This is from about ten years ago on this site…
In late 1964, Lorne Greene was not only the star of the biggest hit show on TV — Bonanza — but he also had a surprising hit record. It was called "Ringo" and apart from perhaps poaching on the guy's name, it had nothing to do with the drummer for The Beatles. It was one of those talking/singing western ballad tunes and they sold an awful lot of them. If you don't know the song, it has been (like everything else that ever existed) uploaded to YouTube.
At the time, Hanna-Barbera had a record label and someone got the idea to have Huckleberry Hound record a parody that would be about Ringo Starr. This is it with the great Daws Butler performing the vocal. The flip side was also Daws as Huck. It was "Clementine," which we offered you back in this link.
I don't believe they sold a lot of copies of this. I was a huge Hanna-Barbera fan and I don't think I even saw this at the time. But here's "Bingo Ringo"…
Also, while we're speaking of Daws: The other day on Dan Shahin's fine webcast, I mentioned that Daws had recorded a couple of messages for my answering machine. This was back when we all had answering machines instead of voicemail, and everyone tried to outdo everyone else with a fancy or funny outgoing message. A couple of folks wrote to ask about mine so here are the two that Daws did for me…