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
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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