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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Mar 24, 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!

3.24.23

Two hours of fantastic modern jazz new releases, followed by a one hour tribute to musicians whose passing in 2023 has yet to be acknowledged on our show, only due to time restraints.

Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon
12:01 PM
His Name Is Alive - Juba Lee Brown
His Name Is Alive Juba Lee Brown
Sweet Earth Flower - A Tribute to Marion Brown High Two Recordings 2007
12:11 PM
Village of the Sun - First Light (feat. Simon Ratcliffe, Moses Boyd & Binker Golding)
Village of the Sun First Light (feat. Simon Ratcliffe, Moses Boyd & Binker Golding)
First Light (feat. Simon Ratcliffe, Moses Boyd & Binker Golding) Gearbox Records Limited 2022
12:17 PM
Reiner Witzel & Richie Beirach Quintet - Requiem for Chris
Reiner Witzel & Richie Beirach Quintet Requiem for Chris
The World Within
12:25 PM
East Axis - I Like It Very Much
East Axis I Like It Very Much
No Subject Brother Mister Productions 2023
12:45 PM
Leap Day Trio - Dewey Spirit
Leap Day Trio Dewey Spirit
Live At the Cafe Bohemia
12:45 PM
Jim Snidero - Search for Peace (feat. Kurt Rosenwinkel)
Jim Snidero Search for Peace (feat. Kurt Rosenwinkel)
Far Far Away (feat. Kurt Rosenwinkel) Savant 2023
12:52 PM
Roland Kirk Quartet & Rahsaan Roland Kirk Quartet - Serenade to a Cuckoo
Roland Kirk Quartet & Rahsaan Roland Kirk Quartet Serenade to a Cuckoo
I Talk with the Spirits Verve 1998
1:04 PM
Marina Pacowski - Inner Urge (feat. Josh Nelson, John Clayton, Roy McCurdy & Joel Frahm)
Marina Pacowski Inner Urge (feat. Josh Nelson, John Clayton, Roy McCurdy & Joel Frahm)
Inner Urge Summit Records 2023
1:10 PM
Buster Williams - Estate
Buster Williams Estate
Unalome Smoke Sessions 2023
1:18 PM
JD Walter - Golden Lady
JD Walter Golden Lady
What the World Needs Now
1:23 PM
José James - The Healer (feat. Ebban Dorsey)
José James The Healer (feat. Ebban Dorsey)
On & On Rainbow Blonde Records 2023
1:39 PM
Christine Correa - Straight Ahead
Christine Correa Straight Ahead
Just You Stand and Listen With Me Sunnyside Records 2023
1:39 PM
Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (feat. Nate Smith)
Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (feat. Nate Smith)
Guilty Pleasures (feat. Nate Smith) - EP Edition Records 2023
1:53 PM
Lucy Wijnands & John Dimartino - Shake Down the Stars
Lucy Wijnands & John Dimartino Shake Down the Stars
Call Me Irresponsible
1:53 PM
Darmon Meader - East of the Sun (West of the Moon)
Darmon Meader East of the Sun (West of the Moon)
Losing My Mind Darmon Meader 2023
1:53 PM
Taj Mahal - Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
Taj Mahal Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
Savoy Stony Plain Records 2023
2:04 PM
Kaleidoscope - Egyptian Garden
Kaleidoscope Egyptian Garden
Side Trips (Expanded Edition) Legacy Recordings 1967
2:07 PM
Kaleidoscope - Beacon from Mars
Kaleidoscope Beacon from Mars
A Beacon From Mars (Expanded Edition) Legacy Recordings 1968
2:23 PM
Napoleon XIV - They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!
Napoleon XIV They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!
They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! Needlejuice Records 1966
2:23 PM
Napoleon XIV - They're Coming To Get Me Again, Ha​-​Haaa!
Napoleon XIV They're Coming To Get Me Again, Ha​-​Haaa!
