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“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” is already more melancholy than most classic Christmas songs, but its earlier version was a downright downer.
The song was written in 1943 [2] [3] [4] for the film Meet Me in St. Louis, for which MGM had hired Martin and Blane to write several songs. [4] Martin was vacationing in a house in the neighborhood of Southside in Birmingham, Alabama, that his father Hugh Martin had designed for his mother as a honeymoon cottage, located just down the street from his birthplace, and which later became the ...
The song “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” is a holiday classic, ... The lyrics were changed to, “Have yourself a merry little Christmas; let your heart be light. Next year, all our ...
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Words and Music by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane) " Ave Maria " (Original Music by Franz Schubert ) Como also recorded a rendition of the Wihla Hutson-Alfred Burt composition "Some Children See Him" during the sessions, but this was omitted from the finished album, presumably due to space limitations. [ 2 ]
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".
The album is essentially a reissue (with a new title and slightly altered track listing) of James Taylor: A Christmas Album, a limited edition title distributed by Hallmark Cards in 2004. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," originally issued on Taylor's October Road in 2002, and "River" were not included on the original Hallmark release.
December is the tenth studio and first Christmas album by American singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins.Released in 1998, it contains several Christmas music standards, such as "White Christmas" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," along with several other lesser-known holiday songs (such as "Walking In The Air" from the television special "The Snowman"), as well as a few Loggins originals.
is the James Taylor take on the song recorded after 9-11. It's obvious those aren't the original lyrics because that would make the title of teh song "Have ourselves a Merry Little Christmas."68.9.190.116 18:29, 16 December 2005 (UTC) I have moved the lyrics sung in MMISL to the top since that is the earliest recorded version.