Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – May 14, 2024: Songs of Jacques Brel

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/595/65137.html

Theme: Songs of Jacques Brel (1929-1978).

Jacques Brel – who died in 1978 at age 49 from a pulmonary embolism while suffering from terminal lung cancer – was a Belgian singer, songwriter and actor whose theatrical songs are still widely performed, both in French and in English translation.

Jacques Brel- Les Flamandes

The Very Best of Jacques Brel (Select)

Judy Collins- Marieke

Whales & Nightingales (Elektra)

Amanda McBroom- Girl in an Armchair

Chanson: Amanda McBroom Sings Jacques Brel (Gecko)

Fred Holstein- Amsterdam

Fred Holstein: A Collection (Fred Holstein)

Barb Jungr- Jacky

Bob, Brel and Me (Kristalyn)

Jacques Brel- Au Printemps

The Very Best of Jacques Brel (Select)

Mary Coughlan- Hearts

Sentimental Killer (Eastwest)

Judy Collins- Sons of

Whales & Nightingales (Elektra)

Amanda McBroom- My Death

Chanson: Amanda McBroom Sings Jacques Brel (Gecko)

Barb Jungr- The Tender Hearts

Bob, Brel and Me (Kristalyn)

Jacques Brel- Les Bourgeois

The Very Best of Jacques Brel (Select)

Joan Baez- La Colombe – The Dove

Joan (Vanguard)

The Kingston Trio- Seasons in the Sun

Collectors Series (Capitol)

Jennifer Warnes- Old Folks – Les vieux

Just Jennifer (Deram)

Melody Gardot- La Chanson des vieux amants

Sayanora Meu Amor (Decca)

Jacques Brel- Les Singes

The Very Best of Jacques Brel (Select)

Stacey Kent- If You Go Away

Summer Me, Winter Me (Token Productions)

Judy Collins- The Desperate Ones

Bohemian (Wildflower)

Jacques Brel- Le Colonel

The Very Best of Jacques Brel (Select)

Barb Jungr- To See a Friend Break Down and Cry

Bob, Brel and Me (Kristalyn)

Amanda McBroom- You Don’t Forget the Past

Chanson: Amanda McBroom Sings Jacques Brel (Gecko)

Jacques Brel- Le Moribond

The Very Best of Jacques Brel (Select)

Next week: Still More Songs of Bob Dylan.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday April 27, 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 #12 – was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/51764.html

 

Theme: April in Paris

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong- April in Paris
Ella and Louis (Verve)
Christine Albert- Mademoiselle de Paris
TexaFrance-Encore! (MoonHouse)
Don Armstrong- Going to Paris
Mother Don’t Give Up on Me Now (Ronstadt Record Co.)

Ronney Abramson- Jukebox of Paris
Jukebox of Paris (Castor Island Music)
Martha Wainwright- Le Métro de Paris
San Fusils, Ni Souliers, à Paris: Martha Wainwright’s Piaf Record (MapleMusic)
Kat Goldman- Letter from Paris
Gypsy Girl (Kat Goldman)
Melody Gardot- From Paris with Love
Sunset in the Blue: Deluxe Edition (Decca)

Buffy Sainte-Marie- Guess Who I Saw in Paris
Illuminations (Vanguard)
Nicki Parrott- The Last Time I Saw Paris
The Last Time I Saw Paris (Venus)
Joni Mitchell- Free Man in Paris
Court and Spark (Elektra)
Gordon Fleming- Parisian Thoroughfare
According to Gordie (Just a Memory)
Andrew Calhoun- A Hoosier in Paris
Shadow of a Wing (Waterbug)

Eric Andersen- Trouble in Paris
The Essential Eric Andersen (Real Gone Music)
Nikki Matheson- It’s Still Raining in Paris
Invisible Angel (Nikki Matheson)
Claribol Stompers- Swing de Paris
Swingattic (Claribol)
Jacques Labrecque- À Paris, sur le petit pont
Folk Songs of France and French Canada (Folkways)

Mike Regenstreif & Erik Frandsen (1976) photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Lenka Lichtenberg with Fray- Pigeons in Paris
Embrace (Sunflower)
The Hot Sardines- I Love Paris
Live at Joe’s Pub (The Hot Sardines)
Erik Frandsen- Another Song About Paris
The Greenwich Village Folk Festival 1989-1990 (Gadfly)
Erroll Garner- Paris Bounce
Paris Impressions (Columbia)

Marianne Faithfull- No Moon in Paris
Negative Capability (BMG)
Jacques Brel- Les Prénoms de Paris
The Very Best of Jacques Brel (Select)
The Swing Commanders- Bye Bye Paris
Steelin’ Back (North Western)

Duke Ellington- Paris Blues
Midnight in Paris (Columbia)

Next week – The Second Stranger Songs Fantasy Concert

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--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