They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! Needlejuice Records 1966
2:31 PM
Chuck Jackson - Any Day Now
Chuck Jackson Any Day Now
I Keep Forgettin': The Best of Chuck Jackson Replay Records - X5 Music Group 2013
2:31 PM
Chuck Jackson - I Don't Want to Cry
Chuck Jackson I Don't Want to Cry
I Keep Forgettin': The Best of Chuck Jackson Replay Records - X5 Music Group 2013
2:41 PM
Smiley Lewis - I Hear You Knockin' (Digitally Remastered)
Smiley Lewis I Hear You Knockin' (Digitally Remastered)
I Hear You Knockin' (Digitally Remastered) - Single Bacci Bros Records
2:41 PM
Huey "Piano" Smith and His Clowns - Rockin' Pneumonia & The Boogie Woogie Flu
Huey "Piano" Smith and His Clowns Rockin' Pneumonia & The Boogie Woogie Flu
Rockin' Pneumonia & The Boogie Woogie Flu / Don't You Just Know It - Single Essential Media Group 2010
2:42 PM
Freddie Roulette - Soul Serenade
Freddie Roulette Soul Serenade
Back In Chicago - Jammin' With Willie Kent & The Gents Hi Horse 2006
2:48 PM
Freddie Roulette - Sleepwalk
Freddie Roulette Sleepwalk
Back In Chicago - Jammin' With Willie Kent & The Gents Hi Horse 2006
2:53 PM
Country Joe & The Fish - Flying High
Country Joe & The Fish Flying High
Electric Music For the Mind and Body Vanguard Records 2006
2:53 PM
Country Joe & The Fish - Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine
Country Joe & The Fish Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine
Electric Music For the Mind and Body Vanguard Records 2006
2:59 PM
Derek & The Dominos - Bell Bottom Blues
Derek & The Dominos Bell Bottom Blues
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (40th Anniversary Edition) Universal Music Group International 2011
Chat is archived.
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 11:57:40 AM
Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo
Brian D 12:02:07 PM
It's like wow man. It's not only like wow it IS wow.
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:02:33 PM
Haha, it's like... jazz... man
Patrick Blanco 12:04:49 PM
Greetings to Commissioner Gordon Hope to see everbody on the same Bat Station same Bat Channel
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:05:44 PM
It's... The Joker! You won't be sending messages for long, Joker!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:07:07 PM
Yes, Joker, your article inspired today's "Jerry's Room"
Christine 𓅓 12:09:32 PM
Hi Jerry, Brian, Pat & all! TGIF
Patrick Blanco 12:09:59 PM
Hey Jerry just got of the ER . I overdosed on High School and College Hoops. Can I sue the Naismith Family estate
Stephen Higgins 12:10:06 PM
Afternoon Jerry. Looking forward to some great music on this dreary day. Cheers!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:10:12 PM
Hi Christine, good to see you!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:10:53 PM
Hi Stephen, good to see you, I have done my best to not disappoint. Enjoy!
Stephen Higgins 12:11:45 PM
You never disappoint!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:11:56 PM
Brian, a couple of your guys, here
ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ 12:12:39 PM
That’s “Sun Village “ to you.
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:13:27 PM
Hi Dave!
Patrick Blanco 12:13:45 PM
Greetings Christine. After last weeks virtuoso performance I nominated Celtic Jerry Gordon to be the Grand Marshal of the 2024 Saint Patrick’s Parade.
ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ 12:13:55 PM
Good afternoon
Brian D 12:14:18 PM
You could sue the Nesmith estate maybe if you inhaled the fumes from Liquid Paper too often...
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:14:36 PM
Great songs like this always seem to draw you out, Dave
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:15:51 PM
Patrick, I would be honored but would have to defer to you and Russ and Stephen
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:17:10 PM
This is a surprise great recording that I am trying to get at a higher resolution
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:17:20 PM
new recording
Patrick Blanco 12:22:27 PM
Warning to listeners….Todays Third Hour consists of 18 different versions of They Are Coming to Take Me Away Hah Hah…
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:23:38 PM
true that!
Christine 𓅓 12:27:22 PM
Sounding like a Friday afternoon, for real 🌠
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:28:38 PM
The first hour will be semi-deep for the first hour, but not too deep, get more mellow from there
Stephen Higgins 12:30:19 PM
Jerry, the Irish in your chat all would approve of your Grand Marshall status. Just be sure to have a green beer in hand and no one would question it!
Patrick Blanco 12:32:09 PM
Jerry Which Hour is the Flyers Ticket Giveaway?
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:33:01 PM
Stephen, the first time I got totally trashed on beer was on St. Patrick's Day 1970 in college in Madison, WI, drinking 50 cent green beers. My friends carried me back to the dorms and thru me into the shower, clothes on.
Rofflestomp 12:33:25 PM
Yup, this is so good!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:33:56 PM
Patrick, I can only pay so much for listeners to take the Flyers tickets.
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:34:19 PM
Hi, RS, glad you are enjoying.
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:34:46 PM
This sax player slays me, Jeff Lederer
Rofflestomp 12:35:32 PM
Just lovely sir. Thank you so much.
Stephen Higgins 12:37:34 PM
Jerry, I had a very similar experience...it's a lesson I needed to learn, and heed its warning. :)
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:40:23 PM
Exactly, Stephen. It's GONNA happen, it's just a question of how many times before one gets the message. I want to thank you once again for the kindest of comments you made to me last week; the way u put it truly honored me!
Christine 𓅓 12:44:24 PM
Percussion 🤩
Christine 𓅓 12:44:39 PM
💗
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:45:31 PM
Matt Wilson, superb and interesting drummer, hand selecting for Christine
Christine 𓅓 12:50:27 PM
And there's that theme song... 🐦 🎶
Rofflestomp 12:50:54 PM
Ah yes!
