Cal Vid's video: Phil Spector Years Birthday December 26

1. To Know Him Is to Love Him - The Teddy Bears 1:15 2. There's No Other Like My Baby - The Crystals 2:37 3. Little Latin Lupe Lu - The Righteous Brothers 4:57 4. I Want a Boy - The Ronettes 7:13 5. Good Girls - The Ronettes 8:49 6. Be My Baby - The Ronettes 10:00 7. I Met Him On A Sunday (Ronde-Ronde) The Shirelles 11:15 8. Dedicated To The One I Love - The Shirelles 12:48 9. Tonight's the Night - The Shirelles 13:25 10. Will You Love Me Tomorrow - The Shirelles 13:43 11. Baby, I Love You - The Ronettes 16:45 12. Is This What I Get for Loving You - The Ronettes 18:36 13. Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers 19:23 14. (You're My) Soul And Inspiration - The Righteous Brothers 20:22 15. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - The Righteous Brothers 21:03 ...are the featured songs on Rock Legends Season 12 Episode 16 Spector Years. The episode aired on Nov 15, 2020. The rock, soul, and R&B record producer/songwriter's active years were from 1958–2009. Phil Spector got his first hit song while still in high school with a group called The Teddy Bears. Spector went on to write and produce multiple number-one songs in the United States and the United Kingdom, also developing the "Wall of Sound" technique. Spector was born Harvey Philip Spector on December 26, 1939, in New York City. When Spector was 9 years old, his father committed suicide. His grieving family moved to Los Angeles in 1953. Spector attended Fairfax High School, where he learned how to play the guitar and started writing songs. At Fairfax, he met fellow students Marshall Leib, Harvey Goldstein, and Annette Kleinbard. Together they formed the music group The Teddy Bears and had a No.1 hit in the United States and the United Kingdom with "To Know Him Is To Love Him." The song's title was taken from the inscription on Spector's father's grave. The Teddy Bears seemed destined for fame, but their next single, "I Don't Need You Anymore" only reached No. 91 on the charts. Proceeding singles proved to be even less successful, and the band split up in 1959. After the group went their separate ways, Spector drifted around a little, then returned to Los Angeles and re-entered the record business to concentrate on producing. With the help of independent producers, Lester Sill and Lee Hazlewood, Spector went to New York and worked with hit-makers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. He became a staff producer for Dune Records, where he produced a string of hits and became an industry sensation. In 1961, Spector and Still formed their own label, Philles Records. The partners signed on the group The Crystals, whose first single, "There's No Other (Like My Baby)" made it to No. 20 on the Billboard chart. Their next release, "Uptown," hit No. 13. By the age of 21, Spector was a millionaire who was responsible for producing 20 consecutive smash hits. During this time, he started to work on his "Wall of Sound" technique in earnest. The "Wall" approach to production involved a process of overdubbing scores of musicians to make a full sound. The effect created a "roar," which Spector described as the "Wagnerian approach to rock 'n' roll." This style served to make Spector even more famous in the music industry, and many iconic artists would begin imitating this technique in future years, including The Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen. Seclusion But life wasn't unfolding exactly as Spector had hoped. In 1966, he produced Ike and Tina Turner's single "River Deep, Mountain High." Spector considered it his greatest production to date. While it placed at No. 3 on the U.K. pop charts, it peaked at No. 88 in the U.S. Embittered, Spector went into seclusion for two years, during which time there were reports of strange, near-psychotic behavior. He did very little for the rest of the 1960s. Collaboration with the Beatles In 1969, Spector returned to work after he was asked to produce George Harrison and John Lennon's solo albums. After successful results, he was asked to turn a series of the Beatles' recording sessions into a marketable album. The resulting work, Let It Be, topped both the U.S. and U.K. charts and yielded the No. 1 single, "The Long and Winding Road." For the next several years, Spector continued to produce successful solo albums for Lennon and Harrison. In spite of his bizarre behavior, Spector was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989. He went on to write and produce music until 2003 when he was arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of actress Lana Clarkson. At the producer's mansion in Alhambra, California. She had been shot dead, with a gunshot wound through the roof of her mouth. Proceedings for a murder retrial began in October 2008, and Spector was found guilty of second-degree murder in 2009. He was sentenced to 19 years in North Kern State Prison in California. He was also ordered to pay $17,000 to Donna Clarkson, Clarkson's mother, for funeral expenses.