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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. ABC Photo Archives/Walt Disney Television via Getty
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. Starting with Darlene Love
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Listening to Phil Spector: A three-minute thrill ride, then a reckoning with evil [Los Angeles Times :: BC-MUS-SPECTOR-LISTENING:LA]
LOS ANGELES Pick a classic Phil Spector production. It actually doesn’t matter which. The opening eight bars of the Ronettes’ 1963 smash “Be My Baby” are among the catchiest in American song, a thump, thump-thump, splash rhythm that rockets into outer space with sizzling shakers and snares that boom like shotguns. When Ronnie Spector’s soaring voice swoops in to steal the thunder, the combined eruption is undeniably thrilling.
Or take “Strange Love,” the Darlene Love-propelled gem that opens with a frolicking schoolyard melody before turning into a galloping riot of string- and percussion-driven weirdness as Love sings of a creeper whose brand of affection is so concerning that she “can’t take it, can’t take it no more.” The entirety of “A Christmas Gift to You,” Spector’s canonic holiday alb
Although he abused and exploit them, Phil Spector's legacy will forever be tied to and dependent on that of Rock & Roll Hall of Fammers Ronnie Spector and Darlene Love.
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