"Sweet Light (Hanukkah, O Hanukkah)" by Micah E. Wood & Ari Pluznik. Jon Solomon Wed Dec 17 with Jon Solomon on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

HAPPY HANUKKAH, everyone!

Happy Hanukkah, Jon!

Happy Hanukkah Jon & Rob, and future listeners

Great to see you both here.

Looking forward to getting into it.

Happy Hanukkah Rob, Dan - Happy Hanukkah Jon Solomon! Very excited

Hi Dan, and future listeners!

Good afternoon

Maccabot RIP?

May The Fourth Night of Hannukah Be With You!

May his RAM be a blessing.

(His batteries ran out.)

Would sweet potato pizza count??

Good evening & happy Hannukah to all!

Sweet potato pizza would count as DELICIOUS.

hey now. can an atheist enjoy the music too? i think so.

I have been clicked in all day. Happy to have you in my digiteria. I hope you have a great show. Happy Hanukah.

The singer of this band not really knowing how to say "sivivon" is charming.

All are welcome, Dale. Even you!

Good evening, Richard.

i thought tragedy wold be a bee gees cover band.

Or a NJHC band from 1988.

though I was (barely) raised a jew - both parents - I'm an atheist too Dale! Let's hear it for the non believers!

This track is a riot!

It was a quality discovery indeed.

this is great, Jon

Jon, I'm dying, great song

Happy Hanukkah everyone

DJ Tenderloin I can't remember if you sent me that one or not but if you didn't please take the stolen valor!

this is pretty well done. i wonder what the reindeer names are. 'on herschel! on schlomo!'

I sent you some stuff, but I don't think I sent you that. Stolen Valor accepted! That's a gem

Happy Hanukkah everybody!

He does the reverse on a different track. Might save for Xmas.

Hello, Dennis!

Tell your friend Veronica It's time to celebrate Chanukah

Happy Chanukah, Jon!

Hey, Marcus!

Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel I made it out of clay...

And when it’s hard and ready the Dreidel I will play

..and when it's dry & ready - oh dreidel we will play

lol Carlos!

Readie! Everyone else I missed up top! Good evening!

Did I miss on the lyrics?

How's everyone holding up as we careen toward the end of 2025? I for one am barely holding on by my fingernails.

And when it’s hard and ready- Carlos!!

@Carlos - I learned it so long ago - I may be off a bit!

I just searched "dreidel" + "hard and ready" and now I need to go throw this computer in the lake.

(There were no hits.)

Dreidel song. Courtesy of El Vez!!!

😆

https://www.chabad.org/multimedia/music_cdo/aid/797123/jewish/Dreidel-Song.htm

Hard & Ready Dreidel could be the name of the first Jews only porno. Unless there's others I am unaware of - perhaps an entire genre!

I wonder if Dodger fans sing "Mi yimalel gevurot Yisrael, Ohtani yimne?

I still can't get over this - like Smokey never met a Jew? In show business?

I suspect the "C" in the spelling threw him for a loop but also...yes.

there's a website where celebrities will record birthday greeting for $$$. missus dale got one from a guy from no means no (i think that's who it was from). john davidson did one for hearty white from fmu. easy cash i guess.

I think I may have sent you this.

This one I've had in some form since 2008!

hanukkahsongsfromken Home for Hanukkah

Ah yes quite possibly! It all blurs!

it sure does. more so as I get older...

i love this pickle

thx boss!

The pickle has been doing daily videos. Not all of them involve guest bars from Kosha Dillz.

Seriously though, the potato pizza special at Beddia is EXCELLENT.

Everything I've had at Beddia is outstanding

My kid insists we at least try and go and get every special pie they have. I respect her vision.

It's good that your kid is goal oriented.

When pizza or baked goods are involved, the lady has goals.

We're locked in. My kids got: pokemon compendium, toddler safe knives, semi precious rocks and a pacifier (2 week old baby's present) for hanukkah

My best to your entire brood, Krista!

DJ TENDERLOIN, ladies and gentlemen.

New DJ Tenderloin!!!

🤘🏻🤘🏻

Proceeds to Doctors Without Borders - Happy Hanukkah everyone! https://djtenderloin.bandcamp.com/track/hanukkah-falls-on-the-sabbath

Rock on

Thx boss!

