All 11 Beatles Songs With Ringo Starr on Lead Vocals, Ranked

Ringo Starr is often ignored or underappreciated, but his influence on The Beatles' sound is larger than a lot of people realize. Much like George Harrison, when the band first started, he stayed away from songwriting, since John Lennon and Paul McCartney had a monopoly over it. Harrison quickly started writing his own songs, but Starr was a late bloomer, but eventually, he also decided to try.

As all Beatles fans know, it was almost a rule to have Ringo Starr take the lead vocal on a song. There were very few albums that don't include a cover of a Beatles original sung by the drummer. And today, we're ranking all of them, from the early covers, to Starr-penned hits.
11 "Good Night" (1968)
10 "I Wanna Be Your Man" (1963)
9 "Matchbox" (1964)
8 "Honey Don’t" (1964)

Clearly, Ringo Starr's voice was great for Carl Perkins' covers. Another iconic track that Starr sang lead on for the band was "Honey Don't," a short and upbeat rockabilly track that Lennon used to sing before Starr joined, but that the drummer was clearly a better fit for. In addition to the album version included on Beatles for Sale, Starr also sang it for the On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2 compilation, and he sounds just as great live as he did in the studio.
7 "Act Naturally" (1965)
6 "What Goes On" (1965)
5 "Boys" (1963)

"Boys" is a great example of how unafraid The Beatles were to push boundaries. They were a revolutionary group in many ways, and the way they easily dismantled what was considered as music for women and music for men was one of them. In 1963, for their debut album, Please Please Me, they decided to do a cover of The Shirelles' 1960 track, "Boys," and it was a big hit. McCartney later spoke about their decision to do a song by an all-girl group: "It was a Shirelles hit, and there were girls singing it, but we never thought we should call it ‘Girls’, just because Ringo was a boy. We just sang it the way they’d sung it and never considered any implications." It really worked, and it was a great way to help dismantle stereotypes in the music industry.
4 "Yellow Submarine" (1966)

The ultimate Ringo Starr classic. "Yellow Submarine" was not, as people might think, first released on the 1968 Yellow Submarine album. Instead, it was a part of the 1966 masterpiece that was Revolver. It is, to this day, the most popular Starr song which makes sense, most likely thanks to the beautiful imagery and catchy chorus. And, of course, the fact that it was especially made for him. "'Yellow Submarine' is Paul's baby," Lennon explained. "I helped with the lyrics too. We virtually made the track come alive in the studio, but based on Paul's inspiration. Paul's idea. Paul's title... written for Ringo."

Source: collider.com/Val Barone

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