As they climbed the charts, Diddley was frenetically recording, spinning off his "Bo Diddley" into "Nursery Rhyme aka Puttentang" while mythologizing himself yet again in "The Story of Bo Diddley," attempting to steal back his signature beat from Johnny Otis' "Willie & the Hand Jive" with "Willie Fell in Love," slamming out a sequel to "Say Man," trying to catch the Caribbean winds that were blowing in, hauling out his violin, pushing his amp on instrumentals - basically doing anything that popped into his head. During this one year, he had his biggest pop hit in the jive-talking "Say Man" and had another sizable R&B hit with "Crackin' Up," but both these sides were cut in 1958 and released as a single in 1959. He only had a few hits in the 1950s and early '60s, but as Bo Diddley sang, 'You Can't Judge a Book by. Go Bo Diddley, Have Guitar Will Travel, In the Spotlight, Bo Diddley is a. Road Runner, the second volume of Hip-O Select's ongoing chronicle of Bo Diddley's complete Chess/Checker master recordings, covers roughly one calendar year whereas its predecessor, I'm a Man, spanned four - a good indication that 1959 was an eventful year for Bo. Bo Diddley Rare 7, 12 & LP Vinyl Records & Bo Diddley CD albums & singles.
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