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The current hot summer weather here in Switzerland (which I really love!) made me choose a song about the topic “hot” and I immediately thought about “Too Darn Hot” by Ella Fitzgerald.

Originally, it was written by Cole Porter for the musical Kiss Me, Kate. Ella's lyrics are not exactly the same, though.

Kiss Me, Kate

From Wikipedia:

Kiss Me, Kate is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter.

The story involves the production of a musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and the conflict on and off-stage between Fred Graham, the show's director, producer, and star, and his leading lady, his ex-wife Lilli Vanessi.

A secondary romance concerns Lois Lane, the actress playing Bianca, and her gambler boyfriend, Bill, who runs afoul with some gangsters.

The original production starred Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk and Harold Lang and won the Tony-Award.

Kiss Me, Kate was Porter's response to Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! and other integrated musicals; it was the first show he wrote in which the music and lyrics were firmly connected to the script, and it proved to be his biggest hit and the only one of his shows to run for more than 1,000 performances on Broadway.

In 1949, it won the first Tony Award presented for Best Musical.

Too Darn Hot

Lyrics Too Darn Hot by Ella Fitzgerald

It's too darn hot

It's too darn hot

I'd like to sup with my baby tonight

Refill the cup with my baby tonight

I'd like to sup with my baby tonight

Fill the cup with my baby tonight

But I ain't up to my baby tonight

‘Cause it's too darn hot

It's too darn hot

It's too darn hot

I'd like to coo with my baby tonight

And pitch the woo with my baby tonight

I'd like to coo with my baby tonight

Pitch the woo with my baby tonight

But brother you'll fight my baby tonight

‘Cause it's too darn hot

According to the Kinsey report

Every average man you know

Much prefers his lovey dovey to court

When the temperature is low

But when the thermometer goes way up

And the weather is sizzling hot

Mr Pants, for romance, is not

‘Cause it's too, too, too darn hot

It's too darn hot

It's too darn hot

I'd like to coo with my baby tonight

And pitch the woo with my baby tonight

I'd like to coo with my baby tonight

Pitch the woo with my baby tonight

Brother you'll fight my baby tonight

‘Cause it's too darn hot

According to the Kinsey report

Every average man you know

Much prefers his lovey dovey to court

When the temperature is low

But when the thermometer goes way up

And the weather is sizzling hot

Mister God, for his squad

A marine for a queen

A G I for his cutie pie, is not

‘Cause it's too, too, too darn hot

It's too darn hot

It's too darn hot

It's too darn hot

It's too darn hot

It's too darn hot, too hot



Title: Too Darn Hot

Artist: Ella Fitzgerald

Recorded: 1956

Tempo: 160 bpm

Dance: Lindy Hop







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