Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – March 10, 2026: Songs of The Beatles

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.

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/74430.html

Theme: Songs of The Beatles.

Although The Beatles’ years as a band were relatively short and ended about 55 years ago, most of their albums, and so many of their songs, are classics that still sound fresh today.

The Beatles- A Day in the Life

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Parlophone)

Christine Lavin- All My Lovin’

FolkZinger (Appleseed)

The Charles River Valley Boys- Ticket to Ride

Beatle Country (Rounder)

Mary McCaslin- Help

Goodnight Everybody (Barnaby)

Lucy Kaplansky- I’ve Just Seen a Face

The Tide (Red House)

The Beatles- A Hard Day’s Night

A Hard Day’s Night (Parlophone)

David Clayton-Thomas- Can’t Buy Me Love

David Clayton-Thomas (RCA)

Eva Cassidy- Yesterday

American Tune (Blix Street)

Judy Collins- In My Life

In My Life (Elektra)

Deborah Holland- Norwegian Wood (This Bird has Flown) 

Vancouver (Rage On)

The Beatles- Dear Prudence

The Beatles (aka The White Album) (Apple)

Anne Hills & Michael Smith- I Will

Paradise Lost & Found (Redwing)

Durham County Poets- With a Little Help from My Friends 

Hand Me Down Blues (Durham County Poets)

Joan Baez- Eleanor Rigby

Joan (Vanguard)

Reggie Harris- All You Need is Love

On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)

The Beatles- Here, There and Everywhere

Revolver (Parlophone)

Lucinda Williams- Let It Be

Lucinda Williams Sings The Beatles from Abbey Road (Highway 20)

Esther Kaiser- Revolution

Songs of Courage (GLM Music)

Richie Havens- Here Comes the Sun

Alarm Clock (Stormy Forest)

The Bobs- Strawberry Fields Forever 

Cover the Songs of… (Rounder)

The Beatles- Penny Lane

Magical Mystery Tour (Capitol)

Jane Lewis- Come Together

Stay with Me (Jane Lewis)

Bettye LaVette- Blackbird

Blackbirds (Verve)

k.d. lang- Golden Slumbers/The End 

Recollection (Nonesuch)

Next week: St. Patrick’s Day.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – January 14, 2025: Remembering Peter Yarrow

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.

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/68573.html

Theme: Remembering Peter Yarrow (1938-2025).

The theme on this edition of Stranger Songs is Remembering Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary. Peter died on January 7 at age 86 following a four-year battle with bladder cancer.

This program includes songs performed by Peter and Peter, Paul & Mary, as well as some songs from his or their repertoire performed by several other artists.

Peter Yarrow- Don’t Ever Take Away My Freedom

Peter (Warner Bros.)

Peter, Paul & Mary- Puff (The Magic Dragon)

Moving (Warner Bros.)

Dave Van Ronk- River Come Down (Bamboo)

Down in Washington Square (Smithsonian Folkways)

Priscilla Herdman- Autumn to May

Stardreamer (Stardreamer Music)

Kronos Quartet with Sam Amidon, Brian Carpenter, Lee Knight & Aoife O'Donovan- Where Have All the Flowers Gone

Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet & Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger (Smithsonian Folkways)

Bethany Yarrow with Peter Yarrow- The Cruel War

Rock Island (Little Monster)

Peter, Paul & Mary- Blowin’ in the Wind

In the Wind (Warner Bros.)

Peter Yarrow & Richie Havens- The Great Mandala (The Wheel of Life)

Lifelines Live (Warner Bros.)

Cliff Eberhardt- 500 Miles

500 Miles (Red House)

Grayson Capps- Early Morning Rain

Heartbreak, Misery & Death (Royal Potato Family)

Penny Lang- If I Had a Hammer

Live at the Yellow Door (She-Wolf)

Peter, Paul & Mary- Rich Man Poor Man

Late Again (Warner Bros.)

