Darlene Love Singing "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)...

[Little Star]

Best of Darlene Love Singing "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" on David Letterman

Every year since 1986, Darlene Love has performed her 1963 girl group classic "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" on the last episode of Late Show With David Letterman before Christmas. In a recent interview with the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Billboard asked Love if she would consider moving the annual performance to a different late night show.

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She laughed and shook her head.

"This would be my 28th year in a row," Love said, speaking to Billboard backstage at a charity concert honoring Joan Jett. "They never told me not to, but it was an unspoken thing. They couldn't ask me not to sing 'Christmas (Baby)' on another show, but after 10 years, then 15 years, of doing this one song on this one show, I felt I had an obligation to be true to them."
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This song sure puts me in the holiday mood. Yours?

[countryjake]

1. Tomorrow night will be her last time doing it for Letterman, Friday the 19th.

It's been a kickoff to the holidays for me every single year and I expect bells will be ringing on the Late Show tomorrow.

Here's the original of Darlene singing her song back in 1963 from a Christmas compilation album. It was supposed to be released as a single but that just happened to be on the same day President Kennedy was assassinated, so Spector withdrew her record and the entire album also flopped. Lots of good music on it, tho.

[mrmpa]

2. The best tradition..............

I'm with Letterman, it's not Christmas for me, until the meatball is knocked off the tree and Darlene Love sings.

[countryjake]

3. Yup.