Santa Baby

Coquettish holiday tune

Santa Baby is a 1953 Christmas song, originally performed by Eartha Kitt, in which the singer flirtatiously asks Santa Claus for extravagant gifts—a yacht, a convertible, a platinum mine.

The playful, seductive tone has made it a holiday staple, though some find it cloying or materialistic.

The phrase sometimes describes someone making lavish or unreasonable requests: Don't go all Santa Baby on me with that wish list.

ChristmasWinter nativity celebration
chimneyVertical smoke passage
Christmas EveDecember 24th observance
presentsItems given freely
giftsItems freely given

Eartha Kitt · gift list · fur · sable · convertible · yacht · stockings · mistletoe · sleigh · reindeer · naughty · nice · velvet · diamonds · ring · platinum · mine · hurry

Opposites

tone/reverence

Santa BabySilent Night

Austrian Christmas carol

Ave Maria · The First Noel · Gregorian chant

lyrical content/values

Santa BabyWhite Christmas

Snowfall on December 25th

musical style/mood

Santa BabyHandel's Messiah

Baroque oratorio about Christ

Family

Santa, Baby, saint, saintly, sainthood, saintliness, unsaintly, babe, babes

Familiarity: Top 200,000
Profile: Known to kids · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG