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Saturday, December 25, 2010

The definitive list of Jewish Christmas songs


I present the most complete list of Christmas songs written by Jews:

1. "The Christmas Song", Mel Torme
2. "The Christmas Waltz",  Sammy Kahn and Jule Styne
3. "Getting Ready for Christmas Day", Paul Simon
4. "Holly Jolly Christmas", Johnny Marks
5. "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day", Johnny Marks
6. "I'll Be Home for Christmas", Buck Ram
7. "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year", Edward Pola, and George Wyle
8. "Let it Snow, Let it Snow", Sammy Kahn and Jule Styne
9. "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", Johnny Mark
10. "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer", Johnny Marks
11. "Run Rudolph Run", Johnny Marks
12. "Silver Bells", Livingston and Evans
13. "Sleigh Ride",  Leroy Anderson and Mitchell Parish
14. "There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays", Bob Allen
15. "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch", Dr. Seuss and Albert Hague
16. "We Need a Little Christmas", Jerry Herman
17. "White Christmas", Irving Berlin
18. "Winter Wonderland", Richard B. Smith and Felix Bernard

The song "O Holy Night" has been proposed as another song for this list, but I have seen a number of references that say that Adolphe Adam was not Jewish.

In my previous blog on this topic, a completely valid comment was made "songwriters need to write songs, and Christmas is a huge market waiting to be exploited." I think maybe a better question might be why John the Revelator is so obsessed with this topic!!!


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