Darlene Love - So Much Love: A Darlene Love Anthology 1958-1998
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Artist: Darlene LoveBrand: LOVE,DARLENE
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2008-09-09
Music Label: Ace Records UK
Soundtracks:
- That's When The Tears Start - THE BLOSSOMS
- Too Late To Say You're Sorry - DARLENE LOVE
- So Much Love - THE BLOSSOMS
- The Gospel Truth - THE BLOSSOMS
- King Of The Surf Guitar - DICK DALE & THE DEL TONES
- No Other Love - THE BLOSSOMS
- The Drummer Plays For Me - HAL BLAINE & THE YOUNG COUGARS
- Good, Good Lovin' - THE BLOSSOMS
- Boss Guitar - DUANE EDDY & THE REBELETTES
- The Search Is Over - THE BLOSSOMS
- 3625 Groovy Street - THE WILDCATS
- Ooh - Wee Baby - DARLENE LOVE
- He's A Rebel - MOOSE & THE PELICANS
- What Are We Gonna Do In '64 - AL CASEY & THE K-C-ETTES
- Lover Boy - THE BLOSSOMS
- TV Commercials - BARNEY KESSEL
- Let Him Walk Away - DARLENE LOVE
- I Gotta Tell It - THE BLOSSOMS
- Something So Wrong - THE BLOSSOMS
- Touchdown - THE BLOSSOMS
- Mr. Fix It - DARLENE LOVE
- Cherish What Is Dear To You (While It's Near to You) - THE BLOSSOMS
- All Alone On Christmas - DARLENE LOVE
- A Change Is Gonna Come - DARLENE LOVE
Music reviews of So Much Love: A Darlene Love Anthology 1958-1998
Music Review: Long overdue
Rating: 4 Stars
Darlene Love is probably not as well known as she should despite her familiar and instantly recognizable voice, but she was widely used by Phil Spector during his legendary hit making era, along with the rest of her group The Blossoms. She sang lead on some of the biggest hits by the Crystals, and also beside Bobby Sheen in Bob B Soxx and the Blue Jeans, but had few releases under her own name (a stage name incidentally given to her by Phil Spector, as she was born Darlene Wright). She is probably best known for Christmas (Baby Please Come Home), extracted from the album A Christmas Gift For You from Phil Spector [Digitally Remastered By Phil Spector], on which she was the most used contributor, but this now legendary album, coinciding with the Kennedy assassination, did not sell well at the time, and was probably responsible for the start of Spector's gradual withdrawal from the music industry.
As freelance session singers, the Blossoms did not benefit from royalties from the Spector hits and were not under contract to him. They needed to make a living, but he was very unhappy about the girls singing for other labels and they were obliged to use a number of pseudonyms to hide their identities.
This collection contains nothing produced by Phil Spector, collected elsewhere, but concentrates both on their earlier and later work as the Blossoms on a number of labels, and the recordings they did make in various guises during the Spector era, with label billing crediting names such as Al Casey and the K-C-Ettes, Dick Dale and the Del Tones, the Wildcats, Moose and the Pelicans or Duane Eddy and the Rebelettes. Sometimes, as on TV Commercials by Barney Kessel, they had no billing at all. Although they made records on their own, the Blossoms were essentially session singers, backing artists on their records, on the TV show Shindig! and on the road with singers such as Jackie DeShannon or Elvis Presley, so were not too concerned over billing, though often it was the Blossoms' contribution that was the selling point of the song, especially on the novelty items such as Boss Guitar, and many of the singles on here were big hits. Three of the sixties Blossoms recordings here are previously unreleased and include a beautiful 1963 demo made for Jack Nitzsche on a song he wrote with Jackie DeShannon, Let Him Walk Away.
Darlene Love continued to be highly successful after the sixties, in Broadway musicals, Hollywood films and on record, and there are seven examples here, made between 1971 and 1997, not least a great, deliberately Spector-esque Christmas song from the film Home Alone 2 in 1993, written by Steve Van Zandt, with what sounds like the entire E Street Band on it.
Long overdue, this collection perfectly complements the Spector recordings and brings into catalogue a selection of forgotten jewels.
Description of So Much Love: A Darlene Love Anthology 1958-1998
No Description Available.Genre: Soul/R&B
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 2-SEP-2008
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