I'd like to sup with my baby tonight

Yes, it's Monday. However, for a change, I don't care - because I'm on holiday...

...and it's my birthday!

Let's celebrate [and it is a Tacky Music Monday, after all] with a fantabulosa [and appropriate, given the weather] number from our Patron Saint Prime, and the sexiest ballet dancer after Nureyev:

Mikhail Baryshnikov and Liza Minnelli - Too Darn Hot

Have a good week, dear reader.

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STOP PRESS, 9.40pm:

In their continuing effort to completely piss the blogging community off, the bloody Google gnomes have still failed to fix the ongoing problems with their Reading List. I published a post yesterday at 7pm, and this one today at 9.30am - and neither has yet shown up in the feeds! Bastards.

But when the thermometer goes way up and the weather is sizzling hot

Our Rosa "Veilchenblau" loves it! [click to embiggen]

The weather here in London is breaking all the records! Being in the city, rather than near the sea, and with nary a breeze, it's a bit uncomfortable to sit in for long - although we always welcome the sunshine; it's far better than our usual Bank Holiday drizzle...

On this scorching Tacky Music Bank Holiday Monday, there is only one number that will suffice:

Ann Miller - Too Darn Hot [Kiss Me, Kate]

Have a good week, dear reader.

I need a shower...

...preferably with the lovely Warwick Rowers! [See here and here for more]

While listening to Erasure, of course:

Erasure - Too Darn Hot

How appropriate. Despite the breeze, it's still blazing out there...

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FOOTNOTE:

Erasure, alongside (among others) Neneh Cherry, Sinéad O'Connor, Fine Young Cannibals, Deborah Harry & Iggy Pop, The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl, Annie Lennox, Thompson Twins, k.d. lang, U2, Jimmy Somerville and Lisa Stansfield recorded songs composed by Cole Porter (and the accompanying videos) as a benefit for AIDS charity Red Hot. Released in 1990, the project was appropriately titled Red Hot + Blue, and it sold over a million copies worldwide.

A reminder, perhaps, that COVID-19 is not the first global pandemic we have experienced in our lifetime.

Dreams can come true again

It's our house favourite Razzle-Dazzler Miss Mitzi Gaynor's birthday today!

To celebrate, here is a very young Miss Gaynor, sizzling on Too Darn Hot:

Mitzi Gaynor - Too Darn Hot

And here she is quite a while later, with Everything Old is New Again:

Mitzi Gaynor - Everything Old Is New Again (1976)

Get out your white suit, your tap shoes and tails
Let's go backwards when all else fails
And movie stars you thought were long dead
Now are framed beside your bed.

All hail the Patron Saint of Shimmying Sequins!

Mitzi Gaynor on IMDB

Miss Gaynor was of course one of our "exhibits" in the Dolores Delargo Museum of Camp on the occasion of her 80th birthday last year.

Like to sup with my baby tonight

Convoluted connections, #789 in a series...

Today is William Shakespeare's 448th birthday.

The musical Kiss Me Kate is vaguely based upon Shakespeare's comedy The Taming of the Shrew.

One of the finest songs Cole Porter wrote for that musical was Too Darn Hot.

So, on this Tacky Music Monday here are Mikhail Baryshnikov and our patron saint Liza Minnelli with their fabulously energetic version!

Mikhail Baryshnikov and Liza Minnelli - Too Darn Hot

It's definitely not going to be hot, just wet - but nevertheless, have a great week!