(Vocal group, 1963–66) One Top 10 (‘Be My Baby’) and one Top 20 hit (‘Baby I Love You’) do not explain the enduring reputation of The Ronettes, a group of school friends mistaken for a singing act when they queued for entrance to a New York dance club in 1961. Sisters Veronica and Estelle Bennett, with cousin Nedra ...
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 Ike and Tina ...
His Wall of Sound brought them immortality in teen hits like ‘Da 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 ...
The definitive American punk rock group, The Ramones, were formed in 1974 in Forest Hills, New York, by high school friends Joey Ramone (born Jeffrey Hyman, 1951–2001), Johnny Ramone (born John Cummings, 1951–2004), Dee Dee Ramone (born Douglas Colvin, 1952–2002) and Tommy Ramone (born Tom Erdelyi, 29 January 1952). Gabba Gabba Hey They ...
It Bleed 1971 Sticky Fingers 1972 Exile On Main St. 1978 Some Girls 1981 Tattoo You 2005 A Bigger Bang Styles & Forms | Sixties | Rock Personalities | The Ronettes | Sixties | Rock ...
Claus Is Coming 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 ...
As the 1960s approached, the controversy associated with rock’n’roll was superseded by an array of inoffensive smoothies on both sides of the atlantic. However, the ongoing popularity of artists such as Elvis Presley, Bobby Darin, Ricky Nelson, Sam Cooke, and, in the UK, Lonnie Donegan, Billy Fury and Cliff Richard, ensured ...
Sonny Bono after listening to the final playback of ‘Da Doo Ron Ron’. Leading Exponents Bob B. Soxx & The Blue Jeans The Crystals Darlene Love The Righteous Brothers The Ronettes Ike & Tina Turner The Wall of Sound Style It’s hard to express all of the wall of sound in a small musical sample, but some of the key ...
Popular music’s most influential decade saw British and American rock develop in parallel, the creative torch passing across the Atlantic to The Beatles, then returning as the West Coast rock boom reflected the influence of drugs on music. In rock, guitar was now the undisputed focus of the music with ‘axe heroes’ like Clapton, Hendrix, Townshend ...
introducing more soulful influences to the group, and on 6 January they began their first UK tour of major importance, supporting the Phil Spector-helmed girl group, The Ronettes, on the Group Scene ’64 package tour. Spector himself joined in February to monitor the girls, and was annoyed that Mick and Keith fancied his lead Ronette and ...
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