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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

May 12, 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!

5.12.23

New Jazz Releases, an interview with extraordinary vocalist Kari Kirkland, and a history of the roots of psychedelia

Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon
12:03 PM
George Coleman - Four
George Coleman Four
Live at Smalls Jazz Club Cellar Live 2023
12:24 PM
T.J. Kirk - Serenade to a Cuckoo
T.J. Kirk Serenade to a Cuckoo
T.J. Kirk Rhino/Warner Records 1995
12:24 PM
Louis Hayes - Is That So?
Louis Hayes Is That So?
Exactly Right! 2023
12:32 PM
Mike Melito - Straight Street
Mike Melito Straight Street
To Swing is the Thing Cellar Live 2023
12:39 PM
Mike Clark - Dolphin Dance
Mike Clark Dolphin Dance
Herbie Hancock Sunnyside 2023
12:47 PM
Dan Wilson - Tell Me a Bedtime Story
Dan Wilson Tell Me a Bedtime Story
Things Eternal Brother Mister 2023
12:58 PM
Benny Green - Ruby, My Dear
Benny Green Ruby, My Dear
Solo Mack Ave. 2023
1:09 PM
Kari Kirkland - Everybody Wants To Rule the World
Kari Kirkland Everybody Wants To Rule the World
Wild Is the Wind Slea Head Records 2020
1:11 PM
Kari Kirkland - Do It Again
Kari Kirkland Do It Again
Wild Is the Wind Slea Head Records 2020
1:25 PM
Kari Kirkland - Wild Is the Wind
Kari Kirkland Wild Is the Wind
Wild Is the Wind Slea Head Records 2020
1:30 PM
Kari Kirkland - Too Late Now
Kari Kirkland Too Late Now
Wild Is the Wind Slea Head Records 2020
1:35 PM
Kari Kirkland - Fragile
Kari Kirkland Fragile
If (When You Go) Slea Head Records 2023
1:46 PM
Kari Kirkland - I Didn't Mean to Turn You On
Kari Kirkland I Didn't Mean to Turn You On
If (When You Go) Slea Head Records 2023
1:48 PM
Kari Kirkland - Lover, You Should've Come Over
Kari Kirkland Lover, You Should've Come Over
If (When You Go) Slea Head Records 2023
1:54 PM
Kari Kirkland - I Can't Help It
Kari Kirkland I Can't Help It
If (When You Go) Slea Head Records 2023
2:05 PM
The Yardbirds - Shapes of Things
The Yardbirds Shapes of Things
Having a Rave-Up with the Yardbirds
2:08 PM
The Byrds - Eight Miles High
The Byrds Eight Miles High
Fifth Dimension (Bonus Track Version) Columbia/Legacy 1996
2:16 PM
Dick Dale & His Del-Tones - Miserlou
Dick Dale & His Del-Tones Miserlou
Surfer's Choice Sinetone AMR 2013
2:17 PM
The Ventures - Out of Limits
The Ventures Out of Limits
Ventures In Space Capitol Records (CAP) 1964
2:25 PM
LOVE - 7 and 7 Is
LOVE 7 and 7 Is
Da Capo Rhino/Elektra 2004
2:38 PM
The Holy Modal Rounders - Hesitation Blues
The Holy Modal Rounders Hesitation Blues
1 & 2 (Remastered) Fantasy Records 1999
2:39 PM
The Who - I Can't Explain
The Who I Can't Explain
Maximum As & Bs - The Complete Singles UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2017
2:41 PM
Them - Here Comes the Night
Them Here Comes the Night
The Complete Them (1964-1967) Legacy Recordings 2015
2:43 PM
The Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard (Original)
The Seeds Pushin' Too Hard (Original)
Travel With Your Mind Gnp Crescendo 1993
2:43 PM
Country Joe & the Fish - Section 43
Country Joe & the Fish Section 43
Collectors items
2:45 PM
Paul Revere & The Raiders - Just Like Me
Paul Revere & The Raiders Just Like Me
Just Like Us! Columbia/Legacy 1966
7:31 PM
Grateful Dead - Cream Puff War (Live At Fillmore West, July 16, 1966)
Grateful Dead Cream Puff War (Live At Fillmore West, July 16, 1966)
So Many Roads (1965-1995) [Live] Grateful Dead/Rhino 1999
7:32 PM
The Strangeloves - Night Time
The Strangeloves Night Time
I Want Candy: The Best of the Strangeloves Legacy/Epic Associated 1965
Chat is archived.
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 11:53:04 AM
Welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo & Jerry's Room!
