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Ep 421- The Iconic Darlene Love Is Here!

Well the word Icon & Legend are used all the time, but in this case it is deserved and more! The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Legend Herself, Mrs. Darlene Love is here! She is Christmas. She is Rock & Roll. She is a Broadway Star. She is a Movie Star!.. Read More

From the show: The Roundtable with Robert Bannon

32 mins
2/27/25

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Well the word Icon & Legend are used all the time, but in this case it is deserved and more! The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Legend Herself, Mrs. Darlene Love is here! She is Christmas. She is Rock & Roll. She is a Broadway Star. She is a Movie Star! She hangs out with people named Bruce, Cher, and Bette, and she is telling us all about it!

From iconic hits like "Da Doo Ron Ron," "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home,)" "Today I Met The Boy I'm Gonna Marry," "He's A Rebel," "All Alone On Christmas," and many more, she has sung them all. She has done thousands of sessions and sung on massive hits with Elvis and Sinatra to the The Monster Mash! Her work with Stevie Van Zandt, Marc Shaiman, and Paul Schaffer is stuff of legend, and she went from Letterman to Jimmy Fallon to sing her classic trademark. We cover all this and more! Plus do not forger Broadway, Lethal Weapon, an upcoming documentary... I am tired just thinking about it!

With so much to cover, we zip through music history right before our eyes. This one is special and should not be missed!

Follow Darlene Love on IG- @darlenelovesings or see her upcoming tour dates at www.darleneloveworld.com.

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[0:14] Robert Bannon: Welcome, everybody. Listen, one of my favorite people in the entire world. So during COVID, I hosted a show. And the show was called Quarantine Cabaret and Cocktails. And my dream was to have the 20 Feet from Stardom ladies on. And Judith and Miss Fisher. And the one and only Miss Darlene Love was here. And then I released a song called my version of From a Distance. And Darlene Love put it on her Facebook that she gave a little something something to me. And you know, we're both Jersey, and I went to Bergen Pack, and who was there but Darlene Love. And my whole life I've been singing, I met him on a Sunday and my heart's to the still. I do run, run, run, and I met the boy I'm gonna marry in May, and I play it all the time.

And he loves Christmas. So we're in the car here. I moved to Detroit, and we're at the Meyer grocery store, and Darlene Love is playing as Christmas Is. And I said, Darlene Love, and that song's Darlene Love, and that song's Darlene Love. They're all Darlene. They're all the Christmas songs are Darlene Love, everybody. She's an icon, she's a legend. I remember going to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when she came out with Bruce Springsteen at Madison Square Garden. I grew up watching her on Lethal Weapon. I have seen her on Broadway. She is like my favorite person that's ever been on this show. So, ladies and gentlemen, she's won Oscars, she's a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, and she's a legend and an icon. The voice herself, Miss Darlene Love, is here. Yay!

[1:42] Darlene Love: Robert! I'm so happy to see you again.

[1:44] Robert Bannon: It's good to see you also. How have you been?

[1:49] Darlene Love: I'm doing great. You know, I practiced all morning. I was listening to your live album that you recorded at Bergen Pack, the concert of love, and I was like, I'm gonna sing all 12 songs to her.

[2:02] Robert Bannon: That's the interview. Okay. Don't take too much time. How are you doing?

[2:09] Darlene Love: I am doing well. I'm here in I live in Rockland, New York. And we've been having all this unbelievably cold weather, you know, 20 and under, and for the last two days it's been 50 degrees.

[2:24] Robert Bannon: I get it. I have secretly, everybody, I have secretly been to the Palisades Mall and seen Miss Love and her family at a restaurant across the way, and I let her be, but I know you're out here in these streets up in Rockland County, New York, and that's home.

[2:41] Darlene Love: Yes, now I was telling my husband the other day, I said, Can you believe it? We've been here 40 years because I was born and raised in Los Angeles, and that wonderful friend of mine, Stevie Van Zandt, told me to come to New York, and I said, I'm not coming to New York, nobody knows me.

