ellie greenwich / you don't know
ellie greenwich / baby
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the ronettes / be my baby (live @ sha na na show)*
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blondie / out in the streets (the shangri-las)
ellie greenwich / baby
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the ronettes / be my baby (live @ sha na na show)*
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blondie / out in the streets (the shangri-las)
spend a bit of time listening to 60's pop music, especially the girl groups from the early years, and you will come across a few names : phil spector, carole king, gerry goffin, jeff barry, ellie greenwich all worked together to shape the decade and open the door to the british invasion. i don't know about you but when i'm learning about something new, i'm always trying to focus on a few particular points and grow from that. start with the basics, right?
my journey was something like : i loved the supremes, then i got into the shangri-las, from there got a copy of the One Kiss Lead To Another compilation and started obsessing - which tends to happen a lot when i come across cool music like that anyway. i ended up getting a bit of a musical crush on jeff barry & ellie greenwich - they made the coolest tunes with the coolest bands, as simple as that.
later in the 70's and after her divorce to barry, ellie greenwich went on to record 2 albums, also singing background vocals for dusty springfield, bobby darin and frank sinatra while writing songs for blondie and cyndi lauper.
to make a long story short, ellie greenwich is one of the most gifted songwriters you will ever come across and because she passed away a couple of months ago, i thought she deserved a shout out. i'm so grateful and this is a bit of a thank you, i guess - thank you for the music and thank you for the dreams. :)
my journey was something like : i loved the supremes, then i got into the shangri-las, from there got a copy of the One Kiss Lead To Another compilation and started obsessing - which tends to happen a lot when i come across cool music like that anyway. i ended up getting a bit of a musical crush on jeff barry & ellie greenwich - they made the coolest tunes with the coolest bands, as simple as that.
later in the 70's and after her divorce to barry, ellie greenwich went on to record 2 albums, also singing background vocals for dusty springfield, bobby darin and frank sinatra while writing songs for blondie and cyndi lauper.
to make a long story short, ellie greenwich is one of the most gifted songwriters you will ever come across and because she passed away a couple of months ago, i thought she deserved a shout out. i'm so grateful and this is a bit of a thank you, i guess - thank you for the music and thank you for the dreams. :)
i was young, it was exciting, and i cried when i heard my songs on the radio. but i don't think it was until many years later, when i saw how the songs have lived on, that i really understood. when i hear 'be my baby' now, when i hear that boom! ch-chik! boom! intro, i get goosebumps. i really do.
*this is a very late recording (probably around 1980) and it's actually Ronnie Spector & the Ronettes, ie not the original line up. Video can be found here. Ronnie Spector looking mighty good!
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