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  • The song predates that by five years. https://www.goretro.com/2016/12/why-baby-its-cold-outside-is-not-about.html?m=1

    Frank Loesser’s son, John, was interviewed about the song by the Palm Bean Post in 2010 that was reprinted on the official site for his dad. From the article:

    “My father wrote that song as a piece of special material for he and my mother to do at parties,” says John Loesser, who runs the Lyric Theatre in Stuart, and is the son of legendary composer Frank Loesser (Guys and Dolls, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.)

    Frank Loesser’s wife, Lynn, was a nightclub singer who had moved from Terre Haute, Ind. to New York in search of a career. She was singing in a nightclub when she met Frank Loesser around 1930.

    The song itself was written in 1944, when Loesser and his wife had just moved into the Hotel Navarro in New York. They gave a housewarming party for themselves and when they did the number, everybody went crazy.

    “We had to do it over and over again,” Lynn Loesser told her kids, “and we became instant parlor room stars.”

    Performers started to take note of the song, and record covers of it. It’s also featured in the 1949 musical comedy Neptune’s Daughter as sung by Ricardo Montalbán and Esther Williams below. And in that movie, it takes an ironic tone since the movie takes place in a warm climate. It also earned Loesser an Academy Award for Best Original Song.


  • This song is cute and happy but the lyrics are absolutely devastating and make me cry. https://open.spotify.com/track/2E3hdMguyNDQswLXyUotYR

    https://genius.com/Bloc-party-signs-lyrics


    [Verse 1]
    Two ravens in the old oak tree
    And one for you and one for me
    And bluebells in the late December
    I see signs now all the time
    The last time we slept together
    There was something that was not there
    You never wanted to alarm me
    But I’m the one that’s drowning now

    [Verse 2]
    I can sleep forever these days
    Cause in my dreams I see you again
    But this time-fleshed out fuller face
    In your confirmation dress
    It was so like you to visit me
    To let me know you were okay
    It was so like you to visit me
    You’re always worried about someone else

    [Bridge]
    At your funeral I was so upset
    So, so upset
    In your life you were larger than this
    Statue statuesque

    [Chorus] (x2)
    I see signs now all the time
    That you’re not dead, you’re sleeping
    I believe in anything
    That brings you back home to me


    I hate this song. Literally sobbing at the fear of the state my mental health would be in if my wife suddenly passed.