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Song o' the Day-"Jolie Blonde" (Pretty Blond)
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New Orleans JAZZ NHP’s Song o’ the Day:
“Jolie Blond” (Pretty Blond)
Our JAZZ Park song today, “Jolie Blonde”, is a father’s plaint over his pretty daughter leaving their Louisiana home to take up with “another”. He is not happy about this and sentences her to “some regret” down the road. Initially recorded in 1928, as “Ma Blonde est Partie”, this became the first Cajun song Top Ten Hit and nicknamed the “Cajun National Anthem” according to the album liner notes.
Such a remorseful ballad may be appropriate on this June 10th anniversary of Goodwife Bridget Bishop’s departure from her Massachusetts home in 1692. Ms. B.B.’s distinction is to have been the first female executed for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials. I don’t know if she, like the subject of our song, had blond hair, but her prosecutors did note some other pretty bizarre physical attributes! Added to some untruthful testimony from jealous peers, Bridget’s future was forfeit to prejudice, superstition and fear.
From: From One Generation to the Next: A Legacy Preserved
Funded by: Lower Mississippi Delta Initiative of the National Park Service
Original by: Amedee Breaux
Performed by: Sarah Jade Williams
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NPS photo: Cavante Moore, Design: JaLeesa Sims-Smith, Young Pros Ent.