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Baby, It's Cold Outside


its lyrics. In 2018, the airing of the song was cancelled by a number of radio stations, such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's streaming service, due to listeners' concerns about the lyrics, but later reinstated it after public backlash. 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
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Baby, It's Cold Outside (Scandal)


"Baby, It's Cold Outside" is the 9th episode and mid-season finale of the fifth season of the American political thriller television series "Scandal". It takes its title from the 1944 song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" written by Frank Loesser. It aired on November 19, 2015 on American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in the United States. The episode was written by Mark Wilding and directed by Tom Verica. The episode was notable for featuring a scene in which Olivia Pope has an abortion
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Baby, It's Cold Outside


"Baby, It's Cold Outside" is an Academy Award-winning popular song written by Frank Loesser in 1944, which gained wide recognition in 1949 when it was performed in the film "Neptune's Daughter". While the lyrics make no mention of any holiday, it is popularly regarded as a Christmas song owing to its winter theme. The song was released in no fewer than 8 recordings in 1949 and has been covered numerous times since. Since 2009, the song has faced some criticism for the presumed implications of
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Christmas in the Sand


from that perspective." The album, produced by her father Ken, includes five originals and 10 holiday standards, as well as guest appearances by Brad Paisley on a rocking "Merry Christmas Baby" and Gavin DeGraw, who ad libs his way through what Caillat calls a "hilarious" version of "Baby, It's Cold Outside". Vocals recorded on Tour at Playback Recording Studio." he wrote the love song "Everyday is Christmas" with Jason Reeves and Kara DioGuardi, while "Mistletoe", composed with
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Frank Loesser


1948, he sold the rights to a song he wrote in 1944 and performed informally at parties with his then wife Lynn Garland to MGM. The studio included it in the 1949 movie "Neptune's Daughter", and the song, "Baby, It's Cold Outside", became a huge hit. Garland was mad at Loesser for selling what she considered "their song" to MGM. He ended up winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song. His next musical, "Guys and Dolls"
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Haley Reinhart


stating, "I want it to be real and I want it to have substance. Depth on different levels is so important to me...I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them." She wrote or co-wrote the majority of the tracks on the album. Later, Reinhart and Casey Abrams recorded a holiday song, a cover of "Baby, It's Cold Outside", which was released on November
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Fumito Iwai


other band members to work on further. Iwai did not feel confident in his ideas and lyrics, however wrote the music for their 2011 single "Asu e", and worked on many of the songs on "Portal" (2012), including most of the work on the instrumental song "Blue River Side Alone". Iwai started to feel like he wanted to influence the Japanese music scene more by himself, and in July 2012, during the demo sessions for "Baby, It's Cold Outside", told
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Gavin DeGraw


released under RCA Records, all three of his previous albums were released under J Records. DeGraw went on to release an acoustic album based mostly on songs from "Sweeter". The "iTunes Session" album features seven tracks and a 30-minute interview. DeGraw sang "Baby It's Cold Outside" with Colbie Caillat on her "Christmas in the Sand" album. The pair also wrote the song "We Both Know" for the soundtrack of the 2013 film "Safe Haven". On June 18, 2013, DeGraw
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Carey Elmore Morgan Jr.


his brother worked. Songwriter Frank Loesser credited Morgan as being an influence on his career; specifically Morgan's "low-brow appreciation of high-brow art," which unleashed Loesser's talent. He became known for being a "high-brow writer of low-brow songs." Loesser wrote the popular Christmas song, "Baby, It's Cold Outside." In 1918, Morgan married singer and actress, Madeline Florence Fliege in France. This was where Morgan was stationed during World War I. His parents traveled
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My Baby (Cold Chisel song)


"My Baby" is a 1980 single from Australian rock band Cold Chisel, the third released from the album "East" and the first of the band's singles not to be written by pianist Don Walker. This was the only track credited solely to bass player Phil Small on any of the band's albums apart from "Notion For You" on the 1994 rarities album "Teenage Love" (Small co-wrote "The Game" from "Twentieth Century" with Walker). The song proved to be one
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Neptune's Daughter (1949 film)


children. "Teaching those children how to swim was "one of the most gratifying experiences I've ever had," wrote Williams in her autobiography. Williams played a swimsuit designer in this film, and went on to copy several swimsuit designs from this film in the line of swimwear she would later create. The song "Baby It's Cold Outside" was not planned to be in this film. It took the place of Frank Loesser's "(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China
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Baby, It's Cold Outside


Betty Garrett and Red Skelton but with a comic parody twist: this time the man wants to leave and the woman is the host and wants "him" to stay. In at least one published version the tempo of the song is given as "Loesserando", a humorous reference to the composer's name. Since 2009, the song has faced some criticism from feminist circles for the alleged implications of its lyrics. Although some critical analyses of the song have highlighted parts of the lyrics, such as "What's in
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Esther Williams


and Betty Garrett, who had also been in "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." In the film, Williams sings "Baby, It's Cold Outside" with Montalbán. The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 22nd Academy Awards. Williams and Montalbán were originally slated to sing "(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China", but studio censors thought the song was too sexual (interpreting the word "get" as "have") and instead
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Baby, It's Cold Outside


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. 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. CBC Radio subsequently reinstated the song as well. Following the controversy, the song rose to the top 10 of "Billboard" digital sales list for the week of December
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Bill Cosby sexual assault cases


