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Stranger Songs
Tuesday October 15th, 2024 with Mike Regenstreif
Finest Kind’s Kind of Songs

The theme on this edition of Stranger Songs is Finest Kind’s Kind of Songs. Finest Kind is the now mostly-retired trio of Ottawa based singers Ann Downey, Shelley Posen and Ian Robb – a trio best known for its superb vocal harmonies. All the songs on this show were recorded by Finest Kind over the years. Click on LISTEN NOW to hear this show. Click on LISTEN to hear the current CKCU broadcast.
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
The Faded Roses of December
Finest Kind - Lost in a Song - Fallen Angle Music Canadian
The Goodnight Loving Trail
Utah Phillips - The Telling Takes Me Home - Philo
Blue Mountain
Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin - Stay Awhile - Rounder
The Banks of Sweet Primroses
Blue Murder - No One Stands Alone - Topic
Gimme Just a Little More Time
Windborne - Recollections/Revolutions - Wand’ring Feet
The Storms May Roll the Ocean
Finest Kind - Lost in a Song - Fallen Angle Music Canadian
Going to the West
Peggy Seeger - The Folkways Years 1955-1992: Songs of Love and Politics - Smithsonian Folkways
The Miner's Dream of Home
Derek Lamb - She was Poor but She was Honest: Nice, Naughty and Nourishing Songs of the London Music Hall and Pubs - Folkways Canadian
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
I Heard the Bluebirds Sing
Sneezy Waters - Sneezy Waters - Sneezy Waters Canadian
Sussex Drinking Song
Martyn Wyndham-Read - A Rose from the Bush - Greenwich Village
In Praise of Alcohol
David Parry - The Man from Eldorado: Songs and Stories of Robert W. Service - Borealis Canadian
John Barleycorn
Coope, Boyes & Simpson - Coope, Boyes & Simpson - World Music Network
John Barleycorn Deconstructed
Finest Kind - For Honour & For Gain - Fallen Angle Music Canadian
Only Remembered
Bill Staines - Looking for the Wind - Red House
A Pilgrim's Way
John Roberts & Tony Barrand - Twiddlum Twaddlum - Golden Hind Music
No More Fish
Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop - Red Shoes - Borealis Canadian
Lowlands Low
Finest Kind - For Honour & For Gain - Fallen Angle Music Canadian
Fond Affection
The Carter Family - When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland: Their Complete Victor Recordings 1929-1930 - Rounder
At the End of a Long Lonely Day
The Greenbriar Boys - Best of the Vanguard Years - Vanguard
The Times They are A-Changin’
The Brothers & Sisters - Dylan's Gospel - Columbia
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
Ben E. King - Ben E. King Sings for Soulful Lovers - Rhino
Jack the Jolly Tar
Finest Kind - Silks & Spices - Fallen Angle Music Canadian
Bully in the Alley
Tom Lewis - Tinker Tailor Soldier Singer - Self Propelled Music Canadian
Who will Sing for Me
Finest Kind - Heart's Delight - Fallen Angle Music Canadian
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
Interactive CKCU
Barbara
Couldn't wait for the 15th - Finest Kind are FINE. Thanks for another great show.

8:46 PM, October 9th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Barbara.

10:09 PM, October 9th, 2024
Bobby Calzone
Saw them at the Champlain Valley Folk Festival in an old church in the nineties... absolute memory making moment for me! Divine Fine!

3:39 PM, October 15th, 2024
Neil & The Dancing Labrador
Hi 'ya, Mike!! Another wonderful show on a grey , wet and cold autumn day. Music warms it up !! Hope you had a good Thanksgiving.

3:40 PM, October 15th, 2024
Neil & DL
Acoustics must have been amazing, Bobby. Love old churches, man!!

3:42 PM, October 15th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Hey Bobby, I MCed a lot at the Champlain Valley Folk Festival. Robert Resnik and I were the artistic directors in 2000 and 2001.

3:43 PM, October 15th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Neil.

3:44 PM, October 15th, 2024
Neil & DL
J B Deconstructed absolutely brilliant !! Thanks, Mike

4:16 PM, October 15th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
That's from the pen of Finest Kind's Shelley Posen, Neil.

4:17 PM, October 15th, 2024
Neil & DL
Ben E King doing one of my all time favourite do-wah songs. Melts the heart every time I hear this.

4:46 PM, October 15th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Finest Kind's version is really good, too.

4:48 PM, October 15th, 2024
Neil & DL
Wish I had seen this group. I am pulling up their version now. Great show......see 'ya, Mike

4:55 PM, October 15th, 2024
Helen
A Finest Kind kind of show, a show of the finest kind. Thanks Mike.

4:57 PM, October 15th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Helen.

4:58 PM, October 15th, 2024