Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday November 4, 2023

Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Saturday mornings from 7 until 10 am (Eastern time) and available for on-demand streaming anytime. I am one of the four rotating hosts of the Saturday Morning show. 

This episode of Saturday Morning was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/62598.html

Julie Felix- Mr. Tambourine Man

Starry Eyed and Laughing… Songs by Bob Dylan (Remarkable)

Orit Shimoni- Winnipeg

Winnipeg (Orit Shimoni)

The Fugitives- (No Help)

No Help Coming (Fallen Tree)

The Fugitives- Edge of the Sea

No Help Coming (Fallen Tree)

Bob & Sarah Amos- The Hills That I Call Home

Ever Onward (Bristlecone) 

Kathy Kallick Band- It’s Lonesome Everywhere I Go

The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak)

Daniel Kahn & Jake Shulman-Ment- Yeder Eyner Veys (Everybody Knows)

The Building and Other Songs (Oriente Musik)

Leonard Cohen- Everybody Knows

I’m Your Man (Columbia)

Art of Time Ensemble featuring Steven Page- A Singer Must Die

Songs of Leonard Cohen Live (Art of Time Recordings)

Jennifer Warnes- First We Take Manhattan

Famous Blue Raincoat: The Songs of Leonard Cohen 20th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory)

Connie Kaldor- Leads to a Kiss

Keep Going (Coyote Entertainment)

Shelley Posen- I Want to Write a Standard

Old Loves (Well Done Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Missy Burgess (2014)

Missy Burgess- Smile

Play Me Sweet (Missy Burgess) 

Paul Mills- Doc’s Guitar

The Other Side of the Glass (Borealis)

Too Sad for the Public featuring Ana Egge- G. Burns in the Bottom (pt 1)

Vol.2 – Yet and Still: Traditional American Folk Song-Stirring by Dick Connette (StorySound)

Orit Shimoni- What Does It Matter

Winnipeg (Orit Shimoni)

Colin Cutler with Laura Jane Vincent, Dashawn & Wendy Hickman, Aaron Pants, Rebekah Todd, David Childers- Temple of the Holy Ghost

Tarwater (Colin Cutler)

Too Sad for the Public- G. Burns in the Bottom (pt 2)

Vol.2 – Yet and Still: Traditional American Folk Song-Stirring by Dick Connette (StorySound)

Deborah Holland- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime

The Panic is On: Songs from the Great Depression (Gadfly)

Deborah Holland- Do Re Mi

The Panic is On: Songs from the Great Depression (Gadfly)

Wenzel- I Don’t Feel at Home on the Bowery No More

Ticky Tock: Wenzel Sings Woody Guthrie (Conträr Musik)

Woody Guthrie- This Land is Your Land – alternate version

This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings Vol. 1 (Smithsonian Folkways)

Daniel Kahn & Jake Shulman-Ment- Dos Land iz Dayn Land (This Land is Your Land)

The Building and Other Songs (Oriente Musik)

Ray Bonneville- Night Cab

On the Blind Side (Stonefly)

Last Birds- After Dark

Endless Turn of Day into Night (Last Birds)

Kerri Powers- Someone Else’s Prayer

Love is Why (Must Have Music)

Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon- Do the Work

Together (Appalseed)

Alice Gerrard- Sun to Sun

Sun to Sun (Sleepy Cat)

Misty Blues- How Long Blues

Tell Me Who You Are: A Live Tribute to Odetta (Guitar One)

Odetta, Dave Keyes & Mike Regenstreif (2008)

Odetta- Careless Love/St. Louis Blues

Blues Everywhere I Go (M.C.)

I will be joining Ron Olesko of the Folk Music Notebook to MC the Greenwich Village Folk Festival's free online concert on Sunday, November 5, 7 pm (ET). You can watch the concert live at this link. It will also be archived for later viewing.

Andrew Calhoun- John’s Wife

Staring at the Sun: Songs 1973-1981 (Waterbug)

Mary Flower- Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams

Ragtime Gal (Bluesette)

Cliff Eberhardt- Man in the Moon

Knew Things (Tin Pan Ally)

Tret Fure- The Language of Love

Lavender Moonshine (Tomboy girl)

Dean Friedman- Ariel

Dean Friedman (Real Life)

Windborne- Grey Funnel Line

Recollections/Revolutions (Wand’ring Feet)

David Francey- Harbour

The Breath Between (Laker Music)

Orit Shimoni- Witness

Winnipeg (Orit Shimoni)

Tom Waits- Tom Traubert’s Blues

Small Change (Asylum)

Daniel Kahn & Jake Shulman-Ment- Tom Trauberts Kloglid (Tom Traibert’s Blues)

The Building and Other Songs (Oriente Musik)

Finest Kind- Give Me Just a Little More Time

Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on December 2. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm. 

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday October 25, 2022: Songs of Yip Harburg & Hoagy Carmichael

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 prerecorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/58052.html

Theme: Songs of Yip Harburg (1896-1981) and Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981).

Part 1 – Songs of Yip Harburg. E.Y. “Yip” Harburg – who died in 1981 at age 84 – was a lyricist who collaborated with several composers. This show includes some of Harburg’s collaborations with Jay Gorney, Harold Arlen, Earl Robinson and Burton Lane.