, It's Cold Outside" was pulled from several radio stations amid controversy that its lyrics allegedly promote sexual predation. Susan Loesser, daughter of composer Frank Loesser, who wrote the song, blamed Bill Cosby for backlash against its lyric "say, what's in this drink?" Loesser said “Bill Cosby is ruining it for everybody... Ever since Cosby was accused of drugging women, I hear the date rape thing all the time... I think it would be good if people looked at the song in the context of
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Sitti


"Ngayong Pasko". This album also has reached the Gold status in less than a month after its release. Sitti has also collaborated with Asia's Pop Idol and Romantic Balladeer, Christian Bautista for his album "Captured" for a duet of the song of the same title. They once again collaborated for Sitti's Christmas album on the song "Baby It's Cold Outside". In the second quarter of 2009, Sitti released her third studio album entitled "Contagious", which contains an original which was also the
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Ice Ice Baby


hip hop single to top the "Billboard" Hot 100. Outside the United States, the song topped the charts in Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, thus helping the song diversify hip hop by introducing it to a mainstream audience. Robert Van Winkle, better known by his stage name Vanilla Ice, wrote "Ice Ice Baby" in 1983 at the age of 16, basing its lyrics upon his experiences in South Florida. The lyrics describe a shooting and
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Me Too movement


" announced that it had removed the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" from its playlist because listeners felt that the lyrics were inappropriate. The station's host commented that "in a world where #MeToo has finally given women the voice they deserve, the song has no place". The streaming service Spotify removed music by XXXTentacion and R. Kelly from Spotify-owned playlists after allegations of "hateful conduct", but later reversed course due to the fact that the allegations against the artists were unproven. Eventually,
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The Empty Pockets


as their female vocalist before recording and releasing a Christmas single in 2008, a rock arrangement combining "Baby, It's Cold Outside" and "Baby Please Come Home." The song peaked the week of Christmas 2008 and reached #51 on the Mediabase AC chart playing on radio stations across the United States. The following year, the single reached #36 on the Mediabase AC chart in November. That month it was the #1 song played in several cities including KQIS in Lafayette, Louisiana WJYE in Buffalo, New
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Baby, It's Cold Outside


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. 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
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It's Cold Outside (song)


both reminiscent of early Beatles and Who compositions. In addition to the British Invasion-influenced arrangements, "It's Cold Outside" is also marked by Dave Burke's raving bass playing and lead guitarist Wally Bryson's jangling Byrds-esque technique. Music historian Richie Unterberger, writing for the Allmusic website, proposes the tune would have been better suited for "the innocent times of 1964 than for the complicated culture and music scene of 1967". Upon its release in September 1966, "It's Cold Outside" drew little
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It's a Great Feeling (song)


"It's a Great Feeling" is a popular song. The music was written by Jule Styne, the lyrics by Sammy Cahn. The song was published in 1949. The song was introduced in the film of the same name by Doris Day and the song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1950 but lost out to “Baby, It's Cold Outside”. Both Doris Day (recorded May 1949 for Columbia Records, catalog 38517) and Kay Starr made commercial recordings of the song but neither
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Baby, It's Cold Outside


" was a common idiom of the period used to rebuke social expectations by blaming one's actions on the influence of alcohol. 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". 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
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Lavender's Blue


Award for Best Original Song in 1949 (it lost to "Baby, It's Cold Outside" from "Neptune's Daughter"). This version of the song was credited to Eliot Daniel (music) and Larry Morey (lyrics). "Lavender Blue" was one of 400 nominees for the American Film Institute's "100 Years... 100 Songs" list of the 100 greatest film songs, which was presented on a television program of that name which aired on June 22, 2004, but it didn't make
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Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album


five stars, unsurprised by the songs being "performed in "Glee"'s familiar Broadway-pop style". He enjoyed "Baby, It's Cold Outside" and its unorthodoxy of being duetted between two males—Chris Colfer and guest star Darren Criss—as "a refreshingly risqué move for Fox TV". Tanner Stransky of "Entertainment Weekly" noted it as a standout track on the album, as did About.com's Bill Lamb, calling it "charm-filled", and E! Online's Jennifer Arrow
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Dolly My Baby


's album "Don Dada", written and produced by fellow reggae artist Trevor Sparks, who provides a chorus as well as backing vocals and ad-libs to the song. The song's original version appears on Super Cat's album "Don Dada", where Trevor Sparks, who co-wrote the song, also performs its chorus and backing vocals. There are two official remix versions to the song. The first remix version, entitled "Dolly My Baby (Hip Hop Mix)", features backing vocals by
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Music censorship