Tom Paxton- The Last Thing On My Mind

The Compleat Tom Paxton (Even Compleater) (Rhino Handmade)

Peter Yarrow- Tall Pine Trees

Peter (Warner Bros.)

Stan Rogers- Delivery Delayed

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

Peter, Paul & Mary- Day is Done

The Very Best of Peter, Paul & Mary (Warner Bros./Rhino)

Noel Paul Stookey & Peter Yarrow with The Paul Winter Consort- Et Misericordia

Something New and Fresh (Neworld)

Peter Yarrow- Freedom Medley: Woke Up This Morning with My Mind on Freedom/Oh Freedom/This Train is Bound for Glory/Twelve Gates to the City/Down by the Riverside/We Shall Overcome

Lifelines Live (Warner Bros.)

Peter Yarrow- Weave Me the Sunshine

Peter (Warner Bros.)

Peter, Paul & Mary with Tom Paxton, Fred Hellerman, Ronnie Gilbert, Odetta, Richie Havens, Dave Van Ronk, Susan Werner, Buddy Mondlock & John Sebastian- River of Jordan

Lifelines Live (Warner Bros.)

Next week: Blood on the Tracks Revisited.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday May 24, 2022: More Songs of Bob Dylan

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 at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/56363.html

Theme: More Songs of Bob Dylan.

A year ago, in the week surrounding Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday, I presented three shows of Dylan songs on CKCU: two editions of Stranger Songs and one of the Saturday Morning Show. Given his prolific output over the past 60 years, I only scratched the surface of Dylan’s great songs. So, our theme on this edition of Stranger Songs – which falls on Dylan’s birthday – is More Songs of Bob Dylan – all of them interpretations by other artists.

Mike Regenstreif & Joan Baez (2003)

Tom Russell- Seven Curses
Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs (HighTone)
Martin Simpson- North Country Blues
Vagrant Stanzas (Topic)
Joan Baez- Love is Just a Four-Letter Word
Any Day Now (Vanguard)

Tim O'Brien- Tombstone Blues
Red On Blonde (Sugar Hill)
Richie Havens- Maggie’s Farm
Something Else Again (Verve Forecast)
Sneezy Waters & His Very Fine Band- I Threw It All Away
Live (Sneezy Waters)

Jack Williams & Mike Regenstreif (2016)

Barney Bentall & Valentino Trapani- You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Cosmic Dreamer (True North)
Ben Sidran- Tangled Up in Blue
Dylan Different (Bonsai)
Andrea Von Kampen- If You See Her, Say Hello
Old Country (Tone Tree Music)
Jack Williams- Buckets of Rain
Laughing in the Face of the Blues (Wind River)

Julie Felix- Romance in Durango
Starry Eyed and Laughing… Songs by Bob Dylan (Remarkable)
Tom Jones- One More Cup of Coffee
Surrounded By Time (S-Curve)
Cowboy Junkies- I’ve Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You
Dylan …Revisited (Uncut)

Guy Davis & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Durham County Poets- Not Dark Yet
Out of the Woods (Durham County Poets)
Ian Hanchet- Everything is Broken
Dealin’ from the Bottom (of My Heart) (Ian Hanchet)
Guy Davis- Sweetheart Like You
A Nod to Bob (Red House)
Bettye LaVette- Going, Going, Gone
Things Have Changed (Verve)

The Copper Ponies- Ring Them Bells
Ring Them Bells (Hudson Harding)
Happy Traum- Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You
I Walk the Road Again (Roaring Stream)

Elana James- I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
Black Beauty (Snarf)

Next week: Reflections on Freedom.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday March 26, 2022

Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU in Ottawa heard 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 Saturday Morning and base my programming on the Folk Roots/Folk Branches format I developed at CKUT in Montreal.

