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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Apr 8, 2022 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

With Jerry Gordon

Kari Kirkland, a tribute to Pat Martino, Moby Grape

4.8.22

12:42 PM		Immanuel Wilkins Emanation The 7th Hand Blue Note (US1A) 2022
12:42 PM		Immanuel Wilkins Don't Break (feat. Farafina Kan Percussion Ensemble) The 7th Hand Blue Note (US1A) 2022
12:42 PM		Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstein & Bill Stewart United Perpetual Pendulum Smoke Sessions 2022
12:46 PM		Roland Kirk Serenade to a Cuckoo (Live Version) I, Eye, Aye Rhino Atlantic 2005
12:56 PM		Steven Bernstein Come On Good Time Music (Community Music, Vol. 2) Royal Potato Family 2022
12:58 PM		Catherine Russell In the Night Send For Me Dot Time Records 2022
1:07 PM		Alternative Guitar Summit Inside Out (feat. Adam Rogers & Peter Bernstein) Honoring Pat Martino, Vol. 1 HighNote Records 2022
1:14 PM		Alternative Guitar Summit Black Glass (feat. Kurt Rosenwinkel) Honoring Pat Martino, Vol. 1 HighNote Records 2022
1:30 PM		Rudresh Mahanthappa's Hero Trio New Horizon's Theme Animal Crossing
1:30 PM		Orrin Evans Half the Battle #knowingishalfthebattle (feat. Kurt Rosenwinkel & Kevin Eubanks) Smoke Sessions 2016
1:52 PM		Harry Skoler Peggy's Blue Skylight Living Sound: The Music Of Charles Mingus
1:53 PM		Kari Kirkland Love Me Like A Man single
2:25 PM		Duke Edwards & the Young Ones Is it Too Late Is it Too Late Prestige 1968
2:33 PM		Tim Maia Rational Culture World Psychedelic Classics 4: Nobody Can Live Forever - The Existential Soul of Tim Maia LUAKA BOP 2012
2:45 PM		15-60-75 (The Numbers Band) Jimmy Bell Jimmy Bell's Still In Town Hearpen Records 1976
2:56 PM		MC5 Let Me Try Back In the USA Atlantic 1970

Chat is archived.

Hi everybody! A beaten and frazzled Jerry Gordon here

Greetings and Happy Opening Day Jerry.Phillies vs Athletics.Hope we can shut down Jimmie Foxx and Lefty ODoul.

What a shame Mickey Morandini was injured.

Hello Jerry! Did you forget to feed the hamster on the wheel inside the modem?

Hi Patrick, I hope they have a good season. I hope morandinis injury isn't an omen.

Hey Jerry I am down here at 21st and Lehigh.Where is everybody?

Hi Brian, I was wondering what smelled. I think you're right. The hamster died.

I'd like to announce a happy birthday to the Celebre twins: Plain and Pepperoni .

Ha! Who are they?

Patrick, get back in your car!

Richie Ashburn joke. He'd mention Celebre's Pizza on air and they'd bring free delivery to the announcers box. Mgmt didn't like it. So he came up w the clever birthday announce workaround

Haha, I hope two pizzas show up at your door

Made it online! Happy Friday, Cuckoos!

Hi Kari, glad you're here. I am so looking forward to playing your new single!

I just got Johnny Callisons autograph.

Couldn’t find y’all earlier. Glad I made it!

My absolute favorite in my lifetime. I would do anything for that autograph. Almost as valuable as Kari Kirkland's

☺️

Kari, what coast are you on?

It's that time...Cuckoo theme song time! 🐦🎶

Hi Jerry, Kari, Patrick, & Brian!

Hi @Christine! I like your new photo!

Hello Christine Rocking that Lowell Palmer look.

Jerry, I’m on the east coast this week! So we’re in the same zone!

:) @Kari, I'm very excited to hear your new single!

World premiere for Jerry’s show!!! Thank you!

Hi Christine, glad you're with us

@Patrick, I just looked up Lowell Palmer. 😎

@Jerry, Can't miss Serenade to a Cuckoo!