I'll update the link in the playlist!

@DJ Tenderloin, that Sabbath song was wonderful from start to finish, including the title!!

Thx Rob :)

Hanukkah songs are hard - in fact I'm sure folks have no idea (well this crowd probably does) how hard it is to program a show like this. Xmas songs? Gazillions. Hanukkah songs? That are cool? Like a needle in a haystack!

If I can find 10-15 new Hanukkah tracks each year, it is a different sort of a miracle.

Not to mention everyone seems to only do one of two songs!

What I'm saying is I appreciate the finds anyone sends my way.

It's true about the two songs! Great show Jon - seriously - every year somehow you get the oil to streeeettttccchhh!

As long as everyone keeps their eyes and ears open and I refine the playlist each year, we'll keep going.

OMG this Bay City Rollers cover!!!!!!! (and yay to that Rob for making it)

There has to be a Blitz Bop answer to this song!!

Wait - is it a cover? or a completely different version of the same parody?

Rob, this is ONE OF TWO DIFFERENT HANUKKAH VERSIONS OF THIS SONG I HAVE!

I switched them up for 2025.

What a world.

omg. amazing

And they each spell it different!

Got called by a client and didn’t realize I had paused the stream, I was a few songs out of phase. Anyway, amazing work DJT!

@Carlos — Blintz bop?

Thx Dennis!

@JON, THAT IS AMAZING!!! :-D

Is the "Best of" set in stone, or are you taking requests?

FLOPPY ON LOOP

I will have my xmas tracks in by Friday boss! Super excited about this year!

@donutage….that is a start!!

Dan, I was actually going to message you and ask you to pick some favorites as you remember past shows better than I sometime!

Ran out of time today though...

DJ Tenderloin, I don't worry about you and deadlines like I do some other dilly dally-ers.

this is fantastic!

Jon…how many bands make an appearance on both shows? Tollberone addict..comes to mind from the snowmans

I may dilly. I shall never dally!

Hey Andrew!

probably the best angry samoans song I've ever heard

GREAT question, Carlos.

Angry Snowmans!

They cross over. So does DJ Tenderloin. Who else this year...hmmm...Santa Sabbath too...

haha, oops

I've always contended that Tendy has crossover appeal!

What is the name of the original song that the Angry Snowmans did?

Amoeba.

Thanks!

Somehow the Hanukkah update of it works!

This isn't technically new—originally released 2016—but it is newly remastered: the Klezmatics' Happy Joyous Hannukah

https://theklezmatics.bandcamp.com/album/happy-joyous-hannukah-remastered-and-extended

Agh! I missed this one! 2026!

@Jon, it does. I had in my mind that it was a different group and different song

*that was being parodied/redone

Sorry, I should have mentioned it earlier than during the show, lol!

Hi Jon - just stopping by to say I am totally enjoying - especially liking this number - I celebrate Chanukah DAMMIT! :)

If it comes to you, let me know.

Yes, that last track was strangely aggressive!

Did you include Layla Frankel? She Did Chanukah Honey https://youtu.be/mhiDHD0Fss8?si=F6l4U0Lt4grfoHQ-

I don't believe I know that one. Please feel free to send it to me when I'm off the air.

This Chaki track is so good!

😁

Mary! Chaki is a superstar. He's also the guy who gave us our tour of Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

I Wanna Be Your Dradle ... A+++

You're a superstar! Love that!

Gifted my son tix to an El Vez Mexmas show a few years ago..Chaki was the the opener..couldn’t stop talking about him

Oh nice. I know they're pals. Chaki moved to Arkansas since our trip to LA but I know he has an album coming soon. 2026, hopefully!

Has there ever been a song called "From the Dreidel to the Grave"?

Not YET.

@DJ T, sounds like you could create a song with that title ;-)

Sort of surprised someone hasn't used it.

THEY ARE CANDLES

Must remember to spin dreidel I brought next mic break.

Dan, you have no idea how much we say / shout this in our household year-round.

@Jon, the passage of decades conflated Lords of the New Church "Holy War" with the Adolescents "Amoeba" in my mind. Hopefully I have those two songs separated now

Incredible, Rob.

Jon, or just a sign that I am old and feeble ;-)

This is so great! so Catholic Colbert w/Jon - awesome

I still pull out that Colbert special every so often.

hello hello, Jon, you have been getting me through some overtime, for which I am grateful.

