In September 1978, Nicolette Larson released her self-titled debut solo album. Five months later, she had one of the hottest singles in the country with “Lotta Love.”
The song peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, making the former backup singer a bona fide pop star.
The song itself was written by music legend Neil Young, who graciously gifted it to Larson after he hired her to sing backup on one of his most iconic albums.
"I got that song off a tape I found lying on the floor of Neil's car," Larson once said of “Lotta Love” in an interview. "I popped it in the tape player and commented on what a great song it was. Neil said, 'You want it? It's yours.'"
Larson first met Young after mutual pal Linda Ronstadt introduced them during sessions for Young’s iconic American Stars ‘n Bars album in 1977. Larson was brought in after Young’s original choice, Emmylou Harris, was unavailable.
“Neil kind of functions on cosmic operations,you know, and that was cosmic enough for him,” Larson shared in an interview published by Ear of Newt. “If everyone had recommended me, then I was supposed to work with him. So Linda and I went up to his ranch and sang backups on that album, and then when he did Comes a Time, he called me again to come and sing on it.”
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Larson admitted that she didn’t know a lot about Young’s music when she first met him.
“I didn’t know much about Neil Young,” she told Rolling Stone in December 1978. “But we went over and sat by the fireplace, and Neil ran down all the songs he had just written, about twenty of them. We sang harmonies with him, and he was jazzed.”
She also revealed that unbeknownst to her, the practice sessions were recorded.
“We [Neil and Crazy Horse] worked out the songs in a room of his house,” she added. “And just when we had the songs down, Neil said, ‘Thanks a lot… we’ve got the album.’ He was recording all the rehearsals secretly in another room.”
Larson also sang backup on Young’s follow-up to American Stars ‘n Bars, 1978’s Comes a Time. That led to a contract with Warner Bros. and her hit debut solo album.
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Neil Young released his own version of ‘Lotta Love’
While Young gave her “Lotta Love,” Larson noted that the rock legend released his own version of the song for his Comes a Time album, but she did not perform on that track.“He recorded it first, and I heard it and said, ‘Gee that’s great. How come you don’t put that song out?’” she recalled per Ear of Newt. “It was kind of like, ‘Don’t ask me why I don’t put this out. You want to put it out, you put it out.’ So I recorded it, and got it all ready to put out, then at the very last minute he changed his mind on Comes a Time and put it on that. So we both released it the very same day, actually.”
Larson noted that her version was quite different from Young’s.
Follwing hwer pop success, Larson went on to focus on country music in the mid-1980s. She died in 1997 at age 45.
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