"Ding Dang" is a short song, consisting of a single verse and chorus, that Wilson wrote with 

the
Byrds' Roger McGuinn in the early 1970s.[2] McGuinn recalled that Wilson had one day visited his
home asking for amphetamines. After they worked together on the song, McGuinn went to bed. The
next morning, he found that Wilson was still awake playing "Ding Dang" on the piano. Only one lyric
was ever written: "I love a girl and I love her so madly / I treat her so fine but she treats me so
badly".[3]
Wilson offered a slightly different account, saying that he "didn't stay all night" at McGuinn's house.
[4]
 Al Jardine surmised that Wilson's longtime obsession with the folk standard "Shortenin' Bread"
may have originated from this impromptu writing session for "Ding Dang". [5] Music journalist Brian
Chidester reported that "the basic 1-to-4-up bassline ... seems to have endlessly percolated in
Wilson’s head throughout 1974-75 on versions of 'Ding Dang' and 'Short'nin Bread' too numerous to
count."[6]
In July 1975, NME journalist Nick Kent wrote, "Carl Wilson was able to give me some actual titles to
new Brian Wilson songs recorded for the next Warner/Reprise album", one of which included "a
track entitled 'Rollin’ Up to Heaven' which had originally been called 'Ding Dang' – a number that
Brian had wanted Annette Funicello to record."[7]