I grew up in a German family in Saskatchewan (North of North Dakota in Canada ) and we danced this at every family wedding I ever went to! And yes it was absolutely called the butterfly!
@@lorrainefriedenberg7051 As I recall it was usually some live band with either a fiddle or an accordion. I asked my Mum, who then asked around the family. The only other answer we all came up with was Al Cherny's "Ukranian Butterfly". That song instantly made me think of "oh where oh where has my little dog gone" but it certainly would do for a butterfly.
Follow up: For fun we looked up the little dog song. I was surpized to hear the "with his ears cut short and his tail cut long". I remembered the song saying "If he's around he'll hear my song, and he'll come back to me" as the last two lines of the stanza.
Back in the '70s there was a bar in Montana whose house band would always play a song for "The Butterfly" every night. What fun with a group of friends!
We are from rural Southern Illinois and we dance this dance to Myron Floren's Butterfly at all of the local weddings and call it "The Grandpa Dance". The tune is a little faster than this one shown here and usually it is a male in the middle with two females on the outside. It is still my favorite dance at weddings!
Being Ukrainian Canadian I remember doing this dance at all my cousins weddings and socials. we taught our girlfriends the dance by grabbing a female cousin to join in the dance to form the three person chain.. It was so much fun and we still enjoy it.
When I was a small child I loved to dance this with my older cousins. I was the butterfly, and they would swing me so hard my feet would not touch the ground.
There was a dance club that did mostly "pattern" dancing in the Seattle area several years ago. The butterfly was one of the regular dances. Sadly all of that wonderful type of dancing has given way to more "modern" stuff.
This dance is from Western Canada during a time when men outnumbered women. Traditionally, it's to be a women with two men on her arms and the figure 8s are supposed to be more aggressive. It would seem that Andy DeJarlis recorded a much better version of this dance but this video shows you the actual dance. Thank you for uploading this.
I grew up in a German family in Saskatchewan (North of North Dakota in Canada ) and we danced this at every family wedding I ever went to! And yes it was absolutely called the butterfly!
Which tune did you dance to?--I remember doing the butterfly dance to "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean", but this one works equally well.
@@lorrainefriedenberg7051 As I recall it was usually some live band with either a fiddle or an accordion. I asked my Mum, who then asked around the family. The only other answer we all came up with was Al Cherny's "Ukranian Butterfly". That song instantly made me think of "oh where oh where has my little dog gone" but it certainly would do for a butterfly.
Follow up: For fun we looked up the little dog song. I was surpized to hear the "with his ears cut short and his tail cut long". I remembered the song saying "If he's around he'll hear my song, and he'll come back to me" as the last two lines of the stanza.
I remember learning this when I lived in North Dakota. It was traditional at most weddings.
Back in the '70s there was a bar in Montana whose house band would always play a song for "The Butterfly" every night. What fun with a group of friends!
We are from rural Southern Illinois and we dance this dance to Myron Floren's Butterfly at all of the local weddings and call it "The Grandpa Dance". The tune is a little faster than this one shown here and usually it is a male in the middle with two females on the outside. It is still my favorite dance at weddings!
Being Ukrainian Canadian I remember doing this dance at all my cousins weddings and socials. we taught our girlfriends the dance by grabbing a female cousin to join in the dance to form the three person chain.. It was so much fun and we still enjoy it.
When I was a small child I loved to dance this with my older cousins. I was the butterfly, and they would swing me so hard my feet would not touch the ground.
There was a dance club that did mostly "pattern" dancing in the Seattle area several years ago. The butterfly was one of the regular dances. Sadly all of that wonderful type of dancing has
given way to more "modern" stuff.
This dance is from Western Canada during a time when men outnumbered women. Traditionally, it's to be a women with two men on her arms and the figure 8s are supposed to be more aggressive. It would seem that Andy DeJarlis recorded a much better version of this dance but this video shows you the actual dance. Thank you for uploading this.
I remember this dance, we called it "The Flying Dutchman"
Who did this version of little brown jug? I can't find it!
I was thinking the same! Sounds a lot like Little Brown Jug!