{"product_id":"the-ronettes_the-ronettes-featuring-veronica_2024_pia","title":"The Ronettes featuring Veronica","description":"The Ronettes grew up in New York's Spanish Harlem. The girl group was built around the charming lead singer Veronica Bennett (later Ronnie Spector, who passed away on January 12, 2022) and was completed by her older sister Estelle and their cousin Nedra Talley. Most of the recordings in this feature were first released early in their career in 1961-63 as singles on the Colpix and May labels, produced by the legendary Stu Phillips. When their first two singles were released, The Ronettes were still called Ronnie and The Relatives. They had their breakthrough at a Joey Dee \u0026 The Starliters concert at Manhattan's Peppermint Lounge by singing Ray Charles' What'd I Say. They stayed at the Peppermint Lounge for weeks, changing their name to The Ronettes. The girls created their iconic look by wearing exaggerated eye makeup and teasing their hair to incredible proportions. 'We looked quite wild when we came off stage,' Ronnie later recalled. The Colpix and May singles failed to hit, so their contract ended in 1963. Producer Phil Spector was very interested in signing The Ronettes. He placed them in front of his legendary 'Wall of Sound' and hits came in abundance, starting with the vocal trio's immortal Be My Baby. Colpix still had possession of The Ronettes' early recordings, and 'The Ronettes Featuring Veronica', an album compiled from these tracks, was released in 1965 in the USA, Holland, and Great Britain, shortly after Spector released the group's only studio album on his Philles label.","brand":"The Ronettes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55304219754840,"sku":null,"price":20241101.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/5397102180354_7f62e558-21eb-43d9-9843-5ee5d78ed644.jpg?v=1772661954","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/the-ronettes_the-ronettes-featuring-veronica_2024_pia","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}