"Happy Holiday" (sometimes performed as "Happy Holidays") is a popular song composed by Irving Berlin during 1942 and published the following year.
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History
"Happy Holiday" was introduced by Bing Crosby and Marjorie Reynolds (dubbed by Martha Mears) in the 1942 film Holiday Inn in a scene when the Inn opens for the first time. While it is commonly regarded as a Christmas song, in the film it is performed on New Year's Eve, and expresses a wish for the listener to enjoy "happy holidays" throughout the entire year.
Jo Stafford was the first to record and release it on a Christmas album, on her album of the same title Happy Holiday in 1955.
Kay Thompson wrote a song called "The Holiday Season" which is sometimes paired with "Happy Holiday" as a medley. This was first popularized by Andy Williams (who Thompson herself discovered and mentored). Other artists who have covered the "Happy Holiday"/"Holiday Season" medley include The Manhattan Transfer, She & Him, and Michael W. Smith.
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Renditions
- Jo Stafford on her album of the same title of the song Happy Holiday, this is the first time the song was released on a Christmas album in 1955.
- Acoustix, on their 1999 album Cool Yule
- The Carpenters (as part of a medley), on their 1984 album An Old-Fashioned Christmas
- Perry Como (in a medley with "We Need a Little Christmas"), on his 1994 album Perry Como's Christmas Concert
- Bing Crosby recorded the song on June 1, 1942 for Decca Records with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra, plus The Music Maids and Hal. Crosby also used the song as the introduction to his long-running A Christmas Sing with Bing radio shows.
- Percy Faith, on his 1966 album Christmas Is...
- Jackie Gleason, on his 1956 album Merry Christmas
- Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, on their 1964 album That Holiday Feeling!
- Peggy Lee, on her 1965 album Happy Holiday
- Living Strings and Living Voices, on their 1968 album White Christmas
- The Manhattan Transfer (in a medley with "The Holiday Season"), on their 1992 album The Christmas Album
- Barry Manilow (in a medley with "White Christmas"), on his 2002 album A Christmas Gift of Love
- Johnny Mathis (in a medley with "Caroling, Caroling"), on his 1986 album Christmas Eve with Johnny Mathis
- Nelson Riddle, on the 1970 album Avon Christmas 1970
- She & Him (in a medley with "The Holiday Season"), on their 2016 album Christmas Party
- Michael W. Smith (in a medley with "The Holiday Season"), on his 2014 album The Spirit of Christmas
- Sarah Vaughan (in a medley with "White Christmas"), on the 1989 album Hallmark Presents Carols of Christmas
- Dionne Warwick, on her 2004 album My Favorite Time of the Year
- Andy Williams (in a medley with "The Holiday Season"), on his 1963 album The Andy Williams Christmas Album
References
External links
- Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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