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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Jun 2, 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!

6.2.23

A spiritual trip, some new modern jazz releases, and one hour of Ike & Tina Turner 1960-1975

12:01 PM		Dhaivat Jani PLUS Peshkaar Sum // Parts 2023
12:03 PM		Trina Basu & Arun Ramamurthy Offering Nakshatra SPINSTER 2023
12:09 PM		Ian Dogole Message from the Nile Night Harvest Global Fusion Music 2002
12:17 PM		Malika Zarra Yallah Tnam Rima (feat. Mamani Keïta) Rwa (The Essence) D.Zel Prod 2023
12:25 PM		Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Mustt Mustt (feat. Massive Attack) Mustt Mustt (Real World Gold) Real World Records 1990
12:31 PM		Kahil El'Zabar & Ethnic Heritage Ensemble Sketchs of A Love Supreme Spirit Gatherer: Tribute to Don Cherry 2023
12:38 PM		Charlie Mariano Mirror Mirror Rhino Atlantic 1970
12:45 PM		Ornette Coleman Science Fiction The Complete Science Fiction Sessions Columbia/Legacy 1971
12:52 PM		Dahveed Behroozi East of the Sun Standard Fare
12:55 PM		Roland Kirk Quartet & Rahsaan Roland Kirk Quartet Serenade to a Cuckoo I Talk with the Spirits Verve 1998
1:07 PM		Temple Jazz Sextet Fly With the Wind Fly With the Wind 2023
1:40 PM		Billy Childs The Winds of Change The Winds of Change Mack Avenue Records 2023
1:41 PM		Reiner Witzel & Richie Beirach Quintet Javelin The World Within
1:41 PM		Ralph Alessi Quartet Residue It's Always Now
1:44 PM		Thomas Fonnesbaek & Justin Faulkner Windows Danish Rain
2:10 PM		Ike & Tina Turner A Fool in Love The Soul of Ike & Tina / Dynamite Stateside 2004
2:10 PM		Ike & Tina Turner I'm Jealous The Soul of Ike & Tina Turner CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 1960
2:14 PM		Ike & Tina Turner I Idolize You The Soul of Ike & Tina Turner CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 1960
2:16 PM		Ike & Tina Turner It's Gonna Work Out Fine Dynamite CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 1963
2:18 PM		Ike & Tina Turner Good Good Lovin' Don't Play Me Cheap / It's Gonna Work Out Fine Stateside 2004
2:21 PM		Ike & Tina Turner River Deep - Mountain High River Deep ~ Mountain High A&M 1966
2:29 PM		Tina Turner and Ike Turner & the Kings of Rhythm You Got What You Wanted The Complete Pompeii Recordings 1968-1969
2:31 PM		Ike & Tina Turner I've Been Loving You Too Long Outta Season Parlophone Catalogue 1969
2:36 PM		Ike & Tina Turner Rock Me Baby Outta Season Parlophone Catalogue 1969
2:37 PM		Ike & Tina Turner The Hunter The Hunter Geffen 1969
2:42 PM		Ike & Tina Turner The Things I Used To Do The Hunter Geffen 1969
2:47 PM		Ike & Tina Turner & The Ikettes Honky Tonk Women Come Together CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 1970
2:49 PM		Ike & Tina Turner Proud Mary Workin' Together CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 2016
2:55 PM		Tina Turner Whole Lotta Love Acid Queen

Chat is archived.

Welcome, everybody, to Serenade to a Cuckoo!

Happy Friday Jerry!

Happy Friday, Brian. I've missed you!

Greetings to Jerry and his Gordonaires.Glad to see Brian D in the house.

Heya, Jerry. Heading to sleep soon (hopefully) but I'm glad to still hear you on for the summer! I always keep my radio on your show when I'm trying to get some rest before work tonight.

Hi Patrick! What is the latest in your exciting lifestyle?

It's that time again...!

There you are!

I'm usually able to hear the first 15-60 minutes before I doze off.

Wow TAndy, I hope it is just that I am boring and you are not a narcoleptic

Hey Jerry headed out to see Roger Waters perform his opus Springtime For Hitlet

He's not entertaining, that's for sure

Good jazzy music (and sangert) always relaxes me for a good rest. As a kid, I used to always have my bedroom radio on WJJZ at bedtime :)

Afternoon Jerry. Looking forward to some "hot jazz" on this hot June day!

Yes, Sangert approves

Keep it.

Naturally

Hi Stephen, today's show is a little different. I think you will like it.

Thanks Dave, TAndy!

I'm sure I will...I like em all!

