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Working in the comedy jazz lounge style of Dave Frishberg, Sam Broverman has recorded an insider’s spoof of outsider’s cultural norms. Accompanied by a piano-led combo, Broverman sings of lighting his menorah “on the California shore-a” and wondering if its kosher to hang a mistletoe. He even breaks into Yiddish. A University of Toronto mathematics professor by day, at night he turns into a musical Borscht Belt act and sounds as if he’s angling to headline a holiday show in the Catskills, circa 1954. And that’s not a bad thing! Broverman even turns his voice to “The Christmas Song,” a serious addition to the canon by Jewish-American singer Mel Torme.
