The Holiday Music Fest 2020
In honor of the inveterate Chris Dunn, here is two hours of Darlene Love singing “Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home”). No, really, two hours of it.
In 1986, Darlene Love was appearing in a show, Leader of the Pack, that Paul Shaffer was performing with. David Letterman came to a performance, loved her singing of this song and invited her on to her show to sing it – and kept inviting her back every year for 28 years through to his last season in 2014. And this is a compilation of all those appearances. The show always went out for a big, fun production – including how they’d introduce the saxophone solo in some different, often odd way. If you don’t want to watch the whole thing – which is pretty likely – at least jump to the 1:40:00 mark when, for the last show, Letterman invites our her as a guest. And then right after, at the very end of the video, is a fun, sort of “Making of…” segment on how they put the song together each year. Which ends with a montage of about half a dozen versions of her singing the song. And each are seamless and joyous.
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