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"The No No Song" Single by Ringo Starr from the album Goodnight Vienna Released 27 January 1975 (US only) Format vinyl record 7" Genre Rock Length 2:33 Label EMI (UK)
Apple Records (US)Producer Richard Perry Ringo Starr singles chronology "Only You (And You Alone)"
(1974)"No No Song"
(1975)"Snookeroo"
(1975)Ringo Starr's cover of Hoyt Axton and David Jackson's "The No No Song" was included on his 1974 album Goodnight Vienna. It was a number-one hit in Canada[1] and a number-three hit in the US. The song describes progressive attempts to sell Colombian marijuana, Spanish cocaine and Tennessean moonshine to a recovered addict who refuses it all. Providing background harmony is the inimitable voice of Harry Nilsson.
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 ether spray[disambiguation needed
]). Seixas also released an album (and hit single) called O Dia em que a Terra Parou ("The Day the Earth Stood Still") The song itself was not related to the movie of the same name; rather, it is likely a reference to the album Goodnight Vienna, the cover of which reproduces an iconic scene from the film, with Ringo Starr replacing Michael Rennie as the alien Klaatu standing alongside the robot Gort.
References
Preceded by
"Lady Marmalade" by LabelleCanadian RPM number-one single
April 5–12, 1975 (2 weeks)Succeeded by
"Philadelphia Freedom" by Elton JohnRingo Starr singles Beaucoups of Blues "Beaucoups of Blues (1971)Ringo Goodnight Vienna "Only You (And You Alone)" (1974) · "No No Song" / "Snookeroo" (1975) · "It's All Down to Goodnight Vienna" / "Oo-Wee" (1975)Ringo's Rotogravure Ringo the 4th "Wings" (1977) · "Drowning in the Sea of Love" (1977)Bad Boy Stop and Smell the Roses "Wrack My Brain" (1981) · "Private Property" (1982)Time Takes Time "Weight of the World" (1992)Vertical Man "La De Da" (1998)I Wanna Be Santa Claus "Come On Christmas, Christmas Come On" (1999)Ringo Rama "Never Without You" (2003)Choose Love "Fading In, Fading Out" (2005)Liverpool 8 "Liverpool 8" (2008)Y Not Singles only "It Don't Come Easy" (1971) · "Back Off Boogaloo" (1972) · "Act Naturally" (with Buck Owens) (1989) · "The Official BBC Children in Need Medley" (with Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band) (2009) ·Categories:- Ringo Starr songs
- Apple Records singles
- 1975 singles
- Songs written by Hoyt Axton
- The Beatles song stubs
- 1970s single stubs
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