Anyone interested The Secret Cinema guy is showing a program of Rock n Roll in Tv sitcoms from the 60s and 70s. Including the classic Standells Munster appearance

How appropriate for the Munsters. I can't really think of any others but two where Phil Spector, that sickie, shows up

Really enjoying this track by your Jerry's buddy Ian Dogole.

And I'm keeping the poor sentence structure.

Christine, it shocks me how good it is, plus it fit into what I was trying to do here. I am guilty of playing it too much!

Message from the Ganges

Haha! This is where my head was at last night, drifting off into never never land like TAndy

It has The Seeds in the Mother in laws.The Beau Brummell and Elvis Pelvis in Sgt Bilko.No Spector or that recently deceased local wannabe mafioso.

Hahahaha. The Mother In Laws and the Seeds. Now that is an obscure reference. It was no "Our Miss Brooks!"

What an incredible start to the show! 🔥

And music in Sgt Bilko, my childhood mentor?

Thank you, Christine, this woman is amazing

After this track, someone is sure to say "The Percussion!"

Don’t remember the episode but I sure Sgt Bilko made a buck off it.Cathode Cool at its finest

Doberman, one of my favorite actors

It should be said: this percussion 🔥 🪘 (we need more varied drum emojis; no tabla?!)

Hey Jerry I haven’t seen a Major League Baseball game all season.And I’ve watched every Phillies game

This is what I needed today! Hey Jerry and Cuckoos!

Hi DSM, nice!

Good afternoon Jerry! Hello all!

Hi Parrscream, glad you're here! DSM, what is happening?

Thanks Jerry! Always happy when I get serenaded on a beautiful Friday afternoon.

Tonight CINÉSPEAK is screening the Philadelphia Premiere of “Hung Up on a Dream, a documentary about the Zombies with pre-screening tunes from DJ @john_liberator! @ReelTalkPhilly will also be hosting a meet-up! 👉🏽 Reel Talk Philly hosts networking events for the film, television, and content creation community of Philadelphia and surrounding areas every first Friday! Join them for pizza, canned drinks, mingling and more pre-film.

🎶 7pm DJ, Food & Reel Talk Philly Meet-Up 🎥 9pm Film

https://www.cinespeak.org/

Not too much Jerry, weekend is wide open and I'm trying to think what to get up to! What a problem to have right? haha.

At the Bowl in Clark Park in West Philly

I do like the Zombies....

For me, chilling is always a favored activity

aint nothing wrong with chilling, that's for sure!

Oh, I'm still Martha from a previous chat lol

Hey Jerry I was supposed to get a summer fill in program.Then I mentioned your name and they never called back.

Craig Taborn is performing a solo piano set tonight at Annenberg Center in West Philly: https://pennlivearts.org/event/craig-taborn

I encourage people in all walks of life not to use my nam in any endeavour; just the facts

DSM, are you sometimes DSMartha?

Thanks for the info, Russell!

Russ, can I assume you will be in attendance?

Thanks for all the great info Russ

Concert attendance is one of Russ' core beliefs

Jerry, no, just was part of some long winded unexplainable chat humor this morning haha

Hey Russ didn’t WPRB have a program of UK rock hosted by a guy named Barry . He had a great Brooklyn accent.I can’t find any evidence on the inter webs.

I will be at the Taborn concert. And I might try to catch the end of the Zombies film.

They played this at Russ's Bar Mitzvah

I was just singing this in the shower this morning

Hahahahaha

Jerry is the WPRB master. I don’t know Barry.

But I'm not surprised, of course

The Mokster

afternoon

Wow Bar Mitzvahs Rule!!The only music at my First Holy Communion was IRA rebel songs!

You should have heard my haftorah!

Sharif don't like it, @Mok

😃

😊

Yeah, Patrick, that was a rough crowd there and no one ate the gefilte fish

At Russ's bar mitzvah during his haftorah, he thought he was Leon Thomas but sounded like Patty Waters

There's that theme song...! 🐦 🎶 It's now officially Friday afternoon.

You never hear any good songs about haftorahs.or peninsulas or Luxembourg.

the weekend begins when the cuckoo sings

Nice version of East of the Sun. But I can’t help but hearing John Gilmore singing it!

Thank you, it means time to put everything back in your work desk

Is the TEMPLE U group that Dr.Terrell Stafford works with? They give a lot of great free or inexpensive shows.

Tina Turner did a killer cover of Under My Thumb

Yes, Patrick, that is correct, and this is a great CD

I have two free tickets to the Craig Taborn show tonight at Annenberg Center in West Philly. If you are absolutely sure you will go, email me at russellwoessner@gmail.com. Show is at 8 pm.

Wonderful gesture by Russ.A true mensch.Thanks again for those Taylor Swift tickets.