Mary! I'm glad I could provide the soundtrack, even if it is for OT.

Still reeling from that Smoky Robinson cameo.

Just wait until I get him to try and pronounce your screen name.

That's why I keep it--more than 20 years it's been my nom du internet.

I like being difficult

Ha! Thx Boss. Not expecting this one!

If anyone wants: https://djtenderloin.bandcamp.com/track/halevai-for-hanukkah-latke-mix

Added to the playlist too!

"tiny fingers stained with gelt" - the best!

Forgot to spin the deidel again. Dammit.

Oh! Since I haven't been on the radio in a while, I have some Life Updates (nothing bad).

1. Indian place in a Stewart's Rootbeer stand is delicious.

2. On December 1st, after 11 months of trying I hit my running goal for 2025! Eclipsed it by 35 seconds, even!

I think that's it.

<3

Congrats on running goal

Thanks, Carlos. It was pretty thrilling, but not as thrilling as...

JWH IN THE CHAT!

You know my sister runs 3 miles every day. It's been a month now and we have no idea where she is. That's a really old joke. Mazel Tov on your running goal!

Was it a mileage distance or time spent running?

happy hanukkah, humans!

I wanted to get my 5K under a certain time.

Came up one second short in May, then the heat arrived and I couldn't get there. Ended up using a seven week training app that worked wonders. Yesterday I was 200 / 400 / 800 intervals up and down the street. It was BRUTAL but I'm glad I did it.

December 1st was "race day." The app told me when to slow down and speed up. I listened to the latter more than the former...

Mary, Hope you recover quickly

Thank you, Dan!

How much time is set aside for the Kraftwerk set? Songs tend to run long

Carlos, I haven't timed it but I'd guess about an hour?

At least I'm mostly just tired and phlegmy.

Who is getting me Jello Biafra's car for Hanukkah?

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a69798565/1989-toyota-celica-gt-jello-biafra/

I saw this - says it runs great - but c'mon - 212,000 miles?!?

we wanted it to be a SURPRISE

top 10 all time hanukkah songs

A bit late but we could have gotten you Danzig’s Fridge last week

Would Danzig's fridge fit in Jello's car?

"Hanukkah in Cambodia" was amazing!

The guy who made that is one of the most talented people I know.

Absurdly so.

Hello Jon and company!

Fridge in LA. Car in Bay Area..you in NJ

Huge shipping cost

Sebastian! Been thinking about you, buddy.

Carlos where you see "huge shipping cost," I see "road trip."

Me and the fridge and the open road.

lol

can't hang long I'm celebrating night 4 with Yo La Tengo tonight but just want to say I enjoyed the show so far

Have fun! Who are the guests? Do you know yet? All I know is tonight is "a good one."

I'm still reeling from finding oui that Scrawl were night 3 guests!

I dunno if they've posted the poster yet. I'm not yet inside Bowery Ballroom yet. I'm at a location very close by. No spoilers please if anyone in here knows the openers etc

I think I owe you half my hand now, Jon. CAn I at least keep my thumb?

Is there dreidel on draftking?

haha immediately when you mentioned Jello's car my mind jumped to Danzig's fridge!

You can keep the thumb. I will look up the openers if I can but not share them in the chat. Tell us if you find out first, Sebastian.

Nothing yet...

you can share in the chat after this message if you find out the YLT guests, Jon. I'm gonna log out of the chat and head into the show. have a great rest of the show!

Message me if YOU find out so I can share. Bye!

Wyatt Cenac and Bonnie "Prince" Billie are YLT's openers tonight.

Super fantastic

Hello, Andrea!

Bonjour

Hola

Leaving old heights hiightoen Hanukkah wish Porsche cayenne in my possession

Good night, Jon. Good night, chat. See y'all right here in a week!

You rock

Happy Hanukkah Jon

Hard to believe it is only a week out, Donutage.

Happy Hanukkah indeed.

Thank you for this excellent show, Jon! We'll catch you next week!!

thanks for all you do, JS! XO

Jon Solomon! King of the Jews! another great show Jon. Can't wait for Xmas!

Thank YOU! If it wasn't for y'all I'd be broadcasting into a bleak voidddddddd.

