No No Song

11 tracks
Side one "(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna" "Occapella" "Oo-Wee" "Husbands and Wives" "Snookeroo" Side two "All by Myself" "Call Me" "No No Song" "Only You (And You Alone)" "Easy for Me" "Goodnight Vienna (Reprise)"

Ringo Starr's cover of Hoyt Axton's and David Jackson's "The No No Song" was included on his 1974 album Goodnight Vienna. The song was released in the US on 27 January 1975, backed with "Snookeroo".^{[nb 1]}^[1] It was a #1 hit in Canada^[2] 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.

Covers and in popular culture 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 chloroethane spray). Seixas also released an album (and hit single) called A Pedra do Gênesis ("The Genesis's Stone").

Joe Dassin's "Moi j'ai dit non" was a French adaptation of "The No No Song".

Some reissues and later pressings of the Ringo Starr version credit the song as "No No Song/Skokiaan".^[3] This is presumably due to a copyright claim by the publishers of the latter song, although details are lacking.

References

Footnotes

↑ US Apple 1880^[1]

Citations

1 2 Harry, Bill (2004). The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia. London: Virgin Books. p. 183. ISBN 9780753508435.
↑ Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada
↑ http://www.45cat.com/record/1880us

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Preceded by "Lady Marmalade" by Labelle	*Canadian RPM* number-one single** April 5–12, 1975 (2 weeks)	Succeeded by "Philadelphia Freedom" by Elton John

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1970	"Beaucoups of Blues" / "Coochy Coochy"

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1972	"Back Off Boogaloo" / "Blindman"

1973	"Photograph" / "Down and Out" "You're Sixteen"

1974	"Oh My My" "Only You (And You Alone)"

1975	"No No Song" / "Snookeroo" "(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna"

1976	"Oh My My" / "No No Song" "A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll" "You Don't Know Me at All" (Europe; except UK) "Hey! Baby" "Las Brisas" (Mexico)

1977	"Wings" "Drowning in the Sea of Love" "Sneaking Sally Through the Alley" (Australia)

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1981	"Wrack My Brain"

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1984	"I Keep Forgettin'" (Mexico)

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2009	"The Official BBC Children in Need Medley" (with Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band) "Walk with You" (with Paul McCartney)

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2012	"Wings"

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