Fact #177528
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Short story:
The Ronettes make their debut on the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA with the Phil Spector production Be My Baby, which will peak at No2.
Full article:
Brian Wilson (Beach Boys) : I was in my car with my girlfriend and we were driving around ... When all of a sudden this guy Wink Martindale - a disc jockey - he goes, "All right! Here we go with 'Be My Baby' by the Ronettes." It started playing ... All of a sudden it got into this part - "be my, be my baby" - and I said, "What is - what?! Whoa whoa!" I pulled over to the side of the street of the curb and went, "... My God! ... Wait a minute! ... No way!" I was flipping out. I really did flip out. Balls-out totally freaked out when I heard. ... In a way it wasn't like having your mind blown, it was like having your mind revamped. It's like, once you've heard that record, you're a fan forever.
(Source : interview on YouTube)
Brian Wilson(Beach Boys) : Phil Spector was probably the biggest influence of all. Be My Baby, which has one of the most straight-ahead rhythms I've ever heard in my life, had a feeling about it that made me want to create something good. That's where I learned how to produce records. Anybody with a good ear can hear that I was influenced by Spector. I would listen to his records and pick up ideas. I'd try to work out how much echo he was using on particular instruments, and how did he achieve that particular sound. My song Please Let Me Wonder came from listening to a Spector track called Walking In the Rain.
I was lucky to be able to meet him several times. I found him very easy to talk to. We worked together in 1965 on a song called Don't Hurt My Little Sister that The Beach Boys did. He cut a track for it, and he asked me to come down to the Goldstar studio and watch him produce it. So I got my ass down there and he did produce it, but he never finished it. So that never appeared.
(interview with Johnny Black for Mojo Collections)
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(Source : interview on YouTube)
Brian Wilson(Beach Boys) : Phil Spector was probably the biggest influence of all. Be My Baby, which has one of the most straight-ahead rhythms I've ever heard in my life, had a feeling about it that made me want to create something good. That's where I learned how to produce records. Anybody with a good ear can hear that I was influenced by Spector. I would listen to his records and pick up ideas. I'd try to work out how much echo he was using on particular instruments, and how did he achieve that particular sound. My song Please Let Me Wonder came from listening to a Spector track called Walking In the Rain.
I was lucky to be able to meet him several times. I found him very easy to talk to. We worked together in 1965 on a song called Don't Hurt My Little Sister that The Beach Boys did. He cut a track for it, and he asked me to come down to the Goldstar studio and watch him produce it. So I got my ass down there and he did produce it, but he never finished it. So that never appeared.
(interview with Johnny Black for Mojo Collections)