the CRYSTALS "HE HIT ME" PHIL SPECTOR / CAROL KING - BANNED 45 - FREE S&H
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THIS IS A VERY CLEAN ORIGINAL PRESSING OF THE NOTORIOUS CAROL KING / PHIL SPECTOR 45 THAT WAS WITHDRAWN & BANNED
THE CRYSTALS - HE HIT ME B/W NO ONE EVER TELLS YOU - PHILLES # 105
Upon its initial release, "He Hit Me" received some airplay, but then there was a widespread protest of the song, with many concluding that the song was an endorsement of spousal abuse.[1] Soon, the song was played only rarely on the radio, as now.
Carole King, in that same radio interview, said that she was sorry she had ever had anything to do with the song. She was a survivor of repeated domestic abuse (but not from Goffin, who had been her husband from 1959 to 1969)
It was a brutal song, as any attempt to justify such violence must be, and Spector’s arrangement only amplified its savagery, framing Barbara Alston’s lone vocal amid a sea of caustic strings and funereal drums, while the backing vocals almost trilled their own belief that the boy had done nothing wrong. In more ironic hands (and a more understanding age), 'He Hit Me' might have passed at least as satire. But Spector showed no sign of appreciating that, nor did he feel any need to. No less than the song’s writers, he was not preaching, he was merely documenting.
BOTH SIDES OF THE RECORD AND BOTH LABELS ARE IN VERY GOOD + CONDITION, WITH ONLY A VERY FEW MINOR SURFACE SCUFFS
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