The Ronettes

[Shelley "SoleMann" King]

Be My Baby...Ahhhh words forever instilled in my
mind from a beautiful saturday night way back in 1977.

As i sat down and prepared to look at Sha Na Na.
I was excited because days earlier i had heard
the 1960's hit Be My Baby and was blown away
by the sound of Ronnie Spector and the Ronettes
(she was known as Veronica Bennett at that time)

Then the moment came and my 10 year old mind
was in awe of the beauty of Ronnie Spector, my
breath was taken away and i fell instantly in
love.

Ya'll know how it is when a child has a crush on
a celebrity and i thought nobody would ever
replace Jayne Kennedy in my heart, but Ronnie
had me hooked badly....LOL

I remember telling my Mama that someday i was
going to marry her and have 50 kids...Oh my
Goodness the mind of a child is amazing huh....LOL

Today 29 years later when i still think back to that
night i smile and laugh. It was a great time to be
10 and in love.

Although i have never seen Ronnie in person, thanks
to the Internet and YouTube i now have access to
countless videos by The Ronettes and it makes my
memories of that summer in 1977 that much sweeter.

Written by Solemannking 7/23/2006

Here is the link to the Sha Na Na performance....LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD0166KpAhs

THE RONETTES...BE MY BABY and SHOUT


2 of the original Ronettes performed in the last video, Ronnie Spector and Nedra Talley (in the gold dress) Ronnie's sister Estelle Bennett was unable to perform due to a stroke, but you will see her come to the stage at the end....

RONETTES... BE MY BABY - ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME 2007

[Edie Antoinette]

That ain't no Photoshop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ROFLMBO (j/k)

[Edie Antoinette]

They be tearin him...UP!!!! LOL

[Shelley "SoleMann" King]

Oh Lawd...ROFLMBO. Photoshop is a helluva of a tool....LOL

[Edie Antoinette]

Lest we not remember...this one!!!! BWA HA HA HA HA HA @a white Sammy Stephens!!!!!

[Shelley "SoleMann" King]

The White Sammy Stephens, look at them eyes....ROFLMBO

[Edie Antoinette]

I wouldn't touch him with (5) 10ft poles!!!!! Oyyy if he ain't a scary lookin blarney!!!!! LOL

[Shelley "SoleMann" King]

His Booking Pic, is one Scary Pic....LOL

His booking number: 1873015. His “housing location”: the Twin Towers Correctional Facility — the world’s largest jail, covering 1.5 million square feet, in a grim industrial area a few miles east of downtown Los Angeles.

When Phil Spector woke up yesterday morning, the 69-year-old music producer and former Beatles collaborator found himself in surroundings very different from his 30-bedroom “castle” in the suburb of Alhambra.

Gone was his 28-year-old Playboy-model bride. Gone was his chauffeured Mercedes-Benz. Gone also was his usual selection of elaborate wigs, Teddy Boy loafers and pinstriped, long-tailed coats.

He had been found guilty of seconddegree murder for shooting Lana Clarkson, a 40-year-old former

B-movie star whom he picked up from the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip, in 2003. After he was booked by the Sheriff’s Department, the Sixties music legend was driven from the courtroom to the Twin Towers facility where he was subjected to the standard pre-admission strip-search, issued with a fluorescent jumpsuit and then shown to his cell in a segregated part of the jail.

It was not known yesterday if he had a cellmate. A spokesman for the Sheriff’s Department told The Times that Spector had not been subjected to solitary confinement in “the hole”. “There’s no such thing as ‘the hole’,” he said. “We always separate recognisable or high-profile inmates.”

Spector will almost certainly remain in Twin Towers until his next court appointment on May 29. It is then that Judge Larry Paul Fidler will decide his sentence — a minimum of 18 years, legal experts say — before placing him in state custody. From there he will be sent to one of California’s state prisons. By the time he completes his sentence he will be at least 87 years old.

Having spent the past six years living in semi-freedom on $1 million bail during which he sat silently through not one but two murder trials, the first of which was rendered void when the jury could not reach a verdict Spector must have dreaded being taken into custody.

