Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon Fri Jul 1 with Jerry Gordon on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

Hello and welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo everybody! Thanks for tuning in!

Like this start Jerry. Happy 4th weekend!

Hi Jerry & Brian!

Happy Friday 🎉

Thank you, Brian! Same to you and you too, Christine!

This track is interesting; is this a new album, Jerry?

Too bad the first song is always faded in, this song had an exceptional start!

Hi Jerry, good afternoon, Christine and Brian... Such a lovely day...

Brand new by a British drummer I love, Sarathy Korwar

I'm making a note of this album. 📝 Hi, Roffle!

Hey RS! Just beautiful, as I look out my window! You always make it nicer, too!

Christine, your kind of "percussion"

Well thanks for giving me the opportunity to tune in with ya. Always a treat!!

Really liking this percussion. Dave the Obscure played an excellent track this morning that began and ended with konnakol, and had it threaded throughout.

Always like your comments

Dave plays brilliant stuff!

Greetings to Jerry and his loyal listenership.Starting Independence.Day weekend with an Independent minded Music DJ.

Hi Jerry, Happy 4th!

Oh, thanks for the minder Christine, ǝʌɐꓷ Played something around 7:30 that I need to find. I was listening with one ear half asleep.

Hey Stephen, back atcha! A great holiday, for sure. I've got my firecrackers!

This is great here Jerry

Brian, youve always got good taste. A British guy, no one knows here. He's playing every instrument!

Fun Fact....Philadelphia Magazine retired Award fir best record shop because Jerry's Store.always won.

I saw there's a 5cd Wadada Leo Smith "Emerald Duets " that just came out. Long form stuff. Very interested

True that, Patrick! Thank you! Have you been at the library again?

DTO will be presenting a show this Sunday morning from 7 to 10 am. I bet it will be worth waking up for. 😴 ⏰

I have the Leo Smith, promise to get to it

Next week

How are you Patrick?

I gotta hear the parts where Jack DeJohnette plays Fender Rhodes! What a duet

noted

Jerry enjoyed BPS last program on WRTI last night.He went out with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.

Bob Perkins? Last show? I knew it was coming, sad to see it here

Birchall definitely on my Friday Bandcamp Friday purchase list for today!

Wait till you see how prolific he is and for how long

Today's installment of Gordon goes Avant Garde

BP with the GM 💙 📻

Haha! Can't have any flies on me

Features Liberace interpreting John Cage backed by the Nairobi trio.

In the PM!

Right!

Mr.Perkins 88 years young.Younger than most of my jokes.

Patrick, Brian, Christine, you are students of radio. A friend/listener/former customer broke my heart when he reminded me how few people listen to the radio.

BP retired! Wow, bummer. Although his play list had really shortened lately. I actually stopped listening on regular basis a while ago. He was the man for a long time! But, I couldn't handle another Toots Theilman harmonica solo!

Your jokes are definitely older than that

This David Murray piece is sensational!

To paraphrase Rasheed Wallace... Radio Is Life!!

Stephen, David Murray is a bad man!

Always good to hear Lancaster. And Murray

He's killer!

This David Murray is brand new

Man, it's so good!

💯 great new music this set

Sound is good, energy is good, blast off!

The rocket is in the air and it's soaring!

Even the bass is propelling the ship

Zoom-Zoom!

Sounds like I need this too!

Speaking of rocket, did anyone here in the chat go to the Sun Ra show last Saturday? 🪐

I did not. Didn't read anything on how it was, I'm sure it was fantastic.

You were supposed to be getting cosmic at the shore the last I heard, Christine

Wow. So much great new music! I was check out BP w GM playlist last night. So Bob is still going to be on radio on Sundays?

Friday night on RTI is great, the host is Ms. Blue.

Holy smokes another new one...this Billy Mohler is soooo groovin!

Dat Bass!!

Yeah, Stephen, it's the bassists album

Never heard of him before

This is good too

Wow!

These guys have that hip hp beat

Amazing show so far, Jerry! Really digin' it!

The JiD series just always excellent

Yeah Jerry this show today is really up there. Hitting all the great sounds and grooves today!

The kids will love it!

Right, Patrick?

Right on Brian! Love that I've never heard any of these before.

Hello Jerry! Hello all in the chat!

Hey Ambrose, welcome, how are you?

