Holmes became her manager and quickly got to work trying to secure a record deal for his new act, but as you can imagine the story of a manager promising you a big break in the music industry and giving the usual “I’m going to make you a star” speech is one that we’ve all heard once too often. While auditioning for a musical play (Godspell) she caught the attention of Chuck Holmes an administrator at the college who also happened to dabble in music on the side. It wasn’t until she attended college (Rust College) where she saw the potential to pursue music as a career and began training to perfect her craft. It was apparent from an early age that Anita had a passion for singing and like most black artists of that time, began her musical journey singing gospel in churches. There wasn’t another one, but before we get into that, let’s find out about/celebrate the one that she did have!Īnita Ward was born in 1957 in Memphis Tennessee into a family of music lovers, her mother and father, Juanita and James, both used to sing and her brother was a drummer. I thought “Hmmmmmmmm one hit song? That can’t be right, ‘Ring My Bell’ came out in the late 70’s, she must’ve had another one, that song’s too good for her not to have at least stumbled on across another one”. If I made money from these posts he’d probably be entitled to some kind of cheque, but I don’t, so he won’t be getting anything apart from my never-ending respect and gratitude for his contributions to our culture and that’s worth more than any dollar amount (let’s hope he fell for that).ĭuring the interview he raised a really interesting point about pressurised nature of comedy and existence being akin to a shark in the ocean – either keep swimming and pushing out put new material or stop and cease to exist – but what stood out to me the most were the words “Comedy’s not like music, there’s no such thing as a ‘one-hit wonder’ with comedy you can do one song, you can Ring My Bell “Anita Ward”, she can still travel, she can still do concerts”.
Anita ward ring my bell meaning series#
Those of you who have been following the “Before Bluetooth” series closely since it’s introductory post, will be aware that the fabled origins of this legendary series date back as far as six days ago, but the seeds for this particular post were planted much much earlier courtesy of a 2015 Breakfast Club Interview with Damon Wayans.
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