Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas etc., mainly because this bizarre situation was caused by my naive and atrocious lack of business acumen." Judy Garland's 1944 version of the song reached No. 27 on the "Billboard" charts. The lyrics Garland sang in "Meet Me in St. Louis" have been recorded with only slight variations by a number of artists, including Sinatra (in 1950 and 1963 single recordings), Bing Crosby (in "I Wish You a Merry Christmas"), Doris Day (in "The Doris Day Christmas Album"), Ella Fitzgerald (in "Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas"), The Pretenders (in the first "A Very Special Christmas" compilation), James Taylor (in
A Partridge Family Christmas Card Jones as the lead singer ("The Christmas Song"). "A Partridge Family Christmas Card" was the best-selling Christmas album in the United States during the Christmas season of 1971. It was the number 1 album on "Billboard" magazine's special Christmas Albums sales chart for all four weeks that the magazine published the chart that year. The album was reissued in 1992 on CD and is also available as mp3 downloads. Only two tracks, "Winter Wonderland" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", were featured on the TV show (in the second-season episode "Don't Bring Your Guns to Town, Santa") A Partridge