Sheila Burgel on The Ronettes’ “Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica” (1964)

Episode notes

Writer and DJ Sheila Burgel sits down with Oliver and guest co-host Jocelyn Brown to discuss The Ronettes’ “Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica.” We get into the impact of girl groups through the decades, the “wall of sound” formula, and the influence of girl groups across the globe.

More on Sheila Burgel

• Check out Sophisticated Boom Boom on WFMU
• Sheila’s astonishing record collection (Dust & Grooves)
• Website

More on The Ronettes

• It’s Time To Recognize The Ronettes As Rock And Roll Pioneers (NPR)
• Classic Tracks: The Ronettes ‘Be My Baby’ (Sound On Sound)
• The Ronettes on American Bandstand

Show Tracklisting (all songs from  Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica unless otherwise indicated):

• Chapel of Love
• Baby, I Love You
• Amy Winehouse: Back to Black
• BLACKPINK: Ice Cream
• Be My Baby
• What I’d Say
• (The Best Part Of) Breakin’ Up
• I Wonder
• Do I Love You?
• So Young
•  You Baby
• C. Jérôme: Da Dou Ron Ron
• Eiichi Ohtaki: Kimiwa Tennenshoku
• Adrienne Posta: Shang A Doo Lang
• The Pipettes: Because It’s Not Love (But It’s Still A Feeling)
• Walking in the Rain
• (The Best Part Of) Breakin’ Up
• Baby, I Love You
• Be My Baby
• How Does It Feel
• When I Saw You
• Be My Baby
• The Shangri-Las: Give Him A Great Big Kiss
• Laura Nyro & Labelle: The Bells
• The Dixie Cups: I’m Gonna Get You Yet
• Reparata and the Delrons: I Can Hear The Rain
• Lesley Gore: You Don’t Own Me

Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find on there

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