| Where It All Began | |
| Type: | Studio |
| Artist: | Bo Diddley |
| Cover: | ere It All Began (Bo Diddley album).jpg |
| Released: | 1972 |
| Recorded: | 1972 |
| Studio: | Eldorado Recording Studios, Burbank, CA, Aragon Recording Studios, Vancouver, B.C. and Soundview Environmental Studios, Kings Park, NY |
| Genre: | Soul |
| Length: | 34:52 |
| Label: | Chess CH 50016 |
| Producer: | Johnny Otis, Pete Welding |
| Chronology: | Bo Diddley |
| Prev Title: | Another Dimension |
| Prev Year: | 1971 |
| Next Title: | The London Bo Diddley Sessions |
| Next Year: | 1973 |
Where It All Began is the 16th studio album by musician Bo Diddley released by the Chess label in 1972.[1] [2]
Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars with reviewer Bruce Eder stating "Johnny Otis and Pete Welding produced this surprisingly successful soul effort by Bo, which succeeded in reshaping his sound ... Unfortunately, none of this mattered to the people who still cared about Bo Diddley -- they wanted the beat and the old sound ... He gave them his classics in concert, but not on this album. And it all came so late in the day: not only in terms of Bo's identification as anything but an oldies act, but as part of the history of Chess Records (now subsumed into the GRT corporate operation, the Chess imprint having no meaning or significance), that Where It All Began vanished from sight, leaving scarcely a trace or a ripple on the charts.".
All compositions by Ellas McDaniel except where noted