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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Feb 17, 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!

2.17.23

Three hours of the music of Burt Bacharach!

11:53 AM		Gabor Szabo The Look of Love (Original) The Szabo Equation (Remastered) Skye 2006
12:04 PM		Bill Frisell What the World Needs Now Is Love Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach Tzadik 1997
12:14 PM		Marie Mcauliffe I Say a Little Prayer Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach Tzadik 1997
12:17 PM		Anthony Braxton Alfie Standards 2020
12:19 PM		Jane Bunnett Serénade to a Cuckoo The Water Is Wide Linus Entertainment 1994
12:33 PM		Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Casino Royale Sounds Like... Herb Alpert Presents 2015
12:33 PM		Dee Dee Bridgewater Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head (Remastered) Afro Blue (Remastered) Mr Bongo 2020
12:37 PM		Brad Mehldau Trio Alfie Day Is Done (Deluxe Version) Nonesuch 2005
12:42 PM		The Jimmy Rowles Quintet & Sarah Vaughan A House Is Not A Home Sarah Vaughan & The Jimmy Rowles Quartet Mainstream Records 1974
12:46 PM		Steve Kuhn Trio Windows of the World / Here I Am Watch What Happens MPS 2015
12:53 PM		Joe Pass Are You There (With Another Girl) A Sign Of The Times & Movie Themes Master Classics Records 2011
12:53 PM		Dwight Trible What the World Needs Now Is Love (feat. Matthew Halsall) Inspirations (feat. Matthew Halsall) Gondwana Records 2017
12:59 PM		Kenny Barron Ensemble Alfie A Table For Two
1:11 PM		Patti Austin The Look of Love Street of Dreams Water Music Records 1999
1:17 PM		Havana Maestros w Dionne Warwick I Say A Little Prayer Americuba
1:20 PM		Lake Street Dive Anyone Who Had A Heart Fun Machine: The Sequel - EP Fantasy 2022
1:22 PM		Burt Bacharach and Cissy Houston One Less Bell to Answer
1:35 PM		Bobby Womack (They Long to Be) Close to You Let the Music Play
1:35 PM		Lou Johnson Reach Out For Me Soul Legend Master Classics Records 2011
1:38 PM		Dionne Warwick Reach Out for Me The Complete Scepter and Warner Albums Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group 2019
1:44 PM		Lou Johnson (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me Soul Legend Master Classics Records 2011
1:44 PM		Sandie Shaw (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me Sandie (Deluxe Edition) UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2020
1:50 PM		Lou Johnson Kentucky Bluebird (Send A Message To Martha) Soul Legend Master Classics Records 2011
1:50 PM		Dionne Warwick Message to Michael (Message to Martha) The Dionne Warwick Collection: Her All-Time Greatest Hits Rhino 2005
1:56 PM		Tommy Hunt I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself The Very Best Of Master Series, Inc. 2011
2:04 PM		Brenda & The Tabulations Dry Your Eyes Dry Your Eyes Jamie Record Co. 1967
2:08 PM		Dusty Springfield I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself Dusty Island Mercury 1999
2:08 PM		The Shirelles Baby It's You The Shirelles Greatest Hits Scepter Records 2005
2:08 PM		The Beatles Baby It's You Please Please Me UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2009
2:08 PM		Dionne Warwick Don't Make Me Over Anyone Who Had a Heart Rhino 2004
2:15 PM		Dionne Warwick Wishin' and Hopin' Presenting Dionne Warwick Rhino 1963
2:19 PM		Dusty Springfield Wishin' and Hopin' The Very Best of Dusty Springfield Mercury Records 1998
2:20 PM		Fred Frith Trains and Boats and Planes Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach
2:21 PM		Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas Trains and Boats and Planes (Mono Version) (Remastered 1998) Everybody Loves Burt Bacharach Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group 2017
2:30 PM		The Isley Brothers Make It Easy On Yourself The Sound of Bacharach Scepter/Wand/Musicor/Dynamo 1984
2:30 PM		Amar Make It Easy On Yourself (Eastern Radio Mix) Make It Easy On Yourself (Sitam) - EP Multitone Records UK Limited 1994
2:44 PM		B.J. Thomas Rain Drops Keep Falling on My Head Mama... Best of BJ Thomas Big Buzz Productions 2019
2:48 PM		Manfred Mann My Little Red Book What's New Pussycat? (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) MGM Music 2008
2:51 PM		Ronald Isley & Burt Bacharach This Guy's In Love with You Here I Am: Isley Meets Bacharach DreamWorks Urban 2003
2:57 PM		Kirsten Vigard God Give Me Strength Grace Of My Heart
3:01 PM		Bill Plummer And The Cosmic Brotherhood The Look Of Love Bill Plummer And The Cosmic Brotherhood Verve Reissues 1968

Chat is archived.

