Phil Spector, the brilliant but abusive record producer, made the young vocal powerhouse the keystone of his famed Wall of Sound productions in the early 1960s. He launched the Ronettes into the ...

“I was still living at home, and Phil Spector came over for a spaghetti dinner,” recalls Nino Tempo. “We went into the piano room after dinner and he said, ‘This is a song I’m gonna record.