Video: 'You're Sixteen (You’re Beautiful And You’re Mine)'

(Monday, December 3, 1973) — Former Beatle Ringo Starr released “You’re Sixteen“/”Devil Woman” in the U.S. today, the second single from his first solo rock music album Ringo (released in the UK on Feb. 8, 1974).

The performance reunited Starr with his former Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney.

Although McCartney is credited on the liner notes of the album Ringo as having played the solo on a kazoo, reviewer Michael Verity has quoted the song’s producer Richard Perry as revealing that it wasn’t actually a kazoo: “In fact, the solo on ‘You’re Sixteen,’ which sounds like a kazoo or something, was Paul singing very spontaneously as we played that track back, so he’s singing the solo on that.”

Video: 'Devil Woman'

Harry Nilsson sang backing vocals on Starr’s version; Nicky Hopkins is heard playing the piano, including going up and down the scale in the instrumental fade of the song.

The ending featured Starr singing the chorus from Clarence “Frogman” Henry’s hit song “(I Don’t Know Why) But I Do” before breaking into a chorus of “What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor?” at the fade.