Yet for a long time after the murder it looked as if he might walk away a free man. Indeed, the Los Angeles Times claimed yesterday that Spector was the first celebrity found guilty of murder on Hollywood’s home turf in at least 40 years, after the infamous acquittals of O. J. Simpson, the football player, and Robert Blake, the ex-Baretta TV actor.

When the verdict was read out in court, the prosecution team celebrated as both Spector’s wife and the jury forewoman wept. Spector briefly gaped before returning to his blank frown. “He took it very stoically,” said Doron Weinberg, his defence lawyer. “He wanted to know what is next.”

The answer to his question is twofold: he will almost certainly face ruinous wrongful-death lawsuits from his victim’s family, and his legal team will begin an appeal. In the meantime, he will remain at the Twin Towers jail at 450 Bauchet Street, a mere nine miles or 15 minutes away from his former life and former home.

[Edie Antoinette]

Phil Spector Guilty of Murder!
E! Online, Apr 14, 2009 9:47 am PDT
The boy genius has given way to the convicted murderer.

Phil Spector, the legendary record producer, eccentric and recluse with a reputation for building walls around people as much as his signature music, was found guilty of second-degree murder by Los Angeles jurors today in the 2003 shooting death of cult-movie star Lana Clarkson.

Emotions occasionally spiked at the courthouse: Spector's wife Rachelle sobbed; the jury forewoman broke down at a post-verdict press conference; prosecutors spoke of justice served. Spector, however, was described in reports as seeming unmoved.

The 69-year-old Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member, who was taken immediately into custody, faces up to life in prison when sentenced May 29.

This was Spector's second judgment day on the Clarkson case. In 2007, a jury deadlocked 10-2 in favor of convicting Spector.

At the second trial as at the first, prosecutors said Clarkson fell victim to a man who had a history of waving guns at, and acting violently toward, women, especially when he'd been drinking. Spector's defense argued she shot herself.

There was one new twist at the new trial, but it ended up being a nonfactor, unfortunately for Spector.

At this trial, jurors had the option of convicting Spector of a lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter. They not only didn't take the option, they also convicted the former hitmaker of using a gun while committing a crime.

The jury forewoman, whose name was not disclosed, told reporters deliberations were "painful." "We all have hearts," she said. "We all have people we love."

For L.A. prosecutors, the guilty verdicts were a welcome change. They previously failed to win convictions against celebrity murder defendants O.J. Simpson and Robert Blake.

Spector's fame dates back to 1958, when, at age 19, he wrote and sang his way to No. 1 on the chart with "To Know Him Is to Love Him."

As a young producer, Spector dominated the pre-Beatles 1960s with hit ("He's a Rebel") after hit ("Da Doo Ron Ron") after hit ("Be My Baby"). The songs were predominantly recorded by girl groups and were exclusively backed by the aural sensation known as the "Wall of Sound." Spector's magic touch continued through the 1960s, with "Unchained Melody," the Beatles Let It Be, John Lennon's "Imagine" and George Harrison "My Sweet Lord," among other standouts.

But over the past 30-40 years, Spector's fame gave way to a kind of infamy—the mad genius who, per lore, pulled gun on Lennon and the Ramones, or who, per Ronnie Spector, of the Spector creation the Ronettes, treated her more as a captive than wife during their troubled marriage.

Spector's alleged gun-waving ways caught up to him at trial, if not on night of Clarkson's death at his Alhambra, Calif., castle-style home. At Spector's first trial, five women testified about being at the other end of a gun drawn by Spector. Their testimony was allowed to be introduced in the new trial.

Spector and Clarkson, the queen of Roger Corman's Barbarian Queen movies, met Feb. 3, 2003, at L.A's House of Blues, where the 40-year-old Clarkson worked as a hostess and where Spector visited shortly after midnight.

About five hours later, after the pair was driven to Spector's home, Spector walked out of his mansion, and, per testimony at the first trial, told his driver: "I think I killed somebody."

(Originally published April 13, 2009, at 2:25 p.m. PT)

[Shelley "SoleMann" King]

Brother Will, i truly feel you on that

[Edie Antoinette]

Wow! Now that's very very tight that you found that! Man you are the KING of finding stuff!!!!! *clap clap clap*