Happy Hanukkah! I’ve been building a Christmas playlist for a quarter century and counting, but my music collection for the Festival of Lights has only really been taking shape in the last couple years. There’s a lot of good music out there now, it just takes a little more digging to find it than it does to find, say, another version of “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town.”
Of all the songs on that playlist, this one gets played the most. My middle kid will sing it to himself for days after hearing it. Me, I like to imagine that it’s actually being sung by Daveed Diggs’ character in Hamilton. Nothing like hearing Thomas Jefferson and/or Lafayette hoping to get a new Hanukkah puppy.
But would this be a good song to play to an actual dog? Somebody recently did a study about which holiday songs supposedly upset household pets the most. It says “Last Christmas” by Wham! is upsetting all the pups out there? Maybe? Though it also says that’s because pets prefer slow, chill music over fast, loud stuff, and “Last Christmas” plays at 206 beats per minute, which is… not correct. I do not see “Puppy For Hanukkah” on the naughty holiday music list, so it’s probably safe.
