Too darn hot

Though we've listened to this song innumerable times, here's something we didn' t know: When Ella Fitzgerald came to record this classic, she changed the words to suit herself:

'Cording 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, too darn hot

It marked the first time the then-current Kinsey report would make an appearance into a song [the line got changed  -- basically, eviscerated --  in the movie musical, however]. The breakout line on fancying men's pants, well, that had never occurred before in popular music [with the possible exception of this].

No comment on the current weather, but, well, is it too darn hot?

Comments

[Lin]

Cole Porter songs always reward one for scanning past the first set of lyrics! Take "You're the Top" for example-