Topic: The Ronettes

Celebrity birthdays on Jan. 27

Singer Bobby "Blue" Bland is 82. Actor James Cromwell ("Babe") is 72. Drummer Nick Mason of Pink Floyd is 67. Singer Nedra Talley of The Ronettes...

DUM DUM GIRLS: He Gets Me High (Sub Pop)

In four songs, the Dum Dum Girls manage to evoke The Ronettes, Velvet Underground and The Ramones and end with a Smiths cover. So, apart from the...
Call her the voice of the beehive. . Margaret Vinci Heldt, 92, from Chicago has been honored as the inventor of the iconic teased hairdo.. Heldt...

11 classic holiday albums

0 1. "Elvis' Christmas Album" . In the United States, this 1957 album is the bestselling Christmas album of all time.. 2. "A Jolly Christmas From...
It's been a long time since visions of Christmases in Harlem danced in Ronnie Spector's head.. "They were the best ever," she says, thinking back...

The Ronettes

The Ronettes were an all female music group from the 1960s. They began performing with their cousin, Nedra Talley, in 1959, but weren't commercially successful until their collaboration with Phil Spector in 1963 . " The band split up in 1966 and Ronnie ...

Pop songwriter Ellie Greenwich dies in New York

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Songwriter Ellie Greenwich, who helped shape pop music in the 1960s with such memorable tunes as " She was 68.The Brooklyn-born writer joined forces with producer Phil Spector and her then-husband Jeff Barry to compose elaborately crafted "Wall of ...
Estelle Bennett, one-third of classic girl group The Ronettes, dies at 67 in New JerseyEstelle Bennett, one of the Ronettes, the singing trio whose 1963 hit " Greenfield is the manager and husband of Bennett's sister, Ronettes lead singer Ronnie Spector.The ...