Judy Garland ~ "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"~Christmas Songbird ~ Classic Christmas Song

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"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" was written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane and sung by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical 'Meet Me In St. Louis'.
Some of the original lyrics by Martin were rejected before filming began. When presented with the original draft lyric, Garland, her co-star Tom Drake and director Vicente Minnelli criticised the song was depressing, and asked Martin to change the lyrics. Though he initially resisted, Martin made several changes to make the song more upbeat. For example, the lines "it may be your last / Next year we may be living in the past" became "Let your heart be light / Next year all our troubles will be out of sight".
Although 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 for all the songs in 'Meet Me In St. Louis' and "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 anyone 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, ASCAP royalties, etc., mainly because this bizarre situation was caused by my naive and atrocious lack of business acumen.
Judy Garland's 1944 recording of the song reached No;27 in the Billboard Hot 100.
In 1995, Garland's daughter Lorna Luft recorded a cover of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" which was reworked as a "virtual duet" with her Mother!!

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