chris bartley wrote:
Another one of my top class Stockton Market purchases again.......only £3. Just forget how many class songs he produced and he seemed to be working with songwriters/bands who were on the top of their game eg The Ronettes 'Be my baby' and 'Baby I love you' and Ike and Tina Turner 'River Deep Mountain High (Greenwich/ Barry) and The Righteous Bros 'You've lost that lovin' feelin' (Mann/Weil). Just wondering what you thought about Spector and his Wall of Sound stuff?
Can't wait for this reply, a direct comparison to Joe Meeks adversary. I don't think Spector, although a great producer was quite....mmm... in the same sphere with regard to electronic goose pimply back of the neck hair raising ground breaking stuff. Don't you think Spectors stuff is a bit muddy, I don't think he could master the tape bouncing tape to tape technique and keep the clarity. Joe was very clever at that, keeping the lead instrument and vocal to the last dub. Spector wins to some extent in that he understood the "science" of music better and didn't produce a song a week.