"Be My Baby" by The Ronettes, released in 1963, was written by Phil Spector alongside songwriting duo Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich. The track, produced by Spector using his distinctive "Wall of Sound" technique, became a seminal pop recording that profoundly influenced Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys and shaped the direction of Pet Sounds. The song's layered orchestral production remains iconic more than 60 years later.

The track reached the top ten and featured the Wrecking Crew musicians. Spector developed an attraction to lead singer Ronnie Bennett, whom he would marry five years later, with biographer Darlene Love suggesting this attraction influenced the song's creation during Spector's marital difficulties. The lyrics place unusual emphasis on the male as an object of desire; this reading takes on darker implications when considered alongside Ronnie Spector's 1990 memoir, which documents Spector's controlling and abusive behaviour during their marriage.