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Bette Midler inducts Darlene Love into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame 03-14-11
Darlene Love performing "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)" on The Late Show with David Letterman. December 23, 2010...
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...The New York Times reports more by Sean O'Neal December 14, 2010 Neil Diamond, Alice Cooper, Tom Waits, Dr. John, and Darlene Love will be next year's inductees into the Rock And Roll Hall more The controversial onstage antics that made Alice Cooper every...
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...of Christmas" performed "Winter Wonderland" live and told about the many projects keeping her busy these days. Songstress Darlene Love has something to sing about with the release of her live concert album "The Concert of Love" now available on CD and features...
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WPIX.com
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Darlene Love on CBS News singing "Night of Peace". The song was written by Jan Pulsford and Seth Glassman.
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Englewood — A hit record can be elusive for singers as they try to find the melody and lyrics that will fit together to create something special. Songwriter Ellie Greenwich set a standard by penning many of the 1960s rock and roll hits that still stand
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NorthJersey.com
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25th ANNIVERSARY ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME CONCERT Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band w. Darlene Love - A Fine Fine Boy - Madison Square Garden, NYC - 2009/10/29&30
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If ever there was an ambassador for Christmas, it's singer Darlene Love.
"My favorite season of the whole year is Christmas," she says from her home in Rockland, N.Y.
"People forget about me all year. In November, they remember."
Darlene Love may not
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The Honolulu Advertiser
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In a way, Christmas is the last respite before Academy Awards season really starts heating up. Before New Years Day rolls around, voters will be staring at their ballots, studios will know it's time for a full-court press, and nervous potential
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The Wrap
http://www.thewrap.com/ind-column/good-morning-oscar-christmas-12218
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It's just not Christmas until the fabulous Darlene Love makes her annual appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman
This was Darlene's 23rd annual appearance to sing the Phil Spector holiday classic. This year's performance was even better than
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Rod 2.0
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Last night Darlene Love made her 23rd annual holiday appearance on the David Letterman show to sing her classic Christmas (Baby Please Come Home). It's really hard to believe that her first hit record, 1962's #1 smash He's A Rebel, was 47 years ago.
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Joe. My. God.
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If you live in New York, the first sign of the holiday
season is not the sight of a titanic, glittering tree or a robot Santa
swiveling his hips in front of a department store. It’s something both more
mundane and harder to escape: One day in early
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Peter Bodo's TennisWorld
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LEVITTOWN REALLY WAS once the land of plenty, at least when it came to record stores. Not the scruffy, hipsterish joints romanticized in novels and movies like “High Fidelity” but rather the places where vinyl went before it was vintage, in this case
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The New York Times
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Every year "Late Show with David Letterman" does the same thing for their special Christmas episode. Darlene Love shows up to sing "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)," one of the best Christmas pop songs...
Every year "Late Show with David Letterman"
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San Francisco Chronicle
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At 8, CBS has A Home For The Holidays with Faith Hill.
TNT has the Patrick Stewart A Christmas Carol at 8.
TCM has To Have and Have Not at 8, then The Big Sleep.
Lifetime Movie Network has Comfort and Joy at 8, followed by Recipe For a Perfect
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New Jersey 2009 [no label, 2CD]
Live at the Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, New Jersey, December 17, 2009. Good to very good audience recording, with very enthusiastic audience participation.
Since the release of Phil Spector’s A Christmas Gift For You
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Talkin' About My Revolutions
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It's that special time of year -- when I stop avoiding the Christmas songs that have been playing for months on the radio and actually start listening to them.
