Blossom Dearie & Bob Dorough - Baby it's cold outside

CD "I'm Hip" (1998)
Faixa: Baby it's cold outside (Frank Loesser)

[@tiffsaver]

I've heard every rendition of this holiday classic ever written, and I'm 72-years old. Take it from this old man, this is the QUINTESSENTIAL version of this classic tune. Nobody, regardless of fame or reputation, has even come close to this incredible recording. RIP, Blossom Dearie. You are missed.

[@jongraham8866]

and Bob Dorough RIP :)

[@jcavilia1]

Truly wonderful. I have a special memory of hearing them do this live. My late wife and I almost 50 years ago saw these two perform at a club in San Francisco. Dorough was the opening act, and they used this song for the transition to her set. He began it, and then she appeared unannounced at the far edge of the stage, and she gradually advanced as they did the duet. If I remember correctly, they flipped the parts so it would make sense, since he was the one leaving. It was very special.

[@RoryCloud]

Best version kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIm4aXeGetB-jM0si=zGumAYIF-XJ1_vIs

[@petexander9189]

Can you believe Red Skelton sang it to Esther Williams? I mean, I loved ol' "Gertude and Heathcliff" but really?

[@ciabattatom521]

@@petexander9189 Maybe he did (I've never seen the entire movie), but I recall it being Betty Garrett aggressively singing it to Red Skelton. (His Clem got Kadiddlehopped!) Khan Noonien Singh sang it to Esther Williams while sampling her (ahem) "fine Corinthian leather!"

[@silversteincollectionrenta9238]

I miss my pals Blossom and especially Bob Dorough. Two originals of American song. They deserve to be lauded

[@tiffsaver]

Of all the hundred remakes of this song, this one remains the best. I can't even LISTEN to any of the rest... all of them just pretenders to the throne. Blossom Dearie and Bob Dorough were pure magic together.

[@ericlaurent4655]

Magique

[@JCsJukebox]

Try Ann-Margret & Al Hurt's verson ......

[@kevinjokipii4260]

As someone who grew up with Schoolhouse Rock, this is melting my brain.

[@37BopCity]

Forget about Frank and Dean and everyone else, this is the best version in my opinion. Blossom was amazing and Bob Dorough is a genius.

[@zenobardot]

It's right up there with Betty Carter and Ray Charles. I'd take Blossom's performance over Betty's by a hair, but Bob is a bit hammy at moments--the song has all the humor it needs built right in. Live, I'm sure it was a treat to watch him do his thing. Dean's version is a bit bloodless for my tastes.

[@jongraham8866]

They were so good together!

[@russbutton9347]

It's so rare when singers get beyond the song and actually tell a story. This is how it's done.

[@tiffsaver]

I've heard this song by everyone on earth, from Dolly Parton to Tom Jones... but nobody on earth owned this song like Blossom Dearie. Only now is her greatness truly appreciated.

[@carolvogelman8216]

These two and their third teammate Frishburg were ideally matched in skill, temperament, performance and technique; they were absolutely amazing! Please don't imagine that Blossom without Bob was ever better than with him, they had magic! I just I loved her; she did my radio program years ago!

[@lohphat]

How lucky are we that the universe allowed this to happen...

[@terryfogleson9117]

THANK YOU! I really loved this! Especially now that so many people are trying to change this beautiful song!. Blossom and my Uncle Robert were great friends, and I appreciate you posting this. I have the CD, but the addition of the art work really makes this wonderful!

[@hogfarmhero5611]

Am I the only one who loves that these two were possibly the best contributions to Schoolhouse Rock. "Three Is The Magic Number" & "Figure Eight". Music moves the world.

[@christine630]

🎹📻🎶🎺🎤😊💐💐💐

[@John-gr4td]

Wonderful ! Both making making music in heaven now.. RIP

[@Jayco34]

This is the greatest thing I have ever heard.

[@rohw0016]

Jay Cottrell

[@lisaparker4688]

The craziest coincidence! Less than 24 hrs. ago I was in a secondhand store with my fiance, and he picked up a Blossom Dearie CD. Neither one of us had ever heard of her, but he bought it anyway...then just now, as I was randomly scrolling through YT looking for autumn songs, her name pops up...😃

[@mugsy1312]

Hands down my favorite version of this song. Haven't heard it for years, but every nuance is familiar in the most delightful way. Thank you for posting!!

