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Baby It’s Cold Outside

song by Loesser

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"Baby It's Cold Outside" is a song written by Frank Loesser, who was an American composer, librettist, and lyricist. He achieved major success writing for Broadway musicals, and "Baby It's Cold Outside" won an Academy Award in 1949 for Best Original Song. The song is a duet, and Johnny Mercer, a singer and lyricist, made a hit version of it with Margaret Whiting.123

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