re-recorded the songs at Universal Recording Corp. for Chess Records, with a backing ensemble comprising Otis Spann (piano), Lester Davenport (harmonica), Frank Kirkland (drums), and Jerome Green (maracas). The record was released in March 1955, and the A-side, "Bo Diddley", became a number one R&B hit.
Origins of stage name
The origin of the stage name Bo Diddley is unclear. McDaniel claimed that his peers gave him the name, which he suspected was an insult. Diddly is a truncation of diddly squat, which means "absolutely nothing". Diddley also said that the name first belonged to a singer his adoptive mother knew. Harmonicist Billy Boy Arnold said that it was a local comedian's name, which Leonard Chess adopted as McDaniel's stage name and the title of his first single. McDaniel also stated that his school classmates in Chicago gave him the nickname, which he started using when sparring and boxing in the neighborhood with The Little Neighborhood Golden Gloves Bunch.
A diddley bow is a homemade single-string instrument that survived in the American Deep South, especially in Mississippi. Played mainly by children, the diddley bow in its simplest form was made by nailing a length of broom wire to the side of a house, using a rock placed under the string as a movable bridge, and played in the style of a bottleneck guitar, with various objects used as a slider. The apparent consensus among scholars is that the diddley bow is derived from the monochord zithers of central Africa. Diddley played his song "Bo Diddley" in one string fashion on the guitar, in the style of the children's instrument.
Success in the 1950s and 1960s
On November 20, 1955, Diddley appeared on the popular television program The Ed Sullivan Show. According to legend, when someone on the show's staff overheard him casually singing "Sixteen Tons" in the dressing room, he was asked to perform the song on the show. One of Diddley's later versions of the story was that upon seeing "Bo Diddley" on the cue card, he thought he was to perform both his self-titled hit single and "Sixteen Tons". Sullivan was furious and banned Diddley from his show, reputedly saying that he wouldn't last six months. Chess Records included Diddley's cover of "Sixteen Tons" on the 1963 album Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger.
Diddley's hit singles continued in the 1950s and 1960s: "Pretty Thing" (1956), "Say Man" (1959), and "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" (1962). He also released numerous albums, including Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger and Have Guitar, Will Travel. These bolstered his self-invented legend. Between 1958 and 1963, Checker Records released eleven full-length Bo Diddley albums. In the 1960s, he broke through as a crossover artist with white audiences (appearing at the Alan Freed concerts, for example), but he rarely aimed his compositions at teenagers. Diddley was among those musicians who capitalized on the mid-1960s surfing and beach party craze in the United States, and released the albums Surfin' with Bo Diddley and Bo Diddley's Beach Party. These featured heavy, distorted blues, played on his Gretsch guitar with bended notes and minor key riffs, unlike the clean, undistorted sounds of the Fender guitars used by the California surf bands. The cover of Surfin' with Bo Diddley had a photograph of two surfers riding a big wave.
In 1963, Diddley starred in a UK concert tour with the Everly Brothers and Little Richard along with the Rolling Stones (a little-known band at that time).
Diddley wrote many songs for himself and also for others. In 1956, he and guitarist Jody Williams co-wrote the pop song "Love Is Strange", a hit for Mickey & Sylvia in 1957, reaching number 11 on the chart. Mickey Baker claimed that he (Baker) and Bo Diddley's wife, Ethel Smith, wrote the song. Diddley also wrote "Mama (Can I Go Out)", which was a minor hit for the pioneering rockabilly singer Jo Ann Campbell, who performed the song in the 1959 rock and roll film Go Johnny Go.
After moving from Chicago to Washington, D.C., Diddley built his first home recording studio in the basement of his home at 2614 Rhode Island Avenue NE. Frequented by several of Washington, D.C.'s musical luminaries, the studio was the site where he recorded the Checker LP (Checker LP-2977) Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger. Diddley also produced and recorded several up-and-coming groups from the Washington, D.C. area. One of the first groups he recorded was local doo-wop group the Marquees, featuring Marvin Gaye and baritone-bass Chester Simmons, who mooonlighted as Diddley's chauffeur.
