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Porter, Cole - My heart belongs to Daddy
Identifier
026256
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
We have no idea what inspired this, maybe he wasn't as gay as he made out, unless of course he was also a sugar-daddy.......
A description of the experience
Eartha Kitt - My Heart Belongs to Daddy
"My Heart Belongs to Daddy" is a song written by Cole Porter, for the 1938 musical Leave It to Me! which premiered on November 9, 1938. It was originally performed by Mary Martin, who played Dolly Winslow, the young "protégée" of a rich newspaper publisher.
In the story, Dolly is stranded at a Siberian railway station, wearing only a fur coat, and performs a striptease while singing the song. Surrounded by eager Siberian men, she says that since she has met "daddy", she will flirt with other men, but won't "follow through". "Daddy" is her sugar daddy, a newspaper magnate introduced with the words, "I've come to care, for such a sweet millionaire".
Martin sang it again in the 1940 movie Love Thy Neighbor, but it was toned down and nowhere near as much fun. . Again she wears a fur coat, but the setting is a show within a show and the act is more conventional as she wears an evening gown beneath the fur. The words to the introduction were also altered, ‘the innuendoes being toned down’.
Marilyn Monroe sings the song in the film Let's Make Love (1960). We like this version, it seems more in the spirit of the original.
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
I used to fall in love with all
Those boys who maul refined ladies
But now I tell each young gazelle
To go to hell, I mean, hades
For since I've come to care
For such a sweet millionaire
While tearing off a game of golf
I may make a play for the caddy
But when I do, I don't follow through
'Cause my heart belongs to daddy
If I invite a boy some night
To dine on my fine finnan haddie
I just adore his asking for more
But my heart belongs to daddy
Yes, my heart belongs to daddy
So I simply couldn't be bad
Yes, my heart belongs to daddy
Da da da, da da da, da da da
So I want to warn you, laddie
Though I think you're perfectly swell
That my heart belongs to Daddy
'Cause my Daddy he treats it so well
Yes my heart belongs to daddy
So I simply couldn't be bad
Yes, my heart belongs to daddy
Da da da, da da da, da da da
So I want to warn you, laddie
Though I think you're perfectly swell
That my heart belongs to daddy
'Cause my Daddy he treats it so well
He treats it and treats it and then he repeats it
Yes daddy, he treats it so well