‘WOMEN WHO ROCK’ CONCERT SERIES

» Ronnie Spector, “Beyond the Beehive.” 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30. $57.50-$77.50. » Shemekia Copeland. 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20. $29.50$37.50. » Cherie Currie: The Voice of the Runaways. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23. $29.50$37.50. would just listen to Frankie all the time. When I was 10 or 11, I would go into the lobby because there were really high ceilings, and sing doowop, listening to my voice echo. Right then I knew I could sing.”

Her smoky vocals led her to front the Ronettes in the 1960s, wooing audiences with such hits as the timeless “Be My Baby” and “Walking in the Rain.”

The group is represented in the exhibit’s “Will You Love Me Tomorrow: The Early 1960s/ Girl Groups” section.” It discusses girl groups mostly controlled by male handlers but that accurately portrayed teenage girls in the day. Spector showed off her signature no-holdsbarred style and charmed audiences with her stage presence.

Spector’s rocky relationship with ex-husband and record mogul Phil Spector led her to write an autobiography in 1989 called “Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness.” By that time, she had remarried and found the strength and desire to perform again.

Spector’s edgy style earned her the title of the “original bad girl of rock and roll,” and she influenced several male rockers, including Joey Ramone and Bruce Springsteen.

“In the early ’70s, I had Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen telling me they loved my “Oh, oh, oh, ohs,” and I didn’t think people knew I existed then,” she recalled. “It opened a whole new door for me, performing with the E Street Band, and I started to realize more and more that women have power. Today, we have it like we’ve never had it before.”