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 Christmas Everyday“. The song became only a minor hit in Britain and the United States, although it was a top-twenty hit elsewhere in the world. In the Netherlands it hit no 9 in the Dutch Top 40. By the way: The Dutch Top 10 year end 1974: (check this channel: almost all these songs are featured on this TopPop channel!!) 1. Billy Swan - I Can Help 2. The Rubettes - Jukebox Jive 3. Queen - Killer Queen 4. Donna Summer - Lady Of The Night 5. Nana Mouskouri - The Three Bells (Les Trois Cloches) 6. Percy Sledge - My Special Prayer 7. Labelle - Voulez Vous Coucher Avec Moi Ce Soir? (Lady Marmalade) 8. Mud - Lonely This Christmas 9. George Harrison - Ding Dong 10. Barry White - You’re The First, The Last, My Everything This video was broadcast on Toppop in the episode of 20 December 1974. Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ Broadcast date: 20 December 1974 This is to let you know that the video recording of the video clip was originally recorded by AVROTROS Broadcasting. AVROTROS Broadcasting hereby warrants and represents that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the physical film and/or videotape footage in this video clip. The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives. AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988. AVROTROS Broadcasting PO Box 2 1200 JA Hilversum The Netherlands TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years. World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons with Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Queen, Golden Earring, Boney M, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chic, Donna Summer and many many more.