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When Love was in high school, she was personally invited to sing with a girl group called The Blossoms, who started to work with renowned producer, Phil Spector. Love developed her reputation as a singer with her strong voice that earned her plenty of work as a singer for hire with Sam Cooke, Dionne Warwick, Elvis Presley and Tom Jones. The first single that Love sang the lead vocals on was a track called “He’s a Rebel”, the single shot to number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Still with The Blossoms, they contributed vocals to some huge hits in the 1960s such as “Be My Baby”, “Monster Mash” and Frank Sinatra’s famous rendition of “That’s Life”. She also released “He’s Sure the Boy I Love” which peaked at number 11 in 1962.
In the 1970s, Love worked as a background singer, but took a break to raise her family. She featured on the song “Basketball Jones” which made it to number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. When Love came back in the 1980s, she went back to her gospel roots on recordings, and sang “OOO Wee Baby” in The Idolmaker, a film that was released in 1980. She featured as a singer of U2’s cover of “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”, and in 1990 she released an album called “Paint Another Picture”, unfortunately it didn’t make the charts. She released a song called “All Alone on Christmas” which was written by Steven Van Zandt and made it to the Home Alone 2: Lost in New York soundtrack. Her singing made it to the soundtrack of the film Jingle All the Way too. It was December 15th 2010 that Love was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
When I was around 16 years old I found the baby book my mother kept for me and in the book were pages about my “first”, and my first song was “He’s A Rebel” by Darlene Love. Of course I did not remember this and when I asked my mother about the song she smiled and told me how she used to play it over and over and one day, when I was two, she came into my room to me singing the chorus of the song. I am still not sure if I believe my mother, but ever since then I have been a fan of Darlene Love.
I would not get to see Darlene Love until several decades later and it was worth the wait! Decades later and she still can bring down the house with her rock music! She is an amazing performer and while she is best known for rock she also does jazz and pop styles.
The concert was in a concert hall with an amazing band, small orchestra, and background singers that added to the show while Darlene was still the star! I can remember sitting in my seat moving to the sounds and glancing over to see many others doing the same. My mother, who had the seat next to me, had tears of joy in her eyes throughout the night and I can remember her saying how wonderful it was to finally see her idol in person.
True fans of early rock will enjoy watching Darlene Love perform and bring back the memories of early rock, as my mother would say, the rock after the roll.
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