September 1, 2017

567 The Crystals “Uptown” 1962

“The female artists on [Phil Spector’s] label were treated with less respect. The Crystals, five young girls from Brooklyn, started out singing the songs they recorded, but were soon cheated out of royalties when Spector hired a session singer, Darlene Love…for a flat studio fee. The girls had to tour and front No. 1 hits that they had not even recorded, yet couldn’t leave Spector because he owned their name. Fostering an air of insecurity and dependency, he played one artist off against another” (Lucy O’Brien, She Bop II: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul, 2002). 

The Crystals “Uptown”

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