[78-L] Yet another piece on Christmas Music and the Jews

Eric Goldberg ericgoldie2 at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 24 20:56:30 PST 2010


Recently Amazon offered a free download of a Chanukah song written by
Orrin Hatch. He wrote the lyrics for "Eight Days of Hanukkah" (choose your favorite spelling). Truthfully it is no worse than many other modern Chanukah songs, which is not saying much. 

Also, Woody Guthrie wrote some Chanukah lyrics which are discussed at 

http://www.woodyguthrie.org/merchandise/klezmatics.htm

Eric Goldberg


 

--- On Fri, 12/24/10, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:

> From: Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Yet another piece on Christmas Music and the Jews
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Friday, December 24, 2010, 3:06 PM
> Kind of an odd article.  I would
> take issue with the writer's description of 
> Sleigh Ride,  Let it Snow, Frosty the Snowman, 
> and Winter Wonderland as 
> "Christmas songs" unless he imagines that any song which
> mentions frozen 
> precipitation must be connected to Christmas.
> 
> Some factual errors are well...he refers to Hugh Martin as
> one of the "late 
> songwriters."  Unless he just passed,  that would
> sure be a surprise to Mr. 
> Martin,  who is still with us at age 96.
> 
> The whole premise seemed sort of odd,  that there
> would be anything 
> remarkable about Jews writing Christmas music...song
> writers are 
> professional and there has always been a call for such
> material.   And many 
> of America's greatest song writers have been Jewish.
> 
> Happy Holidays to all from
> 
> Taylor
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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