George Harrison - Ding Dong, Ding Dong (1974) • TopPop

This is a ballet version of Robert Kaessen Dancers to George Harrison’s hit ’Ding Dong’. This is the way the producers of the tv-program visualised the hits when the artists were not availble in the topPop studio... This is a typical 1970’s way of presenting hits by unavailable artists. “Ding Dong, Ding Dong“ was written by George 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 and some other European countries, and the second single, after “Dark Horse“, in North America. A large-scale production, the song incorporates aspects of Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound technique, particularly his Christmas recordings from 1963. In addition, some Harrison biographers view “Ding Dong“ as an attempt to emulate the success of two glam rock anthems from the 1973–74 holiday season: “Merry Xmas Everybody“ by Slade, and Wizzard’s “I Wish It Could Be