CINÉSPEAK just postponed the Zombies film until tomorrow at the same time.

I really hope someone takes up Russ on those free tickets. Craig Taborn is an important and exceptional pianist

Jerry really wanted those Taylor Swift tickets. He was going to do three hours of Swift singing girl group tunes in Yiddish!

I was going to take Jerry but I figured I would wait for the Spice Girls reunion

If I went to that Taylor Swift concert, she would be pointing to me and telling the security guard "Yes, there he is, throw him out"

LOL

I'm ready for the Spice Girls, Patrick, they're closer to my age

Mok, of all the tina turner I listened to for this show, I didn't listen to Under M thumb. I would play it on your recommendation, but I am really set on playing a different track from that album

I've worn the song out anyway. I'm ready for stuff im not aware of

wow

The show is at the Annenberg

That's a great auditorium. What a great offer, @Russell. I wish I could go!

could you ask them to move the show to Sunday ? 🤪

Mok, how did you become aware of that track?

during your last Stones cover-a-thon

My memory has short-circuited, maybe too much fairy dust in there

I think it was last year you did 3 Jerry's Rooms of Stones covers. Quite a riot :)

Good thing you told me, I was ready to do it again!

come to think of it ..maybe it was in 2021

PRB historian Brian D will know

according to my emails it was 12/2021. Time flies..ufff

Here’s the link to the Jazz Bridge fundraiser on Sunday: https://www.jazzbridge.org/calendar/jazz-bridge-fundraiser-for-the-monnette-sudler-fund-for-women-featuring-the-jerry-weldon-organ-trio/

I met Lucas Brown once . Nice Gentleman and great musician He was performing at the Big Piano store on Chestnut street

TINA TURNER 💔❤️♥️❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

She hot, MM!!!

🔥 🔥 🔥

Totally!!

Hello, DJ Jerry Gordon! Great show! Looking forward to your TINA 💖 tribute!

"You got me laughing when I should be ashamed"

I get the impression Top 40 radio wouldn’t touch that tune with a 40 foot pole

I love you, Daddy!

I completely appreciate the *Talents of the Musician* IKE TURNER. I also enjoy referencing their combined work as (IKE &) TINA TURNER❣️

Love this one! 💯

He was a rotten bastid but an amazing talent!

Hey MrM 💀, Boo 👻!

This Gem 💎🎵🎶❣️

Hi, ChristineBoo 👻💕

If memory serves, this was pretty much Spector's swan song as far as the Wall is concerned.

Hi Mike, I think you're right. But I recall reading that this was a STIFF, but everyone knows the song

It was indeed a stiff

[ OTIS REDDING ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 ]

I produced a version of the previous song, You got what You wanted, in the nineties: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrcqCvaQFdU

Well damn! Cheers to you, Producer Jerry Gordon!

Thanks, MM. A great record, if I do say so myself. TY!

This here is some cover!

the scratch in her voice starts kicking in

Fierce

Great Selections! 🎶🎵

Thanks MM

She's covering Led Zep, eh? :)

haha, and it won't be the last time

Hahaha

Last chance for Russ's free tickets to the Annenberg to hear Craig Taborn

i keep getting thunder storm warnings. I guess something is coming ⚡

something wicked this way comes 💀

I hope so....need the rain here

Here ya go, Mok

You're right, Mike!

ill take another Stones cover!

Queen of Rock*n*Roll 💔❤️‍🩹❤️♥️❤️‍🔥

Here we GO!

*running in place*

Tonight on Hollywood Palace, The Ike & Tina Turner Revue

i think Fogerty said "bou-nin" instead of burnin

Haha

song makes me want to watch The Blues Brothers

*shakin my tail•feather*

Now Leonard Nimoy can sing this song with Tina in the afterlife...

(Leonard recorded his version of Proud Mary back in the day)

Right!

Yep! Thanks everybody, I appreciate your fun and enthusiasm!

Thank you, Jerry...today's show was exceptional! 💯

Thanks, Christine!

Twas fun

Thanks Gordski great tribute great program great host.Like the three rings of Ballantine Beer

Lol....gotcha

Love it, Ballantine Ballantine Beer!

DJ Jerry Gordon! Appreciate you so much! Stay awesome! Many thanks and big cheers and kind regards to you!

Great show, Jerry! Thanks!

Backatcha, MM, you are a spiritual leader to many!

Whole Lotta Tina

I throw out my back just looking at pictures of a dancing TINA TURNER❣️ 🤣😫😭😇

Great version

Hi Rob F

:) :)

Don't watch Gimme Shelter then

I’m coming Elizabeth! ☠️

ROFL

Haha