John Lennon / Ringo Starr - Verses (1975)

 

Side A:
1. Going Down on Love
2. Whatever Gets You Thru the Night
3. What You Got
4. #9 Dream
5. Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out)

Side B:
6. (It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna
7. Oo-Wee
8. Snookeroo
9. All By Myself
10. No-No Song
11. Only You (And You Alone)
Bonus Track - John and Ringo Advertise Their Albums

This might sound crazy but I remember reading about a supposedly lost John/Ringo collaboration album that was supposed to come out in 1975 called Verses. I tried looking up info about it but I couldn't find anything, but I swear it was something I read online and not something I made up. Because of that, all info about this album is fictional, but it consists of the best tracks from John's Walls and Bridges album and Ringo's Goodnight Vienna album from 1974. The only question I couldn't answer was why would it have been put together?

Both albums were recorded in the summer of 1974 and released in the fall of that year, but both artists also put out compilation albums in the fall of 1975, John's Shaved Fish album and Ringo's Blast From Your Past album. It was said that after John had released Rock 'n' Roll in 1975, he planned on releasing another album that year of all new material, but when Yoko got pregnant with Sean, he had to stop recording all new music for about 5 years. 

Giving us a timeline of about March to October 1975, I think the album would've come out in the summer, in August about a year after all the tracks were recorded. Though if you were a Ringo fan who was excited about Goodnight Vienna coming out in November 1974, you would've had to wait a year before you could listen to songs by Ringo you would've already heard. So again the question is why would it have been put together? 

When I was trying to find a cover I could use for this, I found a pic of them claiming to be from 1975, but upon further research it was more likely that it was taken in 1976. I found out though that they probably had the best relationship between any two Beatles after their break-up, so I think it would've been John's idea to put it out to help promote Ringo's album. I also found out that Ringo recorded a voiceover for a TV commercial promoting John's album and John recorded a voiceover for a TV commercial promoting Ringo's album. Also John wrote the titular track for Ringo to record. The final cover I went with was something simplistic I put together using White Album-era photos. I included both of the advertisements as a bonus track but it's only 1:30 long.