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The Chipmunks’ “The Chipmunk Song” hits #1 on the Hot 100, the last Christmas song to ever top the chart.
It would be the last Christmas song to hit #1 in the US and remarkably, it stays at the top of the chart for three more weeks – well into January.
In 1994 Adam Sandler performs “The Chanukah Song” on the Weekend Update segment of Saturday Night Live, enlightening us to the fact that Harrison Ford, Paul Newman and David Lee Roth (among many others) are, in fact, Jewish. Released as a single the following year, the song reaches #10 US and become a seasonal favorite.
Frank Sinatra ends his association with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra, recording the last two of over 90 songs before moving on to great acclaim as a solo star at Columbia.