CHUCK BERRY MY DING A LING REACTION | This was on Radio??

Chuck Berry aings about his Ding a Ling and this is my reaction.I can't believe he pulled this off!
Absolutely hilarious! Git me rolling and it was done very cleverly.The lyrics were superbly entertaining.
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[@danmellis398]

Even crazier…out of all the timeless songs from Chuck Berry, the only #1 song in his entire career was My Ding A Ling.

[@conniegordon2465]

Hard to believe this was his only #1hit. When I was a teenager in the 50's, I loved his music, and it was very popular. Never knew this one existed back then. I think this one came out later though.

[@annmills3163]

This version is missing the first part where he’s talking to the audience, it’s pretty funny. And yes this was played on the radio I was 9 yrs old when it came, most kids just thought it was a fun song Adults either loved it or hated it

[@danlefou]

The longer version was recorded at the Oxford Union, and that was the one shown by the BBC. Even ruder and funnier, with Chuckles putting down hecklers in the audience.

[@jerrydelacruz5119]

It was on AM radio, all the time.

[@zoereeves6071]

i was a teenager when this song came out! Everytime it came on in the car as we were cruising around the whole car would sing along with it! We sang it on a school trip also but I think it was banned from our talent show! I still get a giggle when I hear this song. I also owned the 45.

[@bertramfien1095]

He is actually one of the fathers of Rockland roll

[@georgeringley2667]

Chuck Berry is Old School rock. He, along with Jerry Lee Lewis, Chubby Checker and of course ELVIS. The mid and late 50's helped to usher in Rock and Roll. This song he did late in his career and he showed everyone that he still has it.

[@hazelanglin5907]

I was 12 years old when this song was released

[@mikefetterman6782]

There was an actually toy in the 1930's called a " Ding a Ling" I was similar to a "Yo Yo". He is just enjoying the double entendre, and making the most of it.

[@mikefetterman6782]

My cousin's grandfather had the packaging from one when I was a child in the 70's

[@TheSchuyler75]

99% of people thing he’s talking about his pecker 😂 thanks for the education 🙏🤣

[@dalem8332]

INCREDIBLE rock pioneer the one and only Chuck Berry!! He wrote so many rock and roll classics and yet this was his only #1 song! Fun great song though! 😎🎼🎵🎶🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@keymack2477]

This song was definitely on the radio, and we enjoyed listening to it a lot! There is only one place to go from here, Harri, and that is (drum roll please), "Big Balls" from AC/DC!! Go for it, Harri - you won't regret it, believe me!!!!!!

[@kevinwalsh9788]

My mother bought this album knowing fully what it was about. The hole neighborhood always had a good laugh when she blasted the song.

[@DawnSuttonfabfour]

That's a UK audience Harri!! It was HUGE here lol.

[@stephenqualtrough7322]

Yes. This was number 1 and this video was on Top of the Pops but just to distract us a big Tony Hart drawing of a big bell was inserted at intervals. Mary Whitehouse went puce .

[@StoyTheOld]

Chuck Berry headlined the first rock festival I attended . He got the entire audience singing along . Fun show .

[@jkronen1000]

When this came out it played over and over on the radio - just a fun song. - I was in Montreal, Quebec. All my friends loved the song - the double meaning 🤣🤣🤣

[@tonyrobertson1038]

I saw him in Montreal at Place des Nations around 1972 and he performed My Ding-a-Ling and it was so much fun. Everyone was singing along.

[@scotttrainer9704]

This is a shortened version. They've cut out his instructions to the audience in the beginning, and some interactions of him joking with people. The godfather of rock and one of the greatest of all time.

[@debjorgo]

This song was always a hit in his concerts. The version heard here is what was released as the single.

[@danlefou]

Yes, it was on radio. In fact the whole gig was on national TV, to the horror of moral campaigner (read sanctimonious busybody) Mary Whitehouse. Needless to say, this helped to make it a humongous hit. :-)

[@LeChaunce]

Ha ha, charade she was!

