for years now I have watched Letterman and his annual holiday traditions on his show...as usual they are wacky. I love them every year tho.

but my fave is Darlene Love....(He's A Rebel, Da Do Run Run)
http://www.darlenelove.com/bio.html

I've made many VHS recordings of the XMAS shows and have found some on-line.

Her version of Christmas - Baby Please Come Home blows me away every year. I LOVE this song and her singing.

There are three at this site-I hope you enjoy them as much as I do...

Tonight on Letterman she will be back singing it again...11:35-12:40 or so...She's usually on near the end of the show...

She blows the roof off the Ed Sullivan Theatre in the 2005 clip!

I met her at The Royal York hotel in the mid 70's when she was a back-up singer with Sonny Bono - got her autograph backstage...along with Sonny's..("sonny and char"...he laffed..)

here's a few over the years: (she's done it about 13 - 14 years in a row...)

1995 - http://www.k-statecats.com/dl29_Darl...e_12-22-95.mov

2004 - http://www.k-statecats.com/dl29_Darl...e_12-23-04.mov

2005 - http://www.k-statecats.com/dl29_Darl...e_12-23-05.mov

[ December 22, 2006, 19:43: Message edited by: charlene ]

I'm getting a Forbidden message for each of your links. Is this happening to anyone else?

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /dl29_Darlene_Love_12-23-05.mov on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

I too am FORBIDDEN.

hhmmm...

try this link and scroll down to the 4 links of DARLENE LOVE:
http://www.ddy.com/dl29.html