Comments on: Coverville 626: The Johnny Mercer Cover Story

By: Evan B

Evan B — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:28:33 +0000

I like the "Come Rain or Come Shine," but I personally think Don Henley's version on the Leaving Las Vegas soundtrack is phenomenal.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:15:26 +0000

The musicnotes text in the description has a spelling error: "… support Coverville with your purchase form MusicNotes.com!". Should be "from" instead of "form"

By: Roger Green

Roger Green — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:50:23 +0000

I still think of Baby It's Cold Outside as a Ricardo Montleban/Esther Williams song, from the movie Neptune's Daughter: http://rogerowengreen.blogspot.com/2008/10/m-is-f... . Darrin is correect re Frank Loesser.

By: Brian Grosz

Brian Grosz — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:36:44 +0000

Thanks for giving TP&TF some more coverville-lovin! And, Ian, thanks for the kind words – enjoy the record – it was a blast to make.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:37:33 +0000

You are correct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby,_It%27s_Cold_Ou…

It was a real fight to see who could get on the charts first after the movie release.
Look at those recording and release dates for 1949.

And, yeah, great song and a stop me in my tracks cover version. I was off looking for it and downloading the EP before the song had finished.

By: Darrin from PGH

Darrin from PGH — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:12:38 +0000

I thought "Baby, It's Cold Outside" was written by Frank Loesser and his wife and they used to perform it at dinner parties every Christmas. Or something like that. I guess if Johnny Mercer's version was the first well-known version, that counts.

Really, it's such a great song, I think Brian should find any excuse to play it – no matter what the theme of any show