The Marquees appeared in talent shows at the Lincoln Theatre, and Diddley, impressed by their smooth vocal delivery, let them rehearse in his studio. Diddley got the Marquees signed to Columbia subsidiary label OKeh Records after unsuccessfully attempting to get them a contract with his own label, Chess. The OKeh label rivaled Chess in the promotion of rhythm and blues. On September 25, 1957, Diddley drove the group to New York City to record "Wyatt Earp", a novelty song written by Reese Palmer, lead singer of the Marquees. Diddley produced the session, with the group backed by his own band. They cut their first record, a single with "Wyatt Earp" on the A-side and "Hey Little School Girl" on the B-side, but it failed to become a hit. Diddley persuaded Moonglows founder and backing vocalist Harvey Fuqua to hire Gaye. Gaye joined the Moonglows as first tenor; the group then moved to Detroit with the hope of signing with Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr.
Diddley included women in his band: Norma-Jean Wofford, also known as The Duchess; Gloria Jolivet; Peggy Jones, also known as Lady Bo, a lead guitarist (rare for a woman at that time); and Cornelia Redmond, also known as Cookie V.
Later years
In early 1971, writer-musician Michael Lydon, a founding editor of Rolling Stone, conducted a lengthy, rambling interview of Diddley, at his then home in the San Fernando Valley, California. Lydon described him as a "protean genius" whose songs were "hymns to himself", and led the published piece with a Diddley quote: "Everything I know I taught myself."
Over the decades, Diddley's performing venues ranged from intimate clubs to stadiums. On March 25, 1972, he played with the Grateful Dead at the Academy of Music in New York City. The Grateful Dead released part of this concert as Volume 30 of the band's concert album series, Dick's Picks. Also in the early 1970s, the soundtrack of the ground-breaking animated film Fritz the Cat contained his song "Bo Diddley", in which a crow dances and finger-pops to the track.
Diddley spent some years in New Mexico, living in Los Lunas from 1971 to 1978, while continuing his musical career. He served for two and a half years as a deputy sheriff in the Valencia County Citizens' Patrol; during that time he purchased and donated three highway-patrol pursuit cars. In the late 1970s, he left Los Lunas and moved to Hawthorne, Florida, where he lived on a large estate in a custom-made log cabin, which he helped to build. For the remainder of his life he divided his time between Albuquerque and Florida, living the last 13 years of his life in Archer, Florida, a small farming town near Gainesville.
In 1979, he appeared as an opening act for The Clash on their US tour.
In 1983, he made a cameo appearance as a Philadelphia pawn shop owner in the comedy film Trading Places. He also appeared in George Thorogood's music video for the song "Bad to the Bone," portraying a guitar-slinging pool shark.
In 1985, he appeared on George Thorogood's set, alongside fellow blues legend Albert Collins, on the Live Aid American stage to perform Thorogood's popular cover of Diddley's song Who Do You Love?".
In 1989, Diddley and his management company, Talent Source, entered into a licensing with the sportswear brand. The Wieden & Kennedy-produced commercial in the "Bo Knows" campaign teamed Diddley with dual sportsman Bo Jackson. The agreement ended in 1991, but in 1999, a T-shirt of Diddley's image and "You don't know diddley" slogan was purchased in a Gainesville, Florida, sports apparel store. Diddley felt that Nike should not continue to use the slogan or his likeness and fought Nike over the copyright infringement. Despite the fact that lawyers for both parties could not come to a renewed legal arrangement, Nike allegedly continued marketing the apparel and ignored cease-and-desist orders, and a lawsuit was filed on Diddley's behalf, in Manhattan Federal Court.
Diddley played a blues and rock musician named Axman in the 1990 comedy film Rockula, directed by Luca Bercovici and starring Dean Cameron.
In Legends of Guitar (filmed live in Spain in 1991), Diddley performed with Steve Cropper, B.B. King, Les Paul, Albert Collins, and George Benson, among others. He joined the Rolling Stones on their 1994 concert broadcast of Voodoo Lounge, performing "Who Do You Love?" at Joe Robbie Stadium, in Miami.
In 1996, he released A Man Amongst Men, his first major-label album (and his final studio album) with guest artists like Keith Richards, Ron Wood and the Shirelles. The album earned a Grammy Award nomination in 1997 for the Best Contemporary Blues Album category.
Diddley performed a number of shows around the country in 2005 and 2006, with fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Johnnie Johnson and his band, consisting of Johnson on keyboards, Richard Hunt on drums and Gus Thornton on bass. In 2006, he participated as the headliner of a grassroots-organized fundraiser concert to benefit the town of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, which had been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The "Florida Keys for Katrina Relief" had originally been set for October 23, 2005, when Hurricane Wilma barreled through the Florida Keys on October 24, causing flooding and economic mayhem.
