Their dance moves rather than their voices earned them gigs on deejay Murray The K's gala concerts (they had yet to land a hit). Their ravishing look, incorporating heavy eye makeup, mountainous hairdos, and knockout physiques, got the underage Ronettes into the Peppermint Lounge in 1961. 'That's how the name The Ronettes came up.' So they had 'Ro'-Ronnie, 'Ne'–-Nedra, 'Es'–-Estelle,'says Nedra.

'My mom and my uncle Ray and them came up with the combination of all of our names. That name lasted as long as their debut single. So it just sort of dwindled down to just being three.' When they signed with Colpix in 1961, the trio was billed as Ronnie & The Relatives. At 10 years old, I was doing my first talent show at the Apollo with all of us. 'It started out with six of us,'says Nedra.

The girls and their relatives were tutored on harmonizing by Ronnie's grandmother. Ronnie loved Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers. Born Augin New York City, Veronica (her birth name), her sister Estelle (born July 22, 1941), and their cousin Nedra Talley (born January 27, 1946) were mixed race products of Spanish Harlem in New York. Phil Spector found his muse in Ronnie Bennett. Simply! And this music speaks to us, whether it's our dreams, fantasies, or the idea about how love and life should be that we recognize within the grooves.One of my fellow fans and friends told me recently, that he had his therapist listen to the girls' version of 'Paradise' just to make clear what kind of world he lives in But mostly it's a sound that makes us feel good, and the fact that people are still listening to it todoy.6 decodes later, that's what's important. This music and these girls deserve recognition. Over the next few years Ronnie, Estelle and Nedra are busy: touring, tensing hair, appearing on tv-shows and recording.with only a fraction of their work actually ending up on vinyl (Even with this collection, there are more tracks left in the vaults, fans.! ). A song now regarded as one of the corner-stones of the short-lived 60s girl group boom. In early 1963 with no hit to their name ' The Ronettes' sign with another label 'PhiIles Records' and finally land the smash hit classic 'Be my baby' penned by Ellie Greenwich/ Jeff Barry/ Phil Spector. Just to get a hug, a photo or a signature on one of the group's original records. Little do they know that 6 decades later, people are still foiling in love with their music, and that Ronnie, in her 70s, is still performing at sold-out concerts in the US and in Europe, with a mob of fans waiting for her outside after her shows. Desperately trying to break into show business, make a hit-record and become part of super-stardom. It's summer 1961, 17-year old Veronica (Ronnie), her sister Estelle and their cousin Nedra walk into RCA recording studio for the first time to record for Moy/Colpix records. (For Collectors Only) 27 tracks (3 unreleased) Tracks 1-4 and 6-10 Stereo - Digipac

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