Maybe I've miscounted, is it really the seventh night?

Another reason Hanukkah feels better than Christmas - Latkes are cheaper to mail than fruitcakes.

Open a window someone , it's the Seventh night of Hanukkah.



That oil is a tad rancid


If you can stand it, more Hanukkah songs

I Gotta Feeling Hanukkah   The Fountainheads -




Chanukah Lights   The Jabberwocks of Brown University -




Kurstin X Grohl: The Hanukkah Sessions: Night Five -



Everyone has to play the music of little Robert Allen Zimmerman


Hanukkah with Mayim Bialik -




Spin Dreidel - Dance Monkey    Pella Singers -




It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Hanukkah   B-Shep -




Stop eating all the fried food - no one's looking


Everyone enjoys the holidays at ACME. Here's our final guest programmer with her favorite Christmas jingles (once again, I had to pester her for two days to get her to give me this list.)

Remember, it's the holidays (there are no bad choices, especially if the guest programmer lives in my house.)


This Christmas   Donny Hathaway -



Like many Christmas songs, this one took a while to find an audience. Released as a single in 1970, it went nowhere, but later became a modern holiday standard, covered by a wide range of artists including Destiny's Child, Aretha Franklin and Lady Antebellum. Chris Brown is the only artist to chart with the song, reaching #62 in 2007 with his rendition.


Do You Hear What I Hear   Bing Crosby -



Married couple Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne Baker penned this Christmas carol in October 1962. Generally it was Baker who wrote the lyrics for their songs while Regney composed the music, but in this instance it was the other way around.


Cool Yule   Louis Armstrong -



Cool Yule is a 1953 Christmas song written by Steve Allen and introduced by Louis Armstrong. It's been covered by The Brian Setzer Orchestra and Bette Midler.


Jingle Bells?   Barbra Streisand -



One of the more unusual versions is by The Singing Dogs, which was created by a Danish man named Don Charles and featured four dogs barking out the tune. It was originally released in 1955 as a medley with Pat-A-Cake and Three Blind Mice, but in 1970 the song got some attention and was re-released with just Jingle Bells.


Little Saint Nick    Beach Boys -



Cars were a common theme in early Beach Boys songs, notably Little Deuce Coupe, which was the template for this song that envisions Santa's sleigh as a Nordic Hot Rod: candy apple red with a 4-speed stick. Brian Wilson wrote the song with Mike Love.


Once again, I was going to play a perennial favorite bonus track (in our house, anyway) - the inspired mash-up of Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You and My Chemical Romance's Welcome To The Black Parade, but children made me run screeching from the room after hearing the new mash-up of Mariah Carey and Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's WAP. Once you hear it, you can not unhear it - But you sick puppies, I'm not going to play it here.



Demand Euphoria!