Post by Lydia Purple on Dec 1, 2013 18:52:03 GMT -8
The music industry took notice of the name Phil Spector for the first time when The Teddy Bears topped the US chart for the first of three weeks with "To Know Him Is To Love Him". The Teddy Bears - the name was inspired by the Elvis Presley hit "Teddy Bear" - was a singing group 17-year-old Spector had formed with two school friends Marshall Leib (19) and Annette Kleinbard (16) and the song, which he wrote and produced, was inspired by the inscription on his father's tombstone" which read "To Know Him Was To Love Him". Annette Kleinbard later changed her name to Carol Connors and achieved fame in her own right as a songwriter, and among her successes were "Hey Little Cobra" and the theme from "Rocky", "Gonna Fly Now". Spector's father committed suicide when he was nine years old.
(Source: The History of Rock, Day by Day)
hope its a good one for all
