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Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Larry Weinstein and released in 2017. [1] The film profiles a number of musicians, including Irving Berlin, Mel Tormé, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, Gloria Shayne Baker and Johnny Marks, who made a mark on contemporary culture by writing many of the most beloved Christmas music standards even though they were Jewish ...
Switchmas (earlier titles Ira Finkelstein's Christmas and All I Want Is Christmas) is an American musical comedy film directed by Sue Corcoran. It tells the story of a Christmas-obsessed Jewish boy on his way to sunny Florida who figures out how to get the Christmas of his dreams by trading airline tickets and places with another boy on his way to snowy Christmastown, Washington.
"The Christmas Song" (commonly subtitled "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire" or, as it was originally subtitled, "Merry Christmas to You") is a Christmas song written in 1945 [note 1] by Robert Wells and Mel Tormé. The Nat King Cole Trio first recorded the song in June 1946.
The Jew's Christmas is a 1913 silent film.The film was written by Lois Weber, and directed by Weber and her husband Phillips Smalley.The first American film to include a rabbi as a character, it was positively received, and novelized the year after its release.
The newest song in the top 30 most performed Christmas songs – "All I Want for Christmas is You", co-written and performed by Mariah Carey in 1994 – entered the list for the first time in 2015; the song hit the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 for the first time in 2017, [47] and was named "the UK's favourite Christmas song" the same year by The ...
Lynne Gordon (1947–1991; her death; 2 children including Tammy Livingston Shirley Mitchell (1992–2001; his death) Jay Livingston (born Jacob Harold Levison ; March 28, 1915 – October 17, 2001) was an American composer best known as half of a composing-songwriting duo with Ray Evans , with whom he specialized in composing film scores and ...
Among their many hits were "Born to be Blue" and "A Stranger Called the Blues", as well as numerous film songs. [2] [3] Their most famous work together is "The Christmas Song". Wells had written what would become the first four lines of the song on a hot day in July, 1945. Tormé had come over to visit, and saw the lines written out on a notepad.
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