Jenny Lind's Favorite Polka
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"Jenny Lind’s Favorite Polka", also known as "Jenny Lind's Polka", "Breakdown des fêtes",<br> "Da Bonnie Polka", "Reel du pont", "Reel Lafrenière", "Bridal Polka",<br> "Heel and Toe Polka",<br> "Hole in Her Stocking", "Sally with the Run Down Shoes" or<br> "The Tempest"<br> is an American, Australian and English polka and Morris Dance tune in<br> cut or 4/4 time and F Major (Trim), G Major (Bacon, Brody, Mallinson, Phillips),<br> D Major (Kerr), D Major {'A' part} & G Major {'B' part} (Bacon, S. Johnson, Taylor, Wade),<br> D Major {'A' and 'B' parts}, G Major {'C' and 'E' parts} & C Major {'D' part} (Ford).<br> It is played in standard or AEae fiddle tunings. AB (Brody): AABA (Trim): AABB (S. Johnson,<br> Taylor, Wade): AA'BB (Kerr): AA'BB' (Phillips): ABCDE (Ford): ABB, x4 (Bacon, Mallinson).<br> This is a dance tune composed in 1846 and attributed to the composer Anton Wallerstein<br> (1813-1892), commemorating the "Swedish Nightingale" Johanna Maria "Jenny" Lind (1820–1887),<br> an operatic soprano. The melody was hugely popular and was published repeatedly,<br> although Wallerstein's name as composer often does not appear.<br> The popular melody, with its memorable opening bars, entered a number of<br> English-speaking folk traditions, although in America the melody usually appears in<br> two parts rather than the multiple parts that were originally printed.<br> Jenny Lind toured Europe during 1844–48 and took London, then Dublin by storm in<br> 1847 and 1848. P.T. Barnum promoted an American tour of the by then world-famous singer<br> in 1851–52 and she played 150 concerts at $1,000 a performance. She earned enough so<br> that upon her return to Europe she retired from professional performing and became a<br> philanthropist and singing teacher. She eventually settled in Malvern, Worcestershire,<br> England, where she died and is buried.<br> The tune is almost universally known among older traditional fiddle and accordion players<br> in England and morris dance versions have been collected from the Bampton area of<br> England's Cotswolds (Mallinson), and North-West England (Wade) where it is used as a<br> tune for a polka step.<br> It was printed in Adam's Old Time Fiddlers' Favorite Barn Dance Tunes (1928)<br> (appears as "Hole in Her Stocking"),<br> Bacon's The Morris Ring (1974) (two versions),<br> Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981); No. 420, pp. 397–398,<br> Breathnach's Ceol Rince na hÉireann 5 (1999),<br> Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Ford's Traditional Music in America (1940) (appears as "Jenny Lind's Favorite Polka"),<br> Jarman and Hansen's Old Time Dance Tunes (1951),<br> S. Johnson's Kitchen Musician No. 4: Fine Tunes (1983) (revised 1991, 2001),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 3 (c. 1880's),<br> Mallinson's Mally's Cotswold Morris Book, vol. 2 (1988),<br> Milliner & Koken's Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes (2011),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995),<br> Roche's Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 2 (1912) (appears as "Old Set Dance"),<br> Taylor's Music for the Sets: Yellow Book (1995),<br> Trim's The Musical Heritage of Thomas Hardy (1990) and<br> Wade's Mally's North West Morris Book (1988).<br> It was recorded by Babe Spangler on The Old Virginia Fiddlers: Rare Recordings,<br> Art Stamper on Goodbye Girls I'm Going to Boston (2000),<br> John Summers on Swope's Knobs (1999),<br> Hollow Rock String Band on Hollow Rock,<br> Bill Monroe on Uncle Pen (appears as "Heel and Toe Polka"),<br> Billy Cooper, Walter and Daisy Bulwer on English Country Music (2000. Originally rec. 1962),<br> and on Stepping Up (2004),<br> Rattle on the Stovepipe on 8 More Miles (2005) and<br> Phil and Vivian Williams on Pioneer Dance Tunes of the Far West (2007).<br>
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