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Anita ward ring my bell genres11/8/2022 ![]() ![]() ‘There’s No One Quite Like Grandma’, by St. You can ring my bell, Anytime, Anywhere, Ring it, Ring it, Ring it ring it, Aaah! What smut! Actually, it’s one basic innuendo stretched out over four minutes, or eight (!) if you go for the 12” (though I do like the tribal drums that take over towards the end of that version). Once Anita got her hands on it, the words were, well, spiced up a bit. It also reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart. 'Ring My Bell' went to number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the Disco Top 80 chart and the Soul Singles chart. When Lattisaw signed with a different label, Anita Ward was asked to sing it instead, and it became her only major hit. The song was originally written for then eleven-year-old Stacy Lattisaw, as a teenybopper song about kids talking on the telephone. ‘Ring My Bell’ was originally a teenybopper song about kids calling one another on the phone. 'Ring My Bell' is a 1979 disco song written by Frederick Knight. She sounds like she’s going for cute and innocent as she welcomes her man home after a day’s work: Well lay back and relax, While I put away the dishes… But it comes off a little nasal and grating, especially as she hits the chorus’s high notes. Plus, Anita Ward’s voice is an acquired taste. I’m not sure… Should we be treating this as a novelty? It is very in your face in its attempts to be catchy. The chimes in the chorus do: You can ring my bell… Ding-dong-ding-dong… They don’t sound much like bells, though. It’s all chucka-chucka guitars, and a distinctive pew pew sound that sounds like a futuristic arcade shooter (apparently it’s an electronic drum giving us this tight beat). ![]() Ring My Bell, by Anita Ward (her 1 st and only #1) ![]()
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