Album: Songs Of Love (1979)

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• I'm glad you're home
  Now, did you really miss me?
  I guess
  You did by the look in your eyes
  Look in your eyes, look in your eyes
  Well, lay back and relax
  While I put away the dishes
  Put away the dishes
  Then you and me
  Can rock-a-bye
  
  You can ring my bell, ring my bell
  You can ring my bell, ring my bell
  You can ring my bell, ring my bell
  You can ring my bell, ring my bell
  
  The night is young
  And full of possibilities
  Well, come on
  And let yourself be free
  My love for you (love for you, love for you)
  So long I've been saving
  Tonight was made
  For me and you
  
  You can ring my bell, ring my bell
  Ring my bell, ding-dong-ding, ah
  You can ring my bell, ring my bell
  Ring my bell, ring-a-ling-a-ling
  You can ring my bell, ring my bell
  Ring my bell, ding-dong-ding, ah
  You can ring my bell, ring my bell
  Ring my bell, ring-a-ling-a-ling
  
  You can ring my bell
  You can ring my bell
  Ding-dong-ding, ah! Ring it
  You can ring my bell
  Anytime, anywhere
  Ring it, ring it
  Ring it, ring it, ah
  You can ring my bell
  You can ring my bell
  Ding-dong-ding, ah! Ring it
  You can ring my bell
  Anytime, anywhere
  Ring it, ring it
  Ring it, ring it, ah
  
  You can ring my bell, ring my bell
  Ring my bell, ding-dong-ding, ah
  You can ring my bell, ring my bell
  Ring my bell, ring-a-ling-a-ling
  You can ring my bell, ring my bell
  Ring my bell, ding-dong-ding, ah
  You can ring my bell, ring my bell
  Ring my bell, ring-a-ling-a-ling
  
  You can ring my bell
  You can ring my bell
  Ding-dong-ding, ah! Ring it
  You can ring my bell
  Anytime, anywhere
  Ring it, ring it
  Ring it, ring it, ah
  You can ring my bell
  You can ring my bell
  Ding-dong-ding, ah! Ring it
  You can ring my bell
  Anytime, anywhere
  Ring it, ring it
  Ring it, ring it, ah
  
  Bell, ring my bell
  Ring my bell, ding-dong-ding, ah
  Bell, ring my bell
  Ring my bell, ring-a-ling-a-ling
  Bell, ring my bell
  Ring my bell, ding-dong-ding, ah
  Bell, ring my bell
  Ring my bell, ring-a-ling-a-ling
  
  Bell, ring my bell
  Bell, ring my bell
  Bell, ring my bell
  Ring my bell, ding-dong-ding, ah
  Bell, ring my bell
  Ring my bell, ring-a-ling-a-ling
  Bell, ring my bell
  Bell, ring my bell
  Bell, ring my bell
  Ring my bell, ding-dong-ding, ah
  Bell, ring my bell
  Ring my bell, ring-a-ling-a-ling Writer/s: Frederick Douglas Knight
  Publisher: Missing Link Music, Peermusic Publishing
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 21

• Wally AudioThe song is used strongly in "Poker Face" S2 E2.
• Dylan Stables from San FranciscoI grew up a underprivileged kid from the projects n would like to use it in a rap song.
• Ps from DeClean! Wholesome! God's gift to her people! Mother nature. Off with the prudes, they are just NOT with it.
• Cheryl Bundy from UsaI wrote and sung the background to Ring My Bell
• Aj Anderson from Las Vegas, NevadaI am an Audio Tech Engineer. And no one has ever mentioned a minor technical error within the recording tracks of this song. At the very beginning of the song (Ring My Bell) there is something called Audio Print-Through. You can easily hear it during the quiet passages of the song.
  
  Audio Print-Through is a generally undesirable effect that arises in the use of audio magnetic tape for storing analog information, in particular music, caused by contact transfer of the magnetic signal patterns from one layer of studio audio magnetic tape to another part of the same audio tape as it sits wound concentrically on a reel over a period of time. This happened a lot during the 40’s through the 80’s in many studio audio tapes. Now, digital audio technology has completely eliminated it.
  