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

This episode of Saturday Morning was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/55682.html

Richie Havens- Here Comes the Sun
Résumé: The Best of Richie Havens (Rhino)

Pete Seeger & Tao Rodriguez Seeger- Maple Syrup Time
Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Volume 3 (Appleseed)
Le Vent du Nord- Dans l’eau-de-vie de l’arbre
20 Printemps (La Compagnie du Nord)
Tamarack- Maple Syrup
Leaving Inverarden (Folk Era)
Trent Severn- Stealin’ Syrup
Trillium (Trent Severn)

Jesse Winchester & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Jesse Winchester- Yankee Lady
Live From Mountain Stage (Blue Plate Music)
Bob Stark- I Can’t Be Sure
Sculpted Pieces of Love (Bob Stark)
Colleen Peterson- Brand New Tennessee Waltz
Beginning to Feel Like Home (Capitol)
Michael Miland- Isn’t That So
Michael Miland (Michael Miland)
Jennifer Warnes- You Remember Me
Shot Through the Heart (Arista)

Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- When the Big Bad Books Go Boo
When the Big Bad Books Go Boo – single (Community Music)
Carla Ulbrich- From the Bible
Twang (Romantic Devil)

Rupert Wates- For the People
For the People (Rupert Wates)
Greg Greenway- Let It Roll
Songs From the Beginning (Sheen of Heat Music)
Johnsmith- Virgil’s Sweet Six String
Backroads (Blue Pine Music)

Mike Mullins- Beneath the Skye the Water is Wide
8-String Sketches (Rubber Chicken)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Cockburn (2017)

Psoy Korolenko- Babi Yar
Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II (Six Degrees)
Sophie Milman- Tulchin
Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II (Six Degrees)
Tom Paxton- Silent Night
New Songs for Old Friends (Reprise)
Leonard Cohen- The Partisan
Songs from a Room (Columbia/Legacy)
Bruce Cockburn- If I Had a Rocket Launcher
Greatest Hits (1970-2020) (True North)

Lisa Null- Sweet Dove of Peace
Legacies (Folk-Legacy)
Sue Horowitz- Peace Song
Notes From the Garrison (Sue Horowitz)
Noel Paul Stookey featuring Theresa Thomason- In Reverence
Fazz: Now & Then (Neworld Multimedia)
Priscilla Herdman- Peace Must Come
Darkness Into Light (Flying Fish)

Eliza Gilkyson- Colorado Trail
Songs from the River Wind (Howlin’ Dog)
Tom Russell & Ian Tyson- Navajo Rug
Cowboy’d All to Hell (Frontera)
Over the Moon- Someday Soon
Chinook Waltz (Borealis)
Bill Staines- My Sweet Wyoming Home
Miles (Mineral River)
Willie P. Bennett- Blackie and the Rodeo King
Blackie and the Rodeo King (Bnatural Music)

Hoyle Osborne- Can-Can
Ragtime Cowboy Joe: Piano Music from an Old West Saloon (Ripple)

Shari Ulrich & Mike Regenstreif (2019)

Rick Fines- Live Forever
Solar Powered Too (Rick Fines)
Susan Crowe- Still, You Do Not Come
The Door to the River (Corvus)
Shari Ulrich- Busy
Back to Shore (Borealis)
Lynn Miles- Main St.
We’ll Look for Stars (Must Have Music)

The Duke Robillard Band with Michelle Willson- Trouble in Mind
They Called It Rhythm & Blues (Stony Plain)
Barbara Dane- Prescription for the Blues
Trouble In Mind (Dreadnaught)
Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon- Chicago House Rent Party
Songs of Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon (Folkways)
Kenny ‘Blues Boss’ Wayne- Rock and Rolling This House
Blues from Chicago to Paris: A Tribute to Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon (Stony Plain)

Pierce Turner- Don’t Get Too Fallen
Terrible Good (StorySound)
The Band- I Shall Be Released
Music from Big Pink: 50th Anniversary (Capitol)
Cowboy Junkies with Garth Hudson- Clothes Line Saga
Garth Hudson Presents a Canadian Celebration of The Band: 10th Anniversary Edition (Curve Music)
The Brothers & Sisters- My Back Pages
Dylan’s Gospel (Columbia)
Bob Dylan- Visions of Johanna
The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert! (Columbia/Legacy)

