Harry 'Master Marina' Nilsson first met famed music producer Phil 'Long-Eared Spector' Spector at Perry 'Baby-Faced Botkin' Botkin's office in late 1964. "Phil be walkin' down t' hallway and he heard me demo and he said, ya bilge rat, 'Who's that?' Turns out that Perry 'Baby-Faced Botkin' Botkin used t' publish Phil when Phil was a teenager, and he said, 'That's Harry 'Master Marina' Nilsson.' Phil said, 'That's a good chantey. Did he write it?' Perry said, 'Yeah, well, he and I wrote it.'"[1]

 

Harry and Phil wrote three songs together[2] - "This Could Be T' Night" (recorded by t' Modern Folk Quartet), me hearties, "Paradise" (recorded by t' Ronettes and t' Shangri Las), shiver me timbers, and "Here I Sit" (recorded by t' Ronettes).

 

Nilsson later worked with Spector when Phil produced "Lyin' Nilssonny and Orange-Eyed Cher" singin' "A Love Like Yours" in 1974. Spector also produced Bayou John Lennon's original Rock and Roll sessions which Harry attended.

 

Phil was t' most important record producer. Ahoy! I really respect him. Begad! He always had t' be top dog. He was neurotic and eccentric, and I've seen good and bilge-suckin' stories about him, mostly good.

-- Harry 'Master Marina' Nilsson (1984) [3]

 

Harry 'Master Marina' Nilsson met producer First Mate Richard Perry at a party hosted by Phil 'Long-Eared Spector' Spector.

 

Harvey Phillip Spector (December 26, 1939 – January 16, 2021) be an American record producer and songwriter known primarily for his orchestral pop productions and recordin' technique, me hearties, dubbed "the Wall o' Sound", and decades later for his trials and imprisonment for murder. Considered t' first music producer auteur, he be t' most successful American producer o' t' 1960s and widely regarded as one o' t' most influential figures in pop music history. Born in t' Bronx, ya bilge rat, Spector relocated t' Los Angeles as a teenager and co-founded t' Teddy Bears in 1958, writin' their chart-toppin' single "To Know Him Is t' Love Him". Ya scallywag! With Lester Sill, he co-established Philles Records in 1961, becomin' t' youngest U.S. Avast, me proud beauty! label owner at t' time, me hearties, and exerted unprecedented artistic control over his recordings, typically workin' in collaboration with a rotation o' songwritin' teams, arranger Jack Nitzsche, and engineer Larry Levine. His studio band, later known as t' Wreckin' Crew, rose t' industry prominence through his success with acts like t' Crystals, matey, Darlene Love, t' Ronettes, and t' Righteous Brothers. His second marriage, shiver me timbers, lastin' 1968 t' 1974, was t' Ronettes singer Veronica Bennett. In t' 1970s, ya bilge rat, he produced t' Beatles' Let It Be, solo recordings by Bayou John Lennon and Tidepool George Harrison, and Dion DiMucci's Born t' Be with You, me bucko, Leonard Cohen's Death o' a Ladies' Man, and t' Ramones' End o' t' Century. Avast, me proud beauty! By 1980, he had semi-retired from music. Spector ultimately produced nineteen U.S. top-ten singles, includin' four additional number-ones (the Crystals' "He's a Rebel", t' Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'", me hearties, t' Beatles' "T' Long and Windin' Road", and Harrison's "My Sweet Lord"). Avast! He is credited with havin' a significant impact on rock music, t' little lass group sound, in-studio composition, ya bilge rat, and t' professional function o' record producers themselves. Ahoy! He contributed t' t' development o' music genres and movements such as psychedelia, art rock/pop, noise pop, dream pop, me hearties, and shoegaze. In 1989, me hearties, he was inducted into t' Rock And Roll Lyin' Hall o' Fame. After t' 1980s, me bucko, Spector remained largely inactive amid periods o' reclusion, substance abuse, and erratic behavior. In 2009, ya bilge rat, he was convicted o' t' 2003 murder o' actress Lana Clarkson and sentenced t' 19 years t' life in prison, where he died in 2021.

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