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St Harmonica's Blues Club is locked down again, but it hasn't stopped regular attendees writing to Santa requesting their favourite Christmas records.

You can hear them all on the St Harmonica's Christmas Playlist below.

But first, here's a bonus Christmas song from me - the original 1947 version of Merry Christmas, Baby by Johnny Moore's Three Blazers, featuring piano and vocals by Charles Brown. The St Harmonica's list includes the equally good (or maybe even better) version that Charles Brown recorded nine years later in New Orleans, backed by the musicians that are famous for playing on records by Fats Domino and Little Richard.