She Sang the #1 Hit. Another Group Got the Credit. Nobody Knew for 20 Years. | More Music Por Favor Presents
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She sang the number one hit. Someone else got the credit. For decades, one of the most powerful voices in American music history cleaned houses for a living — because the contract she signed left her with nothing.
In Episode 2 of More Music Por Favor Presents, host Marcus Reed tells the true story of Darlene Love: the session singer whose voice defined some of the most beloved records of the 1960s, whose name Phil Spector buried under other artists' credits, and whose journey from scrubbing floors to standing on the Academy Awards stage represents one of music history's most extraordinary — and overdue — acts of justice. Marcus explores the economics of session singing, the work-for-hire contracts that extracted the labor of Black women at industrial scale, and what Darlene Love's story reveals about how the music industry was truly built. ...