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The origin of the Hanukkah Homeboy began as a silly Hanukkah Card...
Moshettes recording
production stills
Director and Producer 
Dad, Doc, and Mom
setting up the food shot
kiddush
altercocker
...then a song was recorded and put out on audiocassette. But that was not enough. Time to shoot a music video. We thought we would use Hi-8 video, the highest quality consumer tape available!! But we got carried away. We rented a 16mm camera and grip/lighting truck. The owner, Brett, the scruffy camera man in the photos, was our DP. (later, we heard he had a sex change) We shot all over town (guerrilla-style). We edited on 3/4 inch tapes (before the advent of non-linear editing). The we mass produced the VHS tape, made a commercial, bought air time with borrowed funds, hired a publicist, got all over the airwaves: MTV, HBO news, Showtime news, E! and a great spot on ABC news LA. We distributed the video and the Chai hat all across the country in Judaica stores and a few music stores. Later the song was compiled in a Dr Demento CD: Holidays in Dementia. The good doctor appears in the movie. Look for his scene soon here and your favorite content providers. The song is getting heavy airplay during the holiday season on terrestrial and satellite radio...
Hanukkah Homeboy
i am the hanukkah homeboy
oy-oy-oy-vey-is-mearre
At the end of the year there's a celebration
that feeds the economy of our whole nation
but there's a lesser known holiday
the Festival of lights, 8 days done our way
it's lots of fun we make no tsimis
this ain't no kosher Christmas
it's Hanukkah, i got my menorah
to do what i do it takes real chutzpah
He's the Hanukkah Homeboy
Whatcha doing for Hanukkah Homeboy
The Hanukkah Homeboy
Whatcha doin' for Hanukkah
'though i'm doin' the shtick from the African brother
i'm the number one son of a Jewish mother
know Al Jolson'd be proud of me
Got more steps than Sammy D
Ya see don't think of Homeboy as religious spoof
i'm more like a fiddler on a hot tin roof
no, i ain't screwy
well maybe a little meshoogie
He's the Hanukkah Homeboy
Whatcha doing for Hanukkah Homeboy
The Hanukkah Homeboy
Whatcha doin' for Hanukkah
Flipped his lid like Abraham did
a bit divided on Solomon's kid
Say you're running around with another shiksah?
don't you remember your Bar Mitzvah?
Sure, i remember the rabbi's handshake
pass another potato pancake
On the first day of Hanukkah i just got socks
it's twenty bucks a pound for Nova Scotia lox
flipped through the book of designer noses
popped the box on my new Air Moses
on the court they cannot stop us
but we don't play on Shabbos
i said excuse me, i do the Macabee
outta my face, oy you can't touch me
Chorus
Then they called this mensch to a Hanukkah party
with Bert and Sadie, even uncle Marty
found my posse speaking Yiddish
what the heck, a little kiddush
downing jugs of Maneschewitz
and nothing rhymes with Maneschewitz
instead of retching, we're all night kvetching
this ain't no toy goy, you got the Hanukkah Homeboy
Oy-uh-oy-uh-oy-vey-es-mear
Chorus
I was working the room, i would say i was schmoozing
straight as a bullet, princess cruising
there were sexy yentes with plenty of gelt
and some alter cocker, a brother from the Borscht Belt
caught my schmatahs, flipped his yarmulka
"This is how you dress for Hanukkah?"
I said excuse me, i do the Macabee
bout' my rap say oy, don't noodge me
Don't be noodging me.
I felt like a dreydel, a spinning top
thought that party would never stop
lasted eight long days and nights
blue and white candles still burning bright
forget the color detail
we are all children of Israel
got a miracle in my menorah
EVERYONE, BUST A HORA!
He's the Hanukkah Homeboy...