Be My Baby

Be My Baby is the title of a song by The Ronettes in 1963, which was written by Phil Spector, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich.

Genesis

The Ronettes were a girl trio from New York with a strong Brooklyn accent that was just found by Phil Spector for his record label Philles Records in March 1963 under contract. As Spector received the composition Be My Baby by Barry / Greenwich, he produced it with the Ronettes as their first single. The music recording started from July 5, 1963 in the Gold Star Studios in Hollywood. It took four hours intensive rehearsals before recording engineer Larry Levine at all started with audio recordings. Spector had placed as a music producer in previous music recordings with other artists of his Philles record label - regular strong emphasis on the instrumentation. He used the Wrecking Crew, a playing of varying composition group of studio musicians. He used the same four guitarists ( Billy Strange, Tommy Tedesco, Barney Kessel and Bill Pitman ), as were four keyboards in use (Leon Russell, Larry Knechtel, Al De Lory and Don Randi ). Carol Kaye and Ray Pohlman played bass, and Hal Blaine and Earl Palmer with two drummers were present. Complemented by castanets and maracas, the song is the first in which Spector began a complete violin section. 42 Takes in a four-hour session were needed to satisfy Spector.

The Überorchestrierung was underpinned by sound effects like flanging and numerous overdubs, so probably the best product of the Wall of Sound was created. Spector is therefore only mentioned as a co-writer, because his extensive studio production work should be appreciated; technically be composers share was a "cut- in ". The B-side Tedesco and Pitman mentioned the names of two guitarists of the Wrecking Crew, who participated in the recordings.

Publication

Be My Baby / Tedesco and Pitman was released on August 15, 1963 as Philles # 116. The hit came on 31 August 1963 in the American pop charts and stayed for 3 weeks in rank two. In Britain, it was listed on rank four. He sold it after it was published more than 2 million records alone in 1963.

The title received a BMI Award. In the list of Rolling Stone 's 500 best songs of all time, the song reached # 22 The Library of Congress took it on in the United States National Recording Registry. In 1987, the song was used in the soundtrack of the movie Dirty Dancing.

Cover versions

At BMI 15 cover versions of the title are registered. The most successful version is by Andy Kim of November 1970 ( U.S. rank 17, Germany # 24 ). In August 1986, a part of Be My Baby for Eddie Money's Take Me Home Tonight was adapted. Other cover versions followed by Suzanne Doucet ( Be My Baby, 1964), Bernhard Brink ( Where is it written that, 1972), Rachel Sweet ( album ... And Then He Kissed Me, published in November 1981), John Lennon (recorded between October and December 1973 Release date: November 1998), Alyssa Milano ( October 1989), Linda Ronstadt (June 1996), The Bates ( April 1998), Smokie (2001) or Mutya Buena feat. Amy Winehouse and 3 Feet Smaller.