NO NO SONG
“The No No Song” is a cover of Hoyt Axton’s and David Jackson’s song and was included on Ringo Starr’s 1974 album Goodnight Vienna. The song was released in the US on 27 January 1975, backed with “Snookeroo”. It was a #1 hit in Canada and a #3 hit in the US. It describes progressive attempts to sell Colombian marijuana, Spanish cocaine, and Tennessean moonshine to a recovered addict who refuses it all. Harry Nilsson provides backing vocals. (More from Wikipedia)
Ringo Starr arguably has had the most successful post-Beatles career. His first solo album, Sentimental Journey is a collection of pre-rock standards; made mainly to please his parents, he is one of the first rock musicians to attempt to cover these earlier styles of music. After a country collection called Beaucoups of Blues, Ringo Starr settled back into rock music and made a series of excellent albums that spawned nearly as many major hit songs as his three better-known bandmates combined: two #1 singles, “Photograph” and “You’re Sixteen” plus “It Don’t Come Easy”, “Back Off Boogaloo”, “Oh My My”, “Only You”, and “No No Song”.
(September 2014)
