Album #10: The Ronettes - Everything Under the Sun

    Memoirs are usually very formulaic, or at least can be criticized as so. I personally love reading them of artists I am interested in, but I get they sometimes aren't the most emotionally strong format to tell a story. Despite that, I almost cried multiple times reading Ronnie Spector's Be My Baby. Her story is so beautiful, and sad, yet so full of hope, that no matter how factually it is told, there is an overwhelming amount of emotion. I recommend you give it a casual read, and I won't retell her story, but I will highlight how much I loved learning about her life after leaving Phil Spector. It's full of hope. It was when I was reading that book in around November 2024 that I made this record. In the photo I used for the cover, she is far away from her sister and cousin bandmates, but I decided to keep that. Phil Spector always wanted to highlight her, not only to show appreciation, but isolate her.

   

    This is an album compiling stray tracks of The Ronettes. In Ronnie's book, she stated how she believed Phil's lyrics were his attempt to put words into Ronnie's mouth, and to control how she should feel about their relationship. For example, Be My Baby was from when they just started to date, and the song reflects that. On the darker side of this, Phil asserted his control with a song like You Came, You Saw, You Conquered. Phil has songwriting credit on every song except the title track. I attempted to put these songs into an order that shows the start, highs, lows, and end of the Spector couple. 

    Out of every album I have compiled, this might have been the one I've listened to the most. I find it a perfect companion to their masterpiece of an album.

1. Why Don't They Let us Fall in Love

2. Born To Be Together

3. Is This What I Get For Loving You?

4. Keep on Dancing

5. Paradise

6. Everything Under the Sun

7. I Can Hear Music

8. Woman in Love (With You)

9. Here I Sit

10. You Came, You Saw, You Conquered

11. Try Some, Buy Some

12. I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine

Download/Listen: Google Drive