J. William Frey - Pennsylvania Dutch Folksongs
| Genre: | Folk, World, & Country |
| Singer: | J. William Frey |
| Title: | Pennsylvania Dutch Folksongs |
| Short-info: | Label:
Nelson Cornell Custom Records – CCR-1901
Type: Vinyl, 11", 78 RPM, Limited Edition, 3-disc set Country: US Date of released: 01 Jan 1951 Category: Folk, World, & Country Style: Folk |
| MP3 album size .rar: | 1742 mb |
| APE album size .rar: | 1906 mb |
| Digital formats: | MP3 FLAC MP2 MP3 AUD AHX MIDI AC3 AA |
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Tracklist
| 2 | Doctor "Iron-Beard" (Dokter Eisabawrt) |
| 3 | Our Salome (Unser Salvi) |
| 1 | Daughter, Will You Marry? (Maidli, witt du heira?) |
| 4 | Dear Henry, Dear Henry (Leever Heindrich) |
| 5 | I Wish I Was a Farmer (Ich wutt ich wair en bower) |
| 6 | Spin, Spin, My Darling Daughter (Shpin, shpin, meiny leevy duchder) |
| 7 | I Am a Pennsy Dutchman |
Notes
This three-disc set features songs performed in both Pennsylvania Dutch and then sung again and interspersed with English patter. The songs are played on the acoustic guitar and sung by Dr. J. William Frey, an academic and scholar of the German and Pennsylvania Dutch languages.The 3-disk set comes in a hardcover-bound book with text on the inside covers, explaining the making of the album, which was a project of the Pennsylvania Dutch Folklore Center at Franklin Marshall College.
Dr. J William Frey was a native of York County, PA and after graduating with honors from Dickinson college, he studies in Germany, France, and then earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in German from the University of Illinois. He taught for many years and Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA.
