Eighteen years ago Sunday in the big yellow barn on the grounds of Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum, the Ronettes’ “Be My Baby” played as Michael Long danced in
Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times
Even now, more than half a century after it came out, “Be My Baby” has the power to overwhelm.
One of the most intense pop records of all time, the Ronettes’ 1963 girl-group classic is a study in too-much: a quivering, trembling, throbbing little symphony pitched at su