# Best version of "Santa Baby" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 8, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-santa-baby/803964 "2017-12-08T22:32:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-santa-baby/803964/1 "2017-12-08T22:32:41Z")
I almost posted this in General Questions because there is only one correct answer. I’ll give y’all a chance to get it right before I give the actual answer. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-santa-baby/803964/2 "2017-12-08T22:34:36Z")
The one not played. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-santa-baby/803964/3 "2017-12-08T22:38:08Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > The one not played. I’ll allow wrong answers. ---
**Author:** ![Arkcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-santa-baby/803964/4 "2017-12-08T22:47:20Z")
Shoulda been a poll, then we could have seen “Eartha Kitt or nothing” stretch across the screen. The Pussycat Dolls with Carmen Electra are are fun to watch, and they do keep the beat when they sing along. Someone here favors their local all male dance troupe sing and dancing to it, and if I like The Pussycat Dolls, I can’t say the male revue is wrong. How ever when a guy sings it, and plays it straight, “Think of all the girlies that I didn’t kiss …” – then no, just no. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-santa-baby/803964/5 "2017-12-08T22:51:34Z")
> [@Arkcon](#): > > Shoulda been a poll… I’m saving the poll for the "What is the second-best version of “Santa Baby” thread. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-santa-baby/803964/6 "2017-12-08T23:02:29Z")
I like Madonna’s version; she really plays up that Marilyn Monroe bit. Kitt does nothing for me. Not even on Batman. There, I said it! ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-santa-baby/803964/7 "2017-12-08T23:11:21Z")
Did Shatner cover it? If so, that one. Otherwise: Eartha Kitt, of course. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-santa-baby/803964/8 "2017-12-08T23:59:08Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I like Madonna’s version; she really plays up that Marilyn Monroe bit. Kitt does nothing for me. Not even on Batman. There, I said it! I agree with burpo. Madonna’s is my fave. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-santa-baby/803964/9 "2017-12-09T01:50:37Z")
He’s talking about Alison Brie. There is no other version. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-santa-baby/803964/10 "2017-12-09T01:58:02Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > He’s talking about Alison Brie. There is no other version. I’m talking about rich hot chocolate, and you want to compare it to Kool-Aid? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-santa-baby/803964/11 "2017-12-09T04:39:07Z")
I’ll wager 400 Quatloos on the Marx brother. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-santa-baby/803964/12 "2017-12-09T04:53:46Z")
Wow, 11 posts in and no one had mentioned how rapey they think It is. I’m surprised and pleased. BTW, Eartha Kitt gets my vote. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-santa-baby/803964/13 "2017-12-09T05:09:29Z")
I don’t really like the song, but EVERY woman who has recorded it since Eartha Kitt has been TRYING vainly to replicate what Eartha did perfectly the first time. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-santa-baby/803964/14 "2017-12-09T05:27:07Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > Wow, 11 posts in and no one had mentioned how rapey they think It is. I’m surprised and pleased. BTW, Eartha Kitt gets my vote. Well, that’s because it isn’t rapey. That’s “Baby It’s Cold Outside” you’re thinking of. Santa Baby is just a Material Girl, spoiled princess song. And another vote for no version. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-santa-baby/803964/15 "2017-12-09T06:48:21Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I’ll allow wrong answers. Well, then! That’s me, Sorted! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-santa-baby/803964/16 "2017-12-09T09:48:11Z")
Who’s done it? Eartha Kitt — 1953, the original Kylie Minogue Ariana Grande The Cast from Glee Michael Bublé Megan Nicole Taylor Swift Madonna Who else? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-santa-baby/803964/17 "2017-12-09T11:05:09Z")
I only know one version and I don’t know who sung it. I figure it was from the 80s, and used in a commercial or something. It’s very vivid in my mind but the names I see listed don’t match, and I am not sifting through multiple versions to find it. ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-santa-baby/803964/18 "2017-12-09T11:09:24Z")
Her from No Doubt whose name escapes me has done a version for her Christmas album this year. It’s OK, but it’s no Eartha Kitt. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-santa-baby/803964/19 "2017-12-09T16:31:42Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > Wow, 11 posts in and no one had mentioned how rapey they think It is. I’m surprised and pleased. BTW, Eartha Kitt gets my vote. A woman expressing her own sexuality isn’t “rapey”. That thinking is how we got to the mess we’re in now. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-santa-baby/803964/20 "2017-12-09T16:41:55Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Well, then! That’s me, Sorted! I’ll also go with Catfish! That’s two so far… 😛 Also, Enright3, “Rapey”!? Explain please. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-santa-baby/803964.md?page=2)