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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 ...
The song “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” is a holiday classic, but its genesis goes back to Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. Louis. It turns out, she helped this melancholy Christmas ...
"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]
A Very Special Christmas is the first in the A Very Special Christmas series of Christmas-themed compilation albums produced to benefit the Special Olympics. The album was released on October 12, 1987, and production was overseen by Jimmy Iovine for A&M Records. A Very Special Christmas has raised millions of dollars for the Special Olympics. [4]
"The Christmas Waltz" (Cahn, Styne) – 6:50 "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) – 3:55 "Silent Night" (Franz Gruber, Josef Mohr) – 3:07 "Winter Wonderland" (Richard B. Smith, Felix Bernard) – 4:06 "Away in a Manger" (Traditional) – 3:33 "O Christmas Tree" (Traditional) – 2:19
According to the liner notes, two tracks chosen were originally sung by Judy Garland ("Merry Christmas" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"). The album also includes The Beach Boys "Little Saint Nick", which includes the original tracks from their 1976 Captain and Tennille Christmas Special. Daryl Dragon is featured on three ...
A Merry Little Christmas may refer to: A Merry Little Christmas (Linda Ronstadt album), 2000; A Merry Little Christmas (Matt Brouwer album), 2010; A Merry Little Christmas (Mormon Tabernacle Choir album), 2018; A Merry Little Christmas, by Lady Antebellum, 2010
This is confirmed by Hugh Martin himself in an interview in the video/television program "Del & Friends" in which Martin is interviewed about his life and accompanies religious singer Del Delker who performs his new religious version of the song "Have Yourself a Blessed Little Christmas." The "highest bough" line was indeed written for Sinatra.