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.
Merry Christmas with Love (song) Merry Christmas with Love (song) "Merry Christmas with Love" is a Christmas song by Greg Wayne Davis and Billy Smiley. The song was first recorded by Sandi Patty, then known as Sandi Patti, for her 1983 Christmas album "The Gift Goes On". More recently, it was recorded by Clay Aiken as the title track of his 2004 Christmas album "Merry Christmas with Love" It is a song about an older woman who is alone for Christmas and has given up hope for being happy, when a group of carolers comes to cheer her up by singing, "Merry Christmas with love."