Jole Blon

[1] The original Cajun version is a brief address to a "pretty girlfriend", who had left the singer and moved back in with her family, and is also now in the arms of another man.

On Feb 21, the Jolly Boys of Lafayette traveled to Dallas and recorded "Jolie (Brunette)" for Decca (#17032), a similar take on the song with different lyrics.

The popularization began in 1946 with Harry Choates and his French version of "Jole Blon" for Gold Star Records.

In this case, covers commonly were not so much reproductions as they were songs in the same spirit, making use of the same subject, melody, or Cajun theme.

Several of them used "Jole Blon" as the name of subject of the song, instead of using the original “Jolie blonde” meaning pretty girlfriend.

In 2009, an unknown publisher, T. Basco, released a three-volume set called Peepin' Thru the Keyhole, which contains virtually every version of "Jolie Blonde" that has ever been recorded and popularized.

In 2013, Goldenlane Records released Jole Blon and the Cajun Music Story compilation CD with many of the popular versions.

In 1974, artist George Rodrigue painted several iconic portraits of his vision of what Jolie Blonde would have looked like.

[12] Rodrigue claims the origins of "Jolie Blonde" stem from a prisoner in Port Arthur, Texas, whose lover left him for someone else.