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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Feb 18, 2022 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

With Jerry Gordon

1.18.22

2 hours of GREAT new modern jazz releases followed by the pop music of fall 1965.

12:00 PM		Wild Rumpus Weird Fishes/Arpeggi Vestige Pinna Records 2021
12:07 PM		IRMA and LEO back to who (feat. Esperanza Spalding & Leo Genovese) Relief - a Benefit for the Jazz Foundation of America's Musicians' Emergency Fund Mack Avenue Records 2021
12:11 PM		Binker and Moses Because Because (feat. Max Luthert) Feeding the Machine (feat. Max Luthert) Gearbox Records 2021
12:22 PM		The Mothers of Invention Who Are the Brain Police? Freak Out! Frank Zappa Catalog 2012
12:24 PM		David Binney Quartet Vibe Changer A Glimpse of the Eternal Criss Cross 2022
12:29 PM		Mark Lockheart Dreamers Dreamers Edition Records 2022
12:35 PM		Kamasi Washington The Garden Path The Garden Path - Single Young 2022
12:41 PM		Jane Bunnett Serénade to a Cuckoo The Water Is Wide Linus Entertainment 1994
12:55 PM		María Grand Whabri Reciprocity Biophilia Records 2021
1:02 PM		Immanuel Wilkins Lift The 7th Hand Blue Note (US1A) 2022
1:43 PM		Sean Jones Quartet Dr. Jekyll Im·pro·vise Never Before Seen Mack Avenue 2014
1:43 PM		Vince Ector Organatomy Trio+ Sister Ruth Theme for Ms. P (feat. Bruce Williams, Pat Bianchi & Paul Bollenback) American Showplace 2019
1:46 PM		Jane Bunnett & Maqueque Broken Heart On Firm Ground / Tierra Firme Linus Entertainment 2019
1:46 PM		Dave Stryker River Man (feat. Sara Caswell) As We Are Strikezone Records 2022
2:04 PM		Junior Walker & The All Stars Cleo's Back Shotgun UNI/MOTOWN 1965
2:06 PM		The McCoys Fever Hang On Sloopy Columbia/Legacy 1965
2:12 PM		The Strangeloves Cara-Lin I Want Candy: The Best of the Strangeloves Legacy/Epic Associated 1965
2:12 PM		Len Barry 1-2-3 Len Barry's Greatest Hits - the Original Masters That Philly Sound 2008
2:18 PM		The Ramsey Lewis Trio The In Crowd Sweet Soul Music 1965
2:18 PM		Don Covay See Saw See Saw Woah Dad! 1966
2:22 PM		Otis Redding I Can't Turn You Loose (2020 Remaster) The Best Of Otis Redding Rhino Atlantic 2020
2:23 PM		Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs Ring Dang Doo 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs Def Jam West 2003
2:27 PM		The Hollies Look Through Any Window Midas Touch - The Very Best of the Hollies (Remastered) Parlophone UK 2010
2:28 PM		The Turtles It Ain't Me Babe (1967 Stereo Mix) [Remastered] Wooden Head (Deluxe Version) FloEdCo 2016
2:30 PM		The Animals We Gotta Get Out of This Place Animal Tracks ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 2013
2:37 PM		The Statler Brothers Flowers On the Wall Flowers On the Wall: The Essential Statler Brothers 1964-1969 Sony Music Media 1966
2:43 PM		The Beatles Act Naturally Help! UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2009
2:43 PM		Bob Dylan Positively 4th Street Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Columbia 1963
2:48 PM		Smokey Robinson & The Miracles Going To a Go-Go Going to a Go-Go UNI/MOTOWN 2014
2:49 PM		The Temptations Since I Lost My Baby Gold UNI/MOTOWN 2005
2:51 PM		Gary Lewis & The Playboys Everybody Loves a Clown Everybody Loves a Clown CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 1965

Chat is archived.

Good afternoon, everybody!

Happy Friday, DJ Jerry!

Hello Jerry! Cool Radiohead cover

It's that time again...!

Hi Christine, Hi Brian!

Brian, this is a Radiohead cover?

I didn't even know. I see, yeah!

Greetings Today's Ed Sullivan show will be guest hosted by Jazz Empresario Jerry Gordon.It will feature Gale Gordon Jerry Vale Ruth Gordon Jerry and the Pacemakers Gordon Lightfoot Jerry Van Dyke and the Third Street Jazz Orchestra. A really big sheeewww!

