Ring My Bell

" Ring My Bell" is a 1979  disco song by  Anita Ward. It was originally written for then eleven-year-old  Stacy Lattisaw, as a teenybopper song about kids talking on the telephone [3] . When Lattisaw signed with a different label, Ward was asked to sing it instead, and it became her  only major hit. [4]  The song hit number one on the disco charts. [5]  "Ring My Bell" went to number one on both the  Billboard Hot 100, and soul singles chart. [6]  It also reached number one on the  UK Singles Chart. "Ring My Bell" has been  covered<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> by many artists since its original release, including  DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">,  Ann Lee<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">,  Tori Amos<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">, Blood Sisters,  Dynamic Duo<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">, D'Flow Production Squad,  Collette<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">,  Saïan Supa Crew<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">,  INOJ<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">,  Pato Fu<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">,  Joey Boy<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">,  Sxip Shirey<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">, and  Princess X<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> (a modern interpolation under the title " Gimme All (Ring My Bell)<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">"). It has also been remixed many times and is considered a disco-era classic.

==Instrumentation<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;direction:ltr;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left:-0.25em;margin-right:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);"> == <p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">The song is characterized by the sound of chimes and of the Synare electronic drum playing a decaying high-pitched tom tone. ==Charts performance<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;direction:ltr;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left:-0.25em;margin-right:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);"> == ==Uses in other media<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;direction:ltr;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left:-0.25em;margin-right:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);"> == <p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">The song was included in the films Playgirl (1981), A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996), The Waterboy (1998), Mystery Men (1999), Corky Romano (2001), Dahmer (2002), The Possible (2006), Are We Done Yet? (2007), and The Book of Eli (2010). It has been used in advertisements for Burger King (1997), Heinz baked beans (2008), Telus, and as part of a radio-station loop in the video games True Crime: New York City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The track is also featured as one of the songs in Just Dance (2009).