The bottom line is that they brought a lot of simcha this year to many. Every kid in every school was singing it 24/7. Some of the comments said things like, I haven’t lit candles in over 20 years, but I did this year.
As far as using something non-Jewish, Henry Ford was not exactly Jewish, or a great friend of the Jews. If one drove a Ford to a shiur, does that make the shiur less pure and holy?