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If you are offended by ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ check out what passes as playful banter today
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In 1944 Frank Loesser wrote “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”, not for the movies but as a duet for himself and his first wife, nightclub singer Lynn Garland, to sing at a housewarming party. “Flirting was a whole different thing back then,” Susan Loesser (Garland’s daughter) told NBC in 2018, “My father wrote it because he and my mom had parties where everybody had to have an act to entertain the guests.”
If its cold outside be careful what you say. That’s because the words “baby, it’s cold outside” will trigger those inclined to indulge in culture washing to go into overdrive. It’s been four holiday seasons since some radio stations caved into social media pressure to ban the song by Frank Loesser that became immensely popular in 1949 when it was used in the film “Neptune’s Daughter”.