Santa Baby

Eartha Kitt · 1953

Context

Recorded in New York on October 5, 1953 with Henri René and his orchestra, released by RCA Victor the same month with "Under the Bridges of Paris" on the B-side. This Christmas gift list with pointed innuendo caused a scandal but rose to No. 4 on the Billboard sales chart: Billboard named it the best-selling Christmas song of 1953.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• C'est si bon (1953)
• Under the Bridges of Paris (1954)

Sources

• EN: Santa Baby

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