Helen Vahdati’s Song Lyric Sunday most excellent prompt for today is “new”.
from wikipedia:
“Ding Dong, Ding Dong” is a song by English musician George Harrison, written as a New Year’s Eve singalong and released in December 1974 on his album Dark Horse. It was the album’s lead single in Britain and some other European countries, and the second single, after “Dark Horse“, in North America. A large-scale production, the song incorporates aspects of Phil Spector‘s Wall of Sound technique, particularly his Christmas recordings from 1963. In addition, some Harrison biographers view “Ding Dong” as an attempt to emulate the success of two glam rock anthems from the 1973–74 holiday season: “Merry Xmas Everybody” by Slade, and Wizzard‘s “I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday“. The song became only a minor hit in Britain and the United States, although it was a top-twenty hit elsewhere in the world.
Harrison took the lyrics to “Ding Dong” from engravings he found at his nineteenth-century home, Friar Park, in Oxfordshire – a legacy of its eccentric founder, Frank Crisp. The song’s “Ring out the old, ring in the new” refrain has invited interpretation as Harrison distancing himself from his past as a member of the Beatles, and as the singer farewelling his first marriage, to Pattie Boyd. As on much of the Dark Horse album, Harrison’s vocals on the recording were hampered by a throat condition, due partly to his having overextended himself on business projects such as his recently launched record label, Dark Horse Records. Recorded at his Friar Park studio, the track includes musical contributions from Tom Scott, Ringo Starr, Alvin Lee, Ron Wood and Jim Keltner.
On release, the song met with an unfavourable response from many music critics, while others considered its musical and lyrical simplicity to be a positive factor for a contemporary pop hit. For the first time with one of his singles, Harrison made a promotional video for “Ding Dong”, which features scenes of him miming to the track at Friar Park while dressed in a variety of Beatle-themed costumes. The song still receives occasional airplay over the holiday season. The video appears on the DVD in Harrison’s eight-disc Apple Years 1968–75 box set, released in September 2014.
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I’ve got this box set. The video it is referring to is on youtube, but I didn’t include it here as it is a little spaced out and maybe even surreal. I find it so funny that it is being said that George was competing with this song to beat, “I Wish it Could Be Christmas Every Day”, which was the song from the Christmas challenge yesterday. lol. Anyway, I think this song is perfect for Song Lyric Sunday today. It’s almost 2019 Peeps!
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It is a great New Year song. I had no idea that Alvin Lee played on this song, as I did not hear much about him since Ten Years After played Woodstock in 1969.
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glad you like it and yes it definitely fits the season
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Great song!
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thanks!
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A great song!
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thanks Laura!
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Oh fabulous choice! I loved George 😢
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hmmm interesting background to this song. I’d not heard it before, but a good one for a new year! Wishing you a Happy New Year! 🙂
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I’m glad you found it interesting and like it. Happy New Year!
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Ring out the false, ring in the true! Love that line. Hadn’t heard this song before. Thanks.
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I’m very happy to introduce you to the song then. The youtube video that goes with it (that I didn’t include) is a little weird but very good.
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Great you could not of picked a better song 💜💜 or singer.
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Thanks Willow!
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Happy New year 💜
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Happy New Year!
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Great song. The tour, unfortunately, was known as the Dark “Hoarse” tour. I wish he would have postponed it. He could hardly talk much less sing.
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he sounded ok on the song. Unfortunate it affected his tour 😦
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Yea it was the tour… I still feel bad for him when I see the footage. I wonder if that soured him on future ones.
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He didn’t do more tours after that?
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He only did a short one month or so tour in Japan in 1991…that is it.
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😦 Maybe he got burned out on it when he was in The Beatles?
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Yes that happened but that tour didn’t help. Paul was the only one who really toured a lot back then….in the 80s Ringo started to tour.
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Love this, and love how the classics stand the test of time. Happy New Year! 😊
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🙂 Happy New Year!
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Better than the name suggests! Enjoyed this one
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Yes, it is. Glad you did.
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