Genre Pop | Length 03:42 | |
Released November 26, 2010 (2010-11-26) | ||
"Candlelight" is a song by the band The Maccabeats that was released in November 2010. It achieved viral status. The song is a transformation of Mike Tompkins's a cappella cover of the Taio Cruz song "Dynamite". The Maccabeats are an all male Jewish a cappella student group at Yeshiva University.
The lyrics were written by Immanuel Shalev and David Block; Uri Westrich, a medical student and alumnus, made the video.
The song reached #1 on Billboard magazine's Comedy Digital Tracks chart in December 2010.
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Candlelight (The Maccabeats song) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA