Painting of woman in yellow dress sitting and dabbing her face with a handkerchief.

Videos: Too Darn Hot for Ella Fitzgerald with Cool Tips

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Painting of woman in yellow dress sitting and dabbing her face with a handkerchief.
This beauty looks just plain hot, but this 18th centuryoil painting on canvas by Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre is called, “Bad News.”
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Is it hot in your part of the world? Last night, it sure was here. All my tossing and turning is resulting in my having serious trouble writing today (read about my books here).

People flock to Los Angeles, especially near the beach where I’m at, because we’ve got the best weather anywhere. No matter how high the mercury reaches midday, there are usually breezes throughout and a twenty degree drop in temperature by bedtime.

My little home has wonderful cross-ventilation, which makes the idea of air-conditioning a bad idea, environmentally and financially. Plenty of neighbors, though, are so spoiled that they get cranky if their thermometers aren’t within a degree of their favorite number.

I’m not as fussy — so long as I can sleep well! Yesterday, however, there were no breezes to cool my place. When I woke at 3 a.m., it was still 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26.6 degrees Celsius)! Because misery loves company, especially when it’s dressed up as constructive research, I found this video to share with you, about how keep a body cool…

When Ella Fitzgerald sang “Too Darn Hot” from the ‘Cole Porter Songbook’ in 1956 (conducted and arranged by Buddy Bregman) she made it sound fun — almost…

What do you do to sleep through a sweaty night?

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42 thoughts on “Videos: Too Darn Hot for Ella Fitzgerald with Cool Tips”

  2. I am a very fussy sleeper who often takes a long time to fall asleep. My wife and I both like a cool room, but she likes it light while I like it dark. We both snore on top of it. I will sleep on top of the covers when it’s really hot.

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  3. Here in Texas pretty much everyone has airconditioning. In northern Sweden where I grew up pretty much no one has airconditioning but northern Sweden has had some hot summers lately. I was at a wedding in Southern France two years ago when they had a heat record, more than a 100 degrees and the hotel did not have airconditioning. That was uncomfortable. By the way this past Sunday had the hottest average global temperature ever measured since they started measuring these things 150 years ago.

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    1. Very sad and frightening. Here in Los Angeles years ago we had terrible air pollution but it didn’t take that long to clean things up with better car emissions laws. People don’t realize how much good we could do if everyone worked together

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      1. Yes you are right. Acid rain was once a big problem, it still is, but we are less worried about it. Laws like requiring scrubbers on smoke stacks have reduced SO2 and NO2 by 95%. The ozone hole problem is on its way to repair itself because by 2018 the emissions of ozone-depleting gases had fallen by 99.7%, largely thanks to the Montreal protocol. Doing things together does help.

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