Ellie Greenwich
Just the other day, in the Comments of my Larry Knechtel post, reader liverbird wrote:
The musicians of the 60’s and 70’s will slowly disappear (those that survived). Along with the Motown house band, and the Stax/Volt gang, the Wrecking Crew defined the music of the time. RIP
I don’t think either of us could have expected another one to come so soon. Ellie Greenwich, who, with her husband Jeff Barry, wrote some of the most enduring hits to come out of the Brill Building, has died at the age of 69.
Be My Baby by The Ronettes (forgive the Dirty Dancing album cover, but this video had the best audio, which allows to better hear the greatest snare drum sound ever recorded. One day I’ll write a paper on Hal Blaine’s fills in the fade-out)
Could the famous Copacabana long shot in Goodfellas be filmed to anything other than The Crystals’ Then He Kissed Me?
Bruce did a killer version of it, too, at the Bottom Line in 1974.
Even for a heathen like me, nothing says the holidays to me than Darlene Love singing Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Neko Case singing Train From Kansas City (originally recorded by The Shangri-Las) a couple of weeks ago here at Lollapalooza.
For a complete list of her songs, go to Greenwich’s musicography.
We bought the book, are enjoying it immensely. My husband played guitar for thirty something years and now is composing tunes to play guitar to in our home studio. Music is major part of life.
Great video with Ronettes, hubby got a kick out of me singing to it.
Along with Carole King and Goffin — they wrote the songs that made the late 50’s/ealy 69’s sing.
[...] no need to worry. Signs were collected as usual, with covers of Da Do Run Run (dedicated to writer Ellie Greenwich, which he forgot to do in Sunrise when they played Then She Kissed Me) and Rockin’ Robin [...]