Song:All Alone On Christmas
Album:Smooth FM Christmas
Darlene Love is a singing legend best known for her early 60s days with producer Phil Spector. She is also known for Christmas songs including All Alone On Christmas from the 1992 film Home Alone 2. She was born Darlene Wright July 26, 1941 in Los Angeles. Her father was a minister and her sister Edna Wright was in Honey Cone. She was a member of The Blossoms which is how she got into working with Spector. The Blossoms were mainly background singers. One of her best known records from that era was Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) from the 1963 album A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector. That's now a Christmas perennial. Darlene went on hiatus in the 70s to raise her family. When she returned in the 80s, E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt was interested in working with her. That brings me to All Alone On Christmas. This song appears in the 1992 film Home Alone 2: Lost In New York. Van Zandt wrote and produced the song. The E Street Band and The Miami Horns play on it and Clarence Clemons plays the sax solo. The record did well enough that it is now a Christmas perennial. The Home Alone 2 soundtrack is out of print replaced by Home Alone Christmas probably due to music rights issues. I recommend this 2CD various artists comp from Sony. Of course most fans should recall Darlene from the Lethal Weapon films. And if you want to know more about Darlene Love and other great background singers, check out the Oscar winning 2013 doc Twenty Feet From Stardom on Netflix or Kanopy. I reviewed it on the blog. Here's the video for All Alone On Christmas by Darlene Love.
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