Just an ordinary Bo Diddley song, with his happy, easy going voice,
but that bass drum keeps striking as if it had been transplanted from
a Camille Sauvage record or something. Completely weird and out of the
ordinary.
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Fumbling the dozens
Bo Diddley, “I Don’t Like You”
“If you had dynamite for brains, you wouldn’t have enough to blow your nose.” “You look like a million dollars to me” “Yeah, what?” “I ain’t never seen a million dollars. You look like something I ain’tnever seen before.” Only Bo Diddley can come up with some kind of wack-ass dozens-calling
and make it sound intriguing and even funny. Having to explain it
usually eviscerates all humor, but this tune remains a staple on my
list of funny novelty songs. The annoying incessant opera-singer riff
probably has something to do with that as well. Could this song be a
predecessor of hiphop?