Mike Constantine 12:51:11 PM
Just in time
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:51:52 PM
Hi Mike!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:52:19 PM
Jerry's Room tailor made for you today
Mike Constantine 12:52:25 PM
Hey Jerry!
Rofflestomp 12:52:55 PM
Home again.
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:53:10 PM
Yep
Mike Constantine 12:53:16 PM
Sounds it
Stephen Higgins 12:56:06 PM
You're most welcome Jerry.
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 1:03:01 PM
This track brings me back to my Dobie Gillis days
Guelo<3 1:17:10 PM
a very relaxing and beautiful rendition!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 1:18:07 PM
Hey Guelo! Yeah, they nailed that Estate!
Return of the 5000lb Mok 1:25:00 PM
Selecta Gordon burning up the airwaves👍
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 1:27:21 PM
Haha! Thank you, Roland Mok!
Return of the 5000lb Mok 1:28:14 PM
😎🎷
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 1:28:58 PM
Mok, you want the original of this song/album by Abbey Lincoln - Straight Ahead
Return of the 5000lb Mok 1:30:04 PM
*taking notes*
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 1:31:00 PM
Holy music.
Christine 𓅓 1:36:51 PM
I have to head out now, but I'm bringing Serenade To a Cuckoo 🐦 with me in the car. Thank you Jerry...have a good weekend, everybody!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 1:38:41 PM
Thanks, Christine. Have a good weekend and thanks for listening as always
Ambrose Hughes 1:43:24 PM
Howdy Jerry! That was so great😍
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 1:44:59 PM
Hey Ambrose! Were you referring to the infomercial for the Devil, the ACDC cover?
Ambrose Hughes 1:49:14 PM
Haha, yep!😛
Return of the 5000lb Mok 1:57:36 PM
can Taj do any wrong?
Return of the 5000lb Mok 2:03:57 PM
Ah man that Jackson Browne/David Lindley - Live At The Main Point 1975 album. Straight fire.
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:05:54 PM
This is early, San Francisco psychedelia by Lindley who liked Middle Eastern music and modal music, often employed dancers to add to his performances
Mike Constantine 2:07:01 PM
Very Middle Eastern
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:07:04 PM
Mok, I know Lindley was considered one of the greatest musicians at that easy rock of the time, so revered he was never told what to play
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:07:42 PM
Mike are you familiar with the covers of the first two kaleidoscope albums? Classic psychedelia
Mike Constantine 2:08:05 PM
I'm not
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:09:18 PM
Take a look at the covers, classic period pieces. And yes, this is a riff from Howlin' Wolf's Smokestack Lightnin'
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:10:11 PM
Important trivia for you. I believe they had two songs in Zabriskie Point
Mike Constantine 2:11:38 PM
Just looked them up....very psychedelic indeed!
Return of the 5000lb Mok 2:12:23 PM
mmm there were 2 Kaleidoscopes. One Ameircan one British. How confusing
Brian D 2:12:46 PM
Loving the Lindley / Kaleido tribute. What a player
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:16:22 PM
I also wanted to play Kaleidoscope's "Taxim" which is fantastic also, but too long. Available on YouTube
Mike Constantine 2:21:27 PM
I had no idea he was a local guy
Mike Constantine 2:22:04 PM
My friend had the single...we drove his mad playing the better side 2
Mike Constantine 2:22:14 PM
hid=s mother
Mike Constantine 2:22:27 PM
oh dear
Patrick Blanco 2:23:06 PM
Next on the air Vintage Crazy Eddie commercials
Ambrose Hughes 2:24:56 PM
@Jerry, I was just about to ask you if you knew Jerry Samuels and then you play this haha.
Patrick Blanco 2:26:19 PM
Ambrose said this guy grew up in Northeast Philadelphia Maybe Byberry inspired him
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:27:52 PM
I wouldn't be surprised! I was just a 15 year old kid buying his single and thinking it was the greatest! No Ambrose, I wish I did!
Brian D 2:28:16 PM
Ronnie Milsap had big country hit with this
Patrick Blanco 2:28:28 PM
Will never figure why this wasn’t a huuuge hit. It is featured at the end of Inherent Vice Movie
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:28:48 PM
I didn't know that. A great Bacharach tune!
Brian D 2:30:26 PM
I never heard this one (maybe once or twice? ). But mom listened to the country station for a few yrs in the 80s and Milsap version was played all the time. Big hit
Mike Constantine 2:34:49 PM
I have the Dave Edmunds single of this
Brian D 2:36:31 PM
Yes i know this one thanks to Dave Edmunds too
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:36:50 PM
And the Johnny Rivers version of this one?
