Jump to content

Ringo (album): Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous editNext edit →
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
No edit summary
→Track listing: This style of listing seems more appropriate considering the album; people will want to know the musicians for each track. Before changing this, please go to the talk page.
Line 52: Line 52:


==Track listing==
==Track listing==
===Side one===
{{Track listing
# "[[I'm the Greatest]]" ([[John Lennon]]) – 3:21
| headline = Side one
#* ''[[Ringo Starr]] - [[lead vocal]], [[drum kit|drums]]; [[John Lennon]] - [[piano]], [[backing vocal|harmony vocal]]; [[Billy Preston]] - [[organ (music)|organ]]; [[George Harrison]] - [[electric guitars]]; [[Klaus Voormann]] - [[bass guitar|bass]]''
| writing_credits = yes
# "Have You Seen My Baby" ([[Randy Newman]]) – 3:44
| title1 = [[I'm the Greatest]]
#* ''Starr - lead vocal, drums; [[James Booker]] - piano; [[Marc Bolan]] - [[electric guitar]]; Voormann - bass; [[Jim Keltner]] - drums; [[Milt Holland]] - [[percussion]]; [[Horn (instrument)|Horns]] - [[Tom Scott (musician)|Tom Scott]]''
| writer1 = [[John Lennon]]
#* ''The tracklisting on the album cover, as well as on the record label, incorrectly label this song as "Hold On".''
| length1 = 3:21
⚫
# "[[Photograph (Ringo Starr song)|Photograph]]" ([[George Harrison]], Starkey) – 3:56
| title2 = Have You Seen My Baby
#* ''Starr - lead vocal, drums; Harrison - harmony vocal, electric guitars; [[Bobby Keyes]] - [[tenor sax]]; [[Vini Poncia]], Jimmy Calvert - [[guitar|acoustic guitars]]; [[Nicky Hopkins]] - piano; Voormann - bass; Keltner - drums; Lon and Derrek Van Eaton - percussion; [[Jack Nitzsche]] - orchestral and choral [[arrangements]]
| writer2 = [[Randy Newman]]
⚫
# "Sunshine Life for Me (Sail Away Raymond)" (Harrison) – 2:45
| length2 = 3:44
#* ''Starr - lead vocal, drums, percussion; Harrison - guitar, backing vocals; [[Robbie Robertson]] - guitar; [[Levon Helm]] - [[mandolin]]; [[Rick Danko]], - [[violin|fiddle]]; [[David Bromberg]] - [[banjo]], fiddle; [[Garth Hudson]] - [[accordion]], Voormann - [[double bass]]''
⚫
| title3 = [[Photograph (Ringo Starr song)|Photograph]]
# "[[You're Sixteen]]" ([[Robert B. Sherman|Bob Sherman]]/[[Richard M. Sherman|Dick Sherman]]) – 2:48
| writer3 = [[Richard Starkey]], [[George Harrison]]
#* ''Starr - lead vocal, drums; Poncia, Calvert - guitars; Hopkins - piano; Voormann - bass; [[Paul McCartney]] - [[kazoo]]; [[Harry Nilsson]] - backing vocals; [[Linda McCartney]] - backing vocals
| length3 = 3:56