Laissez les bon temps rouler

Thanks, Christine. My modem is sick, most likely terminal.

Like a barrel

Christine he was so cool he dated the managers daughter⚾️

Hi Jerry, this is lovely

This Catherine Russell track is a standout. Wow.

Hi Rob F. Good ears,I love it. Look for the old Dakota Staton version if you have the opportunity

Hi folks! Ah the sweet sounds of being returned to your regularly scheduled broadcast. :)

Hi RS. Have you ever felt like the Cosmos was out to get you? That's how I feel every time there are tech problems with the show. My moden conked out at 11:48

Kari, we're building up to you!

Timing is definitely the calling card for Cosmological intervention.

It’s oh so often the lessons/opportunities come at annoying times isn’t it…

Somehow, even the technical problems are high-quality on WPRB.

Hi Guelo, it pisses me off more than teaches me, although I guess you have to swing with the punches

My wifi is sketchy, so I hope I don’t go the way of your modem! In any case, it’s great to be here with you all today. Big thanks to you, Jerry 🙏

I like this Kurt Rosenwinkel. Wonder how the Pat Martino version sounded

Lower the water, fly with the air, and just hope to God that technology works. That was a great guitar tone!

Jazz show! Princeton? Yes!!

The Creative Large Ensemble concert tomorrow is going to be fantastic. Richardson auditorium is also a wonderful space.

In doesn’t get any better than those Saturday night Princeton Jazz concerts.This from a curmudgeon who gives 99 excuses why not go to shows😀

https://music.princeton.edu/events/orrin-evans-princeton-university-creative-large-ensemble

Sounds like a good show. Hoping to check it out.

Patrick, did you get back in the car and get off the corner of 21st and Lehigh?

Jerry, I went to the Rudresh show you mentioned back in the Fall. Would not have know if you didn't plug it

Hey JG since you're on a Philly Guitar kick this fone afternoon ..why not break the machine and soin some Steve Giordano .. one of Philly's greatest ..

Glad to hear, Rob. Thanks for letting me know!

Rudresh deserves much success at Princeton

Hi Joe, I love him too, just not in the program today. I promise sometime soon I will!

Just hopped on the Broad Street line Jerry.somebody told me they moved to South Philly near Philadelphia Aqualand

you're a prince J! beautiful tracks all day ..

Thanks very much, Joe. obviously you have good taste in music

Kurt Rosenwinkel again

Yes

I can't help myself

hi, jerry and cuckoo friends, i am chilling out to this great music in the sun today. but guess what?! i broke my foot trying to play tennis after a year and a half. please send healing vibes.

may not be able to chat but listening for sure!

So sorry to hear, Esoterica. You deserve better than that!

Oh no! Esoterica… sending all the positive, healing vibes I’ve got!!

Sorry hear Esorerica.Heal and get well.You could probably beat me in tennis with one foot.

As one of the nicest people we know, we are bummed and sending you good vibes.

Oh no @Esoterica! 💔 Sending healing vibes...

awwww thanks, everyone:). really helps. at least I'm hanging the sun, beautiful day today.

All positive and healing vibes to you Esoterica! Guess you will have to listen to WPRB even more

haha patrick:)

you got that right, rob!

I once won a local 12 and under tennis title back when I was 18 years old.

Sending them vibes Eso!

whoa, patrick!

thx guelo!

Esoterica, you sure are doing something right!

haha now i get you, patrick. you're a regular shecky greene

aw thx jerry

Good afternoon Jerry!

Hello all in the chat!

hi ambrose!

Hi Bo!

Hi Ambrose!

@Esoterica, remember, time wounds all heels, hope you are back on the Court in no time🎾

yes, fantastic vocalist, kari!

aw thx ambrose:)

Quite an intro, Jerry!! 🙏 🙏🙏

I left out stuff!

Wow what an interesting reimagining of this song . Did Chris Smither write this song?

Chris Smither write the original track, Bonnie Raitt changed some of the lyrics. She has the most played / recognized version out there

Yes, very cool version

Ya I have seen Chris Smither perform it a bunch of times . He's one of my fave gtr players!

