Artist	Song
Bruce Springsteen	Born to Run
Roy Wood & Wizzard	This is the Story of my Love (Baby)
ABBA	Ring Ring
Ronnie Spector	Say Goodbye to Hollywood
Billy Joel	Until the Night
Blondie	Denis
Dave Edmunds	Born to Be with You
Roy Wood & Wizzard	Angel Finger
Hall & Oates	The Last Time
Meat Loaf	You Took the Words Right Out of my Mouth
The Rubinoos	Rendezvous
Patti Smith	Because the Night
The Paley Brothers	Turn the Tide
Gasolin'	Kvinde Min
George Harrison	Don't Make Me Wait Too Long
Roy Wood & Wizzard	See my Baby Jive
Boomtown Rats	Never in a Million Years
Ronnie Spector	Happy Birthday Rock'n'Roll (Dedicated to Phil)

Comment:

There have been a couple of compilations of 60s era Spector soundalikes, but I have yet to see one solely focusing on the variety of 70s songs featuring one of more Spector trademarks. So here is a mix gathering a couple of my personal favourites... Some notes on a few of the songs might be in order:
Bruce Springsteen was/is of course a huge fan of Spector's Wall of Sound and even played guitar on a Spector session for Dion during the 70s. Allegedly, when Spector had heard Springsteen's take on his approach, he later told him "if you were gonna copy my sound, why didn't you just ask me to do it?" Springsteen's E Street band by the way provided the backing for Ronnie Spector's incredible 'Say Goodbye to Hollywood' which was penned by Billy Joel, who besides recording his own Spectoresque version also sang 'Until the Night' in a majestic style akin to what Phil did with the Righteous Brothers. Hmmm, what else? Oh, then there's Britain's foremost Spector clone Roy Wood whose records can be so downright Wall of Soundish it's scary! The 'power pop goes grandiose' selections from the Rubinoos and the Paley Brothers are also fantastic wall of soundalikes - the Paley Brothers are told to have been recording with Phil during the 70s but nothing's been issued.I could go on and on, but hopefully the track selections speak for themselves by emphasizing the far reaching influence of Mr. Spector - from ABBA to Patti Smith and even all the way to Denmark, where local band Gasolin' issued the Spectoresque 'Kvinde Min'. The final track makes for a befitting end. It's from Ronnie Spector's 81 'Siren' album - give it a listen all the way through. There's a couple of nice surprises at the ending of the song. Keep those glockenspiels a-ringin' and those 500-member choirs a-singin'. Back to mono and over and out!

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