In December 2013, HMV removed the entire catalogue of Lostprophets from its stores after the band's lead singer Ian Watkins was charged with thirteen sexual offences against children. In late-2018, Cleveland radio station WDOK pulled "Baby, It's Cold Outside"—a 1944 pop standard synonymous with the Christmas season—from its Christmas music playlist, citing that certain interpretations of the song's subject matter were too sensitive in the wake of the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment and assault. The move prompted other broadcasters (including two of Canada's major
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Baby, It's Cold Outside


furious: "I felt as betrayed as if I'd caught him in bed with another woman." The song won the 1949 Academy Award for Best Original Song. In 2018, the airing of the song was cancelled 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 duet is a conversation between two people, a host (called "Wolf" in the score, usually performed by a male singer) and a guest (called
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My Baby (Cold Chisel song)


just needed to get it down. He didn't even know the chords - he just played it on the bass and I picked it up from there." Walker said, "Between learning the song and having the finished record might have been a couple of hours work." Anwen Crawford, writing for The Monthly said the song, "sounds like a Smokey Robinson song re-figured for a rock band instead of a Motown vocal group." On the 2007 tribute album "Standing on the Outside: The Songs
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A Very Glee Christmas


photographs. Most of the songs featured in the episode had been released on "" four weeks prior to airing, including "Baby, It's Cold Outside", which debuted at number fifty-seven on the "Billboard" Hot 100 after the episode aired, despite not having been released separately as a single. "Welcome Christmas", the other song to chart after the episode aired, was the only song from the episode not on the album, but it was released as a single, and it debuted at
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She & Him discography


US Singles Sales, making it the band's most successful single. Released in October 2011, the band's first Christmas album "A Very She & Him Christmas" became their best-selling record in the United States, has sold 391,000 copies as of June 2014. Six of its songs, including the single "Baby, It's Cold Outside", charted within the US Holiday Digital Sales. In May 2013, the pair released the fourth studio album "Volume 3", which sold 26,000 copies during the first
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Cerys Matthews


. Matthews also played guitar on the earlier material before second guitarist Owen Powell joined the band. She also performed a single with the band Space named "The Ballad of Tom Jones", which tells the story of two lovers who want to kill each other, but then hear a Tom Jones song that defuses their homicidal feelings. Matthews later collaborated with Jones to record a version of Frank Loesser's "Baby, It's Cold Outside" on Jones' album "Reload". Matthews was voted the "Sexiest Female in
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Heart & Soul: The Life and Music of Frank Loesser


film details the triumphant musical career of Loesser, who rose from humble New York City beginnings as the son of German Jewish immigrant parents to become the acclaimed composer/lyricist of 5 Broadway musicals and several Hollywood movie songs which became American pop standards, such as "Heart and Soul" (with Hoagy Carmichael), "On a Slow Boat to China", and "Baby, It's Cold Outside". Inspired by daughter Susan Loesser's biography, "A Most Remarkable Fella", the film traces the artistic arc
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TommyD


Quaye, Eagle-Eye Cherry, and Jennifer Paige in the early 2000s. In 1999, Danvers produced a cover version of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" with Cerys Matthews and Tom Jones for Jones's 1999 album, "Reload". In the early 2000s, Danvers wrote and produced "More More More," the opening track from Kylie Minogue's eighth studio album "Fever". He also wrote and produced "I Believe" on Sophie Ellis-Bextor's debut album "Read My Lips".
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Cold Chisel


-side to "My Baby", was about homeless kids in the suburbs surrounding Sydney. Songs like "Shipping Steel" and "Standing on The Outside" were working class anthems and many others featured characters trapped in mundane, everyday existences, yearning for the good times of the past ("Flame Trees") or for something better from life ("Bow River"). Alongside contemporaries like The Angels and Midnight Oil, Cold Chisel was renowned as one of the most dynamic live acts of their day and from
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A Very Glee Christmas


as well, if not better than she can finish one." Stack said that the "little taste" included in the show "sounded promising", and Harper "totally loved this song". Kurt and Blaine's duet on "Baby, It's Cold Outside" received many more reviews than the other songs, and the greatest praise. Wieselman called it his "far and away favorite" song of the episode. Stack declared it the "complete and total highlight of the episode and one of the best moments
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Christmas Song Book (Mina album)


: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (for the 2012 album, "12 (American Song Book)") and "Silent Night" (for the 2010 movie, "La banda dei Babbi Natale" by Italian comedians Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo and published in the EP "Piccola Strenna"). The song "Baby, It's Cold Outside", always performed in a duo, has been recorded with Italian comedian and TV presenter Fiorello. The album peaked at number 6 on the Italian Albums Chart
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ReJoyce: The Christmas Album


ReJoyce: The Christmas Album is the fourth studio album by American pop singer Jessica Simpson. It was released by Columbia Records on November 23, 2004. The album features cover versions of popular Christmas songs and includes a duet with her sister, Ashlee Simpson, on the song "Little Drummer Boy". Additionally, it also includes a duet with Nick Lachey, Simpson's husband at the time, on "Baby, It's Cold Outside". The cover of Amy Grant's "Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song
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Dinah Shore


the holiday perennial "Baby, It's Cold Outside" with Buddy Clark from 1949. The song was covered by many other artists, such as Ella Fitzgerald. Other hits during her four years at Columbia included "Laughing on the Outside (Crying on the Inside)", "I Wish I Didn't Love You So", "I Love You (For Sentimental Reasons)", "Doin' What Comes Naturally", and "Dear Hearts and Gentle People". She was a regular with Jack Smith on his
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Original Song


Santana's performance of "Trouty Mouth". She explained "If we're taking this song as a joke, it gets a 'B−' because Santana sounded great. But [...] I think about how bad I felt for Sam watching his utter mortification." "Candles" was generally well received by Gonzalez. She gave the performance a "B" and went on to write "It’s really hard for this pair to live up to the awesomeness of 'Baby, It's Cold Outside'. I
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Dean Martin


