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"Too Darn Hot " is a popular song written by Cole Porter for his
musicalKiss Me, Kate (1948). In the 1948 original Broadway production, it is sung by Lorenzo
Fuller (as Paul) and Eddie Sledge and Fred Davis (as the specialty
dancers). In the 1953
MGM Hollywood film version , it is sung by Ann Miller (as Lois Lane,
Fred's new girlfriend, who is cast as Bianca). The song does not really
contribute to the plot but it allows the audience to see (in the film
version) Lois's fun-loving, risk-taking nature and gives the actress who
plays her a chance to show off her dancing skills, specifically tap.
It
was covered by Erasure for the Red Hot + Blue compilation (album and video versions) in 1990 .
The song gained new currency in 2004
because of two films that came out that year.
The first was the Porter biopic De-Lovely , and the
second was the movie Kinsey ,
which used the tune because Porter mentioned the Kinsey report on American sexual attitudes in the song's bridge.
The line
'According to the Kinsey Report' (in the original stage production) was
censored in the film version, having been changed to 'According to the
latest report'.
Ella Fitzgerald recorded the song for her album Ella Fitzgerald
Sings the Cole Porter Songbook (1956).
It's too
darn hot,
It's too darn hot.
I'd like to sup with my baby
tonight,
Fulfill the cup with my baby tonight.
I'd like to sup
with my baby tonight,
Fulfill 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,
And pitch the woo with my baby tonight.
But sister you'll
fight my baby tonight
'Cause it's too darn hot.
It's too darn
hot,
According to the latest Report
Ev'ry average girl you
know
Much prefers her lovely doggie to court
When the temperature
is low,
But when the thermometer goes 'way up
And the weather is
sizzling hot,
Mister Adam
For his madam.
Is not,
'Cause it's
too, too
Too darn hot,
It's too darn hot,
It's too darn hot.
BOYS:
It's
too darn hot,
It's too darn hot.
It's too darn hot.
Hot, hot,
hot, hot...
