Ronnie Spector - Dangerous
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Artist: Ronnie SpectorEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 1997-02-11
Music Label: Raven [Australia]
Soundtracks:
- Say Goodbye To Hollywood
- Baby Please Don't Go
- You Mean So Much To Me
- Take Me Home Tonight (Be My Baby)
- Who Can Sleep?
- Love On A Rooftop
- Dangerous
- Burnin' Love
- Unfinished Business
- (If I Could) Walk Away
- Heart Song
- True to You
- When We Danced
- Good Love Is Hard To Find
- You Mean So Much To Me (Live)
- Ronnie Spector Interview
Music reviews of Dangerous
Music Review: Gems and zircons
Rating: 3 Stars
Ever since Ronnie Spector left Phil (or escaped) she's found it hard to jumpstart her career. Not only were her records few and far between, they were hard to find when first released. And if she didn't get a hit right away, she was gone - which is why there are so many record labels involved in her career. The UNFINISHED BUSINESS album gave her her best shot, because not only did it involve a major record label (Columbia), it came on the heels of her appearance on Eddie Money's "Take Me Home Tonight", a gigantic hit. Unfortunately the material (which makes up the bulk of this CD) just wasn't good enough for her. She's a captivating singer, but she's no magician. Only "Love On A Rooftop" (which Cher later copped) captures the magic of her Ronettes records. "Who Can Sleep" (the single) is o.k. as is "Dangerous" and "Burning Love", but it's the bonus numbers that make this a keeper. Four or five years before this album she hooked up with Miami Steve Van Zandt, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes and Bruce Springsteen, who were all big fans, and cut 3 of her best post-Ronettes records. "You Mean So Much To Me" was written by Bruce, produced by Steve, and found Ronnie dueting with Southside on the closer of the Jukes' debut album, and is a gem. Ronnie could be found performing this with Southside during their early live shows, such as NYC's Bottom Line, where the live version was recorded. Loads of fun. This recording was followed by the Van Zandt produced single of Billy Joel's "Say Goodbye To Hollywood" b/w Van Zandt's hypnotic ballad "Baby Please Don't Go" and both backed by the E Street Band. Since Joel based his song on "Be MY Baby", copping the opening drum riff, this seemed like a natural. But everybody's trying way too hard (except Ronnie, who hits the perfect groove) and the production, while fiery, is ultimately too much, leaving Billy Joel with the definitive version. Very good to be sure, but not GREAT. "Baby Please Don"t Go" however is a gem. With Clarence Clemon's soulful sax complimenting Ronnie's heartfelt vocal, this should be one of Van Zandt's proudest moments in music. And with it's inclusion on this CD,you won't have to hunt down [...] for this long out of print record (I think it was out of print the week it was released, that's how tuff it was to find when it came out. In the Village no less!). Th 45rpm stated these songs were from a forthcoming album, but when the record stiffed, no album appeared. I've always wondered whether an album was recorded, but I don't think we ever could have been lucky enough to have Ronnie make a whole album with Steve and Bruce & the guys. Rounding off the extra cuts is Eddie and Ronnie's "Take Me Home...". So you get about 8 solid cuts, which I guess in CD terms is about the norm, along with some beautifully produced but unworthy titles from one of Rock's great ladies.(Now if they had included Ronnie's version of "It's A Heartache" this would have been a must-have.)
Description of Dangerous
'Ronnie's voice!' Billy Joel once enthused, 'I mean, it sounds almost lubricated. It's got a smell to it, like sweat and garlic. There's an urgency to that voice, a sexuality that screams street to me. Ronnie's sound is like the neon glow that hits the streets under the elevated tracks on a hot summer night. She's got the natural vibrato that sounds like it's coming straight up from her gut - and there's no one else who sings like that. Ronnie can wring more emotion out of one long phrase than most singers can from a whole song.' So saying, Joel wrote a song for his idol called SAY GOODBYE TO HOLLYWOOD and she recorded it with Bruce Springsteen's E. Street Band - Clarence Clemmon's hot horn screeching mightily. That powerhouse track - only ever available on a vinyl single - leads off this powerful, driving CD which documents the period of Ronnie's greatest recordings after her Ronettes era underClassic Rock CDs
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