10193 - DARLENE LOVE - INTRODUCING DARLENE LOVE (2015)
DARLENE LOVE
''INTRODUCING DARLENE LOVE''
SEPTEMBER 18 2015
62:29
1 Among The Believers (Steven Van Zandt) 03:27
2 Forbidden Nights (Elvis Costello) 03:45
3 Love Kept Us Foolin' Around (Linda Perry) 03:39
4 Little Liar (Desmond Child, Joan Jett) 03:53
5 Still Too Soon To Know (Elvis Costello) (Featuring Bill Medley) 03:35
6 Who Under Heaven (Jimmy Webb) 06:36
7 Night Closing In (Bruce Springsteen) 04:20
8 Painkiller (Michael Des Barres, Paul III) 04:21
9 Just Another Lonely Mile (Bruce Springsteen) 04:24
10 Last Time (Steven Van Zandt) 04:38
11 River Deep, Mountain High (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector) 04:33
12 Sweet Freedom (Bary Man, Cynthia Weil) 03:14
13 Marvelous (Walter Hawkins) 05:40
14 Jesus Is the Rock (That Keeps Me Rollin') (Steven Van Zandt) 06:17
Jack Nitzsche/Arranger
Darlene Love/Vocals
Milton Vann/Choir Conductor, Vocals (Background)
Elaine Caswell/Vocals (Background)
Ula Hedwig/Vocals (Background)
Baritone Williams/Vocals (Background)
Ivy Askew/Choir/Chorus
Laverne Askew/Choir/Chorus
Shayna Johansen/Choir/Chorus
Robert Moe/Choir/Chorus
Michelle Morehead/Choir/Chorus
Traneé Morehead/Choir/Chorus
Latoya Newton/Choir/Chorus
Moneé Plummer/Choir/Chorus
Crystal Powell/Choir/Chorus
Steven Van Zandt/Arranger, Guitar
Bobby Bandiera/Guitar
Elvis Costello/Guitar
Nathan Larson/Guitar
Marc Ribler/Guitar
Frank Pagano/Drums
Shawn Pelton/Drums
Rich Mercurio/Drums
John DiGiulio/Drums
Paul Shaffer/Hammond B3
Doug Hall/Hammond B3
Michael Wolff/Hammond B3, Piano
Mark Baron/Hammond B3, Piano
Arne Wendt/Hammond B3, Piano
Adam Schlesinger/Hammond B3, Piano
Joe McGinty/Hammond B3, Piano
Michael Finn/Piano
Irwin Fisch/Piano
Dallin Applebaum/Piano
Antoine Silverman/Concert Master, Violin
Erin Benim/Violin
Robin Braun/Violin
Emily Bruskin/Violin
Christopher Cardona/Violin
Sean Carney/Violin
Francesca Dardani/Violin
Monica Davis/Violin
Keats Dieffenbach/Violin
Rachel Golub/Violin
Mario Gotoh/Violin
Entcho Todorov/Violin
Sarah Whitney/Violin
Maxin Mosten/Violin
Anja Wood/Cello
Robert Funk/Trombone
Clark Gayton/Trombone
Dan Levine/Trombone
Arno Hecht/Sax (Tenor)
Eddie Manion/Sax (Baritone)
Crispin Cioe/Sax (Baritone), Sax (Tenor)
Jake Clemons/Sax (Tenor)
Stephanie Cummins/Cello
Barry Danielian/Trumpet
Tim Ouimette/Trumpet
Tony Kadlek/Trumpet
Larry Etkin/Trumpet
Curt Ramm/Trumpet
Stewart Rose/French Horn
Dave Taylor/Trombone (Bass)
Jonathan Dinklage/String Contractor, Viola
Chris Jahnke/Arranger, Orchestra, String Conductor
Stan Harrison/Arranger, Contractor, Orchestra, Sax (Tenor)
Steve Elson/Flute, Piccolo, Sax (Baritone)
Alden Banta/Bassoon
Seth Glassman/Bass Guitar
Jeff Jacobson/Bass Guitar
Lee Nadel/Bass Guitar
Whitney LaGrange/Viola
Yuko Naito/Viola
Hiroko Taguchi/Viola
Todd Low/Viola
Bill Medley/Featuring Artist
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REVIEW/AMG
Mark Deming
Darlene Love has one of the strongest and most immediately recognizable voices in the history of pop and rock music, but she's never been much of a star on her own; Love's most memorable moments were as part of Phil Spector's Wall of Sound crew, where she sang as part of the Crystals and Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans, as well as cutting a few tracks under her own name and delivering the epochal version of "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" on Spector's legendary Christmas album. Love has always had the talent to be a frontwoman, but fate seemed to have other ideas, and none of Love's solo albums caught the ear of the larger public, despite her enduring talent. Superfan Steven Van Zandt, longtime member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, decided it was high time someone did something about that, especially after Love's appearance in the Oscar-winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom, and Van Zandt is the producer and idea man behind Introducing Darlene Love, a grand-scale album designed to give Love the glossy showcase she deserves. Van Zandt's production, however, most often aims to emulate Spector's widescreen singles of the '60s, and as a consequence most of the songs on Introducing seem determined to move Love back into the past, despite the presence of fine new material from noted Love admirers Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Jett, Linda Perry, Jimmy Webb, and Van Zandt (whose "Among the Believers," a passionate political number, is one of the few moments on this album that feels honestly contemporary). But if the album is sometimes too busy and big for its own good, Love triumphs over it all; she was in her mid-seventies when these tracks were recorded, but no one would ever guess, as she sounds as strong, passionate, and precise as she did when she was cutting those classic Crystals singles, and when she belts out "Forbidden Nights," "Just Another Lonely Mile," or "Who Under Heaven," Introducing is truly a convincer, proving Darlene Love still holds the title of one of rock and R&B's greatest vocalists. And the final two tracks, "Marvelous" and "Jesus Is the Rock (That Keeps Me Rollin')," shows her gospel chops are as strong as (maybe even stronger than) her secular gifts. In short, Introducing Darlene Love doesn't show off many new wrinkles of her talent, but if you want to know if Love still has what it takes to make a great record, this album shows the answer is an unambiguous "Absolutely!"
