Orrin Hatch Hanukkah Song Audio & Video "Eight Days of Hanukkah"

Watch out, Adam Sandler. You have no longer cornered the market on hanukkah songs. Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah has released a new song, "Eight Days of Hanukkah."

How exactly did Orrin Hatch, a devout Mormon, go about writing a song about Hanukkah? Writer Jeffrey Goldberg explains in Tablet Magazine that he met Hatch a decade ago and the two talked about how there are too few songs about Hanukkah, especially ones that don't make reference to David Lee Roth or Bowser from Sha Na Na.

Hatch, who has written several songs for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, got on the case. Nine years after thier first meeting, Hatch called Goldberg and told him he had written a Hanukkah song. Hatch, Goldberg and several musicians of various faiths went on to record "Eight Days of Hanukkah."

Here is the Orrin Hatch Hanukkah Song.

Eight Days of Hanukkah from Tablet Magazine on Vimeo.