Popular pop songwriter Ellie Greenwich is dead at 68.
Ellie Greenwich died of a heart attack in New York’s Roosevelt Hospital, where she was battling pneumonia. Some of the songs she wrote include: “Be My Baby” and “Baby, I Love You,” the Shangri-La’s “Leader of the Pack,” the Dixie Cups’ “Chapel of Love,” Tina & Ike Turner’s “River Deep, Mountain High” and the Crystals’ “Then He Kissed Me” and “Da Doo Ron Ron.”