Hahahahaha! I love Gale Gordon. One has to be special to know Gale Gordon et. al.

I just read the name of the track on spinitron yeah. From the In Rainbows lp. I would not have known by the sound of it. Way different

Thank you for that

Good ear, @Brian. This is a departure, for sure.

You can call them Gale Gordon, you can call them Ruth Gordon, you can call them Jerry Gordon ... butya doesn't have to call them late for beer tastings

Oh it wasn't my ear Christine... i just cheated and read the spinitron ha. I would never have known by the sound

Do Radiohead devotees call them selves Radio Heads or is that a redundacy?

Hahahahahaha. Good idea Professor Brian, make sure Christine and Patrick get invites.

Very deep, Patrick!

Guys, if I play covers of songs after 1979, please let me know.

Program Change for today's third hour.We will instead be featuring Olivia Newton John covers of Millie Jackson songbook.

That is a good idea!!!!

Band was named after a Talking Heads song with that space in between as Radio Head. Fans could be Radioheadheads. I love those new tracks from the 2 main guys ' side project The Smile. Some great grooves there

The one main guy Johnny Greenwood does a ton of film soundtracks

Excellent info

Hey, hey! Hi Jerry, hiya folks! Clever clouds sunshine and great music. Must be Friday!

Thank you, RS. you inspire good music!

Always gonna make room for Jerry's room!

Thanks to you and everyone here, that's not always so easy, requires dedication and I appreciate that!

Years in the making for sure. I love how folks remember stuff from 10 years ago. Just listeners like me. It's so cool.

This Binker & Moses track is quietly intense. Love modern jazz duos like this. 🥁 🎷

That's less and less the case with each passing year, RS. People get their music elsewhere, and that affects what they retain about it

Right on, Christine

Def intense

@Christine - So building a big thing.

O no the brain police!

Zappa!

Yes, just putting out a warning!

I misheard grape police 🍇 🚔 lol

Benjamin, one word... plastics

Hi Russ, I may do this weekly!

Brian, one of the best lines in the history of film. What a memory you have!

Russ, you should have been "messaging" with Zappa!

Zappa said he only put lyrics in for people who need them. But that was fun.

Haha!

Great set of music Jerry!

This is cool. Nice sounds on the keys or synth etc

Thank you, Corage Mike! I am glad you are enjoying it. This guy is fabulous.

Wild background ambience for the sax to play over.

He is British, and HAS played with Radiohead!

Fully circular

That bass line is so, so very cool!

Christine, come back!

Kamasi at it again with the epicness of sounds. Great player

Brian, this "single" really shocked me. Superb!

I'm listening! 📻🎶

I wanted to make sure you heard that tenor solo!

I've been not much in the chat due to work. I have a 45-minute meeting coming up but I will be checking back in.

Embouchure with an agenda!

Right on, RS

Kamasi, leading us down the garden path.

Jane Bunnett, in Philly, two nights next weekend!

So Cuckool!

I need to look up the details for the Jane B. concert.

If you go there and talk to her, you will be happy you did. Sweetest and best person around.

Russ likes to go see her!

https://www.chrisjazzcafe.com/events/36623

Tell her Jerry sent you!

Immanuel Wilkins in coming to Philly with Odean Pope! https://www.arsnovaworkshop.org/programs/immanuel-wilkins-odean-pope-kresten-osgood-trio-2022/

Thank you, Russ!

I had a nun named Sister Ruth in grade school. I'm back! I see I missed quite a bit.

Thank you for the links, @Russell!

No, when I heard you had a meeting I played a 21 minute cut

Wow!

🍺

Haha, you make me laugh!

cheers Jerry.

Nice cover of that Nick Drake tune.

Hi yo Jerry!

Hi Dave. Thanks for listening today, I appreciate it.

I try not to miss your show.

Haha, hi Ambrose. Glad you're hear! You will like Jerry's Room!

Mokoy, you should be write for some TV shows.

No Mok, that's not my regular grammar.

@Jerry, more than likely😜 love that Jane Bunnett rendition of "cuckoo" earlier btw!

fall 1965. wooo!

Good verb, luxuriate

A survey? A questionnaire? Sounds like the brain police!

