Holly Dolly - Dolly Song, a cartoon dance song that has become popular on the Internet, is adapted from Finnish folk music.
The Dolly Dolly Song (Loituma Girl or Leekspin) is a Flash animation that embeds an onomatopoeic chant from the traditional Finnish folk song "Eva's Polka", which comes from the Finnish quartet Loituma's 1996 debut album Beautiful Things. It appeared on the Internet in 2006 and quickly became popular. The animated version, which consists of five main parts, features the onion-flinging moves of the character Oji Inoue from the Japanese anime BLEACH, and features a 27-second loop of the music from "Eva's Polka," above.
The onion flinging song animation is taken from an interlude in "BLEACH" episode 2, minutes 12 to 14 (which varies from version to version), where, in the original anime, Oji Inoue flings an onion in her hand counterclockwise as she chats with the anime's other two characters, Ichigo Kurosaki and Lucretia Kuchiki. The interlude is one of a series of jokes that take place around her character, where she wants to cook something so uniquely flavored that it's almost inedible. And there's some disagreement on identifying the thing that Yorihime flings in the anime as the kind of plant that actually exists. In the Japanese version of the anime, it's labeled as a green onion, but in the American version, it's shown to be a different species of the same genus, leek, from which the anime takes its name. Perhaps the reason for this divergence is that the national symbol of Wales is the leek.
The music, on the other hand, comes from the second half of verse 5 and all of verse 6 of Eva's Polka. Unlike the rest of the song, this section has no specific meaning at all, being nothing more than Finnish-sounding syllables, which vary from scene to scene and are improvised by the singer on stage (compare jazz onomatopoeic chanting). As a result these sections are not usually listed on the lyric sheet, and this makes it potentially somewhat problematic to find lyrics to match the animated music.
The original Loituma (originally titled Dolly Song Leva's Polka Holly) is a Finnish vocal group with four members singing in four parts, and their songs are based on more traditional Finnish music. The band gained attention when they participated in the K?ustinen Folk Festival in 1997. Anita Lehtola is a Finnish folk band with a very charismatic voice, and she often participates in world music, Anita's vocals have a Runo-song flavor (Runo-song is also known as "rune-song" or "poem-song"). "poem-song". The word "rune" means ancient Nordic and Finnish poetry. It is a Finnish folk poem in the form of a repetitive poem that rhymes at the beginning.) It is cool and rhythmic, as if we were transported to a land of greenery, far away and just like a fantasy. HISTORY Loituma sang this song a cappella at the 1997 Kaustinen Folk Festival, and it began to gain attention.
However, until 2006, the song was only known in a few European countries, such as Finland
"Ievan Polkka" is a Polka (Polka, Polkka) dance song from Finland, a Scandinavian regional ballad written by Eino Kettunen in the 1930s to a traditional Eastern European polka tune. After the song was popularized by the a cappella group Loituma in 1995, a popular version of the song changed the first letter of the title from "I" to "L", not only because of their resemblance, but also to symbolize another nickname for the song, "Polka, Polka". In addition to their resemblance, it also symbolizes the song's other nickname, Loituma's Polkka. The Finnish word for Ievan is Eva (Ieva, Eeva). The main version circulating in the community is about 2 minutes and 30 seconds.