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Remember to click on the photos and album covers to find tons and tons of Crystals/Darlene Love products and Phil Spector rarities in Gemm.com itself.  | If you like this review, fly the tiny url around! http://tinyurl.com/lkc7et Gene Pitney's classic composition was immortalized with Phil Spector's Wall of Sound and Darlene Love lead singing on this Crystals' record...and it is the perfect storm of melody/attitude/vocal prowess and record production that makes this song one for the ages. In 2009 the failure of mainstream oldies stations to play "He's A Rebel" is astounding, and why radio is in such rough shape. No "Leader of the Pack" here, this rebel with a cause has his story told through the eyes of infatuation...it's the perfect teen song of idealism but it is drenched in adult rock. | Driving home from a band performance and fireworks on Salisbury Beach, September 5, 2009, actually as midnight hit on September 6th, Northshore 104 - the oldies station on the North Shore of Boston played "He's A Rebel" and it hit me that this song has not been on the airwaves in these parts in some time. What a shame, because a timeless classic like "He's A Rebel" - or "The Loco-Motion" or "The Twist" for that matter, should have a home on any rock radio station. What is it with fragmenting radio, "He's A Rebel" can brighten up any pop radio format from Country to Classic Rock. But the programmers just don't get it...and that is why the kids of this generation find radio so irrelevant. Video didn't kill the radio star, the Corporations used radio to kill the radio star. |
 | He's A Rebel: The Gene Pitney Story Gene Pitney - with all his fortitude and insight - never came up with anything as spectacular in his own repertoire, letting another singer enunciate his genius for the world to hear: Just because of that they say - hey, He's a rebel and he'll never be any good |
 | Phil Spector sentenced to 19 years to life My, he holds his head up high/When he goes walking by / He's my guy
Try singing those lines the way Darlene Love slurs and slides them, majestically over Spector's masterpiece of production:
My Baby Oh He's the one/ To Try The Things They've Never Done
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