In January 2006, the Florida Keys had recovered enough to host the fundraising concert to benefit the more hard-hit community of Ocean Springs. When asked about the fundraiser, Diddley stated, "This is the United States of America. We believe in helping one another". The all-star band included members of the Soul Providers, and famed artists Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band, Joey Covington of Jefferson Airplane, Alfonso Carey of The Village People, and Carl Spagnuolo of Jay & The Techniques. In an interview with Holger Petersen, on Saturday Night Blues on CBC Radio in the fall of 2006, he commented on racism in the music industry establishment during his early career. Diddley sold the rights to his songs early on, and until 1989 he received no royalties from the most successful part of his career.
His final guitar performance on a studio album was with the New York Dolls on their 2006 album One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This. He contributed guitar work to the song "Seventeen", which was included as a bonus track on the limited-edition version of the disc.
In May 2007, Diddley suffered a stroke after a concert the previous day in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Nonetheless, he delivered an energetic performance to an enthusiastic crowd. A few months later he had a heart attack. While recovering, Diddley came back to his hometown of McComb, Mississippi, in early November 2007, for the unveiling of a plaque devoted to him on the Mississippi Blues Trail. This marked his achievements and noted that he was "acclaimed as a founder of rock-and-roll." He was not supposed to perform, but as he listened to the music of local musician Jesse Robinson, who sang a song written for this occasion, Robinson sensed that Diddley wanted to perform and handed him a microphone, the only time that he performed publicly after his stroke.
Personal life
Marriages and children
Bo Diddley was married four times. His first marriage, at 18, to Louise Willingham, lasted a year. Diddley married his second wife Ethel Mae Smith in 1949; they had two children. He met his third wife, Kay Reynolds, when she was 15, while performing in Birmingham, Alabama. They soon moved in together and married, despite taboos against interracial marriage. They had two daughters. He married his fourth wife, Sylvia Paiz, in 1992; they were divorced at the time of his death.
Health problems
On May 13, 2007, Diddley was admitted to intensive care in Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, following a stroke after a concert the previous day in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Starting the show, he had complained that he did not feel well. He referred to smoke from the wildfires that were ravaging south Georgia and blowing south to the area near his home in Archer, Florida. The next day, as he was heading back home, he seemed dazed and confused at the airport, and his manager, Margo Lewis, called 911 and airport security, and he was immediately taken by ambulance to Creighton University Medical Center where he stayed for several days. His manager, Margo Lewis, then flew him to Shands Hospital in Gainesville, FL, where it was confirmed that he had suffered a stroke. Diddley had a history of hypertension and diabetes, and the stroke affected the left side of his brain, causing receptive and expressive aphasia (speech impairment). The stroke was followed by a heart attack, which he suffered in Gainesville, Florida, on August 28, 2007.
Death
Bo Diddley died on June 2, 2008, of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida at the age of 79. Grandson Garry Mitchell, his managers, Margo Lewis and Faith Fusillo, bass player and band leader, Debby Hastings, and many family members, were with him when he died at 1:45 am. EDT, at his home. His death was not unexpected. "There was a Gospel song that was sung, at his bedside, and when it was done, he opened his eyes, gave a thumbs up, and said, "Wow! I'm goin' to Heaven!" The song was 'Walk Around Heaven', and those were his last words."
He was survived by his children, Evelyn Kelly, Ellas A. McDaniel, Pamela Jacobs, Steven Jones, Terri Lynn McDaniel-Hines, and Tammi D. McDaniel; a brother, the Rev. Kenneth Haynes; and eighteen grandchildren, fifteen great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
His funeral, a four-hour "homegoing" service, took place on June 7, 2008, at Showers of Blessings Church in Gainesville, Florida. Many in attendance chanted "Hey Bo Diddley" as members of Diddley's band played a subdued version of the song.
A number of notable musicians sent flowers, including Little Richard, George Thorogood, Tom Petty and Jerry Lee Lewis. Little Richard, who had been asking his audiences to pray for Bo Diddley, throughout his illness, had to fulfill concert commitments in Westbury and New York City, the weekend of the funeral. He remembered Diddley at the concerts, performing his namesake tune. Eric Burdon, of The Animals, flew to Gainesville to attend the service.