⚫
| title4 = Sunshine Life for Me (Sail Away Raymond)
===Side two===
| writer4 = Harrison
#<li value="6">"[[Oh My My]]" (Poncia/Starkey) – 4:16
| length4 = 2:45
#* ''Starr - lead vocal, drums; Poncia - harmony vocal; Calvert - guitar; Preston - piano, organ; Voormann - bass; Keltner - drums; Scott - saxophone solo, arrangements; [[Jim Horn]] - arrangements; [[Martha Reeves]], [[Merry Clayton]] - backing vocals''
| title5 = [[You're Sixteen]]
# "Step Lightly" (Starkey) – 3:15
| writer5 = [[Robert B. Sherman]], [[Richard M. Sherman]]
#* ''Starr - lead vocal, drums; [[Steve Cropper]] - electric guitar; Calvert - acoustic guitar; Hopkins - [[electric piano]]; Voormann - bass; Scott - [[clarinet]] arrangement''
| length5 = 2:48
#* ''Features the tapdancing of '[[Richard Starkey]], [[Member of the Order of the British Empire|M.B.E.]]''
}}
# "Six O'Clock" (P. McCartney) – 4:06
{{Track listing
#* ''Starr - lead vocal, drums; P. McCartney - piano, [[synthesizer]], string and flute arrangements, backing vocal; Poncia - guitar, percussion; Voormann - bass; L. McCartney - backing vocal''
| headline = Side two
# "Devil Woman" (Poncia/Starkey) – 3:50
| writing_credits = yes
#* ''Starr - lead vocal, drums; Calvert - guitar; Tom Hensley - piano; Voormann - bass, backing vocal; Keltner - drums; [[Chuck Finley]], Scott - horns; [[Richard Perry]] - backing vocal''
| title6 = [[Oh My My (Ringo Starr song)|Oh My My]]
# "You and Me (Babe)" (Harrison/[[Mal Evans]]) – 4:59
| writer6 = Starkey, [[Vini Poncia]]
#* ''Starr - lead vocal, drums; Harrison - electric guitar; Poncia - acoustic guitar; Hopkins - electric piano; Holland - [[marimba]]; Scott - horn arrangements; Nitzsche - string arrangements''
| length6 = 4:16

| title7 = Step Lightly
===1991 Reissue bonus tracks===
| writer7 = Starkey
#<li value="11">"[[It Don't Come Easy]]" (Harrison/Starkey) - 3:02
| length7 = 3:15
#* ''Starr - lead vocal, drums; Harrison - electric guitars; [[Stephen Stills]] - piano; Voormann - bass; [[Pete Ham]], [[Tom Evans (musician)|Tom Evans]] - backing vocals; Ron Cattermole - horns''
| title8 = Six O'Clock
#* ''Originally released as a single in 1971''
| writer8 = [[Paul McCartney]], [[Linda McCartney]]<ref name="MPL">{{cite web| url=http://www.mplcommunications.com/search.php Search and license music now| title=　MPL Music Publishing Inc.|publisher= [[MPL Communications]]|work= mplsommunications.com| accessdate=11 February 2012}}</ref>
# "[[Early 1970]]" (Starkey) - 2:20
| length8 = 4:06
#* ''Starr - lead vocal, drums, acoustic guitar, piano; Harrison - electric guitars, bass, backing vocal''
| title9 = Devil Woman
#* ''Originally released as the b-side to "It Don't Come Easy" in 1971''
| writer9 = Starkey, Poncia
# "Down and Out" (Starkey) - 3:04
| length9 = 3:50
#* ''Probable line-up: Starr - lead vocal, drums; Harrison - electric guitar; [[Gary Wright]] - piano; Voormann - bass; unknown horns''
| title10 = You and Me (Babe)
#* ''Originally released as the b-side to "Photograph" in 1973''
| writer10 = Harrison, [[Mal Evans]]
| length10 = 4:59
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = 1991 reissue bonus tracks
| writing_credits = yes
| title11 = [[It Don't Come Easy]]
| writer11 = Starkey
| length11 = 3:02
| title12 = [[Early 1970]]
| writer12 = Starkey
| length12 = 2:20
| title13 = Down and Out
| writer13 = Starkey
| length13 = 3:04
}}


==Personnel==
==Personnel==

Revision as of 00:44, 13 March 2013

Untitled

Ringo is the third album by Ringo Starr, released in 1973 on Apple Records. It peaked at #7 on the UK Albums Chart and #2 on the Billboard 200, and has been certified platinum by the RIAA. In Canada, it reached #1 on the RPM national albums chart. The album is noted for the appearance of all four Beatles, and for its numerous guest stars, something which would become a signature for Starr on many of his future albums and tours.

Background

After releasing the standards tribute Sentimental Journey and the country and western Beaucoups of Blues, both in 1970, Starr would only record and release a couple of singles in the interim, namely "It Don't Come Easy" in 1971 and "Back Off Boogaloo" in 1972.[1] While both were big successes and would have ordinarily inspired albums to support them, Starr declined to follow through, preferring to concentrate on acting during this period.[2]

In early 1973, Starr decided the time was right to begin—in his mind—his first proper solo album, despite its two predecessors. Having already used Richard Perry to arrange one of the tracks on Sentimental Journey, Starr asked Perry to produce the sessions,[3] which began that March.

