Music Review

The Best of Darlene Love (1992)

EW's GRADE
A-

Details Lead Performance: Darlene Love; Genre: Reissues

The finest voice in Phil Spector's stable, Darlene Love put spine-tingling soul into wholesome odes to teen romance (several of them credited to the Crystals). This one-CD collection covers her greatest hits — including 1962's ''He's a Rebel'' — in routine fashion, but the music on The Best of Darlene Love, which is nearly all from a two-year stretch in the early '60s, is anything but routine. A-

Originally posted Dec 18, 1992 Published in issue #149 Dec 18, 1992 Order article reprints

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