What Is OUR Favorite Hanukkah Latke Song? It's Not Just About Spinning and Dreidel

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What Is OUR Favorite Hanukkah Latke Song? It's Not Just About Spinning and Dreidel

Hanukkah is all about singing and spinning. We'll write about spinning and the dreidel. BUT This post is about singing.

Jewish holidays go together with Jewish songs like matzo and balls, like apples and honey, like bagels and cream cheese.

Even the gentiles get into the act! It's a little known fact: several successful artists wrote hits about latkes, then changed the words because their music labels told them to.

For example, our super sleuths uncovered the original names of these famous songs:

  • Snoop Dogg -- "Drop It Like It's a Hot Latke"
  • Nelly Furtado -- "I'm Latke Bird"
  • Madonna -- "Latke Virgin"

What Is OUR Favorite Latke Song? Maoz Tzur used to be our fave until we heard this jam from the Maccabeats. Maoz Tzur used to be our fave until we heard this jam from the Maccabeats. Well done, Jews. Yasher Koach!

The music video for "Latke Recipe," a parody of "Shut Up And Dance," originally performed by Walk the Moon

Lyrics by Spencer Garfield:

  • Additional lyrics by the Maccabeats
  • Arranged by Julian Horowitz
  • Edited by Jeff Eames
  • Mixed by Ed Boyer
  • Mastered by Dave Sperandio for Vocal Mastering
  • Color grading by Stuart Jackson
  • Special thanks to Daniel and Jamie Schwartz

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Tonight is Hanukkah

Got everything we need

A frying pan, some oil

And a latke recipe

Let's celebrate our ancestry

We've got ooh, ooh, ooh

The latke recipe

 

Four potatoes, peel and grate

Shred an onion, tears streaming down your face

Then salt and pepper to your taste

Add a tablespoon of flour, a pinch of baking powder

Then add two eggs

And mix it all together

And while we stir we sing!

 

Tonight is Hanukkah

Got everything we need

A frying pan, some oil

For your latke recipe

Let's celebrate our victory

We've got ooh, ooh, ooh

The latke recipe

 

Pour enough oil to cover the pan

(Calories)

Turn up the heat but don't burn your hands

(So many calories)

Now you're ready to complete the plan

Gotta take a spoon and fill it, then press it on the skillet 

 

Few at a time

Fry one side then the other

'Till both are golden brown

 

Tonight is Hanukkah

Got everything we need

A frying pan, some oil

For your latke recipe

Let's celebrate our ancestry

We've got ooh, ooh, ooh

The latke recipe

 

Two thousand years

Of joyous celebration

A single jar

That burned for eight days

The food we eat

As part of our tradition

Keeps that flame alive!

 

Tonight is Hanukkah

Got everything we need

Good friends and family here to try

Our latke recipe

Best served with applesauce, you see

We've got ooh, ooh, ooh

The latke recipe