Watching Darlene Love's annual performance of "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)" on the "Late Show with David Letterman" has become a holiday staple, just like helping out Mom in the kitchen and joining other shoppers in a mad dash for gifts on Christmas Eve.
Nevertheless, watching Love is almost as enjoyable as helping Mom. She orginally recorded "Christmas" in 1963, and has been performing it without-fail on Letterman's show since 1986.
Now I'm not much on Christmas music ("The Twelve Days of Christmas?" Gimme a break!), but this song has a universal lyric. It is one of my favorites, in part because it bears all the hallmarks of Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" productions--strings, horns, booming background. And Love still sounds great singing it:
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