Let’s show our President
We’re glad he’s the White House resident.

Step on the gas
And dance to a rhythm that’s class-A,
Hey, hey,
This is the way
We’re keepin’ cool with Coolidge.

The song “Keepin’ Cool With Coolidge” is from the 1949 musical “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Leo Robin. If the sentiment is dated — in more ways than one! — it’s one of the songs throughout Broadway history sampled below to help us think cool thoughts.

Just Keep Cool

a song from the 1900 musical, The Burgomaster, with music by Gustav Luders, book and lyrics by Frank S.Pisley:

Peter Stuyvesant sings:

Any man who looks for trouble always finds it in a trice.
But ice is cheap. Refrigerate, remember Pete’s advice.
Never let yourself be worried, or hurried, or flurried.
If you do, you’ll soon be buried.
Care will only kill a fool.
If the trials of life beset you, or fret you, I’ll bet you
That the hoo-doo never get you
If you just keep cool.

I Need Some Cooling Off

from “She’s My Baby,” 1928, music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart

I need some cooling off
How I need cooling off
Can’t stop my feet from going to burn up
I know I’ll go insane…

You’ll find it’s never time to retire
I’m shoutin’ now my temperature’s higher,
Fire,
I’ll hear that music crash
Until I burn to ash
Oh how I need some cooling off.

Cool

from West Side Story, 1957

Boy, boy, crazy boy,
Get cool, boy.
Got a rocket
In your pocket,
Keep coolly cool, boy.

Don’t get hot,
‘Cause man, you got
Some high times ahead.
Take it slow,
And Daddy-o,
You can live it up and die in bed.

In The Cool, Cool Cool of the Evening

A song used in “Dream” a 1997 Broadway musical Based on the lyrics of Johnny Mercer, with music by Hoagy Carmichael 

In the cool, cool, cool of the evening
Tell ’em we’ll be there
If you need a pair of freeloaders
To fracture your affair
I may even give them Pagliacci
Now stand back and give him air
If one can relax and we’ll have a few yaks
And you can tell them we’ll be there

Here’s an earlier use of the song

“Cool Jerk” from the 2018 Go-Go’s musical “Head Over Heels”

“Cool, Cool, Considerate Men” from “1776” (Warning: The scene is of the Founding Fathers in Philadelphia sweating)

“Colder by the MInute” from “Frozen,” 2018

Colder by the MInute
Colder by the MInute

…And the north wind howled
And they were trapped within the walls of white
Don’t give into the ice
Don’t give into the cold

Other titles:

“Cool Off” from the 1928 Marx Brothers musical ‘Animal Crackers”

“Coolest Place in Town” from 1971 Melvin Van Peebles musical “Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death”