Stranger Songs
Tuesday April 1st, 2025 with Mike Regenstreif
Part 1 – Remembering Jesse Colin Young (1941-2025); Part 2 – April Fools’ Day
The themes on this edition of Stranger Songs are Remembering Jesse Colin Young (1941-2025) and April Fool's Day.
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| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy 
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| Part 1 – Remembering Jesse Colin Young (1941-2025)
Jesse Colin Young – whose real name was Perry Miller and who died at age 83 on March 16 – was a singer and songwriter originally from New York City who was lead singer of The Youngbloods from 1966 to 1971 and who recorded as a solo artist before and after his tenure with The Youngbloods. |
| Four in the Morning Jesse Colin Young - The Soul of a City Boy - One Way |
| Same Old Man Jesse Colin Young - The Soul of a City Boy - One Way |
| Rider Jesse Colin Young - Young Blood - Mercury |
| Doc Geiger Jesse Colin Young - Young Blood - Mercury |
| Get Together The Youngbloods - The Youngbloods - RCA |
| Light Shine The Youngbloods - Good and Dusty - Racoon/Warner Bros. |
| California Child Jesse Colin Young - Light Shine - Warner Bros. |
| Songbird Jesse Colin Young - Songbird - Warner Bros. |
| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy
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| Part 2 – April Fools’ Day
Funny songs, satirical songs, parodies and a monologue. |
| Folk Singer's Blues Shel Silverstein - Inside Folk Songs - Water |
| The White Collar Holler Stan Rogers - Between the Breaks…Live! - Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis
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| Garnet’s Home-Made Beer Ian Robb with The Friends of Fiddler’s Green - From Different Angels - Fallen Angle
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| The Night They Invented Poutine Bowser & Blue - Crackpots - You Guys Publishing
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| Yes! We Have No Bananas Spike Jones & His City Slickers - Musical Deprecation Revue! The Spike Jones Anthology - Rhino |
| Vegematic Steve Goodman - No Big Surprise: The Steve Goodman Anthology - Red Pajamas |
| Leonard Cohen’s Never Gonna Bring My Groceries In Nancy White - Momnipotent - The Children's Group
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| What Was I Thinking? Christine Lavin - Live at the Cactus Café: What Was I Thinking? - Philo |
| The Photographers Grit Laskin - Unabashedly Folk: Songs and Tunes 1979-1985 - Borealis
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| Five Thousand Years of Folk Music Al Mamlet - Bring It On Home Volume 1 - Legacy |
| Dead Egyptian Blues Michael Smith - Love Letter on a Fish - Tales from the Tavern |
| King Tut Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers - Red Bird Alert - Rounder |
| Garden State Stomp Dave Van Ronk - Going Back to Brooklyn - Gazell |
| I've the Blues Erik Frandsen - Antiques: New & Used - Erik Frandsen |
| It’s for You Shelley Posen with Erik Frandsen - Old Loves - Well Done Music
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| Dueling Tubas Martin Mull & His Fabulous Furniture - In Your Living Room - Capricorn |
| In Spite of Ourselves John Prine & Iris DeMent - In Spite of Ourselves - Oh Boy |
| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy
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