[@davebarker9144]

This concert was not on TV the one shown was recorded a few days later at the BBC with a much smaller and less enthusiastic audience. Ironically the recording was made in Coventry only 8 miles from where Mary Whitehouse lived

[@marniethedyslexic6445]

Great Reaction Harri. You have to admit it’s a great song. No one can do it better than Chuck Berry. His humor through the whole thing is the best part.😀👍❤️✌️🌼

[@coololdluke3905]

Yes America played this on the radio..but it didn't come out until early 70s. They wouldn't have allowed it 10 years earlier though. Haha great memories

[@lancepickett5653]

It got massive air-play in Milwaukee and if the Billboard charts which track requests and air play are any indication it got a lot of airplay.

[@craigreid7178]

This got major air play on the radio when it came out. My cousin played bass for him for 15 years.

[@Ronnysan50]

Not written by Chuck. I too thought for years he wrote it but it was written and recorded by Dave Bartholomew in 1952. He was the horn player and arranger for Fats Domino. He also wrote and co-wrote many of Fats' hits. Berry changed the lyrics in his version, and kept the naughtiness and double meanings.Ironic that with so many iconic songs he penned, his only #1 wasn't his.

[@SnuSlavin]

Chuck was a good man and great individual......

[@GivnoFyux444]

You can only go up from here!

[@trishafaulk2067]

Hey, everyone needs a laugh, especially these days. There were lots of songs we were not supposed to listen to when my dad and a lot of my extended family were around, but when it was just mom and us we listened to almost everything. My mom wanted us to develop our own sense of music.

[@cathyortiz1280]

I saw Chuck Berry at a benefit concert in the early 70's. This song was popular & he sang extra verses not on the record that are even funnier. The audience sang the chorus, esp loud at the end. Just hilarious! He was the highlight of the concert!!

[@deannabayless8025]

In the 1970s and ‘80s, it was regularly played on the syndicated Dr. Demento show, a weekly US radio show of all novelty songs.

[@davebarker9144]

I was actually at the concert when this was recorded. If you hear side 2 of the Chuck Berry London Sessions album he starts by saying "I finally got a chance to sing one". Because until the previous song ( which nobody in the audience knew) after the 1st line of each song everybody sang and drowned him out so we were enthusiastic to join in anything. It is a shame though that this was his only No 1 hit. Incidentally the ballroom where this was recorded is now a public library.

[@cazgerald9471]

Chuck Berry is on the short list for greatest lyricists.

[@steverogers2635]

If anyone was the father of rock and roll, it was Chuck Berry. Thanks for the great reaction vid Harri. Peace.

[@craigreid7178]

I actually saw him do this live in Jan of '72. My cousin was playing bass and I didn't know it. It was a great performance including this song. Sha Na Na opened for him.

[@robertphelps1574]

It was originally written and released by Dave Bartholomew in 1952

[@Cath1027]

It was played on radio here in Ireland 🇮🇪. I was a child had no idea what the words referenced. We used to sing it playing on the swings. Such a witty funny song

[@richgoebel882]

The full track has the intro where he explains how the audience should sing along. That's why there is a jump at the beginning, and the audience sounds so good.

[@bemused9522]

LOL... This was on a childhood record I had like "Funky favorites"....& My older brother would play it for my sister and me and we would do the chorus....we had no clue, just knew it was funny and really did think he was talking about bells...... LOL.....I look back now and it makes me laugh harder thinking about how much we sang it!!!!! 😂 LOL

[@nativetexan9776]

It was innocent times. The time this was out, I was in 7th grade.

[@johnnyhawkins43]

I remember this from back i guess early or mid 70s but here in USA it was on the radio and I think it was number one !

[@DawnSuttonfabfour]

I cannot WAIT til you hear this...lol.

[@SnuSlavin]

Yes on the radio!

[@nativetexan9776]

That concert in England 1972

[@karenj3611]

I remember hearing this on the radio at the time, it was quite naughty. We really giggled.

[@lindaclark3457]

The longer version is even better!!

[@agnetamalmqvist9075]

Haha!

[@ivansavoie3190]

A cute little toy his grandmother bought

[@gioconda43]

That was funny!😄

[@kathyedleman633]

It was a big hit in America as well.

[@michaelyork4554]

Kind of like Jim Stafford, in Wildwood Weed, "We just smiled and waved, sittin on that sack of seeds"

[@janster3000]

Wildwood Weed

[@michaelyork4554]

@@janster3000 You know I wrote that first and thought I was wrong because the song says wildwood flower, and usually, I would just check and see, but I changed flower. I guess I better change it so there won't be any confusion.

