Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (arr. John Fries) by Barry Manilow Sheet Music for Piano Solo at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Barry Manilow

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Hugh Martin Ralph Blane

Arranger John Fries

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 2

Arrangement Piano Solo

Publisher John Fries

Level 4

Product ID 1648626

Genre Jazz Broadway Musical/Show Standards 20th Century

Instruments Piano

Product Description

TYPE JOHN FRIES IN THE SEARCH BAR TO SEE ALL I HAVE TO OFFER. Thanks, John. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a song written in 1943 by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane and introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis. Frank Sinatra later recorded a version with modified lyrics. Some of the original lyrics penned by Martin were rejected before filming began. When presented with the original draft lyric, Garland, her co-star Tom Drake and director Vincente Minnelli criticized the song as depressing, and asked Martin to change the lyrics. Though he initially resisted, Martin made several changes to make the song more upbeat. For example, the lines "It may be your last / Next year we may all be living in the past" became "Let your heart be light / Next year all our troubles will be out of sight". How's that for an improvment?

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