[@rustybutty]

I bought this on vinyl more than 25 years ago. This is what swing is all about. The motion is always forward, never rushed and with purpose.

[@zunineedlepoint3670]

The only other version of this charming duet I ever heard was by Ray Charles and Betty Carter on a collection of Christmas jazz tunes from Starbuck's. It must surely have influenced this superb version. Both are splendid!

[@frankfeldman6657]

Best version ever.

[@Itsbrentk]

Glad we still have Bob Dorough with us but lord do I wish Ms. Dearie was. Rest easy wherever you are Blossom!

[@Anonneemuss]

He's gone, too, now.

[@rudymalone1]

No he is not!, you dunce!

[@lohphat]

​@@rudymalone1 Dorough died on April 23, 2018, at his home in Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania, at the age of 94 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dorough#Death

[@stevendavey484]

There's a version where Bob and Blossom talk in the song's characters for 20 or 30 seconds that adds so much to this version, but I can't find it. I have it on a CD I poached from some peer-to-peer site that's about 25 or 30 years old at this point. I'd love to find it. I so dearly love these two performers and this rendition.

[@Barnekkid]

This kind of music is timeless.

[@fhb3]

And people thought that all these guys did was SchoolHouse Rock. WOW. Amazing.

[@carolvogelman8216]

Bob only agreed to Schoolhouse Rock if they let him do it as jazz! He took it from there; these were master musicians with serious cult followings!

[@curtislarcher]

What a great pairing; and what a great song!!!

[@carolvogelman8216]

they worked together a lot and also often with Dave Frishburg just casually brilliant songs full of hip humor and light hearted romance! My favorite version ever; These two had such unique voices that totally complimented each other while weaving marvelously casual melodies.

[@zenbooter]

you gotta love it, when people find out they have ears

[@matyasmarek3173]

this sounds like a quote from a very clever book:-) ill try and remember such nice words

[@HFritzson]

Coooooooool.....

[@ghairraigh]

'Baby, It's Cold Outside" by Frank Loesser. There are many famous versions of this song, including wonderful ones by Ray Charles and Betty Carter, and by Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery. It is a newer take on "Have Some Madiera, My Dear", a darkly comic song by Flanders and Swann about and old roué, a sweet young thing, seduction and alcohol, containing complex and witty wordplay. I have never heard one like this, with the sweetness of Blossom Dearie contrasting so starkly with the evilly gleeful Bob Dorough in the role of the leering old lecher. From Blossom Dearie's CD "I'm Hip", SONY MUSIC, 1998.

[@mumsyxc]

Happy to hear this cover, and thank you for the heads-up about "Have Some Madeira, My Dear" (so that's what was in that drink!). But while I love this duo, I feel no duty to stop loving the cover by Dean Martin and Martina McBride, even if it is a necrophiliac mashup.

[@collinsy]

It's really much finer than beer... heard Tony Randall sing this once, decades ago... he imbued the right aura of lechery, creepiness, and macabre wit.

[@cynthiahamil9801]

Great version of this song! This is GREAT!

[@swr5964]

S'wonderful, brought a tear to my eye... Thank you for posting this!

[@ddjjuull]

So beautiful !

[@1122redbird]

What a great version of this song, maybe my all time fave. Thanks for the upload!

[@enchanter5]

best version ever!

[@JTDGarlic]

One of my all-time favorites!!! ... You should repost this, as it is missing a few seconds, where Blossom says "Well, so much for the A-Side ... " and then Dorough comes in with "No, no wait a minute Blossom ..."

[@carolvogelman8216]

Yes, please do that! It's such a part of their style!

[@christophersmith9613]

Fabulous.

[@marcioroberto9121]

genial!!!

[@coolpapa5401]

Awesome duet----screw the PC Thought Police

[@noochinator]

If we listened to them, we'd never have any babies

[@bobbywax]

boy hard to pick between Ray & Betty' & Blossom & Bob but for me R&B wins over B&B but barely...love em both for their delicious! chops

[@hogfarmhero5611]

Ray & Betty edges them out...just a hair.

[@andys4960]

Anyone know where this was recorded? The sound and audience remind me of some of her videos from Danny's Skylight Room in NYC. What a time that must have been!

[@chantolove]

having grown up on schoolhouse rock this is incredibly creepy

[@FunkyMarcel]

if you caught new monia and died