It was in the Top 10 in Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, and South Africa. It went to #1 in Canada, the U.K., New Zealand, Norway, and Spain. Billboard’s Hot 100, Hot Disco Singles, and Hot Soul Singles, as well as #1 in Cash Box and Record World. It became her biggest hit.Īnd what an international hit it was! In 1979, “Ring My Bell,” went to #1 in the U.S.

She did not really like the song, the story goes. And this did not cause any issues in the 1970s. Although the lyrics are clean, with a lovely grown woman singing them, they became sexually suggestive. However, Lattisaw signed with a different label, and Knight asked Anita Ward to sing it. It was written originally as a teenybopper song about kids talking on the phone for 11-year-old Stacy Lattisaw. The song was written by singer/songwriter Frederick Knight, and he also produced the record.

Whether he rings her chimes or rings her bell, we suspect that the lady wants an encounter of the intimate kind.

Anita ward ring my bell lyrics