THE RONETTES w VERONICA-PHIL SPECTOR-GOLD LABEL-MONO LP

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THE RONETTES w VERONICA-PHIL SPECTOR-GOLD LABEL-MONO LP

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- This bid is for the lp - record - album THE RONETTES
FEATURING VERONICA Coplix records CP486 – 1965 – cover is in excellent + condition –album is in excellent ++ condition – not played much at all . gold label - mono recording - produced by Stu Phillips - Contains - 1 He Did it
2 Silhouettes
3 Good Girls
4 Memory
5 You Bet I Would
6 I'm Gonna Quit While I'm Ahead                        7 I'm On The Wagon
8 Recipe For Love
9 My Guiding Angel
10 I Want A Boy
11 What's So Sweet About Sweet Sixteen
The Ronettes were a 1960s girl group from New York City, best known for their work with producer Phil Spector. The group consisted of lead singer Veronica Bennett (later known as Ronnie Spector); her sister, Estelle Bennett; and their cousin Nedra Talley. They reached the peak of their success after releasing Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica in 1964. Some of the group's most famous songs include "Be My Baby", "Baby, I Love You", "(The Best Part Of) Breakin' Up", and "(Walking) In the Rain."

Born as Veronica Yvette Bennett in New York City on August 10, 1943. From an early age Ronnie took to singing, encouraged by her large, close family. The other members of the Ronettes, her sister Estelle Bennett (1941-2009) and cousin, Nedra Talley, were also encouraged to sing by their family. The Ronettes were a multiracial group, which was unusual during the 1960s. The Bennetts' mother was African-American and Cherokee Indian, and their father was Irish; their cousin, Nedra Talley is African-American and Puerto Rican. In her autobiography, Ronnie Spector said that at one point in her childhood, she was not sure if she was black or white.[citation needed]

Bennett was married to Phil Spector from 1968 to 1974, and took his name professionally; they adopted three children, including a set of twins, whom Phil adopted as a single parent after Ronnie and the youngest child left.

    * Donté Phillip (b. March 23, 1969; adopted November 1969, aged 8 months)
    * Louis Phillip (b. May 12, 1966; adopted at the age of 8)
    * Gary Phillip (b. May 12, 1966; adopted at the age of 8)

By her account, Phil kept Ronnie a near-prisoner and limited her opportunities to pursue her musical ambitions. In her autobiography, she said that he would force her to watch the film Citizen Kane to remind her she would be nothing without him. Spector's domineering attitude led to the dissolution of their marriage. Bennett was forbidden to speak to the Rolling Stones or tour with the Beatles, because of Phil Spector's odd fear of her possible infidelity.[citation needed]

Bennett claims Spector showed her a gold coffin with a glass top in his basement, promising to kill and display her should she leave him. During Spector's reclusive period in the late 1960s, he reportedly kept his wife locked inside their mansion.[citation needed] She claimed he also hid her shoes to dissuade her from walking outside, and kept the house dark because he didn't want anyone to see his balding head. Spector's son later claimed that he was kept locked in his room, with a pot in the corner to be used as a toilet. Ronnie stated in her autobiography that she walked out of the house through the closed, and locked rear sliding glass door, shoeless, shattering the glass as she left, and sustaining no cuts, she never returned. Ronnie Spector did leave Phil and filed for divorce in 1972. She wrote a book about her experiences, and said years later, "I can only say that when I left in the early 1970s, I knew that if I didn't leave at that time, I was going to die there" [3]. She and Spector separated in 1973 and divorced one year later.

Her autobiography, Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness, co-authored by Vince Waldron, was published in 1989. In 2004, Onyx Books republished the book in a revised and updated mass-market paperback edition in the USA.[citation needed] She now lives in Connecticut with her second husband, Jonathan Greenfield, and their two sons, Austin Drew and Jason Charles. She also hosts an annual Christmas party at B. B. King's bar and grill in New York, also featuring long time friend and 1960s recording artist Darlene Love.

