June 2, 2008


The Originator (1928-2008)

It’s a truncated clip (from the TNT Show), but it vanished completely from YouTube a while back, so a little bit is better than none. Longer and nastier than the clip that once was up and now is down. Bonus: The Duchess.

And: you get two songs. “Hey, Bo Diddley”, followed by “Bo Diddley”. “Bo Diddley” commences about two minutes into the clip, and that’s when things start to get really juicy.

posted by Sheila Ryan in memory, movies, music, urban legends, video 

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6 Responses to “The Originator (1928-2008)”

  1. Sheila Ryan on June 2nd, 2008 at 12:55 pm

    Check out Bo’s Cuban heels.

    I love Cuban heels. Guys: bring ‘em back.

  2. Deron Bauman on June 2nd, 2008 at 5:23 pm

    god. damn.

  3. Sheila Ryan on June 2nd, 2008 at 5:26 pm

    Hot. Eh?

  4. Deron Bauman on June 2nd, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    en fuego.

  5. Sheila Ryan on June 4th, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    Get it while you can. Longer and nastier.

  6. All the Men and Women Merely Players (RIP Paul Sills 1927-2008) : clusterflock on June 6th, 2008 at 3:12 pm

    [...] I’ve been wrassling all week over a cluster-post about Paul Sills. I mean, I was silent about Bob Rauschenberg. I promised and failed to deliver a meditation on Yves Saint Laurent. The best I could do for Bo Diddley was a photo and quotation and link to a clip on YouTube. [...]

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