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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 ...
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]
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.
Michael Brewer, one-half of the folk-rock duo Brewer & Shipley, has died. He was 80. On Tuesday, Dec. 17, Brewer's musical partner, Tom Shipley, confirmed the news of his death in a Facebook post ...
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Traditional savings account rates. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation tracks monthly average interest rates paid on savings and other deposit accounts, like certificates of deposit, that ...
Patti LaBelle has always paid it forward.. On the Dec. 3 episode of Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ podcast Wiser Than Me, LaBelle opened up about her friendship with Elton John and how she often ended up ...