The Blossoms

Uh, for those of you who don't recognize her name per se, uh, she is most notably known for her Christmas songs, um, that were recorded originally in the '60s, but she was not able to actually perform until much later on, uh, in her career.

Um, as well as being in the music groups The Blossoms, um, Bob B. Sox & the Blue Jeans, um, as well as just being Darlene Love herself.

Again, it was a very, very good documentary.

But if anyone else has seen anyone, uh, or anything at SIFF, please let me know, 403-220-3991.

I'm, uh, just more in a disco theme, but I figured something else that would be kind of fun is to show off Darlene Love's, um, girl groups that she was in.

Um, The Crystals was one of them.

The main one that she was in was called The Blossoms.

The next track that you're about to hear is called That's When the Tears Start by The Blossoms, and that is off of the album One Kiss Can Lead to Another.

We'll talk about that in a second.

But, um, you, you, uh, you talk in the, in the documentary about, you know, being in The Blossoms, getting picked up from school, working as backup singers for artists like Sam Cooke.

Sam Cooke also faced a lot of internal conflict and external conflict-

Another guy, and I think a lot of the time 'cause his father was a minister, too.

He wasn't there.

Okay.

The, the background singers, uh, The Blossoms, they asked us to sing, and whatever we wanted to sing as the background, that's what we did.

Do you remember that session?

And here's one of the great stories of the girl group era.

The label said The Crystals, but the voices on the record were actually Darlene Love and The Blossoms.

Phil Spector wanted to get that song, which was written by Gene Pitney, recorded quickly in Los Angeles, and The Crystals were back in New York.

Darlene Love sang the lead, and the record was released as The Crystals, and it went all the way up to number one.