Trader play the game

I was shocked to learn this is a song from the 1990s. Thought it was far older in his songbook.

This has been such a treat!

*cautiously googling with the best gentile intentions* Hanukkah sameach, Jon!

Yoni! I salute you!

Good work, Mary. Hanukkah Sandwich every one.

Have you done any Allan Sherman over the years? I assume you have. This Lehrer is reminding me that I should have looked up what Sherman did in the Winter Holidays category.

I have an A. Sherman Xmas song. Boy, those tapes were big in my childhood household.

See also the You Don't Have To Be Jewish LP.

Happy Hanukkah to all from literally Santa Monica

Went to a Sherman event recently that included Rodney Anonymous, Marshall Allen, and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog

It was ... definitely a thing that I went to

Excellent, Patrick!

I assume a Hanukkah sandwich is like those Pittsburgh sandwiches with fries on them, only it's latkes.

Oh that sounds delicious.

Actually, that sounds really gooe

good

Yoni, I can't remember why I couldn't go but I'm glad you went!

It was very sold out and quite pricey. I bribed my way in. Not sure if the people who paid full price were as delighted by all of it as I was.

For neil

Ha. Thanks for the report.

For Neil McLaughlin rest in peace my brother

This is delightful stuff

I have a lot I'm leaving on the cutting room floor, but in a way I'm satisfied with.

Ok, two more. Well, probably 1.5 more.

Happy Hanukkah, everyone! I have been out in a WiFi-less hole all night, but I implore you all to watch out for Yhe Bathroom Man, uncle of Bath Boy!

Liz, I showed that to ML and he lost it.

This track was giving me Amps For Christ vibes for a second, which is wonderfully ironic

At least AI told Bath Boy he was STILL ALIVE.

Ok, bye all. Onward to Christmas Eve!

