By HILLEL ITALIE, Associated Press National Writer

Darlene Love will never stop thinking of her holiday classic, “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).” At this time of year, she couldn’t if she tried.

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“The post office, grocery store, elevator,” she says with a laugh, listing a few locations where she keeps hearing the song. “It just feels funny that my song is in that many places at Christmastime.”

Her signature song, first released in 1963, is as set in the pantheon as such predecessors as Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” and such successors as Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” Love sang “Christmas” for years on David Letterman ‘s late night show, which ended in 2015, and has since followed with appearances on “The View” and “The Tonight Show Starring Jim

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