She certainly wasn't shy... a 54 Convertible, a yacht, the deed to a platinum mine, a duplex, checks...and one more thing, a diamond ring. Gotta love her.
Hey, you lose nothing by asking 😉 Still she got a big hunk sidekick who can also cook... too bad he's dumb as a rock and can't tell the difference between poison and lama extract
Indeed she is. I always knew it was her, but this is the first time I saw a video of her performance, and like her vocal performance, her visual performance was also very sensual and sexy. But having seen her as Catwoman, I already knew that :).
@@tapeinot.5313 she was a product of rape. As a little girl working on a plantation no one Black nor White wanted her when her mother tried to give her up and she was always treated as a half breed "Yellah" slang
Tapeino T. youre an idiot if youre being facetious. do you have any knowledge of the history of the southern states of America??? please get a education.
@@charcharchoo8601 There are other versions of this by Eartha and the raspiness isn't present in all of them and the lyrics are sometimes slightly different.
“A duplex…and checks. Sign your X on the line.” The lyrics are so clever. And I love how simple this video is yet it’s powerful. I wish today’s music was more like this. 🎶
If you give me a time machine, I’m not worried about trying to buy stock in Apple or course correcting injustices in history - I’m just gonna pull up a front row seat to every single Eartha Kitt live show to give her the greatest round of applause!
EXCELLENT CLASSIC ICONIC THIS song has been covered countless times since then. This song Santa Baby in 1953 was so so popular that the next year in 1954 Ms. kitt was asked to do a second follow up sequel song and it was called This year's Santa Clause wherein she tells Santa what went wrong with last year's gifts to be replaced :) wasnt as popular.
I was privileged to meet and get to know Hale Loke in her later years. She retired to my home town and was friends with one of my great-Aunts and came to our family reunions. Very nice person.
A great, big, thank you for uploading the magnificent Eartha Kitt doing her holiday spoof song, Santa Baby, from the film version of New Faces (1954). This was done in that sexy, sensual way that Eartha incorporated into the number. In fact, she put her signature on it. What a woman she was, and is greatly missed. The irony is that she passed on the very day that Santa Baby commercialized...Christmas.
DaaaaYUM! I love Eartha! Unabashedly herself and oh so sexy. That "costume" is genius! Is it a rug? A dress....? She always keeps ya guessing... This song was LITERALLY written for her. Perfect!
She was one of the divas that my father introduced into our home. His prime years were the 30s and 40s which were the years of his twenties and thirties.
She was an amazing person and singer/actress. Was addicted to her music back in my 5th grade year. And while there are a lot of covers on this song, none of them beat her version as it is the original version.
I remember my mom giving my older sister & me each a quarter on a Saturday to go to the movie theater a block from our house in 1954. I was 8 yrs old. New Faces of 1954 came on the screen. The movie wasn't like the musical "Showboat" I loved but the only thing I really remember (other than Robert Clay in the film) about the movie was when Eartha Kitt came on the screen, just in a fur jacket, wanting everything under the sun from her Santa. I knew she wasn't talking about the Santa Claus I knew. I loved this song though and her singing it...also because I think if my mom knew this was in the movie, she might not have wanted us to see it. To this day I still think Eartha Kitt & her voice was perfect to sing Santa Baby.
2018 was the first time I ever listened to this song... She’s one of a kind and no one can compare her. I’ve listened to other versions but nope there not it at all. I’ll stick with her all Christmas long.
the greats where are they? they were all larger, much larger, than life. now everything is so much lesser than life. we miss you eartha. very much. and we love you. always.
I grew up fascinated with her and in love with her. In the last 5 years I have been told I am NOT ALLOWED to think that way about her because we have different shades of skin and some other woke nonsense. Gotta love how such a small category of people have made an environment of repression and exclusion when they claim it's "progressive".
First time I've seen her on film as a kid and yes I know she has quite the portfolio now that I'm an adult..... but yea first movie I seen her in "earnest scared stupid" lol what a doll though. Love old Hollywood very elegant and way more class then today
She certainly wasn't shy... a 54 Convertible, a yacht, the deed to a platinum mine, a duplex, checks...and one more thing, a diamond ring. Gotta love her.
don't forget you better hurry down her "chimney"
John , how does this sound to you ?
Santa Baby, There is a little thing that I really need
The deed
To a Tur quoi se mine
Hey, you lose nothing by asking 😉
Still she got a big hunk sidekick who can also cook... too bad he's dumb as a rock and can't tell the difference between poison and lama extract
I AM NOT showing this to my wife. She’ll want all that stuff!
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And She Better Have Gotten It All and More ! Adore Her Sm
She was such a STUNNING woman.
Those eyes. Button nose and glowing skin. Add her voice.. wow
The OG City Girl 😂🙌🏾
Facts lol
Lies lol
I screamed when I read this because yes is she😂
😂😂😂😂
I never knew she's the original! I adore her
What do you mean you didn’t know 😂😂. Of course she is
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Indeed she is. I always knew it was her, but this is the first time I saw a video of her performance, and like her vocal performance, her visual performance was also very sensual and sexy. But having seen her as Catwoman, I already knew that :).