I pulled luxuriate out in a desperate attempt to make sense!

No Brain Police in Jerry's Room!

The brain police have noted your usage of luxuriate...

Haha! They may come and get me!

They have a file on you... but no pie or cake big enough to bake that file into...hmmmm

Once they get me, they will not let me out, I know that much!

if you foot ain't tappin you ain't got no feet!

Cousin Brucie! OMG, that was some sort of instant replay, replay, replay...

The Shotgun album. BLEW MY ALBUM. I wanted to leave Jerry's Room and hang in dive bars in Detroit!

Open the door whew... too funky in here after that

Ha!

Rick Derringer

Rock and roll achoo!

*takes temperature*

🔥🌡️💥😷

Hmmm those drums... could lead to dancing... and card playing... well now isn't that special?

RS, Mokoy, you guys are the best. I wish I knew you in ninth grade.

It's a gateway to the pot!

Brian, and smoking!

We got trouble...right here in River City!

classic

Haha, Christine, love it!!!!

born and died in Philadelphia. Len is a real cheesesteakhead

@Jerry - In ninth grade I was the dorky kid just walking down the hall and hiding out in the band room. :)

Mok. Classic. Overbrook. Harmonizing with his friends. Love him!

Ramsey! I'm so in with the in crowd... i feel like opening up a bank acct

RS, that was cool!

@Jerry, one of my all time favs here👍

That crowd here! 4th band member. O to be at this gig.

Yeah, Brian, I heard you are always dressed sharply!

Real handclaps!

Get out your tambourine, guys!

Ramsey has(had?) great interview program on Satellite radio and another on pbs before.

👏👏👏 love those organic, real handclaps

You can't have enough Sam the Sham singles. Mok has plenty of them.

;)

Twelve strings all day long!

Weill Mann

chatroom poll: Dirty Dancing vs Saturday Night Fever

I don't smoke, but this song makes me want roll a pack of cigarettes up in my tee shirt sleeve and change some oil on my hot rod!

@Jerry, your parents would have been just thrilled with that plan.

@Mokoy, I recuse myself; I haven't seen either movie. What's your vote?

Foster Brooks cover It Ain't Me Babe... silly fun

I watched both in succession. Dirty Dancing won me over.

I'm with Christine, I have not seen either movie all the way through.

The Statler Bros! My mom played their greatest hits lp a bunch. Great harmonies

although they are kind of the same movie - growing up, dancing, music

Saturday Night Fever. Inspiration. The original owner/founder of Princeton Record Exchange was in love with that movie in a very big way. I respected that! For me it's not a choice, Saturday Night Fever, hands down.

My Dad owned a wallpaper and paint store, you know I loved John Travolta!

hahah you were Tony Monero

Good question, Mok.

I picture Jerry strutting down the sidewalk with a paint can

"He hit my hair!"

Exactly, Mok!"

😂

Good lord I was just thinking Mike Nesmith would have fit right into The Statler Brothers!

Yess! RS. What a song! Brian grew up listening to his Mom playing it! Very cool!

i sensed we'd hear the pied piper, Robert Allen Zimmerman. Excellent

Mokoy, doesn't this just make you melt?

There's that in crowd mentioned again...

Positively Jerry's Room 🚪

They became a problem in 1965

@Roffle, I agree re: Mike Nesmith. Seamless fit.

these songs whack you over the head...in a good way

my mom loved Smokey. One of the first artists I ever laid ears on

who laid down the tunes behind him is the question.

Well I'm sure your Mom liked the Temptations too!

I so love Jerry's room! Music that everyone around here must hear on their way to the elevator, and that no one could possibly object to!

He hit my haihh

😄 don't touch the hair

Haha, Christine! Thanks RS

Was that us?

This guy formed the Rasberries!

Great time Jerry!

These last three hours flew flew crazy fast.🚀 Thank you Jerry, for a superb show we can all luxuriate in! 💯

Thanks, Brian!

Haha, Christine. I am always glad when you enjoy!

Have a wonderful, wonderful weekend Jerry!

You too, RS

@Jerry, my parents were we'd in September 1965, loved these tracks, great, great show, thank you, see ya next week.

*wed*

spelling lesson

Thank you, Ambrose! Very cool!!!

Havin' a Freak Out!!!!!

@Brian😜

Rave up! and out