Top 10, and in 2006 it was certified "Platinum". For the week ending December 23, 2006, the Dean Martin and Martina McBride duet of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" reached No. 7 on the R&R AC chart. It also went to No. 36 on the R&R Country chart – the last time Martin had a song this high in the charts was in 1965, with the song "I Will," which reached No. 10 on the Pop chart. An album of duets,
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Baby, It's Cold Outside


"Mouse", usually performed by a female), in call and response form. Every line in the song features a statement from the guest followed by a response from the host. While both the Wolf and the Mouse want the night to continue, the Mouse says she "ought to say no, no, no, sir" and return home, because of what family and neighbors will think. In the film "Neptune's Daughter" the song is first performed by Ricardo Montalbán and Esther Williams, then by
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Baby, It's Cold Outside


22, 2018, with a 70% increase in downloads. Susan Loesser, daughter of Frank Loesser and Lynn Garland, blamed the controversy on the song's becoming associated with Bill Cosby in pop culture, after television series such as "South Park" and "Saturday Night Live" depicted the comedian performing the song following his sexual assault allegations for which he was later convicted. Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood writer Sayyid Qutb objected to the song in 1948, albeit for different reasons than recent criticism, asserting that it "epitomized the West
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Kat Edmonson


In December 2010 he invited her to perform "Baby, It's Cold Outside" on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno". Their version of the song was released on Lovett's 2012 album, "Release Me". They collaborated on Edmonson's song "Long Way Home" on her second studio album, "Way Down Low". In 2012, Edmonson appeared on NPR's "Tiny Desk" concert series, "Austin City Limits", and in 2013, "A Prairie Home Companion". She
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Casey Abrams (album)


"Baby, It's Cold Outside" together. The two are close friends, and when asked, Abrams said that he "wouldn't be opposed" to recording an entire album with her. The track's producer Steve Jordan suggested that they do a "funky" version of "Hit the Road Jack", after Abrams mentioned his desire to cover a Ray Charles song. They sought to give the song an "urban twist" - something which Abrams described as "a big risk". Initially, Abrams was
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For the Boys


a crowd. For her performance, Midler won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. The soundtrack features covers of many classic songs, including "Come Rain or Come Shine", "Baby, It's Cold Outside" by Frank Loesser, "P.S. I Love You", "I Remember You" and the Beatles' "In My Life". five of the thirteen songs have lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The soundtrack's first single, "Every Road Leads Back to You
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Mary Margaret O'Hara


shows to Cohen, Weill and Duke Ellington, and in 2009, she participated in a musical improvisation show with Michael Snow and Aidan Closs. She also gave a rare radio interview to promote the 2009 show, appearing on CBC Radio One's "Q" on October 28 — and performing an impromptu duet of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" with host Jian Ghomeshi. O'Hara sings the theme song for Someone Knows Something, a true-crime podcast from the CBC. The song was written by Bob Wiseman. On
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Dave Haywood


Top Country Albums chart. They released their second single "Lookin' for a Good Time" in June 2008 and it peaked at Number 11 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs Chart in December 2008. They also contributed to the AT&T Team USA Soundtrack with the song "I Was Here", which peaked at Number 24 based on downloads on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart. In addition, in December 2008, "Baby, It's Cold Outside" peaked at Number 3 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart. In
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So Dear to My Heart


is the boy's steady ally. Inspired by the animated figures and stories, the boy perseveres. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for Burl Ives's version of the 17th-century English folk song "Lavender Blue," but lost to "Baby, It's Cold Outside" from "Neptune's Daughter". Bobby Driscoll received a special Juvenile Award from the Academy, honoring him as "the outstanding juvenile actor of 1949". (In addition to "So Dear to My Heart
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Sebastian Croft


Eddard Stark (portrayed by Sean Bean as an adult) in the sixth season of the HBO series "Game of Thrones". At Christmas 2014 Croft was featured in the Michael Bublé and Idina Menzel music video of the classic 1940s Frank Loesser song "Baby It's Cold Outside" with the song climbing to No. 1 on "Billboard's" weekly Adult Contemporary chart for the week ending 20 December 2014, spending a total of three weeks on top. Croft plays the roles of "Young Robert Pulaski" in the
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Duet


scenes within serious operas. In Baroque France the duet was popular in tragedies, such as songs of vengeance and confrontation. The love duet was characterized by singing in close harmonies of 3rds and 6ths, symbolizing unity after conflict. Throughout the 20th century duets have been common in the popular music of the era. Some songs were written to be heard as conversations, such as "Baby, It's Cold Outside". Others were performed around a theme, for example New York in "Empire State of Mind". Occasionally
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Mindy White


Circa Survive, The Starting Line, Set Your Goals, Lights, Copeland, Metrostation, Paramore, and much more. Aside from her work with Lydia and States, White has collaborated with many iconic singers, such as Anthony Green from Circa Survive on a holiday cover of the song Baby, It's Cold Outside in 2010 and artist BLACKBEAR on his song "End Up" in 2012. Mindy is a known vegan and an avid supporter of animal rights. Mindy supports the ASPCA, WWF, and The Humane Society of
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Forever Dusty


the first Motown revue in the United Kingdom; her troubled recording sessions for "Dusty in Memphis"; her public "coming out" as a lesbian; her comeback with The Pet Shop Boys; and her battle against breast cancer. In order of appearance, for the Off Broadway production: Original UK Cast - London Fringe production: Though the song does not appear in the play itself, on 18 December 2012, Forever Dusty released a holiday video of Smith and Sajous performing the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside
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Blackbird Sessions


