Ellie Greenwich co-wrote "Be My Baby" and launched Neil Diamond's career. (Mgm Records File Photo)
Ronettes - Be My Baby
Posted on 08/30/2009 7:17:20 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Ellie Greenwich, one of the most prolific hitmakers of the 1960s, who was the co-writer of such catchy and enduring pop hits as "Be My Baby," "Chapel of Love," "Da Doo Ron Ron" and "Leader of the Pack," and who was credited with launching the career of singer Neil Diamond, died Aug. 26 of a heart attack at Roosevelt Hospital in New York, where she was being treated for pneumonia. She was 68.
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Ellie Greenwich co-wrote "Be My Baby" and launched Neil Diamond's career. (Mgm Records File Photo)
Ronettes - Be My Baby
Add Phil Spector’s production techniques and you’ve got lots of hits!
Thanks. That’s one of the best Ronettes videos I’ve seen. After “Be My Baby”, they do “Shout”. 6 mins total.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-0upHlWfQ4
Great songs. Prayers.
"Credited"?!?
hubba hubba, as well.
So many of her songs are classics...so many.
What a shame-she will be missed.
RIP, Ellie!
That’s fantabulous!!
Acapella version of “One Fine Day” by amateur white girl group:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC871_kOjpU&feature=related
WOW!
THANKS
My big sister had the best record collection...all the girl groups...and many, many others. Her favers were Do-Wop and stuff from the early sixties, the Beatles, et al. never appealed to her. RIP Ellie
...and who was credited with launching the career of singer Neil Diamond...That's how most of the obits phrased it, including statements from Neil Diamond himself. Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry (this was before their own breakup) discovered Diamond and steered him toward his first recording contract, with Bang Records, as well as producing the lion's share of the records that first made his wider reputation as a performer and songwriter in his own right. Arguably, the Bang singles may be the man's greatest music, anyway, but it is only right to credit Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry for believing in him enough to get him to where he could make them in the first place."Credited"?!?
Ellie Greenwich was one of the most important people in my career. She discovered me as a down-and-out songwriter and with her then-husband Jeff Barry co-produced all my early hits on Bang Records. She has remained a great friend and mentor over the years and will be missed greatly.---Neil Diamond, in a statement upon learning of Ellie Greenwich's death. (Note: Both Diamond and Greenwich are native to Brooklyn.)
Haha...I don’t think my point got across. I was wondering about the use of the word “credited” as opposed to, perhaps, “blamed”...
Haha...I don’t think my point got across. I was wondering about the use of the word “credited” as opposed to, perhaps, “blamed”...Well, I think "credited" is appropriate if the topic is Neil Diamond's Bang recordings. I still think they're the man's best music, and they're a damn sight (well, sound) better than that masterpiece of existential narcissism (or should that be narcissistic existentialism) "I Am . . . I Said"; or, most of what he went on to do from there, though if you prick me I'll tell you that his Columbia album, Beautiful Noise (the album Robbie Robertson of the Band produced for him), was probably the last great burst of his career.
As for "blamed," you can't really blame Ellie Greenwich or Jeff Barry for what he went on to do after their collaboration ended. (I don't think it was her bright idea that Neil Diamond should have come up with the soundtrack for a film based on a book about a bird brain.) Any more than you can blame, for example, William F. Buckley, Jr. for what Garry Wills went on to become once he walked away from National Review . . .
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