Single:
Ding Dong, Ding Dong entered the Australian singles chart* on 27 January 1975 and peaked at #83.
Album:
The song is on Dark Horse which entered the Australian albums chart* on 23 December 1974 and peaked at #47.
Songwriter:
George Harrison
Producer:
George Harrison
Record label of Australian release:
Apple
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
Ding Dong, Ding Dong by George Harrison was written as a New Year’s Eve singalong and released in December 1974 on his album Dark Horse. It was the album’s lead single in Britain.
Harrison took the lyrics from engravings he found at his nineteenth-century home, Friar Park, in Oxfordshire – a legacy of its eccentric founder, Frank Crisp. The song’s “Ring out the old, ring in the new” refrain has invited interpretation as Harrison distancing himself from his past as a member of the Beatles, and as the singer farewelling his first marriage, to Pattie Boyd.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ding_Dong,_Ding_Dong
Lyrics:
Ring out the old
Ring in the new
Ring out the old
Ring in the new
Ring out the false
Ring in the true
Ring out the old
Ring in the new
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This song is also on our Spotify playlist Bang a Gong – the 70s
Other songs by George Harrison on Bang a Gong:
All Things Must Pass
Bangla Desh
Give Me Love
If Not for You
My Sweet Lord
What is Life
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