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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

May 20, 2022 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

With Jerry Gordon

Burt Bacharach Birthday Party, New Orleans Part II

5.20.22

12:00 PM		Ben Monder The Windows of the World Day After Day Sunnyside Records 2019
12:08 PM		The Claire Daly Band Serenade to a Cuckoo Rah! Rah! Ride Symbol Records 2020
12:18 PM		Bill Plummer And The Cosmic Brotherhood The Look Of Love Bill Plummer And The Cosmic Brotherhood Verve Reissues 1968
12:19 PM		Bill Frisell What the World Needs Now Is Love Valentine Blue Note Records 2020
12:25 PM		Dwight Trible What the World Needs Now Is Love (feat. Matthew Halsall) Inspirations (feat. Matthew Halsall) Gondwana Records 2017
12:31 PM		John Hollenbeck Close to You (feat. Kate McGarry, Theo Bleckmann, Uri Caine & the Frankfurt Radio Big Band) Songs I Like a Lot / Song We Like a Lot Flexatonic Records 2020
12:40 PM		Grant Green Wives and Lovers Solid Blue Note Records 1995
12:49 PM		Steve Kuhn Trio Windows of the World / Here I Am Watch What Happens MPS 2015
12:55 PM		Laura Nyro Walk on By Angel In the Dark New Rounder 2001
12:55 PM		Amar Make It Easy On Yourself (Eastern Radio Mix) Make It Easy On Yourself (Sitam) - EP Multitone Records UK Limited 1994
1:09 PM		The Delfonics Alfie La La Means I Love You Buddha Records 1972
1:09 PM		Nancy Wilson Reach Out For Me Today My Way (Expanded Edition) Virgin Music UK 2015
1:09 PM		Dee Dee Bridgewater Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head Afro Blue MUZAK/FAB.
1:13 PM		Patti Austin The Look of Love Street of Dreams Water Music Records 2016
1:20 PM		Joe Pass Are You There (With Another Girl) A Sign Of The Times & Movie Themes Master Classics Records 2011
1:35 PM		Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach I'll Never Fall In Love Again Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (Music from the Motion Picture) Maverick 1999
1:35 PM		Mari Wilson I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself Pop Deluxe WG Records 2016
1:35 PM		The Jimmy Rowles Quintet & Sarah Vaughan A House Is Not A Home Sarah Vaughan & The Jimmy Rowles Quartet Mainstream Records 1974
1:37 PM		Denise Donatelli Anyone Who Had a Heart Whistling in the Dark - The Music of Burt Bacharach Savant 2021
1:53 PM		Kristen Vigard God Give Me Strength Grace Of My Heart
1:57 PM		Pretenders The Windows of the World Pirate Radio Rhino/Warner Records 2006
1:58 PM		Dionne Warwick Don't Make Me Over Presenting Dionne Warwick Rhino 2004
2:04 PM		Earl King Come On, Pt. 1 Let the Good Times Roll O.L.D Ltd 2016
2:09 PM		Joe Jones You Talk to Much You Talk to Much - Single Black Sheep Music 2013
2:13 PM		Chris Kenner Something You Got I Like It Like That Charly Records 2006
2:14 PM		Ernie K-Doe Mother-in-Law Mother in Law (Mono Version) - EP BNF Collection 1961
2:25 PM		Earl King Trick Bag Let the Good Times Roll O.L.D Ltd 2016
2:25 PM		Barbara George I Know (Remastered) I Know (Remastered) - Single Bacci Bros Records
2:26 PM		Chris Kenner Land of a 1 000 Dances How Far Black & Partners LLC 2014
2:28 PM		Senor Searching For Olive Oil Crescent City Soul
2:31 PM		Benny Spellman Fortune Teller Fortune Teller AP Music Ltd 2013
2:32 PM		Irma Thomas Ruler Of My Heart Irma Thomas Collection: 1961-1966 CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 1996
2:34 PM		Irma Thomas Time Is On My Side Straight from the Soul Stateside 2004
2:37 PM		Professor Longhair Big Chief The Big Easy Synergie OMP 2008
2:44 PM		Aaron Neville Tell It Like It Is Tell It Like It Is Par-Lo Records 1966
2:45 PM		Lee Dorsey Holy Cow The Essential Lee Dorsey Arista/Legacy 2014
2:48 PM		Dr. John Right Place Wrong Time In the Right Place Rhino/Elektra 2004
2:59 PM		The Meters Hey Pocky A-way Rejuvenation Rhino/Warner Records 2004
10:31 PM		The Wild Tchoupitoulas Meet De Boys on the Battlefront The Wild Tchoupitoulas Island Records 2015

Chat is archived.

