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Eddie Money was born Edward Joseph Mahoney into a large Irish Catholic family in Brooklyn. His grandfather, father, and one of his brothers were members of the New York City Police Department and he himself was an NYPD trainee for a period of time. As his interest in music intensified, he eventually ended his law enforcement career in favor of becoming a full-time musician. He moved to Berkeley, California, and became a regular at city clubs, where he secured a recording contract with Columbia Records.
By the mid-1980s, Eddie Money had reached a low-point in his recording career after several years of drug abuse. He joined a 12-step program in 2001 and has said of his addiction that he "came to the realization that I didn't really need [it] for my quick wit."
With this song, Ronnie Spector returned to the spotlight for the first time in two decades. A groundbreaking artist, Spector was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with The Ronettes in 2007, but by 1986 she was long out of the spotlight. Ronnie Spector appeared in the video, mostly in silhouette form, but a financial dispute nearly kept her out of it. According to Morris, Spector's boyfriend/manager told her not to be filmed until they received a payment he felt they were owed, so Morris said they would just use his wife, Fiona O'Mahoney, who was also the producer on the shoot, in place of Spector, which conceivably could work because most of Spector's scenes were shot in shadows.
In our interview with Morris, he explained: "We put Fiona in the dress that Ronnie was going to wear, we put a wig on her, and we started doing a camera test where Ronnie and her manager could see it. Her manager was going, 'They're just bluffing, Ronnie, they're not going to do it. They're not really going to do it, Ronnie.' And Ronnie was like, 'They are going to do it and I'm not going to be in the video!'
In the end, she saw sense, and she performed it. The whole crew applauded. But that was a wild and wacky thing to do, and maybe a bit cruel to do, but we were English in Los Angeles making our third or fourth music video, and if we'd come away having paid Ronnie extra money, that would have crashed our budget. But my producer didn't get to be in the video." According to Spector, she got on board as soon as she heard the lyric "Listen honey, just like Ronnie sang... be my little baby."
"One they said that, I was sold," she told Entertainment Weekly. "He was a crazy person - freaking out in the studio, going, 'I've got the real Ronnie Spector singing 'Be My Baby' on my record!'"
I followed this up with the song by Ronnie https://musicfor.us/2018/10/07/the-ronettes-w-ronnie-spector-be-my-baby-1963/