For seventeen straight Decembers, Darlene Love has visited
David Letterman's late night show and performed her holiday anthem, "Christmas
(Baby Please Come Home)," originally recorded in 1963 for the album
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector. Each year, Letterman's music
director, Paul Shaffer, augments the regular band with strings and a
chorus, and the result – to my ears – is a live performance
that comes closer to Spector's Wall of Sound than anything else I've
ever heard.
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