{"id":33013,"date":"2022-12-01T00:02:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T07:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=33013"},"modified":"2022-11-30T21:29:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T04:29:33","slug":"have-yourself-a-merry-little-christmas-by-lucy-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/have-yourself-a-merry-little-christmas-by-lucy-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas by Lucy Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Songwriters Hugh Martin and Ralph Blaine wrote the classic song &#8220;<em>Have Yourself a Merry Little <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a><\/em>&#8221; for Judy Garland&#8217;s 1944 movie, <em>Meet Me in St. Louis<\/em>. It has been covered by literally thousands of artists over the decades. It was just released again by vocalist Lucy Thomas:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g-5b9nxzrCA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Lucy Thomas is an English singer and songwriter who launched her career as a contestant on <em>The Voice Kids<\/em> before releasing her debut album, Premiere, which featured renditions of famous musical numbers. Thomas was 14 when she first appeared on television, finishing as a semi-finalist on <em>The Voice Kids<\/em> in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, she was signed to Cavendish Records, a new label, named after prestigious scientist Henry Cavendish, that specializes in classical crossover and musical theatre. Her debut album arrived the following year.<\/p>\n<p>This rendition shows a lot of restraint and maturity by Thomas, who plays it straight in this recording. It makes for a strong contribution to our <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> catalogue and we&#8217;re anxious to hear other <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> releases Lucy may have in store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Songwriters Hugh Martin and Ralph Blaine wrote the classic song &#8220;Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas&#8221; for Judy Garland&#8217;s 1944 movie, Meet Me in St. Louis. It has been covered by literally thousands of artists over the decades. It was just released again by vocalist Lucy Thomas: Lucy Thomas is an English singer and songwriter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":169,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-music","category-christmas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}