[3:00] Robert Bannon: Well, not only have you come to New York, but your career here in New York, if it's Letterman, if it's now the Tonight Show, if it's everything you've done with Paul Schaffer, everything you've done with Stevie Van Zandt, everything you've done with Marc Shaiman, all the people that you've worked with. New York's now home.

[3:17] Darlene Love: It's been home now. I just had to figure it out. Me and my husband said, Don't you think it's time to get you a driver's license that says New York?

[3:20] Robert Bannon: Okay, I get it. I surrender. I'll get me a driver's license that says New York.

[3:34] Darlene Love: So I was this is home. I just did it from New Jersey and moved to Detroit for my Darius, and I changed my driver's license to Michigan. It broke my heart a little. It was sad. It took me a long time to do it. I mean, it was about 10 years. I was still right having my California license.

[3:52] Robert Bannon: Well, can we look at some moments? I want everyone to, you know, that is watching. Of course, these pictures go back your career when you look at the pictures of you all, when you look at the groups and the singing singers that you've done. If you look at the background work that you've done and the songs that you've sung, like Elvis, when you look at the recording history, you have recorded thousands of songs.

[4:18] Darlene Love: Yeah, it's probably in the thousands, right? Because there were so many, and we don't really count the ones that didn't make it. Because you know there's a lot that really don't make it, but we sang just as hard and believed just as hard for them as we do for the ones that do make it.

[4:35] Robert Bannon: Yeah. Well, you grew up in, like you said, in California, and I know that faith, and I've seen you sing a lot of beautiful gospel music and religious music, and you are a pastor in your own way. You preach and tell people in concert and in song. When did you learn how to sing in church? Is church where it started?

[4:50] Darlene Love: It is. I think all of us that grew up were we came up in church, you know. Unlike today, you can go and go to church on television. So, but we've had to be in the building, and my father was a pastor. So I have two brothers, two sisters, and three brothers. And of course, that's a lot of children in the 50s and the 40s, 50s, and the 60s. So we were part of the church. We were the choir, we were the what they call, we used to have young people's meeting, and we were part of all of that. And yes, most of my singing between the age of probably 10 and 20 was done mostly in church.

[5:31] Robert Bannon: And I know when you're a singer at church, today you're a soprano, tomorrow you're an alto, the next song you're a bass. That had to come in handy when you did background work because you could just jump in and sing.

[5:41] Darlene Love: You know what? When I think about it, we all agree that I got all my training in church. I'm singing with choirs that say you sing the alto, the tenor and the bass and soprano sometimes it wasn't high. But, and you know, I'm really thankful that I got all that training because I really wouldn't know because when we started doing recording sessions, they just threw us in there. And thank God we had wonderful ears. We didn't even think about it at the time. But we caught on really, really fast. So that made my life much easier and more confident that we could go into the studio and sing and work with an Elvis Presley or a Bobby Darin or Sam Cook. You know what I'm saying? And that made us really feel like, oh boy, we're part of all, we're part of the music scene.

We had worked so many years and didn't make nothing. You first start out, everybody wants you to work for them, and they oh, we don't have a lot of money, you know. But we grew during that time, and it just been wonderful to be able to start out as I did as the 20 Feet from Stardom said, you know, it was really, really true. It was fun and but it wasn't easy because I had to be on it.

[7:01] Darlene Love: There, Academy Awards, and I know that story, the iconic story that you tell in that movie that you've probably told thousands of times, is trying to raise your family, cleaning homes, multi-platinum music, listening to yourself sing on the radio. Did you ever get angry? Did you ever did you keep faith? Like, did you keep the music? Like, how did you not want to say, scream from the rooftop? That's you.