I know what you're thinking. Maybe I should just change my name to Scrooge. But I prefer to
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Belleville News-Democrat
http://www.bnd.com/yourlife/story/1062310.html
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ABC has How the Grinch Stole Christmas and repeats of The Middle, Modern Family, and Cougar Town
CBS is new with A Home for the Holidays With Faith Hill, and has repeats of Criminal Minds and CSI:NY
FOX has repeats of Glee
NBC has repeats of Mercy
The
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BuzzSugar
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"Toy Story": If you live in a house with young children, what is Christmas Day, really, but a story about toys? (Or at least a story about Mom and Dad assembling toys.) Pixar's first picture — and the one that introduced us to Woody and Buzz Lightyear,
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Inside Bay Area
http://www.insidebayarea.com/entertainment/ci_14051665?source=rss
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Mark Dye/For The Star-LedgerDarlene Love performs at her annual Christmas show at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, Dec. 20
Steven Van Zandt and Paul Shaffer worked hard behind the scenes to get the late Ellie Greenwich into the Rock and
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NJ.com
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2009/12/darlene_love_shines_in_annual.html
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...Shaffer, Steve "Little Steven" Van Zandt and Lesley Gore joined Darlene Love Sunday night at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, NJ, to celebrate songwriter Ellie Greenwich, who died in August at 68. Shaffer sang a hilarious rendition of Greenwich's...
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New York Post
http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/spector_forgiven_PnnYnRb0zsXf1yrcZ4sKlL
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There’s still holiday season left to brave, but by now you may already be tiring of corporate radio’s nonstop holiday music. There’s only so many sleigh bells and treacly Sarah McLachlan ballads one can stand before wanting to drive off a very merry
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Providence Journal
http://www.projo.com/music/content/lb_music_PerfectHolidayPlaylist_12-23-09_UNGQ_v6.13c1304.html
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Class of 2010 includes ABBA, Jimmy Cliff, Genesis, the Hollies and the Stooges. Among those who didn't make the final cut were LL Cool J, Laura Nyro, KISS, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Donna Summer, Darlene Love and the
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Voice of America
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Published: 12/21/2009 2:18 AM
Last Modified: 12/21/2009 2:18 AM
It's no exaggeration: "A Christmas Gift For You from Phil Spector" is one of the best holiday albums of all time.
Scratch that. It's one of the best
rock
albums of all
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Tulsa World
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Gilmore has gravitas. Her solemn contralto is warm as a hearth, still as a pine forest at night. So any attempt by her to make a "Christmas album" is unlikely to be bloated with pudding and parodies of Darlene Love. Indeed, as you'd expect, Strange
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The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-thea-gilmore-strange-communion-fullfilluniversal-1846276.html
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It's that special time of year -- when I stop avoiding the Christmas songs that have been playing for months on the radio and actually start listening to them. I know what you're thinking. Maybe I should just change my name to Scrooge. But I prefer to
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Detroit Free Press
http://www.freep.com/article/20091220/COL36/912200322/1035/RSS04
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It's that special time of year -- when I stop avoiding the Christmas songs that have been playing for months on the radio and actually start listening to them. I know what you're thinking. Maybe I should just change my name to Scrooge. But I prefer to
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Detroit Free Press
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LAFAYETTE — The Acadiana Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor-director Mariusz Smolij, will perform “It’s Christmas Time” today with a special 30-minute appearance by Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience.
The show starts at 7:30 p.m. at the
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2TheAdvocate.com
http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/acadiana/79703232.html
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Singers Darlene Love and Ronnie Spector shared the stage for the first time in more than 15 years Thursday to play a benefit show for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Monmouth County at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank.
The legendary ladies performed
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Asbury Park Press
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Singers Darlene Love and Ronnie Spector shared the stage for the first time in more than 15 years Thursday to play a benefit show for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Monmouth County at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank.
The legendary ladies performed
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Asbury Park Press
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Singers Darlene Love and Ronnie Spector shared the stage for the first time in more than 15 years Thursday to play a benefit show for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Monmouth County at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank.
The legendary ladies performed
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Asbury Park Press
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Tony Award winner Melba Moore will play San Francisco's Rrazz Room December 30 - January 5. On New Year's Eve, the singer will offer a special concert to help audiences ring in the New Year. She is
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TheaterMania.com
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7 p.m. Friday. A program from the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas, Texas. WCQS-FM/88.1.
8 p.m. Saturday. The young French-Canadian conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin says that every time an orchestra he conducts goes onstage, he wants them to play
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The Asheville Citizen-Times
http://www.CITIZEN-TIMES.com/article/2009312180019
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CORPUS CHRISTI
Phil Spector the musician is known for his trademark “Wall of Sound” productions that transformed tales of teen heartbreak into mini-epics complete with dramatic use of studio sonics.
