Chris Trottier on Nostr: ***Songs of Love, Play and Protest – Frank Schildt**\ 1960 • Folk • Folkways ...
***Songs of Love, Play and Protest – Frank Schildt**\
1960 • Folk • Folkways Records\
Apple Music
Frank Schildt was a Dutch-American folk singer who first got experience entertaining American troops during World War II. Then, in the late ’50s, he toured the USA.
And this was his only album.
What makes Schildt interesting is how seriously he took the songs. He didn’t want to sand everything down into some easy American folk-club version. He wanted them as authentic as he could get them.
So he sang in a pile of different languages: Indonesian, Liberian, Yiddish, and more.
And he meant it. He clearly cared about getting the songs RIGHT.
That fits Folkways Records perfectly. Folkways is now owned by the Smithsonian, and they’ll actually make you a custom CD of this album for a pretty reasonable price. You can buy a digital download too.
I’d buy the CD. Problem is, tariffs have made the shipping completely ridiculous. So for now, Apple Music it is.
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2026-09-20 04:53:43 UTCEvent JSON
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