[7:33] Darlene Love: No, because I think it has a lot to do how I started. It was very humbling situations. We're coming from a church programs, and you're you're you're made to like don't get serious about this, you know. It's a gift that God has given you, and he's gonna take care of you. And that's actually how I grew up with that belief that God was gonna, as they say, make room for me in this business. And that's I loved it. And I never had like a chip on my shoulder, or I kept saying, it's gonna be my turn soon. I'm not gonna worry about it. And all the people that I came up with, like Dionne Warwick, all of those wonderful friends I have, I still have them friends today in my life. Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Van Zandt, Bette Midler.

I still have all of them. And me and the glue that put us all together actually was Stevie Van Zandt. He said, You come to New York and I'll get your work. And I said, Oh Lord, okay. And he did, and the iconic album, like this album, Introducing Darlene Love, Stevie worked on like what you have done together and the career. I know you were at the red carpet for his documentary. I know that they have pulled you on stage and you've sung with Bruce and Stevie, and you and they've come to you and done your things. And I hear a rumor from your people that there may be a Darlene Love documentary in the works.

[9:01] Darlene Love: It's getting very close to being finished. Hopefully we'll have it out by the spring. And we they've been doing little bits about it, and people are getting really excited. So I'm getting excited too because it's taking a while. They never, you know, you have to get all these people together. And I'm not one that always asked my friends to help me do anything. It was I was helping them, but it was always beneficiary for me. I mean, when I sung with Bruce Springsteen, I mean, come on, the world is a singer, you know, and Stevie, and then I did a song with Bette Midler, you know, and then I'm working with all these wonderful people, and people say, You got some great friends, honey. I said, I sure do, honey.

And I can't wait until I can get them. Marc Shaiman is wonderful for me to work with because he's one of the how can I say this? Eternally piano player. He can just play anything, no matter whether it's a church or a gospel song or whatever. Mark can play it. And you know, he's always been with me, and I tell Mark all the time, he said, honey, one of these days you're gonna get me a gig that's gonna make me some money. We haven't got there yet, but it's never too late. We still alive.

[10:17] Darlene Love: You got time. There is time. You know, when you it's hard, Miss Love, I with all due respect, you know, it's hard to interview you because your career is so in depth. I mean, we could spend an hour on just the sessions, then you could spend an hour plus on your solo career or your acting career, or your television performance. Like it is an amazing testament to talent and the work that you have done.

[10:43] Darlene Love: Well, I put my hands in the hands of the gentlemen that are doing my, um, uh, what is it? Documentary.

[10:52] Darlene Love: Documentary, thank you. My husband's in the background telling me. Uh, and I'm hoping that when they put it together, I told them I didn't want to do another documentary because the one they did about the background singers was a lot about me in my life. But, and we won an Academy Award for it, and we also won a Grammy for it. So I told them I'm not gonna do it unless it's gonna be at least as well done and received as the one I did. So it's really turning out to be a long time. It's so funny when they got to do, it's so many little stories that I can tell about this documentary. It's funny because Bruce said yes from the beginning, Cher said yes from the beginning. They all said, but then you have to put it in their time frame.

Everybody's busy, right? So when Bruce got ready to do his, they said, this is the people talking to the camera people and the directors. Now you can only have 30 minutes, that's gonna be it. And you say you're gonna be there at one o'clock, be there and ready to roll at one because Bruce is gonna be on time. They got there and started rolling. They tiny Bruce started talking for two hours. But you know, once they start getting rolling, no, they want to tell it. So it's gonna be really interesting to see all of this and see what they kept and what they took out and how they're gonna integrate it during the whole story. And Stevie was the same way. Next almost two hours with Stevie. So, you know, I've never had to ask them to do anything for me. So I think this is their give back. You know, I'm saying, who can get Bruce Springsteen to be in your documentary about Darlene Love?

[12:35] Darlene Love: But you know, I don't know if you realize what I was joking about listening to your music and seeing all your songs, but I grew up, we all grew up to this music, and your music has given so much joy to artists, but to every person that turns on their radio and hears it. And your, if it's the holidays, if it's love songs, if it's classic songs, like it's the soundtrack to our life. We owe you such a debt of gratitude for giving your career to us.

