Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr albums. All the tracks from Ringo's first compilation "Blast From Your Past" appeared on "Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr". The compilation debuted at number 26 on the UK Albums Chart on 2 September 2007. This achievement represented Starr's highest peak on that chart since 1974, when "Goodnight Vienna" reached number 30. "Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr" stayed in the UK top 100 for three weeks. The album also had a two-week chart run in the United States, where it debuted at number 130 with 5,426 copies sold during the first week of release. The track listing
Ringo Beat Ringo Beat Ringo Beat is a 1965 novelty single written and recorded by Ella Fitzgerald. It was inspired by the popularity of Ringo Starr, the drummer of The Beatles. Fitzgerald had described the rock drumming style of her 16-year-old son, Ray Brown, Jr. as the "Ringo beat...cause that's where it all started". The guitarist Barney Kessel also appears on the song. The "Billboard" magazine review from December 12, 1964 commented that "Swinging' Fitzgerald takes off on that all too famous beat. Great opportunity for the WNEW's to recognize the Beatles". Fitzgerald had complained in a November 1965 interview for "Downbeat"