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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 ...
“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” is already more melancholy than most classic Christmas songs, ...
The original version, written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, started with: “Have yourself a merry little Christmas; it may be your last. Next year, we may all be living in the past.”
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 Wiggles covered this song on their Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas album and video in 1996. In 2002, the Nick Jr. Channel's animated TV cartoon Dora the Explorer featured a cover of the song in the Christmas-themed episode "A Present for Santa", as sung by Dora, Boots, Santa Claus (voiced by Howie Dorough from Backstreet Boys), and all the elves.
"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 ]
2. “10 Little Elves” by Super Simple Songs. A Christmas song that’s both catchy and educational? Yes please. Even preschoolers can count 20 little elves with this fun tune.
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".