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Serenade to a Cuckoo

Feb 10, 2023 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Music

With Jerry Gordon

Serenade to a Cuckoo & Jerry's Room: a two hour jazz show featuring new, modern jazz releases or special jazz features, followed by one hour of non-jazz including pop, r&b, rock, and blues from the forties thru the seventies! You will love it!

2.10.23

An interview with vocalist and saxophonist Camille Thurman, followed by the music of Burt Bachrach

12:00 PM		Eric McGarry Inhale, Exhale As I Am, As You Were Eric McGarry 2023
12:07 PM		Roland Kirk Quartet & Rahsaan Roland Kirk Quartet Serenade to a Cuckoo I Talk with the Spirits Verve 1998
12:15 PM		Camille Thurman & the Darrell Green Trio Detour Ahead/Nefertiti Live at WGBH
12:30 PM		Camille Thurman Close To You with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band
12:46 PM		Camille Thurman Won't You Open Up Your Senses with the Frankfkurt Radio Big Band
12:55 PM		Camille Thurman & the Darrell Green Trio Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
1:21 PM		Camille Thurman w/ Emmett Cohen The Nearness of You
1:23 PM		Roland Kirk I Say a Little Prayer Volunteered Slavery Rhino Atlantic 2005
1:28 PM		Ben Monder The Windows of the World Day After Day Sunnyside Records 2019
1:34 PM		Pretenders The Windows of the World Pirate Radio Rhino/Warner Records 2006
1:37 PM		Leon Spencer (They Long To Be) Close To You Louisiana Slim Craft Recordings 2021
1:43 PM		Kurt Elling A House Is Not a Home 1619 Broadway ‒ the Brill Building Project Concord Jazz 2012
1:51 PM		Cécile McLorin Salvant Wives and Lovers For One to Love Mack Avenue 2015
1:54 PM		Grant Green Wives and Lovers Solid Blue Note Records 1995
2:05 PM		Love My Little Red Book Love (Bonus Track Version) Rhino/Elektra 1966
2:10 PM		Tom Jones What's New Pussycat? What's New Pussycat UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1966
2:12 PM		Dusty Springfield The Look of Love Casino Royale
2:22 PM		Cher Alfie Chér CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 1966
2:35 PM		The Walker Brothers Make It Easy On Yourself Scott Walker & The Walker Brothers - 1965-1970 Island Def Jam 2009
2:36 PM		Herb Alpert This Guy's In Love With You The Lonely Bull Rare Bird Records 10002 2015
2:42 PM		Mari Wilson I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself Pop Deluxe WG Records 2016
3:02 PM		The Fifth Dimension One Less Bell to Answer Anyone who had a Heart
3:02 PM		Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach God Give Me Strength The Songs Of Bacharach & Costello (Super Deluxe) UMe/Elvis Costello 2022
3:06 PM		Isaac Hayes Walk On By Hot Buttered Soul (Bonus Track Version) [Remastered] Stax 2009

Chat is archived.

Good afternoon everyone, and welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo

It's that time again...Happy Friday ☀️

Hi Jerry!

Hi Christine, Happy Friday! This artist is a friend of the Chef!

Hello hello welcome to the weekend

Hi Brian, thank you!

Guitarist friend of Chef, good!

An interview today with Camille Thurman followed by Burt Bacharach music

That's very cool; thanks for the information Jerry.

Looks like Eric McGarry Trio is playing this eve Fri Feb 10 6pm right down the road from me at Free Will Brewing in Perkasie

Wow...early!

Theme song already?! 🐦 🎶 Crazy!

Ihave to keep everyone on their toes

Good info, Brian. I wonder if they have any other gigs in the near future.

It's Friday and Cuckoo Time! Let's Go BIRDS!

OMG, I can't sleep at nigt waiting for this game, Stephen

ericmcgarry.com/events

Thanks Brian

Rex at The Royal next month. And Urban Village Brewing also in March

Same here Jerry. Don't think I've ever been this excited about a sporting event, let alone the Super Bowl!

We've never been in this position before...strong!

Not a weak spot on the team and have we ever had a better, more engaging coach?

Greetings Jerry and listeners Looking forward to todays Third Hour tribute to greatest Super Bowl Performances. Al Hirt Grambling State Marching Band and …. Up with People

Certainlly not with Andy Reid

Al Hirt should be very popular with out younger listeners! Hi Patrick!

Thanks, Brian!

One day I was in the CVS and as I was walking down the aisle there was Andy Reid, taking up the whole aisle. Our eyes locked, he knew I knew who he was. His gaze said, "If you talk to me I will eat your face!"

A brush with greatness.

