Looking for good therapy songs,preferably Canadian

Subject: RE: Looking for good therapy songs,preferably Canadian
From: Janie
Date: 15 Jun 14 - 12:37 PM

About halfway through the show, Larry. Realizing as I listen I don't know what your own goal is doing this series of shows. Also don't know who your target audience is.

Subject: RE: Looking for good therapy songs,preferably Canadian
From: Larry The Radio Guy
Date: 15 Jun 14 - 02:57 PM

Thanks for the feedback, Janie.

I've always had trouble w. 'focus'.......being the extreme 'eclectic'. Lots of potential target audiences---therapists who want to expand the way they think about issues, potential clients who want to explore new ways of looking at things, people interested in exploring different music, etc.

I'd be interested in knowing who you think would be the best 'target' for such a show, then I could start thinking about such an audience as I put together future shows.

Subject: RE: Looking for good therapy songs,preferably Canadian
From: Bert
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 12:26 PM

I find that laughter is the best therapy. Try Frozen Logger.

Not Canadian but some of my titles will give you an idea of the 'therapeutic' song that I have written.


Plastic Flower Seeds
Size Doesn't Matter
Three Minute Man
Mid-Life Crisis
Spare Time
Shopping Cart
Espresso Machine.

Subject: RE: Looking for good therapy songs,preferably Canadian
From: Larry The Radio Guy
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 02:53 PM

Thanks Bert. I'm sure I can find a use for THe Frozen Logger in one of my Musical THerapy programs.


And thank you, Guest# for the J.P. Cormier song. Will be a good one for a program on Post-traumatic stress, and it certainly emphasizes the need for resources to be set aside for treatment those suffering from the trauma of being involved in fighting wars.

Subject: RE: Looking for good therapy songs,preferably Canadian
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 06:08 PM

war trauma..best one is Ich Hatte Einen Komaraden...old German song. Has been translated into several languages. I would be careful with Eric Bogle songs..they have a zinger that says oh you should have known better..I also love the boys of the old brigade.    Tenting tonight ont he old campground. when johnny comes marching home.

Subject: RE: Looking for good therapy songs,preferably Canadian
From: Janie
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 07:54 PM

When it is up "on demand" I am going to take another listen, and will pm, rather than put folks to sleep here with any thoughts I may have. Who is your listenership? What are their demographics and interests?

Subject: RE: Looking for good therapy songs,preferably Canadian
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 17 Jun 14 - 07:08 PM

I've got a few more songs for you, hope these are apt. Some are what I consider 'healing', some are thereutic in the way the blues are; stating that you've been 'there' and you are still 'here', and some are even Canadian:

Pack Up Your Sorrow- Mimi and Richard Farina

The Farmer's Song-written by the vastly underrecognized Canadian
            songwriter, Murray McLaughlin-about the farmer:
       " These days when everyone's taking so much
There's somebody giving back in "

The Needle and the Damage Done- Neil Young (Canadian)

Hallelujah- Leonard Cohen (Canadian)

Amazing Grace (Judy Collins or any version)

Lay Down Your Weary Tune- Bob Dylan

Forever Young- Bob Dylan

Wind Beneath My Wings- Bette Midler

Subject: RE: Looking for good therapy songs,preferably Canadian
From: GUEST,achmelvich
Date: 17 Jun 14 - 07:30 PM

during a hospital stay i found beth orton, bert jansch, eels and especially john martyn really helpful. obviously not canadian but far out when on the strong painkilllers. small hours, head and heart etc just trippy anyway - just what is needed when you want to escape this world and all its hideousness. gillian welch - i dream a highway -meanders on beautifully forever and if you insist on canadian - hejira is one long, soothing and interesting ride.
but if therapy is what you need - let a lovely and quiet spot in the countryside choose you and just sit there.

Subject: RE: Looking for good therapy songs,preferably Canadian
From: Howard Kaplan
Date: 18 Jun 14 - 09:26 PM

If it's not too late for it to be useful, I'd like to suggest another possible source of relevant songs. There's a double-LP re-release on CD titled "Songs of Couch and Consultation / Life is Just a Bed of Neuroses". The description on Amazon says this:

Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away...the cults of psychoanalysis and psycho-babble were just a gleam in some misfits eye. Here, those pseudo-sciences are lampooned to delirious effect. The teaming of folk-cabaret chanteuse Katie Lee with lyricist Bud Freeman and composer Leon Pober resulted in the 1957 satirical masterpiece Songs Of Couch And Consultation. Numbers like Repressed Hostility Blues and The Will To Fail have, if anything, gained more traction in today's over-analyzed, over-medicated world. The LP received rave notices and even spawned a sequel, 1960's Life Is Just A Bed Of Neuroses. Remastered sound with exclusive liner notes, rare photos, ephemera and extra tracks. 35 track compilation first time on CD!

I'm not actually familiar with the songs, though I recalled the title recently.

Also, I found the first episode on the Peach City Radio website filed under Programs | Podcasts, not under Programs | On-Demand Listening.

Subject: RE: Looking for good therapy songs,preferably Canadian
From: Larry The Radio Guy
Date: 18 Jun 14 - 11:39 PM

http://peachcityradio.org/audio/MusicalTherapy/MUSICALTHERAPY.01.2014.06.15.mp3

Thanks Howard. It's now on our on demand listening.   

And I will make a special note to try find that "Songs of Couch and Consultation/Life is Just a Bed Of Neuroses. Now that I think about it, I think I'd once heard about it.

And achmelvich: I'm thrilled to hear you mention The Eels. Not much better therapy songs (both in terms of the affliction and the cure) than those great songs of Mark Oliver Everett. And I'll definitely give a listen to Heijira by Joni Mitchell. I do have lots of Joni Mitchell I'll be using for various shows.

And lefthanded guitar....thanks for suggesting The Farmer's Song. That particular line of someone giving back in......a great one for my "Giving Back" episode. (Wish I'd thought of it before I recorded by programs on "The Give and Take of Giving and Taking".

Subject: RE: Looking for good therapy songs,preferably Canadian
From: GUEST,David Seeman
Date: 01 Aug 14 - 04:26 PM

More Garnet Rogers: Small Victory, Stars in Their Crown, The Lost Ones from Small Victories album; Night Drive is specifically about grief & loss

Subject: RE: Looking for good therapy songs,preferably Canadian
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 01 Aug 14 - 04:59 PM

if you pm me i will send you the cd of songs for clerical child abuse survivors...