Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on December 27th 2011 by ceolachan.
This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.
Also known as Jenny Lind, Jenny Lind's, Jenny Lind's Favorite, Jenny Lind's Favorite Serenading, Jenny Lind's Favourite, Jenny Lind's Favourite Serenading, The Last Of June.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Jenny Lind, The
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Dmaj
|: Af Ge | Fd d/c/B/A/ | Ge e/d/c/B/ | Ad d/c/B/A/ |
Af/A/ Ge/G/ | Fd d/c/B/A/ | ge c/d/e/c/ | df d2 :|
|: dB B/c/d/B/ | AF FE/F/ | GE E/F/G/A/ | BA/^G/ AF/A/ |dB B/c/d/B/ |
AF AF/A/ |[1 GE [C/c/][D/d/][E/e/][C/c/] | [Dd][Cc] d2 :|[2 ge c/d/e/c/ | df d2 |]
"The Jenny Lind Polka" ~ hopefully different enough to survive on its own?
This was inspired by a recent discussion, and then I realized I hadn't added this particular "Jenny Lind". Here's the memory jog, Nigel Gatherer's generosity of spirit again ~
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# Posted on December 27th 2011 by nigelg
& here you'll find more ~
"Jenny Lind"
Submitted on August 21st 2005 by gian marco.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4883
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4883/comments
http://www.nigelgatherer.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=513
Like the lady they've been named for, these tunes got around. I remember finding an old large publication, more than once, but also in The National Library in Dublin, for a set of quadrilles, in honour of 'The Swedish Nightengale', Jenny Lind, and that the sets of tunes were all adapted from songs she was famous for singing. As I remember it there were the usual five figures, a tune for each. I've stumbled across a number of different tunes with 'Jenny Lind' given as the title, in life, sharing music, and in transcription too. The version given here I haven't yet chased up in my notes, if I can find it, but came immediately to mind while exploring Nigel's PDF offering, along with some other ways with it, all different from the way Alistair Anderson has it, but I've had that version from him too...
# Posted on December 28th 2011 by ceolachan
Yes, I'm feeling a little guilt in not having put this into the 'comment's, but ~ just not sure if it is different enough or not?
# Posted on December 28th 2011 by ceolachan
Oops! I'd forgotten the link to Nigel's thread ~
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# Posted on December 27th 2011 by nigelg
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/29035
# Posted on December 28th 2011 by ceolachan
Variation of the same tune rather than different tune?
I have heard a couple of versions of Jenny Lind of which I like the one played by Mary Bergin best
# Posted on December 28th 2011 by Eachann mac Bodach
You have a recording of Mary Bergin playing this? I know she knows this and had played it, but I don't know of any commercial recording featuring it, at least not coming immediately to mind?
# Posted on December 28th 2011 by ceolachan
I'd be interested in her take on it. There are acutually a few 'different' melody directions taken in the 1800s with this as their title, and with some similarities...
# Posted on December 28th 2011 by ceolachan
2nd tune, track 5
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/112
# Posted on December 29th 2011 by Kenny
Duh!
My wife gets on me when something I seem to not see is right in front of my eyes, and I've the LP, cassette and CD of it, and I have her playing it somewhere in the field recordings. This is what happens under the stress of visiting relatives... Thanks Kenny, at least you're kind enough not to just give me a kick or a slap upside the head and point.
# Posted on December 29th 2011 by ceolachan
The link was always in the 'details'... Now, when the stress is gone, I'll have to do a transcription of it to add to the older submission, expecting her take will be closer to that.
# Posted on December 29th 2011 by ceolachan
~ a friend in the digital haze (though much more than digital over these holidays.) - 'c'
# Posted on December 29th 2011 by ceolachan
The link wasn't in the "details" this morning until I put "Jenny Lind's" in as an alternative title, so you didn't miss it, "c".
# Posted on December 29th 2011 by Kenny
Swedish money
Jenny Lind is pictured on Sweden's 50-crown paper currency. My old-time / bluegrass band (in Sweden) plays the Jenny Link polka as the second tune in a set that started with Jamie Allen. I often introduce the set by asking everyone to open their wallets and look at the picture on a 50-crown currency and then ...well, you get the idea. Click on the last picture on the right on this link to see the 50-crown currency:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.116605955027927.13839.116344208387435&type=3
# Posted on January 4th 2012 by Quarter Irish
Thanks QI, she's a beauty... I wish we could catch a listen to your band playing that set. It seems Jenny made her home here in the end, where she died.
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by ceolachan
"The Last of June" / "The Jenny Lind" ~ from the fiddle playing or Rose Murphy
Recording: "Round the House and Mind the Dresser: Irish Country-House Dance Music"
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/317
Track 7: Rose Murphy, fiddle
"The First of May" / "The Last of June" - Polkas for the Set
Here's a basic transcription without Rose's lovely double stops ~
X: 2
T: The First of May
T: The Jenny Lind
S: Rose Murphy, fiddle
S: "Round the House and Mind the Dresser: Irish Country-House Dance Music", track 7, the 2nd polka of two
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Dmaj
|: FA GB | Af f/a/f/d/ | Ae e/f/e/c/ | Ad d/c/B/A/ |
FA GB | Af f/a/f/d/ | Ae e/f/g/e/ | fd d2 :|
|: dB B/c/d/B/ | AF F2 | AE E/F/G/E/ | AD DF/A/ |
dB B/c/d/B/ | AF FA | dc/d/ e/f/g/e/ |[1 fd d>c :|[2 fd d2 |]
# Posted on January 15th 2012 by ceolachan