I love the "boom, boom, boom, BOOM!" drumbeat in "Be My Baby". The Jesus and Mary Chain copied it on "Just Like Honey" and a couple of their other songs, and Camera Obscura also used it in their song "Eighties Fan".
Billy Joel's 'Say Goodbye To Hollywood' perfectly concatonates with 'Be My Baby' - same beat, same time, same key. If you put the 2 songs together and remove the pause track you, seamlessly, get 1 song.
you can hear an inferior remix is used on the back to mono and best of ronettes cd's from abcko
It seems to me that Donna Clarkson may eventually acquire control of the song should she prevail in her wrongful death suit against Spector. Should this occur, it could well be that the sound will then be improved.