  Oh well - Ring My Bell is still a great song.
• Whitecrow from Northern WyThere is something more; something we are missing about this song, something deeper. The movie The Book of Eli, and the movie Cell both play this song nearly in its entirety, and just before major death counts take place. ( I just saw a bitchute vid. of a man going into a pharmacy to find out about the ingredients in the death jab. As he was leaving Ring My Bell is coincidentally (which literally means co in spirit) playing in the pharmacy as he left.)
  When they make many movies, especially "last days" theme, they are heavily laced with what is called predictive programming, or lesser magic. These often tell us their plans for the future, and 'they' get power from that, or perhaps a type of permission. If a song is chosen, or key phrases are repeated over and over in a movie there is a reason. Nothing is random. The question is, why this song? It is a disturbingly odd choice of musical accompaniment for the last days.
  For the asleep it is just a song, no less, no more. Even if you don't desire to fall down the rabbit hole, it is a curious choice. Your thoughts?
  "The hook was the synthesized drum of Frederick Knight, which produced a sound that became copied by many other disco records." Interesting line from Songfacts in the article above. What are we really receiving submerged in contemporary music?
• Michael São P. from New York, NyI remember at 4 (Still do) hating every time “Ring My Bell” came on. Also read somewhere that MJ’s (Thriller) was inspired by the song!
• Avillagomez from Naples"Ring my Bell" is a metaphor for cunninlingus, which is the oral stimulation of the vulva or clitoris. The clitoris is the most sexually sensitive part of the human female genitalia, and its stimulation may result in a woman becoming sexually aroused or achieving orgasm.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunnilingus
  While recording her debut album, record label owner Frederick Knight presented her with a song he had written the previous year for Stacy Lattisaw. Ward did not like the song, but Knight insisted that a dance track was needed to capitalize on the current disco trend, and Ward relented. The song, which was originally a juvenile-targeted tune about teens talking on the telephone, was rewritten with more 'adult' lyrics.
• Babbling Babette from Tulsa OkAnita Ward had a wide vocal range & made this song come alive. When the song was very very new & had just been released in 1979, me & my sister loved it on the radio. We'd listen to the lyrics & realized it was about a young married couple having sex & the girl wants her man give her so much sex that she has an orgasm. Well, that really sparked our interests, until our Dad heard the song on the radio too. When we bought the single 45 rpm later, he hit the roof! He grabbed the record one night off Roxy's turntable & threw it outside into the dog's kennel! We got a good scolding about it. But we snuck around (or is it sneeked) & bought another record. haaa! We loved the record and the beat. It got to #1, but we never heard from Ms. Ward ever again. The Disco Era finally faded away. What memories!
  
• Rotunda from Tulsa, OkWow! Back in '79 I was working at a record store in a huge mall when this song hit #1. Honestly, I came to hate this song after a few weeks! Guys would ring the bell on our front counter and say "you can ring mah bell!" In teenage boys it's obnoxious! It's no wonder this woman never had another hit. This song mustive ruined her career, even though it was a huge hit. Her voice was so tinny-sounding and just too sharp for my ears.
• Larry from Coral Springs, FlI could never stand listening to this song.
• Rich from Corning, ArWhen this song came out, I was a dj at a small am radio station in northeast arkansas, we were told that Ms Ward was a Memphis schoolteacher when she released this song. If that was true or not we didnt know but we said it anyway. Our am station was only 1000 watts so its not like we were going nationwide , KCCB Corning Ar
• Paul from Washington Dc, DcAmazingly, I don't recall anyone at school poking fun at this song. I mean, even the jocks and freaks who hated disco got a kick out of it.
• Mike from Matawan, Nj"Clean"? "Amazingly wholesome"??? This song is about a female asking her b/f to help her to reach orgasm!" They're married, so in the eyes of the Lord, all is groovey.
• Splat from Austin, TxThe bass guitar is the best part of this song. Absolutely brilliant. Plus, the percussion sounds so real that it's hard to imagine that it's a drum machine. Good work, Frederick K. and Anita W. (and the guitarists and bass player).
• Martin from London, England"Clean"? "Amazingly wholesome"??? This song is about a female asking her b/f to help her to reach orgasm!
• Reinjan from Groningen, NetherlandsAlso covered by The Blood Sisters (Reggae), ending up in the Grand Theft Auto San Andreas Soundstrack, Ann Lee, DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, Tori Amos, Dynamic Duo, D'Flow Production Squad, Collette, Saïan Supa Crew, INOJ, Pato Fu and Joey Boy
• Andrew from Birmingham, United StatesFor some reason, Anita Ward sounds like a southern opera star in this song - like a southern version of Petula Clark. Why is that? That doesn't sound much like the others that made their disco hits. Anyway, this song is pretty good; it's CLEAN! Thank you, Anita! You seem to be one of a few. God bless Anita Ward!!
• Mark from Lancaster, OhMarvelous song. No, it's not about drugs, and they're a married couple, at home. Amazingly wholesome for the times.
• Annabelle from Eugene, OrWhen I first heard part of this song, after she said, "While I put away the dishes", in the next line, I could've sworn she said something like, "Then you and me, can Rock a Bye". Wouldn't that make more sense? Since Rock a bye actually rhymes with the line, "I guess you did, by the look in your eye."
• Bobbie from Central, NmWOW! Do you mean that this aint about drugs? LOL

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