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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan
Not much is written down about them yet. What we know is pinned below.
From the station's own files.
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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan
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- 1 song
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan on the air
Side A: on Broken Record Radio
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The Static Times1949
Baby, It's Cold Outside
1944 song by Frank Loesser
"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, Hot Lips Page and Pearl Bailey, and Dean Martin and Marilyn Maxwell—and has been covered hundreds of times since.
Lyrics
The song is a call and response duet between two people: a host and a guest, usually performed by male and female singers respectively. 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.
1949 recordings
Don Cornell and Laura Leslie with Sammy Kaye and his orchestra; recorded on April 12 and released by RCA Victor (peaked at No. 12 on Billboard's Records Most Played By Disk Jockeys chart, at No. 13 on Billboard's Best-Selling Popular Retail Records chart [lasting ten weeks on the chart], and at No. 17 on Billboard's Most-Played Juke Box Records chart in mid-1949)
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