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"The Trolley Song" is a song written by Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin and made famous by Judy Garland in the 1944 film Meet Me in St. Louis. [ 3 ] In a 1989 NPR interview, Blane and Martin reminisced about the song's genesis.
Hugh Martin (August 11, 1914 – March 11, 2011) was an American musical theater and film composer, arranger, vocal coach, and playwright.He was best known for his score for the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis, in which Judy Garland sang three Martin songs, "The Boy Next Door", "The Trolley Song", and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas".
Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1944 American Christmas musical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.Divided into a series of seasonal vignettes, starting with Summer 1903, it relates the story of a year in the life of the Smith family in St. Louis leading up to the opening of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (most commonly referred to as the World's Fair) in the spring of 1904.
"The Trolley Song" Hollywood Democratic Committee Dinner — 1944-11-06 "Gotta Get Out and Vote" Democratic National Committee — 1944-12-17 "The Trolley Song" Philco Radio Hall of Fame — 1944-12-17 "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" Philco Radio Hall of Fame — 1944-12-24 "The Trolley Song" Command Performance All-Star Christmas Show ...
Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1989 musical based on the 1944 film of the same name, which in turn is based on the 1942 novel of the same name by Sally Benson.The musical is about a wealthy lawyer's large family and household living in St. Louis, Missouri in a Victorian era style mansion and their excitement and anticipation of the family and the city on the eve of the 1904 World's Fair.
Facing the challenge of writing a song about a trolley, the duo visited a public library, and in a book they found the caption "Clang, clang, clang went the trolley", which formed the nucleus for the lyric of their song, which earned them their first Oscar nomination (their second was for "Pass That Peace Pipe", written in collaboration with ...
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"The Trolley Song" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 15th Academy Awards, but lost to "Swinging on a Star" by Bing Crosby from Paramount's Going My Way. Additionally, the album was the debut of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", now a perennial holiday standard.