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Apr 3, 2014 · Name: Phil Spector. Birth Year: 1939. Birth date: December 26, 1939. Birth State: New York. Birth City: New York. Birth Country: United States. Gender: Male. Best Known For: Phil Spector was best ...
Harvey Phillip " Phil " Spector (December 26, 1939 – January 16, 2021) was an American record producer and songwriter best known for his innovative recording practices and entrepreneurship in the 1960s and his two trials and conviction for murder in the 2000s. Spector developed the Wall of Sound, a production style that is characterized for ...
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- “To Know Him is To Love Him” – The Teddy Bears (1958) Spector’s self-formed “band” was nothing more than him and a few friends finding an early excuse to test his mettle as a producer and a writer.
- “Spanish Harlem” – Ben E. King (1960) Though Spector merely co-wrote this Latin-tinged track, putting music to the words of Jerry Leiber (who co-produced the song with his usual writing partner, Mike Stoller), the song introduced Phil’s epic, street-operatic ideal.
- “Be My Baby” – The Ronettes (1963) Though sung by what seemed like a tight choir of street angels, the Spector-produced co-write with Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich put the sensual, savvy voice of Ronnie Bennett (soon to be Ronnie Spector) up front, beyond the song’s complex layers of orchestration, thus creating Phil’s and his Philles Records label’s first true “star” beyond the man himself.
- “Why Do Lovers (Break Each Other’s Heart)” – Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans (1962) Released in 1962, but not successfully charted until ’63, this neo-doo wop cut, produced and co-written by Spector with lead vocals by the divine Darlene Love, showed off a lighter touch in terms of its theatricality and rhythm.
Apr 22, 2024 · Phil Spector, American record producer of the 1960s, described by writer Tom Wolfe as the ‘First Tycoon of Teen.’ He used orchestral arrangements of immense scale and power in what became known as the wall of sound. In 2009 he was sentenced to 19 years in prison for the murder of an actress.
- The Crystals, “Da Doo Ron Ron” (1963) After many of the first-wave American rock ambassadors dropped off the scene temporarily (such as Little Richard and Elvis Presley) or permanently (such as Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens), it seemed there wasn’t much innovation in rock until the Beatles arrived.
- The Ronettes, “Be My Baby” (1963) Part of the appeal and brilliance of the Wall of Sound approach was that it worked not only for propulsive pop-rockers like the aforementioned Crystals tune, but it injected the simmering, irrepressible energy of teenage hormones into songs such as this game-changer.
- The Crystals, “Then He Kissed Me” (1963) If there was ever a pop song that could make you believe in happily ever after for two teenage sweethearts, this is the one.
- Righteous Brothers, “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin'” (1964) If Spector’s girl group hits demonstrated brevity and restraint, his work with the Righteous Brothers allowed him to indulge his more operatic compositional inclinations.
Jan 18, 2021 · Jan. 18, 2021. Phil Spector died Saturday as an inmate in California, convicted of the 2003 murder of Lana Clarkson. By then, other facts had emerged about his volatile, erratic, gun-toting ...
Jan 19, 2021 · The album, titled, pompously, A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector, was recorded in the summer of 1963 and featured 11 traditional Christmas songs, done Wall of Sound–style, and one ...
