My first few months of noveltychristmasmusic.com were punctuated with sidebars for other holidays: Halloween, Veterans’ Day. Thanksgiving, and the Festival of Lights. Man there’s fecund soil for cool tunes in the Hebrew observations (and wotta sense of humor)!
Few original songs about this holiday, the celebrators like their parodies of hit songs made jewtiful. As introduction, we should take The Bob and Tom Show with a grain of kosher salt for their “Goyisha Hanukkah.” Okay–funny. Or the weirder “Hanukkah Harry’s Revenge” by Shark Uppercut. Harsh rhythm, random sense.
Six13 finally get around to a Jewish ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ with “Bohemian Chanukah.” Bonus points for the Hebrew subtitles. But the a cappella acting out the instruments they vocalize deducts these points. And it’s full length. (Not necessarily a good thing when it’s so serious.)
The kids from the Shul at Bal Harbor parody ‘Gangnam’ with “Chanukah Style.” It’s also all out.
Vocally unrepressed Mor Efrat Bitton takes on Sia’s ‘Chandelier’ with her “Hanukkah.” Help me here: are Dunkin’ Donuts goy? Are they the bad thing?
Out of the Wayback Machine Ray Brenner and Barry Blitzer laffitup 1967 style with the minority concerns of Hanukkah during The Holidays with “The Problem” (a minute and a half of funny ‘Jingle’ parody with some news commentary shtick).
Jinkx Monsoon & Sherry Vine get parody traditional with “Hanukkah, O Hanukkah” a fabulous redo that queers the deal.
Let’s get our money’s worth with Smooth E (he’s back!) with “8 Hanukkah Parody Songs in Four Minutes“! (‘Burn Down the Wax’/Turn Down For What – DJ Snake and Lil Jon; ‘Menchy’/Fancy – Iggy Azalea feat. Charlie XCX; ‘One More Latke Without You’/Problem – Ariana Grande; ‘Gimmel’/Timber – Kesha and Pitbull; ‘Grandma Wanda’/Anaconda – Nicki Minaj; ‘(C)HAN(N)UK(K)A(H)’/Shake It Off – Taylor Swift; ‘Jappy’/Happy – Pharrell; ‘All About That Eight’/All About That Bass – Meghan Trainor) A bit low key without the usual studio quality, AND it’s FIVE minutes long. But the boy’s got it.
The parody of all parodies (today) will dare to mock Adam Sandler with “The Shiksa Song.” Yuval (kindofa Kosher Borat) enumerates the joys of goyas (sortof naughty, but really a nice boy). Check this out.