After the funeral service, a tribute concert was held at the Martin Luther King Center in Gainesville, Florida, featuring guest performances by his son and daughter, Ellas A. McDaniel and Evelyn "Tan" Cooper; long-time background vocalist (and original Boette), Gloria Jolivet, and long-time bassist and bandleader, Debby Hastings, Eric Burdon, and former Bo Diddley & Offspring guitarist, Scott Free. In the days following his death, tributes were paid by then-President George W. Bush, the United States House of Representatives, and musicians and performers including B. B. King, Ronnie Hawkins, Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, George Thorogood, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Robert Plant, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Randolph and the Family Band and Eric Burdon. Burdon used video footage of the McDaniel family, and friends in mourning, for a video promoting his ABKCO Records release "Bo Diddley Special". Hastings is quoted as having said, "He was the rock that the roll was built on."
In November 2009, the guitar used by Bo Diddley in his final stage performance sold for $60,000 at auction.
In 2019, members of Bo Diddley's family sued to regain control of the music catalog held in trust by attorney Charles Littell. The family was successful in appointing a new trustee, music industry veteran Kendall Minter. The family was represented by Charles David of Florida Probate Law Group in the 2019 lawsuit.
Accolades
Bo Diddley was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music. In its People in America radio series, about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how "his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him." Mick Jagger stated that "he was a wonderful, original musician who was an enormous force in music and was a big influence on the Rolling Stones. He was very generous to us in our early years and we learned a lot from him". Jagger also praised the late star as a one-of-a-kind musician, adding, "We will never see his like again". The documentary film Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street by director Phil Ranstrom features Bo Diddley's last on-camera interview.
He achieved numerous accolades in recognition of his significant role as one of the founding fathers of rock and roll.
1986: Inducted into the Washington Area Music Association's Hall of Fame.
1987: Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
1987: Inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame
1990: Lifetime Achievement Award from Guitar Player magazine
1996: Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation
1998: Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
1999: His 1955 recording of his song "Bo Diddley" inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame
2000: Inducted into the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame
2000: Inducted into the North Florida Music Association's Hall of Fame
2002: Pioneer in Entertainment Award from the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters
2002: Honored as one of the first BMI Icons at the 50th annual BMI Pop Awards, along with BMI affiliates Chuck Berry and Little Richard.
2003: Inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame
2008: Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree posthumously conferred on Diddley by the University of Florida in August (the award had been confirmed before his death in June).
2020: Induction into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame
2010: Induction into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame.
2017: Inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame.
2021: Inducted into the New Mexico Music Hall of Fame.
In 2003, U.S. Representative John Conyers paid tribute to Bo Diddley in the United States House of Representatives, describing him as "one of the true pioneers of rock and roll, who has influenced generations".
In 2004, Mickey and Sylvia's 1956 recording of "Love Is Strange" (a song first recorded by Bo Diddley but not released until a year before his death) was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as a recording of qualitative or historical significance. Also in 2004, Bo Diddley was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame and was ranked number 20 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
In 2005, Bo Diddley celebrated his 50th anniversary in music with successful tours of Australia and Europe and with coast-to-coast shows across North America. He performed his song "Bo Diddley" with Eric Clapton and Robbie Robertson at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 20th annual induction ceremony. In the UK, Uncut magazine included his 1957 debut album, Bo Diddley, in its listing of the '100 Music, Movie & TV Moments That Have Changed the World'.
Bo Diddley was honored by the Mississippi Blues Commission with a Mississippi Blues Trail historic marker placed in McComb, his birthplace, in recognition of his enormous contribution to the development of the blues in Mississippi. On June 5, 2009, the city of Gainesville, Florida, officially renamed and dedicated its downtown plaza the Bo Diddley Community Plaza. The plaza was the site of a benefit concert at which Bo Diddley performed to raise awareness about the plight of the homeless in Alachua County and to raise money for local charities, including the Red Cross.
Beat
Main article: Bo Diddley beat
The "Bo Diddley beat" is essentially the clave rhythm, one of the most common bell patterns found in sub-Saharan African music traditions. One scholar found this rhythm in 13 rhythm and blues recordings made in the years 1944–55, including two by Johnny Otis from 1948.
