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2 unusual facts about Phil Spector


Henry Diltz

Among the bands Diltz played with were the Modern Folk Quartet (later Quintet), who included Chip Douglas, Jerry Yester and Cyrus Faryar, released two albums in 1963/64 and were later produced by Phil Spector.

Nedra Talley

In 1966, Talley and Estelle Bennett left the Ronettes, reportedly due in part to interference from Ronnie Spector's then husband and group producer Phil Spector.


A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector

A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector (originally released as A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records) is an album of Christmas songs, produced by Phil Spector, and originally released as Philles 45 in 1963.

Baron Wolman

Because of Wolman's virtually unlimited access to his subjects, his photographs of Janis Joplin, the Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, the Who, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Iggy Pop, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, Phil Spector, Jim Morrison, Ike & Tina Turner, and other musicians were the graphic centerpieces of Rolling Stones layout.

Bunny Lewis

Lewis' UK chart-topping effort of four production credits exceeds those notables such as Phil Spector, Mickie Most, Denny Cordell, Phil Coulter and Albhy Galuten, all of whom only managed three such Number Ones.

Leslie Abramson

In 2004, she was hired by Phil Spector, who was charged with fatally shooting actress Lana Clarkson at his suburban Alhambra, California mansion, replacing his former attorney, Robert Shapiro.

Pandemonium Shadow Show

Among the original songs by Nilsson, were one by Phil Spector (who had earlier co-written a song with Nilsson), Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, "River Deep - Mountain High", and two by The Beatles; She's Leaving Home and "You Can't Do That", the latter in an arrangement that quoted twenty other Beatles lyrics.

Re-amp

It's been noted that Phil Spector, re-mixing the original Beatles’ Let It Be master tapes in 1970, may have re-recorded dry electric guitar program through a guitar amplifier.

Sonny Charles

He was the lead singer of Checkmates, Ltd. in the 1960s and 1970s, and it is his vocals that are heard out front on their 1969 Phil Spector-produced hit, "Black Pearl."

Ted Albert

The early 1960s heralded the arrival of the independent record producers Phil Spector and Joe Meek and later still Shel Talmy.

The Cake

The production of the song, which was arranged by Harold Battiste, aped the Wall of Sound technique created by Nitzsche and Phil Spector.

The Dixie Cups

The group hit the top of the charts in 1964 with "Chapel of Love," a song that Phil Spector, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich had originally written for The Ronettes.

The Pearls

# "You Came, You Saw, You Conquered" - (Irwin Levine, Phil Spector, Toni Wine) 2:39

Wax Museum, Vol. 1

# "Walkin' in the Rain" (Barry Mann, Phil Spector, Cynthia Weil)


see also

Phil Spector International

Phil Spector International was a record label operated between 1970 and 1980 by Malcolm Jones.

Tear down the wall

Tearing Down the Wall of Sound, biography of sixties record producer Phil Spector, written by Mick Brown.