OBIT SPECTOR 3

FILE -- Ronnie Spector performs at the Ponderosa Stomp in New York, July 30, 2011. Spector, the lead singer of the Ronettes, the 1960s vocal trio that gave a passionate, bad-girl edge to pop’s girl-group sound with hits like “Be My Baby” and “Baby, I Love You,” died on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. She was 78. (Michael Nagle/The New York Times)