Song · Ringo Starr
“No No Song” by Ringo Starr
From the album Goodnight Vienna (1974)
“No No Song” by Ringo Starr appears on 10 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2011 and 2023. It was first released in 1974 on the album Goodnight Vienna. Its best result is #667 on the KZOK Top 1025 of 2019. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,966 classic rock song of all time.
Ringo Starr found his comic sweet spot with "No No Song", a Hoyt Axton and David Jackson tune he cut for Goodnight Vienna in 1974. It's a temperance lecture with a wink: a woman from Colombia offers the narrator marijuana, another from Mallorca offers cocaine, a man from Nashville pushes moonshine, and he waves off every one because they're bad for his health.
Richard Perry produced with Vini Poncia assisting, and the lineup is stacked: Harry Nilsson on backing vocals, Klaus Voormann on bass, Nicky Hopkins on electric piano, Jesse Ed Davis on electric guitar, and Bobby Keys and Trevor Lawrence on horns, with Ringo drumming and singing lead. Out as a US single in January 1975 with "Snookeroo" on the flip, it topped the charts in Canada and on Cash Box, reached No. 3 on Billboard, and became his seventh and last top-10 hit.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Classic Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1029 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1100 Countdown (2011) | 1100 |
| 2012 | 1083 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1200 Countdown (2012) | 1200 |
| 2013 | 910 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Grand Jam 1000 (2013) | 1000 |
| 2014 | 865 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014) | 1000 |
| 2015 | 918 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015) | 1007 |
| 2016 | 919 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Countdown for 2016 | 1007 |
| 2019 | 667 | 102.5 KZOK | KZOK Top 1025 of 2019 | 1025 |
| 2021 | 940 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2021) | 1043 |
| 2022 | 889 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2022) | 1043 |
| 2023 | 899 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2023) | 1043 |
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