Welcome, everybody, to Serenade to a Cuckoo!

Hello and happy Friday Jerry!

It's that time again...Hi, Jerry!

Hi Brian, Hi Christine, thank you for always being the first ones here!

Brian, Christine, are you aware of this guitarist Ben Monder?

No, I'm not.

Never heard

Very nice soothing sounds

Another example of why I listen. Education!

Appreciated by musicians, not very well known

Greetings Jerry Christine Brian D and all other assorted Gordonauts..

But quite a few of his own albums over the years, just can't "break through"

Haha, hi Patrick!

Looking forward to today's third hour.A rock n roll showdown Bread vs The Partridge Family.

I'm going to play a Partridge Family track with Archie Shepp

Good afternoon Jerry, Happy Friday!

Hey Stephen, backatcha! Good to see you!

Theme song time! 🐦🎶

Wanted to do it early today

@Patrick LOL

Patrick takes these Battles of the Bands seriously

Good afternoon Jerry! Hello chatters!

Someone tell Dave we've got sitars!

Hi Ambrose, good to see you. Thanks for tuning in, as always

Oh, he'll know.

Just got in car to drive to pick up succulents! Live Bacharach!!

Love!

Of course I know. 🙃

And a harpsichord...

Hi Esoterica! Thank you! Today odd versions of Bacharach

So can’t chat but hi everyone! I’ll be listening, Jerry. Thanks for all you do.

Thank you Esoterica!

Although it pains me to hear sitars played improperly.

But sitar and harpsichord sound great together.

I used to think this album was commercial and then I woke up one day and loved it. And whatever happened to the harpsichord?

Not a fan of the harpsichord. But sitars, yes.

It was big in rock for a few years in the 60s!

Also big in the 17th century

I did enjoy the Jerry's Room harpsichord special you put together last year, @Jerry.

18th century. I forgot about that, Christine!

That harpsichord Jerry's Room episode may have been in 2020.

Dang you have a good memory

Great selection Jerry Watched him perform this couple summers ago on wiggins Park waterfront very enjoyable show

Wall Street Journal has an article today announcing that it is virtually impossible to get fired today

Wow! I didn't know they were that hip, Patrick!

A tremendously undervalued vocalist, Dwight Trible.

Wall Street Journal discovers the United States Postal Service.

Hahaha. Is that true?

I know it is true at UPS and Fedex. They have been kidnapping homeless schizophrenics and making them drivers

Actually persons that stole money from the window services did get removal.they were offered resignation or criminal prosecution.

This Dwight Trible rendition is incredibly good.

He's from the West Coast. Christine, you may have heard the next song, a great one

Jerry read bizarre and interesting article in Oxford Anerican magazine.Jimmy Bishop was big time radio Mahoff.#@WDAS.married to gospel DJ Louise Bishop.Apparently left philadelphia and disappeared off the face of the earth.

I didn't know he disappeared. He had his fingers in a lot of pies. Very interesting! And why is that article in the Oxford American?

Patrick, is that article on-line?

Majestic orchestration

What a sound! Also I liked how the drummer was slicing & dicing time in the very beginning.

Christine and her percussion

Jerry Oxford American is a southern based music magazine.this particular issue dealt with African American s who migrated from the South.Too many fingers in pies huh.Kinda like Major Coxson.

I think you can access on line.

Ha! I used to get the magazine in the nineties, always liked it

Thanks, Patrick

They issue a great CD with the magazine yearly.

You are on it!

Wives and Lovers Jack Jones was a 610 AM staple.

I can hear Tom Lamaines smooth intro right now.

The original!

...I think. Jack Jones, often a collaborator with Bacharach

When I look up passed away too young This is the first face I see.

How old was he? And he was married to Dianne Carroll, a great reason to stick away

Oh, Laura Nyro

No I meant Laura Nyro.

Sitars again!

https://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-115-winter-2021/where-is-jimmy-bishop

Thanks Russell I am a computer Cro Magnon.

Hi Dave. That sitar gets you going, love it!

One of many triggers.

Thanks, Russ!

