In 1975, the song's writer, Hoyt Axton, released his own version of the song, featuring Cheech and Chong, on his album Southbound. Cash Box described it as a "friendly, tongue-in-cheek temperance tune," saying that "Ringo delivers it like he really means it!!" Covers Reception īillboard described "No No Song" as a "good, fun Ringo cut." Billboard expressed concern that the drug references might limit airplay, even though the lyrics have the singer rejecting drug use. There are some similarities between parts of "Skokiaan" and the instrumental break between the second and third verses of Starr's version of the "No No Song," but without documentation this is no more than a supposition. Some reissues and later pressings of the Ringo Starr version credit the song as "No No Song/ Skokiaan." This is presumably due to a copyright claim by the publishers of the latter song, although details are lacking. The narrator declines all of them, saying that they are bad for his health. In the song, the narrator meets a woman from Colombia who offers him marijuana a woman from Mallorca, Spain who offers him cocaine and a man from Nashville, Tennessee who offers him moonshine whiskey. 1 in Canada, #3 in the Billboard charts, becoming his 7th and last top 10 hit. It was released as a single in the US on 27 January 1975, backed with " Snookeroo," and reached No. Written by Hoyt Axton and David Jackson, it appeared on Starr's 1974 album, Goodnight Vienna. " No No Song" is a 1974 song by English musician Ringo Starr.
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