Bo Diddley, one of Rock music’s originators, passed away yesterday of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida. Diddley’s innovating music was an inspiration to many popular blue-eyed soulsters of his time like Buddy Holly, Mick Jagger, and Robert Plant. Check out this heavily edited / laugh tracked clip of Mr. Diddley and his guitar playing Bo-ettes performing the singles “Hey, Bo Diddley’ and “Bo Diddley” on the TNT show in 1966. Shakin’ it like a Polaroid picture!

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Betcha didn’t know that Bo wrote the song that made Baby and Johnny in Dirty Dancing crawl across the floor to each other.

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Pick up Bo’s album I’m A Man: The Chess Masters, 1955-1958 at Amazon. You’ll be amazed by how many songs you never knew he wrote.