Artist	Song
Jon Simon	O Hanukkah, O Hanukkah
from Hanukkah...and All That Jazz (1992)
Phranc	Hannukah Snowman
from Kill Rock Stars Winter Holiday Album (2006)
Craig Taubmas	Maoz Tzur
from The Reindeer Room, Vol. 3: Not So Silent Night (2005)
Debbie Friedman	Al Hanisim
from Not By Might - Not By Power (Disc 2) (1974)
Kenny G	The Chanukah Song
from Miracles: The Holiday Album (1993)
Marc Cohn	Rock of Ages-Ma'oz Tzur
from Festival of Light (2007)
Lynette Washington	Eight Bright Candles
from Long, Long Ago (A Jazz Celebration of Christmas, Chanukah & Kwanzaa) (2003)
Brave Combo	Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah (Hora)
from It's Christmas, Man! (1992)
The Lee Vees	How Do You Spell Channukkahh?
from How Do You Spell Channukkahh? - EP (2006)
Le'eyla	Haneros Halallu
from Festival of Light 2 (2007)
Barenaked Ladies	Hanukkah Blessings
from Barenaked for Hanukkah - EP (2005)
Don Byron	Oi Tata
from Festival of Light (2007)
Hip Hop Hoodios & Juan Caipo	Ocho Kandelikas
from Agua pa' la gente (2005)
Rabbi Joe Black	Chanukah Menorah
from Everybody's Got a Little Music (1999)
Elizabeth Parvin, Judith Berkson & Rebecca Shrimpton	The Miracle of Chanukah
from A Taste of Chanukah (1999)
New Duncan Imperials	Chanukah Song
from The Singles Collection (2005)
Chutzpah	Chanukah's Da Bomb
from Chutzpah - Eponymous (2005)
Debbie Friedman	A Chanukah Musical: Light the Menorah
from Miracles & Wonders (Musicals for Chanukah and Purim) (1995)
Bruce Kurnow	Dreydl Blues
from Holidays in Harmonicaland (2005)
Erran Baron Cohen	Relics of Love and Light (feat. Avivit Caspi & Idan Raichel)
from Erran Baron Cohen Presents: Songs In the Key of Hanukkah (2010)
Charlie Sneller	Shine Little Candles
from Sounds for the Season (1999)
The Klezmer Conservatory Band	Klezzified
from Oy Chanukah! (1992)
Judy Caplan Ginsburgh	1-2-3-4-5 Brave Maccabees
from Chanukah Favorites (2000)
Peter Himmelman	In the Embryo of Silence
from Festival of Light 2 (2007)
The Afro-Semitic Experience	Descarga Ocho Kandelikas
from Plea for Peace (2006)

Comment:

By now, you've probably figured out that while Hanukkah is a tradition, it certainly doesn't stand on tradition, as our Deep Cuts artists demonstrate rather convincingly. Singer-songwriter Marc Cohn takes a break from walking in Memphis to deliver a very different reading of "Rock of Ages-Ma'oz Tzur" than the one we heard earlier from Theodore Bikel, infusing it with a dark, ethereal, almost Daniel Lanois-esque depth, both ancient and modern at the same time. For the several billion of you who aren't exactly sure how to spell this holiday — oy vey, all the tsuris over transliteration! — the LeeVees sort it all out to a rockin' beat in "How Do You Spell Channukkahh?" And speaking of beats, Chutzpah represents for the Chosen People, OG-style — complete with Casiotone — in their holiday-sized helping of Hanukkah hip-hop, "Chanukah's Da Bomb."

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