- [Guitar Music] Applesauce versus sour cream, applesauce or sour cream.

Yeah.

It's the choice you're going to have to make, which to put on your potato cakes.

Applesauce... - Meet The LeeVees.

A band that plays exclusively Hanukkah music.

In this song, "Applesauce versus Sour Cream."

They take the great latke topping debate head on.

[Singing] Life has many decisions.

- It moves in all directions.

This is just one huge, enormous, big decision you have to make.

- You have to make it.

I like sour cream and applesauce.

We're gonna develop a product.

We're in research and development right now.

[Laughter] - Yeah.

The LeeVees' applesauce and sour cream in one jar.

Can I like that peanut butter and jelly that was disgusting?

But we're gonna make like this.

It'll be just like that.

[Singing] Hanukkah.

I know it's going to be all right.

Feel free to snap!

Everyone's together tonight.

- Feeling good.

It's Hanukkah.

In 2023, The LeeVees visited NPR's Tiny Desk to play a cozy concert of tunes from their album, "Hanukkah Rocks" [Singing] The sun is setting Get home as fast as you can We'll put the oil into the pan So come and join our Latke Clan The LeeVees formed in 2005 when Adam Gardner was on tour with his popular indie rock band, Guster [Singing] Bah-bah-bah-bah-bah-bah Dave Schneider's band, the Zambonis, which by the way plays only music about ice hockey, was Guster's opening act.

And he said, you know, Hey Schneider, I think you called me Schneider.

I love that.

- I hate that.

And he said, you wanna write some songs about being Jewish?

And I was like, and I just took the challenge.

I'm like, yeah, yeah, let's do it.

And we went to the back of the bus and, and he mentioned like we could write songs about Hanukkah or something and it just happened.

[Singing]"So come and join our Latke Clan" Outpouredsongs like "Latke Clan", [Singing] I'll save you a plate.

It's Hanukkah And this one where they lament the hostile takeover of a sweet noodle dish called kugel Mom's low fat version just can't compare.

[Singing] Sorry, Mom.

But yours just ain't the same.

And "Gelt Melts" [Singing] Gelt Melts!

Gelt Melts!

Us doing our best version of a Ramones song while talking about chocolate melting in your head.

[Singing] You get while you can because it won't last long.

- So I heard in an interview you wrote the album in eight days.

That is true.

That is actually true.

Yeah.

- A Hanukkah Miracle.

It was a Hanukah Miracle [Singing] Gelt Melts!

Gelt Melts!

And he gave it to the manager and within a couple days he's like, Hey, write some more songs.

You know Warner Brothers is interested.

I think we have the name of the album.

Hanukkah Rocks.

Yep.

- Yeah.

- Already.

So he was just trying to write it down on his files and he turns it back to us and goes, how do you spell Hanukkah?

We're like, oh my gosh, we had to go write that right now.

- That's it.

[Drum Beat] So how do you spell Hanukkah?

- Oh, that's a great question.

[Singing] Is it with a C - Or H?

I am confused.

I'm a H-A-N-U-K-K-A-H. kind of Rabbi.

- What about those Ns And Ks?

Do use one or two?

I do C-H-A-N-U-K-A-H. - You do?

That's my personal favorite.

- 'Cause it gets the "chuh" sound?

Yeah.

The "chuh" important.

Chanukah.

[Singing] We don't mean to dwell, but how do you spell?

Why is it that there are different spellings?

Because it's that "chuh" sound is actually a letter.

It's a chet in Hebrew and there is no equivalent in English.

[Singing] Tried spell check, and Webster's Is there an answer to my question Can someone please help me Just tell me, how do you spell Hanukkah?

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