I think most kids will.love it Jerry but my5 year old passenger is not a fan of serenade.usually asks me to change channels.

That effin' kid!

No, I don't blame him. My kids did the same thing!

She doesn’t like Dan Buskirks show either OY,,,,

Haha!

Theme song time! 🐦 🎶

Jerry Gordon with the good jazz

jay gee with the gee jay

Haha

Like it, but we have to work on that

At least I'm no longer JG in the AM

Hell of a track 👍👍👌

I sent Jerry’s audition tape to WRTI as a replacement for BP.The program director was spotted running down North Broad Street screaming.

Jerry is too talented for corporate radio.

You old acid head you! My favorite Dead album. I remember having to take it off once we got to What's Become Of the Baby for the safety of others and myself

I am probably an "unemployable"

I ate the acid but never inhaled?.

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

You must be swingin' when ou're up in the Poconos

been groving, good morning! oh... afternoon

I am gathering some supplies right now. I've been listening to the good old grateful dead for five straight days

APriest A Rabbi and Jerry García walk into a bar.

The GD are American is apple pie

I always listen to a buttload of grateful dead around this time

Oooo Jerry's room sounds hot this week

It’s Canada Day! Happy birthday, Canadians!

🇨🇦 🏒 🍁🌲🥖 (no emoji for routine)

Happy Birthday Canada Especially Oscar Peterson Ferguson Jenkins Bobby Clarke etc etc

Jerry looks like the Morning Star Studios actually in East Norriton PA.

The Montréal Jazz Fest is happening now; Kamasi Washington will be playing tomorrow.

I attended a festival in Canada and Bob Dylan was there. Wish I knew what the heck it was

Had to be 2001ish

Almost every major metropolitan city has a Jazz Festival except the one I reside in.

Someone put up an American flag emoji!

🇺🇸

Thank you!

The Bicentennial still my favorite 4th of July.Spirit of 76,,,

Patrick, I actually knew that but forgot when I was reading off of Bandcamp

I still have 197 of the 200 Bicentennial albums I bought for the occasion

I figured we'd hear The American Breed today

Yeah the City of Philadelphia and it’s illustrious leadership bungled that one big time

Electric Flag

Bend me Shake me. Can I say that?

*blushing*

Ha, Electric Flag and American Breed would have been perfect choices.

I would NOT have played Simon & Garfunkel

Jerry your entitled to your opinion of Eric Burdon as greatest White Blues singer but to me it’s Pat Boone and then everyone else,,,

Wayne Newton

Kari Kirkland is one of the headliners for this year's Savannah Jazz Festival; it's in September.

Far away from her home town!

Yes, Pat Boone, Wayne Newton, Bobby Vinton, as long as they are backed by Bert Kaempfert

😅

Jerry I misidentified another song.I always thought Distant Drummer was by Linda Ronstadt.Now I found out it's by the Stone Ponys.

You were too young for that, one had to be there. After a couple years no one mentioned Stone Poneys again

Sort of a West Coast Lothar and the Hand Persons???

You're so politically correct!

Nice recording of Carla Bley tunes by Cardenas, Allison & Nash!

Nice job Jocelyn Gould fir Canada Day.i would have went for. Gordon Lightfoot but no need to overGordon.the program.

Different Drum is basically Ronstadt. Stone Poneys. Rotating cast. Linda was the main

Hi Russ, yes it is. I like those three guys and I love the composition Ictus

This current mood 💯

Yes too much Gordon spoils the broth. But I am not thinking Canada this weekend!

Yes, Christine, it always gets me. How do you play reflecting on life as one is dying of Leukemia

To quote Kenny Bania......This cut is Gold Jerry !!!Gold!!!

Beautiful version of Blood Count by Charles Lloyd!

It's sublime

haha, Patrick. I have heard that before in my life, but always apprpriate

@ Christine Sublime, indeed! And "Blood Couht" is so powerful emotionally as to be almost sacred. I don't think I'm over-analyzing to say that the final gently but inexorably descending scales represent Strayhorn's blood cells -- and his very life -- ebbing away. Gorgeous, astonishing, tragic, triumphant ... thank for the play and the back story, Jerry.

Is anyone else having trouble loading wprb.com? I'm getting intermittent page loads.

@Mike, I'm using my phone, no probs!

Thanks Ambrose. Looks like it may have been a temporary blip as everything is back for me across all browsers.

