Re: Words to a late 1960s-era song (partial lyrics included)

Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 15:32:19 GMT
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On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 01:01:27 -0900, "Lady Giraffe" <email-address-deleted>
wrote:
>"Dana Schwartz" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
>news:email-address-deleted...
(snipped the lead-in to my request)
I asked:
>> Here's what I remember (words in parentheses may approximate the
>> actual lyrics):
>>
>> (Baby? .or. You know?) it's cold outside
>> And the rain is fallin' down,
>> And the leaves are turnin' brown --
>> Can't you see?
>>
>> (Whoa-oh?) it's cold outside
>> And it's all because of you.
>> (There is? .or. 'Cause there's) nothin' I can do
>> To make you love me.
>>
>> Anyone recognize it?
And Lady Giraffe replied:
>Got a link for you...
>
>http://www.calamiteux.com/cold.html
Yep! That's it. Odd to find a link that helps on a French site for
band who apparently covers "It's Cold Outside" in live performances
but hasn't recorded it, but that was enough to let me discover more
about the original song/artist on my own.
The band who originally performed the song was "The Choir". They were
somewhat of a local Cleveland phenomenon in the mid-60s, with some
members going on to form The Raspberries later in the decade/early
70s..
The song "It's Cold Outside" received some national attention in 1967
(it was released at the end of 1966). But apparently its hit status
in Cleveland bled over regionally to the western Pennsylvania
(Pittsburgh) area where I grew up, because it was quite popular there
as well.
I was in 8th grade when the song came out. I couldn't recite the
lines to one "Top 40" style song that's popular today, but even the
most obscure of the "hits" from that era stick with me. Everything is
so intense and burned into your brain when you're a teenager! :-)
Thanks, Lady Giraffe. Would've sent you an e-mail reply as well, but
your return address looks as though it's coated with Spam protective
armor, so I didn't try.
Now I'll go tell my husband that I didn't make the song up! :-)
Dana Schwartz (who loves Usenet because there is always *someone* who
knows the answers to the questions!)
email-address-deleted or email-address-deleted