They say there's a song for everything and this is the one that fits today as winter arrives a few days early here in the Northeast.
Baby It's Cold Outside is an Academy award-winning song that was featured in the 1949 MGM film Neptune's Daughter. It was written in 1944 by Frank Henry Loesser, a renowned Broadway show-tune composer whose Tony Award & Pulitzer Prize winning credits include How To Succeed in Business Without Even Trying and Guys And Dolls.
Loesser first composed this 'bait & catch' duet for a house party he was hosting and it's in that spirit that the song has become a timeless cold weather classic for the past 60 years. Here's a look at the most popular recordings of this song:
1949: Dinah Shore & Buddy Clark
Baby It's Cold Outside is an Academy award-winning song that was featured in the 1949 MGM film Neptune's Daughter. It was written in 1944 by Frank Henry Loesser, a renowned Broadway show-tune composer whose Tony Award & Pulitzer Prize winning credits include How To Succeed in Business Without Even Trying and Guys And Dolls.
Loesser first composed this 'bait & catch' duet for a house party he was hosting and it's in that spirit that the song has become a timeless cold weather classic for the past 60 years. Here's a look at the most popular recordings of this song:
1949: Dinah Shore & Buddy Clark
Margaret Whiting & Johnny Mercer
Don Cornell & Laura Leslie w/ Sammy Kaye's Orchestra
Ella Fitzgerald & Louise Jordan
Homer & Jethro w/ June Carter
1959: Dean Martin
1962: Ray Charles & Betty Carter
1971: Kenneth Connor & Glennis Beresford
1986: Sigourney Weaver & Buster Poindexter (on SNL)
1998: Bobby Caldwell & Vanessa Williams
2009: Willie Nelson & Norah Jones
In 2006, a post-Dino duet was released by Dean Martin & Martina McBride.
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