Darlene Love's Last Christmas On Letterman

Darlene sounded great tonight!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUCjOpcK_LE

 

Great appearance, and she looked and sounded fantastic. The only screw-up to me was that the director missed a close-up of the sax player on the solo, which p!ssed me off. Everything else was terrific.

 

Maybe that shot would have shown her getting on top of the piano and spoiled the reveal?

 

Is that Paul Shaffer in the purple jacket?

 

Uh huh.

 

Thank you!

 

What a voice! Can't believe she still sounds so good. She's 76 years old. Incredible.

 

I always liked this video, which purports to be the first time that she had sung "Christmas" since 1963. If you read the description of the video, it's a wonderful story.

 

I'm not a big letterman fan but I always love the jay Thomas / Darlene love show. Jays story is like your grandma telling the same 3 stories every visit.

 

She was GREAT! That was one of the last traditions I had left. It wasn't Christmas till she performed on Letterman. What a voice,what a great song.

 

I am going to miss this tradition but in a way glad to hear that she is shutting it down and not offering this to someone else.
Thank you Darlene Love for brightening Christmas for the last 28? years. What a run.

Time to go see if my "VCR" worked properly.

 

Thank you! That nearly brought tears to my eyes. Absolutely beautiful.

 

Climbing on top of pianos at 76? Grandma could break her hip!

 

I believe this will repeat next week on Christmas Night, in case anyone missed it. I work for a service that closed captions the show, and it's either this episode or another from November scheduled for Christmas.

 

We should not dissect a performance like that. It was incredible.

 

For those who missed it or cannot wait for a replay, here is Miss Love in all her glory

 

sorry I like this show the first twenty times ,now I am bored with the same stories and cher impression ,and wish she sing something else

 

Fine show, but what was with the Pink Flamingos / Divine getup on Darlene?

 

Pretty obvious pre-record but still great to see and very sad to see this tradition come to an end.

 

Huh? Sounded live all around to me.

 

Dave has a standing policy for his show's musical guests..."NO LIP-SYNCHING!!!"

 

Not a chance.

 

Her vocals were live. They always are on that show as evidence of Aretha's performance earlier in the year. Darlene is still that good & I can't believe there have been negative feedback on a beautiful tradition & a beautiful artist.