Chuck Berry - My Ding-A-Ling

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My Ding-a-Ling" was a 1972 novelty hit record for Chuck Berry, and his only US number-one single on the pop charts. Later that year the song was on the album The London Chuck Berry Sessions. The song titled "Little Girl Sing Ding-a-Ling" was recorded by Dave Bartholomew in 1952. In 1954, The Bees released a version entitled "Toy Bell." Berry recorded a version called "My Tambourine" in 1968, but the version which topped the charts was recorded live during the Lanchester Arts Festival at the Locarno ballroom in Coventry, England, on 3 February 1972, where Berry -- backed by The Roy Young Band -- topped a bill that also included Slade and Billy Preston. Boston radio station WMEX disc jockey, Jim Connors, was credited with a gold record for discovering the song and pushing it to #1 over the airwaves and amongst his peers in the United States.The song tells of how the singer received a toy consisting of "silver bells hanging on a string" from his grandmother, who calls them his ding-a-ling. According to the song, he plays with it in school, and holds on to it in dangerous situations like falling after climbing the garden wall, and swimming across a creek infested with snapping turtles. The lyrics consistently exercise the double entendre with ding-a-ling standing in for the penis. During the live version, Berry calls on the audience to join in the chorus, and in the final verse, he admonishes "those of you who will not sing" that they "must be playing with [their] own ding-a <b>...</b>

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