"Be My Baby" by the Ronettes - A groundbreaking masterpiece?

What are your thoughts?

By the time "Be My Baby" came out in August 1963, Phil Spector had already perfected his Wall of Sound with acts like the Crystals and Darlene Love--who were all better singers than the moderately gifted Ronnie Bennett (Spector).

Mind you, I'm not bad-mouthing the Ronettes, whose music I've long been a fan of. I simply meant to provide some context for my answer!

over and over and evemntually recorded "Don't Worry Baby" as a sort of homage. I personally prefer his song. You are right, Phil had worked on his style before - so groundbraking is probably inaccurate.

"I think I'm going out my Head" and "Tears on my pillow" by Little Anthony and the Imperials were groundbreaking music to my ears. That CD is always in my car. I'm a middle-aged white guy and 90% of my music collection is MOTOWN which is all good all the time. I can't listen to enough of it.

My favorite concert ever was at the Longbeach Arena about Xmastime '65 with an All-Star line-up I couldn't believe; The Jackson Five, Stevie Wonder, Little Anthony and the Imperials, The Four Tops, The Supremes, The Shirelles, The Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Martha & the Vandellas, the Marvelettes. There were others, but I have the CRS (can't remember shit) syndrome.

I would love to see MOTOWN come out with another run of music like they did in the '60s. It was an awesome time for tunes.

Since Stevie Wonder is MY FAVORITE musician (even more than Coltrene) I can't even believe what that show must have been like!!!

You are a new hero to me!!!!

for the night in downtown Longbeach. It was a sailor hangout amusement park. But I saw the concert sign at the Longbeach Arena when I got off the bus, and get this, I was able to buy a ticket at the door and go right inside. That would never happen nowadays.

I was so pumped up after that night of soul and R&B I couldn't sleep all night when I got back to the ship....the music just kept playing in my head for hours. I was pooped the next day. I couldn't have planned to go to a better concert. It was just groovy! :hippie:

and "First World War Noises" isn't half bad either.

The song Brian Wilson wrote for them as a sequel (that Phil Spector rejected!), 'Don't Worry Baby', blows that sucker right out of the water completely. Sort of a neat song, but the girls can't really sing and all those Phil Spector girl group songs wind up sounding rather similar after a while. :)