Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
was originally performed by Darlene Love on Phil Spector’s 1963 A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records
Darlene Love performed it 28 times on David Letterman shows. This is a mashup of various performances.
This is the final one (when she was 73 years old):
This is the original recording – 51 years earlier!
The sax solo was performed by Steve Douglas.
Here are more versions from Letterman shows:
1986 (The first one) – it is so stripped down compared to the later ones!
2010
2001
2011
There are even more versions of this great performance on YouTube.
Sad! 