Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon Fri Feb 9 with Jerry Gordon on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

Welcome, everybody, to Serenade To A Cuckoo!

ello ello

Hi Mike!

Afternoon Jerry!

Stephen, good afternoon! Thank you both of you!

Nice start Jerry. Happy weekend! Good news heard that Herbie H & surviving Headhunters are doing a reunion gig . And unreleased Sonny Rollins from Village Vanguard set coming out.

Brian, you always have good information! Both interesting and welcome forthcoming events, thank you!

Greetings to Jerry and fellow Gordonistas. Looking forward to todays Third Hour Super Bowl tribute.Al Hirt,Grambling State marching band and Up with People.

Very mellow opening set so far!

Very special today will be a rare track, Patrick, of Archie Shepp performing with Up With People

Hi Russ. Bordering on depressing?

Not depressing at all! Cismic!

Cosmic!

Pithy!

The only thing depressing is that Serenade is not a daily show

Jerry Philadelphia has another Tyrone Brown in the jazz diaspora.saw him at Cheltenham .Wednesday night .He is a vocalist and An acolyte of Billy Strayhorn.

Everybody, yesterday Russ tripped over a skid of Tired Hands Peanut Butter Stout located next to his other skids of stout!

Thanks, Patrick. I saw that name and it made me blink! I was surprised. How was that show?

Well done entertaining with Dave Posmontier.I believe the other Tyrone Brown has retired. I never see any performance. Truly a great underrated performer

Patrick, you get around! And have very varied and deep musical interests!

Hello My Brother the Wind .... thanks for the tunes - Listening real time this week.

Great! Thank you for your deepness, Senor Vildechaya

Space be da Place!

SUN RA should be the Super Bowl halftime entertainment

I remember calling the Evidence office and asking if I want to buy the entire Sun Ra collection could I get a bargain? They said no. I ended up with the collection anyway

I have on Sun Ra album I have never opened - I treat it like a bottle of wine I am saving for a special occasion.

Benji, I always think of you as wearing a smock and listening to WPRB in your studio while creating a 21st century "David" that is circumsized

That was probably cheap and nasty Jerry Gordon on the line, Benj

No it was a woman... your 'assistant'?

I came into a huge collection of classical CDs that weren't opened through an inheritance. I took them to HMV where they were willing to let me trade them one for one - so I traded in the Beethoven, Mozart, etc for Sun Ra

Wow, that was a wonderful deal for you! Shrewd!

Patrick, that would be entertaining. This band would make a good halftime show, expand NFL's international popularity. The Eagles will be playing their first game of the year in Sao Paolo. For real

#9 will always love you!

Sun Ra refuses to die!

How great would it be if instead of Usher, Marshall Alan walked out in his cosmic outfit.

The Modern Day composer Sonny Blount refuses to die!

It's time, he's 100 years old just about!

He should bust out of a box!

O espaço é o lugar

Si!

Speaking of old, The Wild Bohemians, my Mardi Gras Band - lead our 40th Annual Mardi Gras Parade on South street in Philly this Sunday - Before the superbowl. Should be a blast

If I'm 100 I'm not getting in a box

Traditional Mardi Gras and New Orleans Jazz

Benj, I know you will be inserting Ra and klezmer references that will be recognized by the enlightened few. Congratulations on that gig!

Mike, glad to see you are prepared for the future.

Russ, that's how we all good into Edgar Varese!

Your brain is always working!

... sandman

I like they started with the Bass taking the head on Sandman - cool arrangment

Where is our iconographer?

right

There's a vocal jazz song that ends with James Moody You Can Blow Now if you Want to ... We're Through... I used to hear it a lot on WPRB - Who did that tune?

Benj, I think I said this last week, how often are bass players who take the lead so interesting and fun? Yeah, real good, Benj, and you should still be putting out recrdings.

King Pleasure

referencing the James Moody/Betty Carter original

Searching that phrase leads to the Eddie Jefferson version of Moody's Mood for Love too

Found out about Eddie Jefferson thanks to WPRB

That Brasil Sun Ra thing was great. Yes they had some Portuguese bits in there. Mostly English tho

Cool thanks . I discovered a lot of great music at Jerry's 3rd Street Jazz - now WPRB is my access to his wisdom

Deep Space People

I know I heard Will Constantine play Moody's Mood For Love a lot. And other djs here

Thank you, Benj

This is the real deal

Love this Alice Coltrane piece!