Brian D 12:02:29 PM
Great start Jerry! So ready for the weekend!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:03:07 PM
Hey Brian! Thank you! It sure is beautiful now!
Mike Constantine 12:03:42 PM
Lovely day here in Horsham
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:04:26 PM
Nice, as the sun shines on 611 on this gorgeous day
Christine, aka Darth Uhuru 12:05:02 PM
It's that time again...Serenade to a Cuckoo time! 🕛
Christine, aka Darth Uhuru 12:05:24 PM
Hey Jerry, Brian, Mike & all
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:05:28 PM
I hope you guys enjoy today's programming! Hey DU!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:06:23 PM
Today's Jerry's Room is perfect for you three!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:06:49 PM
And Kari did a nice job in her interview!
Christine, aka Darth Uhuru 12:07:12 PM
I'm looking forward to the Kari Kirkland interview. 📻
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:07:40 PM
She is really cool, interesting, nice
Christine, aka Darth Uhuru 12:12:43 PM
There's Kari now! Lol
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:13:23 PM
A new addition to the cuckoo theme inventory
Patrick White 12:14:57 PM
Greetings to Jerry and listeners.Its Always Sunny here in Philadelphia
Mike Constantine 12:15:04 PM
It's excellent
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:16:02 PM
right on, guys
Patrick White 12:18:35 PM
Todays Third Hour honoring Mothers Day. A tribute to great female vocalists.Totie Fields. Phyliss Diller.Mrs.Miller. Florence Foster Jenkins and Little Peggy March.
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:23:53 PM
Geez, Patrick, that is the Mount Rushmore of female vocalists!
Patrick Blanco 12:25:30 PM
Fortunately we have the one man up to the task .The Great Gordon!!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:27:00 PM
Totie Fields on Merv, who could forget?
Mike Constantine 12:42:55 PM
Or the week that Totie Fields guest hosted on Mike Douglas
Patrick Blanco 12:43:23 PM
Jerry Which hour are you having the Taylor Swift ticket giveaway?
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:43:42 PM
Haha, Mike, you have it all recorded in your brain forever!
Mike Constantine 12:44:22 PM
I kinda do
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:44:24 PM
Yeah, patrick, unfortunately I could only get 4 pairs of tickets...
Patrick White 12:48:28 PM
Some guy named Joel from South Philly asked me to put in a request for Shipping Out to Boston!!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:49:05 PM
P.U.
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:49:24 PM
I repeat, P.U.
Patrick White 12:51:28 PM
Don’t give up the ship.in 1982 after a horrific game 6 lost to Celtics I immediately went to ticket booth and purchased Finals Tickets. My faith was rewarded.Thank you Andrew Toney!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 12:52:35 PM
This team doesn't have the character of that team
Rob F 1:05:48 PM
This is a nice cover
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 1:06:12 PM
Hi Rob F
Christine, aka Darth Uhuru 1:07:56 PM
We miss Kari in the chat, too!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 1:08:25 PM
Yes, DU!
Christine, aka Darth Uhuru 1:14:22 PM
This rendition is incredible.
Patrick Blanco 1:15:34 PM
A great Steely Dan cover. She makes it her own
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 1:16:26 PM
Nice, Patrick
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 1:18:44 PM
Exactly what every vocalist has to do
Patrick Blanco 1:20:43 PM
I actually perform in a Steely Dan cover band caked AJA.It’s name is the AJA album spelled backwards
Rob F 1:21:36 PM
Cool story!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 1:22:21 PM
Patrick, I didn't know you were in The Palindromes!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 1:22:53 PM
Glad you are enjoing this, Rob F
Patrick White 1:24:16 PM
Rob I got more stories than Abe Simpson. And most of them are about as interesting as his!
Christine, aka Darth Uhuru 1:28:56 PM
@Patrick, did you wear an onion on your belt back in the day, like Abe?
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 1:29:34 PM
He often yells at clouds
Patrick Blanco 1:33:31 PM
Careful Christine our I will go into my falsely labeled Visalia Onion rant.
Christine, aka Darth Uhuru 1:35:05 PM
😄
Patrick Blanco 1:36:54 PM
We need a East Coast Kari Kirkland tour so she can see all her Serenade fans. Perhaps Jerry can get her a gig at the Bijou or Just Jazz or the Second Fret
Rob F 1:38:57 PM
Nice version of this too
Christine, aka Darth Uhuru 1:43:01 PM
Kari & her band does need to play some gigs around here, yes.
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 1:44:34 PM
It would be great. I've seen some video of her performances. Exciting. That would be fun, DU!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 1:51:06 PM
I'm amazed that a woman with those vocal chops was an aerial acrobat for a living
Christine, aka Darth Uhuru 1:53:25 PM
Kari is a person of many talents.
