'' Meet Me In St. Louis '' is a studio album of phonograph records by Judy Garland with Georgie Stoll 's Orchestra , released by Decca Records in 1944 featuring songs presented in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer eponymous motion picture . Released less than 10 days before Columbia and Victor Records formally ended the 1942-44 recording ban , the album peaked at number two on the April 7 , 1945 '' Billboard '' Best-Selling Popular Record Albums chart . In their Record Possibilities column , the magazine praised " The Trolley Song " : ... There 's plenty of bounce and the platter is actually given movie treatment , with everything on wax but the kitchen sink ... You have to play this three times to take in everything ... Even if you have another version get this , too . " The Trolley Song " was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 15th Academy Awards , but lost to " Swinging on a Star " by Bing Crosby from Paramount 's '' Going My Way '' . Additionally , the album was the debut of " Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas " , now a perennial holiday standard
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Meet Me in St. Louis (album)