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I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm

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"I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" is a popular song written in 1937 by Irving Berlin. It was introduced in the musical film On the Avenue (1937) by Dick Powell and Alice Faye. Les Brown's instrumental version, arranged by Skip Martin and recorded in 1946 as Columbia #38324, became a million-seller and Billboard top ten song in 1949. That same year vocal group The Mills Brothers also had a chart hit with their version on Decca #24550.

Although not strictly a Christmas song as the lyrics make no mention of the holiday, the tune has been recorded for many artists' Christmas albums and is a standard part of the holiday song repertoire in the U.S.

Notable recordings

  • 1937: Billie Holiday – Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933–1944 (re-recorded for Verve in 1955)
  • 1937: Mildred Bailey (non-album)
  • 1953: Della Reese – Released as a single; also included on her 1959 album And That Reminds Me
  • 1954–56: Bing Crosby – The Bing Crosby CBS Radio Recordings
  • 1956: Jackie Gleason – Merry Christmas
  • 1956: Jo Stafford – Ski Trails
  • 1957: Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong – Ella and Louis Again
  • 1957: Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine – Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine Sing the Best of Irving Berlin
  • 1958: Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook
  • 1959: Dean Martin – A Winter Romance
  • 1959: Doris Day – Hooray for Hollywood
  • 1960: Dinah Washington – September in the Rain
  • 1961: Frank Sinatra – Ring-a-Ding-Ding!
  • 1963: Judy Garland – The Judy Garland Show
  • 1964: Julie London – Tenderly Yours
  • 1968: Tony Bennett – Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album; in medley with "(I Love the) Winter Weather"
  • 2002: Barry Manilow – A Christmas Gift of Love
  • 2002: Johnny Mathis – The Christmas Album
  • 2005: Rod Stewart – Thanks for the Memory: The Great American Songbook, Volume IV
  • 2006: Bette Midler – Cool Yule
  • 2006: Kay Starr – remix by Stuhr of Starr's earlier vocal, used in a commercial for Telos
  • 2007: Kimberley Locke – Christmas
  • 2008: Tony Bennett featuring Antonia Bennett – A Swingin' Christmas
  • 2011: Deana Martin – White Christmas
  • 2011: Ingrid Michaelson – Snowfall EP
  • 2015: Jen Lilley – Tinsel Time
  • 2015: Richard Barone – A New York Holiday

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