Jurgen gothe biography definition

Jurgen Gothe was the comfortable, quirky host of CBC’s DiscDrive

ROD MICKLEBURGH

Special to The Globe and Mail

Published Wednesday, Apr.

22 2015, 8:17 PM EDT

Last updated Thursday, Apr. 23 2015, 2:04 PM EDT

There were the cats, the Willis Point Fire Department, much Mozart, and there was Jurgen Gothe, the comfortable, conversational host of an eclectic mix of music and often-quirky chat that made him an unlikely national figure and his show DiscDrive a long-running institution on CBC Stereo (which became Radio 2).

For three hours each weekday afternoon, from “scenic, subterranean Studio 20” in the depths of CBC’s concrete bunker of a building in Vancouver, Mr.

Gothe’s mellifluous voice would coax commuters home and soothe their jangled nerves, while charming those at home. He was helped by musical selections that went well beyond classical to dip into jazz, pop, New Age, bluegrass and, on occasion, obscure, side-splitting cuts such as Don