[@janster3000]

I always liked the silly songs of the old days. This was one of my favorites.

[@peggyradeck9140]

Every time it was sung when I was at a bar it’s alwYs done the same way. The girls sing “My” and “Won’t you play with my”. The men sing “Ding-a-ling”

[@vincentdarrah]

This came out in 1973 and I remember hearing it on the radio. a few days later, a bunch of us were singing it at school. The school called and it was the one time my dad answered. They told him "Your son has been going around school singing that he wants people to play with his ding a ling" My dad says, "well he is only 6 years old and has no idea what its about so don't worry about it"

[@nathansnider6525]

Epic reaction bro!!!

[@davidpitt9528]

First time I heard this song I was driving in my car and had to pull over because I was laughing so hard

[@Doggeslife]

In the full version you hear him instructing everyone in what to sing. This version comes in later.

[@dennish3032]

There is another song , I think from the 30's . Song title is Shaving Cream. Thats all you need to find it on youtube. Same sort different allusion. Think I also caught it on an early black and white talkie movie where they still wore the heavy makeup from the silent movies.

[@tammybiddle7115]

This was very popular. My dad even had the 45 record. Lol. And we’re from the US.

[@cindyerick2968]

My mother wouldn’t let us sing,”Bitch is Back” by Elton John but she loved this song.

[@jeannejorgensen1230]

We all thought this song was sooo funny back then and yes it was on the radio!! In the car, we would all sing along at the top of our lungs out the car windows!! Lol. Things were different back then.

[@TheSchuyler75]

wasn’t banned here in America. I remember this and as kids we loved singing this 🤣

[@TheSchuyler75]

and we thought he was singing about his pecker not the toy called ding a ling

[@AndieO]

Lmao... you are not reading it wrong. So much fun. Honestly, my grandmother (who was born in 1920) used to sing this to me and my cousins. It was a little bit naughty, but we never thought of it like that. To us, it was a silly song that Nan would sing a long with us while she was making bread or whatnot. Guess we were a generation whose parents figured if they made a fuss over everything, nothing would get done, and we could feel like we were naughty without being explicit.

[@Cynthia...]

This song is hilarious.

[@andreaschmall5560]

Much better Chuck Berry songs to react to!!

[@TheSchuyler75]

🤣🤣🤣 he sure did and it’s awesome 👏

[@TheSchuyler75]

I’m dying laughing so thanks because you had me in my bag earlier

[@stanleynykaza9042]

Please do some CCR Credence Clear Water Revival, Down on the Corner and Born on the Bayou and Looking Out my Back Door

[@dennisdeshurley2979]

Listen to the song he singing about the bells his grandma bought him for christmas.

[@JimHancock]

Chuck Berry was out there though, he had a reputation for some outrageous stuff..... do the research... LOL... rock and rollers will be rock and rollers...

[@justlookin11]

Actually Dave Bartholomew released the original back in the early 50's. Chuck took it, upgraded it and rocked the world with it 20 years later. A true pioneer of Rock & Roll.

[@tomroome4118]

Harri, if you listen to the album you will hear the intro, where he directs the boys and girls their part to sing.

[@bluesrock1]

Chuck Berry is the Godfather of Rock n Roll. This is NOT the song he should be remembered by. He didn't even write it. I think he put this out as a novelty song, something to get the crowd involved in at live shows. In my opinion it's a throw away even though it was his only #1 Billboard recording.

[@jamesjohnston9225]

Chuck was a great showman and entertainer. This was later in his career. I cracked up laughing as I sang along every time they played it on the radio. He influenced so many musicians that you may as well quit counting. He had a huge stage prescence with some awesome moves while playing and singing. Johnny B. Goode was one of his most popular releases

[@JohnHazelwood58]

There is even a longer version avaible. Not only the intro is missing in this one, but also some verses ... Check out the long version!

[@jamiekendrick5057]

And this is a SHORTENED version. Long one is even funnier!

[@stephenqualtrough7322]

Is this why there is a bell on the home page So's we can play with our ding-dong Could be ?

