Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.
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Theme: “All God’s Critters Got a Place in the Choir” – all the songs have something or other to do with animals.
Bill Staines- A Place in the Choir
The First Million Miles (Rounder)
Ian & Sylvia- Old Blue
Ian & Sylvia (Vanguard)
Ron Hynes- A Good Dog is Lost
Get Back Change (Borealis)
James Talley- Somewhere in the Stars (A Song for Diego)
Ballads, Bandits and Blues (Cimarron)
Bob Dylan with Hilda Harris, Albertine Robinson & Maeretha Stewart- All the Tired Horses
Another Self Portrait 1969-1971: The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 (Columbia/Legacy)
Garnet Rogers- Small Victory
The Best Times After All: Live (Snow Goose Songs)
Amy Speace- There Used to Be Horses Here
There Used to Be Horses Here (Windbone)
Priscilla Herdman- Waltzing with Bears
Stardreamer (Alacazam)
Rosalie Sorrels- Mehitabel’s Theme
Always a Lady (Green Linnet)
Phil Harris- Thomas O’Malley Cat
Disney’s Jazz Album: Big Band & Swing (Disneyland)
Cisco Houston- The Cat Came Back
The Folkways Years 1944-1961 (Smithsonian Folkways)
Tom Russell- Gallo del Cielo
Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Man Gave Names to All the Animals
Get Up and Do Right (Community Music)
Odetta- The Fox
At the Gate of Horn (Tradition)
Paul Geremia- Foolish Frog
I Really Don’t Mind Livin’/My Kinda Place (Flying Fish)
Dave Van Ronk, Anne Hills & Cindy Mangsen- Froggy Went A-Courting
Never Grow Up (Flying Fish)
Ladysmith Black Mambazo- Mbube (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)
Gift of the Tortoise (Music for Little People)
Amelia Hogan- The Snow Hare
Burnished (Amelia Hogan)
The Marigolds- Inchworm
The Marigolds (The Marigolds)
Oscar Brand- The Derby Ram
The Riverside Folklore Series, Volume Three: Singing the New Traditions (Riverside)
Deborah Robins- The Three Ravens
Lone Journey (Zippety Whippet Music)
James Keelaghan- Red-Winged Blackbird
Home (Jericho Beach Music)
Jackie Washington- The Snake
Midnight Choo Choo (Borealis)
Dave Van Ronk- I’m Proud to Be a Moose
Peter and the Wolf (Alacazam)
Next week: Songs for Earth Day.
--Mike Regenstreif
