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Before signing a recording contract, Ward obtained a degree in psychology from Rust College in Holly
Springs, Mississippi, and had become a schoolteacher. While recording her debut album, record label owner
Frederick Knight presented her with a song he had written the previous year for Stacy Lattisaw. Ward did not
like the song, but Knight insisted that a dance track was needed to capitalize on the current disco trend, and
Ward relented. The song, which was originally a juvenile targeted tune about teens talking on the telephone,
was rewritten with more 'adult' lyrics, and the result was the single "Ring My Bell". The single reached number
one in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom in 1979.[2] Disputes with Frederick Knight, a car
accident, and the fading appeal of disco music halted Ward's career, and she came to be regarded as a
one-hit wonder. Only one other single of hers made the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the U.S., "Don't Drop My
Love," which halted at #87.
Springs, Mississippi, and had become a schoolteacher. While recording her debut album, record label owner
Frederick Knight presented her with a song he had written the previous year for Stacy Lattisaw. Ward did not
like the song, but Knight insisted that a dance track was needed to capitalize on the current disco trend, and
Ward relented. The song, which was originally a juvenile targeted tune about teens talking on the telephone,
was rewritten with more 'adult' lyrics, and the result was the single "Ring My Bell". The single reached number
one in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom in 1979.[2] Disputes with Frederick Knight, a car
accident, and the fading appeal of disco music halted Ward's career, and she came to be regarded as a
one-hit wonder. Only one other single of hers made the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the U.S., "Don't Drop My
Love," which halted at #87.
| Anita Ward "Ring My Bell" |