JAN HINNERK (LEKSAKSMAKARENS SANG)
Created on 02/08/2022Latest update on 19/04/2024
Artist: Chicago Waukegan Swedish Glee Club
Author: traditional
Label: Victor
Year: 1926
So-called Stapellied or chain refrain, where part of each stanza is repeated and added with each new stanza. This version, the oldest known on record, refers to political situations in and around Hamburg in 1813, where French expansionism under Napoleon Bonaparte finally was halted. Jan Hinnerk was the personification of a famous tower in town nicknamed Isern Hinnerk (Iron Henry) guarding the port of Hamburg and demolished in 1727. However, more than ten years before Hamburg freed itself from the French, a similar Stapellied was printed in Amsterdam songbook Het Vrolyk Catootje (1801), subtitled: Een nieuw lied of Zamenspraak tusschen een Duitscher, Franschman, Rusch, Engelschman, Jood, Portugees en Hollander, welke allen met Catootje en haar meid in gezelschap zijn geweest. Some initial lines echo aria Non Più Andrai from W.A. Mozart opera Le Nozze Di Figaro.
Covers:
- 1928:
Thomaner Chor Leipzig [as Jan Hinnerk up de Lammerstraat for Polydor, mentioning: Niederländischer Volkslied (bearb. von Siegfried Ochs)]
- 1930s:
Cabaret Chiel de Boer [as Jan Hinnerik]
- 1954:
Ensemble Wim Sonneveld [in theater production Waar De Blanke Top as Catootje and in '62 in tv show Doe Es Wat Meneer Sonneveld, without Wim (apart from the credits) but with a young Jasperina de Jong as Toverheks; n°2 NL in '63]
- 1956:
Richard Dyer-Bennet [English version]
- 1962:
Strangers [as We Zen Naar De Supermarkt Gegaan and as De Vraaweziekte]
- 1963:
Hurricane Strings [as In The Carrick (In De Kerruk); sounds like In de karrek in de karrek zei de Dominee from Ensemble Wim Sonneveld]
- 1963:
Cocktail Trio [as Catootje; parody; they take Catootje to the opera (Figaro?), where she meets the dominee, wafelvrouw, toverheks...]
- 1967:
Wim Kan [as Ik Ben Met Catootje Naar De Botermarkt Gegaan; Botermarkt was the original name of the Amsterdam square that became Rembrandtplein]
- 1971:
- 1974:
Willem de Wipper [as Catootje In De Sexboetiek on Johnny Hoes label Ojee]
- 1980:
André van Duin [as Voetbalstadion Catootje]
- 1982:
Rubberen Robbie [as Ik Ben Met Katootje Naar De Voddeboer Geweest]
- 2004:
Paul de Leeuw [extended version as Het Lied Van Catootje, with Paul as Dominee, Tonny Eyk as pianist, Bonnie St. Claire as Wafelvrouw, Xaviera Hollander as Dikke Meid, Jan Mulder as Oude Heer and Ria Valk as Valkenier]
See Bert van Zandwijk's blog Herkomst van Volksgebruiken, where he also comments Sarie Marais, Malle Babbe, Drie Schuintamboers, Toen Onze Mop Een Mopje Was, Altijd Is Kortjakje Ziek, Berend Botje Ging Uit Varen and Hallo Bandoeng.
