Mona

Grateful Dead

Dick's Picks, Vol. 30, Grateful Dead, 2003

Others

The following list is not intended to be comprehensive.

Single, Bo Diddley, 1957
Have Guitar - Will Travel, Bo Diddley, 1960
Road Runner, Bo Diddley, 1963
The Rolling Stones, Rolling Stones, 1964
Tobacco Road, Nashville Teens , 1964
Rolling Stones Now!, Rolling Stones, 1965
Happy Trails, Quicksilver Messenger Service, 1969
Pop Origins, Various Artists (Bo Diddley), 1969
Got My Own Bag Of Tricks, Bo Diddley, 1973
Anthology, Quicksilver Messenger Service, 1969
Workshop, NRBQ, 1973
Chess Masters, Bo Diddley, 1981
His Greatest Sides, Volume 1, Bo Diddley, 1983
A Wing And A Prayer, Matt Kelly, 1985
Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, 1988
Peek-A-Boo - Best Of NRBQ (1969-1989), NRBQ, 1990
Chess Box Set, Bo Diddley, 1990
Sons Of Mercury (1968-75), Quicksilver Messenger Service, 1991
Partial Recall, Mick Farren, 1992
Cheap Beer Night, Bad Examples, 1993
Ultimate Journey, Quicksilver Messenger Service, 1993
Mutiny, Greg Kihn, 1994
His Best (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection), Bo Diddley, 1997
Chess Blues-Rock Songbook (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection), Various Artists (Bo Diddley), 1997
Scrubbers Session, Humble Pie , 1997
Best of Kingfish, Kingfish, 1997
Belfast Beat Maritime Blues, Various Artists, 1997
Saloon Years, Barry Melton, 1997
Hippydip, Various Artists (Quicksilver Messenger Service), 1997
Psychedelic Years, Various Artists (Quicksilver Messenger Service), 1999
Christmas at the Patti, Man, 19??
From Nowhere, Troggs, 19??
Unreleased Quicksilver Messenger Service: Lost Gold and Silver, Quicksilver Messenger Service, 2000
Friends Of Extinction, Dinosaurs, 2005
At the Kabuki Theatre, Quicksilver Messenger Service, 2007

Notes

Performed only twice by the Dead on both occasions with guests. First performance on the 25th March 1972 with Bo Diddley. Second performance on 27th October 1991 with Gary Duncan and Carlos Santana.

First recorded by Bo Diddley on 8th February 1957 at the Beltone Studios in New York during the same session as the first recording of Hey Bo Diddley. The two songs were first issued on the same single in 1957. Writing credits on records are Ellas McDaniel, real name of Bo Diddley. Often appears incorrectly on recordings and elsewhere as Ellis McDaniels or other variation.

The title is sometimes given as 'Mona (I Need You Baby)'.

Mona was inspired by and dedicated to an exotic dancer with whom Bo Diddley worked in the Flame Show Bar in Detroit in 1956/57.