Glad you liked that, Stephen. Just Beautiful!

hi jerry TRAFFIC did feelin good many times in 1968 live

Hey Bruce! Who can gorget THAT version, brilliant!!!

Fried Neck Bones

Same groove different tune..

santana in the early days a geat version of fried neckbones and homefries

Yup - I actually learned it from playing in a latin band that does it. One great thing about playing with other musicians and going from band to band is all the music you learn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Arena

Awww beep beep! Bang bang!

And you realize no, it wasn't written by Joe the bass player, it was written by Santana -

Feel good tunes

Seems Alice Coltrane and friends played here in August 1971

Haldzl. Yiddish for Chicken Neck Bone. My mother had me sucking on them until I went off to college!

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/alice-coltrane/1971/philadelphia-arena-philadelphia-pa-3b9c68ac.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Arena

There Ya go - how am I supposed to get any work done. dancin'

Steve, thank you so much. Everyonce in a while I go into research mode trying to find out more about the date and location of that show. Yes, the Arena! Did you find a mention of the concert anywhere? Thanks for filling in an air pocket of my brain with this info.

I think Fried Neckbones was written by Willie Bobo

Good day Jerry and everyone

The setlist link inlcudes Nikki Giovanni and Pharoah Sanders on the bill, not much more

Hi Allan

Hi

Ust found it thanks to you, Steve! 8/29/71!

'bang bang' was the jam at PU Black student parties in the late 1960s

Ah ok - Willie Bobo not Santana - it is tough to track all this - and does it really matter if we're playing the song at a farmers market and there's more vegetables tham people listening?

Hey Allan, glad to see that boyish hippie face of yours. You will like Jerry's Room today. Hope you are well.

it was bill graham that told carlos to lay off the long instrumentals and suggest evil ways by willie bobo

Jim, your arrest at one of those parties doing the boogaloo is legendary!

Hi Jerry. I’m well and hoping the same for you. Can’t wait for The Room

Hi Jerry, Is Will Jr visiting your house today?

That's Rico Calamari to you

Hi Lance! No, but he is my inspiration.

You are so right, "Rico Calamari's" airplay and endorsement of salsa music is one of the many unique paths Will has taken and exposed us too! Thank you for that!

Rico, yes, how are you?

When are you coming back?

Lance, Rico recalls you and his cousin Mike fondly! I hope he comes back!

You are hitting all the sweet spots today jerry. Dan Hicks & Hot Licks did a lovely version of this song My Dad....

Villie, I knew you would comment on this track!

Vildy!

Cool!!....a Beatles show

Love the Dan Hicks version of Song for my Father too. Great album that one "Tangled Tales".

Left hand on the piano here makes it

Thank you psychedelic Bruce Kelso for the inspiration to do this show!

Any Arthur Alexander in the playlist today ?

Sounds like boojie woojie to me

I can diggit, Allan!

No Arthur Alexander today!

brian epsteins record store nems was mecca for obsure u.s. records both from the usa and the uk

he ordered one copy of every release

Since Liverpool was a port city, those records came in

George Martin on piano here

george was the fifth beatle no doubt about that

Thanks Mike. I was too embarrassed to ask. I thought Nicky Hopkins

This is the information Mike Constantine has at his fingertips. I have suggested to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame that Mike, Bruce, and Allen are admitted.

Lol 🤣

Great knowledge, Cuckoos!

I'll go toe to toe with Jann Wenner

i always found it amazing the the stones first was a blues band but by 64/65 they were covering soul and r&b.

And win!

My geezer brain just figured out Mike and Will Jr are two different people, my apologies.

I wanted to be a DJ back then. I used to visit Ed Sciokky at WDAS on Sunday mornings on Belmont Ave

Mike is Will's PA cousin. They both have that gene!

Live mic - typing - just sayin...

