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Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE (Description taken from the wikipedia article). The first day of Hanukkah in 2009 is today, December 12, meaning the first candle to be lit would have been last night, December 11.

Enter Neil Diamond. Diamond (he is Jewish), stepped forward and released a Christmas album this year, rather like Bob Dylan. “‘A Cherry, Cherry Christmas” contains a mix of new recordings, and re-worked originals such as ‘Deck the Halls’ and ‘Jingle Bell Rock’. But Neil takes another step forward and covers a second holiday – Hanukkah – something beyond Bob Dylan’s “A Christmas in the Heart”. The source of this new song? Adam Sandler’s tongue-in-cheek effort to sing about The Festival of Lights. Lyrically, it is bad, musically, it isn’t much better.

“Paul Newman’s half Jewish, Goldie Hawn’s half too
put them together, what a fine-looking Jew”

But, I am pretty certain this is supposed to be. After all, just how many Hanukkah songs are there? As Neil narrates at the beginning of the track, “There are so many beautiful Christmas songs around and so few Chanukah songs, so I thought we’d try this one for you”. Yes, he tried, and the effort looked tired. Maybe this will inspire other artist’s to make something better!

Neil Diamond: The Chanukah Song, 1.0 out of 5 based on 1 rating

2 Responses to “Neil Diamond: The Chanukah Song”

1. Jenny Says:
   December 12th, 2009 at 9:20 am

   I…don’t even know what to say.

2. Jenny Says:
   December 12th, 2009 at 9:21 am

   p.s. I’m rather wondering what “Cherry Cherry Christmas” is like. Maybe I don’t want to know.

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