I’ve been having so much fun listening to Christmas music lately! 🎅🏻

When I was growing up, Hanson’s Snowed In was my FAVORITE Christmas album to listen to—over and over and over again. 😄

Of course this album is STILL on my Christmas playlist! 😀

When I was listening to the songs on the album the other day, I heard “Merry Christmas Baby.”

Lyrics:.

Merry Christmas Baby
You sure did treat me nice
Merry Christmas Baby
You sure did treat me nice…Oh Yeah
Buy me a diamond ring for Christmas
I feel like I’m in Paradise
I’m feelin’ mighty fine, yo
I’ve got music on my radio, Oh yeah, oh!
I’m feelin’ mighty fine, yo
I’ve got music on my radio

I feel like I’m going to kiss you
Underneath the mistletoe
Oh, oh!

Santa comin’ down the chimney
Half pass three
All those pretty presents
For my baby and for me

Oh, Merry Christmas baby
You sure did treat me nice, treat me so nice
Buyin’ me all those pretty presents
I feel like I’m in Paradise
Merry Christmas Girl
Say Merry Christmas Baby

Merry Christmas Baby
You sure did treat me nice
You know you do
Oh, Merry Christmas Baby
You sure did treat me nice…Oh
Buyin’ me all those pretty presents
I feel like I’m in paradise

Oh, Merry Christmas baby
Merry Christmas baby
I feel like I’m in Paradise
In my Paradise
Oh, Merry Christmas baby
Happy New Year
Merry Christmas baby
Merry Christmas baby
Oh, Oh Merry Christmas baby

I LOVED this song when I was a kid!

When I was a kid, I remember thinking that it was such an AWESOME song and how AMAZING it was that Hanson wrote it.

When I later heard versions of the song on the radio by artists before Hanson’s time, I realized that they did not.🤣

Who did?

The Smithsonian Magazine’s article “Who Really Wrote ‘Merry Christmas, Baby'” answers this question.

According to the article, “It was the performance of Charles Brown, the Three Blazers’ pianist and vocalist, that defined the song—and he insisted that he wrote it, too.”

The article is very interesting and explains how it took a very long time for Charles Brown to get credit for this song.

What do you think of the original version of “Merry Christmas Baby”?

I had never heard it before. I like the smoothness of the song and that the tempo contrasts with the tempos of many covers of this song.

What’s a Christmas song that you enjoy listening to?

Wishing you well! 💚