Ronnie Spector may have been the quintessential 1960s poster girl, what with her Wall of Sound-posing, mascara-wearing, beehive-donning glory, but the singer — who died on Wednesday of cancer at age ...

The first time Ronnie Spector, who passed away this week at age 78 after a short bout with cancer, altered the course of music history it was as the central voice of the essential 1960s girl group the ...

After years of performing around New York City, the Ronettes exploded in 1963 behind “Be My Baby,” a modern standard beloved by the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson and pretty much everyone else with ears and ...

Hard to believe, but teenagers weren’t always promised songs that beat louder than their hearts. That changed for good in the summer of 1963 with “Be My Baby,” a hit single where the blood-pounding ...

Vince Cuneo of Venice duo Movie Club said of the late Ronnie Spector that: “The first time I heard Ronnie Spector’s voice was the hit ‘Be My Baby’ by the Ronettes. Classic songs like this take the ...

Ronnie Spector, the cat-eyed, bee-hived rock 'n' roll siren who sang such 1960s hits as "Be My Baby," "Baby I Love You" and "Walking in the Rain" as the leader of the girl group The Ronettes, has died ...

American singer Ronnie Spector died Wednesday. Spector was the lead singer for the Ronettes singing group, active from 1957 to 1967, which also included her elder sister and cousin. She pursued a solo ...