Ronnie Spector and Darlene Love were reigning queens of New York pop. The two remained close, and Love remembered Spector following the singer's death. “She wanted to be a star more than anybody I’ve ever known. And that’s what she ended up becoming”
I met Ronnie in the early Sixties. She hadn’t started recording for Phil yet. I had already recorded [the Crystals’] “He’s a Rebel” with him. We did a Christmas show in Brooklyn with Murray the K, and the Ronettes were actually the dancing girls for the show. When Ronnie found out I was there, she knew all about me. She said she wanted to record with Phil Spector because she knew he could get her a hit record. She felt that he could make her be successful on record.
She was this little bitty thing; she reminded me of a little Barbie doll. She was just so beautiful. But from the beginning, she had a strong voice. I always thought her as sounding like Frankie Lymon of the Teenagers. But she didn’t try to sound like him. That’s just the way she was, which was amazing. She was rock and roll, the way she sang and moved onstage.
“Be My Baby” is my favorite song by the Ronettes. That and “Walking in the Rain.” “Be My Baby” will be around when our great-grand-children are still on Earth. It’s all the in the way she sang it and interpreted it. We didn’t have demos to learn those songs. They were just offered to us. Phil taught her the melody, and then she just did it. Even that it was her only hit, that voice will always ring in your ear because of her distinctive sound.Our lives were almost parallel with Phil.
Her break from him was more difficult than mine. We talked a lot during that time she was married to Phil. Nothing too deep, but just so I could give her some nuggets about life, like “Make the best of it. Do what you have to do.” That song with Eddie Money [“Take Me Home Tonight”] brought her career right back to life again. It just goes to show you that you can turn your life around again. You can come back as strong as you want to. Who would have thought that that song would be a hit for
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