Tha Annual Darlene Love Christmas Salute

The great Darlene Love continued her Christmas
tradition on "The View" this year 

As I've done for several years on this here blog thingy, on Christmas Eve I always feature Darlene Love's classic "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"

It's one of the few holiday songs I actually like.

Love actually.

Darlene Love doesn't age, whether it be on the 28 years she sang this classic on David Letterman, and now the second year on "The View" now that Letterman is off the air.

She's supposedly 75 years old, but I don't believe it.

By the way, Darlene Love has a new album out. She doesn't quit, does she? Thank goodness.

At the end of this year's performance from "The View", we get a little taste of Patti LaBelle to make things even sweeter.

I mention sweeter in connection with Patti LaBelle not only because of her awesome voice, but also because she has now gotten doubly famous for her sweet potato pie, which is a HUGE holilday hit at Walmart. 

Here's the video of this year's performance of Darlene Love's "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" on "The View"

Happy Holidays everyone!!!!!

Good Damn Luck Getting A Patti LaBelle Sweet Potato Pie

Good luck finding Patti LaBelle's Sweet Potato Pie
at Walmart. It's selling like, um,  hotcakes after
a viral video about it. 

I will not be eating any Patti LaBelle Sweet Potato Pie this Thanksgiving.

I'm sure it's good, but I don't feel like searching every Walmart on the planet for it.

Huh?

Here's the deal: Walmart introduced Patti LaBelle Sweet Potato Pie for the Thanksgiving season this year. (Apparently the awesome singer knows her way around baking, too.)

Then some eccentric but very fun guy on YouTube decided to review it. As you can see in that video below, he definitely liked it. (And can sing pretty well, too. He's no Patti LaBelle, but that's OK.)

The video went totally viral, with 3.2 million hits as of today and counting. When people saw the video, they, too wanted Patti Labelle's Sweet Potato Pie.

The pie sold at the nation's Walmarts at the rate of one per second for 72 straight hours, according to Forbes magazine. 

Walmart, which has exclusive rights to the pie, can't keep them in stock. They're $3.48 per pie at Walmart, but some people are selling them on eBay for as much as $60 per pie, says Forbes.

Many people, including me, will be forced to go without Patti LaBelle's Sweet Potato Pie this Thanksgiving. (Luckily, there's a place called Mirabelles Cafe and Pastry Shop in Burlington, Vermont, near my house, which makes awesome pies. Maybe not sweet potato pie, but marvelous other pies for sure. I'll get my Thanksgiving dessert supplies there.)

Anyway, here's the strange but awesome Patti LaBelle Sweet Potato Pie YouTube review that started this craze: