The Christmas Song"
「ザ・クリスマス・ソング (The Christmas Song)」は、1944年にミュージシャンで作曲家、歌手のメル・トーメが、ボブ・ウェルズと一緒に書いた曲。特にナット・キング・コールによる歌唱で広く知られている。英語では副題として「Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire」が添えられたり、発表当初の副題「Merry Christmas to You」が添えられることもある、クリスマス・ソングの定番の一つ。
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
in 1943[2][3][4] by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane
The song was written in 1943[2][3][4] for the then-upcoming film Meet Me in St. Louis, for which MGM had hired Martin and Blane to write several songs.[4] Martin was vacationing in a house in the neighborhood of Southside in Birmingham, Alabama that his father Hugh Martin[6] had designed for his mother as a honeymoon cottage, located just down the street from his birthplace, and which later became the home of Martin and his family in 1923.[7] The song first appeared in a scene 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. In a scene set on Christmas Eve, Judy Garland's character, Esther, sings the song to cheer up her despondent five-year-old sister, Tootie, played by Margaret O'Brien.[8]
