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(aaah...) Oh since the day I saw you,
(higher aaah...) I have been waiting for you,
(Phil's masterstroke: lower aaah...) You know I will adore you,
To eternity...

So everyone knows everyone loves this, but does everyone love it for the same reasons? Specifically, to me that second verse is where it passes from mere classic to masterpiece - can you single out a particular part of the song that way?

― B.Rad (Brad), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 04:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I will note that the lines about how she'll make you proud of her and that "we'll make them turn their heads every where we go" can be a little alienating. The first is a bit subservient and the second kinda exhibitionist. Great song nonetheless. I may kinda prefer "She's Real" the Built To Spill version (I haven't heard the original), that utilizes "Be My Baby" to great effect. Great example of a non-sample sample of a song.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 04:45 (twenty-two years ago)

c'mon be my baby tonight... c'mon be my baby tonight... i've seen the way you've treated other thugs you've been with... c'mon be my baby tonight

― ron (ron), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 04:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the first few lines of the second verse the most: "I'll make you so happy, baby, just wait and see..."

It has that Spectorian mystique, I guess.

― call mr. lee (call mr. lee), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

The drums the drums the drums. The intro is one of the signature riffs of rock n roll - instantly recognizeable, endlessly copied/borrowed, beautifully executed, when the rest of the band swoops in on the downbeat just after the drum break ahhhhhhhhhhh.... genius.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 4 December 2002 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

The Voice! Oh man, the voice.

― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

can you single out a particular part of the song

"a-wah-ho-a-wo-ho-ho"

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

You really can't single out any one part of it as greater than the rest, and that's why it's great. I like the way everything in the background - voices, strings, instruments - just kind of melts together. That's probably what they meant by the Wall of Sound but it always makes me think of an impressionist painting, somehow.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 08:40 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

http://www.youtube.com/w/the-Ronettes---Be-My-Baby-/-Shout%21?v=abVpPFyUBFQ&search=ronettes

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 10 February 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

the "vietnam veterans" cover is teh best cover of the song ever.

― goooooooooogoooooooo, Friday, 10 February 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

I love it because it's one of the first songs I remember being in love with. I was obsessed with the Dirty Dancing soundtrack as a child.

― musically (musically), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

that "tami show" clip totally smokes, i hope people are watching it. watch ronnie spector shake her booty!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

60s tv was a lot sexier than i had imagined.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

That my alltime favourite Spector/girl-group thing was sung by the most gorgeous woman in the history of pop is a coincidence, since I loved the song years before I ever saw any photographs of (hubba hubba!) Veronica Spector. Many things to love - the drums, the whoa-ho-ho-ho, etc. But if I gotta single out something, I'll go with Ronnie's accent: The way she'll make them TOIN their heads every place we go. Dunno if that's what Spanish Harlem sounds like - my Canadian ears have trouble diffentiating all those variegated New Yawk accents - but it's adorable, as is her slighly lispy pronunciation of "so".

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 11 February 2006 00:49 (nineteen years ago)

Five best things about "Be My Baby."

5. The line "for every kiss you give me, I'll give you three."
4. The passion behind Ronnie's voice when she goes "Whoa-oh-oh-oh!
3. Ronnie Spector doing harmonies for. . . Ronnie Spector.
2. The opening drums. Every song should open like that.
1. That when I played it for a girl who wasn't familiar with it, she said that she was glad to hear that it was my favorite song.

― Moses (Moses), Saturday, 11 February 2006 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

"OH SINCE THE DAY I SAW YOU/I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU..."

That's it right there. But the opening gives me goosebumps too.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 February 2006 04:27 (nineteen years ago)

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