Tearing Down The Wall Of Sound (2007) - Plot & Excerpts
In August 1994, Spector received a telephone call from his friend Paul Shaffer, telling him to watch that evening’s edition of The Late Show with David Letterman. The French-Canadian singer Céline Dion was performing “River Deep—Mountain High” Shaffer, the show’s musical director, had labored to create an arrangement as close as possible to the original version, and wanted Spector’s opinion. Céline Dion had recorded her first English-language album, Unison, in 1990, and scored a breakthrough U.S. hit with the Top 5 single “Where Does My Heart Beat Now.” She had gone on to enjoy a string of hit singles, and to win both an Academy Award and a Grammy for her recording of the title track to the soundtrack of an animated version of Beauty and the Beast. It was a measure of how divorced Spector had become from the music business that he had never heard of her. But watching her perform on Letterman he was sufficiently impressed to send a letter to Dion’s offices in Montreal, offering his services as a producer.
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