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. 

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/61133.html

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

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday May 18, 2021

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesday afternoons 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.

This episode of Stranger Songs was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/51999.html

Theme: The Times They Are A-Changin’: A Nod to Bob Dylan at 80, Part 1. Bob Dylan, arguably, the most important and influential songwriter ever, will turn 80 on May 24 and this is the first of three shows I will present on CKCU in the week surrounding Dylan’s 80th. 

Part 2 will air on the May 22 edition of the Saturday Morning show and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/52060.html

Part 3 will be on the May 25 edition of Stranger Songs and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/52102.html

Visit https://frfb.blogspot.com/2021/05/bob-dylan-at-80.html to read my essay, “Bob Dylan at 80.”

Finest KInd- The Times They Are A-Changin’
Silks & Spices (Fallen Angle)

Dave Van Ronk- Song to Woody
Somebody Else, Not Me (Philo)
Jenny Whiteley- Oxford Town
The Original Jenny Whiteley (Black Hen)
Sneezy Waters & His Very Fine Band- When the Ship Comes In
Live (Sneezy Waters)
Eliza Gilkyson- A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
2020 (Red House)
Bob Dylan- The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
The Times They Are A-Changin’ (Columbia/Legacy)

Bettye LaVette- Mama, You Been On My Mind
Things Have Changed (Verve)
Penny Lang- One Too Many Mornings
Stone + Sand + Sea + Sky (Borealis)
Bob Dylan- She Belongs to Me
Bringing It All Back Home (Columbia/Legacy)

Mike Regenstreif & Jimmy LaFave (2017)

Jane Lewis- I Shall Be Released
Stay with Me (Jane Lewis)
Jimmy LaFave- My Back Pages
Peace Town (Music Road)
The Brothers & Sisters- Chimes of Freedom
Dylan’s Gospel (Columbia)
Bob Dylan- Restless Farewell
The Times They Are A-Changin’ (Columbia/Legacy)

Ian Hanchet- Ballad of a Thin Man
Dealin’ from the Bottom (of My Heart) (Ian Hanchet)
Tom Russell & Joe Ely- Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Folk Hotel (Frontera)
Bill Camplin- Desolation Row
Bob Dylan Project One (Bill Camplin)

Duke Ellington- Blowin’ in the Wind
Ellington ’65 (Reprise)

Next week – A Nod to Bob Dylan at 80, Part 3 (A Nod to Bob Dylan at 80, Part 2 will be heard on the Saturday Morning show on May 22)

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--Mike Regenstreif