The Juke In The Back” focuses on the “soul that came before rock n’ roll,” the records that inspired Elvis, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and countless others.
Last week, the “Juke In The Back” featured every recording made by the innovative BO DIDDLEY during the year 1955. This week, the Juke picks it up in early 1956 and showcases BO DIDDLEY’s influential and diverse releases through 1959. He remained mostly off the R&B Charts during this period. That’s inexplicable, since many of the singles issued by Checker Records became R&B, Rock n’ Roll and Blues standards. Many Blues greats have recorded and interpreted Bo’s “Before You Accuse Me (Take A Look At Yourself)” and countless garage bands have taken a crack at “Who Do You Love.” Matt The Cat also highlights the previously unreleased original recording of “Love Is Strange,” recorded almost a whole year before Mickey & Silvia made it a #1 R&B smash. Why didn’t Checker ever issue Bo’s original? We close the program with Bo Diddley returning to the R&B and Pop Charts in 1959 with the doo wop ballad, “I’m Sorry,” the Latin-tinged “I’m Crackin’ Up” and the signifying “Say Man,” which would become BO DIDDLEY’s biggest selling record. Don’t miss BO DIDDLEY: 1956-59 on this week’s “Juke In The Back.”
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