Bingo (U.S.) stamp, and cardboard sheets. Lowe took the game to New York where friends liked playing it. The Lowe-produced Bingo game had two versions, a 12-card set for $1.00 and a $2.00 set with 24 cards. By the 1940s there were Bingo games throughout the US. The origin of the name "Bingo" is unknown but may date to the middle 1920s. There are claims that one of Lowe's friends was so excited to have won that she yelled out "Bingo" instead of "Beano," or that the word echoes the sound of a bell. In the US, the game is primarily staged
Bingo Durango Bodio to record the four-song EP "Bingo Durango". Courted by a number of American labels, Bingo Durango suffered the death of drummer Allan Shutter in a tragic accident. The untimely death of Shutter sent the band into a tailspin only partially rectified by subsequent "Live" fanclub release and 1990’s "Bingo Durango", a collection of trenchant power pop that showcased a debt to The Beatles and XTC. The later band would prove of increasing importance to the Bingo Durango discography. Signed by Germany’s Jarmusic, the home of such psychedelic performers as Martin Newell and future Broadway icon David Yazbek, the band