The Ronettes

The Ronettes were a 1960's girl group from New York City. Their most famous songs include "Be My Baby", "Baby, I Love You", and "Walking in the Rain". The lead singer was Ronette Bennet who married Phil Spector her manager. Ronnie's father was an Irish emigrant and her mother was African-American. The rest of the trio were her sister (Estelle) and cousin (Nedra). Ronnie is regarded as the original "bad girl of 'rock and roll'". In 1966 the group toured with The Beatles.
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I was going to say that I particularly remember them singing "Da Doo Ron Ron", but when I looked it up on Wikipedia, it turns out that that was The Crystals.
Happy daze!
(I should point out that I also played classical violin.)
It makes me sad to see how such a genius of audio technique was otherwise such an unpleasantly messed-up man.
I'm afraid that whilst I enjoy listening to them, I still prefer the version of 'Baby, I Love You' recorded by the Ramones...
Nothing wrong with learning the trumpet; people tend to be fairly ignorant about how the technique for brass instruments works, otherwise they'd be more impressed.
Not the reaction you were expecting
I did, and I'm not. I went to YouTube some time ago to have a listen to the original of the Beth Orton track "I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine", but couldn't listen right the way through: I couldn't stand to hear such a beautiful tune so badly massacred.
Possibly one might react differently if one became familiar with the Ronettes' version first, but not I, not I.