"Merry Christmas Baby" is an R & B Christmas standard written by Lou Baxter and Johnny Moore

Johnny Moore (musician)

Johnny Moore was an American rhythm and blues singer with The Drifters.Born John Alfred Moore in Selma, Alabama, United States, he began as lead of the Cleveland based group, The Hornets, before being discovered by The Drifters. He joined the group as lead vocalist, in New York in 1955, at age 21...

. It has been covered by many artists including Otis Redding

Otis Redding

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, B.B. King, Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry

Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...

, Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....

 and Hanson

Hanson (band)

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. The original 1947 version by Johnny Moore's Three Trailblazers (featuring singer/pianist Charles Brown (musician)

Charles Brown (musician)

Charles Brown , born in Texas City, Texas was an American blues singer and pianist whose soft-toned, slow-paced blues-club style influenced the development of blues performance during the 1940s and 1950s...

, is the definitive version of this song. Notable cover versions include those by Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry

Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...

 on his 1964 album St. Louis to Liverpool and Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band...

 & The E Street Band recorded live at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York

Uniondale, New York

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, and included on the Christmas album A Very Special Christmas

A Very Special Christmas

A Very Special Christmas is the title of an ongoing series of Christmas music compilation albums that benefit Special Olympics. It features songs performed by artists from a variety of genres, such as U2, Stevie Nicks, Jon Bon Jovi, Madonna, The Smashing Pumpkins, No Doubt, Whitney Houston,...

, released in 1987.

Johnny Moore's Three Blazers

Johnny Moore's Three Blazers

Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers were a successful and influential African-American vocal and instrumental group in the 1940s and 1950s.The original members were :-Johnny Moore and his younger brother Oscar grew up in Texas and then Phoenix, Arizona, where they both started playing guitar and formed...

 was one of the hottest blues attractions on the West Coast when their recording of "Merry Christmas Baby" reached position #3 on Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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's R & B Juke Box chart during the Christmas of 1947. Guitarist Johnny Moore commandeered an impressive lineup of players for the recording session, including bassist Eddie Williams

Eddie Williams (saxophonist)

Eddie Williams was an American jazz saxophonist.Williams played with Claude Williams early in the 1930s and worked with his own band at the Savoy Ballroom in the middle of the decade...

, guitarist Oscar Moore

Oscar Moore

Oscar Moore was an American swing jazz guitarist.Moore was an integral part of the Nat King Cole Trio during 1937–1947, appearing on virtually all of Cole's records during the period. A superb and influential guitarist, Moore was himself influenced by Charlie Christian...

 (then of the King Cole Trio), and singer/pianist Charles Brown

Charles Brown (musician)

Charles Brown , born in Texas City, Texas was an American blues singer and pianist whose soft-toned, slow-paced blues-club style influenced the development of blues performance during the 1940s and 1950s...

. A version of this song, recorded by Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Raitt

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 and Charles Brown, is included on the Christmas album A Very Special Christmas 2

A Very Special Christmas 2

A Very Special Christmas 2 is the second in a series of Christmas-themed compilation albums produced to benefit Special Olympics. The album was released on 20 October 1992, and production was overseen by Jimmy Iovine, Vicki Iovine and Robert Sargent Shriver for A&M Records.-Track listing:#...

, released in 1992.

Christina Aguilera

Christina Aguilera

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 recorded the song for her album My Kind of Christmas

My Kind of Christmas

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(2000). Pepe the King Prawn

Pepe the King Prawn

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 recorded a cover of this song for the 2006 album The Muppets: A Green and Red Christmas

The Muppets: A Green and Red Christmas

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. Jessica Simpson

Jessica Simpson

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 also recorded the song as duet with Willie Nelson on her 2010 album Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas (Jessica Simpson album)

Happy Christmas is the seventh studio album and second Christmas album by American recording artist Jessica Simpson. The album was released on November 22, 2010 by Primary Wave Records. Simpson made an appearance on The Early Show to promote the album....

. Donna Loren

Donna Loren

Donna Loren is a singer and actress. A very prolific performer in the 1960s, commenciong while still attending Venice High School in western Los Angeles, she was the Dr Pepper spokesperson from 1963–1968, prolific vocalist on ABC-TV’s Shindig, and a cast member of the American International...

 recorded the song for her Donna Does Elvis in Hawaii (2010), an EP of her renditions of four Elvis Presley songs.