[Dixielandjazz] Yahoo! News Story - Rock pioneer Bo Diddley dies at age 79 - Yahoo! News

[David Richoux]

Bo Diddley was possibly the first musician to successfully take the  
basic New Orleans Street Beat into the R&B and R&R formats. I have  
some early rock 'n' roll recordings from other New Orleans musicians  
(late 40s into the mid-1950s) who were mostly one-hit wonders, but  
he, Fats Domino, and somewhat Jerry Lee Lewis managed to go "nation- 
wide" with that rhythm. Louis Prima and Louis Jordan came close, but  
their signature rhythms were not quite the same thing.

Of corse, I wasn't around (or at least, musically aware) for many of  
those years, so I may be missing some now forgotten trailblazer ;-)

Dave Richoux

On Jun 2, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Alicia Fullbright wrote:

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> Rock pioneer Bo Diddley dies at age 79 - Yahoo! News
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