Great song I think Scott Walker version is the best.

Thumbs up

Jack "Love Boat Theme" Jones

Burt Bacharach was a walking talking Brill Building.What a great songwriter

Sound collage station ID 👍

Sound collage courtesy of Phillip Collier

Jerry did anyone come in to Third Street and ask Do you have a Burt Bacharach section?

Never

Here’s one with harpsichord: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DwgYL63Q8_4

Austin Powers!

I have to leave the chat for an appointment, but I'll be listening. Be back hopefully during Jerry's Room!

by Christine, thanks for tuning in

great stuff Jerry. The Delfonics had me turning up the volume in the car.

Hey Mok, you've done it again! Thanks! Yes, a helluva version

and happy birthday Burt!!

lots of bdays. Miles Davis next week

Wow. It's very easy to fall down this birthday hole. Thank you for letting me know

oh yeah. Miles and Levon Helm born on the same day

the rabbit hole gets deep ;)

Yow!

this was worth a watch on PBS: Lionel Richie: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize

didn't know of Andra Day until I watched that

Mok, you have all the bases covered!

oh and this is happening in June/AC https://www.tixr.com/groups/anchorrockclub/events/sun-ra-arkestra-27848

Wow I always considered Ms.Warwick the gold standard for this song but this version is fantastic.

Sun Ra Arkestra and the Irish Pub as former Governor Kean would say Perfect Together..

wow Burt is 94. That's some longevity.

he's got 5 years on Willie

dooh RIP Bob Neuwirth

Thanks for a very pleasant Burtday.

Haha, pleasant, let me examine that

Good afternoon Jerry! Love this song, there's a great version by Errol Dunckley out there too

Hey DSM, I will definitel check his version out!!!!!

Mok Ra, space is the place!

I believe Don't Make Me over is the title of the recent movie documentary about Dionne.Warwick..

🌌👽

Is that on Netflix?

Yup, alot of voodo runs through this music

Not surevJerry.

That was from her first album

Mea culpa on that Dipnne @Connie mack story.it was actoluaaly thecVET.

Gotcha!

One of my all-time faves--such a good song here

The best, Li Maria, you have got great taste

Another great one! I never connected these w New Orleans but now I hear it

When we were younger and listening to these, we felt something but didn't put it together

The end of that Popeye song was hilarious :D I have to admit, those were my dad's songs, so they were a little before my time. But I loved them. this one too!

OMG--these are all my dad

's favorites! We loved when he played them--they put him in such a good mood and we all just went crazy!

(it was always during Mom's bowling night ;) )

What memories! Cool Father!

Popye dropped his spinach.

I love that line!

Haha!

Ooh, I get to hear this w/o it being a sample! Nice

Big Chief ! Fess!

Where was it samples?

Searches say... Diplo. As well as Lily Allen. Maybe more

I forget the artist. British pop artist in the aughts, maybe. It'll come to me...

that's it--Lily Allen

👍👍

Thanks, guys. I'd like to hear that Lily Allen track

Mok, this is my rhythm

Yeah music just hit my speed. ❤️

Here's another one

Here we go. Mac and Meters. And some others

You are right Brian!

David Spinozza on lead guitar

Session master

I was wondering who that was

unreal solo

Found it--the Lily Allen song is Knock 'em Out, Jerry

Soul brother like no other

As MrMalcontent would say, final 10 minutes 😭

Thank you very much, Li Maria

I hear my name

Mr. Pocky a-way

Mok a way

He's singing about you @Mok!

That's what I was hearing lol

I think she got some flack for being from a privileged backround and putting on a cockney accent for that one

oops, Lily Allen i mean

I didn't know Lily Allen was a secret posh! Cool info, @Li Maria

Don't quote me on that, Christine, but that's what I heard when the song came out

Thank you, DJ Jerry! And thank you for uploading your shows to Mix Cloud! 🙏

Cheers. See ya next week

I'll be listening more to Ben Monder.

Thanks for another excellent show, as per usual Mr. Gordon!

You all are the greatest!

Yes, that opening track was nice!

Ya they put both the mono of Fortune Teller on the Stray Cats extras record on the Stones in Mono box set that came out in 2016.

Great set

And great Nawlins set Jerry!

DJ Jerry Gordon! Great show! Many thanks! Kind regards!

Thanks Brian, Li Maria, Mr. Malcontent, everybody!