Baby, It's Cold Outside Explained

Baby, It's Cold Outside
Type:song
Written:1944
Published:1949 by Susan Publications/Edwin H Morris and Co.

"Baby, It's Cold Outside" is a popular song written by Frank Loesser in 1944 and popularized in the 1949 film Neptune's Daughter. While the lyrics make no mention of a holiday, it is commonly regarded as a Christmas song owing to its winter theme. The song was released in eight recordings in 1949—including well-known versions by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan, and by Dean Martin and Marilyn Maxwell—and has been covered numerous times since.

History

In 1944, Loesser wrote "Baby, It's Cold Outside" to sing with his wife, Lynn Garland, at their housewarming party in New York City at the Navarro Hotel. They sang the song to indicate to guests that it was time to leave.[1] Garland has written that after the first performance, "We became instant parlor room stars. We got invited to all the best parties for years on the basis of 'Baby.' It was our ticket to caviar and truffles. Parties were built around our being the closing act." In 1948, after years of performing the song, Loesser sold it to MGM for the 1949 romantic comedy Neptune's Daughter. Garland was furious: "I felt as betrayed as if I'd caught him in bed with another woman."[2]

According to Esther Williams, the producers of Neptune's Daughter had planned to use a different Loesser song, "(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China", but studio censors thought it was too suggestive and replaced it with "Baby."[3]

The song won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Original Song.[4] [5]

Lyrics

The song is a call and response duet between two people, a host (called "Wolf" in the score, usually performed by a male singer) and a guest (called "Mouse", usually performed by a female). Every line in the song features a statement from the guest followed by a response from the host. The lyrics consist of the host trying to convince the guest that she should stay for a romantic evening because he fears her getting too cold outside, despite the fact that she feels she should return home to her concerned family and neighbors.[6] In the film Neptune's Daughter, the song is first performed by Ricardo Montalbán and Esther Williams, then with a comic parody twist by Betty Garrett and Red Skelton: this time the man wants to leave and the woman wants him to stay.[7]

In at least one published version the tempo of the song is given as "Loesserando", a humorous reference to the composer's name.[8]

While studying in the United States in 1949, the future leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Sayyid Qutb, reportedly expressed outrage with the song and its perceived decadent use at dance in a church.[9]

Since 2009, the song has also faced criticism among some listeners for the alleged implications of its lyrics, with elements such as the line, "Say, what's in this drink?" and the "wolf"'s unrelenting pressure for the "mouse" to remain in spite of her repeated suggestions that she should go home being described as suggestive of sexual harassment or even date rape.[10] [11]

However, others have noted that cultural expectations at the time of the song's writing were such that ladies were not socially permitted to spend the night with gentlemen to whom they were not married and that the woman states that she wants to stay, while "What's in this drink?" was a common idiom of the period used to sidestep social expectations by blaming one's actions on the influence of alcohol.[12] [13] Susan Loesser, the daughter of songwriter Frank Loesser, attributed the controversy to the song being associated with Bill Cosby after television programs such as Saturday Night Live and South Park satirically depicted it being performed by the comedian, who had been accused of sexually assaulting numerous women.[14] [15]

In 2018, the airing of the song was canceled by a number of radio stations including Canada's CBC streaming service, after social media criticism and public pressure regarding the song's lyrics. This was referred to by some media outlets as part of a wider cancel culture at the time of works liable to offend people.[16] On November 30, 2018, Cleveland, Ohio, radio station WDOK Star 102 announced that it had removed the song from its playlist due to its lyric content, based on listener input, amid the MeToo movement.[17] On December 4, 2018, the Canadian radio broadcasters Bell Media, CBC Radio, and Rogers Media followed suit. The decision was divisive among critics and the general public, with supporters arguing that the song's possible implications of date rape did not align with current societal norms, and others arguing that the decision was an appeal to political correctness.[18] [19] [20] Station KOIT in San Francisco, having placed the song "on hold" pending listener feedback, returned it to the playlist after 77% of respondents opposed its removal.[21] CBC Radio subsequently reinstated the song as well.[22] Following the controversy, the song rose to the top 10 of Billboard digital sales list for the week of December 22, 2018, with a 70% increase in downloads.[23]

In 2019, vocalists John Legend and Kelly Clarkson also recorded the song with modified lyrics, written by Legend and Natasha Rothwell for an expanded edition of Legend's A Legendary Christmas album. The lyrical changes, which included lines from the "Wolf" emphasizing sexual consent, became a new source of controversy in their own right.[24] [25] Deana Martin, whose father Dean Martin had recorded a popular version of the song in 1959, criticized the new interpretation as "absurd", saying her father would not have approved of altering the lyrics (which she maintained to be more sexually explicit in the new version than in Loesser's original) in order to appease contemporary sensibilities.[26]

1949 recordings

Other recordings

As of 2020, there are over 400 recordings of the song.[33] The following list is incomplete.

