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Bo Diddley Beat

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sfpcc1
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Bo Diddley Beat

Post by sfpcc1 » Fri Nov 26, 2021 5:32 pm

Can anyone think of a song with a Bo Diddley Beat? These are the one I can think of:

Hey Bo Diddley
Jet / Are You Going To Be My Girl?
Hall And Oates / Maneater
Iggy Pop / Lust For life



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Re: Bo Diddley Beat

Post by learn to fly » Tue Nov 30, 2021 3:18 pm

"I Wish You Would" by Billy Boy Arnold (1955)[7]
"Not Fade Away" by Buddy Holly (1957)[12][13][14]
"Cannonball" by Duane Eddy (1958)[7][14]
"Willie and the Hand Jive" by Johnny Otis (1958)[14][15]
"Hey Little Girl" by Dee Clark (1959)[16]
"(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame" by Elvis Presley (1961)[13][14][15]
"Mickey's Monkey" by the Miracles (1963)[15]
"When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes" by the Supremes (1963)[15]
"Don't Doubt Yourself, Babe" by the Byrds (1965)[17][page needed]
"Mystic Eyes" by Them (1965)[5]
"I Want Candy" by the Strangeloves (1965)[14][15]
"Please Go Home" by the Rolling Stones (1966)[18]
"Bummer in the Summer" by Love (1967)[19]
"Get Me to the World on Time" by the Electric Prunes (1967)[15]
"She Has Funny Cars" by Jefferson Airplane (1967)[20]
"Magic Bus" by the Who (1968)[13][14][15]
"1969" by the Stooges[14]
"Panic in Detroit" by David Bowie (1973)[14][15]
"Shame, Shame, Shame" by Shirley & Company (1974)[15]
"New York Groove" by Hello (1975)[21]
"Billy Bones and the White Bird" by Elton John (1975)[22]
"She's the One" by Bruce Springsteen (1975)[13][14][15]
"American Girl" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1977)[13]
"Hateful" by the Clash (1979)[15]
"Cuban Slide" by the Pretenders (1980)[7]
"Europa and the Pirate Twins" by Thomas Dolby (1981)[15]
"How Soon Is Now?" by the Smiths (1985) (Diddley-style tremolo)[14][23]
"Mr. Brownstone" by Guns N' Roses (1987)[14]
"Faith" by George Michael (1987)[13][15]
"Desire" by U2 (1988)[14][15]
"Movin' On Up" by Primal Scream (1991)[24]
"Tribal Thunder" by Dick Dale and the Del-Tones (1993)[15]
"No One to Run With" by the Allman Brothers Band (1994)[25]
"That Big 5-0" by Stan Ridgway (2004)[23]
"At the Bottom of the Ocean" by Ezra Furman (2013)[26]
"Water Fountain" by Tune-Yards (2014)[27]
"Fool For Love" by Lord Huron (2015)[28]



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Re: Bo Diddley Beat

Post by sfpcc1 » Tue Nov 30, 2021 7:22 pm

"I Wish You Would" by Billy Boy Arnold (1955)[7]
"Not Fade Away" by Buddy Holly (1957)[12][13][14]

What do the numbers in brackets mean? (Chart Position?)



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