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“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” is already more melancholy than most classic Christmas songs, ...
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 ...
The Herald Angels Sing" (Music by Felix Mendelssohn and lyrics by Charles Wesley) "Silent Night" (Music by Joseph Mohr and lyrics by Franz Gruber) "Silver Bells" (Music and Lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans) "Toyland" (Words and Music by Victor Herbert) "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Words and Music by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane)
Other songs were performed as piano and vocal solos or with Connick's trio with Ben Wolfe on double bass and Jeff "Tain" Watts on drums. Also appearing on the album are tenor saxophonist Frank Wess and guitarist Jay Berliner. The album went to No. 1 on the jazz chart at Billboard magazine and reached the top 50 of the Top 200 Albums chart. [4]
It included four songs previously released as singles, one recorded four years earlier in 1944, and four songs not released as singles, one recorded July 3, 1947 (“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas") and three recorded on December 28, 1947 for the album.
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) – 3:31 "Christmas Love Song" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Johnny Mandel) – 3:29 "The First Noël" (William B. Sandys) – 0:50 "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith) – 2:46 "Christmas Time Is Here" (Vince Guaraldi, Lee Mendelson) – 3:10
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