Every other year, I listen to all of the music in my collection. Often, I discover new things about music I'm familiar with or learn new things about songs I'm not as familiar with. This is where I'll be documenting that.
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Bo Diddley's "Don't Let It Go (Hold on to What You Got)"
Yester-day I listened (for the first time) to the first disc of a three-CD set of Bo Diddley. I'm listening to the second disc to-day, and I think I found a reference to Ray Charles' "Hallelujah I Love Her So" in "Don't Let It Go (Hold on to What You Got)." There's the line "She brings me my coffee in her favorite cup," which is very similar to Charles' "She brings my coffee in my favorite cup." According to the credits for the two compilation albums I have these songs on, "Hallelujah I Love Her So" is from 1955, and "Don't Let It Go (Hold on to What You Got)" is from 1959, so chronologically, that reference is possible, but since I don't know much about Bo Diddley (this is the first album of his material that I have, and this is only the first time I'm listening to it), I'm not sure if that's a viable connection.