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==Discography== {{Main|Bo Diddley discography}} {{Quotebox|quote=I used to get mad about people recording my things; now I got a new thing going ... I don't get mad about them recording my material because they keep me alive. |source=Bo Diddley, 1969 ''[[Pop Chronicles]]'' interview<ref name=pc29>{{cite web |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19784/m1/ |title=Show 29 β The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming!: The U.S.A. is invaded by a wave of long-haired English rockers. [Part 3]: UNT Digital Library |work=[[Pop Chronicles]] |publisher=Digital.library.unt.edu |year=1969 |access-date=February 20, 2011 |archive-date=December 8, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111208160051/http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19784/m1/ |url-status=live }}</ref> |width=25%|bgcolor = #E0E6F8 |align=right|style=padding:8px;}} ===Studio albums=== {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| * ''[[Bo Diddley (1958 album)|Bo Diddley]]'' ([[Checker Records|Checker]], 1958) * ''[[Go Bo Diddley]]'' (Checker, 1959) * ''[[Have Guitar Will Travel (Bo Diddley album)|Have Guitar Will Travel]]'' (Checker, 1960) * ''[[Bo Diddley in the Spotlight]]'' (Checker, 1960) * ''[[Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger]]'' (Checker, 1960) * ''[[Bo Diddley Is a Lover]]'' (Checker, 1961) * ''[[Bo Diddley's a Twister]]'' (Checker, 1962) * ''[[Bo Diddley (1962 album)|Bo Diddley]]'' (Checker, 1962) * ''[[Bo Diddley & Company]]'' (Checker, 1963) * ''[[Surfin' with Bo Diddley]]'' (Checker, 1963) * ''[[Hey! Good Lookin' (album)|Hey! Good Lookin']]'' (Checker, 1965) * ''[[500% More Man]]'' (Checker, 1965) * ''[[The Originator (album)|The Originator]]'' (Checker, 1966) * ''[[The Black Gladiator]]'' (Checker, 1970) * ''[[Another Dimension]]'' ([[Chess Records|Chess]], 1971) * ''[[Where It All Began (Bo Diddley album)|Where It All Began]]'' (Chess, 1972) * ''[[The London Bo Diddley Sessions]]'' (Chess, 1973) * ''[[Big Bad Bo]]'' (Chess, 1974) * ''20th Anniversary of Rock 'n' Roll'' (RCA Victor, 1976) * ''Ain't It Good to Be Free'' (New Rose, 1983) * ''Living Legend'' (New Rose, 1989) * ''[[Breakin' Through the B.S.]]'' (Triple X, 1989) * ''[[This Should Not Be]]'' (Triple X, 1992) * ''[[A Man Amongst Men]]'' (Atlantic, 1996) }} ===Collaborations=== * ''[[Berry Is on Top]]'', with [[Chuck Berry]] (Chess, 1959) * ''[[Two Great Guitars]]'', with [[Chuck Berry]] (Checker, 1964) * ''[[Super Blues]]'', with [[Muddy Waters]] and [[Little Walter]] (Checker, 1967) * ''[[The Super Super Blues Band]]'', with [[Muddy Waters]] and [[Howlin' Wolf]] (Checker, 1968) ===Chart singles=== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |- ! rowspan="2"| Year ! rowspan="2"| Single ! colspan="3"| Chart Positions |- style="font-size:smaller;" ! width="40"| [[Billboard Hot 100|US Pop]]<ref>{{cite book|first=Joel|last=Whitburn|year=2003|title=Top Pop Singles 1955β2002|edition=1st|publisher=Record Research Inc.|location=Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin|isbn=0-89820-155-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/joelwhitburnstop00whitbur/page/193 193]|url=https://archive.org/details/joelwhitburnstop00whitbur/page/193}}</ref> ! width="40"| [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|US<br>R&B]]<ref name="whitburnr&b">{{cite book |title=Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942β1995 |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=1996 |publisher=Record Research |isbn=0-89820-115-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/joelwhitburnstopr00whit/page/114 114] |url=https://archive.org/details/joelwhitburnstopr00whit/page/114 }}</ref> ! width="40"| [[UK Singles Chart|UK]]<ref name="betts">{{cite book| first= Graham| last= Betts| year=2004| title= Complete UK Hit Singles 1952β2004| edition= 1st|publisher= Collins| location= London| isbn= 0-00-717931-6| page=217}}</ref> |- | rowspan="2"| 1955 | align="left"| "[[Bo Diddley (Bo Diddley song)|Bo Diddley]]" /<br>"[[I'm a Man (Bo Diddley song)|I'm a Man]]" | - | 1 | - |- | align="left"| "[[Diddley Daddy]]" | - | 11 | - |- | rowspan="1"| 1956 | align="left"| "[[Pretty Thing]]" | β | 4 | 34<br><small>(in 1963)</small> |- | rowspan="4"| 1959 | align="left"| "I'm Sorry" | β | 17 | β |- | align="left"| "Crackin Up" | 62 | 14 | β |- | align="left"| "[[Say Man]]" | 20 | 3 | β |- | align="left"| "Say Man, Back Again" | β | 23 | β |- | rowspan="1"| 1960 | align="left"| "[[Road Runner (Bo Diddley song)|Road Runner]]" | 75 | 20 | β |- | rowspan="1"| 1962 | align="left"| "[[You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover]]" | 48 | 21 | β |- | rowspan="1"| 1965 | align="left"| "Hey Good Lookin'" | β | β | 39 |- | rowspan="1"| 1967 | align="left"| "Ooh Baby" | 88 | 17 | β |- |}
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