Bo Diddley's Beach Party is the eleventh album

Album

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 by rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 musician Bo Diddley

Bo Diddley

Ellas Otha Bates , known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter , and inventor...

. Recorded live in concert in July 1963 at the Beach Club in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

South Carolina

South Carolina is a state in the Deep South of the United States that borders Georgia to the south, North Carolina to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence...

, it is one of rock music's earliest live remote recording

Remote recording

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s. The album was a success in the UK Album Charts reaching #13 on July 3 and stayed on the charts for 6 weeks.

Track listing

All songs credited to Ellas McDaniel (Bo Diddley), except as noted
Side One

1. "Memphis
   Memphis, Tennessee (song)
   "Memphis, Tennessee" is a song by rock & roll singer-songwriter Chuck Berry. It is sometimes shortened to "Memphis". In the UK, the song charted at #6 in 1963, at the same time Decca Records issued a cover version in the UK by Dave Berry and the Cruisers, who came from Sheffield, Yorkshire...
   
   " (Chuck Berry
   Chuck Berry
   Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...
   
   ) – 2:09
2. "Gunslinger" – 2:29
3. "Hey! Bo Diddley" – 2:43
4. "Old Smokey" – 3:05
5. "Bo Diddley's Dog" – 3:38

Side Two

1. "I'm Alright" – 3:45
2. "Mr. Custer" – 2:56
3. "Bo's Waltz" – 3:09
4. "What's Buggin' You (Crackin' Up)" – 2:38
5. "Road Runner
   Road Runner (Bo Diddley song)
   "Road Runner" is a song written and performed by American rock and roll performer Bo Diddley, originally released as a single by Checker Records in January 1960, and later released on the LP record Bo Diddley in the Spotlight. The song reached #20 on Billboard magazine's Hot R&B Sides chart, and...
   
   " – 3:42

Personnel

Performers

• Bo Diddley
  Bo Diddley
  Ellas Otha Bates , known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter , and inventor...
  
   – lead vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  , lead guitar
  Lead guitar
  Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
  
  
• Jerome Green – maracas, backing vocals
  Backing vocalist
  A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
  
  
• Norma-Jean Wofford (The Duchess)
  Norma-Jean Wofford
  Norma-Jean Wofford was an American guitarist who played with Bo Diddley and his band from 1962 to 1966.Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she was Bo Diddley's second female guitarist replacing Peggy Jones aka 'Lady Bo'. After Jones left the band, Bo Diddley was asked by disappointed fans what...
  
   – rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
  
  , backing vocals

Production

• Marshall Chess
  Marshall Chess
  Marshall Chess is the son and nephew of the founders of Chess Records, the Chicago-based independent record label that first recorded an unprecedented list of African-American, blues and early rock and roll artists such as: Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Bo Diddley, Sonny Boy...
  
  , Max Cooperstein – producers
  Record producer
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• John Brooks – engineer
  Audio engineering
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