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Hi Folks,

Every year I try to write some original Hanukkah songs and rarely do I complete any. I'm hoping you might help me get started by suggesting some titles.

The first was suggested by my mom:

Home for Hanukkah

Thanks!

Be well,
Ken

Damn, I thought the name of this thread said suggest me some titties.
....but since you got me in here, I'll give you my top ten list of Hanukkah songs that should be writen.

#1. I am Jewish hear me roar
#2. Mel Gibson can kiss my Jew ass
#3. The menorah burned my house down
#4. Jew talk'n to me?
#5. All I want for Hanukkah are my two front teeth
#6. Stop playing with your Matzo Balls, or you won't get any pudding
#7. If only my yarmulke had a propeller
#8. I saw Mommy kissing Jon Lovitz
#9. If I could save time in a dradle
#10. Smells like Jewish spirit

When is Hannukah (This Year)

its every year Erik





hehehhe

No seriously, I think Erik is right. I think I saw something on CNN with these totally fake looking dragons running around and the news dude said this is the year of the Hanukkah.

Wow, as hard as it is to top those titles, I will try and think of some more to add to the list....how about:

1.) Chachkes for my Bubeleh.

2.) Mazel Tov to Meshugenehs

3.)The Shmendrik and the Moisheh Kapoyer.

4.)I'm not patschkieing, It's Hanukah!

5.)My Shaineh Shiksa

The Hanukah Harmonica

The Room is Spinning. I Must Be a Dreidel (or Drunk).
Fuck Christmas
Don't Make Me Get My Hanukkah Goblins*
All You Christians Can S my D
The Eight Days of Hanukkah
Happy How Do You Spell It?
More Than Just the Jewish Alternative to Christmas
Mountain Breeze Scented Menorah



I just talked to Mel Gibson and he suggested the title "Highway to Hell." What a douche.

*The Hanukkah Goblins is actually a children's book that we have at the library where I work.

1) Morty, The Circumsized Reindeer
2) It's Lovely Weather for a Cab Ride Down to the Accountant
3) We Three Bankers
4) Rockin' Around the Menorah

All I want for Hanukkah is respect, love and someone to come up with a title that doesn't include a stereotypeImeanc'monhoworiginalisitandinlightofthemichealrichardsboratandydickcomedystylesofourtimesonemustrememberthat it'stiming,timingpeoplethatmakesthejokeforfuck'ssakes.



...everybody, join in!!

If it didn't include a stereotype of some sort, what exactly would make it a Hanukkah title?

Honestly, I'm looking for more secular ideas. Think about non-religious Xmas songs like White Christmas or Rocking around the Xmas tree.

Ken

Look... we all can't twist the freilach! I give you some Yiddish titles and you shun them? (even though I mispelled Hanukkah)

Ok...for reals....how about....

-You spin me (the dreidel remix, with klezmer break down)

-light it up (the Menorah of course)

-You're gelty!

-Freilack Rockin'

-Super Star of David

- Hip-hop Horah boogie

-The 25th day of Kislev

I just can't stop myself....

ken wrote:Honestly, I'm looking for more secular ideas. Think about non-religious Xmas songs like White Christmas or Rocking around the Xmas tree.

This is difficult. It's the religious stuff that makes a Hanukkah song a Hanukkah song. White Christmas isn't a particularly religious tune, though, I'll grant you. So I guess you could substitute Hanukkah for Christmas in a good many 'secular' songs and they'd work okay. But song titles along those lines seem kind of empty:

Hanukkah Is Here
Let Me Spend Hanukkah With You
Candlelight

Actually, that last one is the most satisfying of the bunch, but even then I don't think it's too strong. I dunno, I'll keep thinking about it tho.

EDIT: And forgive me, Leaf, for indulging myself so, but you gotta admit: Menorah Jones and the Bar Mitzfits would be a killer band name. Okay, maybe not.

Spud wrote:If it didn't include a stereotype of some sort, what exactly would make it a Hanukkah title?

Oboe and clarinets?

jimtyrrell wrote:This is difficult. It's the religious stuff that makes a Hanukkah song a Hanukkah song. White Christmas isn't a particularly religious tune, though, I'll grant you. So I guess you could substitute Hanukkah for Christmas in a good many 'secular' songs and they'd work okay. But song titles along those lines seem kind of empty:

I hear you. Think about Winter Wonderland. I don't think there is any reference to Xmas, but it is still associated.

The three songs I have so far are:

Home for Hanukkah
Stay, Eight Days
Dancing Around the Menorah

This thread has been really helpful, so keep it going.

Thanks!

Ken

jimtyrrell wrote:Menorah Jones and the Bar Mitzfits would be a killer band name.

AWESOME
-bill

I couldn't think of a title that was secular and NOT stereotypical myself... I just thought it was funny that in light of the Borats, Richards and now Andy DICKS comedy stylings that people are so quick, in a public forum, to assume that then can write potentially harmful ideas.. it would be so easy for Ken or someone else of the Jewish faith/heritage/ancestry to jump up and down and call it racist or some other term. I mean, what if a black dude said "hey everyone, I want some titles for a gospel tune" and people starting writing shit like "I'm dreaming of a non-white christmas" or "God Bless us as we hang these merry gentlemen for being different"...

I thought it was funny. There seems to be two camps... "total political correctness" versus "total rampant bigotry in the name of defeating political correctness with the internal assumption that others will understand I'm "not really racist/bigoted/etc" and will detect the irony. "


Of course, that second group needs a better name.



Uh... rocking around the mehnora was pretty good though.

Well, I'll have you know, Ken said he liked my title 'If I could save time in a dreidel". So I am officially excepted by the Jews.

Another Rudolph one:

1) Hershel the Big-Nosed Banker

And some others:

2) We Don't Give Presents Because We're Tightwads
3) I'll Pay You 5 Dollars to Turn The Thermostat Up For Me, Because My Wack-Ass Religion Says I Can't Do Any Work on the Sabbath, And I'm Freezing My Shmeckles Off
4) Here Comes Sanderstein!
5) Santa? Shmanta!

Festivus is not a real Jewish holiday.

We all wish it was, though, right? Right? *tumbleweed*