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

[Shelley "SoleMann" King]

Yeah thats Ronnie....LOL. I just found out about a month ago about Chip Fields being a Ronette for a few months

[Edie Antoinette]

" It ain't funny, but BWAAAAA HAHAHA outlandish wigs....ROFLMBO. That head injury made him even crazier....SMH "

I know, I felt bad after I read that but still...lawd...he looks crazy with that big afro thing on his head. I am really interested in reading more now. Kim Fields mom was so cute..again, I ain't knowed all this! Wow!!!

You do the best blogs!

[Edie Antoinette]

I see what you mean now Sole..Is this really her?

Though Ronnie Spector rose to prominence with the Ronettes, her 1966 marriage to their producer, Phil Spector, seemed to doom her career. Even a solo career in the years following their divorce floundered. But with Joey Ramone behind Spector's newest outing, it's no mistake that this is among the greatest music she has ever made. Many of the New York Punk bands of the '70s, especially the Ramones, built their music on the girl group sound with which they grew up, the sound Ronnie Spector helped pioneer. Spector's newest recordings show she has not lost her magic touch; she shines bright when paired with a producer who understands her sound like Ramone does, and the music here is as absolutely perfect and full as the best of the Ronettes. "Don't Worry, Baby," a song written for her in the '60s by Beach Boy Brian Wilson which Phil Spector never allowed Ronnie to record, is one of the recent songs Spector recorded with Ramone. The others include two songs written by Joey Ramone, "She Talks to Rainbows," and "Bye, Bye Baby." The fourth song is Johnny Thunder's "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory." The past has become part of the future.

[Shelley "SoleMann" King]

It ain't funny, but BWAAAAA HAHAHA outlandish wigs....ROFLMBO. That head injury made him even crazier....SMH

[Edie Antoinette]

Look what I found regarding his wig....
As the seventies progressed, Spector became increasingly reclusive. The most probable and significant reason for his withdrawal, recently revealed by biographer Dave Thompson, was that Spector was seriously injured when he was thrown through the windshield of his car in a crash in Hollywood. According to a contemporary report published in the New Musical Express, Spector was almost killed, and it was only because the attending police officer detected a faint pulse that Spector was not declared dead at the scene. He was admitted to the UCLA Medical Center on the night of March 31, 1974, suffering serious head injuries which necessitated several hours of surgery with over 300 stitches to his face, and more than 400 stitches to the back of his head. His head injuries, Thompson suggests, were the reason that Spector began his habit of wearing outlandish wigs in later years.

[Shelley "SoleMann" King]

Ronnie Spector (middle) with two back-up singers (including Kim Fields' mom on the bottom) as "The Ronettes" {1973}

[Edie Antoinette]

I gots to read that book! You really have me going on this...whoa! And he looks INSANE!!! Try'na have a fro..smh...bwaaaaa haaaa HAAAAA!!!!

[Shelley "SoleMann" King]

Here is the book i read....

[Shelley "SoleMann" King]

BWAAAAA HAHAHA....What is that on his head....ROFLMBOOOOO

[Edie Antoinette]

Po Ronnie....smh