Ronnie Spector, the trail-blazing lead singer of the 1960s all-girl group the Ronettes, has died. The pop star found fame with hits such as Be My Baby, Baby I Love You and Walking in the Rain.

“I was still living at home, and Phil Spector came over for a spaghetti dinner,” recalls Nino Tempo. “We went into the piano room after dinner and he said, ‘This is a song I’m gonna record.

But it's never left the airwaves. On Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs, "Be My Baby" comes in at #22. Ronnie formed the Ronettes with her older sister Estelle and their cousin Nedra.

The Ronettes — sisters Veronica “Ronnie” and Estelle Bennett and their cousin Nedra Talley — signed with Phil Spector’s Philles Records in 1963. Their 1963 hit, “Be My Baby,” was ...

The Ronettes, composed of Veronica Bennett (Ronnie Spector), Estelle Bennett, and Nedra Talley, became one of the most ...

The Beatles also were foreign—they came from ... Estelle Bennett, one of the Ronettes, the singing trio whose 1963 hit Be My Baby epitomized the famed “wall of sound" technique of its producer, Phil ...

SPECTOR: I remember so much about “Be My Baby” especially, when Hal Blaine went ‘boom boom boom bow’ and I came in: [sings] “The night we met…” We did one song a day – you can do ...