Tim Campbell for December 04, 2018

I really can’t stay (Baby it’s cold outside)

I gotta go away (Baby it’s cold outside)

This evening has been (Been hoping that you’d dropped in)

So very nice (I’ll hold your hands they’re just like ice)

My mother will start to worry (Beautiful what’s your hurry?)

My father will be pacing the floor (Listen to the fireplace roar)

So really I’d better scurry (Beautiful please don’t hurry)

Well maybe just a half a drink more (I’ll put some records on while I pour)

The neighbors might think (Baby it’s bad out there)

Say what’s in this drink? (No cabs to be had out there)

I wish I knew how (Your eyes are like starlight now)

To break this spell (I’ll take your hat, your hair looks swell) (Why thank you)

I ought to say no, no, no sir (Mind if move in closer?)

At least I’m gonna say that I tried (What’s the sense of hurtin’ my pride?)

I really can’t stay (Baby don’t hold out)Baby it’s cold outside

Ah, you’re very pushy you know?

I like to think of it as opportunistic

I simply must go (Baby it’s cold outside)

The answer is no (But baby it’s cold outside)

The welcome has been (How lucky that you dropped in)

So nice and warm (Look out the window at that storm)

My sister will be suspicious (Gosh your lips look delicious!)

My brother will be there at the door (Waves upon a tropical shore)

My maiden aunt’s mind is vicious (Gosh your lips are delicious!)

Well maybe just a cigarette more (Never such a blizzard before) (And I don’t even smoke)

I’ve got to get home (Baby you’ll freeze out there)

Say lend me a coat? (It’s up to your knees out there!)

You’ve really been grand, (I feel when I touch your hand)

But don’t you see? (How can you do this thing to me?)

There’s bound to be talk tomorrow (Think of my life long sorrow!)

At least there will be plenty implied (If you caught pneumonia and died!)

I really can’t stay (Get over that old out)

Baby it’s cold Baby

Sweet Baby Jesus!!!!!!! Get over yourselves already! Stop with the fake outrage!

They call this a Xmas classic. A classic maybe. Where do they get the Xmas? Baby it’s stupid out there.

A minor classic from a different era. A winter classic. Cute and dated. Brings to mind any number of films from the ‘40’s – ‘50’s.

It’s not about being offended. The song depicts a situation that is coercive and manipulative. I never thought about it before but we live and we learn. I wouldn’t want my daughter in a situation like that where she says point blank, “The answer is NO” and the guy still persists. Listen to the words with fresh ears and you’ll see what it really means.

Here is a video with 2 different versions; in the second one the seducer is a woman. In the first version, the woman actually says, “hey, what’s in this drink?” She’s implying that the guy slipped what was then called a mickey, what we would now call a date rape drug:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7MFJ7ie_yGU

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“Have Some Madeira M’Dear”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW_zi8n4HDQ

Flanders and Swann

I guess that radio station picked up a lot of new listeners.

I love that song. Doesn’t’ seem much like a Christmas song. By why split hairs? Alexa played it last year when I asked for Christmas music…so it must be!

Frank Loesser duet improvised & performed with his then-wife at Christmas parties (then made into a big hit song). No outrage here; it’s the product of a different era.

Is this part of the Republican War On Christmas?

It’s just NOT a Christmas song. Not at all. It doesn’t mention Jesus, Santa, gift giving or any other seasonal touchstone.

It’s not the type of song you want to explain to your kid in the backseat of your car who only recently stopped believing in Santa.

It should be a period piece with most other songs written in 1944. The #1 song on Christmas 1944 was “Don’t Fence Me In” by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters. The #1 song on Christmas 1945 was “It’s Been a Long, Long Time” by Harry James and His Orchestra. Those are familiar songs, but you don’t hear them 3 times a day every December.

Now I’m going to don some gay apparel! (I’m dressing up as Santa for a local grade school tomorrow morning.) Happy Holidays!

. . . Trump’s broken record, plays “ME! ME! ME!” :p