Baby, It's Cold Outside - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan - MP3 instrumental karaoke

The "Queen of Jazz" and Louis Jordan arguably recorded the definitive version of Frank Loesser's festive tipple in 1949. "Baby, It's Cold Outside" was penned by the aforementioned songwriter as a call-and-response tune to sing with his wife at parties, and its controversial lyrics about a woman's decision to stay or leave a man's house on a cold winter's night soon became subsumed into the Christmas music lexicon. It also won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1950. "Baby, It's Cold Outside" was written by Frank Loesser in 1944 and brought to life in the musical romantic comedy film Neptune's Daughter in 1949. A raft of artists also recorded it that year, including Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan and Dean Martin and Marilyn Maxwell. Over the decades, "Baby, It's Cold Outside" has been revisited on numerous occasions, with John Legend and Kelly Clarkson recording the song with modified lyrics in 2019.