SEE IT: New animated video for Darlene Love’s classic holiday song ‘Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)’
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Darlene Love is getting animated this holiday season.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer is putting a new spin on her legendary holiday classic with the release of an animated video for the soulful yuletide classic “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).”
The clip, released through Legacy Recordings, follows a young Black girl as she walks home through a snowy neighborhood, accompanied by a happy snowman. Along the way, she stops to admire a Christmas tree and runs into her dog, who is singing along with a pair of carolers. The girl and her dog arrive home, where they are lovingly greeted by her parents. As the video nears its end, the girl opens up one of her presents to find a snow globe with the smiling snowman inside.
At the end of the music video, Love posted a message paying tribute to her late sister, Edna Wright Perry, who sang backing vocals on the track.
Perry, who died in September at age 76, was a sought-after background singer with Love in the 1960s Los Angeles music scene before becoming the lead singer of the group the Honey Cone, best known for their 1971 smash hit “Want Ads.”
The two sisters were featured prominently in Morgan Neville’s 2013 Academy Award-winning documentary “20 Feet from Stardom.”
“Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” originally appeared on producer Phil Spector’s 1963 holiday album “A Christmas Gift for You,” which featured various tunes recorded by several acts on Spector’s Philles record label.
While it wasn’t a chart hit, the song – co-written with Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry – has become a perennial holiday favorite and has been covered by a variety of artists, including Cher, U2, Jon Bon Jovi and Mariah Carey.
Love, herself, has sang the tune for years during Christmas week during appearances on “The David Letterman Show” before it ended.
In 2010, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it No. 1 on its list of “The Greatest Rock and Roll Christmas Songs.”
The 79-year-old vocal powerhouse is featured singing the song in the new Netflix movie “The Christmas Chronicles, Part Two” and also appeared at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade performing “A Marshmallow World.”
Love’s virtual Christmas special “Love for the Holiday” premieres Dec 5. Filmed in November at Sony Hall in New York City, the concert will be available online via ShowClix, with proceeds supporting theaters and arts institutions across the country.
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