Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", a song written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, was introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical "Meet Me in St. Louis". Frank Sinatra later recorded a version with modified lyrics. In 2007, ASCAP ranked it the third most performed Christmas song during the preceding five years that had been written by ASCAP members. In 2004 it finished at No. 76 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs rankings of the top tunes in American cinema. The song was written while Martin was vacationing in a flat in
Give Me Your Love for Christmas 1961, and "Christmas Day", which came from the then-current Broadway musical "Promises, Promises". New versions of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and "The Little Drummer Boy", which he also recorded in 1963 for his previous Christmas LP, "Sounds of Christmas", made the final track list here as well. The album debuted on "Billboard" magazine's Christmas Albums sales chart in the issue dated December 6, 1969, and spent one of its four weeks there at number one. It also appeared on the magazine’s seasonal LP chart each year from 1970 to 1973 as well as in 1987 and 1988. On