Hugh Martin
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Thank you, Terry.
Thank you for having us.
I remembered that little melody and it kept haunting me.
And I came into the room one day and I said, Hugh, what did you do with that little
melody that you were fooling around with at the piano, like a madrigal?
He says, I threw it in the wastebasket.
I said, oh, no.
I've got a great idea.
You mustn't do that.
And so we dug around in that wastebasket, and we found it.
Thank the Lord we found it.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas.
It may be your last.
Next year we will all be living in the past.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas.
Pop that champagne cork.
Next year we will all be living in New York.
And then there was another version, Ralph.
Then one day Frank Sinatra called us and said he wanted to record the song, but he couldn't sing Habit.