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Yeah. Yeshiva University has medical and law schools, but they are more like Jew-friendly (holidays and such). My experience at Fordham hasn't been very Catholic.
Tom - We sent it around to every Jewish music blog we knew - once it built up among Jews, and going viral on that level, we started sending it out to anyone and everyone. I have a friend who has a friend who works at Huffington Post.
JPost randomly contacted us, we didn't speak with them.
But today, the calls came in from NBC, CBS, CNN, NYPost, etc.
This is utter craziness. Thanks everyone for being so awesome! The best part of this is friends/family who are going through this with all of us. You don't know how much it means to me that I show up on hatrack and see a maccabeats thread. Blew my mind.
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It's up over 450,000 this morning. Quite a night for Maccabeats. At this rate, how long will it take to beat the video you are parodying.
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The video they're parodying is up around 3 million (definitely reachable). The song that both those videos are based on is up on the 50 million range (not so much).
Great video Armoth, I've watched it a few times, and passed it along to my family who also loves it.
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quote:The video they're parodying is up around 3 million (definitely reachable).
I wonder how many hits the Mike Tompkins video is getting because of the Maccabeats video. I can't be the only one who hadn't seen it and probably never would have had it not been for the Maccabeats.
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It went great. Insanity. We performed Candlelight live and was awesome. Off to NBC!!! Wish me luck!
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And now the guy I share my office with just pulled up CNN.com and evidently you're on the front page. So now I'm listening to it. Again. :-)
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Your youtube video has over 850,000 hits now. If this keeps up through the remaining days of Hanukkah, you should pass the video you are parodying.
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quote:Originally posted by JanitorBlade: CNN's coverage.
Mazel Tov!
Why, do you suppose, they never mention "Light One Candle", in litany of Hanukkah songs? Perhaps it would interfere with their point that decent Hanukkah songs didn't exist until the past few years.
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Probably because "Light One Candle" isn't a very good song, and moreover is only obliquely about Hanukkah.
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They're otherwise pretty much irrelevant to the lyrics. In fact, the song hints pretty strongly that no one else has to suffer like the Maccabee children did, because the great peacemaker has since come; I'm pretty sure that comes close to mocking the point of the holiday.
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quote:They're otherwise pretty much irrelevant to the lyrics. In fact, the song hints pretty strongly that no one else has to suffer like the Maccabee children did, because the great peacemaker has since come; I'm pretty sure that comes close to mocking the point of the holiday.
Either you don't know the words to the song or you have grossly misunderstood them. There is nothing in the song about how no one else needs to suffer because the great peacemaker has come. In fact, it says just the opposite in several places. The lyrics were written by a Jew and the message is on maintaining a personal obligation to create peace and justice. While the song does ask for "The wisdom to know when the peace makers time is at hand", the context makes it pretty clear that "peace maker" means "us". Here is a link to the lyrics.
Key phrases include:
quote:Light one candle for those who are suffering The Pain we learned so long ago
quote:What's the commitment to those who have died? We cry out "they've not died in vain," We have come this far, always believing That justice will somehow prevail; This is the burden and This is the promise, This is why we will not fail!
If the song isn't to your taste, fine, but don't make claims about the lyrics unless you've actually bothered to find out what they are.
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quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: Probably because "Light One Candle" isn't a very good song, and moreover is only obliquely about Hanukkah.
Since the article went on and on about bad "obliquely Hanukkah songs like "I have a little dreidel", I don't see how this offers an explanation.
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quote:Originally posted by rivka: The average English-only speaker is not aware of "Light One Candle", Rabbit.
Really?? By "not aware" you must mean "not aware its about Hanukkah" not "never heard it". It's the only Hanukkah song I've ever heard played in public places. In places I've lived, its been part of the standard Holiday muzak, the token nod to the fact that Christmas isn't the only "Holiday" people celebrate.
I never heard "I have a little dreihdel" until this past week.
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IME (and this does come up in conversation regularly this time of year, both IRL and all the various places I am and have been online), people know the dreidel song, the Sandler song, and have a vague notion that there are some others but don't know any of them.
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I just did an informal poll here in the office: I was the only one of sixteen people who'd heard "Light One Candle" at all, and that was only because I'd sung it once at a holiday event twenty years ago.
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I just listened to "Light One Candle," never heard it before. Sounded nice, though not particularly special, and I'll probably never hear it again.
We learned a couple Hanukkah songs when I was in elementary school, but I can't really remember them now. I always liked Hava Nagilah, it's catchy, but I don't think it's a holiday song.
It's really too bad there aren't more Jewish holiday songs. I know Jewish religious music can be beautiful, I've heard a lot of cantor music that blows my socks off, and moves me on a level, even though I have no idea what's being said, that 99% of Christmas music doesn't. I also wonder if there isn't something to be said for the benefits of not going mainstream/commercial like Christmas has. On the one hand, it has total commercial dominance over Hanukkah, but, it's also become a cheap, vapid plaything for corporations.
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2. More importantly, that's a fabulous song (and video), Armoth! Congrats on the much-deserved success!
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You realize now, of course, that I'm going to pester you for translations on all these now?
Edit to add: I like the first song in this video. I tried to find longer versions of it, assuming it's supposed to have a longer version, but there aren't any good ones. Sounds like a Russian/Eastern European folk song too, which might be part of what I like it so much.
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Yes, I went to a Jewish Orthodox high school and we only knew of the Dreidel song and the Adam Sandler song.
I think you guys should be really proud of yourself.
Portraying the ancient practice in a friendly manner is from my perspective what might be termed (using Orthodox Jewish terminology) a "kidush to the Lord;" the exact phrase you likely know but I'd rather not write online.
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Lyr, that's Yimei haChanukah, and I think it's actually Israeli, not European. That link has (a loose) translation and transliteration (and an American singing ).
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