Melinda Doolitte – “It’s Your Love” – The Ellen Degeneres Show – VIDEO

32 Responses to “Melinda Doolitte – “It’s Your Love” – The Ellen Degeneres Show – VIDEO”

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• shirley6700

  02/11/2009 at 5:59 pm

  Melinda rocked on Ellen’s show. She will last–one of the best singers I’ve ever heard. The CD is awesome. I’ve bought several for Valentine’s gifts. I wish her the very best, and I’ll be following her career with great interest.
• Tess

  02/11/2009 at 6:21 pm

  Hopefully, with the success she will have with this, a cover album, great songwriters will step up to the plate and present her with some marvelous original material. Does she write and compose?
• chercat

  02/11/2009 at 7:04 pm

  I always loved her – just goes to prove that the bets talent often ( more often not actually) is not the ” winner” on American Idol.

  Makes no difference – she IS a winner and the album will sell really , really well . I am running out to buy my copy tomorrow after hearing that performance .
• gabam

  02/11/2009 at 7:29 pm

  Melinda was amazing. Beautiful voice. Looked great. Yay, Melinda.

  I wonder if that was a good choice of first single, though. With the first single, artists usually do radio tours. That will be a hard song to sing at 8 o’clock in the morning at a radio station.

  Best of luck to the wonderfully talented, Melinda Doolittle.
• JudyOhio

  02/11/2009 at 7:39 pm

  I’ll always remember her for singing My Funny Valentine. Perfection.
• wonderwhy

  02/11/2009 at 8:45 pm

  I downloaded Ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s Your Love and I enjoy it well enough. But I donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t think Melinda challenged herself making this CD of covers and I want more out of her. It is undisputable that she is a technically gifted singer who can interpret lyrics. What she showed on AI, and what ultimately got her voted off short of the mark, is what she is showing with this CD. She sings other peopleà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s songs very well but there is no Melinda there. By doing covers, she is still in the background. Ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s like the high-achieving student who doesnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t take the AP classes and gets the highest GPA in the graduating class. It would be great to hear a more vulnerable Melinda Dolittle who really steps out of the shadow of the notes, takes some chances, allows herself to be less than perfect, and shows me through her music who she is.
• colette

  02/11/2009 at 11:56 pm

  I thought she crushed it on Ellen. This may not be everyone’s sound, but it is definitely Mindydoo’s music — you can see the joy, and even better you can hear it. This is a genuine musician, a singer’s singer.

  Is she going to sell as many records as David Cook? Is this the best record she’ll ever make? Of course not. But who cares? She’s at the beginning of what will be a really strong career, if she follows her heart and does what she’s great at and loves.

  As for the debate about vocal strain, I do know what JSG means. There’s been a big fashion over the past decade for very ornate, very high pop singing by women, vocal aerobics a la Mariah Carey, Mary Blige, Whitney, etc., but all over the map in terms of talent. The more elaborate and showoffy it gets, the more meaningless to me. I mean, what happened to restraint? Even Janis Joplin sounds like she’s less over the top than some of the screamers.

  But I don’t hear that at all in Melinda. I hear a remarkably agile instrument that can do many things without straining and keening. She’s also a very technically together singer, who knows how to breathe, to pace, to sustain notes and snap off phrases. This is someone who takes care of her voice.

  And I stand by my earlier suggestion that this is one of the better records made by an AI contestant, precisely because it’s not something cooked up by the commercial folks. It’s really an expression of Melinda, a tremendously talented singer.