Who Do You Love?

Infobox Single
Name = Who Do You Love?


Artist = Bo Diddley
from Album = Bo Diddley
B-side = "I'm Bad"
Released = 1956
Format = 7"
Recorded =
Genre = Blues
Length =
Label = Checker Records 842 (USA)
Writer = Ellas McDaniel
Producer =
Chart position =
Reviews =
Last single = "Diddy Wah Diddy"
(1956)
This single = "Who Do You Love?"
(1956)
Next single = "Cops & Robbers"
(1956)
"Who Do You Love?" is a song written by Bo Diddley, (real name Ellas McDaniel) in 1956. The song has been recorded by many other performers since, including The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Band, The Blues Project, The Doors, George Thorogood [cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kpfqxq95ldhe |title=Move It on Over |accessdate=2009-09-28 |author=Ron Wynn |work=allmusic ] , Golden Earring, Juicy Lucy, King Earl Boogie Band, The Meteors, The Misunderstood, Patti Smith [allmusicguide|id=10:j9fpxqujldae|label=Patti Smith's version] , Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Ronnie Hawkins, Tom Rush, Townes Van Zandt, UFO, The Woolies and Cross Canadian Ragweed.

The lyrics to the song, in which Bo Diddley speaks of wearing a cobra for a necktie, having a house built of rattlesnake hides, with a chimney made of human skulls, are a punning reference to the African-American tradition of hoodoo folk magic. [Elias McDaniel, " [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6595977/who_do_you_love Who Do You Love] ", in "Rolling Stone magazine", byline Dec 09, 2004, accessed June 3, 2008.]

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