The Crystals/Gene Pitney, “He’s a Rebel.”Pitney had a lot of hits, but he didn’t write most of them. And he couldn’t have released his own version of “He’s a Rebel” in 1962, at least not without changing it to “She’s a Rebel,” which wouldn’t have had much of a...
India, learning Transcendental Meditation. Inspired byChuck Berry‘s ‘Back In The USA’ and with a large nudge to The Beach Boys (with the definitive Beach Boy “Oooeeeeoooo” in the background harmonies), the opening track on The White album saw The Beatles playing high energy...
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near the famed composing-and-publishing factory, the Brill Building. Mann and Weil, who married in 1961, helped pioneer the more socially conscious side of the Brill Building-era songbook with hits such as ‘Uptown’ by The Crystals, ‘We Gotta Get out of This ...
The Crystals: “Then He Kissed Me” (1963) Some of the sweetest minutes in all of pop music. Lyrically, it couldn’t be any less lascivious—promises of fidelity, taking the boy home to meet the folks, and that kiss sounds more like a quick peck then a tongue bath—but it’s all ...
“the engine fart” and slams other women’s boyfriends into the mattress “off the yerkyyyyy.” Predictably cocksure, Sexyy Red knows she looks good, from the clanking crystals on her wrist to the “stupid butt” squeezed into her leather hot pants—that 125-decibel “Skeee-YEEEEE” is...
267 The Crystals, ‘He’s A Rebel’ Writer: Gene Pitney Producer: Phil Spector Released: Aug. '62, Philles 18 weeks; No. 1 The Crystals were from Brooklyn, but Spector was in Los Angeles to record "He’s a Rebel." So he recorded this celebration of teenage bad boys with Darlene Lov...
- Artist: The Crystals Some controversial tunes seem downright mild in retrospect, but not this one from the Crystals. Featuring a title that pretty much says it all, the song takes a gravely misguided approach to the subject of domestic abuse. To make a creepy thing even creepier, future ...
On Ultraviolence, Lana Del Rey moved away from the hip-hop references of Born to Die to further explore Americana and vintage pop, alongside producer Dan Auerbach, of the Black Keys. The dirge-like title track pays homage to the Crystals “He Hit Me,” produced by convicted murderer Phil ...
The Crystals, ‘Da Doo Ron Ron’ 1963 Writer(s):Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Phil Spector Powered by Within a year, the Crystals’ records went from high drama (“He’s a Rebel”) to swooning romance (“Then He Kissed Me”) to the speaking-in-tongues magic that is “Da Doo Ron ...