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"No No Song"

No No Song (Ringo Starr single - cover art ).jpg
A-side label


Single by Ringo Starr
from the album Goodnight Vienna
B-side "Snookeroo"
Released 27 January 1975 (US only)
Format
vinyl record 7"
Recorded 1974
Genre
Pop, novelty
Length 2:33
Label Apple Records
Songwriter(s)
Hoyt Axton, David Jackson
Producer(s) Richard Perry

Ringo Starr singles chronology





"Only You (And You Alone)"
(1974)
 "No No Song"
(1975)
 "Snookeroo"
(1975)


Goodnight Vienna track listing


11 tracks


Side one


  1. "(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna"

  2. "Occapella"

  3. "Oo-Wee"

  4. "Husbands and Wives"

  5. "Snookeroo"


Side two




  2. "All by Myself"

  3. "Call Me"

  4. "No No Song"

  5. "Only You (And You Alone)"

  6. "Easy for Me"

  7. "Goodnight Vienna (Reprise)"






"No No Song" is a 1974 song by English musician Ringo Starr. Written by Hoyt Axton and David Jackson, it appeared on Starr's 1974 album, Goodnight Vienna. It was released as a single in the US on 27 January 1975, backed with "Snookeroo,"[nb 1][1] and reached #1 in Canada[2] and #3 in the US. The lyrics describe a series of attempts to sell Colombian marijuana, Spanish cocaine and Tennessean moonshine to a recovered addict, who refuses it all. Harry Nilsson provides backing vocals.


Some reissues and later pressings of the Ringo Starr version credit the song as "No No Song/Skokiaan."[3] This is presumably due to a copyright claim by the publishers of the latter song, although details are lacking. 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.[citation needed]



Covers and in popular culture


In 1975, the song's co-writer, Hoyt Axton, released his own version of the song, featuring Cheech and Chong, on his album Southbound .


That same year, Joe Dassin released a French language adaptation of the song, "Moi j'ai dit non" ("Me, I Said No"), as the B-side of his most successful single, "L'Été indien." Another French version, "(Non non non non) Je suis un mari fidèle," was released that year by Robert Demontigny for the Québec market in Canada.


Brazilian rock musician Raul Seixas recorded a Brazilian Portuguese version called "Não Quero Mais Andar na Contra-mão" ("Don't Want to Ride on the Wrong Way Anymore"), adapting the drugs mentioned in the lyrics to the Brazilian culture (respectively, Colombian marijuana, Bolivian cocaine and Argentinian chloroethane spray). This version was included on his 1988 album A Pedra do Gênesis ("The Genesis's Stone")[4] and issued as a promotional single.[5]



References


Footnotes




  1. ^ US Apple 1880[1]



Citations




  1. ^ ab Harry, Bill (2004). The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia. London: Virgin Books. p. 183. ISBN 9780753508435..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada Archived 2013-12-31 at the Wayback Machine


  3. ^ "Ringo Starr - No No Song / Skokiaan / Snookeroo - Capitol - USA - 1880". 45cat.com. 2016-05-08. Retrieved 2016-10-10.


  4. ^ https://www.discogs.com/Raul-Seixas-A-Pedra-Do-G%C3%AAnesis/master/487151


  5. ^ https://www.discogs.com/Raul-Seixas-N%C3%A3o-Quero-Mais-Andar-Na-Contra-M%C3%A3o-A-Lei/release/6690502




External links



  • Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics












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