Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas I want you to sing it this way." 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 to all of the songs in "Meet Me in St. Louis" and that "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 anybody 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 credit, ASCAP royalties,
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