I have discovered something amazing!
December 10, 2012
So, Eartha Kitt. She was amazing, wasn’t she? And not just for playing Catwoman on the old Batman TV series. (And Yzma in the Emperor’s New Groove. Oh, my goodness! Please tell me that someone somewhere has film of Kitt and Patrick Warburton recording those scenes. Well, close enough.)
She has a couple of really famous songs, one of which gets a huge amount of airplay this time of year. This song, in fact:
And I suddenly have to wonder: does “Santa, Baby” actually go with “I Want to be Evil?”
You put them together, these two songs tell the story of a woman who had very high hopes for the holidays and did her best to live up to those hopes. But she was disappointed. Terribly disappointed. So disappointed, she only had one recourse: become a supervillain.
My goodness, do I love Christmas
December 10, 2012 at 8:24 am
The first time I saw her was as Freya in Erik the Viking and I fell in love with the raspy voice. Then I heard her singing in French and my heart was lost.
December 10, 2012 at 10:43 am
I haven’t heard I want to be evil in forever. Thanks for reminding me of it. She was an incredibly talented woman.
December 10, 2012 at 11:20 am
She’s always been top-flight wow. Talented, beautiful, elegant, charismatic. Almost enough to make a guy wish he’d been born in ’28 instead of ’68.
Almost.
December 10, 2012 at 1:03 pm
Ms. Kitt’s Santa Baby is one of my all time favorite Christmas songs… the way she infuses it with her lovely purr. A (Cat)woman for the ages…
December 12, 2012 at 1:01 pm
For me, the Christmas season doesn’t start until I hear a radio station pay her version of Santa Baby. Madonna can’t hold a candle to her. My husband and I saw her in concert a few years back, when she was in her 80′s. Not much was left of the voice, but oh, my, the charisma! Amazing.
December 12, 2012 at 1:56 pm
I just watched the video. Wow, what’s with the female impersonators? LOL.
December 13, 2012 at 10:04 am
They’re gorgeous, dahling!
January 20, 2013 at 12:19 am
She’ll always be Lady Hackmore from Ernest Scared Stupid to me….