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Thursday, February 7, 2008
Regardless of any musical changes his sound may have experienced during the course of a long career, Bo Diddley has always been just about the toughest badass on the block.
Arguably, the classic highpoint of Bo's recorded output occurred between 1955 and 1963, but that in no way means that he was done making good music after that.
The two funky tracks on this '66 single came during something of a 'loosening up' period a few years before Bo's second big creative period in the late '60's and early 1970's.
⬅ (Bo's 'Black Gladiator' look came from that later stage)
Listen to:
Bo Diddley (with The Bo-Dettes) -
We're Gonna Get Married
Checker 45 (1966)
(click for audio)
Listen to:
Bo Diddley - Do The Frog
Checker 45 (1966)
(click for audio)
- - And by the way, if you're curious about some of the crazy soul and funk departures that Bo took during that later 'blossoming', check out this recent compilation CD of reissued brilliance,
⬅ 'Drive By Bo Diddley: Tales from the Funk Dimension 1970-1973' released on Australia's Raven Records label.
Some different and unexpected facets of Mr. Diddley, but still too tough for words!
This article ran in the June, 1955 issue of Woman's Home Companion magazine.
Posting it here was really just an excuse to scan the picture with the Nash Metropolitan below, but in fact the article is pretty interesting.
It comes during that period of mid-century post-war affluence in the U.S., when the notion of middle-class families owning two cars was still something of a novelty. In addition to that 'dated and quaint' factor present in reading the article now is its general stance of optimism towards the future - - another position that perhaps seems a bit dated these days.
Enjoy the scans and captions below - -
- - and click here (or on title image) to read the beginning of the article in a new window.
- Click here to read the rest of the article in a new window.
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
More fun and trashy old paperbacks have turned up in recent travels over the past few months, so I've added scans of some of them to a few already existing 'cover gallery' sets I have posted at Flickr.
Check 'em out!
(Click on links to open Flickr sets on a new page)
- 2 new titles, 5 new scans added to
Cover Gallery: 1940's Paperback Mysteries - - A couple of cool '40's Dell mysteries, with a crime map and end papers!
- 2 scans added to 
Cover Gallery: Paperback Mysteries, etc., - - the 1950's and '60's
('Kill Me In Shimbashi' and 'The Peking Pornographer')
- 42 new images added to
Nostalgia for the Scholastic Book Club, circa '60's & '70's, making the set 3 times larger than it had been...
... now including cover scans and illustrations for 'juvenile lit' titles such as: 'Firestorm',
'The Mystery of The Old Violin', 'Snowbound In Hidden Valley', 'Mystery of The Piper's Ghost', 'Wipeout', 'Goofy Foot', 'A Horse Of Her Own', '100 Pounds of Popcorn' and others.
