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

[Mike Harkin]

Gut yontev to all!

Mike in Plovdiv

--- On Sat, 12/25/10, Eric Goldberg <ericgoldie2 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Eric Goldberg <ericgoldie2 at yahoo.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: Saturday, December 25, 2010, 4:56 AM
> 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> > To: "78L" <78-L at 78online.com>;
> > <ToastOfNewYork at yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 7:19 AM
> > Subject: [78-L] Yet another piece on Christmas Music
> and
> > the Jews
> > 
> > 
> > > http://www.interfaithfamily.com/arts_and_entertainment/popular_culture/The_Jews_Who_Wrote_Christmas_Songs.shtml
> > >
> > > dl
> > >
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