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Thread #97295   Message #3964778
Posted By: Helen
04-Dec-18 - 05:40 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords: Baby It's Cold Outside (Frank Loesser)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords: Baby It's Cold Outside (Frank Loesser)
No nasturtiums being cast by me. I see it as pretty much the same sentiment as the old song. It popped into my head this morning and I realised how similar the songs are in intent, but Baby It's Cold Outside is more subtle, based more on innuendo which probably fitted that time better.

Take it forward another decade or three and there's not much subtlety about some of the songs. And then flick forward to this last decade which, coming after The Noughties then came into The Tweenies, should be possibly renamed to The Twerkies to better reflect the rock/pop atmosphere. LOL

On another note, I saw an interview with the current line-up of The Four Tops and they sang a little snippet of Cole Porter's song, In the Still of the Night. This isn't a song about getting someone into bed for a quickie. It's a song about a lovely, dreamy expression of romantic hopes and fears.

In The Still Of The Night
As I gaze from my window
At the moon in its flight
My thoughts all stray to you

In The Still Of The Night
All the world is in slumber
All the times without number
Darling when I say to you

Do you love me, as I love you
Are you my life to be, my dream come true
Or will this dream of mine fade out of sight
Like the moon growing dim, on the rim of the hill
In the chill, still, of the night