Wringing Applause is the debut studio album by Scottish musician BA Robertson, released in July 1973 by Ardent Records.

[3] The album often features theatrical elements, both in musical arrangement and in the lyrical contents, and was described as a "song cycle" or a "rock opera" about performers, by varying outlets.

[1][5] The album attracted considerable attention at the time,[6] with one review from Cashbox magazine comparing Robertson's musicianship to that of David Bowie's and proclaiming it "a delightful journey".

In Robertson's home country Scotland, and the United Kingdom, the album was written off as "a massively overblown soft rock extravaganza with pretentions to operatic grandeur", as David Hepworth wrote for Smash Hits magazine.

In a retrospective review from Isthmus, Bob Koch highlights Robertson's "wry, sideways sense of humor" as his strongest characteristic in the album, comparing it to that of Randy Newman's.