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The Best Of The Ronettes

When you think of Phil Spector's legendary Wall of Sound, you hear the instruments: the strings, horns, thundering percussion, sleigh bells, cascades of guitars, all recorded in mono, all awash in an endless amount of echo. Then, of course, there are the voices. Spector worked with some of the great...

1992 RS: 5of 5 Stars

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In their towering black beehive hairdos and dark eye makeup, the Ronettes were a classic mid-'60s girl group with a sultry twist: vulnerable but tough, sexy but sweet. The Ronettes were the first bad girls of rock, a racially undefinable (the Bennetts' mother was black and Native American; their father was white) trio that became producer Phil Spector's most successful act.

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