Yip Harburg (circa 1950)

Deborah Holland- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime

The Panic is On: Songs from the Great Depression (Gadfly)

Ella Fitzgerald- Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is Dead

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook (Verve)

Stephen Mendel- If I Only had a Brain

Sing Me a Story (Stephen Mendel)

Ian Tyson- Somewhere Over the Rainbow

All the Good ’Uns Vol. 2 (Stony Plain)

The Juggernauts- Lydia, the Tattooed Lady

Live Lunch (The Juggernauts)

Chaim Tannenbaum- It’s Only a Paper Moon

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Josh White- Free and Equal Blues

From New York to London: The Classic Recordings (Jasmine)

Happy Traum- How are Things in Glocca Morra?

There’s a Bright Side Somewhere (Lark’s Nest Music)

Part 2 – Songs of Hoagy Carmichael. Hoagland Howard “Hoagy” Carmichael – who died in 1981 at age 82 – was among the most successful songwriters of the Tin Pan Alley era.

Hoagy Carmichael (1947)

Ray Charles- Georgia on My Mind

Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles (Concord)

Jane Voss & Hoyle Osborne- Bread and Gravy

Beyond the Boundaries (Ripple)

Amos Garrett- New Orleans

Amosbehavin’ (Stony Plain)

Maria Muldaur with Hoagy Carmichael- Rockin’ Chair

Sweet Harmony (Reprise)

David Clayton-Thomas- Stardust

Combo (Antionette)

Dave Van Ronk & Christine Lavin- Two Sleepy People

Hummin’ to Myself (Gazell)

Martha Seyler & Robert Resnik- Skylark

Martha Sings & Robert Plays (Martha Seyler & Robert Resnik)

Cindy Church, George Koller & Joe Sealy- I Get Along Without You Very Well

The Nearness of You: A Tribute to the Music of Hoagy Carmichael (Seajam)

Judy Henske- Baltimore Oriole

The Elektra Albums (Ace)

Loudon Wainwright III with Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks- Heart and Soul

I’d Rather Lead a Band (Search Party) 

Jeff Healey- Hong Kong Blues

The Best of the Stony Plain Years: Vintage Jazz, Swing and Blues (Stony Plain)

Junior Brown- Riverboat Shuffle

Mixed Bag (Curb)

Hoagy Carmichael- Lazybones

Stardust Melody (Bluebird)

Leon Redbone- Lazy River

Up a Lazy River (Rounder)

Geoff Muldaur & Amos Garrett- Washboard Blues

Geoff Muldaur & Amos Garrett (Flying Fish)

Cindy Church, George Koller & Joe Sealy- In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening

The Nearness of You: A Tribute to the Music of Hoagy Carmichael (Seajam)

Next week: Radio.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Canadian Spaces – CKCU – Saturday June 29, 2013

CKCU is at 93.1 FM in Ottawa or ckcufm.com on the web.

This week’s show was co-hosted by Mike Regenstreif and Chris White.

Canadian Spaces on CKCU in Ottawa is Canada’s longest-running folk music radio program. It is heard Saturday mornings from 10:00 am until noon (Eastern time). It was hosted for more than 33 years by the late Chopper McKinnon and is now hosted by Chris White and a rotating cast of co-hosts. Today was my first time in the co-host’s chair and I had a ball hosting live radio again for the first time since ending the almost-14 year run of Folk Roots/Folk Branches on CKUT in Montreal in 2007.

Guests: Bec & Rusty (Rebecca Campbell and Russell Levia)

Ron Hynes- 30 for 60

            Stealing Genius (Borealis)

Anna McGarrigle & Lily Lanken- Jacques et Gilles

            Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Tom Russell & the Norwegian Wind Ensemble- Guadalupe

            Aztec Jazz (Frontera)

Lynn Miles- More

            Downpour (Lynn Miles)

Garnet Rogers- Summer Lightning

            Summer Lightning (Snow Goose)

Bruce Cockburn- Child of the Wind

            Slice O Life: Live Solo (True North)

Ladysmith Black Mambazo- Rain Rain Beautiful Rain

            Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Shanachie)

Laura Smith- Magdalen McGillivray

            Everything is Moving (Borealis)

Bruce Murdoch- I Intend to be the Last Man Standing

            Sometimes I Wonder Why the World (Bruce Murdoch)

Stan Rogers- The Mary Ellen Carter

            Between the Breaks…Live! (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Deborah Holland- I Wanna Be a Canadian

            Vancouver (Rage On)

Lennie Gallant- Peter’s Dream

            Lennie Gallant Live (Revenant)

The next five songs punctuated our conversation with Bec & Rusty.

Bec & Rusty- River Road

            Live in the studio

           

Bec & Rusty- Tea for Two

            Live in the studio

Bec & Rusty- A Good Woman’s Love

            Live in the studio

Bec & Rusty- Too Far Gone

            Tea for Two (Canal)

Bec & Rusty- Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off

            Live in the studio

Jesse Winchester- I Turn to My Guitar

            Love Filling Station (Appleseed)

Jay Aymar- That Old Ravine

            Overtime (Jay Aymar)

The show is now available for online listening at cod.ckcufm.com/programs/129/12561.html.

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--Mike Regenstreif