The Ronettes - Be My Baby (Live at the Brooklyn Fox 1964)
So, so fine The Ronettes...I got the album that day.
The Ronettes - BE MY BABY - live @ Moulin Rouge Club
Here they are live...
They were all so fine, but I had my first baby (12yo) butch
crush on Ronnie...smiling...Greco
Be My Baby - Live singing performance by The Ronettes
GoGo dancers choreography: Ward Ellis & Teri Robinson
Date: November 29, 1965
Place: at the Moulin Rouge Club in Los Angeles, California.
Photo:
https://calisphere.org/item/4a1793eb8...
The song’s innocence, sweetness and angst is part of the
song’s sustained power.
At its heart, “Be My Baby” is as much about power
and control as it is about romance.
Today “Be My Baby” is as ubiquitous as a pop classic
gets with its plinking pianos and castanets, its
echo-chambered double vocals and massive drums. T
hose drums (boom-ba-boom) at the start, immortalized
by drummer Hal Blaine (5 februari 1929), are a harbinger
of something exciting is going to happen.
Then suddenly it’s magic when the words are sung.
And when the song is over there is this lingering believe
of a happy ending: “he came around, and they hooked up”….
The song has been covered by everyone from John Lennon to
Maroon 5. It’s been honored by the Library of Congress and
inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. The group recorded
the song in Los Angeles at Gold Star Studios and was released
August 1963.
Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys once said: “It’s the greatest record
ever produced. No one will ever top that one.”
“I was driving and I had to pull over to the side of the road — it blew
my mind; “It was a shock.”
Wilson estimates that he’s heard “Be My Baby,” by the Ronettes, more
than 1,000 times. Just 21 and already frustrated with his band’s
basic surf music, he bought the single and set about deconstructing
its arrangement and production.
Wilson: “I started analyzing all the guitars, pianos, bass, drums
and percussion,” he said by telephone. “Once I got all those
learned, I knew how to produce records.”