![]() ![]() It's one of the greatest moments in music history. The best songs are the ones with a familiar 1960s feel to it. The just-so backing vocals (again from Darlene Love, Sonny and Cher rather than Estelle and Nedra).Īnd of course that bit on two minutes and five seconds where all the music drops out except the drums. In May 2006, Ronnie Spector released her new record The Last Of The Rock Stars, her first solo album in 17 years. Guitar solos, Ramones song, Ronnies s not a winning mixture. The ultimate Wall of Sound full orchestra production. There's that often-imitated but never bettered opening Hal Blaine drum phrase (dum, dum-dum, DAH!). It was The Ronettes' biggest hit, reaching number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 (kept off the top for three weeks by Jimmy Gilmer And The Fireballs's 'Sugar Shack'). Craig Spector / Outposts / CD Professionally Duplicated CD / Rock / 192914572817. Spector kept her locked up as a prisoner in his mansion for years, confiscating her shoes and surrounding the house with barbed wire and guard dogs so she couldnt leave. It opens films as different as Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets and Emile Ardolino's Dirty Dancing. Ronnie claims to have endured extreme levels of abuse and psychological torment from Spector during their marriage. Brian Wilson says so, and we're not arguing with Brian Wilson. Written (of course) by the incredible team of Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, and Phil Spector, it's rightly hailed as one of the greatest (if not the very greatest) pop singles of all time. What can possibly we say about 'Be My Baby' that hasn't been said already?
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