[13:00] Darlene Love: I am so happy. Uh, you know, I always thank God every morning when I get up that I'm still alive, I'm healthy, I'm strong, my children are great, my husband is great, my friends are great, and just the idea that at the age of 83, I can still perform a 90-minute show without it killing me.

[13:21] Robert Bannon: Yes, yes, you sure can.

[13:23] Darlene Love: And she does, and everybody, you gotta go to DarleneLoveWorld.com or you gotta go to Darlene Love Sings on Instagram because the tour dates come in. If it's not only Christmas, it's all year long. You could hear Darlene and her amazing singers and her band, and she's gonna come through and she's gonna river deep mountain high yourself right out of that theater. So y'all better hold on to your hat. Get a ticket. Um, I tell my audience when I get tired and this becomes work, that's when I'll leave the business. Because I still love doing what I'm doing, I still enjoy singing the songs. I still enjoy the stories that fans come to me and tell about my, I even this say it this 60 years I've been growing strong in this business. So I have a lot of stories.

[14:11] Darlene Love: Oh, I'm ready, I'm ready for the documentary. I want all the tea. I want you're you drag in your cigarette. So Marc Shaiman and people like Paul Schaffer and people who are very involved in theater and songwriting, you're very involved, and your Broadway career is very, I mean, talk about Marc Shaiman, Hairspray, and you do in Grease when it was on Broadway. This Carrie has become such a cult classic. That's amazing. That's really amazing.

[14:49] Darlene Love: And now it's a cult. People love it. I saw Debbie Allen on a rec and I was like, you know, people go crazy about Carrie.

[14:57] Robert Bannon: Yes. Does Broadway still something that interests you? See shows? Do you want to do more shows? What's the story?

[15:03] Darlene Love: But honey, let me tell you something. I told everybody doing Broadway was the hardest job I ever did in my life. You do eight shows a week. When you're off, it's not really off because you're still thinking about the words, you're still thinking about what you have to do. I gotta do this, and I can do that. And I'm a person that when I do something, I want to do it full. I want to do a hundred percent. So therefore, I didn't hang out. I didn't go anywhere. They're going out to dinner to have drinks. I said, child, I'm going home, go to bed. And the whole time, almost three years I did Hairspray, I think I was out just for one week. The whole run because I was trying to sing that song that I love so it means so much to me.

I know where I'm going because I know where to being. I would just sing it because I couldn't help myself. And Marc used to tell me every night, he called me doll. You cannot sing that song like that every show. You're gonna blow your voice. And I did. Three years. That I had to learn how to calm down, girl. Calm down. You got two shows to do today. Today is Saturday. Calm down.

[16:14] Darlene Love: Well, that song is he's a genius, and that song is a genius. And your vote, your performance, I saw it, is was breathtaking. Breathtaking. So we owe you, you know, people know you, you are the queen of Christmas. We talk about this this album. We talk about, we talk about, um, I mean, Home Alone. I mean, I grew up on, I mean, let's talk about Stevie Van Zandt, All Alone on Christmas. Marshmallow World, and then some of the, and then songs like that, you that are classics that have been around forever. But when you hear the Darlene Love version, when you hear the versions of it from back in, you know that that's the quintessential version. You are Christmas.

[16:54] Darlene Love: I have never met Mariah Carey, and we have nothing against one another. I mean, I'm in a whole nother era than since she people don't realize that. You know what I'm saying? I recorded that song in 1964. What was she, three years old? Right, literally. She put a note in her on her blog that said, As far as I'm concerned, Darlene Love is Christmas. I grew up with those songs. So the fans that have this thing going, you know what I'm saying? And I am gonna get a chance to meet her one day. I mean, I've been out here too long not to meet Mariah Carey. I know all of her stuff. Marc Shaiman, come on, get Darlene and Mariah together. You never know how it's gonna land. That's the great thing about this business. You never know.

