Sunday, March 18, 2007

The Best of the Ronettes

Man, this is exciting. I've been looking for this for ages, and then suddenly, last weekend, passing through Missing Link for a cursory browse on my way somewhere else, what should confront me from the racks but a best of the Ronettes! It kicks off with "Be My Baby", as of course it must, and from thereon in it's 18 songs of girl group bliss, much of which I haven't heard before because of Phil Spector's curmudgeonly refusal to license his songs for release on compilations on other labels. So yes, it's wonderful, and while I haven't got as into their stuff as the Shangri-Las, it's still very great indeed.