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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Happiness Between Tails speaks to and from the heart. It connects lovers — of pets, authors, books — and of my still-unreleased novels, “Flamenco + the Sitting Cat” and “Tango + the Sitting Cat.” The stories are my love letters to all who fear they're too odd, too damaged, too old, too whatever to find happiness. ContactdaAL@gmail.com • BuyMeACoffee.com/SupportHBT

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

  1. Here in the Netherlands, even in the north in Friesland, it is hot too. We have a flat roof but we don’t like airconditioning. Instead we have shutters to keep the heat out and around 9pm, I open all the windows and that sure helps.

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  2. Not really a problem for me. I was born in South Asia and raised in Africa. I guess I’m used to it.

    Thanks for the wonderful Ella/Cole Porter combination… Great talents. (I’d never heard it before) 🙏🏻

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