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In South Karelia, "Ievan polkka" is also known as "Savitaipaleen polkka", due to its similarity to a tune of that name. Polka was introduced into Northern Europe during the late 19th century, which implies that the tune, as it is known today, originates from this era. [2] The song is in the minor hexatonic mode; the Loituma version is in E-flat ...
The music used consists of the second half of the fifth stanza (four lines) and the complete sixth stanza (eight lines) from "Ievan polkka". Unlike the rest of the song, these two stanzas have no meaning, consisting mostly of phonetically inspired Finnish words that vary from performance to performance and are usually made up on the spot by the ...
Loituma gained great popularity [1] in 2006 when the Loituma Girl (also known as Leekspin), a looped flash animation of an anime girl Orihime Inoue from the Bleach series twirling a leek, set to a scat singing section of "Ievan polkka" from Loituma's 1995 debut album Things of Beauty, [2] was posted in Russian LiveJournal.
Holly Dolly is an animated pop musician whose debut single "Dolly Song (Ievan Polkka)" was internationally successful in the Summer of 2006.Holly Dolly is an animated, singing female donkey from Italy. [1]
He is the author of the polka song Ievan polkka, ... YLE Elävä arkisto: Loituma esittää Eino Kettusen kappaleen Ievan polkka [permanent dead link ...
Ievan polkka; Im Krapfenwald'l; In Heaven There Is No Beer; J. ... Lob der Frauen; M. Mama (My Chemical Romance song) Mephisto Polka; Must Be Santa (song) N. Neue ...
Hanni-Mari Autere (also known as Hanni Autere) is a Finnish fiddle-singer, folk singer, and musician. [1] [2] She is a member of Loituma.Autere has become known for the singing freestyle in the song Ievan polkka as a part of Loituma music group which has later become known as a Leekspin girl meme.
In late 2020, Scott collaborated with Turkish musician Bilal Göregen in a remix of Göregen's rendition of "Ievan polkka" that went viral on YouTube. [18] In 2021, he created a song parodying Miriam Makeba 's " The Click Song " to assist people with pronouncing the new names of Port Elizabeth , King William's Town , and Maclear after the South ...