Eartha Kitt's "Santa Baby" uses a dignified old-school pop sound in service of a goofy novelty hit. The writer of "Santa Baby" wasn’t impressed with his own song at first.

It’s easy to forget that Eartha Kitt’s first purred “Santa, baby” was an immediate challenge to the myriad wholesome Christmas songs that sought to make jolliness a December state of mind.

Eartha Kitt’s “Santa Baby” Why the track was banned in parts of the American South Kitt laughed at “Santa Baby” but others found it too risque.

NEW YORK — Eartha Kitt, a sultry singer, dancer and actress who rose from South Carolina cotton fields to become an international symbol of elegance and sensuality, has died, a fam… ...

Eartha Kitt's sexy version of "Santa Baby" has been imitated (Madonna, and Britney Spears come to mind), but it took Taylor Swift to put a brand new spin on the mercenary Christmas tune.

Singer and actress Eartha Kitt has died of colon cancer. She was 81. Kitt, who was ostracized as a child in South Carolina because of her mixed-race heritage, got her start in show business as a ...

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 ...

“She spoke about her childhood a lot,” recalls Kitt, who details her relationship with her mom in the memoir Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter’s Love Story in Black and White.

Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Reality TV show and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian has released a video for her cover of Eartha Kitt 's sultry Christmas classic, "Santa Baby." The nearly 5-minute video for the song ...

Eartha Kitt, a sultry singer, dancer and actress who rose from South Carolina cotton fields to become an international symbol of elegance and sensuality, has died, a family spokesman said. She was 81.

NEW YORK — Eartha Kitt, a sultry singer, dancer and actress who rose from South Carolina cotton fields to become an international symbol of elegance and sensuality, has died, a family spokesm… ...

NEW YORK -- Eartha Kitt, a sultry singer, dancer and actress who rose from South Carolina cotton fields to become an international symbol of elegance and sensuality, has died, a family spokesman ...