Practically Classics Forum

Hey, Bo Diddly? (AKA Ellas Otha Bates).


(By the way, you did have a motoring connection in that one of your singles was the only one I own that would play from start to finish on the Philips record player in my much-missed Morris Oxford VI. Every other record I tried in that device would either slow the mechanism to a stop or cause its stylus to skite straight over the surface).

JPB wrote:Hey, Bo Diddly? (AKA Ellas Otha Bates).

I was indeed the Late Great Bo Diddly, originator of the Diddley Beat sound. Also known as Ellas Otha Bates or even Ellas McDaniel.

You good Sir, are IT

OK then, I'm J.

Dead, American and not connected to something motoring-related.


=GO=

michael jackson?

If not ,were you an aviator?

Not Jacko, no, but (clue, 'cos otherwise this could roll on while 2017) I was in the same business as him and his kinfolk.

Did you die young, like 27 ?

Yes, I died before my time but you're ten years out with your year count.

Were you murdered ?

Or did you pop your clogs in an icy Lake Monona after a plane crash.

Probably not.....

But how about young Phalon Jones of the Bar-Kays?

Assuming not, did you have anything to do with Punk?

I suspect hip hop...