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Frank Loesser's Academy Award winning Baby It's Cold Outside is a Christmas Classic but started life as a party piece for Loesser and his wife to sing at at celebrity parties. It has been covered by dozens of singers, including Zooey Deschanel and Leon Redbone for the 2003 film Elf. However, this version is based on Tom Jones & Cerys Matthews' recording from his 1998 album Reload. 

During the 1940s, when Hollywood celebrities attended parties, they were expected to perform. In 1944, Frank Loesser wrote Baby, It's Cold Outside for his wife, Lynn Garland, and himself to sing at a housewarming party in New York City at the Navarro Hotel. They sang the song to indicate to guests that it was time to leave. The song was an instant success and according to his wife We become 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.

The song started to reach a wider audience when in 1948, after years of performing the song, Loesser sold it to MGM for the 1949 romantic comedy Neptune's Daughter. In the film, Baby, It's Cold Outside was sung by Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalbán, then by Betty Garrett and Red Skelton, who reversed the roles. The song won the Academy Award.

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Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns.  You can also type John Fries in the searchbar to see all I have to offer.  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 popularly regarded as a Christmas song owing to its winter theme. During the 1940s, whenever Hollywood celebrities with vocal talents attended parties, they were expected to perform songs. 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. 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.

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Song originally written by Frank Loesser for he and his wife to sing at parties - they sang the song to indicate to guests that it was time to leave. It is often sung at Christmas because of the theme of cold snowy weather.
Recorded by numerous artists, this version is inspired by Tom Jones and Cerys Matthews.
Arranged in two parts, with the soprano part splitting occasionally.

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Song originally written by Frank Loesser for he and his wife to sing at parties - they sang the song to indicate to guests that it was time to leave.  It is often sung at Christmas because of the theme of cold snowy weather.
Recorded by numerous artists, this version is inspired by Tom Jones and Cerys Matthews.
Arranged for soprano and alto (the upper line is mostly unison but splits occasioanlly) and bass, each line is interchangeable and may be sung by the other part for a new take on the song.

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Song originally written by Frank Loesser for he and his wife to sing at parties - they sang the song to indicate to guests that it was time to leave.  It is often sung at Christmas because of the theme of cold snowy weather.
Recorded by numerous artists, this version is inspired by Tom Jones and Cerys Matthews.
Arranged for soprano or alto (the upper line is mostly unison but splits occasionally) and tenor, each line is interchangeable and may be sung by the other part for a new take on the song.

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A call and response duet by Frank Loesser. A clarinet quartet arrangement of Baby, It's Cold Outside ideal for holiday caroling.

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A call and response duet by Frank Loesser. A brass quartet (trumpet, trumpet, trombone, tuba) arrangement of Baby, It's Cold Outside ideal for holiday caroling.