https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJTjjAXDZSY

Hi Scott-
 
Loved it! Thanks for that. I was gonna say "Rain" and "Come Together" might be my two favorites, but then I started coming up with more and more others...  I'm glad Ringo's finally gotten/getting the respect he's so long deserved, because when I was growing up (I was at their 1965 concert at Shea Stadium!), the Beatles were huge, but he was sort of considered the "goofy" or "puppy dog" one or whatever and pretty much left out of the conversations about Lennon & McCartney's songwriting and Harrison's guitar work, so I think for a (long) while his contributions and musicianship were vastly under-rated.
 
Thanks again- 
 
-Susan

Heart warming...
Ringo was always my favourite. I named my secret diary after him :o)

But what are your favorite three Beatles songs that Ringo wrote? 

Three favorite? Gotta be Octopus's Garden, Octopus's Garden, Octopus's Garden; doesn't it?
Did he write anything else?
Favorite Beatle; Ringo!
Favorite drummer of the era? Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones.
Oh man, I wanted to BE Brian Jones; looked like the best job in rock.
But, you gotta love Ringo, the man just exudes "cool", right up there with Dino for that!
 
T

Thanks for that link, K. Before watching that I hadn't made the connection between "Rain" and "We are the Waiting". 

Thanks for that. I group up on the Beatles, but didn't appreciate how much Ringo's drumming meant to all those songs until I was much older. One of the great drummers for sure!
 

Hi,
 
I'm not sure that today's audiences would appreciate a lot of Ringo's drumming. He had as much touch as he had anything else, and he was not a metronomic, boring, drummer!

I remember a quip made by John in the studio (post Beatles) when he told the drummer "Play it like Ringo".
 
Nuff said.

bapu
I remember a quip made by John in the studio (post Beatles) when he told the drummer "Play it like Ringo".
 
Nuff said.

I remember another when he was asked if Ringo was the best drummer in the world...
 
(actually that may not have ever happened)