"My Ding-a-Ling" ?
Illya Barnett
This may seem like a weird question, but does anyone
remember a song called "My Ding-a-Ling" (or something close to that)?
I vaguely remember it being done live, with a lot of audience
participation.
Please e-mail me if you know who sang that song. I'm trying
to prove to my friends that the song actually existed :-)
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Joe Martinez
>
>This may seem like a weird question, but does anyone
>remember a song called "My Ding-a-Ling" (or something close to that)?
>I vaguely remember it being done live, with a lot of audience
>participation.
>
Believe it or not, it's Chuck Berry. I have no idea of where to find it,
though. I heard it a long time ago on Dr. Demento.
-Joe
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Dudley Gaman
>
>This may seem like a weird question, but does anyone
>remember a song called "My Ding-a-Ling" (or something close to that)?
>I vaguely remember it being done live, with a lot of audience
>participation.
>
>Please e-mail me if you know who sang that song. I'm trying
>to prove to my friends that the song actually existed :-)
>
remember too many details of the album which contained the song, but I'd
quess it was done in the late 50s (about the time Redd Foxx was recording
similar suggestive songs for the college party crowd). It went something
like this:
My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling,
My ding-al-ling is the cutest thing.
My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling,
Want you to play with my ding-a-ling.
When I was young I went to Sunday school,
The preacher taught me the golden rule,
But when the choir stood up to sing,
I would play with my ding-a-ling.
<chorus>
When I was young there was a girl next door.
I wanted to play with her yo-yo.
I played with her yo-yo on a string,
While she played with my ding-a-ling.
<chorus>
...
Other songs on the album were:
Gay Cabillero (gay meant something different in those days)
Hot Nuts
<can't remember the title but it went like this...>
Now see that man over in the corner,
He's growing old and feeble.
His pollen life is running out.
What used to be his sex appeal,
Is now his water spout.
It used to make him angry,
To make the thing behave.
For every single morning,
It would stand and watch him shave.
But now he's old and feeble,
And it sure gives him the blues,
To have that damn thing hang down,
And watch him shine his shoes.
I wonder if this album would rate a "Parental Advisory" sticker today.
Hope your friends believe you, now.
Dudley
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Joe Martinez
>>This may seem like a weird question, but does anyone
>>remember a song called "My Ding-a-Ling" (or something close to that)?
>>I vaguely remember it being done live, with a lot of audience
>>participation.
>>
>remember too many details of the album which contained the song, but I'd
>quess it was done in the late 50s (about the time Redd Foxx was recording
>similar suggestive songs for the college party crowd). It went something
>like this:
>
I think your version is a parody of the Chuck Berry version. The one I heard
wasn't suggestive at all. It was somethink like this:
When I was a little bitty boy, my grandmother bought me a cute little toy.
Silver bells hanging on a string. She told me it was my ding a ling a ling.
My ding a ling.
My ding a ling.
I want to play with my ding a ling.
That's about all I remember.
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Joe Martinez (jmar...@ares.calpoly.edu)
"If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the
electric chair for all my future crimes."
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Peter Jebsen
Illya Barnett:
>> This may seem like a weird question, but does anyone
remember a song called "My Ding-a-Ling" (or something close to that)?
Chuck Berry did the song. It went to No. 1 in the U.S. pop charts in '72.
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Riyaz Sikora
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> il...@pyrtor.UUCP (Illya Barnett) writes:
>>
>>This may seem like a weird question, but does anyone
>>remember a song called "My Ding-a-Ling" (or something close to that)?
>>I vaguely remember it being done live, with a lot of audience
>>participation.
>>
>
>Believe it or not, it's Chuck Berry. I have no idea of where to find it,
>though. I heard it a long time ago on Dr. Demento.
>
>-Joe
>
It is on the boxed-set The Chess Box Collection (I think it is on the last
disc).
-riyaz.
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Chuck Berry.
Michael J. Oatley
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michael bixenman
> il...@pyrtor.UUCP (Illya Barnett) writes:
>>This may seem like a weird question, but does anyone
>>remember a song called "My Ding-a-Ling" (or something close to that)?
>>I vaguely remember it being done live, with a lot of audience
>>participation.
>Believe it or not, it's Chuck Berry. I have no idea of where to find it,
>though. I heard it a long time ago on Dr. Demento.
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Mike Reaser
Tried to e-mail, but got bounced....
_My Ding-a-Ling_ was the only American "Number 1" song performed by rock
legend Chuck Berry. In addition, it blocked Elvis Presley's
_Burning Love_ from becoming Elvis's 18th American "Number 1".
The record was released in 1972, and was a live recording of Berry
performing it in concert.
Mike
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M.Rogers
Haven't seen the article this was a follow up to so don't know if what I'm
writing is of interest, but on the front of the magazine Replay comes a free
CD with the live version of My Ding-a-Ling on it (amongst other things).
The magazine is a Uk based one but it may be available elsewhere.
Dudley Gaman
> dud...@treefort.Corp.Sun.COM (Dudley Gaman) writes:
>>>This may seem like a weird question, but does anyone
>>>remember a song called "My Ding-a-Ling" (or something close to that)?
>>>I vaguely remember it being done live, with a lot of audience
>>>participation.
>>>
>>It sure does exist. I was done by Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts. I can't
>>remember too many details of the album which contained the song, but I'd
>>quess it was done in the late 50s (about the time Redd Foxx was recording
>>similar suggestive songs for the college party crowd).
>
>wasn't suggestive at all.
>
pre-dated the Chuck Berry version by at least 10 years.
Dudley
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Charlie Board
Probably not. Chuck's HIT version was a 1972 live recording (from the "London
Sessions" LP), but I'm pretty sure his first version was released in the 50's.
I think the FIRST version may have been by one Dave Bartholomew in the
mid-50's. I have this on an old vinyl compilation of "double-entendre" R&B.
> Dudley
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