Bo Diddley gave different accounts of how he began to use this rhythm. Ned Sublette says, "In the context of the time, and especially those maracas [heard on the record], 'Bo Diddley' has to be understood as a Latin-tinged record. A rejected cut recorded at the same session was titled only 'Rhumba' on the track sheets." The Bo Diddley beat is similar to "hambone", a style used by street performers who play out the beat by slapping and patting their arms, legs, chest, and cheeks while chanting rhymes. Somewhat resembling the "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm, Diddley came across it while trying to play Gene Autry's "(I've Got Spurs That) Jingle, Jangle, Jingle". Three years before his "Bo Diddley", a song with similar syncopation "Hambone", was cut by the Red Saunders Orchestra with the Hambone Kids. In 1944, "Rum and Coca Cola", containing the Bo Diddley beat, was recorded by the Andrews Sisters. Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" (1957) and Them's "Mystic Eyes" (1965) used the beat.
In its simplest form, the Bo Diddley beat can be counted out as either a one-bar or a two-bar phrase. Here is the count as a one-bar phrase: One e and ah, two e and ah, three e and ah, four e and ah (the boldface counts are the clave rhythm).
Many songs (for example, "Hey Bo Diddley" and "Who Do You Love?") often have no chord changes; that is, the musicians play the same chord throughout the piece, so that the rhythms create the excitement, rather than having the excitement generated by harmonic tension and release. In his other recordings, Bo Diddley used various rhythms, from straight back beat to pop ballad style to doo-wop, frequently with maracas by Jerome Green. His 1955 rhythm and blues hit, "Bo Diddley", had a "driving African rhythm and ham-bone beat". Beginning that same year, Diddley collaborated with various doo-wop vocal groups, using the Moonglows as a backing group on his first album, Bo Diddley, released in 1958. In one of the most well-known of his 1958 doo-wop sessions, Diddley added harmonies by the Carnations recording as the Teardrops, who sang smooth, polished doo-wop in the backgrounds on the songs "I'm Sorry", "Crackin' Up", and "Don't Let it Go".
An influential guitar player, Bo Diddley developed many special effects and other innovations in tone and attack, particularly the "shimmering" tremolo sound, and amp reverb. His trademark instrument was his self-designed, one-of-a-kind, rectangular-bodied "Twang Machine" (referred to as "cigar-box shaped" by music promoter Dick Clark), built by Gretsch. He had other uniquely shaped guitars custom-made for him by other manufacturers throughout the years, most notably the "Cadillac" and the rectangular "Turbo 5-speed" (with built-in envelope filter, flanger and delay) designs, made by Tom Holmes (who also made guitars for ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, among others). He also played the violin, which is featured on his mournful instrumental "The Clock Strikes Twelve", a twelve-bar blues.
Diddley often created lyrics as witty and humorous adaptations of folk music themes. His first hit, "Bo Diddley", was based on hambone rhymes. The first line of his song "Hey Bo Diddley" is derived from the nursery rhyme "Old MacDonald". The song "Who Do You Love?" with its rap-style boasting, and his use of the African-American game known as "the dozens" on the songs "Say Man" and "Say Man, Back Again," are cited as progenitors of hip-hop music; for example, in the dialogue of the song, "Say Man", percussionist Jerome Green says the lines: "You've got the nerve to call somebody ugly. Why, you so ugly till the stork that brought you in the world oughta be arrested."
Discography
Main article: Bo Diddley discography
Studio albums
Collaborations
Chuck Berry Is on Top, with Chuck Berry (Chess, 1959)
Two Great Guitars, with Chuck Berry (Checker, 1964)
Super Blues, with Muddy Waters and Little Walter (Checker, 1967)
The Super Super Blues Band, with Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf (Checker, 1968)
Chart singles
Year Single Chart Positions US Pop US
R&B UK 1955 "Bo Diddley" /
"I'm a Man" - 1 - "Diddley Daddy" - 11 - 1956 "Pretty Thing" – 4 34
(in 1963) 1959 "I'm Sorry" – 17 – "Crackin Up" 62 14 – "Say Man" 20 3 – "Say Man, Back Again" – 23 – 1960 "Road Runner" 75 20 – 1962 "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" 48 21 – 1965 "Hey Good Lookin'" – – 39 1967 "Ooh Baby" 88 17 –
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. " A spokeswoman says rock pioneer Bo Diddley has died. He was 79.