Welcome, everybody, to Serenade to a Cuckoo

Hello Jerry

Hi Brian, thanks for listening once again

I've re-awoken, good day Brian and Jerry G

Hi TWC, thanks for re-awakening!

Hi Jerry, Brian, WæstCoast TAndy & all...we made it to Friday afternoon!

Hi Christine!

Hey Christine!

Brian or anyone, how does one pronounce "Mcauliffe"?

Serenade to a Cuckoo - What we need now -

Hey Rob F! Thanks for shunning your meetings and tuning in

Is your son still checking out jazz?

No meetings today. Lots of people took off for 4 day weekend

I think he is, he's back at college now

I love Bill Frisell's music so much. Such a feeling his strumming evokes.

Right on TWC

@Christine Pronounciation of McAullife?

Afternoon Jerry...still getting over the Birds loss...the music helps. Thanks!

Yeah Stephen, left us with a sick feeling in our stomach that continues today

Muh-CALL-if

That's my Brian, thank you!

I love the sound of Braxton in the morning. Well, early afternoon…

Theme song time! 🐦 🎶

It's going to be a real treat being able to listen to the show in its fullest today.

Braxton fixes the disconnected joints and puts them back together.

Sorry I missed the pronunciation; work is keeping me out of the chat somewhat.

Thanks TWC

Christine, next time tell them you are busy

These employers and their audacity

It's 4 day weekend weekend!

Jane Bunnett will be at Chris’ Jazz Cafe on March 4: https://www.chrisjazzcafe.com/events/68513

Thanks, Russ

Jerry - I did give my son the WPRB bottle opener in case he needed it at college. LOL

My favorite Bond movie!

Rob F, WPRB is pleased to see its premiums go to such good use

What a voice! Sassy!

Right on, Russ!

Hello Jerry! I'm getting a new appreciation for Bacharach with all the tributes that have been happening since his death. But these jazz versions are the best yet.

Hi Bud, glad you are enjoying. Yes, to me the jazz ones capture his personality!

They're very melodically and harmonically sophisticated songs.

Digging this Patti Austin track.

Totally "fonky"

Like a lot of people, I didn't realize in the early 80s that this was a Burt Bacharach song.

Everyone thought Naked Eyes wrote it

Naked Eyes had a huge hit with this song.

I certainly did!

what a big hit for naked eyes, everybody thought that

Yep, I'm one of those people who had no idea that was a Bacharach song.

Martha?....I'm offended

Haha, hi Mike

Not Bacharach related, but a similar thing happened with Tainted Love. Covered in the 80s &many had no idea

Linda Jones

Loved that song

Hey Jerry

by both

... what t'do...

cheat cheat

haha

Baby it chew..

Mike, you knew that was coming

I did indeed!

Band out of NW England did a cover of Baby It's You.. they'll go places

Ehhhhh it's just a fad

great tunes Jerry (and Burt). I'm slow dancing in my office

John Sayles named a movie of his after that Shirelles hit, set in the Sixties but with an anachronistic soundtrack of Springsteen songs.

You've done it again, Mok! David, thanks for checking in

Yeah....I think I remember that movie.

David, wasn't that a great movie? I loved it, but I just don't remember Springsteen.

Madonna was great in it

My favorite Sayles movie was The Return of the Secaucus Seven...long before the Big Chill

Mok, I like your new name 👍

afternoon Christine 😎

amazing one guy was involved in all these hits

Hi Jerry! I keep thinking I should call the "Psychic Friends Network" to see if they know what song is next on the playlist. :)

Hey RS!

Let's not forget Hal David. Burt's main lyrical collaborator.

Well, at least every time I hear Dionne Warwick

She cut Bacharachs demos!

Those guys were music machines.

It was a very fertile time

Fascinating that so few of these collaborative groups of writers dominated and shaped the musical sound for so long.

Christine, you remember this one

Is that a Tabla with the Coral sitar?

Oh...pehaps a real sitar

Hey yall. Sorry Im late

Hi Brian!

☔️

*gets on bicycle... shows off for Katherine Ross...

Wow, now I want to watch that movie that I haven't seen in at least 30 years! lol!

Right on, RS, a classic.

I once heard a story about a principal who, concerned about vulgar dancing to modern popular music, mandated that only Bacharach music be played at a high school promenade. He obviously never saw this scene from “What’s New, Pussycat?”:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tSCD297_X0M&t=1s

Ha!!! Thanks, David

That could be a movie

Thanks, Jerry. Great show!

Have a great weekend everyone

Thank you, Russ. Everyone have a great President's Day weekend

cheers all!

Thanks, Jerry! Rest in peace, Burt B.

Till then

Yes

Have a great weekend, all

Thanks everyone

Depeche Mok, a classic

Thanks for connecting the dots Jerry. I had no idea that I knew so much of Bacharach.s repertoire before I ever left middle school! :)

You sure did

This is great

The real thing I bet!