Patrick, tomorrow is the the 60th anniversary of Topo Gigio appearing on the Ed Sullivan show

Info about the Camille Thurman concert: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/103836877-jazz-at-princeton-university-at-mccarter-theatre-center

Thank you, Russ

"...or nightmare." LOL

Rudresh Mahanthappa is such a card.

He is really engaging., good humored

Camille Thurman is also featured in Charles Tolliver Orchestra’s celebration of Coltrane’s Africa Brass in DC on October 21, 2023: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/1026828356-camille-thurman-at-kennedy-center

I hope that is streamed

Enjoying the Camille Thurman

Great, Rob F, I'm glad. This is her on tenor

Not it wasn't.

Music sounds great Jerry. Just stepping out of the work Eagles party for a minute 🎉

Nice , Mok. What an enlightened workplace!

Thank you for tuning in!

Wow, Camille Thurman's voice is incredible.

Rahsaan!

My kinda prayer!

Yup!

There's A Love Supreme

Lotsa quotes…I’ll BeThere, Never Going Back To Georgia, etc

Rahsaan is testifying!

The perfect intersection of Serenade to a Cuckoo and remembrance of Burt Bacharach.

Haha, Never Going Back To Georgia. Love it!

Thanks, Christine

Mother had quite the crush on Tom Jones

What's not to like... if you are a woman?

Agreed

I love the guy for who he is

Love the Brazil 66 version of this

I love Tom for having Arthur Brown on his show

That is the funniest thing I ever heard

He is real, loves the blues

Tom Jones will be performing in Atlantic City on May 20 and in New Brunswick on May 22: https://www.tomjones.com/

Haha. Thanks, Russ! Now THAT is humor!!!!!

Tom Jones had lots of interesting musical guests on his show: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mZmiefQ5y4U

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dIDzA0YDso8

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NzGWI2zjLt8

Hello Jerry! Enjoying this tribute to one of the greats, didn't he write Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-wkrRQ2wtKk

He did, Ambrose. BJ Thomas

I will play it for you next week

Right on Jerry Scott Walker.Nobody cooler or more creative

Unbelievable, right Patrick? Fantastic

Big favorite of the Worried Waltz

I walked into a young people Record store Lower East Side circa 2009 The young persons worshiped Scott Walker

Don't quit the trumpet ,Herb

My first concert ever was Herb Alpert due to this song.

Patrick, I never understood that.

Haha, Mike! He's not worried about it.

Russ, When and where was that?

This song reminds me of sitting in a barber chair Tom laMaine on Crackling 610 AM radio.

Yep Patrick....me coming home from school and WIP on in the kitchen

@Jerry, ah thank you! When I was a very wee lad back in the auld country when visiting my uncle he had a copy of that song and a record player (that worked) my mum's didn't, I would play that song over and over again, still love it to this day.

Jerry Scott put out a lot of avant-garde interesting late career music that young persons were captivated by Sounded nothing like his earlier work

At the Spectrum in 1968 (?)

Sounds right, that's when the song came out

That must of been why the Spectrum roof blew off All that Herb Alpert music

Heh...a friends father installed that roof

wow, wow, and wow. Good story, Ambrose, I got you, bro (Howie Roseman)

@Jerry, whozat?

Mike did they catch up with him yet?

The Spectrum and Vet built by that holy trinity of corrupt politicos union gangsters and gangster gangsters

A quote from the Eagles General Manager

Heh....yeah...apparently it wasn't pleasant

Pete Retzlaf never had any interesting quotes

From WIP to WFIL

Sure he did....Reach for the moon...Conte Luna pasta!

I had a bad experience with Pete Retzlaff. He was a Reactionary *&^%

wow!

When I think of AM radio I think of Charlie Swift announcing Eagles like he was giving a funeral autopsy

True that, Mike. He didn't like "long hairs"

Patrick, that's an amazing memory

Don't forget mr excitement Bill Campbell

Wonder what he thought of Tim Rossovich eating glass

Well Pete was lacking in the hair department...so...

Bill Campbell mention makes me want to drink a Ballantine

the crisp refresher

Jerry did you sell a lot of ain’t no stopping us now records during the 1980 Super Bowl run

I am sending you guys a picture of the Horn and Hardatt at eight and market

I think He ate fire also Mike

I thought H and H would make a huge comeback during the Covid Era

We had one a town over but it was cafeteria style.

Good documentary about Horn and Hardart "The Automat" . Watched recently. Mel Brooks & his stories stole the show

Thanks for the show today, Jerry!

@Jerry, funny my old boss owned a house in Ireland PA that belonged to one of the Hardartt's, one of their "country homes".

*Oreland*

Go BIRDS!

Thanks Jerry Go Iggles

Thanks, Jerry!

Great show Jerry!

LOVE this song

Thanks, everybody, go birds!

Have a great weekend everyone

You too, Brian!

This was big for me during high school