{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Go Bo Diddley | type = studio | artist = Bo Diddley | cover = Go Bo Diddley 1959.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|1959|07}}<ref name="AM1">{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/go-bo-diddley-r5731 |title=Overview: ''Go Bo Diddley'' by Bo Diddley |website=Allmusic |access-date=December 17, 2010}}</ref> | recorded = Chicago, March 2, 1955 & September 1958 | venue = | studio = | genre = | length = {{Duration|m=30|s=57}} | label = Checker | producer = *Leonard Chess *Phil Chess *Bo Diddley | prev_title = Bo Diddley | prev_year = 1958 | next_title = Have Guitar Will Travel | next_year = 1960 | misc = {{Singles | name = Go Bo Diddley | type = Studio | single1 = I'm Sorry | single1date = February 1959<ref name="strong"> {{cite book | last = Strong | first = Charles | title = The Great Rock Discography | edition = Sixth | orig-year = Originally published in 1994 | year = 2002 | publisher = Canongate Books | location = United Kingdom | isbn = 1-84195-312-1 | page = 371 }}</ref> | single2 = Crackin' Up | single2date = May 1959<ref name="B1">{{cite magazine | date = August 24, 1959 | title = Reviews of New Pop Records | magazine = Billboard | page = 63 | access-date = December 17, 2010 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=uB4EAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Bo+Diddley%22+924&pg=PA63 }}</ref> | single3 = Say Man | single3date = August 1959<ref name="B2">{{cite magazine | date = August 24, 1959 | title = Reviews of This Week's Singles | magazine = Billboard | page = 45 | access-date = December 17, 2010 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=OAoEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Bo+Diddley%22+931&pg=PA45 }}</ref> }} }}
'''''Go Bo Diddley''''' is the second album by American rock and roll musician Bo Diddley, released in July 1959.<ref name="AM1" /> The album was Bo's first studio album that included some material that had not been prereleased on singles, and his first LP for Checker Records. In 2003, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked it number 214 on its The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time,<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/6862/35223/36285 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612151906/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/6862/35223/36285 |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 12, 2010 |title=500 Greatest Albums: Bo Diddley/Go Bo Diddley – Bo Diddley |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=2012-01-06}}</ref> and 216 in a 2012 revised list.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/bo-diddley-bo-diddley-go-bo-diddley-164756/|year=2012| title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time| publisher=Rolling Stone| access-date= September 16, 2019}}</ref>
==Background== The B-side to the single "Hush Your Mouth", "Dearest Darling" was released June 1958 and also released on Bo Diddley's self-titled debut album. Bo's next single "Willie and Lillie" was released in November 1958 and then released on this album. Bo's next single "I'm Sorry"/"Oh Yea" was released in February 1959<ref name="strong" /> and reached number 17 on ''Billboard'' magazine's Hot R&B Sides chart. The next single "Crackin' Up" b/w "The Great Grandfather" was released in May.<ref name="B1" /> ''Go Bo Diddley'' was released two months later in July.<ref name="AM1" /> In November 1959, Bo released his most popular single "Say Man"/"The Clock Strikes Twelve" which became a crossover hit reaching number 20 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100.
Four songs on the album were album-only tracks, including "You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)", "Don't Let It Go," "Little Girl," and "Bo's Guitar."
==Recording== The original recordings in mono format were recorded with an Ampex-350 tape recorder.<ref name="sleeve">''Go Bo Diddley'' LP 1436 Sleeve Notes</ref> The songs "You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)"<ref name="best">{{cite AV media notes |title=His Best |others=Bo Diddley |year=1997 |url=http://aln3.albumlinernotes.com/Bo_Diddley_His_Best.html |type=CD liner |publisher=Chess/MCA Records |id=CHD-9373 |location=United States |access-date=2010-12-17 |archive-date=2011-09-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110916055954/http://aln3.albumlinernotes.com/Bo_Diddley_His_Best.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> and "Little Girl" were from Bo's first session for Chess Records on March 2, 1955.<ref name="man">{{cite AV media notes |title=I'm a Man: The Chess Masters, 1955–1958 |others=Bo Diddley |year=2007 |type=CD liner |publisher=Hip-O Select |location=United States}}</ref>
==Track listing== All songs were written by Ellas McDaniel, with "I'm Sorry" made in collaboration with Alan Freed and Harvey Fuqua.<ref name="sleeve"/>
;Side one #"Crackin' Up" – 2:41 #"I'm Sorry" – 2:30 #"Bo's Guitar" – 2:38 #"Willie and Lillie" – 2:34 #"You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)" – 2:36 #"Say Man" – 3:09
'''Side two''' #"The Great Grandfather" – 2:40 #"Oh Yea" – 2:30 #"Don't Let It Go" – 2:36 #"Little Girl" – 2:35 #"Dearest Darling" – 2:32 #"The Clock Strikes Twelve" – 2:35
==Personnel== ''Per liner notes<ref name="best" /><ref name="man" />'' *Bo Diddley – vocals, guitar; violin on "The Clock Strikes Twelve" *Peggy Jones – guitar, backing vocals *Jerome Green – co-lead vocals on "Say Man", maracas *Willie Dixon – bass *Clifton James – drums *Frank Kirkland – drums *Billy Boy Arnold – harmonica on "You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)" and "Little Girl" *Lafayette Leake – piano *Otis Spann – piano
==Release history== {|class="wikitable" |- ! Region ! Date ! Label ! Format ! Catalog |- | United States | July 1959 | Checker Records | LP | LP-1436 |- | United Kingdom | 1959 | London Records | LP | HA-M 2230 |- | United States | August 27, 1966 | Checker Records | Stereo-Pak | 21-382A |- | United States | 1967 | Checker Records | LP | LP-3006 |- | United States | 1984 | Chess Records | LP | CH-9196 |}
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