Be My Baby

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I was like the happiest 17, 18-year-old girl you'd ever want to know, to have a No. 1 [ sic ] record all over the world, I loved it so much, the sweat and the tears and the sex appeal, everything.

—Ronnie Spector, 1998 [25]

"Be My Baby" (backed with "Tedesco and Pitman") was released by Philles Records in August 1963 and reached number 2 on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart by the end of the summer. [26] [22] [27] In the UK, it was issued by London Recordings in October and peaked at number 4 on Record Retailer . [28] By the end of the year, the single had sold more than two million copies.[ citation needed ]

The Ronettes' first royalty cheque for the song totaled $14,000 (equivalent to $139,000 in 2023). In her 1991 memoir, Ronnie wrote that the group subsequently had dinner with Spector to celebrate their success; at the end of the meal, however, he asked them to cover the bill. Ronnie remarked, "For a millionaire, he sure could be cheap." [22]

In her autobiography, Ronnie relates that she was on tour with Joey Dee and the Starlighters when "Be My Baby" was introduced by Dick Clark on American Bandstand as the "Record of the Century."[ full citation needed ] It remains the Ronettes' most successful song; although the group enjoyed several more top 40 hits, they sold at underwhelming volumes compared to "Be My Baby". [29] In a 1999 interview, Ronnie cited "Be My Baby" as one of her top five favorite songs in her catalog. [25]

A live rendition of "Be My Baby" was performed by the Ronettes on the 1966 rock concert film The Big TNT Show , for which Spector was the musical director and associate producer. [30]

Impact and influence

"Be My Baby" was a major influence on artists such as the Beatles and the Beach Boys, who went on to innovate with their own studio productions. [31] Producer Steve Levine compared the track's groundbreaking quality to the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" (1966), 10cc's "I'm Not in Love" (1975), and Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" (1975). [32] Many subsequent popular songs have replicated or recreated the drum phrase—one of the most recognizable in popular music. [33] Producer Rick Nowels, who lifted the drum beat for a Lana Del Rey song, said, "'Be My Baby,' for me, is Ground Zero for the modern pop era. it was a line in the sand that left everything that came before in the rear view mirror. It was the beginning of pop music being a serious American art form." [33]

AllMusic's Jason Ankeny noted in his review of the song, "No less an authority than Brian Wilson has declared 'Be My Baby' the greatest pop record ever made—no arguments here." [34] In his 2004 book Sonic Alchemy: Visionary Music Producers and Their Maverick Recordings, David Howard writes that many regard ""Be My Baby" as "Spector's greatest achievement—two and a half sweaty minutes of sexual pop perfection." [35]

In 2016, Barbara Cane, vice president and general manager of writer-publisher relations for the songwriters' agency BMI, estimated that the song has been played in 3.9 million feature presentations on radio and television since 1963. "That means it's been played for the equivalent of 17 years back to back." [16]

Effect on Brian Wilson

"Be My Baby" had a profound lifelong impact on the Beach Boys' founder Brian Wilson. [36] [37] His biographer Peter Ames Carlin describes the song as becoming "a spiritual touchstone" for Wilson, [38] while music historian Luis Sanchez states that it formed an enduring part of Wilson's mythology, being the Spector record that "etched itself the deepest into Brian's mind ... it comes up again and again in interviews and biographies, variably calling up themes of deep admiration, a source of consolation, and a baleful haunting of the spirit." [39]

I really did flip out. Balls-out totally freaked out when I heard ["Be My Baby"]. [...] it was like having your mind revamped. It's like, once you've heard that record, you're a fan forever.

—Brian Wilson, 1995 [40]

Wilson first heard "Be My Baby" while driving and listening to the radio; he became so enthralled by the song that he felt compelled to pull over to the side of the road and analyze the chorus. [41] [nb 2] Wilson immediately concluded that it was the greatest record he had ever heard. [37] He bought the single and kept it on his living room jukebox, listening to it whenever the mood struck him. [43] [37] Copies of the record were located in his car and virtually everywhere inside his home. [44]

Wilson conceived the Beach Boys' 1964 hit "Don't Worry Baby" as an answer song. [45] He had originally submitted "Don't Worry Baby" for the Ronettes' consideration, but this motion was halted by Spector, who had a policy against producing records that he himself did not write. [46] Spector was aware of Wilson's obsession with "Be My Baby" and joked that he would have enjoyed "a nickel for every joint" Wilson had smoked in an effort to understand the record's sound. [47]