Brian D 2:36:57 PM
With that filtered "voice on he phone"effect
Mike Constantine 2:37:10 PM
Fall of 1972 for Rivers
Patrick Blanco 2:37:31 PM
True all time great The record label stole Sea Cruise from him and dubbed Frank Fords vocals onto the record
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:37:42 PM
Peak WFIL era song
Mike Constantine 2:37:56 PM
Absolutely!
Patrick Blanco 2:38:16 PM
I prefer the Mickey Rivers version
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:38:17 PM
True that Patrick, but they had a HUGE hit with Frankie Ford.
Mike Constantine 2:38:42 PM
Right up there with It Never Rains in California
Mike Constantine 2:38:59 PM
sothern california....damn
Mike Constantine 2:39:07 PM
oh dear
Patrick Blanco 2:39:22 PM
Frankie Ford got that deal because he was married to Lynne Abraham
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:40:28 PM
Now THAT gets an oi! Excellent, Patrick!
Patrick Blanco 2:40:35 PM
Always kept his full time job because of treacherous thieving record label chicanery
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:41:09 PM
Chicanery is thy name!
Patrick Blanco 2:41:41 PM
Except for Evidence Records of course!
Brian D 2:41:56 PM
Watched a live video of David Lindley doing Mercury Blues the other day. Not just a lap steel but a "stand up steel". Lively David in the 80s. Standing up with the double neck steel on a stand in front of him. One of my fav versions of that
Mike Constantine 2:41:59 PM
lol
Patrick Blanco 2:43:27 PM
Great job today Jerry.As Arthur Miller wrote Attention Must Be Paid!!!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:44:59 PM
Thanks Patrick. Chicanery was omnipresent in all areas of the music industry, from record stores to record distribution to record labels and anything left.
Mike Constantine 2:45:10 PM
Oh no...who died Santo?....Johnny?
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:45:43 PM
No, Freddie Roulette who did a version of the Santo and Johnny song
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:46:06 PM
This is a killer cover
Mike Constantine 2:47:01 PM
Huh...a quick lookup has Santo & Johnny still alive
Mike Constantine 2:48:51 PM
Trenton bluesman Paul Plumeri does a gret cover too
Patrick Blanco 2:48:55 PM
Feel free to play the Impossible dream for those Princeton Tigers🏀🏀
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:50:18 PM
Mike, who is Paul Plumeri?
Ambrose Hughes 2:51:11 PM
It was the great guitarist Deke Dickerson, (and if you don't know he is I urge you all to look him up), who brought Freddie Roulette to my attention, they had performed together on stage several times.
Mike Constantine 2:51:49 PM
Paul was in the band Hoochi Cooch early Seventies then went on to play lead with Duke Williams and the Extremes and in 82 had his own band
Brian D 2:51:57 PM
Used to see Paul Plumeri a lot at the various Bucks County bars in early 90s. Good player.
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:52:22 PM
Whoa, Ambrose, I will. Thanks for the info!
Ambrose Hughes 2:52:25 PM
Paul Plumieri is a blues guy I believe.
Brian D 2:52:49 PM
I think he used to say it "Plumber - Eye" which I thought sounded funny.
Mike Constantine 2:53:10 PM
He plays regularly in Jersey...at a bar in Washington's Crossing
Ambrose Hughes 2:53:38 PM
Think I saw him at John & Peter's years ago. R.I.P. Peter btw!
Mike Constantine 2:53:38 PM
Duke pronounced it Plu-mary
Mike Constantine 2:54:13 PM
Yep....John and Peter both gone
Brian D 2:54:54 PM
Danny DeGennaro, Paul Plumeri, Steve Guyger and others... some good players in the area that played the bar circuit but with big room chops. Good players in their bands too
Mike Constantine 2:55:35 PM
That Danny DeGennaro murder was crazy shizzzz
Brian D 2:56:13 PM
Yes def at JnPs (aka my 2nd home from mid 90s to mid 00s ha)
Ambrose Hughes 2:56:22 PM
@Brian D. Stevie is real good!
Mike Constantine 2:56:39 PM
The early eighties band Rio DeGennero with TJ and Earl Schooter was amazing
Ambrose Hughes 2:56:57 PM
Great Show Jerry, thank you!🙏
Mike Constantine 2:57:16 PM
I CANNOT type today....yeesh
Brian D 2:58:15 PM
My old band did a couple gigs over years on same bill as Guyger ya. We often got those biker adjacent blues gigs.
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:59:05 PM
Thank you, Ambrose! Look at you guys, longtime members and participants of the local scene, mentioning some great musicians!
Mike Constantine 2:59:52 PM
Amazing times in the local clubs
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 3:00:16 PM
I'm blown away by all that...
Brian D 3:00:21 PM
Great show Jerry!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 3:00:54 PM
Thank you, Brian! Thanks Patrick, thanks everybody
Mike Constantine 3:01:54 PM
Till then
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 3:02:41 PM
Thanks, Mike