NP: Baby, It's Cold Outside

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I've always been wary of the fat old bearded man with his suspiciously RED suit and his radically redistributive measures... A Merry Christmas to ALL, eh? 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 11:49:37 
To: Michael Bailey<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: NP: Baby, It's Cold Outside

How about that drunken reindeer, ole red-nosed Rudolph, pulling Santa's
sleigh?
Or that suspicious Frosty character, leading the children to march on
downtown?
Scandalous!

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> I never heard it, nor of it, till Marie taught me it back in the 70s.
>
> Nor ever interpreted it that way before now.  Wouldn't the memory of
> such an evening be happy?  For both of them?  Is she really serious
> about all those reservations?  Yes, he's a little forward, but...
> Couldn't the relationship progress to something lasting from there?
>
> It's not necessarily jolly, any more than Blueberry Hill, I guess.
> ...the deep melancholy of that song hit me one time and now I always
> hear it that way
>
> How serious are the interpreters?
>
> somebody on laugh in (the late, great Alan Sues?  no, Henry Gibson,
> right?) did a Secret Service reading of "Santa Claus is Coming to
> Town" (you better watch out!) that didn't ruin the song forever.  But
> things are forever being canonized and decanonized...
>
> Maybe next Christmas "Midnight at the Oasis" will replace BICO.  I've
> never met a guy who'd object to that, although maybe there's a whiff
> of colonialism ("send your camels to bed")?
>



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