The Ronettes were produced and managed by Phil Spector. In the early 1960s, they had huge hits with "Be My Baby", "Baby I Love You", and "Walking in the Rain". The group broke up in 1966 (never to reunite until their 2007 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame), at the time of the brief period of seclusion of Phil Spector, who felt reputationally devastated by the high expectations and then disappointment of the Spector-produced Tina Turner recording "River Deep - Mountain High" . Thereafter, a one-off single, sung by Ronnie but credited to "The Ronettes Featuring the Voice of Veronica," appeared in 1969 on Herb Alpert's A&M label, with an old Ronettes B-side as the flip. That single was "You Came, You Saw, You Conquered". Bennett's recording and performing career then began its long hiatis.

In early 1971, during Phil Spector's tenure as head of A&R at Apple Records, Ronnie recorded the single "Try Some, Buy Some"/"Tandoori Chicken"; released as Apple 33 in the UK, Apple 1832 in the U.S. The A-side of the single was written by George Harrison, and produced by both Harrison and Spector. Although the single was not a big hit, it had one lasting influence: when John Lennon recorded "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" later the same year, he asked Spector to reproduce the same mandolin-laden 'Wall of Sound' that he had created for "Try Some, Buy Some". Lennon liked the rockabilly B-side too, and is reported to have sung it at his birthday party in New York in October 1971.

In the early to mid 1970s, Ronnie briefly reformed the Ronettes (as Ronnie Spector and the Ronettes) with two new members (including Chip Fields, the mother of actress Kim Fields). In her book, she recounted several abortive attempts to recapture mainstream success throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, during which time she was widely perceived as an oldies act.

Billy Joel's 1976 hit Say Goodbye to Hollywood is a tribute to Bennett[citation needed]. Bennett herself covered it (1977), as did Bette Midler and other artists. Ronnie's version appeared in 1980 on her incredible solo debut, Siren, produced by Genya Ravan, who insisted that Ronnie get out of the 'oldies' phase and get some 'now' music. Genya picked the Ramones song "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" for Ronnie to cover, and brought in musicians like Cheetah Chrome (of the Dead Boys, who Genya also produced), among other New York rockers from downtown, to play on the album. In 1986, Ronnie enjoyed a brief resurgence to popular radio airplay as the featured familiar-sounding background vocalist on Eddie Money's Top 10 hit "Take Me Home Tonight", singing part of the chorus with the timeless full Phil Spector-style echo effects that she made so famous (where she is introduced by Money singing "just like Ronnie sang (Money)... OH, OH, OH, OH-OH (Ronnie Spector)" from the Ronette's Be My Baby recording. During this period, she also recorded the song "Tonight You're Mine, Baby" (from the film Just One of the Guys) and sang a duet with Southside Johnny on the recording "You Mean So Much To Me", which was penned by Southside's longtime friend Bruce Springsteen and produced by Steven Van Zandt of the E Street Band.

In 1999, she released the critically acclaimed album, She Talks to Rainbows, which featured a few covers of older songs. Joey Ramone acted as producer, and appeared on stage with her to promote the record. In 2003, she provided backing vocals for The Misfits' album, Project 1950.[citation needed]

Bennett's most recent album Last of the Rock Stars (High Coin Records) has been released. A new single, "All I Want", accompanies the album. Keith Richards and Patti Smith are among Bennett's collaborators on the album. Bennett herself has co-produced two of the songs. In 2005 Bennett sang "Ode to L.A." with the Danish rock group The Raveonettes on their album Pretty in Black.

In 1998, Ronnie Spector and the other Ronettes sued Phil Spector for cheating them of royalties and licensing fees, winning a $3 million judgment; however, an appeals court later reversed the decision, upholding the terms of the group's 1963 contract as binding. In 2007, Ronnie Spector discussed her Ronettes' much-delayed entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: "He wrote the Hall of Fame to tell them not to put me in. He did everything he could to stop me. He's bitter that I left him. He wants everyone to think he's the mastermind. He thought everything was because of him. A lot of good things happened after that due to a big fan named Jeremy Arreaga."

The Ronettes were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.

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