Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday July 11, 2023: Hit Songs – Alternate Visions

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web. 

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Theme: Hit Songs – Alternate Visions.

Chances are you’re familiar with most, if not all, of the songs on this show – but some of these versions might be new to you.

Toots & The Maytals- (Take Me Home) Country Roads

Funky Kingston (Mango)

Karen Dalton- When a Man Loves a Woman

In My Own Time: 50th Anniversary Edition (Light in the Attic)

Zazu- Stand By Me

S(w)inging Love (Temps)

Matthew Alexander- Spanish Harlem

Midnight Dream Station (Caravan)

Bruce Springsteen- Don’t Play That Song (You Lied)

Only the Strong Survive (Columbia)

Finest Kind- Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?

Silks & Spices (Fallen Angle Music)

Chaim Tannenbaum, Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Lily Lanken- Young Love

The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)

Original Sloth Band- Get a Job

Whoopee After Midnight (Sloth)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Tom Russell- El Paso

Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs (HighTone)

Mary McCaslin- Pinball Wizard

Old Friends (Philo)

The Refugees- Good Vibrations

California (Wahubo/Longhouse)

Gordon Lightfoot- The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

The Original Lightfoot (EMI)

David Clayton-Thomas- (Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay

Soul Ballads (Antoinette)

Bettye LaVette- A Change is Gonna Come

Change is Gonna Come Sessions (Anti-)

Jesse Winchester & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Jesse Winchester- Candida

A Touch on the Rainy Side (Stony Plain)

Bonnie Dobson- Everybody’s Talkin’

Bonnie Dobson (RCA)

Caroline Doctorow- Snowbird

Dreaming in Vinyl (Narrow Lane)

Queen Esther- Bohemian Rhapsody

Rona (EL)

Eva Cassidy with The London Symphony Orchestra- People Get Ready

I Can Only Be Me (Blix Street)

Arlo Guthrie- Can’t Help Falling in Love

More Together Again in Concert (Rising Son)

Duke Robillard- I’m Gonna Be a Wheel Someday

Six Strings of Steel (M.C.)

Next week: Seven Psalms and Other Songs of Paul Simon.

--Mike Regenstreif