The spokeswoman says Diddley died of heart failure Monday. He had suffered a heart attack in August 2007, three months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa.
Doctors said the stroke affected his ability to speak, and he had returned to Florida to continue rehabilitation.
Diddley was known for his homemade square guitar, dark glasses and black hat.
His first single, "Bo Diddley," introduced record buyers in 1955 to his signature rhythm: bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp, often summarized as "shave and a haircut, two bits." The B side, "I'm a Man," with its slightly humorous take on macho pride, also became a rock standard.
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Bo Diddley (December 30, 1928-June 2, 2008), born Ellas Otha Bates, was an original and influential American rock & roll singer, guitarist and songwriter. He was known as "The Originator" because of the key role in the transition from blues music to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and The Rolling Stones to name a few.
He introduced more insistent, driving rhythms and hard-edged guitar sound on a wide-ranging catalog of songs.
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Bo Diddley “The Originator” (December 30, 1928 - June 2, 2008), born Ellas Otha Bates, was an original and influential American rock & roll singer, guitarist and songwriter. He was known as "The Originator" because of the key role in the transition from blues music to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and The Rolling Stones to name a few. He introduced more insistent, driving rhythms and hard-edged guitar sound on a wide-ranging catalog of songs. Diddley was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and a Grammy Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He was also an influential guitar player who invented many special effects and other innovations in tone and attack. Diddley's trademark instrument was the rectangular-bodied Gretsch guitar, nicknamed "The Twang Machine," a guitar that he developed himself around 1958 and wielded in thousands of concerts over the years. He later had other similar-shaped guitars custom-made for him by other manufacturers. He also played the violin, which is featured on his mournful instrumental "The Clock Strikes Twelve," a 12-bar blues. Diddley started playing the guitar after hearing bluesman John Lee Hooker in Chicago. In 1951, he landed a regular spot at the 708 Club on Chicago's South Side, with a repertoire influenced by John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, and band leader Louis Jordan. In late 1954, he teamed up with harmonica player Billy Boy Arnold, drummer Clifton James, and bass player Roosevelt Jackson to record demos of “I'm A Man" and "Bo Diddley" with a backing ensemble comprised by Otis Spann (piano), Lester Davenport (harmonica), Frank Kirkland (drums), and Jerome Green (maracas). They then re-recorded the songs at Chess Studios. The record was released in March of 1955, the a-side, "Bo Diddley," becoming an R&B number-one hit. Following the hit, The Ed Sullivan Show booked Diddley to play live. Sullivan asked him to sing Tennessee Ernie Ford’s country smash “Sixteen Tons”; instead, the young star unleashed the guitar maelstrom that introduced him to the world, and whose title bore his name: “Bo Diddley.” He invented his name, his guitar & a beat that changed music forever. - Rolling Stone Throughout the 1950s and 1960, Diddley became a musical force with albums like Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger and Have Guitar, Will Travel. Bo Diddley is best known for the "Bo Diddley beat," a driving, rumba-like beat. Although the beat conjures feelings of Africa and the Caribbean, Diddley reportedly invented it while trying to play Gene Autry's "(I've Got Spurs That) Jingle, Jangle, Jingle." The Bo Diddley beat was used by many other artists in the 1950s and 1960s, notably Buddy Holly ("Not Fade Away"); Johnny Otis ("Willie and the Hand Jive"); Elvis Presley ("His Latest Flame"); Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders ("The Game of Love"); Jefferson Airplane ("She Has Funny Cars"); George Michael ("Faith"); and others. The early The Rolling Stones sound featured several uses of the Bo-Diddley beat on songs such as "Not Fade Away" and "I Need You Baby (Mona)." Buddy Holly's own cover version of "Bo Diddley" provided him with a top-ten posthumous hit in the UK in 1963. Diddley had several additional hits through the late 1950s and the 1960s, including "Pretty Thing" (1956), "Say Man" (1959), and "You Can't Judge a Book By the Cover" (1962). He released a string of albums whose titles—including Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger and Have Guitar, Will Travel—that bolstered his self-invented legend. Between 1958 and 1963, Checker Records released 11 full-length albums by Bo Diddley. Diddley was a breakthrough crossover artist with white audiences, appearing on the Alan Freed concerts and popular television shows. However, he rarely tailored his compositions or performances to teenage concerns. His live shows—unlike those of Chuck Berry, for example—were oriented toward adult black night clubs until his later career of playing oldies shows. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. In his later years, Diddley continued to perform, conducting a world tour in 2005 to celebrate 50 years in music. In 2005, Bo Diddley celebrated his fiftieth anniversary in music with successful tours of Australia and Europe, and with coast-to-coast shows across North America. He performed his song "Bo Diddley" with Eric Clapton and Robbie Robertson at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's twentieth annual induction ceremony and in the UK, Uncut magazine included his 1958 debut album "Bo Diddley" in its listing of the "100 Music, Movie & TV Moments That Have Changed The World."
