Doo Ron Ron’ and ‘Then He kissed Me’. But pop is fickle: Spector soon moved on to The Ronettes, and soul fans to the girl groups of Motown. The Crystals disbanded in 1966. Styles & Forms | Sixties | Rock Personalities | Dick Dale | Sixties | Rock ...
as austere or coldly cerebral, his music was in fact inspired by nature, an attempt to use the discipline of serialism to parallel the perfection of the ice crystals and alpine flowers that he saw on his expeditions into the mountains. In many of his works, his preoccupation with economy, rigour and symmetry extends to the basic ...
principally to solo careers, though the four individuals reunited for Live Aid and a 1988 album, American Dream. Styles & Forms | Sixties | Rock Personalities | The Crystals | Sixties | Rock ...
(Vocals, 1943–2003) One of pop’s fairy tales. Eva Boyd was baby-sitting for Gerry Goffin and Carole King when they asked her to demo a new dance-craze song, ‘The Loco-Motion’. It was a 1962 worldwide No. 1, later covered by Kylie Minogue. Follow-up ‘Keep Your Hands Off My Baby’ also charted. The Crystals’ Goffin-King single ‘He Hit Me (And ...
had fantastically rich choral and orchestral layering (sometimes as many as 300 musicians) behind the vocals of the titular performers he worked with. Best remembered for his girl groups The Crystals and The Ronettes (who appear on his classic 1963 LP A Christmas Gift For You), he perfected his approach on The Righteous Brothers’ 1965 ‘You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’’ and ...
a New York dance club in 1961. Sisters Veronica and Estelle Bennett, with cousin Nedra Talley, became the club’s resident vocalists, and in 1963 they succeeded The Crystals as a vehicle for Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound. The Ronettes’ real legacy was to change for ever the performer-audience relationship, transforming the third-person musings of The Chiffons’ ‘He’s ...
To Town’ to ‘Silent Night’, Spector added a twist with his Wall of Sound recording techniques and an exciting roster of predominantly black pop singers including The Ronettes, The Crystals and Darlene Love. Popular material, symphonic orchestration and soulful vocals were combined to sublime effect. Spector’s Yuletide stock rose further in 1973 when he co-produced John Lennon and Yoko ...
who turned out hit after classic hit for artists such as The Shirelles, The Shangri-Las, The Chiffons, The Drifters, Little Eva, Connie Francis, The Crystals and The Ronettes; Phil Spector, whose slick, echo-bathed ‘Wall of Sound’ creations added an entirely new dimension to record production; the in-house roster of songwriters, producers and ...
of what Spector described as ‘little symphonies for the kiddies’ made him more famous than the semi-anonymous artists – for example, although she was not a member of The Crystals, Darlene Love filled in for their regular lead singer, La La Brooks, on the group’s US-chart-topping 1962 single, ‘He’s A Rebel’. Spector owned the band’s name ...
to it. Producers like Phil Spector and George Martin became celebrities in their own right thanks to their respective work with The Beatles and West Coast girl groups like The Crystals and The Ronettes. Of the various tribes that existed, the hippies and their ethos of ‘peace and love’ was the most widely reflected in music. Major festivals created a ...
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