I’d heard Big Mama Thornton singing Hound Dog and Barrett Strong doing Money (That’s What I Want).
Before them, most British music had seemed like a lightweight copy of American records, but Love Me Do felt like a spiritual awakening. My teenage hormones were raging, and the Beatles looked so cute, not at all threatening. When I was 13 we were obsessed with the radio in the way kids now are obsessed with TikTok. It still makes me smile when I hear it and I take enormous pride in thinking that it was the launchpad for me. In terms of what they did later, Love Me Do is the bit that gets jettisoned once the rocket is in orbit, but it was vital to the whole process. Lennon and McCartney’s voices weren’t swathed in reverb like records were then, and their sense of melody was phenomenal. It might have been the harmonica intro – the only other song I remember with a harmonica break back then was Frank Ifield’s I’ll Remember You – but Love Me Do was head and shoulders above Freddie and the Dreamers or Gerry and the Pacemakers or any of those bands with similar accents. I don’t know why that song more than any other would leap out at me, but it was the first song I ever sang. I was three years and two months old when Love Me Do came out, but I had a plastic toy guitar and whenever the song came on the radio I would stand on a stool and sing along. collectionscanada.gc.ca.‘I sang to it with a plastic guitar when I was three years old’
īillboard described "No No Song" as a "good, fun Ringo cut." Billboard expressed concern that the drug references might limit airplay, even though the lyrics have the singer rejecting drug use. There are some similarities between parts of "Skokiaan" and the instrumental break between the second and third verses of Starr's version of the "No No Song," but without documentation this is no more than a supposition. Some reissues and later pressings of the Ringo Starr version credit the song as "No No Song/ Skokiaan." This is presumably due to a copyright claim by the publishers of the latter song, although details are lacking. The narrator declines all of them, saying that they are bad for his health. In the song, the narrator meets a woman from Colombia who offers him marijuana a woman from Mallorca, Spain who offers him cocaine and a man from Nashville, Tennessee who offers him moonshine whiskey. 1 in Canada, #3 in the Billboard charts, becoming his 7th and last top 10 hit. It was released as a single in the US on 27 January 1975, backed with " Snookeroo," and reached No. Written by Hoyt Axton and David Jackson, it appeared on Starr's 1974 album, Goodnight Vienna. " No No Song" is a 1974 song by English musician Ringo Starr.
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