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Wilson in 1966

Among the many documented anecdotes related to Wilson's obsession with "Be My Baby", music journalist David Dalton, who had visited Wilson's home in 1967, reportedly discovered a box of tapes in Wilson's bedroom, the contents of which consisted of Wilson, under the influence of marijuana, monologuing for multiple hours "on the meaning of life, color vibrations, fate, death, vegetarianism and Phil Spector." [48] [49] Wilson had spoken at length about "Be My Baby" to the journalist, analyzing the song "like an adept memorizing the Koran." [49] [nb 3] Wilson's daughter Carnie, born in 1968, stated that "every day" of her childhood began with her awaking to a playback of "Be My Baby". [51] Sanchez characterizes the accumulation of stories such as these as effectively depicting "an image of wretchedness: Brian locked in the bedroom of his Bel Air house in the early '70s, alone, curtains drawn shut, catatonic, listening to 'Be My Baby' over and over at aggressive volumes, for hours, as the rest of The Beach Boys record something in the home studio downstairs." [39] [nb 4]

The Beach Boys' 1977 song "Mona", written by Wilson, ends with the lines "Listen to 'Be My Baby' / I know you're going to love Phil Spector". [52] During a 1980 appearance on Good Morning America , host Joan Lunden inquired Wilson for his musical tastes, to which Wilson replied simply with "I listen to a song called 'Be My Baby' by the Ronettes." [53] [nb 5] Wilson told The New York Times in 2013 that he had listened to the song at least 1,000 times. [16] Beach Boy Bruce Johnston gave a higher estimation: "Brian must have played 'Be My Baby' ten million times. He never seemed to get tired of it." [54] In Wilson's 2016 memoir, I Am Brian Wilson , he recalled once playing the song's drum intro "ten times until everyone in the room told me to stop, and then I played it ten more times." [41]

Later versions

Awards and accolades

Charts

"Be My Baby"
Be My Baby by The Ronettes US single side-A.png
Single by the Ronettes
from the album Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes
B-side "Tedesco and Pitman"
ReleasedAugust 1963 (1963-08)
RecordedJuly 29, 1963 (1963-07-29)
Studio Gold Star, Hollywood
Genre
Length2:41
Label Philles
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Phil Spector
The Ronettes singles chronology
"Good Girls"
(1963)		"Be My Baby"
(1963)		"Baby, I Love You"
(1963)
Phil Spector productionssingles chronology
"Wait 'Til My Bobby Gets Home"
(1963)		"Be My Baby"
(1963)		"A Fine, Fine Boy"
(1963)

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [109] Gold45,000‡
Italy (FIMI) [110] Gold50,000‡
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [111] Platinum60,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI) [112] Platinum600,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Notes

  1. ↑ As had been the tradition for his prior records, Spector included the words "Phil + Annette" – a dedication to his then-wife Annette Merar – that was inscribed onto the run-out groove of "Be My Baby". This practice ceased with the Ronettes' follow-up record, "Baby, I Love You". [13]
  2. ↑ For Wilson, songs that "hit almost as hard" as "Be My Baby" includes "Rock Around the Clock" (Bill Haley & His Comets, 1955), "Keep A-Knockin'" (Little Richard, 1957), "Hey Girl" (Freddie Scott, 1963), and "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" (The Righteous Brothers, 1964). Wilson conceded that "it's hard to re-create the feeling of first hearing 'Be My Baby'". [42]
  3. ↑ Dalton quoted some of Wilson's comments regarding the song, in that the four notes corresponding to the opening drum beat was "the same sound a carpenter makes when he's hammering in a nail, a bird sings when it gets on its branch, or a baby makes when she shakes her rattle". [49] Wilson's bandmate and cousin Mike Love remembered Wilson comparing the song to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. [50]
  4. ↑ In the early 1970s, Wilson had instructed his engineer Stephen Desper to create a tape loop consisting only of the final chorus in "Be My Baby", which he listened to for several hours in what Desper saw as "some kind of a trance." [43]
  5. ↑ Biographer Jon Stebbins writes, "Brian stared fiercely at the camera ... Lunden probably didn't know that the obsessive Beach Boy had listened to that particular song over and over, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, but the look on his face was enough to send the exasperated talk-show host off in a different direction." [53]

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