Hip-O Select.com/Geffen: B0012946-02 (on discs: B0012946-02 CD01--B0012946-02 CD02)

Blues and rock & roll music

Some selections previously released, primarily on Checker LPs 2976 (Bo Diddley in the spotlight), 2977 (Bo Diddley is a gunslinger), and 2980 (Bo Diddley is a lover)

Compact discs

Program notes by George R. White (13 pages : ports.) inserted in container

Bo Diddley, lead guitar, vocals ; with, variously: Peggy Jones, guitar, piano, vocals ; Bobby Baskerville, Jesse James Johnson, Willie Dixon, bass ; Jerome Green, Patricia Jones, maracas, vocals ; Clifton James, Frank Kirkland, Billy "Dino" Downing, Edell "Red" Robertson, drums ; Otis Spann, Lafayette Leake, piano ; Billy Stewart, piano, vocals ; Johnny Carter, Lily "Bee Bee Jamieson, Gloria Morgan, Vivian, Nate Nelson, Harvey Fuqua, vocals ; Patrina Jones, tambourine, vocals ; members of the Flamingos and Harvey & The Moonglows ; The Impalas (Sandra Bears, Margie Clark, Carrie Mingo, Grace Ruffin)

Recorded Jan. 1960-Feb. 1961, Bo Diddley's home studio, Washington, D.C

My white horse

(take 4) --

Live my life -- Scuttle bug -- Love me -- Walkin' and talkin'

(unedited) --

Mule train (lead vocal) -- Travelin' west

(instrumental version of Mule train) --

Mule train

(group vocal) --

Mule train

(alternate group vocal) --

Merengue (limbo) -- Say you will -- Say you will

(alternate take) --

Craw-dad -- Ride on Josephine -- No more lovin'

(alternate take) --

Whoa, mule : (Shine) -- Cheyenne -- Sixteen tons -- Googlia moo -- Working man -- (Bo Diddley's a) Gunslinger -- Somewhere -- Hey, hey (what are you going to do?)

(fast version) --

Hey, hey (what are you going to do?)

(slow version) --

Can you shimmy? -- I'm hungry -- Hey pretty baby

(slow version) --

Hey pretty baby

(fast version) --

O yeah, aka, Oh yes -- Huckleberry bush : (Hully hully gully) -- Come on baby, aka, The soup maker -- All together -- Watusi bounce -- Mess around -- Doodlin' -- Bo Diddley is an outlaw

(fast version) --

Bo Diddley is an outlaw

(slow version) --

Aloha -- Funny talk -- Instrumental -- Bring them back alive : (Funny talk) -- When the saints go marching in -- Shank -- Twister -- Bo Diddley is a lover -- Love is a secret -- Bo Diddley is loose -- Congo -- Aztec -- Call me : (Bo's blues) -- Bo's vacation