"My Ding-a-Ling" was a 1972 novelty hit record for Chuck Berry, and his only U.S. number-one single on the pop charts. Later that year the song was on the album The London Chuck Berry Sessions.

The song titled "Little Girl Sing Ding-a-Ling" was recorded by Dave Bartholomew in 1952. In 1954, The Bees released a version entitled "Toy Bell." Berry recorded a version called "My Tambourine" in 1968, but the version which topped the charts was recorded live during the Lanchester Arts Festival at the Locarno ballroom in Coventry, England, on 3 February 1972, where Berry - backed by The Roy Young Band - topped a bill that also included Slade and Billy Preston. Boston radio station WMEX disc jockey, Jim Connors, was credited with a gold record for discovering the song and pushing it to #1 over the airwaves and amongst his peers in the United States.

The song tells of how the singer received two silver bells on a string from his grandmother, who calls them his ding-a-ling. According to the song, he plays with it in school, and holds on to it in dangerous situations like falling after climbing the garden wall, and swimming across a creek infested with snapping turtles. The lyrics consistently exercise the double entendrewith ding-a-lingstanding in for the penis. In the final verse, Berry admonishes "those of you who will not sing" and concludes that they "must be playing with [their] own ding-a-ling". Bartholomew has stated in interviews that the song was written as an allegory for the struggle for racial equality from the days of slavery to the Civil Rights movement.

The Average White Band members guitarist Onnie McIntyre and drummer Robbie McIntosh played on the single.

The lyrics with their sly tone and innuendo (and the enthusiasm of Berry and the audience) caused many radio stations to refuse to play it, and British morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse tried unsuccessfully to get the song banned. Moreover, pop critics generally dislike the song (especially the fact that it was Berry's sole #1 single in his career) and say that it is unworthy for someone who was so important in early rock 'n' roll (Alan Freeman once introduced the song by saying "oh Chuck baby, how could you!?!"). Nevertheless, Berry still likes it and on the recording calls it "our Alma Mater".

This controversy was lampooned in The Simpsonsepisode "Lisa's Pony", in which a Springfield Elementary School student attempted to sing the song during the school's talent show. He barely finished the first line of the refrain before an irate Principal Skinner rushed him off the stage.

The censorship of this song continues even today - in one case, for a re-run of American Top 40, some stations, such as WOGL in Philadelphia, replaced this song with an optional extra when it aired a rerun of a November 18, 1972 broadcast of AT40 (where it ranked at #14) on December 6, 2008. Among other stations, most Clear Channel-owned radio stations to whom the AT40 '70s rebroadcasts were contracted did not air the rebroadcast that same weekend, although it was because they were playing Christmas music and not because of the controversy. It should be noted that, even back in 1972, some stations would refuse to play this song on AT40, even when it reached number one.

Berry's resulting live album was named, The London Chuck Berry Sessions, even though London is more than 100 miles away from where the live tracks were recorded.