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Sep 10, 2015 · This is a huge-sounding album, and an unapologetic celebration of the Wall Of Sound that Love helped build. Introducing Darlene Love doesn't sound dated, and one reason is the songwriting....
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- Early Life
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- Acting Career
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- Personal Life
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Love was born Darlene Wright on July 26, 1941, in Los Angeles, to Ellen Maddox and Reverend Joe Wright. Her younger sister Edna Wright grew up to be the lead singer of the group Honey Cone. She grew up mostly in Los Angeles, but also spent a few years of her youth in Texas. As a minister's daughter, she grew up listening to gospel music and was a d...
Early career
While still in high school (1957) she sang with the Echoes, a mixed gender doo-wop group. She was then invited to join a little-known girl group called the Blossoms. In 1962, the Blossoms were hired to sing on a session by producer Phil Spector. His girl group, the Crystals, could not make it to Los Angeles in time for the session, so Wright was paid $5,000 to sing lead on "He's a Rebel." This was Wright's first time on a Spector recording. The single, credited to the Crystals, was hurriedly...
1980s return
Love returned to music in the early 1980s and to an appreciative audience she thought might have long since forgotten her. She had been performing at venues like the Roxy in Los Angeles, and it was a conversation with Steven Van Zandt that greased the wheels for her to go to New York and begin performing there in 1982, at places like The Bottom Line. She also sang "OOO Wee Baby" in the 1980 movie The Idolmaker. Along with performing in small venues, Love worked as a maid in Beverly Hills. One...
Later career
In 1988, Love released the album Paint Another Picture, which included an update of her old hit "He's Sure the Man I Love", by Mann and Weill, as well as a ballad written especially for her, "I've Never Been the Same," by Judy Wieder. The album did not make the US charts. In 1990, Cher invited Love and her sister Edna Wright as her background vocalists for the Heart of Stone Tour. Love released a minor single in 1992 with "All Alone on Christmas", written and composed by Steven Van Zandt, whi...
In the late 1980s and also in the 1990s, Love also began an acting career, playing Trish Murtaugh, the wife of Danny Glover's character, in the four Lethal Weaponmovies. Love has held many star roles in various Broadway productions. She acted and sang in Grease, in the short-lived musical adaptation of Stephen King's Carrie, and starred as Motormou...
Love performed the song "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" on the last pre-Christmas episode of Late Night with David Letterman (NBC) which aired December 10, 1986 and then annually (with the exception of 2007) on Late Show with David Letterman (CBS) beginning with (air date) December 23, 1994. Her final Christmas appearance was on December 19, 20...
Love was married three times. She married Leonard Peete in 1959. She had two sons with him: Marcus (born 1961) and Chawn (born 1964), and a daughter, Rosalynn, who died shortly after birth.They divorced in 1968. She married Wesley Mitchell in 1971, had a son, Jason Davion (born 1974), and later divorced. Love married Alton Allison on June 28, 1984 ...
In 1995, Love received the Rhythm and Blues Foundation's Pioneer Award. In 2008, Love was ranked No. 84 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers list. On March 14, 2011, Love was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with a speech by Bette Midler. Midler said "she changed my view of the world, listening to those songs, you had to dance, you ...
Other appearances
1. 1963: Today's Hits(Philles Records 4004) 2. 1963: A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector(Philles Records 4005) 3. 1977: Phil Spector's Greatest Hits(Warner/Spector Records 9104) 4. 1978: Lakeshore Music presents Rock and Roll Forever(Warner Special Products #2508) (same as above release) 5. 1985: Leader of the PackOriginal Broadway Cast (Elektra Records 60420) 6. 1990: Dick Tracy: Music from and inspired by the film(Sire/Warner Bros. Records 26236) 7. 1991: Back to Mono (1958–1969)(ABK...
Singles
Incomplete list of recordings.
Darlene Love at AllMusicDarlene Love discography at DiscogsDarlene Love at IMDbSep 30, 2015 · It was a canny move on the part of producer Stevie Van Zandt — he of E Street Band and “Sopranos” fame — not to try to shoehorn a ”modern” sound onto ”Introducing Darlene Love,” his comeback vehicle for perhaps the greatest backup singer of all time.
Sep 17, 2015 · A year later, Love, now 74, is hoping people will come with her again as she releases “Introducing Darlene Love,” her first album of original pop songs since 1988 — and the first ever, she...
