abstract:"Too Darn Hot" is a popular song written by Cole Porter for his musical Kiss Me, Kate (1948). In the stage version, it is sung at the start of Act 2, and in the 1948 original Broadway production, it was sung by Lorenzo Fuller (as Paul) and Eddie Sledge and Fred Davis (as the specialty dancers).
The song "Too DarnHot" ended up including a sequence dubbed "The Floyd, " a series of flick-kicks with sharp, audible exhales by the dancers, who moved in fast unison until the end, when they dropped to the floor, fizzling out like a spent storm.