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. " A spokeswoman says rock pioneer Bo Diddley has died. He was 79.
The spokeswoman says Diddley died of heart failure Monday. He had suffered a heart attack in August 2007, three months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa.
Doctors said the stroke affected his ability to speak, and he had returned to Florida to continue rehabilitation.
Diddley was known for his homemade square guitar, dark glasses and black hat.
His first single, "Bo Diddley," introduced record buyers in 1955 to his signature rhythm: bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp, often summarized as "shave and a haircut, two bits." The B side, "I'm a Man," with its slightly humorous take on macho pride, also became a rock standard.
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Fred Below Jr. (1926-1988) – Find a Grave...
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Fred Below Jr. was born 16 September 1926 in Chicago, son of Fred Below Sr. and Dorothy Carter. He was an American blues drummer who worked with Little Walter and Chess Records in the 1950s. According to Tony Russell, Below was a creator of much of the rhythmic structure of Chicago blues, especially its backbeat. He...
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U.S. rock 'n' roll icon Bo Diddley has died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Fla., a family spokeswoman said.
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ARCHER, Fla., June 2 (UPI) -- U.S. rock 'n' roll icon Bo Diddley has died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Fla., a family spokeswoman said.
The famed guitarist and vocalist died Monday at the age of 79. He was surrounded by loved ones, a family representative told CNN.
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Rock Legend Bo Diddley Dies At 79
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Rock legend Bo Diddley died this morning (June 2) of heart failure in Archer, Fla.
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Rock legend Bo Diddley died this morning (June 2) of heart failure in Archer, Fla., according to his spokesperson. He was 79. Diddley suffered a stroke last spring and had a heart attack last August, from which he never fully recovered.
Since then, he was undergoing rehabilitation near his Florida home. A private wake will be held Friday (June 6), with a funeral service open to the public the following afternoon at 2 p.m. at Showers of Blessing Harvest Center in Gainesville, Fla. That evening, a Diddley memorial, featuring members of his touring band, will be held at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Multi-Purpose Center.
Diddley’s interment will be held Sunday and will be private.
Born Ellas Otha Bates McDaniel on Dec. 30, 1928, in McComb, Miss., Diddley holds the distinction of being the only musician in history to have a specific musical beat, or rhythmic pattern, named after him. The “Bo Diddley beat” blends equal parts rock’n’roll rhythm and gospel shout in its “bomp, ba-bomp-bomp, bomp-bomp” pattern, which became an enduring staple of popular music. His songs, a tasteful blend of blues and R&B elements, were among the earliest true rock’n’roll recordings.
Diddley was an early advocate of fuzzy, distorted guitar sounds. They perfectly complimented his frenetic songs, which played on a homemade square guitar while decked out in dark sunglasses and a black hat. Similarly, his rhythmic, boastful vocal style predated rap by several decades.
In his heyday in the ’50s, Diddley recorded such seminal rock songs as “I’m a Man,” “Who Do You Love?,” “Mona,” and “Road Runner,” all of which have since become essential learning material for rock and blues bands, and have been covered by countless leading artists.
Buddy Holly borrowed Diddley’s beat for his hit song “Not Fade Away,” and the Rolling Stones’ version of that song, with its unmistakable nod to Diddley, became the band’s first major British hit single.
In 1983, he had a memorable cameo as a pawn shop clerk in the comedy “Trading Places,” and in 1989, he was introduced to a new generation of fans when he appeared with sports star Bo Jackson in a humorous TV ad campaign for Nike athletic shoes.
Although Diddley toured regularly into his late 70s, his recorded output for the past 30-plus years has been sparse, save for a late ’80s live album with Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood.