[@marymartel6342]

You're back! ❣

[@stevenmonte7397]

makes me tear up... my grandmother would get a kick out of us listening to this 45. such a song of my childhood!

[@trudywolfe2795]

You missed the first part where he was teaching the audience to sing this song.

[@suzanneprock7286]

He sure knew how to get a crowd going, signs of a great entertainer! Just a fun song.

[@charlesbunch8383]

This is the song that beat out Elvis' Burning Love for the #1 spot on the American charts in 1972. Burning Love only got to #2.

[@richardmartin9565]

It was a big song here two.

[@adiarainfoster]

There's another video where you can hear him instructing them in the song and the interactions make the song so much funnier :D Strange that they seem to have overlayed the audio from one performance onto the performance that I'm most familiar with. if you watch his lips, the sound mostly doesn't match up when he's talking lol

[@JuandeFucaU]

Chuck Berry was actually inspired by a white boy named Marty McFly..... I saw it in a movie once.

[@IllumeEltanin]

Courtesy of his cousin calling him on the phone while Marty played, nu? 😆

[@sherrifigueroa1272]

👍🤣👏

[@mikerphoneassasinhls8303]

Heck the man sang about how he rode around in his Automobile while his girlfriend gave him road head 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@debbiechang5781]

I heard this song when I was young and never knew what to make of it, although I did (and still do) find it to be hilarious. I guess it’s just a funny song. Now that I think about it, I don’t think it was played on the radio here in the states. I’m not sure where I heard it. 😂

[@cathyortiz1280]

I remember hearing it on the radio.

[@ajogg]

It was #1, his only #1 in the US. www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8006918/chuck-berry-my-ding-a-ling-rewinding-the-charts-1972

[@chrisalldis3375]

One of the greatest guitarists of all time, certainly in the top 10, but he did say that this one paid all the bills

[@palm244]

HARRI, HARRI, HARRI, If you have never heard this song... You must've been playin' with your own ding-a-ling Gary, Gary, Gary

[@michaeleasterwood6558]

If you listen to the words, its about a toy that was given to him called a ding a ling. sheesh

[@sirbobloblaws]

I thought Charles Barkley invented 'turrible' for terrible. But no, it was Chuck Berry!

[@petermachare5711]

OMG Harri, I've collected off color R&B all my life and this song is as mild as they come. Even the Rolling Stones have Short and Curlies and another song sometimes called Schoolboy Blues. You can't believe it? Believe it. Remember the old Muddy Waters song with the line "a one eyed cat peeping in the seafood store"? Well, there you go!

[@StevesFunhouse]

YEs, this was HUGE because it was sort of dirty but could get past the censors, and that made it even better.

[@larrymcauley3152]

Listen to Pistol Packing Papa but Jimmy Roger's. It was done in the 30's I think.

[@george217]

I subscribed a few days ago and started watching some of your earlier reactions. It's going to take awhile...🤦🏻‍♂️

[@tomseidel2992]

Big Balls by AC DC is another one that got a lot of radio play because the double meaning gave it enough cover.

[@robertsaul234]

Frank Zappa's Dinah Moe humm and Ted Nugent's Wang Dang Sweet Poontang received a lot of play too.

[@ajogg]

He didn't write the song Harri, story on the song. www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8006918/chuck-berry-my-ding-a-ling-rewinding-the-charts-1972

[@andrewclayton4181]

Got to no. 1 in UK. 1972 (?) Quite late in his career, just a novelty hit. The brits like saucy humour. There was one frumpy campaigner who wanted it banned, but that just polished it up more. Great song. Some Mourne that one of his more sensible songs didn't hit the 1 spot.

[@danielglenn915]

Mainstay of a lot of family reunions and occasional fais do-dos in south Louisiana in my childhood. You should check out My Toot-toot by Rockin Sydney as well. Takes me back forty years in an instant.

[@pd4104lang]

Early Rock N' Roll was based on Blues and R&B, which was peppered with sexual double entendre! Segregationists of the time labeled it race music! Young whites of the time loved it, which sent their parent's through the roof! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@THEPATRIOT1000]

Maybelline, Johnny B Goode, Roll Over Beethoven

[@shirleybuffington6420]

To answer your question yes this song was played on the radio

[@NathanVeenstra]

Well did you know that there’s a company called Dong Energy? 😅