Video: Be My Baby - Leslie Mendelson

Joel Dorn's been one of my musical tour guides since I was a teenager. Now, two years after the legendary producer's death, he's still turning me on to great music. "The Joel Dorn Sessions," an EP of songs on which singer Leslie Mendelson collaborated with Dorn, is as smooth as the 18-year-old Scotch I drank last night. The album's cover of The Rolling Stones' "Waiting on a Friend" sounds like a Rickie Lee Jones arrangement, but Mendelson's voice is rounder, softer. Mendelson glides through The Ronettes' "Be My Baby" — her rendition sounds like a [...]