Matzoh Balls and Tiny Totele

Chanukah CarolsStanley Adams and Sid Wayne
"Matzoh Balls" (mp3)
from "Chanukah Carols"
(Jewish Music Group)



Chanukah is over, a good Jewish friend tells me, but if you are ignorant of most things Jewish, as am I, there is no reason you can't still enjoy some old fashioned Chanukah music. Stanley Adams and Sid Wayne's Chanukah Carols is like listening to Mel Brooks, Larry David and Sid Caesar collaborating on Yiddish versions of Christmas classics. Poems are subverted for Yiddish tastes, "Deck the Halls" is deranged into a hilarious Jewish party ("Deck the halls with loaves and latkes"), while "Let's Put The 'Ch' Back In Chanukah" suggests replacing gift giving with pool playing and wearing a yarmukle.

From the liner notes: "The lucky listener will once again be able to re-capture the beauty, warmth and laughter of the fast disappearing era, when chicken soup was king and potato kugel was the staff of life."

by Ken Micallef in Better Living Through MP3 from http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/betterlivingthroughmp3/106/christmas-mp3s-in-da-house