^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada".^ Cash Box Top 100 Singles, April 5, 1975.^ "Raul Seixas – Não Quero Mais Andar Na Contra-Mão (1988, Vinyl)".^ "Je suis un mari fidèle paroles - Robert Demontigny".^ "Moi j'ai dit non paroles - Joe Dassin".^ "Ringo Starr - No No Song / Skokiaan / Snookeroo - Capitol - USA - 1880".^ Item Display – RPM – Library and Archives Canada Archived at the Wayback Machine.This version was included on his 1988 album A Pedra do Gênesis ("The Genesis's Stone") and issued as a promotional single. īrazilian 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 time, the protagonist refuses various women's advances but changes his mind in the end when he finds his wife kissing his best friend. Another French version, " (Non non non non) Je suis un mari fidèle", ("I'm a Faithful Husband") was also released in 1975 by Robert Demontigny for the Québec market in Canada. In this version, the protagonist refuses money, a marriage proposal and a political office in order to preserve his peace of mind. 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". In 1975, the song's writer, Hoyt Axton, released his own version of the song, featuring Cheech and Chong, on his album Southbound. Cash Box described it as a "friendly, tongue-in-cheek temperance tune," saying that "Ringo delivers it like he really means it!!" Covers 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. At that time I did either covers or something they wrote specifically for me.” While the song wasn’t written specifically for Ringo, it somehow marries up effortlessly with his demeanour and marks itself out as his best because of it." No No Song" is a 1974 song by English musician Ringo Starr. Ringo himself backed that up: “I don’t actually know where they got the idea for it I just felt it was a really interesting track for me to do. The No No Song Lyrics by Ringo Starr from the Anthology.So Far album - including song video, artist biography, translations and more: A lady that I know. I thought also, with Ringo being so good with children – a knockabout uncle type – it might not be a bad idea for him to have a children’s song, rather than a very serious song. So it didn’t seem uncool to me to have a pretty surreal idea that was also a children’s idea. But there’s something incredibly wholesome about the track, something Starr adds to in buckets.Ībout the song, Macca remembers, “I quite like children’s things I like children’s minds and imagination. reveal the meaning of life or the preferred breakfast habits of Ringo Starr. The song, written primarily by Paul McCartney, was always intended to be a children’s song and that incessant whimsy has often provoked Beatles fans to cast it into the fire as one of the Fab Four’s throwaways. That's what should be remembered about the song. It just so happens it was written by somebody else. If you asked us to pick just one song which encapsulated not only everything that made Ringo Starr a celebrated musician and vital member of The Beatles, but everything Starr was as a person, then it would have to be ‘Yellow Submarine’.
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