![]() In 2012, this song is featured in the fourth season of the Fox musical-comedy series Glee for the Christmas episode " Glee, Actually". In 2011, Michael Bublé's version reached number 98 on the top 100 charts. In 2009, Keyshia Cole reached number 58 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with a version of the song. Judy Garland's 1944 version of the song reached No. Louis and that "all of the so-called Martin and Blane songs (except for Best Foot Forward) were written entirely by me (solo) without help from Ralph or anybody else." His explanation for allowing Blane equal credit for the songs was: "I was reasonably content to let him receive equal screen credit, sheet music credit, ASCAP royalties, etc., mainly because this bizarre situation was caused by my naive and atrocious lack of business acumen." Cover versions He noted while a pastor in a California church in 1990 that he had met Martin, who played piano at the church where O'Brien was serving for an evening, and the pastor was told, "That's the original way I wrote it, so I want you to sing it this way." Collaboration controversy Īlthough Ralph Blane is credited with writing the music for many of Martin's songs, Martin claimed in his autobiography that he wrote both music and lyrics to all of the songs in Meet Me in St. In 2002, NewSong lead singer Michael O'Brien noted the line "through the years, we all will be together if the Lord allows," which was part of the original song, was purged and replaced with "if the fates allow" to remove religious reference when the song was released. The song was recorded by female gospel vocalist Del Delker with Martin accompanying her on piano. In 2001, Martin, occasionally active as a pianist with religious ministries since the 1980s, wrote an entirely new set of lyrics to the song with John Fricke, "Have Yourself a Blessed Little Christmas," a religious version of the secular Christmas standard. (However, Sinatra had recorded the original song's lyrics in 1948.) On The Judy Garland Show Christmas Special, Garland sang the song to her children Joey and Lorna Luft with Sinatra's revised lyrics. Do you think you could jolly up that line for me?" Martin's revised lyric was "hang a shining star upon the highest bough." Martin made several other alterations, changing from the future tense to the present, so that the song's focus is a celebration of present happiness rather than anticipation of a better future. ![]() In 1957, when Frank Sinatra approached Martin to record the song, he asked him to revise the lyrics to promote more positive themes he particularly pointed out the line "until then we'll have to muddle through somehow," saying "the name of my album is A Jolly Christmas. ![]() Garland's version of the song, which was also released as a single by Decca Records, became popular among United States troops serving in World War II her performance at the Hollywood Canteen brought many soldiers to tears. For example, the lines "It may be your last / Next year we may all be living in the past" became "Let your heart be light / Next year all our troubles will be out of sight". Though he initially resisted, Martin made several changes to make the song more upbeat. When presented with the original draft lyric, Garland, her co-star Tom Drake and director Vincente Minnelli criticized the song as depressing, and asked Martin to change the lyrics. Some of the original lyrics penned by Martin were rejected before filming began. In a scene set on Christmas Eve, Judy Garland's character, Esther, sings the song to cheer up her despondent five-year-old sister, Tootie, played by Margaret O'Brien. Louis, Missouri, just before the long-anticipated 1904 World's Fair begins. The song first appeared in a scene in which a family is distraught by the father's plans to move to New York City for a job promotion, leaving behind their beloved home in St. ![]() 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 home of Martin and his family in 1923. Louis, for which MGM had hired Martin and Blane to write several songs. ![]() The song was written in 1943 for the film Meet Me in St. 76 in AFI's 100 Years.100 Songs rankings of the top tunes in American cinema. In 2007, ASCAP ranked it the third most performed Christmas song during the preceding five years that had been written by ASCAP members. Frank Sinatra later recorded a version with modified lyrics. " Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a song written in 1943 by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane and introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Song by Judy Garland in the 1944 musical Meet Me in St. For other uses, see Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (disambiguation) and A Merry Little Christmas. ![]()
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