In 2018, Miley Cyrus lit up the internet with what almost every headline writer called a “feminist” rewrite of Eartha Kitt’s “Santa Baby.” On The Tonight Show, she explained that she was uncomfortable ...

Christmas music can be beyond ridiculous when it wants to be. For example, the writer of “Santa Baby” felt the song could embarrass Eartha Kitt. You might think that was because of the song’s ...

Considering the length of her Christmas list, Eartha Kitt must have been a very good girl in 1953. That’s the year the sultry siren from South Carolina recorded an enduring holiday classic, the one ...

Often thought of as a more sexy or even sexualized song, in all its cheekiness, “Santa Baby,” originally written by Joan Javits and Philip Springer, and performed by Earth Kitt and the Henri René and ...

According to the Los Angeles Times, Joan Javitz and Philip Springer wrote “Santa Baby.” Springer recalled he went to his publishers with the song and said “Gentlemen, this is not really the kind of ...