Disco was populated with a raft of dazzling one hit wonders, some were so splendiferous that they reached the pinnacle of the pop charts world wide and Anita Ward did just that. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee on December 20, 1956 and sang gospel for her church choir. Manager Chuck Holmes signed her as a client and first recorded her with the Rust College A Capella Choir that once backed legend Leontyne Price and then again as part of gospel quartet. She was also a substitute elementary teacher and left that behind when Frederick Knight got her signed to Juana Records, part of the TK Records family. The contract specified that three songs would be recorded, but Knight decided to record a full album with her. "Ring My Bell" was the last song recorded for her album but had been written a few years before by Knight. He wanted then teen singing sensation Stacy Lattisaw to record if she signed with Frederick's company, but she went with Cotillion, so the song went on the shelf. At the time the lyrics were "about a teenybopper type of song, about kids talking on the telephone" until Knight realized he needed one more song for Anita, then took it down, dusted it off and put new lyrics to the song that turned it into the suggestively sexy tune perfect for a woman to sing. It was recorded in two days with Knight playing all the percussion instruments adding in the synthesized drum sound of "boo" at the end to sweeten it up, making it one hit songs of the first to use it. That is Knight on background vocals with Valerie Williams and Cheryl Bundy who also did the same for Fern Kinney's "Groove Me". She was a true one hit wonder in the UK where she never placed another single. In the US, the definition of a one hit wonder includes the high charting hit and provided that the follow up song does not reach the Top 40. That is exactly what happened when "Don't Drop My Love" peaked at #87 on the Hot100 in December. Anita feels that her vocals were pitched way too high for that one and if they had been in a lower register that the song would have been more popular. On the charts, disco was in full control as the next #1 pop single was Donna Summer's "Bad Girls" that spent five weeks at #1 and was displaced by Chic's "Good Times" for the week ending August 18, 1979. The next #1 was The Knack's "My Sharona" that symbolically signalled the end of the disco juggernaut with the new wavish power pop tune spending six weeks at the top. Only two more disco songs topped the chart after that, "No More Tears" with Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand, then finally Lipps, Inc with "Funkytown". Gloria Gaynor says "that disco changed it's name to protect the innocent." In reality, disco never left, the old songs keep getting played in clubs and on this channel to help keep the history alive. I got to messing around with the beat and that synthesized drum to help set this version apart from the original, and then added tubular bells to the mix to make it funkier. This one took four years to complete, I hope that y'all like it.