Wynton Marsalis- The Pearls  
Selections from Swinging into the 21st (Columbia)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on April 23. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday April 20, 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 – Episode #11 – was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/51656.html

Theme: Celebrating Spring

Garnet Rogers- Old Campfires
Summer’s End (Snow Goose Songs)
Kim Wallach- Come, Spring
Chatter of the Finches (Black Socks Press)
Richie Havens- Here Comes the Sun
Alarm Clock (Stormy Forest)
Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy- Rambles of Spring
The Makem & Clancy Collection (Shanachie)

Wade Hemsworth with the Mountain City Four- The Blackfly Song
Wade Hemsworth with the Mountain City Four (Peter Weldon)
Connie Kaldor- Spring on the Prairies
Wood River (Coyote)
Ian Tyson- Springtime
Cowboyography (Stony Plain)
David Mallett- Greenin’ Up
Midnight on the Water (North Road)

Bruce Cockburn- April in Memphis
Crowing Ignites (True North)

Rosalie Sorrels with Mitch Greenhill- Go With Me
If I Could Be the Rain (Folk-Legacy)
Mark Stepakoff featuring Rose Polenzani- April Fools
Any Port in a Storm (Mark Stepakoff)
Finest Kind- April Morning
Heart’s Delight (Fallen Angle)
Tex König- One Morning in May
Königsblende (Music Cellar)
Grace Griffith- May Morning
Passing Through (Blix Street)

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (2009)

Tom Paxton- Virginia Morning
Redemption Road (Pax)
Rod MacDonald- Second Spring
Boulevard (Blue Flute Music)
Jacques Brel- Au Printemps
The Very Best of Jacques Brel (Select)
Frida's Brow- Spring
Frida’s Brow (Frida’s Brow)

Marie Lynn-Hammond- Flying/Spring of ‘44
Marie-Lynn Hammond/Vignettes (Vignettes Media)
Quartette- Spring of ‘45
Work of the Heart (Denon)
Mark Perry- Springtime
Recollections (Northern Sky)

Eleni Mandell- I Believe in Spring
Snakebite (Zedtone)
Erin McKeown- They Say It’s Spring
Sing You Sinners (Nettwerk)
Banjo Nickaru & Western Scooches- When the Red, Red Robin
Very Next Thing (On the Bol)
Lew London- Swingtime in Springtime
Swingtime in Springtime (Philo)
Suzy Bogguss- Jumping Into Spring
Swing (Compadre)

Modern Jazz Quartet- I’ll Remember April
European Concert (Atlantic)

Next week – April in Paris

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--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday May 16, 2020

Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU in Ottawa heard live on Saturday mornings from 7 until 10 am (Eastern time) and then available for on-demand streaming. I am one of the four rotating hosts of Saturday Morning and base my programming on the Folk Roots/Folk Branches format I developed at CKUT in Montreal.

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

I was subbing for Alan Surmachynski on this episode of Saturday Morning. It was prerecorded at home and can be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/47778.html

Corin Raymond- Hamilton

Dirty Mansions (Local Rascal Records)

Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers- The Outside Track

The Best Times After All: Live (Snow Goose Songs)

Priscilla Herdman- The Drover’s Sweetheart

The Water Lily (Philo)

Erynn Marshall & Carl Jones- Tulse Hill Days

Old Tin (Dittyville Music)

John Doyle- The Path of Stones

The Path of Stones (Compass)

Stephen Mendel- Ready for the Storm

Sing Me a Story (Stephen Mendel)

Valerie Smith featuring Claire Lynch & Irene Kelley- From a Distance

From a Distance – single (Bell Buckle)

Ken Whiteley- Let Me Rest Awhile

Calm in the Eye of the Storm (Borealis)

