Merry Christmas (Andy Williams album) "Winter Wonderland", in 1934. Judy Garland reached number 27 with "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" upon the release of the 1944 film "Meet Me in St. Louis", in which she performs it. "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" by Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra spent five weeks at number one that began in December 1945. And Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra took "Sleigh Ride" to number 24 on the Best Selling Pop Singles chart in 1949. The recording of "Silver Bells" by Bing Crosby and Carol Richards was first released in 1950 but did
Merry Christmas from the Family "Happy Holidays Y'all". Keen states, "I vowed when I really started writing songs that I'd never write a sequel. But I thought, well, you know, why not." According to Keen the second song fills in some of the gaps on the characters and brings them a little farther along into their holiday celebration: "The song 'Merry Christmas from the Family' is set in the present tense. This song is set in the present tense, but little further in the future—say like after the party when everybody's packing up and leaving on the 26th of December." Merry Christmas from the Family