Baby, It's Cold Outside - Dean Martin & Martina McBride - MP3 instrumental karaoke

Despite not making any clear references to Christmas, "Baby, It's Cold Outside" went on to become one of the most popular holiday songs, mainly thanks to its winter theme. In more recent years, the track sparked a controversy due to the forceful insistence of its male protagonist. It was first written by Frank Loesser in 1944 to sing with his wife Lynn Garland during their housewarming parties. Its first appearance in popular culture dates back to the 1949 romantic comedy Neptune's Daughter, and it even won an Academy Award for Best Original Song that year. Shortly after its introduction, the classic call-and-response duet was covered numerous times in 1949 by artists like Don Cornell and Laura Leslie, Bing Crosby and James Stewart, and Dean Martin and Marilyn Maxwell, who first performed the song at the radio comedy-variety program The Martin and Lewis Show. In the years that followed, "Baby, It's Cold Outside" became a staple in "The King of Cool's" repertoire, and was included in several compilations by the crooner.