On January 5, 2017 Jessie started releasing live versions of her songs and cover songs recorded in Blackbird Studios starting with "Baby It's Cold Outside" then she released "Lights Down Low" on January 24, 2017 On February 14, 2017 she released "You're Still the One" followed by "Girl On the Coast" on March 2, 2017 On March 7, 2017 she released "Love On The Brain" followed by "Blue Ain't Your Color" on May 13, 2017 which differs a bit
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Cold, Cold Heart


states that Williams was moved to write the song after visiting his wife Audrey in the hospital, who was suffering from an infection brought on by an abortion she had carried out at their home unbeknownst to Hank. Escott also speculates that Audrey, who carried on extramarital affairs as Hank did on the road, may have suspected the baby was not her husband's. Florida bandleader Pappy Neil McCormick claims to have witnessed the encounter: The first draft of the song is dated November 23, 1950, and was recorded with an unknown
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Brenda's Got a Baby


's songs, "Brenda's Got a Baby" draws from the plight of the impoverished. Using Brenda to represent young mothers in general, Shakur criticises the low level of support from the baby's father, the government, and society in general. Shakur wrote the song when he read a newspaper article about a 12-year-old girl who became pregnant by her cousin and threw the baby into a trash compactor. The opening consists of a duet singing the song's title twice. Much of the rest of the song is
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It's Cold Outside (song)


such as the Who, the Rolling Stones, and the Beatles. As the house band for the Painesville Armory, the group appeared on several local television programs, emulating a pop sound inspired by the songs they covered. By 1966, the band members developed into capable songwriters, writing the originals "It's Cold Outside" and "Going Home". With their freshly-penned material in hand, the Mods traveled to Chicago to record. Around the same time, the band changed their name to the Choir because the
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Meg White


". She sang lead on four Stripes' songs: "In the Cold, Cold Night", from the album "Elephant", "Passive Manipulation" from "Get Behind Me Satan", "Who's a Big Baby", the B-side to "Blue Orchid," and "St. Andrew (This Battle Is in the Air)" from "Icky Thump". She also sang the popular Christmas song "Silent Night" on the single "Candy Cane Children". Both Meg and Jack
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Baby, It's Cold Outside (Scandal)


creator Shonda Rhimes for the way in which she integrated Olivia Pope's decision to have an abortion into the episode. Ben Philippe at The A.V. Club wrote an essay about the abortion, praising it for making the show "actually political". Lenika Cruz writing for "The Atlantic" praised the understated way in which abortion was worked into the episode, saying that the "most remarkable thing about the episode's big moment was how unremarkable it was." The health services organization Planned Parenthood, which was featured heavily in the
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Grinch


when he was a baby, his first sign of hating Christmas was at birth; abandoned in Whoville, he landed outside a "Christmas party" (in reality a key party—something that did not yet exist at the time Seuss wrote the book) and was left out in the cold when none of the revelers inside noticed him. When he was taken in he showed violence to the holiday, mostly biting off the head of a Santa cookie and drawing violence to him when he was in school. He falls for
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The White Stripes


with things just by the mood he's in or the attitude or how the song is going. Once in a while, he throws me for a loop, but I can usually keep him where I want him." While Jack was the lead vocalist, Meg did sing lead vocals on four of the band's songs: "In the Cold, Cold Night" (from "Elephant"), "Passive Manipulation" (from "Get Behind Me Satan"), "Who's a Big Baby?"
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My Baby (Cold Chisel song)


of the band's most popular, featuring a clearly defined pop sound quite different from Cold Chisel's more usual hard-edged rock. Guitarist Ian Moss provides lead vocals and Joe Camilleri of Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons contributed a saxophone solo. While "My Baby" was the third single released from "East" in Australia, in the U.S. it was the first. Promotional copies sent to radio stations there were wrapped in a baby's nappy as a marketing gimmick. It was the only Cold Chisel single to chart
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Nashville discography


album, but was aired during The Oscars as a full-length music video to promote the show and then later released as a digital download. Similarly, none of the songs which are heard on the album "Christmas with Nashville" appear on the series (with the exception of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" as sung by Connie Britton and Will Chase). For the first season, "Midas touch" producer T-Bone Burnett, Khouri's husband, was Executive Music Producer and shared scoring duties with
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Lady Antebellum


" to the "AT&T Team USA Soundtrack", a song which peaked at No. 24 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 based on downloads. In December 2008, their rendition of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" peaked at No. 3 on the same chart. Their third official single, "I Run to You", was released in January 2009. It eventually became the trio's first Number One in July 2009. On October 7, 2009, their debut album was certified platinum by the RIAA for
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Baby, It's Cold Outside


this drink?" and the "wolf's" (man's) unrelenting pressure for the "mouse" (woman) to stay in spite of her repeated suggestions that she should go home, as being suggestive of sexual harassment or even date rape, others have noted that cultural expectations at the time of the song's writing were such that women were not socially permitted to spend the night with a boyfriend or fiancé, and that the woman states that she wants to stay, while "What's in this drink?
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20 Fingers


