A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll

"A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll"

UK picture sleeve
Single by Ringo Starr
from the album Ringo's Rotogravure
B-side "Cryin'"
Released 20 September 1976 (US)
15 October 1976 (UK)
Recorded 1976
Genre Rock and Roll
Length 3:24
Writer(s) Carl Groszman
Ringo Starr singles chronology
"Goodnight Vienna"
(1975)		 "A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll"
(1976)		 "You Don't Know Me at All"
(1976)

"A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll" is a popular rock and roll song written by Carl Groszman, who at the time was signed to Ring O' Records.[1]

Starr decided to do a cover of it for his 1976 album Ringo's Rotogravure, becoming his first Atlantic hit.[1] Released on 20 September 1976[nb 1][2] in advance of the album in the US, the single spent nine weeks on the Billboard charts, peaking at number 26 on the Billboard Hot 100.[3] It was released in the UK on 15 October.[nb 2][4]

The song samples the 1962 hit, "Hey! Baby" by Bruce Channel. Starr also covered the song and released it as a single, reaching number 74 on the U.S. Billboard (magazine) Hot 100 in February 1977.

A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll is also the title of a later book by Nancy Lee Andrews, a fashion model and photographer, who had previously been engaged to Ringo Starr, and whom she subsequently sued for palimony.[5]

References

Footnotes
  1. ↑ US Atlantic 45-3361[2]
  2. ↑ UK Polydor 2001 694[4]
Citations
  1. 1 2 Harry, Bill (2004). The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia. London: Virgin Books. p. 209. ISBN 978-0-7535-0843-5.
  2. 1 2 Harry, Bill (2004). The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia. London: Virgin Books. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-7535-0843-5.
  3. ↑
  4. 1 2 Harry, Bill (2004). The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia. London: Virgin Books. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-7535-0843-5.
  5. ↑ Andrews, Nancy Lee (2008). A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll. Dalton Watson Fine Books. ISBN 978-1-85443-230-8

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