Recording

As soon as Starr sent word to all his musician friends to help him in his new venture, they all responded positively. Taking part in the sessions were Marc Bolan, members of The Band,[3] Billy Preston, Klaus Voormann, Nicky Hopkins, Harry Nilsson and Jim Keltner. Additionally, all three of his former bandmates appeared on and composed material for Ringo, and Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison appear together on the Lennon-penned song "I'm the Greatest".[1] Paul McCartney wrote "Six O'Clock" for the album, on which he also sung and played synthesiser and piano.[3] The experience of making Ringo was an enjoyable one for Starr and all involved, with its wide acceptance only furthering his personal feeling of success.

Release

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [4]
Rolling Stone(not rated) [5]

Upon its November release, the critics were very warm in their appraisal, with Ringo hitting #1 for three weeks in Canada, reaching #7 in the United Kingdom, and denied the top spot in the United States by Elton John's blockbuster Goodbye Yellow Brick Road[6] (it still managed to peak at #1 in Cashbox and Record World [7]). In the US, the singles from Ringo "Photograph" and Starr's cover of "You're Sixteen" both went to #1, while becoming Top 10 UK hits. After the singles became hits, Lennon sent Starr a telegram: "Congratulations. How are you? And please write me a hit song."[3]

In an interesting note, the original cassette tape and 8-track versions of the album, as well as a small number of early promotional copies of the vinyl album, contained a longer version of "Six O'Clock". All of the stock copies of vinyl version of the LP, including both the original pressing and the 1981 LP re-release of the album, as well as the CD (and the album's 1981 re-release on cassette tape), contained a shorter version of the song.[8] The record label on the original stock pressing of the vinyl album incorrectly lists the running time of "Six O'Clock" as 5:26, which may have led some to mistakenly assume that the original pressing contained the long version of the song. The label on the reissued vinyl album correctly lists the running time as 4:06.[9] At the time of release, various reviews and press articles of the day stated that the longer version was "snuck" onto the tape duplicating masters at the last moment. The longer version of "Six O'Clock" was oddly not added as a bonus track to the re-issue of the CD, but rather to the re-issue of the "Goodnight Vienna" CD.

Artwork for a quadrophonic version was produced, but was never released.[10]

When the Ringo album was remastered and reissued on CD in 1991, the three bonus tracks included on it were all from singles: Starr's 1971 hit single "It Don't Come Easy" and its b-side "Early 1970", as well as "Photograph"'s flip side "Down And Out". On the CD, "You and Me (Babe)" begins crossfaded over the end of "Devil Woman," even though the original album had these songs separated by silence.

Track listing

Side one

  1. "I'm the Greatest" (John Lennon) – 3:21
  2. "Have You Seen My Baby" (Randy Newman) – 3:44
  3. "Photograph" (George Harrison, Starkey) – 3:56
  4. "Sunshine Life for Me (Sail Away Raymond)" (Harrison) – 2:45
  5. "You're Sixteen" (Bob Sherman/Dick Sherman) – 2:48

Side two

  2. "Oh My My" (Poncia/Starkey) – 4:16
    • Starr - lead vocal, drums; Poncia - harmony vocal; Calvert - guitar; Preston - piano, organ; Voormann - bass; Keltner - drums; Scott - saxophone solo, arrangements; Jim Horn - arrangements; Martha Reeves, Merry Clayton - backing vocals
  3. "Step Lightly" (Starkey) – 3:15
  4. "Six O'Clock" (P. McCartney) – 4:06
    • Starr - lead vocal, drums; P. McCartney - piano, synthesizer, string and flute arrangements, backing vocal; Poncia - guitar, percussion; Voormann - bass; L. McCartney - backing vocal
  5. "Devil Woman" (Poncia/Starkey) – 3:50
    • Starr - lead vocal, drums; Calvert - guitar; Tom Hensley - piano; Voormann - bass, backing vocal; Keltner - drums; Chuck Finley, Scott - horns; Richard Perry - backing vocal
  6. "You and Me (Babe)" (Harrison/Mal Evans) – 4:59
    • Starr - lead vocal, drums; Harrison - electric guitar; Poncia - acoustic guitar; Hopkins - electric piano; Holland - marimba; Scott - horn arrangements; Nitzsche - string arrangements