Rob F 1:57:24 PM
Really enjoyed this. My new fav female jazz singer
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 1:57:50 PM
Haha, that's great, Rob. There's more to her story...
Christine, aka Darth Uhuru 2:01:39 PM
See? All the best people listen to Serenade to a Cuckoo.
Rob F 2:05:14 PM
I sent a couple of her songs to my daughter too
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:06:49 PM
Nice
Mike Constantine 2:11:35 PM
As far as feedback, I'll go with the Beatles with I Feel Fine
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:12:25 PM
Good one, Mike
Rob F 2:12:42 PM
Interesting that we lost Jeff Beck and David Crosby in the same month
Mike Constantine 2:15:49 PM
Speaking of 1962, how about Joe Meek's Telstar?
Christine, aka Darth Uhuru 2:19:34 PM
L💘VE✨️
Incense & Peppermok 2:21:06 PM
✌️
Mike Constantine 2:21:43 PM
Ha....that's great Mok
Incense & Peppermok 2:22:35 PM
afternoon everyone. happy Friday
Mattster of Reality 2:22:36 PM
Fun show Jerry
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:23:39 PM
haha, Peppermok! Yes!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:24:11 PM
Hi Mattster, thanks! Glad to know the Mattster of Reality!
Mike Constantine 2:26:32 PM
Don't bogart that joint my friend
DSM 2:30:08 PM
Good afternoon Jerry and all! Loving this evaluation!
Incense & Peppermok 2:30:21 PM
one toke over the line
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:31:22 PM
Hey DSM, original research you and I did in the hardscrabble mid sixties
Incense & Peppermok 2:34:18 PM
I smell GD
DSM 2:34:56 PM
😵‍💫
Mike Constantine 2:35:25 PM
Heh...still have my single of this
Mike Constantine 2:38:13 PM
Now we're deep in it
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:41:12 PM
This show is the theme of Peppermok's current life
Incense & Peppermok 2:43:43 PM
im making grilled cheese in the parking lot at work
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:44:09 PM
Haha, this is how you come up with names Peppermok
Christine, aka Darth Uhuru 2:44:40 PM
Mok, are you cooking food on your engine block?
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:44:58 PM
Haha! Good one, Christine
Incense & Peppermok 2:45:25 PM
🔥🚗
Mike Constantine 2:46:15 PM
A little foil, tacos and an exhaust manifold got me through the high desert once
Christine, aka Darth Uhuru 2:50:30 PM
We need to hear that story, Mike
Incense & Peppermok 2:51:24 PM
*playing my Lowrey T1 organ *
Incense & Peppermok 2:52:58 PM
love that story Jerry tells about the cake he ate b4 a show. Merry pranksters put 200 hits of acid in it. Jerry took a huge swipe and ate. "when i got on stage i told myself I was playing for my life"
Mike Constantine 2:53:16 PM
Heh...wel, my ex wife and I would fly to some random city out West and then just drive for a week. One day we were in the high desert with no chance to get to a town for dinner so lunchtime tacos were heated up on the manifold for a few miles and there was dinner!
Christine, aka Darth Uhuru 2:54:58 PM
Fun times!
Christine, aka Darth Uhuru 2:55:06 PM
It sounds like.
Mike Constantine 2:55:32 PM
They were....thank god for the cooler of beer in the back seat
Patrick Blanco 2:56:27 PM
Thanks Jerry Great 3 hours.Be careful all you hippies. I heard those funny cigarettes are a gateway drug.I think I heard it from Martin Mull.
Christine, aka Darth Uhuru 2:56:44 PM
Thank god for beer. And thanks for another great show, Jerry! Have a good weekend, everybody ✨️
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:56:49 PM
Hahahaha
Mike Constantine 2:57:02 PM
To you also
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:57:28 PM
Thanks everybody for hanging in there, listening to all this!
Bud the Monthly Donor 2:57:29 PM
Loved the psychedelia- it's giving me flashbacks!
Incense & Peppermok 2:57:40 PM
cheers everyone. Fun show! Kari is a treasure.
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 2:58:01 PM
Bud, thanks!!!!
Mike Constantine 2:58:16 PM
Well, Martin Mull hate that banjo and fiddle crap
DSM 2:59:25 PM
Thanks Jerry!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 3:00:01 PM
Thanks everybody!
Mike Constantine 3:00:45 PM
This jug stuff from the 13th florr ellevators wears me out
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 3:01:14 PM
Electric Jug! What?
Mike Constantine 3:01:25 PM
Right!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) 3:02:39 PM
Thanks, Mike