[17:41] Robert Bannon: Well, that whole her whole Christmas album is really a tribute to you. I mean, that whole album has taken what you did, what Ron, what Ronnie Spector has done. You and Ronnie's Christmas song duet together is played in Detroit all day on these stations. It is a staple here.

[18:00] Darlene Love: All right. Beautiful. When we're talking about this, and we were showing you Stevie and Paul recently on the Tonight Show, I know for many decades it was a necessary moment for you to sing on Letterman. And what was it like this year to go on the Tonight Show and to be a part of it with Jimmy Fallon and bring Stevie and bring Paul and have you back where you belong?

[18:24] Darlene Love: We're, we made a full circle back in the same place I was in when I started because when I started with the David Letterman show, they were still at NBC. So I think I did it for four years there, and then I went over to CBS when they went there. So it's like a family because everybody is the same people, the makeup people, the writers, the band, everybody is saying, and it got to the place. It was amazing. People, musicians would beg Paul Schaffer, let me just be on, I'll play a bell. Just I want to just be there because the excitement of it, and I didn't think there could be more excitement as what we had at the David Letterman show. But Jimmy Fallon is just crazy. He's crazy excitement. You know, when he's introducing you, he feels like he wants to be there with you while you're doing it.

You know what I'm saying? He wouldn't even come down to our rehearsal. He said he was too nervous. He couldn't come down. But to be back with that in that room and be with Jimmy is like a dream come true. So we're back to the beginning. And it looks like we have found a new home. So we're really happy about it. Everybody is excited about it.

[19:41] Robert Bannon: Oh, every year. It better be, you better be, they better have you there every year. We need you there every season. Just forget December.

[19:47] Darlene Love: Well, Jimmy said, Well, this is your new home. So I said, okay. That's it. You've spent a lot of time and talking about duets and talking about Christmas and talking about people you've worked with for a long time. You were just in Englewood at our home away from home. Bergen Pack was my first job. I sold tickets to your concerts when I was in, when I was in high school, back in the late 1990s, and gospel shows and your shows and Christmas shows that you have done, and you were just there with the one and only Cher. You have, you and Cher have quite the history. I mean, this goes back. Here you are at the tree lighting. What can you say about your friendship? I mean, she called you out in Englewood recently. You guys have sung together and done duets on her album. When did you meet? How did that happen? Your journey together.

[20:36] Darlene Love: Sonny Bono worked for Phil Spector during that time. So we got to know Sonny really, really good because once we started with Phil Spector, it seems like we got there at 10 o'clock in the morning and we didn't leave till 10 o'clock at night. Then all one day he brought Cher in. And she, she was cute and she was only 16. So she just sat there, blue-eyed, just looking at everybody, just like everybody else, just enjoying everything that was going on. And I had to be at the studio one day, black around one or two o'clock, which is very unusual because we usually start in the morning, and I had car trouble, so I couldn't get there. So I called the studio and said, Tell Phil, my car's broke down. I'll get, I'll be there as soon as I can. And Sandy had already been telling Phil that Cher is a singer, she could sing.

[21:26] Darlene Love: So he just said, just up like Phil does off the top of his head. He said, Tell her to come on in here. I need a background singer. I need her to sing a part in the song. And it was on "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)." If you listen really careful, you can really hear her voice. Because I used to get so mad at Phil, he used to tell Cher, Cher, you're singing too loud. Back up. I said, in a minute, she's gonna be in the next room. This is her first job, her first recording that she ever did was on my record, "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)." See, these are the stories you're gonna hear in the documentary, I'm sure, and the things that she talks about in her book and all the things that have happened.

