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Died: January 16, 2021. WRITING in his Bob Dylan Encyclopedia some 14 years ago, author Michael Gray, observing that Phil Spector was very young when his father took his own life, says that that event, more than any other, “explains” Spector’s lifetime “of disturbed behaviour. Mad, inspired record producer; seven-stone weakling; gun-toting paranoiac; teen tantrum king; abusive husband and father: this is Phil Spector on a good day”. A few years later, in 2009, after a retrial (the first one, in 2007, had ended in a hung jury), Spector was found guilty of the second-degree murder, in 2003, of Lana Clarkson, an actress he had met the previous evening, at his turreted mansion in a Los Angeles suburb. Clarkson had died of a gunshot wound to the mouth. Spector was sentenced to between 19 years and life. In 2014, in view of his declining health, he was moved from the California State Prison to a healthcare facility; he died at the weekend, aged 81, from complications of C
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Fabulous Flip Sides In Memoriam â Vanilla Fudge Bassist Tim Bogert and Wall of Sound Producer Phil Spector
Remembering bassist Tim Bogert and wall of sound producer Phil Spector
Author:
Vanilla Fudge
A side: You Keep Me Hangin’ On (re-issue)
Top 100 debut: July 13, 1968
Peak position: 6
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In 1967, Vanilla Fudge’s self-titled debut album included Beatles compositions, which George Harrison was a fan of, and the Holland-Dozier-Holland composition, “You Keep Me Hangin’ On,” slowed down from the crisp pace of The Supremes’ hit in the prior year, and ran over seven minutes. An edited single version, tracking at less than three minutes, stalled at No. 67, with “Take Me for a Little While” on the flip side. In the summer of 1968, “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” was attempted again as a single, with a new flip side called “Come By Day, Come By Night,” and it went to the Top 10. Tim Bogert’s bass throbbing sounded like rain drops on the exclusive flip
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Most everybody recalls the 1963 single by the Crystals, Da Doo Ron Ron. Few, though, could name the song on the reverse of that phonograph 45, the obscure instrumental
Git’ It. Every great success, after all, has its lesser flipside.
Phil Spector produced and co-wrote
Da Doo Ron Ron, likewise
Be My Baby by the Ronettes and