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  • It was a great song, so the fact that it was The Ronettes, which is a different sort of area than Motown, didn't really bother me.

    Mike Ragogna: Going Back: A Conversation with Phil Collins Mike Ragogna 2010

  • As the lead singer of The Ronettes, she pioneered a performance style that did not previously exist - with their sexually-charged persona, The Ronettes were the first women in rock to do for boys in the audience what Elvis did for girls.

    Cleveland Leader - Cleveland News & More! 2010

  • After all, so many of us fell in love the first time we heard her sing -- "Be My Baby," "Do I Love You," "Walking In The Rain," or one of the half dozen other singles she made as Veronica, lead singer of the Ronettes...

    Holly Cara Price: Steve Popovich: A Music Industry Legend Holly Cara Price 2011

  • "The beat I used on the Ronettes' 'Be My Baby' was actually a mistake," Mr. Blaine said.

    Who Else Made More Hit Songs? Marc Myers 2011

  • During 1963 alone, a year after she graduated university with an English degree, the trio hit the top-10 list with such tunes as the Crystals '"Da Doo Ron Ron" and "Then He Kissed Me," and the Ronettes'"Be My Baby."

    She Wrote the Songs 2009

  • After all, so many of us fell in love the first time we heard her sing -- "Be My Baby," "Do I Love You," "Walking In The Rain," or one of the half dozen other singles she made as Veronica, lead singer of the Ronettes...

    Holly Cara Price: Steve Popovich: A Music Industry Legend Holly Cara Price 2011

  • When all the women sing together, as they do whenever intoning the sect's mantra, "Keep Sweet, Keep Sweet," he likens the effect to a "Rhinemaiden convention" or to The Ronettes, "only with more vibrato."

    All in a Day's Work, Polygamy Included Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011

  • Mr. Blaine's urgent beat on songs by the Ronettes, the Crystals and other groups helped drive and sell Mr. Spector's "wall of sound."

    Who Else Made More Hit Songs? Marc Myers 2011

  • I loved the Stones' "My Obsession," and I still love to listen to Phil Spector's records—you can write that—especially the Ronettes.

    Still Picking Up Good Vibrations Marc Myers 2011

  • Playing shower sing-alongs you know and ones you don't from the likes of the Supremes and Martha Reeves And The Vandellas, the night's resident DJs Paddy Hughes and Tors Beedles will also be branching out into the Brill Building beat of the Shirelles and the Chiffons as well as the Phil Spector-fiddled oeuvre of the Ronettes and the Crystals.

    This week's new clubs 2011

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