"Serénade to a Cuckoo" by Jane Bunnett. Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon Fri Nov 4 with Jerry Gordon on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

Good afternoon, everyone! Welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo!

Crazy station ID! 💯

was most of it cut-off?

It was the band Traffic

Happy Friday afternoon, Jerry!

Hi Gboss, how are you?

Thanks for checking in!

Doing fairly well. Finally getting over jet lag. Holding out hope for the Phils.

No, the station ID was good! It was a cacophony of sound!

gboss, you mentioned you were in Japan?

Yes, the drama of this series is rough on the system

Was it business or pleasure?

Yes, I was in Japan for about a week. Made it to the Dub Store in Tokyo at Selecta Jerry's recommendation.

Business

Nice!

All sushi paid for by company?

Very cool. Did you pick up some interesting records, gboss?

Yes, sushi, yakiniku, tonkatsu, ramen, tebasaki, etc all covered!

Now you're talkin'!

@Christine, picked up about a dozen. The exchange rate is very favorable now. Some 60's ska, some Taxi 12", some roots/dub, and the Japanese Obi/gold version of the recent Horace Andy

Sugoi!

Damn, last week I had a salmon roll from Whole Foods!

Caught a random hardcore show in Kobe the one night I was there. Fun times.

Very cool!

Hello. Like that 12 string Spring thing

Hi Brian!

This track: percussion is 🔥

Ha!

Tapdancing tablas

Happy afternoons!

Hey RS!

Thank you, all-star donors!

THEME SONG TIME 🐦 🎶

I love the beak on that cuckoo!

and I love Jane Bunnett's version of Cuckoo!

She is tremendous.

The licencencing of this tune is gonna buy the decendants of Tears for Fears swimming pools for the next century.

Roland and Curt's kids and grandkids will be provided for.

This sounds great. Way better than the Phillies 😅

The game last night gave me a hemrhoid

Mok, love the name once again!

Brutal. The Astros have a very talented squad

👍😎

Yes, the Phillies must feel like Sisyphus

Brian, check out this guitarist

Yup. I'm just glad we are in the WS - win or lose.

Agreed!

I taped the game and watched it after the Eagles.

Eagles are the team to beat right now.

I knew I could get some guaranteed immediate satisfaction out of them!

The frustration of last night's Phillies game made me ill.

It twists one's stomach and causes the release of toxic gastric juices

Our boys have heart. Ill give them that

We are all hoping for another miracle or two

Eagles are in the same position but no Goliath to pound them

Oh feck; Finnish funk

Instant replay, replay, replay...

I like that one part where the guitar almost sounds like it's skipping

If I ever get a personal elevator this is the tune that comes with hitting the top floor button.

lol

you have to wonder what was playing in Prince's elevator

I like the organ sweeps!

Heard soul/ funk singer Nicole Willis on wprb recently. This is usually her backing band. Tight unit

everything ok, Jerry?

She's based in Helsinki. Graduated there

I'm back. Internet blip. I'm surprised the music didn't go off.

@Brian, Helsinki soul/funk scene sounds interesting for sure.

Back!

Back.

Hi DSM, thanks and that's a clever name youve got there

Yes, I was gone and helpless. What is the Helsinki chat?

5x5 stream 👍

Thanks Jerry, good afternoon!

Old job many yrs ago (heard lots of terrible hold music calling companies all over so wprb funk is like paradise) we had a frequent long distance caller / customer from Finland. Gravelly voice. Used to talk on his dime (bag? ) to us for half hour or so at a clip. He'd list his lp collection to us over phone in alphabetical order. Character. He'd place orders sometimes as well..

Brian was just mentioning how our glitch tune band also have real jobs in the funk world. :)

Backatcha, DSM.

Did that come on? Was the show out of commision for awhile, and if so, how long?

About four replays worth I think.

I had no idea, I just knew I couldn't communicate here.

The hold music for wprb Jerry is by a great Finnish session funk soul group Calypso Kings. . They back up singer Nicole Willis. She and Sharon Jones kinda had a coming up moment at same time. Calypso Kings are sort of a Finnish analogue to Dap Kings i guess

I had no idea! What was the last song that was on before I zetzed out?

Softly as in a mourning Sun Ra

Nice.

thanks!

bumped into Ron Carter on a CTI 4cd collection recently. "The Cool Revolution" 👍

thanks for the shout Jerry, here is the link for the Ron Carter vid PBS online streaming https://www.pbs.org/video/ron-carter-finding-the-right-notes-p8s8vx/ JF

I forget if the last song was the Prene harmonica piece or something after that. ..

nyuk nyuk

Damn sisters.

Hi Jerry! Jerry Gee & Jerry Lee.

https://www.pbs.org/video/ron-carter-finding-the-right-notes-p8s8vx/

Mother would plop me in front of the TV, put on Bandstand and start preparing dinner. I was mesmerized

Hay Ambrose, love it!

Below is a link to finding the Ron Carter movie on PBS tv

Hey Mike

Hi Jerry

The more research I did in preparation for this show, the more I realized what an incredible number of great tracks he released.

I caught some of that Ron Carter Film last week and loved what I saw, haven't ran across it since though, thanks for the link!

Sure did...R&R period, Gospel period

Thank you, Jim, for that link!

@Jerry, reading the great Joe Tarsia's obit in today's Inquirer, what a guy!

Thanks for mentioning that, Ambrose. Pretty amazing

Significant dude!

Mok, do you have some of the stuff of Jerry Lee and Robbie Robertson?

Wat at Sigma once when Duke Williams and the Extremes did some recording but sadly he wasn't there

Summer of 1961 I had just turned 12....my parents dropped me and my sister off in Atlantic City for a long weekend (all expenses paid) without them....my sister was 21 at this was more of gift for her she was living in NYC and needed a break.... one night we decided to go up to the boardwalk and see what else was happening....we decided to see ashow. I don't know why she chose it since she was NOT a rock and roll fan but we bought tickets and got to witness and experience JERRY LEE LEWIS!

Sasha: wowowowowowowow! And you've been a troublemaker ever since!

Son Mike Tarsia passed last year right around same time. Some friends and band mates got to meet and work w Mike . Important family. Sigma

Gee ! Jerry how did you know?

I knew you went bad after that

"Deep Elum" "Ellum" & other spellings refers to seedy section of Elm Street and surrounding streets in Dallas. Famous place for music & arts

Seedy past tense that is. Seedy meaning "where all the fun was" ha

Thank you, Brian

The word "Elm " pronounced with an accent / diff dialect etc comes out as Ellum

That I didn't know! Now I get it!

Played that song in many bands.. diff instruments diff volume levels ha. Such a fun one to play Deep Elem/ Elum / Ellum Blues

Impressive! Very impressive!

Sounds great on the mandolin

This show is flying by...! 🕊

Right on, Christine!

Thanks in advance for uploading your shows to MixCloud, Jerry. It's great to be able to listen again when there are fewer distractions.

Deluxe Mean Old Man lol

Thanks, Christine. MixCloud has just made a change limiting people to only keeping up 10 shows unlesws you pay for what has been a free service up to this time

oh 🤬

Thanks Jerry! 💯

Thanks for the show, Jerry!

Have a great weekend everybody and GO PHILLIES

✌️

Thanks, GBoss

fun tribute :)

Good time Jerry. Have a great weekend all

Christine, Mok, RS sonar man, Brian, DSM, everybody

Great show Jerry, thank you!

Thanks Ambrose!

Have a good one y'all!

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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

11.4.22