1996 and 1997. The album and the three singles didn't chart well. In 1996, Mohr and Babie wrote and produced the single "Push, Push" for Katrina. In 2000, Babie continued remixing songs from Destiny's Child, band members Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland, and Anastacia under the names "CB2000" and "Charlie's Nu Soul". Mohr and Babie wrote the song "Someone to Love Me" for singer La Rissa. In 2000, Mohr and Babie wrote and produced the song "Sex Tonight
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Baby Boy (Beyoncé song)


"Baby Boy" is a song by American singer Beyoncé featuring Jamaican dancehall singer Sean Paul from Beyoncé's debut solo studio album "Dangerously in Love" (2003). Both artists co-wrote the song with Scott Storch, Robert Waller and Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter; the former also co-produced the song. Containing a lyrical interpolation of "No Fear" by hip hop group O.G.C, "Baby Boy" is an R&B and dancehall song with reggae and Arabic music influences; its lyrics detail a
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Wrapped in Red


". She added: "She starts gently on "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" before belting out the money notes. She ambles assuredly through the soulful favorite "Please Come Home for Christmas (Bells Will Be Ringing)" and hangs by the piano for a torchy "White Christmas." "Newsday"s music columnist Glenn Gamboa wrote that "Clarkson handles it all expertly — hitting remarkably high notes on "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and swinging jazzily on "Baby, It's Cold Outside" with Dunn
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WDOK


-known 1944 Christmas song "Baby, It's Cold Outside", saying the lyrics seemed inappropriate in a time of the #MeToo movement, with increasing sensitivity and awareness of sexual manipulation and harassment of women. The station's move sparked national, and even international, attention and controversy. On April 3, 2015, WDOK rebranded as Star 102. On February 2, 2017, CBS Radio announced it would merge with Entercom. The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on the 17th.
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Esther Williams


gave them "Baby, It's Cold Outside." "Neptune's Daughter" became the 10th highest-grossing film of 1949. Williams made "Duchess of Idaho" (1950), shot on location in Sun Valley, Idaho, co-starring Van Johnson. MGM paired her with Howard Keel for two films, "Pagan Love Song" (also 1950) and later "Jupiter's Darling" (1955). They both had cameos in the film "Callaway Went Thataway" (1951). In "
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Blaine Anderson


an apology for his cover. Blaine also led on "Silly Love Songs" by Wings, and Maroon 5's "Misery", which reached 45 and 52 respectively in the U.S., and Pink's "Raise Your Glass", which peaked at number 30 in Australia. Blaine duetted with Kurt on Frank Loesser's "Baby, It's Cold Outside", which was included on "" and reached number 53 in Canada. It was reportedly the most downloaded track of the album, and called "by far the
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Outlaw (War album)


'm About Somebody", and "Just Because" backed with "The Jungle (medley)". Also, "Baby It's Cold Outside" ("not" the popular 1940s song by Frank Loesser) was issued as a promotional single for seasonal music radio programming. Therefore, every track on the album was also issued on a single, though some were probably edited. The album was re-released on CD in 1995 with a different running order and the extended version of "Cinco de Mayo" added as
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Kate Louise Brown


Kate Louise Brown (May 8, 1857 – December 31, 1921) was a children's educator and author who wrote 17 works in a total of 41 publications, in addition to poems, songs, and magazine articles. She is best known for the books, "The Plant Baby and Its Friends", "Little People", "Alice and Tom", and "Stories in Songs". Brown was born in Adams, Massachusetts and had her first poem published in print at age 9. She wrote many
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Holly Cole


introducing pop elements to Cole's sound. In 2001, she returned to the Christmas jazz roots of her first CD with "Baby It's Cold Outside", which included "Christmas Time is Here" (from "A Charlie Brown Christmas"), "Santa Baby", and the title track. Swapping cold for hot, she moved to a summer theme in 2003's "Shade", this time reinterpreting Cole Porter ("Too Darn Hot"), Irving Berlin ("Heatwave"), and The
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My Baby (Pretenders song)


" He describes the lyrics as Hynde expressing her "near-overflowing affection in her literate, conversational style." "SPIN Magazine" described the song as "gorgeous," and described Hynde's lead vocal as possessing "the goofy tenderness of someone who is too smart to walk around showing baby pictures, but who is too giddy to resist." Elizabeth Wurtzel wrote in "New York Magazine" that, like "Don't Get Me Wrong," "My Baby" "could have sounded gushy," but
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A Very Glee Christmas


Lauren Potter), and Blaine, lead singer of the Dalton Academy Warblers. "A Very Glee Christmas" features cover versions of seven Christmas songs: "The Most Wonderful Day of the Year" from "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", performed by New Directions; "We Need a Little Christmas" from "Mame", with Amber Riley on lead vocals; Frank Loesser's "Baby, It's Cold Outside", sung by Criss and Colfer; "Merry Christmas Darling" by The Carpenters, sung
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Homer and Jethro


