Rewinding the Charts: In 1972, Chuck Berry Took His `Ding-a-Ling` to No. 1
(WorldNews Music)

CHUCK BERRY WROTE HIS most recognizable hits, but it was a cover — one full of double entendres about masturbation, no less — that shot the rock’n’roll legend to his first and only No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1972. Originally written and recorded by Dave Bartholomew in 1952, “My Ding-a-Ling� first...