1991 Reissue bonus tracks

  2. "It Don't Come Easy" (Harrison/Starkey) - 3:02
    • Starr - lead vocal, drums; Harrison - electric guitars; Stephen Stills - piano; Voormann - bass; Pete Ham, Tom Evans - backing vocals; Ron Cattermole - horns
    • Originally released as a single in 1971
  3. "Early 1970" (Starkey) - 2:20
    • Starr - lead vocal, drums, acoustic guitar, piano; Harrison - electric guitars, bass, backing vocal
    • Originally released as the b-side to "It Don't Come Easy" in 1971
  4. "Down and Out" (Starkey) - 3:04
    • Probable line-up: Starr - lead vocal, drums; Harrison - electric guitar; Gary Wright - piano; Voormann - bass; unknown horns
    • Originally released as the b-side to "Photograph" in 1973

Personnel

Charts

Notes

  1. ^ a b Schaffner, Nicholas (1980). The Boys from Liverpool: John, Paul, George, Ringo (1st ed. ed.). New York: Methuen. p. 164. ISBN 9780416306613. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help)
  2. ^ Schaffner, Nicholas (1980). The Boys from Liverpool: John, Paul, George, Ringo (1st ed. ed.). New York: Methuen. pp. 162, 164. ISBN 9780416306613. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help)
  3. ^ a b c d Schaffner, Nicholas (1980). The Boys from Liverpool: John, Paul, George, Ringo (1st ed. ed.). New York: Methuen. p. 165. ISBN 9780416306613. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help)
  4. ^ Ringo at AllMusic
  5. ^ [1][dead link‍]
  6. ^ Sharon Mawer. "US number two albums". Archived from the original on 17 April 2009. Retrieved 19 March 2009.
  7. ^ [http://www.webcitation.org/query?id=1240005049023979 "Billboard, CASHBOX & Record World ��1 ALBUMS(1973年)"]. Archived from the original on 17 April 2009. Retrieved 19 March 2009. {{cite web}}: replacement character in |title= at position 35 (help)
  8. ^ Harry Castleman & Walter J. Podrazik, All Together Now: The First Complete Beatles Discography 1961-1975 (New York: Ballantine Books, 1975), 268; and Perry Cox & Joe Lindsay, The Official Price Guide to The Beatles Records and Memorabilia (New York: House of Collectibles, 1995), 235.
  9. ^ Harry Castleman & Walter J. Podrazik, All Together Now: The First Complete Beatles Discography 1961-1975 (New York: Ballantine Books, 1975), 268; and the labels on Apple Records SWAL 3413 & Capitol Records SN-16114.
  10. ^ "QuadraphonicQuad Beatles Surround Music Releases". Quadraphonicquad.com. Retrieved 31 May 2012.
  11. ^ a b Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970-1992. St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  12. ^ Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 2012-02-12
  13. ^ "dutchcharts.nl Ringo Starr - Ringo" (ASP). dutchcharts.nl (in Dutch). MegaCharts. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  14. ^ a b "Hit Parade Italia - Gli album più venduti del 1974" (in Italian). hitparadeitalia.it. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  15. ^ a-ビートルズ "- Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Albums Chart Daijiten - The Beatles" (in Japanese). 30 December 2007. Retrieved 31 August 2011. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  16. ^ "norwegiancharts.com Ringo Starr - Ringo" (ASP). VG-lista. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
  17. ^ Billboard - 9 March - 1974. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
  18. ^ Billboard - 9 February - 1974. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
  19. ^ "Chart Stats Ringo Starr - Ringo" (PHP). The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  20. ^ "allmusic ((( Ringo > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums )))". allmusic.com. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  21. ^ "Album Search: Ringo Starr: Ringo" (ASP) (in German). Media Control. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  22. ^ "RPM Top 100 Albums of 1974". RPM. Retrieved 3 October 2011. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  23. ^ Billboard - Year-end Albums - 1974. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
  24. ^ id MUST BE PROVIDED for UK CERTIFICATION.
  25. ^ "American album certifications – Ringo Starr – Ringo". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
Preceded by Canadian RPM 100 number-one album
December 22, 1973 (1 week) 		Succeeded by
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Ringo_(album)&oldid=543731612"