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Ron Wynn
Amazingly, Darlene Love, a superb vocalist, hasn't had much of a track record as a solo singer, at least not in terms of hits. Love was a founding member of the Blossoms in 1957. They did several sessions and were resident singers on the television show Shindig. Love sang lead vocals on "He's a Rebel," which was credited to the Crystals, and "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah," which was issued under the name Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans. She cut six singles for Spector's Phillies label, with "Wait 'Til My Bobby Gets Back Home" the most successful. Love became busy as an actress, but reunited with Spector for the 1977 single "Lord, If You're a Woman." Love appeared in all four Lethal Weapon films, and was also in the Royal Shakespeare Company's co-production of Stephen King's Carrie. Her 1990 LP, Paint Another Picture, failed to chart in America. Love later toured as a background vocalist with Cher. She appeared briefly on the soap opera Another World in 1993 and later went on to appear as Motormouth Maybelle in the Broadway production of Hairspray. In October 2007, Love released It's Christmas, of Course, a collection of holiday songs. Three years later, she was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. In 2015, Love returned with the Steven Van Zandt-produced, Introducing Darlene Love, which featured songs by Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, Linda Perry, Joan Jett, and others.
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BIOGRAPHY/WIKIPEDIA
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WEBSITE
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''INTRODUCING DARLENE LOVE''
SEPTEMBER 18 2015
62:29
1 Among The Believers (Steven Van Zandt) 03:27
2 Forbidden Nights (Elvis Costello) 03:45
3 Love Kept Us Foolin' Around (Linda Perry) 03:39
4 Little Liar (Desmond Child, Joan Jett) 03:53
5 Still Too Soon To Know (Elvis Costello) (Featuring Bill Medley) 03:35
6 Who Under Heaven (Jimmy Webb) 06:36
7 Night Closing In (Bruce Springsteen) 04:20
8 Painkiller (Michael Des Barres, Paul III) 04:21
9 Just Another Lonely Mile (Bruce Springsteen) 04:24
10 Last Time (Steven Van Zandt) 04:38
11 River Deep, Mountain High (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector) 04:33
12 Sweet Freedom (Bary Man, Cynthia Weil) 03:14
13 Marvelous (Walter Hawkins) 05:40
14 Jesus Is the Rock (That Keeps Me Rollin') (Steven Van Zandt) 06:17
Jack Nitzsche/Arranger
Darlene Love/Vocals
Milton Vann/Choir Conductor, Vocals (Background)
Elaine Caswell/Vocals (Background)
Ula Hedwig/Vocals (Background)
Baritone Williams/Vocals (Background)
Ivy Askew/Choir/Chorus
Laverne Askew/Choir/Chorus
Shayna Johansen/Choir/Chorus
Robert Moe/Choir/Chorus
Michelle Morehead/Choir/Chorus
Traneé Morehead/Choir/Chorus
Latoya Newton/Choir/Chorus
Moneé Plummer/Choir/Chorus
Crystal Powell/Choir/Chorus
Steven Van Zandt/Arranger, Guitar
Bobby Bandiera/Guitar
Elvis Costello/Guitar
Nathan Larson/Guitar
Marc Ribler/Guitar
Frank Pagano/Drums
Shawn Pelton/Drums
Rich Mercurio/Drums
John DiGiulio/Drums
Paul Shaffer/Hammond B3
Doug Hall/Hammond B3
Michael Wolff/Hammond B3, Piano
Mark Baron/Hammond B3, Piano
Arne Wendt/Hammond B3, Piano
Adam Schlesinger/Hammond B3, Piano
Joe McGinty/Hammond B3, Piano
Michael Finn/Piano
Irwin Fisch/Piano
Dallin Applebaum/Piano
Antoine Silverman/Concert Master, Violin
Erin Benim/Violin
Robin Braun/Violin
Emily Bruskin/Violin
Christopher Cardona/Violin
Sean Carney/Violin
Francesca Dardani/Violin
Monica Davis/Violin
Keats Dieffenbach/Violin
Rachel Golub/Violin
Mario Gotoh/Violin
Entcho Todorov/Violin
Sarah Whitney/Violin
Maxin Mosten/Violin
Anja Wood/Cello
Robert Funk/Trombone
Clark Gayton/Trombone
Dan Levine/Trombone
Arno Hecht/Sax (Tenor)
Eddie Manion/Sax (Baritone)
Crispin Cioe/Sax (Baritone), Sax (Tenor)
Jake Clemons/Sax (Tenor)
Stephanie Cummins/Cello
Barry Danielian/Trumpet
Tim Ouimette/Trumpet
Tony Kadlek/Trumpet
Larry Etkin/Trumpet
Curt Ramm/Trumpet
Stewart Rose/French Horn
Dave Taylor/Trombone (Bass)
Jonathan Dinklage/String Contractor, Viola
Chris Jahnke/Arranger, Orchestra, String Conductor
Stan Harrison/Arranger, Contractor, Orchestra, Sax (Tenor)
Steve Elson/Flute, Piccolo, Sax (Baritone)
Alden Banta/Bassoon
Seth Glassman/Bass Guitar
Jeff Jacobson/Bass Guitar
Lee Nadel/Bass Guitar
Whitney LaGrange/Viola
Yuko Naito/Viola
Hiroko Taguchi/Viola
