Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Mid-Week Cold Outside Song
Blog reader and good friend P.E.C. drew our attention to this classic, winter season song performed by Leon Redbone and Zooey Deschanel. "Baby It's Cold Outside," a 1944 composition by Frank Loesser, is a call-and-response duet format, and has been recorded over the years by such artists as Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan, Margaret Whiting and Johnny Mercer, Ray Charles and Betty Carter, and Lady Gaga and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. This version originally appeared in the 2003 soundtrack for the film Elf. Enjoy and stay warm inside.
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4 comments:
My favorite winter song. Thanks, Hackie!
Diva -- We're glad you enjoyed it (and thanks again to P.E.C.).
It is currently fashionable to deprecate this song as a thinly-veiled narrative of date rape. Thoughts?
Frank - There certainly are some lyrics that might suggest coercion under the influence, etc. But I think to look at this song, written in the 1940s, through our 21st century lens is a mistake. (That's not to say there wasn't date rape in the '40s or at any other time in history.) Apparently Loesser wrote it and performed it with his wife at parties for several years as a signal to guests it was time to leave. He later sold the song for its appearance in "Neptune's Daughter."
I would also point out that the person who suggested this song to us is female as is our commenter Diva, who not only did not take offense at the song, but love it. I think that's a good place to leave it.
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