Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas the neighborhood of Southside in Birmingham, Alabama, that his father Hugh Martin designed for his mother as a honeymoon cottage. Located at 1919 South 15th Avenue (just down the street from his birthplace at 1900 South 14th Avenue), the house became the home of Martin and his family in 1923. The song first appeared in a scene in "Meet Me in St. Louis", 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. Louis, Missouri, just before the long-anticipated 1904 World's Fair begins.
Wombling Merry Christmas McTell's 'Streets of London' from reaching #1 in the UK Singles Chart. Wombling Merry Christmas "Wombling Merry Christmas" is a Christmas song written by Mike Batt, Chris Spedding and Richard Kelly, and recorded by British band The Wombles. Released in November 1974, the song rose to a peak of #2 in the UK Singles Chart in December that year, spending 8 weeks in the chart. The song was also released in West Germany, but failed to chart. The video was recorded in 2011 as part of a re-release that year, and shows the Wombles dancing to the song. The band