Condition: Used
Ringo Starr – Ringo
Label: Apple Records
Catalog#: SWAL-3413
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Record: VG+ VG++ (few light scuffs)
Cover: VG+ VG++gatefold, ringwear, initials in pen on inside cover bottom right
Comes with booklet including lyrics and lithographs by Klaus Voormann.
Country: Canada
Released: 1973
Genre: Rock
Style: Pop Rock
Tracklist
A1 I'm The Greatest
A2 Hold On
A3 Photograph
A4 Sunshine Life For Me (Sail Away Raymond)
A5 You're Sixteen
B1 Oh My My
B2 Step Lightly
B3 Six O'Clock
B4 Devil Woman
B5 You And Me (Babe)
Credits
Artwork By [Art Director], Photography – Barry Feinstein
Artwork By [Paintings] – Tim Bruckner
Bass – Klaus Voormann
Drums, Vocals – Ringo Starr
Engineer – Bill Schnee
Producer – Richard Perry
Recorded at Sunset Sound, Los Angeles and Apple Studios, London.
Arguably the very best of the initial Beatles solo releases. Not as tortured as John's, not as wimpy as Paul's, not as religious as George's. It's just right.
In fact, this is actually and most really a true BEATLES album, as all four members play on the LP (albeit not all on the same song).
This was Ringo's first rock album, after forays into standards and country. To many people's surprise, he managed to release a great album. Of course, he did have a lot of help, including all the other ex-Beatles. This is what a Beatles album might have sounded like, if Ringo sang lead on all the songs. That old Beatle magic must have been working because Ringo cranks out some of his most memorable tunes on this LP, "I Am the Greatest" (with Sir Winston O'Boogie), the catchy pop tune, "Photograph" (with L'Angelo Mysterioso), the 50-ish hop song, "You're 16," and "Oh My My." All these songs received heavy radio play in 1973 on both, AM and FM networks.
Listen to Ringo's version of "You're Sixteen" (with Paul on the kazoo!) Or "Oh My My" which was a mega-hit back in '73. Sample "Devil Woman" which contains one of Ringo's best drum solos ever, nearly as good as the one he pulled off on the classic "Abbey Road."
Ringo Starr - You're sixteen
Ringo hit #1 in Billboard 1-26-74.
Part three of Ringo Starr's 1978 special
includes the song "You're Sixteen"
Ringo Starr - Photograph
- Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival
Photograph" is a song written by Ringo Starr and George Harrison. It was released by Starr as a single on October 5, 1973, reaching number eight and number one in the UK and U.S. singles charts, respectively. It can also be heard on the Ringo album and several compilation and live albums. On "Photograph", Starr is the lead vocalist and plays drums, and Harrison plays 12-string acoustic guitar and sings harmony vocals; Jim Keltner (drums), Klaus Voorman (bass), Nicky Hopkins (piano), Vini Poncia (acoustic guitar), Jimmy Calvert (acoustic guitar), Lon and Derrek Van Eaton (percussion), Bobby Keyes (tenor saxophone solo) are also featured. The orchestral arrangements are by Jack Nitzsche, and Richard Perry produced the recording. A promotional film was shot for the "Photograph" single, showing Starr walking around his new house at the time, Tittenhurst Park, which had been previously the home of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. The B-side of the "Photograph" single, "Down And Out", was written by Starr on his own.
Ringo Starr - Oh My My
at North Fork at Westbury
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