Sandy Cash- I Don’t Get Memories

More Than Meets the Eye (Sandy Cash)

David Mallett- Hope for One and All

…In the Falling Dark (Vanguard)

Eliza Gilkyson- One More Day

2020 (Red House)

Tom Mitchell- No Time for Me

When the Moon is Right (Truesongs)

Missy Burgess with The Blue Train- Don’t Go to Cincinnati

Live (Missy Burgess)

Andy Cohen & Jack Radcliffe- Cincinnati Flow Rag

Four Hands No Waiting (Wepecket Island)

Claudia Schmidt- Dear Friends

Slow Steady Heart (Pragmavsion Publishing)

Tom Russell & Iris DeMent- Love Abides

The Man from God Knows Where (HighTone) or The Tom Russell Anthology 2: Gunpowder Sunsets (Frontera)

Extended feature: “Songs of The Beatles.” The next 16 songs were originally recorded by The Beatles in the 1960s. These versions were recorded by other artists over the 50 years since John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr broke up.

Mary McCaslin- Things We Said Today

Old Friends (Philo)

Christine Lavin- All My Lovin’

FolkZinger (Appleseed)

Deborah Holland- Norwegian Wood (This Bird has Flown)

Vancouver (Rage On Records)

David Grisman, John Hartford & Mike Seeger- When I’m Sixty-Four

Retrograss (Acoustic Disc)

The Friends of Fiddler's Green- In My Life

Old Inventions (Friends of Fiddler’s Green)

Judy Collins- Yesterday

Judy Collins Sings Lennon & McCartney (Wildflower)

Sarah McLauchlan- Blackbird

I Am Sam (V2)

The Persuasions- Rocky Raccoon

The Persuasions Sing The Beatles (Chesky)

Lucy Kaplansky- I’ve Just Seen a Face

The Tide (Red House)

Caroline Doctorow- Across the Universe

Dreaming in Vinyl (Narrow Lane)

Anne Hills & Michael Smith- I Will

Paradise Lost & Found (Redwing)

The Bobs- Strawberry Fields Forever

Cover the Songs of… (Rounder)

Durham County Poets- With a Little Help from My Friends

Hand Me Down Blues (Durham County Poets)

Jane Lewis- Come Together

Stay with Me (Jane Lewis)

Richie Havens- Here Comes the Sun

Résumé: The Best of Richie Havens (Rhino)

k.d. lang- Golden Slumbers/The End

Recollection (Nonesuch)

Gretchen Peters- The Sailor

The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury (Scarlet Letter) 
Steve Forbert- Suzanne

Early Morning Rain (Blue Rose Music)

Rachelle Garniez- Anthem

Gone to Glory (StorySound)

Leonard Cohen- Thanks for the Dance

Thanks for the Dance (Columbia/Legacy)

Beth Anne Cole- Song for Leonard

Perhaps the Gods of Love (Beth Anne Cole)

Bruce Murdoch- The Rookie

Sometimes I Wonder Why the World (Bruce Murdoch)

Shelley Posen- Night Nurse

Ontario Moon (Well Done Music)

Jonathan Byrd- I’ve Been Everywhere

I’ve Been Everywhere – single (Jonathan Byrd)

Jackie Washington- Wham, Re-Bop-Boom-Bam

The World of Jackie Washington (Borealis)

Lew London- Swingtime in Springtime

Swingtime in Springtime (Philo)

Susie Arioli Swing Band featuring Jordan Officer- Honeysuckle Rose

Pennies from Heaven (Justin Time)

Steve Howell, Dan Sumner & Jason Weinheimer- Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen

Long Ago (Out of the Past)

Paul Geremia- Dr. Jazz

Love My Stuff (Red House)

Rory Block- He May Be Your Man

Prove It on Me (Stony Plain)

Nell & Jim Band- Isaac in Kolomej

Western Sun (Whippoorwill Arts)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on May 23.

Find me on Twitter. @MikeRegenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif