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Essential Collection | 
| Artist: Bo Diddley
Label: Commercial Marketing
Category: Music
List Price: £5.99
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2450
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 57
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 731454434829
EAN: 0731454434829
ASIN: B00004YS3T
Release Date: September 25, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | Bo Diddley | | • | I'm A Man | | • | You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover | | • | The Story Of Bo Diddley | | • | Who Do You Love | | • | Mona | | • | I Can Tell | | • | Road Runner | | • | Pretty Thing | | • | Say Man | | • | Hey! Bo Diddley | | • | Cops And Robbers | | • | Before You Accuse Me | | • | Cadillac | | • | Diddley Daddy | | • | You Don't Love Me | | • | Bring It To Jerome | | • | Pills | | • | Dearest Darling | | • | I'm Looking For A Woman |
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| Customer Reviews:
 In at the birth June 2, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
As I write this review I read an email which said Bo Diddley had passed away after a long illness.
With only 2 Top 40 entries in the U K Diddley sold less than Chuck Berry but was just as influential.
He's probably a household name by now and certainly was at the time of the Stones and Yardbirds.And not forgetting the Pretty Things whose name came from a Bo song.
Essential though to Bo Diddley achieving any sort of fame were whites-that is even before the Stones there was Buddy Holly.
His music remained in the same turf-there was no attempts to launch himself as a soul singer.
The music's always going to be there
 Fine compilation January 18, 2004
40 out of 40 found this review helpful
Spectrum's "The Essential Bo Diddley" is really the only single-disc compilation which can compete with MCA/Chess' "His Best".
It includes virtually all of the must-have classics (with the exception of "Crackin' Up", unfortunately), but the Chess disc has better liner notes, and some of the new Chess masters have a few extra seconds (or more) appended to the fades, which gives it a slight edge over this otherwise excellent collection. But then, the Chess disc also costs a few pounds more, which these slight differences may not be able to justify.
4 1/2 stars.
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