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Then He Kissed Me by The Crystals peaks at No6 on the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA, and No8 on the R'n'B Chart. The song is a Phil Spector production, arranged by Jack Nitzsche.
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Jack Nitzsche (musical arranger) : Then He Kissed Me is my favorite Crystals record. Listen to the percussion! Castanets and all. We had some room to experiment and make records sound different. Phil would go into the percussion kit and say, 'this song needs castanets.' Everything blended so well.
(Source : interview with Harvey Kubernick, 1988)
Larry Levine (engineer) : He (Spector) didn’t want to give them a bathroom break. Not because he wanted to work them to death, but because he didn’t want them to move microphones or bodies or anything. He wanted everything to stay as it was in the studio. But he would work for three hours or more before we ever put anything on tape. And I think the reason was he wanted to tire these great musicians so that they weren’t playing individualistic; they were too tired. And so they just melded into this wall of sound.
La La Brooks (the Crystals) : He (Spector) said, 'Think of somebody kissing you. I was a kid, so I'm not going to think like that. So he would turn off the lights, I would have a little light on my music, on my words, and then he said, 'Now, concentrate.' And I said (singing), 'Well, he walked up to me and he asked me if I wanted to dance.' He said, 'That's the way you do it!'
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(Source : interview with Harvey Kubernick, 1988)
Larry Levine (engineer) : He (Spector) didn’t want to give them a bathroom break. Not because he wanted to work them to death, but because he didn’t want them to move microphones or bodies or anything. He wanted everything to stay as it was in the studio. But he would work for three hours or more before we ever put anything on tape. And I think the reason was he wanted to tire these great musicians so that they weren’t playing individualistic; they were too tired. And so they just melded into this wall of sound.
La La Brooks (the Crystals) : He (Spector) said, 'Think of somebody kissing you. I was a kid, so I'm not going to think like that. So he would turn off the lights, I would have a little light on my music, on my words, and then he said, 'Now, concentrate.' And I said (singing), 'Well, he walked up to me and he asked me if I wanted to dance.' He said, 'That's the way you do it!'