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Phil Spector Career Timeline: 1965 With The Ronettes & 1970 With John Lennon
1965: The Ronettes’ “Born To Be Together” b/w “Blues for Baby” is released on Philles Records.
1970: John Lennon’s “Instant Karma” hits #1 on the U.S. charts.
2007: The Ronettes Inducted Into Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame
Rachelle Spector To Release ‘P.S. I Love You’ Single March 18th
Rachelle Spector to release single, “P.S. I Love You,” as tribute to her husband Phil Spector
Single available on iTunes March 18, EP of 5 songs to be released through Genius 4Ever Records in late spring
LOS ANGELES – Rachelle Spector, singer and wife of legendary music producer Phil Spector, is set to release her single, “P.S. I Love You” on March 18. An EP with 5 more songs will be released later this spring through Genius 4Ever Records.
“P.S. I Love You,” which Rachelle wrote with co-writer and producer Chris Seefried (Fitz and The Tantrums), is essentially a love song from Rachelle to her husband. Beautiful, yet haunting lyrics depict two profoundly tragic moments of the producer’s life, the deaths of his father and his son.
If “P.S. I Love You” sounds reminiscent of Phil’s hit song, “To Know Him Is To Love Him,” it should. Rachelle always wanted to do a spin off of that song for Phil, as a way to pay homage to him, hence the idea for this song. According to Rachelle, “I would always sing, ‘To Know Him Is To Love Him’ to Phil and I wanted to do something that paid homage to Phillip’s losses. Through this song, I wanted to humanize Phil and show compassion to him as a person, who dealt with a tremendous amount of loss in his life, but was able to achieve so much. And if people only knew him like I do, they would love him too.”
“P.S. I Love You” will be included on Rachelle’s upcoming EP later this spring, along with 5 other new songs, each of which was mono recorded. The complete EP will be available on iTunes and through other digital distributors. Rachelle is also working on a musical about the life of Phil Spector.
Phil Spector’s ‘A Christmas Gift For You’ Created A New Tradition
When Phil Spector was at his commercial peak as a record producer, he had his “wall of sound” style down to such a science that he could turn it over to his engineers and arrangers to do a lot of the actual work. But when Spector got it into his head to make a Christmas album, he didn’t do it by half. He enlisted all of the stars of the Philles label—The Ronettes, The Crystals, Darlene Love, etc.—and spent many months and many thousands of dollars making sure that every song on A Christmas Gift For You From Philles Records was perfect.
Read more at The A.V. Club.