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No snow, but lots of rain here today

I wanted to find a YouTube video of Dave Frishberg and Rebecca Kilgore singing this, but couldn't. You'll just have to be satisfied with Margaret Whiting and Johnny Mercer singing "Baby It's Cold Outside."

The song was written by Frank Loesser. Here's the backstory behind it. Loesser wrote it specifically so that he and his wife Lynn could sing it at parties. He eventually sold the rights to MGM, which did not please her one bit (understandably, as the studio first put it into the mouths of those noted singers Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalban in a film called "Neptune's Daughter"). It's been covered by hundreds of singers from Bing Crosby to Rod Stewart. The one many people are now familiar with is from the movie "Elf," sung (on the soundtrack) by Zooey Deschanel and Leon Redbone.