The tune was very popular among revivalists in Belgium and the Netherlands from the early seventies onward, I think it was the recording by the group Rum that brought it into wider circulation (they also seem to have started of the run of 'La Partida' during the mid 80s and it is still continuing). There is a possibility there was a previous recording by Herman DeWitt and 'Het Kliekske' but I am not certain about that now. Certainly groups like 'King's Galliard' and others that were quite popular at the time ran with it. All seemed to add their own second part to it though. The story that went with it usually involved gypsies and dancing bears. The bears being trained by putting them on a metal sheet that was slowly heated while the tune was being played, when the metal got hot they started 'dancing'. In true Pavlovian way they'd eventually react to just hearing the tune and perform.