5:00 PM		Set Break
5:03 PM		Tragedy Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah #1 Christmas Holiday Party Mix Beautyrock 2019
5:06 PM		Brent Weinbach A New Hanukkah Song Popular Culture Abso Lutely Records 2025
5:10 PM		Inverse Room feat. Stephanie Meissner Eight Little Candles Eight Little Candles
5:13 PM		Kosha Dillz 8 is Great (excerpt) 8 is Great 2025
5:13 PM		The Macaroons Dreidel Bird Hurry Up, It's JDub Kids' Hanukkah! JDub Records 2009
5:15 PM		rabbiabe Mi Y'malel Christmas Album 2023 V/A
5:22 PM		hanukkahsongsfromken Home for Hanukkah Songs for Hanukkah 2006
5:24 PM		Mothguts Hava Draidle A Very Special Mothguts Christmas
5:27 PM		Set Break
5:30 PM		MITZVAHS Hannakaah HOLIDAY BLOOD - A Figgy Fest Gift For You! V/A In the style of The Misfits...
5:32 PM		Giraffe Lookout Puppy For Hanukkah (Giraffe Lookout Electro Edit) 2025
5:36 PM		Ella Jenkins Harmonica for Hanukkah Ella Jenkins' Holiday Songs: Exclusive 50th Anniversary Reissue
5:39 PM		DJ Tenderloin Hanukkah Falls On The Sabbath Hanukkah Falls On The Sabbath 2025 🚨🚨🚨 Premiere! 🚨🚨🚨 https://djtenderloin.bandcamp.com/track/hanukkah-f... All proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders!
5:41 PM		Chang and the Circus Do You Realize That Dreidel Was Passed Down In This Family For Six Generations HOLIDAY EP - THE CATC HANUKKAH/CHRISTMAS ALBUM
5:44 PM		Phofo Light That Menorah Happy Holidays from Phofi
5:49 PM		Couplet Hot Hanukkah Hot Hanukkah 2025
5:51 PM		The Oy City Rollers Chanukah Nights Rob's 2021 Christmas CD V/A
5:54 PM		Set Break
5:58 PM		Angry Snowmans Hannukah The Yule Album Adolescents "cover."
6:01 PM		Micah E. Wood & Ari Pluznik Sweet Light (Hanukkah, O Hanukkah) Hanukkah EP: 7th Night Edition 2025
6:03 PM		The Los Pendejos The Story of Hanukkah A Very Anti-Christmas
6:06 PM		Dee Bird I've Never Known You in December The Hanukkah Project
6:08 PM		A.Y. Celebrate HANUKKAH!!
6:11 PM		Paul and Storm Hanukkah on the Moon It Might Be Xmas
6:13 PM		Chaki How To Hanukkah Christmas Funk 2022
6:15 PM		Emotional I Wanna Be Your Dradle Gnartivity Scene V/A Ramones, reworked.
6:18 PM		Set Break
6:20 PM		OY VEY The Drunken Dreidel A Very Punk Rock Hanukkah 2024
6:23 PM		Stephen Colbert & Jon Stewart Can I Interest You in Hannukah? A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! V/A Comedy Central 2008
6:26 PM		Howie Kantoff Eight Days (A Hannukah Song) Reindeer Buffet - 10 Years of Christmas Cheer Tie Records 2008
6:28 PM		Brownbutter Oy Chanukah Absolutely Kosher Christmas (Cough) Holiday Special V/A Absolutely Kosher 2024
6:28 PM		The Minus 5 (feat. Mike Mills) Festival of Lights (Hanukkah Song) Dear December Yep Roc 2017
6:32 PM		DJ Tenderloin Halevai for Hannukah (The Latke Mix) Halevai for Hannukah (The Latke Mix) 2023 https://djtenderloin.bandcamp.com/track/halevai-fo...
6:36 PM		Mitchell Shiner Latin Vibes Sivivon Sov Sov Sov Latkes Con Salsa Shineymusic 2022
6:41 PM		Santa Sabbath Electric Hanukkah Children of the Sleigh 2015
6:45 PM		Set Break
6:48 PM		Electric Menorah Charmonica For Chanuka Charmonica For Chanuka
6:50 PM		Everything Is Terrible Hanukkah Homeboy Chestnuts! V/A
6:53 PM		Duck the Piano Wire Last Night of Hanukkah It's Hanukkah Weemayk Music 2021
6:56 PM		Soupy Garbage Juice Hanukkah at Charlie's House A Very Garbage Christmas 2022 V/A
6:57 PM		Socalled Dr Drei Dreidl Lit Hanukkah 2020 V/A
7:02 PM		David Nagler Hanukkah in Cambodia Recorded live at The Oracle Show #7 (Places) at Sid Gold's Request Room, NYC, December 6, 2015 Yes, the Dead Kennedys song.
7:06 PM		Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings 8 Days (Of Hannukah) It's a Holiday Soul Party Daptone 2015
7:10 PM		The Schleps Maoz Tzur 2023 EP
7:13 PM		Set Break
7:16 PM		Brad & Barry Hanukkah Bitch (radio edit) Brad & Barry Stuff Your Stocking B&B MUSIC FACTORY 2010 Member(s) of Oneida.
7:19 PM		Teen Rom-Coms Hanukkah (Please Come Home)
7:22 PM		Beck The Little Drum Machine Boy The Little Drum Machine Boy Geffen 1995
7:29 PM		Heavenly Peace Slow Hanukkah Slow Xmas 4
7:30 PM		Jon Fursh, Sydney, and Crew Latkelicious
7:35 PM		Dr. Dreidel 8 Days of Hannuka A Very Hairy Christmas 2011
7:38 PM		Alex Frankel Hanukkah In '96 Hanukkah+ V/A Verve Forecast 2019
7:41 PM		Tambourines & Weekend Voodoo Hanukkah Stomp Hell-Iday Sampler Go 2 Hell 2023
7:44 PM		Set Break
7:46 PM		The Missile Toads Good Ol’ Dreidel Game Sombertown's Most Wanted
7:48 PM		Tom Lehrer (I'm Spending) Hanukkah In Santa Monica The Conducted Tom Lehrer Needlejuice Records 2023 RIP.
7:50 PM		Bird Peterson 8 Day Oil (Featuring Steven Davis) Resound Presents: A Very Homie Holiday V/A 2023
7:52 PM		Amanda Duncan Light Those Candles Bright Amanda Duncan's Holiday Classics 2014
7:55 PM		Unexpected Vibe Jewish Drummer Boy Cincincrimcram Holiday Sampler V/A
7:58 PM		Calamity Jane Hannakuh Song It's Finally Christmas V/A

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Happy Hanukkah, everyone!