| "Ring My Bell" | ||||
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 One of side-A pressing labels of the US 7-inch vinyl single | ||||
| Single by Anita Ward | ||||
| from the album Songs of Love | ||||
| B-side | "If I Could Feel That Old Feeling Again" | |||
| Released | 1977 | |||
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| Label | Juana Records (through TK) | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Frederick Knight | |||
| Producer(s) | Frederick Knight | |||
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| "Ring My Bell": TopPop on YouTube | ||||
"Ring My Bell" is a 1979 disco song written by Frederick Knight. The song was originally written for eleven-year-old Stacy Lattisaw as a teenybopper song about children talking on the telephone.[3] When Lattisaw signed with a different label, American singer and musician Anita Ward was asked to sing it instead, and it became her only major hit.[4]
"Ring My Bell" went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the Disco Top 80 chart and the Soul Singles chart.[5] It also reached number one on the UK Singles Chart.[6][7] It also garnered Ward a nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance at the 1980 Grammy Awards.[8]
- ^ Prato, Greg. "Anita Ward – Artist Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
- ^ Breihan, Tom (February 10, 2020). "The Number Ones: Anita Ward's "Ring My Bell"". Stereogum. Retrieved July 11, 2023.
...A fun, frisky lightweight dance jam full of barely-disguised sex metaphors and catchy-as-hell hooks.
- ^ ""Ring My Bell" – Anita Ward". Super Seventies. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
- ^ "Ring My Bell by Anita Ward". Songfacts. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
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UKwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 591. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ^ "Anita Ward". Grammy.com. Retrieved May 3, 2018.