Todd Low/Viola
Bill Medley/Featuring Artist
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REVIEW/AMG
Mark Deming
Darlene Love has one of the strongest and most immediately recognizable voices in the history of pop and rock music, but she's never been much of a star on her own; Love's most memorable moments were as part of Phil Spector's Wall of Sound crew, where she sang as part of the Crystals and Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans, as well as cutting a few tracks under her own name and delivering the epochal version of "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" on Spector's legendary Christmas album. Love has always had the talent to be a frontwoman, but fate seemed to have other ideas, and none of Love's solo albums caught the ear of the larger public, despite her enduring talent. Superfan Steven Van Zandt, longtime member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, decided it was high time someone did something about that, especially after Love's appearance in the Oscar-winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom, and Van Zandt is the producer and idea man behind Introducing Darlene Love, a grand-scale album designed to give Love the glossy showcase she deserves. Van Zandt's production, however, most often aims to emulate Spector's widescreen singles of the '60s, and as a consequence most of the songs on Introducing seem determined to move Love back into the past, despite the presence of fine new material from noted Love admirers Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Jett, Linda Perry, Jimmy Webb, and Van Zandt (whose "Among the Believers," a passionate political number, is one of the few moments on this album that feels honestly contemporary). But if the album is sometimes too busy and big for its own good, Love triumphs over it all; she was in her mid-seventies when these tracks were recorded, but no one would ever guess, as she sounds as strong, passionate, and precise as she did when she was cutting those classic Crystals singles, and when she belts out "Forbidden Nights," "Just Another Lonely Mile," or "Who Under Heaven," Introducing is truly a convincer, proving Darlene Love still holds the title of one of rock and R&B's greatest vocalists. And the final two tracks, "Marvelous" and "Jesus Is the Rock (That Keeps Me Rollin')," shows her gospel chops are as strong as (maybe even stronger than) her secular gifts. In short, Introducing Darlene Love doesn't show off many new wrinkles of her talent, but if you want to know if Love still has what it takes to make a great record, this album shows the answer is an unambiguous "Absolutely!"
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Ron Wynn
Amazingly, Darlene Love, a superb vocalist, hasn't had much of a track record as a solo singer, at least not in terms of hits. Love was a founding member of the Blossoms in 1957. They did several sessions and were resident singers on the television show Shindig. Love sang lead vocals on "He's a Rebel," which was credited to the Crystals, and "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah," which was issued under the name Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans. She cut six singles for Spector's Phillies label, with "Wait 'Til My Bobby Gets Back Home" the most successful. Love became busy as an actress, but reunited with Spector for the 1977 single "Lord, If You're a Woman." Love appeared in all four Lethal Weapon films, and was also in the Royal Shakespeare Company's co-production of Stephen King's Carrie. Her 1990 LP, Paint Another Picture, failed to chart in America. Love later toured as a background vocalist with Cher. She appeared briefly on the soap opera Another World in 1993 and later went on to appear as Motormouth Maybelle in the Broadway production of Hairspray. In October 2007, Love released It's Christmas, of Course, a collection of holiday songs. Three years later, she was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. In 2015, Love returned with the Steven Van Zandt-produced, Introducing Darlene Love, which featured songs by Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, Linda Perry, Joan Jett, and others.
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BIOGRAPHY/WIKIPEDIA
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WEBSITE
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TO THE TOP
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