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Be My Baby - Live singing performance by The Ronettes GoGo dancers choreography: Ward Ellis & Teri Robinson Date: November 29th, 1965; AIP film recording for The Big . Show Place: The Moulin Rouge Club in Los Angeles, California. Photo: “Be My Baby“ was written by Jeff Barry (born as Joel Adelberg; April 3, 1938), Ellie Greenwich (Oct. 23, 1940 – Aug. 26, 2009) and Phil Spector. It was recorded on July 5, 1963 at Gold Star Studios Hollywood, LA. The song’s innocence, sweetness and angst is part of the song’s sustained power. At its heart, “Be My Baby” is as much about power and control as it is about romance. Today “Be My Baby” is as ubiquitous as a pop classic gets with its plinking pianos and castanets, its echo-chambered double vocals and massive drums. Those drums (boom-ba-boom) at the start, immortalized by drummer † Hal Blaine (5 februari 1929, Holyoke, Massachusetts - † 11 maart 2019, Palm Desert, California), are a harbinger of