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- From: gerry@keele.ac.uk (G.D.Pratt)
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- Subject: Re: Diddy Wah Diddy
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 11:58:22 GMT
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- Gerald Ross (gerald.b.ross@um.cc.umich.edu) wrote:
- : In <1992Nov16.221036.18922@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> wbc@flume.dartmouth.edu (Wayne Cripps) writes:
- : >
- : > I wish somebody would tell me who recorded the first
- : > version of diddy wah diddy - we are definitely talking 78
- : > here. Has it been reissued on cd or lp or cassette?
- : >
- :
- : I think, but I'm not sure that the original was recorded
- : by Blind Blake. For a more contemporary version (with
- : respect to the original) listen to Ry Cooder's and
- : Earl "Fatha" Hines version on Cooder's "Chicken Skin Music"
- : disc. Great recording, acoustic guitar and piano duet.
- : The rest of the disk is great too.
- :
- :
- There is a version by Captain Beefheart on A&M recorded in 1964
- which was a minor (LA) hit in 1965. The tune is credite to Willie
- Dixon and Elias McDaniels (=Bo Diddley). Beefheart's version is
- very different from the Earl "Fatha" Hines/Cooder version.
- There is also a version by The Remains (I think) which was 1965.
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