Dave Herman-Marconi’s Experiment was early Philly FM

Unless it's just in my head

Ah!....not a problem Lance

Jerry-cool tunes so far 👏

And I'm taller than Will :)

Thanks, Allan. I loved your Ed Sciaky story. Why am I not surprised?

john devereux show on wifi was the first station to play ungerground music dave herman came few months later on wmmr

An important historical footnote from Bruce!

I first tuned into WDAS Fall of 68

thers 2 verions of do wah didy. the familer one and a longer one with a organ solo in the middle, listen for the edit in pauls vocal

That’s about right Mike. My Father's Son, Steve Leon, played very different between 2A and 6A on WDAS

Very different music

Yes!!

i remember what steve was fored for playing so called drug songs when spiro agnew decarled the puff the magic dragon a drug song

One of my top 3 favorite bands back then. The Yardbirds

fired

Terry-really??!

Too bad the Spiro went to jail for bribery and corruption.

the station went off air during creams version of spoonfull

Loved The Marconi Experiment. It’s a shame how Dave Herman ended up.

Benj, you're the best!

Jerry-I think Heart Full of Soul was when Clapton left-soon after anyway.

jeff beck on guitar

That's right, thanks Bruce

Russell-what happened to Dave?

I listened to Dave for the second time during my NY days on WNEW....and it ended up real bad

Allan, you won't like THAT story!

eric left cause he hated for your love and only played on the bridge

Not at all

Thanks Terry-my bad

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Herman_(DJ)

Worst than drugs Mike?

Underage girls

Way worse tha drugs

WOW-just read the link Russell. Jeez

dave was caught in a sting operation died before trial in jail

his show was only 2 hours a day at night 7 to nine

Chaz-great bass player

the beatles flying was his intro theme song

I remember that now that you mentioned it Bruce

Terry-he used to play the LP version of Light My Fire.

chas chandler said when drummer john steel left the animals they lost their swing

Arise my heart, and fill your voice with music. For he who shares not dawn with his song, is one of the sons of ever darkness.

I first heard the album version and the song itself, Light My Fire, on Johnny Devreaux's show. My FIRST underground DJ!

t mogan went to England in early 67 and it was his lps and 45s that johnny played at wifi

Mike-was that Herman’s intro lines??

Yep

Mike-cool

the hermits do not play on their records

jimmy page on this one

Great show Jerry. I’m happy

Great Allan, thank you!

I like it like that

Yeah, man!

the DC5 had the most ed sullivan tv apearances

18 times

The MC5 didn't

I remember the ‘battle of the drummers. Dave Clark or Ringo?

Ed Sullivan despised the MC5

the MC5 did many tv shoes from 67/70 in detroit

Kick out the jams-MFer’s

Allan, do you remember the teen magazines "Beatles vs The Dave Clark Five"?

they shoudnt have done that killed their carrier

Yes-I do Jerry. ROTFF 😂

career

Then it was Ringo vs Charlie Watts

I was a Dave Clark 5 fan - we had 'votes' Beatles vs DC5 - I ended up on the wrong side of that one. Thanks for a great show today Jerry.

Lot's of VS articles in those Tiger Beat and 16 Magazines.....pretty angry stuff

Thanks, Benj, you have made me laugh several times today!

georgie fame had the hit with yeh yeh

Class Clown at your service

You are excellent at it, hence your eviction from Hebrew School

Jerry…did the Beatles do Stay by Maurice Willams and the Zodiacs?

my computer is smokin with all these groovy far out boss sides

I don't think so. Maybe the Four Seasons?

Ok 👍

They didn't

Thanks, Bruce!

Greatindist shows. Thanks you for the musics and services.

Mike is the definitive voice, Allan, on all things Beatles. Period

And Bruce, of course.

I bow my head 😔

Thank you very much DBG

thank u jerry for that

Great job Jerry. Thanks for the Will Constantine Jr tribute

Bruce, you knew everything when you were 13!

Terry-here ya go !

Thank you, Patrick. You are one of Philly's primary documenters of music, art, and fashion!!! And the PTC

Terry and Bruce-one and the same

yes terry was my late wifes name its her facebook

Thank you for listening, evrybody and for your participation and fun!

Was wonderful

Thanks, Mike!

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