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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Template:Infobox single"Ding Dong, Ding Dong" is a song by English musician George Harrison, written 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. The production incorporates aspects of Phil Spector's classic Wall of Sound Christmas recordings of 1963. In addition, some Harrison biographers view "Ding Dong" as an attempt by him 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". Harrison's song became only a minor hit in Britain and the United States, although it was a top-twenty hit elsewhere in the world.Harrison took the lyrics to "Ding Dong" – most of which were reproduced on the single's picture sleeve – from inscriptions he found at his nineteenth-century home, Friar Park, in Oxfordshire. Some commentators interpret the "Ring out the old, ring in the new" refrain as Harrison farewelling his first marriage, to Pattie Boyd, and the song is also viewed as an example of the singer further distancing himself from his past as a member of the Beatles. As on much of the Dark Horse album, Harrison's vocals on the track were hampered by a worsening throat condition, due partly to his having overextended himself on business projects such as his recently launched record label, Dark Horse Records. Other musicians on the recording include Tom Scott, Ringo Starr, Alvin Lee, Ron Wood and Jim Keltner.On release, the song met with an unfavourable response from many music critics, while other reviewers considered its musical and lyrical simplicity to be a positive factor for a contemporary pop hit. For the first time for one of his singles, Harrison made a promotional video for "Ding Dong", which features scenes of him miming to the song at Friar Park while dressed in a variety of Beatle-themed costumes. The song still receives occasional airplay over the holiday season. The video appears on the DVD in Harrison's eight-disc Apple Years 1968–75 box set, released in September 2014."@en }

• Q2668517 abstract "Template:Infobox single"Ding Dong, Ding Dong" is a song by English musician George Harrison, written 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. The production incorporates aspects of Phil Spector's classic Wall of Sound Christmas recordings of 1963. In addition, some Harrison biographers view "Ding Dong" as an attempt by him 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". Harrison's song became only a minor hit in Britain and the United States, although it was a top-twenty hit elsewhere in the world.Harrison took the lyrics to "Ding Dong" – most of which were reproduced on the single's picture sleeve – from inscriptions he found at his nineteenth-century home, Friar Park, in Oxfordshire. Some commentators interpret the "Ring out the old, ring in the new" refrain as Harrison farewelling his first marriage, to Pattie Boyd, and the song is also viewed as an example of the singer further distancing himself from his past as a member of the Beatles. As on much of the Dark Horse album, Harrison's vocals on the track were hampered by a worsening throat condition, due partly to his having overextended himself on business projects such as his recently launched record label, Dark Horse Records. Other musicians on the recording include Tom Scott, Ringo Starr, Alvin Lee, Ron Wood and Jim Keltner.On release, the song met with an unfavourable response from many music critics, while other reviewers considered its musical and lyrical simplicity to be a positive factor for a contemporary pop hit. For the first time for one of his singles, Harrison made a promotional video for "Ding Dong", which features scenes of him miming to the song at Friar Park while dressed in a variety of Beatle-themed costumes. The song still receives occasional airplay over the holiday season. The video appears on the DVD in Harrison's eight-disc Apple Years 1968–75 box set, released in September 2014.".