Something Cool is a studio album recorded by June Christy in 1953, 1954, and 1955, and featuring Christy singing 11 (in the original release, seven) jazz songs backed by the orchestra of Pete Rugolo. First issued in 1954 as a 10" mono LP, an expanded 12" mono LP was released the following year, with four newly recorded selections added to the track listing. In 1960, Christy and Rugolo re-recorded all 11 selections in stereo, so that a stereo version of Something Cool could be issued. For many years, this re-recorded version of the LP was the only one commercially available.
Christy had been associated with "cool" jazz since her vocal work with the Stan Kenton Orchestra in the 1940s and early 1950s. As well as launching her career as a solo artist, Something Cool, according to jazz writer John Bush, was responsible for launching a whole cool movement in jazz singing. It was the first of 18 June Christy albums, most of them recorded with the backing of Pete Rugolo. This debut turned out extremely successful, the album reaching the Top 20 album charts in America.
I posted this for you to get the time frame for this song. It was a time when people went to the neighborhood lounge, or a movie to cool off in the hot summer; nobody had AC.
She was a young lady who just stepped out of her hot apartment to cool off. He was a guy who just dropped in her neighborhood lounge for a drink, and she was sitting next to him. (it was customary to offer a lady a drink if she didn't have one sitting in front of her, and she sat next to you)
She was blabbing her dreams to a perfect stranger who just stopped and bought her "Something Cool".
This is a very sad song when you perceive it in it's entirety.
