The Ronettes
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Year:
2007
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Inducted by:
Keith Richards (The Rolling Stones)
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Category:
Performers
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Estelle Bennett -
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Nedra Talley -
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Veronica 'Ronnie' Spector
Introduction
A classic girl group with a tough, sexy twist.
Led by Ronnie Spector’s quavering siren voice and Phil Spector’s musical genius, the Ronettes produced some of the greatest music of the century.
Keith Richards Inducts The Ronettes
Keith Richards Inducts The Ronettes at the 2007 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony-
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Keith Richards Inducts The Ronettes00:02:40 -
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The Ronettes Acceptance Speech00:11:06 -
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"Be My Baby"00:03:14
Hall of Fame Essay
2007
The introduction to the Ronettes’ “Be My Baby” needs to be heard only once before it is forever burned into the deepest recesses of one’s cranium.
Studio drummer Hal Blaine lays down a simple baion beat - boom-ba-boom (smash), boom-ba-boom (smash). Swathed in unprecedented levels of reverb, it has a cataclysmic effect. Over the next two bars the ante is upped as multiple pianos, guitars, a solitary bass, and an array of auxiliary percussion fill out what had come to be known as producer Phil Spector’s trademark Wall of Sound.
I always said we weren’t better. We were just different.
Photography: Getty/WireImage
