Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica by The Ronettes

Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica, the Ronettes' only studio album, came out on Phil Spector's label Philles in November 1964, and it's less an album than a trophy case: Spector gathered up the singles the trio had cut in 1963 and 1964 and lined them up side by side, every one of them swathed in his booming orchestral pop.

Up front is Veronica Bennett, later Ronnie Spector, with her older sister Estelle Bennett and their cousin Nedra Talley, three girls from Washington Heights who had been singing together since their teens. Veronica's voice, tough and tender at once, cuts clean through all that grandeur, and "Walking in the Rain" is the one that has turned up on the countdowns. That same year the Rolling Stones opened for them on a UK tour. Rolling Stone later placed the album at 422 on its list of the greatest albums, and at 494 when that list was revised in 2023.

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