Uptown

Producer Phil Spector and the composers were unhappy with The Crystals session on "Uptown" (Cynthia Wiell - Barry Mann). Phil brought in Eva Boyd as vocalist and after multiple takes she walked out. According to Cynthia: "Before Little Eva did 'The Loco-Motion,' we dragged her into a studio with Phil, and it was the first time she'd ever been on mic, and Phil was driving her crazy. And she didn't realize that when she was on the mic, even if we weren't recording you could hear what she was saying in the control booth. So she was ranting about hating Phil during the whole thing." This is Eva Boyd.

Phil went back to working with The Crystals again. The Crystals (lead vocalist Barbara Alston, LaLa Brooks, Dolores Kenniebrew, Mary Thomas and Patsy Wright) take on "Uptown" was released and reached number thirteen on the Top One Hundred, number eighteen R&B. The track is on their 1961 debut LP "Twist Uptown". Two years later the album title was changed to "He's A Rebel" as that was the big hit at the time. The non-hit "Please Hurt Me" was replaced on the new issue.