, the Carter Family and Slim Wilson. Signed to the RCA Victor label in 1949, RCA's country A&R man Steve Sholes suggested they switch their comedy to singing parodies of country and pop hits. Most were penned by Burns, the humorist of the pair. Their parody of "Baby It's Cold Outside", recorded with June Carter, became a hit. The song's composer, Frank Loesser, gave them permission to parody the tune with the condition that the label read, "With apologies to Frank Loesser"
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Leon Redbone


beautiful shore at the age of 127." His longtime publicist Jim Della Croce confirmed that his age was, in fact, 69. One of Redbone's songs, "Seduced", was featured prominently in the 1978 film "The Big Fix". Redbone sang "Baby, It's Cold Outside" with Zooey Deschanel over the closing credits of the 2003 film "Elf" and provided the voice for Leon the Snowman in the film. On his 1987 album "Christmas Island" he performed "Frosty the Snowman"
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Mae West


both offers. In 1958, West appeared at the live televised Academy Awards and performed the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" with Rock Hudson, which brought a standing ovation. In 1959, she released an autobiography, "Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It", which became a best seller and was reprinted with a new chapter in 1970. West guest-starred on television, including "The Dean Martin Show" in 1959 and "The Red Skelton Show" in 1960, to promote her autobiography,
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Momčilo Bajagić


as rhythm guitarist. Bajagić recorded six albums with the band. He wrote songs "Ja sam se ložio na tebe" ("I Was Hot for You"), "Baby, Baby I Don't Wanna Cry", "Muzičari koji piju" ("Musicians Who Drink") and "Kad hodaš" ("When You Walk"). He co-wrote the songs "Dva dinara, druže" ("Two Dinars, Comrade"), "Nemoj srećo, nemoj danas" ("Do
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Paul Gilley


, Paul Hebert and Bob Nash. In 1956 he promoted Beverly Bresson. Gilley was known to write song lyrics in high school. In his first year of college, he wrote an essay titled "Getting a Song Published", warning against the "song shark" who asks for payment from the songwriter. In the Morehead "Inkpot", Gilley was credited as the writer of "Cold, Cold Heart", jokingly said to have been inspired by a basketball referee. Decades later, music journalist Chet Flippo wrote in
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A Very Glee Christmas


" Hot 100 was neither of these: "Baby, It's Cold Outside" debuted at number fifty-seven once the episode aired, despite not having been released separately as a single; it had jumped from number one hundred thirty to number twenty-seven on "Billboard" Digital Song chart that same week, and debuted at number fifty-three on the Canadian Hot 100. "Welcome Christmas" debuted at number fifty-nine on the Hot 100, and at number thirty-seven on the Canadian Hot 100
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Cerys Matthews


series of the UK version of "The Voice" for Tom Jones's Team broadcast. Matthews won gold at the 2013 Sony Radio Academy Awards, winning in the 'Music Broadcaster of the year' category. "Baby it's Cold Outside", released for Christmas 2013 on the Rainbow City label, is a selection of Christmas carols and classic Christmas songs all arranged and produced by Matthews using instruments such as Chinese temple blocks, oud, celeste and coconut shells. She was Artistic Director for the opening ceremony of Womex 2013
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Dave Frishberg


A Sideman", and "Van Lingle Mungo", whose lyrics consist entirely of the names of old-time baseball players. In 1971, Frishberg moved to Los Angeles where he worked as a studio musician, and where he also recorded his first albums. In 1986, he moved to Portland, Oregon. Frishberg cites songwriter Frank Loesser as an influence, and has said that Loesser's "Baby, It's Cold Outside", along with Willie Nelson's "Crazy", are songs he wished he had written
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Wide-Eyed Wonder


fit with the rest of the record. The Choir never recorded another cover song until after Mark Heard's death, when they contributed their version of "Tip of My Tongue" to two tribute albums dedicated to him. Several years later, they covered "Baby, It's Cold Outside" for their Christmas album "Peace, Love & Light". In October 2016, The Choir announced that the original "Wide-Eyed Wonder"-era line-up, complete with Robin Spurs on bass, would reunite and tour in Spring
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Sara Bareilles


In Song". Bareilles was featured on "Summer is Over," the first single from Jon McLaughlin's third studio album, "Promising Promises", a re-issue of his self-released album "Forever If Ever". McLaughlin released the selection in January 2012. MacFarlane's Christmas album "Holiday for Swing", released on September 30, 2014, would also feature Bareilles. She joined him on another rendition of "Baby, It's Cold Outside". The album, which also featured collaborations with
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Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album


26, 2010. Canadian singer-songwriter k.d. lang makes a featured appearance with Matthew Morrison on the track "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch", covered with the original lyrics—unlike the television version which changed the opening lyric from "Mr. Grinch" to "Sue the Grinch". Additionally, guest star Darren Criss makes a vocal appearance on "Baby, It's Cold Outside". A "Glee" Christmas card featuring the cast in Christmas sweaters was released to accompany the album. The song
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Frank Loesser


five Academy Awards for best song, winning once, for "Baby, It's Cold Outside". Loesser was born to a Jewish family in New York City to Henry Loesser, a pianist, and Julia Ehrlich. He grew up in a house on West 107th Street in Manhattan. His father had moved to America to avoid Prussian military service and working in his family's banking business. He came to America and married Berthe (Ehrlich), and had a son in 1894, Arthur Loesser. In 1888, Berthe
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Frank Loesser


complex artistic style that shaped the development of the Broadway musical. He was influential in challenging the standard compositional approach of Broadway, Loesser opened the door for later composers to further expand and develop the genre. He was noted for also using classical forms, such as imitative counterpoint ("Fugue for Tinhorns" in "Guys and Dolls"). He won the 1949 Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song, "Baby, It's Cold Outside". He was nominated four more times: In 2006 the PBS documentary
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Catatonia Greatest Hits