Because of his desire to create a music that bore
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Corpus Christi Caller-Times
http://www.caller.com/news/2009/dec/17/spectors-christmas-gift-holds-up-through-the/?partner=RSS
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You could keep it simple and just pick up "A Very Special Christmas Vol. 1." The original collection of holiday hits reinterpreted by contemporary chart-toppers is the best. The 1987 album (complete with Keith Haring album art) features a totally
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The State
http://www.thestate.com/living/story/1075200.html?RSS=life_and_style
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As we reach the 17th day of Mellowmas together, we’d like to take a second to acknowledge your feelings after yesterday’s Mellowmas failure. It’s okay to be confused. It’s okay to be questioning our taste, and perhaps your own. It’s okay to wonder if
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Popdose.com
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation announced its 2010 enshrinees Tuesday: ABBA, Genesis, Jimmy Cliff, the Hollies and the Stooges.
Of this class, ABBA and the Stooges have been nominated before. Artists are eligible for enshrinement 25 years
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PopMatters
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Ho ho holy smokes have I got a sleigh full of holiday music for you this year! I usually keep this stuff under wraps until Christmas but I guess there's no harm in sharing some of it with you now. I'll definitely have one of these blasting when I
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I love high standards. I love the way that Times Square turns into a sea of green, red, silver and gold each and every Christmas. I love the smell of roast chestnuts wafting up from nearby street corner braziers. I love the towering Norwegian spruce
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T5M.com
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ABBA, Genesis, The Stooges, Jimmy Cliff and The Hollies are those who will be inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year. They will be honored at a ceremony which will take place at New York's Waldorf Astoria on March 15.
Not making into the
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Aces Showbiz
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-- A Dec. 15 Economy & Business article about Wells Fargo and Citigroup agreeing to repay the loans they received from the federal government incorrectly said that Wells Fargo was issuing stock to the company's benefit plan in place of cash
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The Washington Post
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The year “Santa Baby” came out I thought it was cute the first 4,396 times I heard it. After that, not so much.
If I can mention a second one, “All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth” sets mine on edge.
“The Little Drummer Boy” aggravates me.
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The Volokh Conspiracy
http://volokh.com/2009/12/15/my-least-favorite-christmas-song/
This is a clip from the 23rd December 2005 episode of the Late Show With David Letterman featuring Darlene Love singing Christmas (Baby Please Come Home). Darlene's Christmas visits have been a yearly tradition for the Late Show and she gets better every year.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame better prepare for assault from the Kiss Army. There’s no fan scorned like a Kiss fan. The glam hard rockers lost out on their bid to get into the Rock Hall when the class of 2010 was announced today. In are Abba, Genesis,
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HitFix
http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/2008-12-6-the-beat-goes-on/posts/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-analysis-did-they-get-it-right-this-year
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OK, OK, OK, I'll do it! To my surprise, a few people have asked me to "write something about Christmas music," usually followed by "like you used to." I'm happy to oblige. Longtime readers of CL will remember when we used to run an annual look-see of
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Charlotte Creative Loafing
http://charlotte.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/a_list_of_merry_christmas_music/Content?oid=798848
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Abba, Jimmy Cliff, Genesis, the Hollies and the Stooges are on their way to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. As announced today, the five acts will be inducted in a ceremony on March 15.
"They represent a great cross-section of artists that define the
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09349/1021102-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml
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'Tis the season to make lists. Here's one – every review of Christmas records should contain references to Christmas institutions, be it turkey, Santa, grandma falling asleep, the Queen's Speech, Top of the Pops, whatever. Here's another – Christmas
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Drowned in Sound
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Did sub-zero temperatures prevent you from actually leaving your apartment for the pursuit of nightlife this weekend? Don't worry: as usual, we've got you covered, with pretty photos from Friday through Sunday. Want to see Dr. Dog, Darlene Love, the
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Vulture
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Slow Club get all festive this week, releasing new EP Christmas, Thanks For Nothing today on Moshi Moshi. This is followed by a one-off headline show at Union Chapel on Thurs 17th December. On the EP, Rebecca and Charles take turns recreating two
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CD Times
http://www.themusicfix.co.uk/content/news-flash/8272/slow-club-talk-christmas.html
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