Ding-a-Ling

What does Ding a Ling mean to you?


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National Ding-a-Ling Day!

Ding-a-Lings on this day call the people they haven’t heard from in a while.  It may be an old classmate, co-worker or neighbor from years ago.  Or perhaps a call will go out to the child who used to mow the grass during the summer.  How about that couple who carpooled for soccer.  What was their name? There are all sorts of people in our lives who manage to slip out of our lives who would love to hear the ding-a-ling of a call from you or me.  Why don’t you join the Ding-a-ling club and call someone this year?

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History of Ding-a-Ling Day

In 1972, Franky Hyle placed a free ad in Chase’s Calendar of Events with his PO Box Number in Melrose Park, IL stating that for $1 you can join the National Ding-A-Ling club.  The club, with 871 original members, would call friends and relatives they haven’t heard from in awhile every year on December 12. In a 1975 Lakeland Ledger article, the idea for the club developed during a discussion among friends about people being friendlier and led to the meaning of the term ding-a-ling.  After looking up the word, they found it meant “One who hears bells in his head.”

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To me, ding dong is just something fun to talk about.

I asked Mr. Google what the meaning of ding dong, here is what he said:

ding-dong
/ˈdiNGdôNG/
noun: informal•North American: a silly or foolish person.

adverb: with the simple alternate chimes of a bell. "the church bells go ding-dong"

adjective:  1. resembling the simple alternate chimes of a bell. "he heard the ding-dong tones on the aircraft"
   2. informal•British:  (of a contest) evenly matched and hard fought. "the game was an exciting ding-dong battle"

There is even a song:


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Will you reach out to someone today?


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It is National Ding A Ling Day!


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Chuck Berry live My Ding a Ling


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Here's the song: