Smokey Robinson wants second chance at Chanukah video
Posted December 15, 2020 11:36 am.
Last Updated December 15, 2020 11:39 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) — It seems Smokey Robinson wants a do-over after was he asked to record a holiday greeting video that didn’t go so well.
He took to Twitter Monday night, asking for another shot a wishing a Happy Chanukah, as requested by a Vancouver man for his mother.
The first video was posted to Twitter by Jeff Jacobson on Sunday. He says his mother grew up on the same street as Robinson in Detroit and he wanted to reunite them.
“But the video takes a strange twist,” Jacobson writes in the caption.
There are more than a dozen ways to spell the holiday, but when Robinson tries to wish Happy Chanukah it doesn’t go as planned.
“I have no idea what ‘Chanookah’ is, but Happy Chanookah,” he says in the brief video.
While it likely wasn’t the Chanukah greeting the family had asked for, it took off online with two million views and thousands of retweets.
So, “in the spirit of 2020,” Robinson says he needs a do-over and asked for the mother’s phone number so he could message her directly.
A follow-up on the holiday video’s second go has yet to be posted.