Of course. It’s her somg
She was an unforgettable original. Thank goodness this video exists of Santa Baby.
Eartha Kitt was ahead of her time; she’s the original African American DIVA! I so admire her tenacity, work ethic and drive.
She was a survivor. With all the racism she had to endure. You are a Diva!!!
what racism????
Tapeino T. Jim Crow
@@tapeinot.5313 she was a product of rape. As a little girl working on a plantation no one Black nor White wanted her when her mother tried to give her up and she was always treated as a half breed "Yellah" slang
Tapeino T. youre an idiot if youre being facetious. do you have any knowledge of the history of the southern states of America??? please get a education.
Tapeino T. What racism?? The racism that existed all through the 1800s, 1900s, and still exist today. Maybe not to that extent, but Jim Crow...
Love how she sings "forgot to mention one little thing A RING I don't mean on the phone " 😏 So feminine and beautiful
she was sensual and beautiful
and had great voice
Ashley says so bought me here!
Same
Me too!
Eartha Kitt was always the most glamorous diva.
My stomach does a flip every time she says "Santa Baby". There's a certain raspiness you don't get to hear on the regular version which I just adore.
This is the original
@@charcharchoo8601 There are other versions of this by Eartha and the raspiness isn't present in all of them and the lyrics are sometimes slightly different.
This isn’t the original studio recording. This is a live version made later
Santa Baby... pull the lever.
WRONG LEVEEEEEER!!!!
ahhhhh hahaha YZMA
I LOVE THIS! Saw Miss Kitt in concert in Dallas in the 90’s. She was a national treasure!
a beautiful awesome lady my favorite Catwoman
She IS a national treasure! I wish she had more recognition.
Myka Watz she was my idol I adored her knowing her past and how she became a superstar
youre so lucky
The best version of this song, by far!
That is a fact.
Version?
This is the original not a version
i didn't think anyone else should have recorded it. Santa Baby belonged to just Eartha.
I love Eartha kitt. Shes a big deal in the black community. RIP queen
Eartha made Santa wish he came twice a year!
"platinum mine" gets me ever single time.
A really specific request lol
Me too!
Is it too much to ask? 🥺 Hehe
Platinum is worth more than gold
It goes to show her intelligence. And how she was Forward thinking.
The original and best version of this song. Love Eartha ❤️❤️❤️
“A duplex…and checks. Sign your X on the line.” The lyrics are so clever. And I love how simple this video is yet it’s powerful. I wish today’s music was more like this. 🎶
If you ever get cold she will sensually walk to the thermostat and turn up the thermostat to a sensible 74
She is a fighter and survivor.
I never knew she performed this in a film. I’ve been listening to her recording of this song for decades and enjoying it a lot.
Eartha Kitt the sexy feline that played the CatWoman on the classic TV show Batman back in the late 60's She was purrrrr fect in the part
Adored her as Catwoman! Always a beautiful woman.
@@rosered2010 I adore her as Yzma a true classic
the first one
Charm Lerario Yes thats how I remember her
She was the best!
Yesss Ashley sayso told me to come here 🙌🙌🙌
If you give me a time machine, I’m not worried about trying to buy stock in Apple or course correcting injustices in history - I’m just gonna pull up a front row seat to every single Eartha Kitt live show to give her the greatest round of applause!
She’s exotic and beautiful not to mention her voice Uniquely beautiful. RIP
She is beautiful
Black people are always the originals and the BEST
Our Eartha was so young then!
Frank Perez YES we all are young at some point
How old was she?
@@kellikocha7733 26
@@tutuschild1 -_-
"... sign your x on the line!"
*My favorite line!
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EXCELLENT CLASSIC ICONIC THIS song has been covered countless times since then.
This song Santa Baby in 1953 was so so popular that the next year in 1954 Ms. kitt was asked to do a second follow up sequel song and it was called This year's Santa Clause wherein she tells Santa what went wrong with last year's gifts to be replaced :) wasnt as popular.
Was classic
Eartha kitt was multi talented, beautiful,and she was fluent in several languages
I love her she’s so amazing she doesn’t get the recognition she deserves
I was privileged to meet and get to know Hale Loke in her later years. She retired to my home town and was friends with one of my great-Aunts and came to our family reunions. Very nice person.
When Santa is your PERSONAL sugar daddy
Goals
Miss Kitt, incomparable, gorgeous, sassy, and multi-talented.
The original and most certainly the best version.
This was so amazing & she passed on Christmas day too, RIP.
Want to mention that this is the woman who eventually plays Yzma in Emperor's New Groove. She's got a lot of talent.
The fucking DEED TO A PLATINUM MINE, this woman is not playing around
Classic, No one could have pulled this off better than her!
Black women have always been on top
Rachel Lalite Stop making it a race thing already. You’re ruining it. Yes, Eartha was black but more than this she is indisputably iconic.
@@1DarkBlossom they can take pride in their race if they want to 🤷🏽♀️
No one has done this THIS GOOD
She’s such a beauty
My parents saw the Broadway show in '52, the year before I was born. No wonder I like this song! (also Mel Brooks style of humor.)
Maybe it's the reason you were born.
Every year someone new tries but I come back to the original 💜
It always sound silly if it's not Eartha. Eartha meant that wish list 🤣
She was definitely a one of a kind talent. Marvelous!
Its not Christmas if I don't hear Miss Kitt sing this song
Perfect, timeless and VERY capitalistic, American Christmas song sung by the tremendously talented EARTHA KITT. Meow!!
Her femininity is just explosive! Love it❤️❤️❤️RIP
So beautiful and captivating. A true icon!
So wonderful! Every year over and over! Nobody else can sing this the way she does.
Met her backstage She was such a sincere and humble lady . RIP. 💋🥰💋
My favorite Catwoman of all time
A "Classic Beauty"!!!
A great, big, thank you for uploading the magnificent Eartha Kitt doing her holiday spoof song, Santa Baby, from the film version of New Faces (1954). This was done in that sexy, sensual way that Eartha incorporated into the number. In fact, she put her signature on it. What a woman she was, and is greatly missed. The irony is that she passed on the very day that Santa Baby commercialized...Christmas.
Earth Kitt was truly a Orginal Diva!! Back when society didn't know Beauty&Brains could exist in a Black Woman!! Much Love Ms.Kitty💜🤍💜🤍💜
DaaaaYUM! I love Eartha! Unabashedly herself and oh so sexy. That "costume" is genius! Is it a rug? A dress....? She always keeps ya guessing... This song was LITERALLY written for her. Perfect!
Might be a fur stole. Pretty risque but makes the song better
One of the best Christmas song ever recorded
She was one of the divas that my father introduced into our home. His prime years were the 30s and 40s which were the years of his twenties and thirties.
I definitely see the influence for Dianna Ross also!
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I never knew Eartha Kitt sang this song. Have been learning bout her. She was an amazing woman.
She was so beautiful and talented!!! RIP Eartha miss you ❤
Stars will never be this good again? We need them to be!
Eartha Kit was the best Cat Woman.
Eartha did it best❤
She was an amazing person and singer/actress. Was addicted to her music back in my 5th grade year. And while there are a lot of covers on this song, none of them beat her version as it is the original version.
I remember my mom giving my older sister & me each a quarter on a Saturday to go to the movie theater a block from our house in 1954. I was 8 yrs old. New Faces of 1954 came on the screen. The movie wasn't like the musical "Showboat" I loved but the only thing I really remember (other than Robert Clay in the film) about the movie was when Eartha Kitt came on the screen, just in a fur jacket, wanting everything under the sun from her Santa. I knew she wasn't talking about the Santa Claus I knew. I loved this song though and her singing it...also because I think if my mom knew this was in the movie, she might not have wanted us to see it. To this day I still think Eartha Kitt & her voice was perfect to sing Santa Baby.
I love how sublimenal the message of this song is.
Eartha kitt.. Never less than superb!
2018 was the first time I ever listened to this song... She’s one of a kind and no one can compare her. I’ve listened to other versions but nope there not it at all. I’ll stick with her all Christmas long.
SHE IS A PHENOM !BRAINS, BEAUTY,CLASS AND A FIGHTER!
love eartha
We do too!
I am so sorry to miss this christal-clear voice and unbelievable simple but powerfull performance...I love Her.
I was lucky to see her live in 1993 - she included this in her set & did the splits at the end. Merry Xmas!
the greats where are they? they were all larger, much larger, than life. now everything is so much lesser than life. we miss you eartha. very much. and we love you. always.
🌹 She was - is - just fantastic, fabulous, stunning and gorgeous 🌹-
besides being such a courageous and strong woman ❣️
We love you, Eartha Kitt!!
I fell in love with her when I first saw her as Catwoman.
Such an icon in her own right
I didn't know this was the original.....LOVE IT!!!
The essence of strength, soul, and beauty!!!
Omg, didn't know she sang this song😊
She's a doll......
I've loved her music for decades. She's awesome
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Recorded in a very different time. Glam was in and wise guys too!
'Think of all the fellows I haven't kissed'!
RIP lovely Eartha.
She's great!
She sounds and looks beautiful
Gorgeous .. omg ❤️❤️.. And I would buy her a yacht !
Dear Ms kitt family she is the best of North SC we love the people From the South!!
🖤😻🖤I always loved her voice n then seeing her as Cat Woman on Batman..
Eartha's Purrrfect🖤
I grew up fascinated with her and in love with her. In the last 5 years I have been told I am NOT ALLOWED to think that way about her because we have different shades of skin and some other woke nonsense. Gotta love how such a small category of people have made an environment of repression and exclusion when they claim it's "progressive".
Sing it miss Kitt 💕
A Christmas classic from an original songstress! 💕
REMEMBERING EARTHA KITT (JAN 17, 1927 - DEC 25, 2008) [12/25/2018]
Regal & prestige❣️❤️
First time I've seen her on film as a kid and yes I know she has quite the portfolio now that I'm an adult..... but yea first movie I seen her in "earnest scared stupid" lol what a doll though. Love old Hollywood very elegant and way more class then today