I Want Ding a Ling Funny Christmas Parody
| "My Ding-a-Ling" | ||||
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| Unmarried by Chuck Berry | ||||
| from the album The London Chuck Berry Sessions | ||||
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| Released | July 1972 (1972-07) | |||
| Recorded | February 3, 1972 at the Lanchester Arts Festival in Coventry, England | |||
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| Length | four:18 / 11:33 (Full Version) | |||
| Label | Chess 2131 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Dave Bartholomew | |||
| Producer(southward) | Esmond Edwards | |||
| Chuck Drupe singles chronology | ||||
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"My Ding-a-Ling" is a novelty song written and recorded past Dave Bartholomew. Information technology was covered by Chuck Drupe in 1972 and became his only number-one Billboard Hot 100 single in the United States.[1] Later that twelvemonth, in a longer unedited form, it was included on the album The London Chuck Berry Sessions. Guitarist Onnie McIntyre and drummer Robbie McIntosh who later that yr went on to course the Boilerplate White Band, played on the single along with Nic Potter of Van der Graaf Generator on bass.
"My Ding-a-Ling" was originally recorded by Dave Bartholomew in 1952 for King Records. When Bartholomew moved to Purple Records, he re-recorded the song nether the new title, "Piffling Girl Sing Ting-a-Ling". In 1954, the Bees on Imperial released a version entitled "Toy Bong". Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts recorded information technology in 1961,[2] and it was part of their live act for many years. Berry recorded a version called "My Tambourine" in 1968, but the version which topped the charts was recorded live during the Lanchester Arts Festival at the Locarno ballroom in Coventry, England, on 3 February 1972 by the Pye Mobile Recording Unit of measurement - engineered past Alan Perkins, where Drupe – backed by the Roy Young Band – topped a bill that also included Slade, George Carlin, Billy Preston and Pink Floyd. Boston radio station WMEX disc jockey Jim Connors was credited with a gilt tape for discovering the song and pushing information technology to #1 over the airwaves and amongst his peers in the United States. Billboard ranked information technology every bit the No. 15 vocal for 1972.
The song is based on the melody of the 19th-century folk song "Little Chocolate-brown Jug".
Content [edit]
The song tells of how the singer received a toy consisting of "silver bells hanging on a string" from his grandmother, who calls them his "ding-a-ling". According to the vocal, he plays with it in school, and holds on to information technology in dangerous situations like falling after climbing the garden wall, and swimming across a creek infested with snapping turtles. From the second verse onward, the lyrics consistently practise the double entendre in that a penis could but as hands exist substituted for the toy bells and the song would still make sense.[3]
Disquisitional reception [edit]
The lyrics with their sly tone and innuendo (and the enthusiasm of Berry and the audience) acquired many radio stations to refuse to play it. British morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse tried unsuccessfully to get the song banned.[iv] Whitehouse wrote to the BBC's Director General that "One instructor told us of how she constitute a course of pocket-sized boys with their trousers undone, singing the song and giving it the indecent interpretation which—in spite of all the hullabaloo—is so obvious ... We trust you lot will agree with us that it is no role of the role of the BBC to be the vehicle of songs which stimulate this kind of behaviour—indeed quite the reverse."[five]
In Icons of Rock, Scott Schinder calls the song "a sophomoric, double-entendre-laden ode to masturbation".[6] Robert Christgau remarked that the song "permitted a lot of twelve-yr-olds new insight into the moribund concept of 'dirty'".[vii]
During a short spoken introduction to the song on the single, Berry refers to the vocal as "our alma mater".
Censorship [edit]
For a re-run of American Top forty, some stations, such as WOGL in Philadelphia, replaced the song with an optional extra when it aired a rerun of a November eighteen, 1972 broadcast of AT40 (where information technology ranked at #14)[8] on Dec 6, 2008. Among other stations, most Clear Aqueduct-owned radio stations to whom the AT40 1970s rebroadcasts were contracted did not air the rebroadcast that same weekend, although it was because they were playing Christmas music and not because of the controversy. Fifty-fifty back in 1972, some stations would refuse to play the song on AT40, even when it reached number ane.
The controversy was lampooned in The Simpsons episode "Lisa'southward Pony", in which a Springfield Elementary School student attempts to sing the vocal during the school's talent show. He barely finishes the first line of the refrain before an irate Principal Skinner pushes him off the phase, angrily proclaiming "This human action is over!"[9] [10]
Charts [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ "Chuck Drupe Chart History". Billboard.com. Eldridge Industries. Retrieved January 23, 2018.
- ^ "Nuts to You". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2020-06-27.
- ^ Burke, Lucy; Crowley, Tony; Girvin, Alan (2000). The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader. Psychology Press. p. 213. ISBN978-0-415-18681-0.
- ^ Coleman, Sarah (February 2002). "Morals Apostle Mary Whitehouse". World Press Review . Retrieved thirteen May 2012.
- ^ Ben Thompson (ed.) Ban This Filth!: Letters from the Mary Whitehouse Archive, London: Faber, 2012 cited by "Ban This Filth!: Messages from the Mary Whitehouse Annal by Ben Thompson – review", The Guardian, 26 October 2012
- ^ Schinder, Scott (2008). Icons of Rock: An Encyclopedia of the Legends Who Inverse Music Forever . Greenwood Printing. p. 68. ISBN978-0313338458.
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- ^ Christgau, Robert (1988). "Chuck Drupe". In Anthony Decurtis; James Henke (eds.). The RollingStone : The Definitive History of the About Important Artists and Their Music. New York: Random House. pp. 60–66. ISBN0679737286.
- ^ "CASEY KASEM'S AMERICAN TOP twoscore - xi/18/72". oldradioshows.com. Archived from the original on 2009-01-04. Retrieved 2008-11-21 .
- ^ Jean, Al (2003). The Simpsons season iii DVD commentary for the episode "Lisa's Pony" (DVD). 20th Century Fox.
- ^ Reiss, Mike (2003). The Simpsons season 3 DVD commentary for the episode "Lisa's Pony" (DVD). 20th Century Flim-flam.
- ^ "100 Singles". RPM. 18 (12): 15. Nov 4, 1972. Archived from the original (PHP) on October 22, 2012. Retrieved March 28, 2011.
- ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Berry, Chuck – My Ding-a-Ling". GfK Entertainment charts. To see peak chart position, click "TITEL VON Berry, Chuck"
- ^ "Chuck Berry – My Ding-A-Ling" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
- ^ "flavour of new zealand - search listener". Flavourofnz.co.nz . Retrieved 30 March 2019.
- ^ "Chuck Berry – My Ding-A-Ling". VG-lista.
- ^ "Official Singles Nautical chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
- ^ a b "Chuck Drupe: Charts & Awards – Billboard Singles". AllMusic. United States: Rovi Corporation. Retrieved March 28, 2011.
- ^ "Cash Box Top 100 10/28/72". Tropicalglen.com . Retrieved 30 March 2019.
- ^ 1972 in British music#Acknowledged singles
- ^ "Height 100 Hits of 1972/Elevation 100 Songs of 1972". Musicoutfitters.com . Retrieved thirty March 2019.
- ^ "Cash Box YE Popular Singles - 1972". Tropicalglen.com. Archived from the original on 28 September 2018. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
Bibliography [edit]
- The Billboard Book of Number One Hits (5th edition), Billboard Books, 2003, ISBN 978-0823076772
- Guterman, Jimmy and O'Donnell, Owen. The Worst Rock-and-Roll Records of All Time, New York: Citadel, 1991, ISBN 978-0806512310
External links [edit]
- Lyrics
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Ding-a-Ling
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