Phil Spector

With Spector producing the Teddy Bears recorded the Spector-penned "Don't You Worry My Little Pet" which helped them secure a deal with Era Records. This is keenly perceptible in many if not all of Spector's recordings from the percussion in many of his hit songs: shakers güiros (gourds) and maracas in "Be My Baby" and the son montuno in "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" heard clearly in the song's bridge played by session bassist Carol Kaye while the same repeating refrain is played on harpsichord by keyboardist Larry Knechtel. since the original label's demise although Spector had released several Philles Records compilations in Britain.

After this initial success Spector later worked with artists including Ike and Tina Turner John Lennon George Harrison and the Ramones with similar acclaim. Phillip Harvey "Phil" Spector (born Harvey Phillip Spector December 26 1939) is an American record producer and songwriter. The originator of the "Wall of Sound" production technique Spector was a pioneer of the 1960s girl-group sound and produced and wrote or co-wrote more than twenty-five Top 40 hits from 1960 to 1965.