Baby, It’s Cold Outside

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duet pop standard song

"Baby, It’s Cold Outside" is a classic pop standard and wintertime duet, widely performed and recorded as a flirtatious call-and-response song associated with the holiday season.

Aliases (1)

Baby It's Cold Outside (with Colbie Caillat) ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	duet → pop standard → song →
associatedWithSeason	Christmas → holiday season → winter →
awardYear	1950 Academy Awards →
characterRole	the "Mouse" (female part) → the "Wolf" (male part) →
composer	Frank Loesser →
controversy	lyrics debated for implications about consent →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
coveredBy	Dean Martin → Ella Fitzgerald → Idina Menzel → Johnny Mercer → Lady Gaga → Leon Redbone → Louis Jordan → Margaret Whiting → Michael Bublé → Tony Bennett → Zooey Deschanel →
culturalStatus	Christmas standard →
featuredIn	Neptune’s Daughter →
firstPerformanceYear	1944 →
form	call-and-response →
genre	Christmas music → holiday music → pop → traditional pop →
hasNotableRecording	Dean Martin version → Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan version → Idina Menzel and Michael Bublé version → Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett version → Margaret Whiting and Johnny Mercer version → Zooey Deschanel and Leon Redbone version →
isStandard	Great American Songbook →
language	English →
lyricist	Frank Loesser →
publicationYear	1949 →
radioAirplay	often played on Christmas radio formats →
structure	dialogue between two characters →
tempo	moderate →
theme	flirtation → romance →
timePeriodOfOrigin	1940s →
vocalStyle	duet →
won	Academy Award for Best Original Song →
writtenFor	Neptune’s Daughter →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
A Legendary Christmas →	hasTrack
Gavin DeGraw ("Baby It's Cold Outside (with Colbie Caillat)") →	notableWork