Gorgeous voice Kari😲

He’s fantastic, Brian!!

Thank you, Ambrose!

I had an old cassette of Bonnie doing it live on an fm radio broadcast in the 70s. She did a good job too. But Chris will always be my fave! Really appreciate the diff takes tho

😍 Loved it! What depth and emotion.

That voice soothes and simmers.

Beautiful! Thanks

Awww, thanks all! You’re the first to hear it! I wanted Jerry to have the exclusive radio release.

kari, you are phenomenal.

Thank you, @Kari. That was fantastic!

Fingerpicker master , one man band, mic on the floor board 1 of s kind Chris Smither! Been too long since I have seen him live. Talked a couple times and he was a really nice guy. My friend had a little tape recorder once at Philly Folk Fest and asked Chris do a short voice recording plugging our band. He did it right away without any hesitating! So funny. We never did anything with it. Just fun to have on tape

Y’all are so kind ❤️🙏

@Kari, want more!👏👏👏

🐳🍇

More singles coming about every 6 weeks until the album release in Sept!

I hope we get a world premiere here each time Kari!

great, kari! look forward to it all!!

I missed the Kari song! Dammit asbury park!!!!

Hey Granma!

Five handsome hippies walked into a bar, flipped the bird and asked for half-pints of fine wine...

Mok, you've done it again.I don't know what else to say. Genius.

Oh the tale of Skip....

I want to know what that poor washboard did wrong

Good one Christine!

@Christine😜

@Brian, and the bartender said:

My group actually got bumped by these guys @Quaker city Festival. I guess bringing it up now is Sour Grapes!

We don’t serve fine wine in half pints, buddy.

💗

Uh oh

Man, Moby Grape sounds just like that funk band that WPRB plays all the time...

I was 'listening my friends' now the Oh Shite 🎶😲

💔 😭 freaking Finnish funk

This is WPRB's version of a test pattern.

Beavis & Butthead's hippie teacher Mr Van Driesen gave them his cherished Moby Grape lps for collecting the most $ in his "Spirit of the 60s" drive.. those 2 used them as frisbees... ouch

Hope Comcast has a good warranty.

Music to reboot a modem by.

... So i blame Mike judge for this

i think they are making new Beavis and Butthead eps soon

Cool he/they did that about 10 years ago and then it was just a 1 & done reunion season. Would love to see their take on things these days!

Hey folks, tech problems are back. Working on it right now. You are currently hearing the lovely sounds of Duke Edwards and the Young Ones, brought to you from a small cabin in the woods.

https://www.loudersound.com/features/beavis-butthead-movie-return-2022

Wow, I didn't know Neil, Rick, Vyvyan and Mike made a record with Duke Edwards

LOW HANGING FRUIT, CHRISTINE!

Could not resist.

Hi I'm back but my show isn't!

Am I in the chat?

Hi Jerry! 👋

Hi Christine. Depression

we are slaves to internet lines somehow

Let me ask this, everybody: Does the TV run off the modem?

The TV still worked when my computer internet did not.

I believe they are seperate COAX connections these days

The TV box that Xfinity gave me plugs into my router now so for me it does run thru the modem.

Funky clavinette!

I forgot I cancelled my cable years ago lol

Thanks Mok, RS

Comcast didn't have an answer for me. I was connected to the Aleutian Islands

The TV ran off with the modem... i think they shacked up in Los Angeles somewhere....

I didn't see any lights on my modem lit. Maybe related to the storm last night. Crapped out 1 minutes before show started

I nominate the intro to this for the outage loop music for 2022. Time for a change

I second Brian's motion

I'd vote for that measure. This is so life-affirming. Clap along!

or have Frank Stallone Jr sing Take you back, do, do, do, do

Where do I cast my ballot…

Sorry for the tech craziness today, gang. We'll aim to have things sorted out for next week's edition of Serenade to a Cuckoo. Enjoy some MC5 to take you out!

Thank you DJ Jerry! Thanks DJ Mike!

*Moby Grape flips the bird to Comcast*

Thanks Jerry, see ya in a week!