Neil Diamond Does Sandler on New CD
By Jeff Westover on Sep 29, 2009 in Music News
It’s no secret that when holiday music hits radio, you’re going to hear way more songs about Christmas than Chanukah. With Christmas, you get a bevy of classics like ‘White Christmas,’ ‘Santa Claus is Coming to Town,’ ‘Jingle Bells’ and on and on. With Chanukah, you’re lucky if you hear more than ‘The Dreidel Song.’ So, when Neil Diamond — who’s been called the “Jewish Elvis” — wanted to include a song about the festival lights on his third Christmas album, he turned to an unlikely source: Adam Sandler.
That’s right — on Diamond’s upcoming ‘A Cherry, Cherry Christmas,’ the singer rocks a pretty hilarious and dead-on cover of Sandler’s ‘The Chanukah Song,’ the actor-comedian’s list of famous Jews that features such witticisms as “Paul Newman’s half Jewish, Goldie Hawn’s half too/put them together, what a fine-looking Jew.” Diamond even addresses the dearth of Chanukah songs at the beginning of his version, saying, “There are so many beautiful Christmas songs around and so few Chanukah songs, so I thought we’d try this one for you.”
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