Diddley is survived by his brother, the Reverend Kenneth Haynes of Biloxi, Miss.; his children, Evelyn Kelly, Ellas A. McDaniel, Tammi D. McDaniel and Terri Lynn Foster; 15 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
Additional reporting by Steve Graybow.
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Rock-and-roll pioneer Bo Diddley died this morning of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida.
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University of Florida Acquires the Archives of African-American Musician Bo Diddley
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The acquired items that will make up the Elias B. McDaniel (Bo Diddley) Collection include musical instruments, stage costumes, posters, photographs, documents, and memorabilia.
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The University of Florida has established the new Elias B. McDaniel (Bo Diddley) Collection, which will be available to scholars, students, and the public.
Known as Bo Diddley since his early days as a musician, he was born in Mississippi in 1928. He began his musical career in Chicago, lived in Washington, D.C., and resided in New Mexico and Florida, before passing in 2008 in Archer, Florida. McDaniel’s body of work performing as Bo Diddley created a bridge between the genres of rhythm and blues and rock and roll, plucking elements from a variety of musical traditions and transforming them into a signature style.
The Ellas B. McDaniel Collection holds an array of items reflecting the musical genius, public performance and accomplishments of McDaniel, who lived the latter portion of his life in Archer, Florida, near the University of Florida campus. The collection ensures the preservation of and access to historical materials of international significance that have particular importance to Floridians. The acquired items include musical instruments, stage costumes, posters, photographs, documents, and memorabilia.
The collection will support teaching and research about Bo Diddley’s many contributions to American music. A partnership with the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida will enable the Libraries to begin collecting oral histories in the near future, with curators placing a priority on documenting memories of Bo Diddley from his family, fellow musicians, and the Gainesville community.
The collection is now available for anyone conducting research in the university’s Smathers Library. An accompanying exhibit, “Bo Diddley: An American Original,” will be on display through June, 30.
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Bo Diddley's last word was 'Wow' as he died aged 79
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Bo Diddley, the legendary rhythm 'n' blues pioneer who influenced artists from Buddy Holly to the Rolling Stones to U2, died last night aged 79.
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Bo Diddley, the legendary rhythm 'n' blues pioneer who influenced artists from Buddy Holly to the Rolling Stones to U2, died last night aged 79.
His heart finally gave out after months of ill health at his home in Archer, Florida.
Thirty-five members of his family, including his wife of 15 years, Sylvia, were at his bedside when he said his last word "Wow" and gave a thumbs-up as the gospel song Walk Around Heaven played.
And the loss felt after five decades of hits was summed up by his manager's tribute: "One of the founding fathers of rock 'n' roll has left the building he helped construct."
Diddley, who had had two strokes and a heart attack, was among a group of black artists like Chuck Berry and Little Richard who crossed the 1950s US racial divide with music that appealed to and was emulated by whites.
Born Ellas Bates in McComb, Missouri, his first single, Bo Diddley, topped the charts.
But the greatest mainstream success of a song with his distinctive beat was Holly's Not Fade Away - covered later by the Rolling Stones.
Last night Mick Jagger said: "Bo was a wonderful original who was an enormous force in music and a big influence on us. He was very generous to us in our early years and we learned a lot from him. We'll never see his like again."
Four times wed and a father of five, Diddley was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and awarded a lifetime Grammy in 1998.
Still touring and recording until recently, he said: "I was the first dude out there."
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Blues Musician. A legendary guitarist and vocalist, he is best known for such hits as I'm a Man, Who Do You Love? and Pretty Thing. He was born Ellas Bates McDaniel in McComb, Mississippi and raised in Chicago. In 1955, he signed with Checkers Records and had hits with Mona, Say Man, Before You Accuse Me, and Road...
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Ellas Otha Bates, known professionally as Bo Diddley, was an American guitarist and singer who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll. He influenced many artists, including Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Animals, George Thorogood, Syd Barrett, and the Clash.
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This article is about the singer. For other uses, see Bo Diddley (disambiguation).
Ellas Otha Bates (December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known professionally as Bo Diddley, was an American guitarist and singer who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll. He influenced many artists, including Buddy Holly,[3] Elvis Presley,[4] the Beatles, the Rolling Stones,[5] the Animals, George Thorogood, Syd Barrett,[6] and the Clash.[7]
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