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Darlene Love performs at a Christmas tree lighting in New York City, 2010. (Andy Kropa/Getty Images)
Count on an experienced performer like Darlene Love to save the hits for the end. That s precisely what she does in her 1998 memoir
My Name Is Love (buy now), which concludes with a list of the major songs she s performed on: More hits than Elvis and the Beatles combined, she notes, imagining the narration over an infomercial about her life.
Just the highlights include Chain Gang (Sam Cooke, 1959), He s a Rebel (credited to the Crystals, 1962), Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah (Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans, 1962), Johnny Angel (Shelley Fabares, 1962), Monster Mash (Bobby Boris Pickett and the Crypt Kickers, 1962), Da Doo Ron Ron (credited to the Crystals, 1962), Be My Baby (the Ronettes, 1963), In My Room (the Beach Boys, 1963), The Shoop Shoop Song (It s In His Kiss) (Betty Everett, 1964), You ve Lost That Lovin Feelin (Righteous Brothers, 1964), Unch
You don t expect to get a lot of laughs from a book with a title like
This Isn t Happening: Radiohead s Kid A and the Beginning of the 21st Century (buy now). I had a literal LOL moment early on, though, when author Steven Hyden asked rhetorically, Is it possible that I take
Kid A way too seriously?
There is, of course, virtually zero chance that anyone who would even contemplate cracking a book about the music of the 2000s would accuse any critic of taking any Radiohead album,
especially that one, too seriously. Both Pitchfork and Rolling Stone named
Kid A (2000) the greatest album of the decade 2000-2009, and there are still plenty of critics who would argue it s not as good as