𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐬 - 𝐁𝐄 𝐌𝐘 𝐁𝐀𝐁𝐘 - 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 @ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐛

𝗜𝗻 𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆: 𝗥𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 - [𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐧 as 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗬𝘃𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘁: 𝐀𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝐭 𝟭𝟬, 𝟏𝟗𝟒𝟑 in 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐦 (𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲) - Died: ☨ 𝐉𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝐲 𝟭𝟮, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮 in 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐲, Fairfield County - 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐭] - 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗿𝘆, 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗷𝗼𝘆𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 - 𝗥𝗜𝗣

Be My Baby - Live singing performance by The Ronettes
GoGo dancers choreography: Ward Ellis & Teri Robinson
Date: November 29th, 1965; AIP film recording for The Big T.N.T. Show
Place: The Moulin Rouge Club in Los Angeles, California. In December 1965 it became The Hullabaloo club. See photo: https://calisphere.org/item/d737dee5d...

"Be My Baby" was written by Jeff Barry (born as Joel Adelberg; April 3, 1938), Ellie Greenwich (Oct. 23, 1940 – Aug. 26, 2009) and Phil Spector (New York, 26 December 1939 – Stockton (California), 16 January 2021). It was recorded on July 5, 1963 at Gold Star Studios Hollywood, LA.

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. Those drums (boom-ba-boom) at the start, immortalized by drummer † Hal Blaine (5 februari 1929, Holyoke, Massachusetts - † 11 maart 2019, Palm Desert, California), 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.”