Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas is special to me because I sang it as a youngster in boys choir, and performed it solo a Capella at a Christmas eve party with my family and extended family during a year when my grandma and her cousins were all here from overseas for a reunion. Everyone in their generation was there except for my grandfather who had passed on five years earlier. For some reason it got my grandma going and she broke down during, and eventually the whole room was full of teary-eyed aunts and uncles. I never felt more moved by my performing than when I sang for them, even in spite of moving on to be a some-time professional singer later in my career.
Short story long that song has sentimental value to me because most of my family that were there have also passed on…it makes me remember how precious life and family are, and how fortunate we are to celebrate life and the feeling of love in this special season.