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The Voices Of Black Women Were Essential To Phil Spector's Wall Of Sound


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Darlene Love in 1964. Love was the uncredited singer on a handful of the biggest hits produced by Phil Spector during the era when he was making his Wall of Sound production technique famous.
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Phil Spector, who died on Saturday at the age of 81, has long been hailed as one of pop music s most influential producers, the man who created the wall of sound and gave us songs like He s a Rebel, Da Doo Ron Ron and Be My Baby. As an African American woman who loves listening to these rock and roll classics, I usually find myself focusing on the voices of the African American women who collaborated with Spector on these and other iconic recordings and thinking about the often harrowing stories they have told about working with him. Starti ....

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