Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

Couldn't be happier to be here with Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield,

and we are going to return to a subject that was very fruitful for us a couple weeks ago

and will continue to be fruitful perhaps for future episodes, Rolling Stones new and totally

revamped list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.

We didn't get that far among the 500 songs.

Let's start here, we're going to start digging back into the list and let's start with number

22 and we'll see how far we get today and number 22 is the Ronets be my baby. I mean,

I mean the amount of

I mean the amount of impact it's had on the way

on vocal production on like

background vocals for so many pop artists on girl groups on vocal groups

generally I mean that song has had incredible legs for for decades now now Rob how important to the sort of

afterlife of this song was its appearance in Martin Scorsese Mean Streets.

Be My Baby is the ultimate time traveling song.

The way it was used in Martin Scorsese Meen Streets,

very similar to how it was used in dirty dancing.

The beat that kicks off the story, an epic story,

and something about that beat,

that Hal Blaine beat, it cues an epic story,

and with teenage Ronnie Specter belting it, it's just the perfect combination of adult precision and teen enthusiasm.

I think that's why it's a timeless song that lights up any any room and has inspired so many of the

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