Well, I have speaking of singers, people have to also give you credit. And I we God bless Sissy Houston and the work that Sissy Houston has done and her life, I mean a lifetime of music and teaching. You are the godmother to the one and only Whitney Houston. You grew up singing with Sissy and friends of that family. Um, and you talk about one of the greatest singers, maybe the greatest singer of all time, Whitney Houston is where it's at. What can you say? It's amazing how we all came up together. We're working, all background singers. I was a backup singer for Dion with Sissy Houston and her sister. And we all just grew up together. Well, Whitney was only like eight or seven or eight years old, and I stayed at Sissy's house.

So we've made this little pact. I said, You are so wonderful. I think you're the greatest little girl, because I have all boys, so I took to her immediately. And I said, You know what? How would you like it if I'd be your godmother? See, this is what is a thing that nobody knew but me and her. And that's the way it was. And then of course, when she passed, it just all blurted out. I'd never said it before, except for to Sissy or somebody that we knew really well. And so it just blurted out, oh my God, I remember exactly where I was, the whole thing. So that's how it all came out about that. I was her godmother. But what people don't understand when you're part of a church, church people, they have more than one godmother.

Yes. Not unusual that somebody else would be her godmother too. So it's all about bringing your children up. Yes. With God and with faith. And she had a lot of people that was doing that for her. So they all could have been her godmother. I just happened to work with her, her mother and her aunt. I knew the whole family. What a history of music that for because her mother was with a gospel group, the Drinkards. So I knew all of that history about them long before I even got with them. I knew that history because it was about gospel. So I have such an intricate relationship with a lot of singers that I know. You know, when he asked me to sing at her funeral, I was like, it ain't no way. Uh no, I can't do that.

And then they said, Yes, you have to. That's what she wanted you to do. So it was a compliment of our friendship because we didn't call each other by our names. We called each other roomy because we roomed together when we were out on the road, so that was our nickname for one another. So, you know, I have a lot of if I never do anything else, and it is a lot, still a lot of things I want to do, but I have lived a life, a whole life with entertainers that are not my sticky close friends. We talk every day and how you're doing. But I have Bruce's telephone number. I don't call, I think I've called Bruce one time, and that's he wanted me to sing at the uh the garden with him, the 25th anniversary of the garden.

And I went, okay, uh, well, what we gonna sing? He said, Well, I don't know yet, but I'll call you and I'll let you know. And I'm going like, this man is losing his mind. I'm gonna be in front of millions of people. I've never worked with millions of people, and I never worked with Bruce. I worked with Stevie, but not Bruce. He called me up about three or four days before I was supposed to perform at the garden. And he goes, I'm gonna sing the song I have in my show, and I love this song. I always sing it. Uh and he said, The song was my song. I said, You sing this song in your show? I was like, what baby? Huh? Oh, right. My husband is trying to remind me. Fine, fine boy. Oh, yeah. He said, Fine, fine girl, and the audience went nuts.

So I have special relationships with these people. I was there. I was at the garden because I heard Bruce Springsteen was gonna be there. And Bruce Springsteen brought out Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen brought out Darlene Love. Yes. And you all sing a fine and a fine fine boy has that like swoopy vibe. It's got a fun. And you sang that like it was you it was a moment. You can find it on YouTube. You need to find the moment. Great. I think parts of it is gonna be in the documentary for those who never did. So and plus the other thing that I did with Bruce Springsteen is what he liked to shop value for the person, not the audience, but for me, like when I got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, this guitar was on stage for all the whole time.

Everybody, nobody was playing it. And when I got ready to sing "Zippity Doodah," he said, I'm gonna play the solo on that play. And it's an unbelievable solo. And he played it. And then he played, I'm gonna play something else. He played "He's a Rebel." I mean, so I went. These are wonderful troops I have for being in this business. That I have friends like, and they will come to my rescue, which is wonderful.

