With Ringo, Ringo Starr finally put his solo career in gear in 1973, after serving notice with back-to-back Top Ten singles in 1971 and 1972 that he had more to offer than his eccentric first two solo albums. Ringo was a big-budget pop album produced by Richard Perry and featuring Ringo's former Beatles bandmates as songwriters, singers, and instrumentalists. On no single track did all four appear, though George Harrison played the guitars on the John Lennon-penned leadoff track "I'm the Greatest," with Lennon playing piano and singing harmony. But it wasn't only the guests who made Ringo a success: Ringo advanced his own cause by co-writing two of the album's Top Ten singles, the number one "Photograph" and "Oh My My." The album's biggest hit was a second chart-topper, Ringo's cover of the old Johnny Burnette hit "You're Sixteen." Songs like "Have You Seen My Baby," a Randy Newman song with guitar by Marc Bolan, and Ringo and Vini Poncia's "Devil Woman" were just as good as the hits. Ringo's best and most consistent new studio album, Ringo represented both the drummer/singer's most dramatic comeback and his commercial peak. The original ten-track 1973 album got even better in 1991 as a 13-track CD reissue, the bonus tracks including the 1971 gold single "It Don't Come Easy" and its B-side, "Early 1970," a telling depiction of Ringo's perspective on the Beatles breakup.
This post is unabashed bragging.For those with some photography experience (of the type that includes completely non-automatic cameras and film) i'd like to talk about the "*Cowboy Mouth pics*":http://mog.com/fairportfan/blog_post/41313.The camera used is an elderly single-lens reflex (SLR) - an Olympus Pen FT, last sold in 1972, that i bought from a pawn shop in 2000. I had had a Pen FT befor...
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Ahhhhhh.......Ringo. A bit "under The (influence) weather" for The Concert For Bangla Desh....At this point he'd had one hit...you'd think he'd remember the words to it.So, I'm trying to put enough words here so the political stuff would not appear in the main part of the post. I'm probably there now so...........I am deeply troubled by some of the policy reversals President Obama has signaled.
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This post is unabashed bragging.For those with some photography experience (of the type that includes completely non-automatic cameras and film) i'd like to talk about the "*Cowboy Mouth pics*":http://mog.com/fairportfan/blog_post/41313.The camera used is an elderly single-lens reflex (SLR) - an Olympus Pen FT, last sold in 1972, that i bought from a pawn shop in 2000. I had had a Pen FT befor...
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For no particular reason that i can think of, i have set up a "*Flickr account*":http://www.flickr.com/photos/fairportfan/.There are about forty photos up on it now, with, i'm sure, more to come - including several 3D photos, mostly from the NC State Fair last year. I seem to be missing some photos i thought i had on the computer, so i need to search a bunch of CDs to find them...I haven't pos...
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As an addendum to my last Beatles Rarity Of The Week post, and also at the request of Inrumford, I am posting the official version of Ringo Starr's I'm The Greatest composed by John Lennon. Enjoy...
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