Who Do You Love

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Written by: Ellas McDaniel
Produced by: Phil and Leonard Chess
Released: March '57 on Checker
Charts: Did not chart

"I'm a lover of basic bottom," Diddley once said. "I don't like a lot of keenin', screamin' guitars. If the bottom is right, crazy." And there's plenty of bottom here -- not much more, actually. Just Diddley playing his guitar like it's a drum, with his trademark rhythm, goosed by maracas and lyrics about chimneys made from human skulls and houses built from rattlesnake hide that reach back into voodoo mythology (the title is a pun on "hoodoo," a bad-luck charm).

Appears on: His Best: The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection (Chess)

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