No No Song
1975 single by Ringo Starr / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"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 No. 1 in Canada,[2] #3 in the Billboard charts,[3] becoming his 7th and last top 10 hit. It also reached No. 1 on Cash Box charts in the US.[4]
"No No Song" | ||||
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Single by Ringo Starr | ||||
from the album Goodnight Vienna | ||||
B-side | "Snookeroo" | |||
Released | 27 January 1975 (US only) | |||
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 | ||||
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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. The narrator declines all of them, saying that they are bad for his health. Harry Nilsson provides backing vocals.
Some reissues and later pressings of the Ringo Starr version credit the song as "No No Song/Skokiaan."[5] 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]