Hmmm, maybe he has something here,” but never like, “It’s going to be around for the next 50 years.” That was never a thought. I just wasn’t one of them.ĭid you feel you were in the presence of someone who was creating a sound that would become historic? I didn’t give him a chance to show guns me. If I come in that studio and they say you have a gun on you, I’m going home.”Īs great as he was and as great a friendship as we had, you could flip and then I’m not there no more. He called and said, “Where are you?” I said, “I was there an hour ago, but you had a gun and I’m not coming to no studio with you with a gun.” “OK, come on back, Dar.” I said, “Well, just make sure when I get there the guys are gone.” He has these two twins that used to be his bodyguards. Never, because the one time I did go to the studio and they said he did have a gun, I went back home. Soxx & The Blue Jeans’ “Zip-a-Dee-Doo Dah.”ĭid you ever see him in the studio with a gun like some other artists did? I always thought he was going to put my name on Bob B. It was all done during that little bit of time. We only worked with him from 1961 to 1964. It might have been a couple of weeks or months. You promised me this was going to be my record.” And then we didn’t talk for a long time after that happened. I was like, “Phil, this was supposed to by my record. I came in with fire in my eyes and nobody could really stop me as mad as I was. The big fallout was after that, we did fallout about “He’s Sure the Boy I Love.” I was driving my car home from a session and the disc jockey said, “Here’s the next record from The Crystals” and it was “He’s Sure the Boy I Love.” I stopped my car - it’s a good thing there was nobody behind me - turned around and went back to the studio. Your relationship first went south when he wouldn’t put your name on the next single, “He’s Sure the Boy I Love” and still released it under The Crystals, right? ![]() Phil Spector's Biggest Billboard Hits: 'To Know Him Is to Love Him,' 'Be My Baby,' 'Unchained… We were in the business working around all these superstars. … Me and Phil and Blossoms, we had so much fun in the earlier days. Once he told me how he wanted it sung, that’s how I sung it. I was a melody singer, so he didn’t really have to harp on me about singing the song the way he wanted it. They don’t want you to go off and do runs like they do today. The thing about me and The Blossoms, I was already a professional singer and producers liked for you to sing their melodies, especially writers. What direction did he give you when you recorded “He’s a Rebel?” At that age he had lost a lot of his hair. I was the one with the big mouth who would even say anything like that to anybody. Don’t be looking at my hair.” He just kind of shrugged it off. ![]() And then out of my mouth, I said, “Are you wearing a toupee?” When I met him, I just kept looking at his hair. You first met Spector in 1962 in California when he hired your group, The Blossoms, to record “He’s a Rebel.” What was your first impression? Love recalls their thorny relationship, with its soaring highs and bruising lows, to Billboard. He was serving a 19-years-to-life sentence at the time of his death. Spector was convicted in 2009 of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of actress Lana Clarkson. ![]() Phil Spector, Music Producer and Convicted Murderer, Dies at 81
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