My Ding-a-Ling

Tell us about your ding-a-ling, honey.

My ding-a-ling.

Come on.

My ding-a-ling.

Tell us about your

ding-a-ling.

I want you to play with my ding-a-ling.

Karen heard it.

Silver bells hanging on her string.

She told me it was my ding-a-ling-a-ling-o.

okay so i did not watch that i didn't even as you played it i was closing my eyes praying for death and it sounded like a soccer stadium when they all started singing well yeah yeah he's on a concert hall though yeah uh but beyond the i mean the intensity of the soccer players yes it's so odd that the world cup was brought me so much joy like so much recognizable joy Because they had been such a joy desert up until that point.

And like, I still reflect back on that fucking event, the world's cup.

in all of like i don't know if i was extracted from the planet and my pea brain was analyzed that would be they would think that that was like a holiday

like that that single event spoke for all of humanity yeah

i so i'm not sure i understand the connection to my ding-a-ling because the screaming the intensity of the screaming and the joy with which they were singing reminded me of of European soccer fans.

Okay.

It's Wendy Snyder

here, and I need to mention something about My Dingaling, a novelty song written and recorded by Dave Bartholomew.

It was covered by Chuck Berry in 1972.

Dave Schwan and I were talking about this, and surprisingly, it became his only number one hits, which is astounding to me.

This is so funny, so iconic.

My Ding-A-Ling, a chart-topping novelty song by Dave Bartholomew-

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... made famous by Chuck Berry.

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if I, if I'm flicking through the channels and they're doing, um, you know, the best hits from the 1980s, you can be damn sure I'm gonna stay up three hours later than I was planning to watching through being like-

Mm

... "Wow, you forget how long his hair used to be."

[laughing] By the early 1950s, Berry moved from playing with local St. Louis bands, such as a combo called the St. John Trio, later named the Chuck Berry Trio, a prototype for most of the rock bands that would follow, and he built his solo career.

In 1955, he traveled to Chicago in search of a recording contract.

His first recording session for the Chess label produced Maybelline, and a string of more hits followed, including Roll Over Beethoven, Rock and Roll Music, and Johnny B. Goode, a ballad about a poor rural boy with a talent for guitar.

Berry's music was revolutionary for tapping into the emerging teenage demographic.