#1
Posted: 12/9/10 at 12:16am
For Reginald Tresilian, who mentioned this song in the Banned Christmas Songs thread, here is perhaps the most bizarre version of this song ever: warbled by Elsa Lanchester (The Bride of Frankenstein) and Charles Laughton (Quasimodo, Captain Bligh), from a 1949 radio show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ5UIuAa0eM
Even odder than the idea of Charles and Elsa singing this song is the idea that the two of them were married for over 30 years.
The song itself is a strange addition to the world of Christmas-songs, when you think about it, given that it is somewhat of an Ode to Date Rape. ("Say, what's in this drink?" the poor girl asks.)
But in the hands of the great Frank Loesser, it becomes adorable and sexy. It even won the Oscar for Best Song, from the movie Neptune's Daughter, where it was performed twice: first by the romantic couple--a dashing Ricardo Montalban and a non-dripping Esther Williams--and then by the comic couple, with the gender switch of Betty Garrett as the chaser and Red Skelton as the chasee.
So here, for the Glee fans, is the boy-boy version, with Chris Colfer as the chasee and Darren Criss as the chaser:
You have to admit: They do it flawlessly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-_5RBPrK2o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ5UIuAa0eM
Even odder than the idea of Charles and Elsa singing this song is the idea that the two of them were married for over 30 years.
The song itself is a strange addition to the world of Christmas-songs, when you think about it, given that it is somewhat of an Ode to Date Rape. ("Say, what's in this drink?" the poor girl asks.)
But in the hands of the great Frank Loesser, it becomes adorable and sexy. It even won the Oscar for Best Song, from the movie Neptune's Daughter, where it was performed twice: first by the romantic couple--a dashing Ricardo Montalban and a non-dripping Esther Williams--and then by the comic couple, with the gender switch of Betty Garrett as the chaser and Red Skelton as the chasee.
So here, for the Glee fans, is the boy-boy version, with Chris Colfer as the chasee and Darren Criss as the chaser:
You have to admit: They do it flawlessly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-_5RBPrK2o
