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Stranger Songs
Tuesday March 11th, 2025 with Mike Regenstreif
Part 1 - Remembering David Johansen (1950-2025); Part 2 - "Hello in There" and other songs that reference the elderly.

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The themes on this edition of Stranger Songs are Remembering David Johansen (1950-2025) and "Hello in There" and other songs that reference the elderly. 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
Part 1 - Remembering David Johansen (1950-2025)

David Johansen, who died on February 28 at age 75, was a singer and actor who first gained fame in the early-1970s as lead singer of the proto-punk glam band, The New York Dolls. In the mid-1980s, he began performing jazz, jump blues and novelty songs as his lounge singer alter-ego Buster Poindexter. And, in the 1990s, he started performing traditional folk and blues and formed a band called David Johansen & The Harry Smiths.
Hot Hot Hot
Buster Poindexter - Buster Poindexter - RCA
Saturday Night Fish Fry
Buster Poindexter & Soozie Tyrell - Buster's Happy Hour - Rhino
Screwy Music
Buster Poindexter - Buster Poindexter - RCA
Love Arrives
Bill Morrissey & David Johansen - Night Train - Philo
James Alley Blues
David Johansen & the Harry Smiths - David Johansen and the Harry Smiths - Chesky
Kassie Jones
David Johansen & the Harry Smiths - Shaker - Chesky
I Can’t Be Satisfied
David Johansen & the Harry Smiths - Shaker - Chesky
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
Part 2 - "Hello in There" and other songs that reference the elderly.
Hello in There
Reggie Harris - On Solid Ground - Reggie Harris Music
Get Up and Go
Pete Seeger - Together In Concert - Rising Son
Seamless Dance of the Old Folks
Nancy White - Gaelic Envy and Other Torch Songs - Borealis Canadian
Grandpa Danced the Charleston
Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer - All New - Community Music
Emily Remembers
Shirley Eikhard - Going Home - Artisan Music Canadian
Where've You Been
Kathy Mattea - Willow in the Wind - Mercury
In the Twilight
Judy Collins - Bohemian - Wildflower
The Dutchman
Anne Hills & Michael Smith - Paradise Lost and Found - Redwing Music
The Goodnight-Loving Trail
Finest Kind - Lost in a Song - Fallen Angle Canadian
All Used Up
Utah Phillips - The Long Memory - Red House
Feather Ben
Rosalie Sorrels - Travelin’ Lady Rides Again - Green Linnet
Now I'm Easy
Eric Bogle - Scraps of Paper - Flying Fish
Sailor’s Rest Intro
Stan Rogers - Songs of a Lifetime: Home in Halifax - Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis Canadian
Sailor’s Rest
Stan Rogers - Songs of a Lifetime: Home in Halifax - Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis Canadian
Old Man's Song
Murray McLauchlan - Songs from the Street: The Best of Murray McLauchlan - True North Canadian
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
Interactive CKCU
John Coleman
Great show Mike both Part 1 and 2 !! Nice work.

11:13 AM, March 10th, 2025
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks John.

11:48 PM, March 10th, 2025
Neil & The Dancing Labrador
Another nice tribute. And I love this theme, Mike.......songs that reference the elderly. You never cease to amaze.

8:20 AM, March 11th, 2025
Neil & DL
March is Music Therapy Month. For info.....https://musictherapyfund.ca/

8:20 AM, March 11th, 2025
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Neil.

10:35 AM, March 11th, 2025
Bobby Calzone
Wow! What a surprise? I wouldn't have expected this on Stranger Songs. But, as you once said, expect all sorts of surprises (in all musical directions). Although, I wouldn't expect to play Kiss... oh, non, dont, Mike! ;)

3:09 PM, March 11th, 2025
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Don't worry, Bobby.

3:16 PM, March 11th, 2025
Neil & DL
Amazing how many voices and characters David came up with after NYD. Always loved Saturday Night Fish Fry. Thanks for that one. Then again I absolutely loved all his incarnations, characters and music from the post NYD period !!! This is the best, Mike !!!

3:44 PM, March 11th, 2025
Neil & DL
You play Kiss, Mike and I will reconsider therapy for the damage it would do to me with the resulting disorientation hahahaha

3:46 PM, March 11th, 2025
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Neil. Stranger Songs will remain a Kiss-free zone.

3:48 PM, March 11th, 2025
Bc
Although Kiss (and Elton John) was my first love. From age of 5 to 10. I was in the Kiss Army! T-shirts, sweatshirts, posters... I saw them in 1977 at the Montréal Forum. I dont regret any of it!

3:51 PM, March 11th, 2025
Bc
Beth? ;)

3:51 PM, March 11th, 2025
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Hi Bc, I don't fault anyone for their ephemeral or permanent taste in music. I was an adult folkie when Kiss came along. So I missed the appeal. BTW, I do like a fair bit of Elton's music.

3:56 PM, March 11th, 2025
Neil & DL
On the Morning show early this morning on CTV they had a short online video of a woman 102 years old on stage tap dancing for a room full of seniors much younger than her with a huge grin on her face. She does this at all kinds of seniors centres. She was amazing........no easy thing to tap dance, man !!

4:12 PM, March 11th, 2025
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Neil, was she doing the Charleston?

4:13 PM, March 11th, 2025
N & DL
Yup I saw Kiss and Elton. I have full bore eclectic taste in music. I pretty much love the entire spectrum in varying degrees.

4:14 PM, March 11th, 2025
Drake's Dad
Thanks for that Shirley Eikhard "Emily Remembers", Mike. I lost my beloved grandmother and my favourite aunt (second Mom) to alzeimers. And now at 14 and a half (86), I am also losing Drake to the same insidious disease. All you can do is be there for them with patience and an open heart. A truly beautiful song that captures that journey.

4:27 PM, March 11th, 2025
Mike Regenstreif (host)
I hear you, Neil. Alzheimer's has touched my family, too. Sorry to hear that Drake is experiencing it. Pets are very special friends and family members.

4:32 PM, March 11th, 2025
Bc
Hard Luck Woman? ;););)

4:34 PM, March 11th, 2025
Neil & DL
Hope to meet you in person one day, Mike.

5:24 PM, March 11th, 2025
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Would be great Neil.

5:59 PM, March 11th, 2025