"Ringo the 4th" by Ringo Starr – **

First released: 1977

You know, Ringo could have salvaged this failure with a little creative marketing. First of all, if he released "Can She Do It Like She Dances" and "Out On the Streets" as singles, it would have felt like a stronger album. Otherwise, there’s not much you could do with this. Amazingly, Lennon and Ono’s “noise” albums from the late 1960s actually charted better than this! Equally amazing is that Ringo would produce much, much better albums than this in the 1990s and 2000s that wouldn’t chart. The song "Just a Dream" should have been added to the CD reissue to give it a little sales oomph, but I guess a quick release (and eventual withdrawal) was enough for Atlantic. The best part of the album is the inner sleeve photo of Ringo with a cigarette in his ear.