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The Maccabeats released their first album, Voices from the Heights, in March 2010. This album, funded by a grant from the university, [ 6 ] sold about 5,000 copies. [ 2 ] In November 2010, they released " Candlelight ", a Hanukkah-themed cover of Taio Cruz 's " Dynamite " with a music video directed by Uri Westrich, a Yeshiva University ...
"Candlelight" is a song by the band The Maccabeats that was released in November 2010. It achieved viral status. [1] [2] [3] The song is a transformation of Mike Tompkins's a cappella cover of the Taio Cruz song "Dynamite" to lyrics about the holiday of Hanukkah. The Maccabeats are an all-male Jewish a cappella student group that formed at ...
The song is a cover parody of "Dynamite" by Taio Cruz, with lyrics retelling the Hanukkah story. It was released in late 2010 and quickly achieved viral status. [14] [15] [16] Since 2010, The Maccabeats have produced an annual Hanukkah music video. [17]
'Candlelight' by the Maccabeats. A re-imagination of Taio Cruz's hit "Dynamite," this song took off in 2010 like Santa's sleigh, if you'll forgive the theologically mixed metaphor. Suddenly, the ...
StandFour is an American a cappella group from New York City made up of four former members of Yeshiva University's all-male a cappella group The Maccabeats.Formed in November 2012, the group is composed of four graduates of the university: David Block, Noey Jacobson, Nachum Joel, and Immanuel Shalev. [1]
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Tompkins' music video for Taio Cruz's "Dynamite" was itself parodied by The Maccabeats, a Jewish a cappella group from Yeshiva University, in their cover version of "Dynamite" called "Candlelight" (2010). [13] [14] The very first cover that Tompkins did was the song Party in the USA. [15]
About 100 workers were in the Los Angeles Times building at 1:07 a.m. Oct. 1, 1910. Then 16 sticks of dynamite exploded at the anti-union newspaper, and people began dying.