What unusual distinction is shared by these Christmas-y songs? “The Christmas Song,” “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed -lifted from Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia email. Reindeer,” “Silver Bells,” “White Christmas” and, in part, “Sleigh Ride” and “Winter Wonderland”?
-lifted from Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia email.
they were all written by jews
correct.
im convinced crappy songs like Dreidle Dreidle Dreidle were written by goy to make channukovatch look dumb.
Mel Torme was Jewish? I did not know that.
Robert Wells (Levinson) was.
You’re welcome!
SB – follow my nightly Chanukah posts for some different music.
Holly Jolly Christmas
Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree
And here I thought the answer was “songs I’m sick of hearing” at my part-time retail job.
Irving Berlin was Jewish by birth and culture but atheist in his beliefs (er, rather, lack thereof).