Not sure about these interweb loads but my Sanyo.cassette radio player coming in loud and clear.

@ Patrick White & co .. Re: "Different Drum" (sorry for the delayed post) ... Yes, the hit recording featured Linda Ronstadt on lead vocals but she was still officially a member of the Stone Poneys folk-rock trio. The song was composed by future Monkee Mike Nesmith. A superb "citybilly" bluegrass singer/guitarist John Herald (then with the Greenbriar Boys band) recorded his slower, more wistful arrangement ... which is the one that inspired Ronstadt to cover the song.

Thanks, Richard. Good description by ou

I'm thinking of the theme from Mondo Cane by Duke Ellington

@ Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) And thank YOU for such a marvelous show!

ThanksRichard from Ricky Hill.I am an old man I get confused.

And Richard, thank you as always for being a LEADING Bluegrass writer and etc., while being from the Princeton area!

@Mike, WPRB.com loaded fine for me. 👍

Patrick, make sure you have extra batteries on hand.

Thanks Christine!

I tried using that line when you caught me boosting @3Rd Street but you wouldn't go for it since I was 17 at the time.

@Mike, I see some tracks that shared the same time, two @1:29 two @ 1:49 but I've seen that before in past shows, don't know if that matters.

Any John Herald Dan's go to John Weingarts site He wrote a beautiful tribute to John Herald.

AoxMokxoA, your knowledge across platforms is always appreciated.

Many years before 🌫️🎩

@ Patrick White Thanks, Patrick, for that shoutout to John-s Herald and Weingart. John W was a kind and admiring friend to John H during his final years and continuing to this day. John W's website obit-tribute to the hugely talented but sadly under-heralded (sorry!) John H is very worth accessing and reading.

Pigpen crushes this song

True story, Patrick. You weren't the only bum I caught boosting records. After rolling out the red carpet for Ian Dury to promote his debut album, I caught him with a load of merchandise under his leather jacket. It disgusted me, ruined a real nice day.

Got to hear that, Mok

GD played this a lot in '72

The first song children of the sixties learned on the guitar. Supreme traditional chords of the Americana.

Damn, Ian Dury was an ungrateful thief.

Right on, RS! And Right on, Christine.

That was not a cool thing to do, whom ever he was. Very sad to hear..

It was very disappointing, RS, I'm still talking about it over 40 years later

From my forthcoming book, "Jerry Gordon Unleashed"

And he had an elevated level which brings him and his actions down even lower. Trust is is dangerous sometimes. Hey, I'd read that!

Ha, thank you RS, you are a friend!

What a parasitic thing to do (Ian). How is that book coming along, Jerry?

Your wonderful spirit carries the day Jerry, and packs a truckload of tunes! :)

I have writer's block right now and I haven't been offered an advance either

Thanks, RS

😍 this song, never gets old.

Woolworth's! Definitely bought a Beatles and Monkeys 45 or two there for pocket change.

Jerry, there will be a Eric Burdon history Part II next week?

Gotta put an asterisk next to "written by" for Baby Let Me Take You Home. Basically they took Eric Von Schmidt song Baby Let Me Follow You Down and rewrote it

@ Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) Y'know, I'll confess to not being a major Eric Burden & the Animals fan. Sorry, but Burden's attitude vibes me out (the same way many people are vibed out by the Doors -- who I personally love -- because of Jim Morrison's personna). But that said, I think "It's My Life" is a pop masterpiece with Burden and band at top of their games. Question: Do we know who's responsible for the killer arrangement, that hooks us from the very first riffs?

Christine, yes!

These past three hours flew! 🕊

Sorry Jerry was driving.Ian Drury was a real blockhead.Great 3 hours Happy 4th and looking forward to next Friday!!@

Thank you, DJ Jerry! 🇺🇸 🎆

Thanks Christine, Patrick, et. al. Have a great weekend

Love this clave rhythm and all the songs that use it (I want Candy by Bow Wow Wow, etc)

Top show again Jerry, thank you and enjoy the Holiday!

Thanks Ambrose, have a good one!

Happy weekend happy 4th

Thanks, Christine. You are right, and adapted by Bo Diddley

These precious hours pass far to quickly. Just tweaking my bike and enjoying the tunes, and abracadabra, the time is gone! But hey, Great tunes! Take care Jerry!

Thank you RS, Brian, backatcha!

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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

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