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VVN Music
National Recording Registry Adds Works by Donna Summer, Bo Diddley, Dolly ...
VVN Music
In between are such treasures as Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors, Love's Forever Changes, Bo Diddley's double sided Bo Diddley/I'm a Man and Leonard Bernstein's debut performance with the New York Philharmonic. One of the recordings, I Feel Love, ...
Grateful Dead, Prince, Donna Summer, Bo Diddley, Booker T. and the MGs and ...jambands.com
Prince, Grateful Dead, Donna Summer Added to National Recording RegistryRollingStone.com
Donna Summer, Prince, Bo Diddley, Love and others added to the National ...A.V. Club
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Chicagoist
One For The Road: Bo Diddley Makes The Library Of Congress
Chicagoist
Chicago is represented by Mr. Elias Otha Bates, best known as "Bo Diddley." Diddley's song of the same name and the B-Side, "I'm a Man," were included because of their memorable riffs and rhythms. According to Billington, it took 30 takes to get the ...


 
Federal Times (blog)
Library of Congress to preserve Prince, Bo Diddley, 'Rapper's Delight'
Federal Times (blog)
The Library of Congress said today it will preserve everything from a tinny 1888 recording of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” to Prince's incendiary album “Purple Rain” as part of its latest slate of entries to the National Recording Registry.

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June is African American music appreciation month
Gainesville Sun
Da General, the lead singer of De Lions of Jah, during a performance at the Bo Diddley Downtown Community Plaza. De Lions of Jah will perform June 29 at the plaza as part of the city's National African American Music Appreciation Month festivities.


 
List of 25 sounds saved by Library of Congress
San Francisco Chronicle
"Bo Diddley" and "I'm a Man," Bo Diddley (1955) 16. "Green Onions," Booker T. & the MG's (1962) 17. "Forever Changes," Love (1967) 18. "The Continental Harmony: Music of William Billings," Gregg Smith Singers (1969) 19. "A Charlie Brown Christmas," ...

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Bo Diddley Community Plaza hosts concert series
The Independent Florida Alligator
It might be the sweetest word in the English language — especially to college students who sustain themselves off of Ramen and whatever else they can find when foraging through their refrigerators. Free. As in no charge, as in one of the few things we ...


 
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Salon
Blues singer Bo Diddley is being inducted to the sound registry, too, with “Bo Diddley” and “I'ma Man.” For Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, Diddley's sound was some of the first beats he learned as a little boy, he told The Associated Press.

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