{"id":13464,"date":"2008-12-05T12:19:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T19:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/12\/05\/they-just-dont-make-em-like-that-any-more.html"},"modified":"2008-12-05T12:19:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T19:19:04","slug":"they_just_dont_make_em_li","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/05\/they_just_dont_make_em_li.html","title":{"rendered":"They just don’t make ’em like that any more"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yeah, it’s silly vamping and materialism-obsessed and probably chauvinistic … but I just think the lyrics to “Santa Baby” (Joan Javits and Philip and Tony Springer) are too fun and clever.<\/p>\n

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Santa baby, slip a sable under the tree,
For me.
Been an awful good girl,
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight.<\/p>\n

Santa baby, a ’54 convertible too,
Light blue.
I’ll wait up for you dear,
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight.<\/p>\n

Think of all the fun I’ve missed,
Think of all the fellas that I haven’t kissed,
Next year I could be just as good,
If you’ll check off my Christmas list,<\/p>\n

Santa baby, I wanna yacht,
And really that’s not a lot,
Been an angel all year,
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight.<\/p>\n

Santa honey, there’s one thing I really do need,
The deed
To a platinum mine,
Santa honey, so hurry down the chimney tonight.<\/p>\n

Santa cutie, and fill my stocking with a duplex,
And checks.
Sign your ‘X’ on the line,
Santa cutie, and hurry down the chimney tonight.<\/p>\n

Come and trim my Christmas tree,
With some decorations bought at Tiffany’s,
I really do believe in you,
Let’s see if you believe in me,<\/p>\n

Santa baby, forgot to mention one little thing,
A ring.
I don’t mean on the phone,
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight,
Hurry down the chimney tonight,
Hurry, tonight.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I prefer the original 1953 Eartha Kitt version, personally, but YMMV, and there are a surprisingly large number of recent covers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yeah, it’s silly vamping and materialism-obsessed and probably chauvinistic … but I just think the lyrics to “Santa Baby” (Joan Javits and Philip and Tony Springer) are too fun…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-media-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135547,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/05\/santa-baby-1953.html","url_meta":{"origin":13464,"position":0},"title":"“Santa Baby” (1953)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-Dec-17 6:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"One of our high-rotation numbers at Christmas time, as sung by the incomparable Eartha Kitt. 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