[27:15] Robert Bannon: That's because you did it for them. They're just paying it forward and thanking you for all that you did. While we're talking, everybody, I need y'all to get make sure you can listen to "The Sounds of Love: The Very Best of Darlene Love" is out. Albums like "Introducing Darlene Love." And you know, I gotta shout out you talk about family and you talked about all your industry friends, but your beloved dear sister is one of the greatest singers. You Edna, you talk about you talk about singers and hit song and a song that's a bop that is a legendary classic. Y'all are just a family of singers.

[27:46] Darlene Love: Yeah, we were blessed. You know what? I can't take all the credit. I say my gift was given to me by God, and I want to use it as long as I can. And mostly all of my friends are Christians, which is wonderful. Yes. And if they're not, they'll be one before they leave. If they're gonna leave your show, they're gonna be one by the end. So you talk about age. I wouldn't ask you, but I know that you your age and your career and your stro you're booking shows and you are singing. So my question for you is like, what is the message? What is the love? What is the prayer that you have when you get on stage and this we're in a crazy world? We need all the love and crazier.

[28:30] Darlene Love: My whole thing is I have a circle for real prayer before we go on stage, and everybody wants to be in it. If it's somebody's a stranger that's backstage, we come on and get in this prayer because it's for everyone. One thing I pray for peace, and I pray for love. Those two things is a Darlene Love hitch. I pray for faith, I pray for safety, and I pray for love. And if you have all of that, put it in one basket. You have voila, Darlene Love.

[29:06] Robert Bannon: But you got Darlene Love. Go to Instagram, Darlene Love Sings so you can stay up to date on the music, the projects, the documentary, the concerts, the recordings, the move. I didn't even talk about it. Yeah, I didn't even talk. DarleneLoveWorld.com. But I have a picture. Hold up, because my brother grew up and his favorite movie was "Lethal Weapon." And Murdoch was his favorite. And we grew up, and I knew you as this before I knew you as Darlene Love, the singer singer, because I grew up on the movies, your career, like I said, it's amazing.

[29:36] Darlene Love: Yes, yes. And it is amazing because the "Lethal Weapon" movies were so big, they didn't know I was a singer. They just knew a lot of people just knew me as an actor. And I said, That's second, honey.

[29:48] Robert Bannon: Right. Well, this is what I have to say. No, your husband is over your shoulder. So please, Darlene's husband, Mr. Love, for lack of a better word. Your wife is one of the most beautiful people in the world. Everyone watching, you don't understand when you see Darlene Love on stage or you see her out in the street or at the mall, she's the most gorgeous eyes in the entire universe. She is as beautiful as her voice. She is an amazing performer. You need to follow her, see her. And I can't wait. If you're in Detroit, if you're in Jersey, if you're in New York, I need to come see another concert this holiday this year. I'm coming.

[30:25] Darlene Love: Okay, I believe you.

[30:27] Robert Bannon: And I know all the words because I've been practicing. I'll be ready. Don't be, I have a fan that I, you know, I sometimes mix up my words like all of us do. And I do it a lot, and I laugh at myself. And after the show is over, he'll come backstage and he'll go, You missed those lyrics in that word today. I said, Listen, I got the mic, and if I'm saying them words, they're the right words. I once toured with "Rent," and I did "Rent." And when people would come in the front row and wear "Rent" t-shirts, I would say, Oh god, I mess up these words, they're gonna be so disappointed because I don't know what I'm gonna say. But that's so true. They don't realize we have so much going through our heads when we're performing. We know the words, but another one will come up.

[31:16] Darlene Love: Yeah, exactly. Well, you know, uh shout out to your team, shout out to everyone at Project Publicity to Len and Jeff. They are so kind to have you spend time with me and supported this show, and it is the honor of my show to have you here. I adore you, and it is always so great to see a fan that knows my career.

[31:37] Robert Bannon: Yes, I know it. I'm ready, I know it. You all have to get in there, get in this career. Is a lesson on how to do it right. Um, thank you so much for everything. God bless you. Thank you for the music. God bless you.

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