Catatonia's Greatest Hits is a compilation of the band's best known songs, mainly the singles, but also included collaborations between Cerys Matthews with Space (on "The Ballad of Tom Jones") and with Tom Jones himself (on "Baby, It's Cold Outside"). The album was released as a 1CD and 2CD limited edition. The second disc of the two CD edition included lesser known album only tracks and some B-Sides, where although 10 tracks are listed, two hidden tracks are included at
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Neptune's Daughter (1949 film)


Neptune's Daughter is a 1949 Technicolor musical romantic comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Ricardo Montalbán, Betty Garrett, Keenan Wynn, Xavier Cugat and Mel Blanc. It was directed by Edward Buzzell, and features the Academy Award winning song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" by Frank Loesser. This was the third movie that paired Williams and Ricardo Montalbán, the other two being "Fiesta" (1947) and "On an Island with You" (1948),
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Catatonia (band)


ballad." She went on to duet with Tom Jones on a single for his album "Reload". It was a cover of the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside", which was released as a Christmas single in 1999. She was credited as "Cerys from Catatonia". Matthews said that they did not have any particular influences in their music. However, she said that her family had always been singing along to BBC Radio 2. She held the ambition to have the band appear on Radio 2
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I Think We're Alone Now


various countries including the US, UK, Canada, and New Zealand. Other cover versions have also charted, including those by The Rubinoos (number 45 US, 1977) and Girls Aloud (number 4 UK, 2006). The writing of the song was credited to Ritchie Cordell, who wrote or co-wrote many songs for Tommy James, including the follow-up single to "I Think We're Alone Now", "Mirage" and its B-side "Run, Run, Baby, Run"
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Some Fantastic Place


provides a dog's-eye view in 'Cold Shoulder'." The album's title track, with its balanced themes of loss and acceptance, is a tribute to Maxine Barker, a longtime friend of the band who had been responsible for first introducing Tilbrook and Difford in the early 1970s and who succumbed to leukemia in 1992. The song was described by Tilbrook as "one of those songs that wrote itself; it was done straight off in about 10 minutes." Tilbrook incorporated a guitar solo in the song that he
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Ooh Baby (You Know That I Love You)


"Ooh Baby (You Know That I Love You)" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released in 1975 on his album "Extra Texture (Read All About It)". Harrison wrote the composition as a tribute to American singer Smokey Robinson, whom he often identified as one of his favourite vocalists and songwriters. The song was intended as a companion piece to Robinson's 1965 hit with the Miracles, "Ooo Baby Baby", and its inclusion on "Extra Texture" contributed to that album's
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Ice Ice Baby


linked to him through a collaboration they had no choice in joining." A live version of the song appeared on the album "Extremely Live". "Ice Ice Baby" was rerecorded in a nu metal version titled "Too Cold". Originally intended to be released as a hidden track or B-side, "Too Cold" was featured on Van Winkle's 1998 album "Hard to Swallow", and became a radio hit in some markets. In 2000, a remix titled "Ice Ice Baby 2001"
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Tony Waddington (songwriter)


and roll musical. They co-wrote and produced a demonstration recording of a song, "Sugar Baby Love", originally intending to submit it for the Eurovision Song Contest but instead offering it to Showaddywaddy, who turned it down. Bickerton and Waddington then offered it to the demo musicians, provided that they would become an actual group. The musicians agreed, were named The Rubettes, and "Sugar Baby Love" became a UK number one hit in 1974, also reaching number 37 in the US chart. They wrote
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Casey Abrams


former "American Idol" season 10 contestant Haley Reinhart recorded a holiday song, "Baby, It's Cold Outside", in November 2011—also released on video. On January 8, 2012 Abrams signed with Concord Music Group. Abrams’ linking with Concord Music Group marks the second signing of a contestant from season ten to a non-Universal Music Group-owned label. His first album is self-titled, "Casey Abrams". The album was executive produced by Randy Jackson and "American Songwriter" writes that "
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Kobalt Music Group


, Rhapsody, 7Digital, Beatport, Deezer, and Nokia. The acquisition also allowed Kobalt to begin supplying advanced data analytics to clients. After the AWAL acquisition, Kobalt formed the label services division Kobalt Label Services in 2012. In July 2012, Kobalt Music Group signed a deal with MPL Communications to exclusively provide administrative services to MPL in "the world outside North America, the U.K. and Ireland." The catalog included 1,200 songwriters such as Hugh Masekela and Paul McCartney, with classic songs such as "Baby It's Cold
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Paul Cebar


Schmidt released a 7-inch 45 "The Outskirts Of You" b/w "Baby, It's Cold Outside". Parallel to his work with the R&B Cadets, Cebar had his own group, Paul Cebar and the Milwaukeeans. The group played many R&B, jazz,and bebop songs, by Louis Jordan, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and others. The members were Cebar (acoustic guitar and vocals), Robin Pluer (vocals), Rip Tenor (saxophone) and Alan Anderson (bass guitar)
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