Annie M.G. Schmidt / Leidse Sleuteltjes / Paul Christian van Westering: Dikkertje Dap en Vijftien Andere Liedjes

Annie M.G. Schmidt (1911-1995) was an author and radio and TV writer and is beloved to the Dutch for her many children’s books. Starting in 1956 and continuing through at least 1963, conductor Henk Franke and his children’s choir the Leidse Sleuteltjes released singles and EPs on the Telefunken and CNR labels containing song versions of Schmidt’s nursery rhymes with music by Paul Christian van Westering. They’ve been collected on LP many, many times; CNR released this long-player in 1966. English speakers will need to do a little work to find translations of her poems, but it’s worth it; just start with “Het Fluitketeltje”, a story of a pan and a casserole dish on a stove left alone at home and going slowly insane next to a kettle that won’t stop whistling.

Dikkertje Dap
De Mooiste Bloemen
Beertje Pippeloentje
De Poedelman
Het Fluitketeltje
De Kippetjes Van De Koning
De Koning Gaat Verhuizen
Het Prinsesje Tierlantijn
Beertje Pippeloentje Op Reis
De Slaapwandelende Vorst
In De Wei Staan Populieren
Stekelvarkentje Wiegelied
Tante En Oom In Laren
Sprinkhaan Op Urk
Het Kindje Kangeroe
De Kraai In De Zilveren Kooi

LP audio & artwork

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