YearPerformer Work Source
1951 Satchmo at Pasadena [34]
1955 Eddie Fisher Sings Academy Award Winning Songs [35]
1957 Boy Meets Girl[36] [37]
1959 Jack Marshall (instrumental)Soundsville![38]
1959 Dean Martin and female chorus[39] valign=topA Winter Romance valign=top[40]
1960 We Got Us [41]
1961 Ray Charles and Betty Carter [42]
1961 Marty Gold (instrumental)Stereo Action Goes Hollywood [43]
1964 Beauty and the Beard [44]
1966 Ted Heath and Edmundo Ros (instrumental)Heath vs. Ros: Round 2 [45]
1966 Henry Mancini and mixed chorus The Academy Award Songs [46]
1966 Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery (instrumental) [47]
1967 [48]
1979 Needlepoint Magic, Vol. 5 [49]
1990 Because It's Christmas [50]
1991 For the Boys

Music From The Motion Picture

[51]
1994 Just in Time for Christmas [52]
1995 Jazz to the World [53]
1996 Star Bright [54]
1998 This Christmas [55]
1999 Reload [56]
2000 The Still of the Night [57]
2001 Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas [58]
2000 Holly Cole and Ed RobertsonBaby, It's Cold Outside [59]
2002 Boogie Woogie Christmas [60]
2002 The Season for Romance [61]
2003 Elf

Music From The Major Motion Picture

[62]
2004 [63]
2004 [64]
2004 A Christmas Album [65]
2006 Christmas with Dino [66]
2008 Anne Murray's Christmas Album [67]
2009 Country for Christmas[68]
2009 American Classic [69]
2009 Home Run Holiday
2010 [70]
2011 [71]
2011 A Very She & Him Christmas [72]
2012 Christmas in the Sand [73]
2012 Holidays Rule [74]
2012 Rita Coolidge with drummer Lynn Coulter A Rita Coolidge Christmas [75]
2012 Cee Lo's Magic Moment [76]
2012 Release Me [77]
2012 [78]
2013 Wrapped in Red [79]
2013 Saturday Night Live [80] [81]
2013 Lady Gaga and the Muppets Holiday Spectacular [82]
2014 Christmas with Nashville [83]
2014 Joey DeFrancesco (instrumental) Home for the Holidays [84]
2014 Holiday for Swing [85]
2014 Holiday Wishes [86]
2014 Home for the Holidays[87]
2014 [88]
2016 Christmas Together [89]
2016 'Tis the SeaSon [90]
2016 Glow [91]
2016 Friends for Christmas [92]
2016 Tennessee Christmas [93]
2017 Baby It's Cold Outside / Frio Frio [94]
2017 Christmas After Midnight [95]
2017 Pitch Perfect 3 [96]
2017 [97]
2017 [98]
2018 Paloma Faith and B.B. Bones
2018 An Aaron Watson Family Christmas [99]
2019 The Boys Christmas with the Boys [100]
2019 Disco Pirates It's Cold Outside (Don't Go) [101]
2019 A Legendary Christmas

Deluxe Edition

[102]
2019 Silent Nights [103]
2020 A Very Mogul Christmas [104]
2020 [105]
2022 [106]

Charts

Dean Martin version

Chart (2007–2024)Peak
position
Canada (Hot Canadian Digital Songs)[107] 10
Euro Digital Tracks (Billboard)[108]
with Frank Sinatra & Sammy Davis Jr.		13
Global 200 (Billboard)[109] 84
Ireland (IRMA)[110] 64
US Billboard Hot 100[111] 45
US Hot 100 Recurrents (Billboard)[112] 2
US Holiday 100 (Billboard)[113] 65
US Holiday 100 (Billboard)
with Martina McBride		63
US Rolling Stone Top 100[114] 21

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan version

Chart (2010–2012)Peak
position
US Jazz Digital Songs (Billboard)[115] 2
US Holiday Digital Songs (Billboard)[116] 11

Kelly Clarkson and Ronnie Dunn version

Chart (2013)Peak
position
South Korea International Singles (Gaon)[120] 127
US Holiday Digital Songs (Billboard)[121] 6

Idina Menzel and Michael Bublé version

Chart (2014–2023)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[122] 51
US Holiday 100 (Billboard)[123] 14

Brett Eldredge and Meghan Trainor version

Chart (2016–2023)Peak
position
Greece International (IFPI)[124] 97
Latvia (LAIPA)[125] 24
Lithuania (AGATA)[126] 55
Poland (Polish Streaming Top 100)[127] 90
US Holiday 100 (Billboard)[128] 67

John Legend and Kelly Clarkson version

Chart (2019–2020)Peak
position
New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ)[129] 22
US Holiday Digital Songs (Billboard)[130] 5
US R&B Digital Songs (Billboard)[131] 6

Year-end charts

Brett Eldredge and Meghan Trainor version

Certifications

Brett Eldredge and Meghan Trainor version

See also

External links

Notes and References

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