Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon Fri Mar 8 with Jerry Gordon on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

It's Friday! Welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo!

It's that time! 🛹✨️

Indeed

Hi Christine!

Mike, Hi! I couldn't scare you guys away with my picture!

Nice skateboard from 1️⃣9️⃣6️⃣4️⃣, Jerry! Is Junior going to ride it?

Oh, yes!

*kickflip*

He does that and then I jump on

I should have been wearing my shades.

This is a great start

Hi Rob F, thank you. Let's see how you feel about this track when it is over!

Hi Jerry sounds great!

Sounding great. Happy Friday afternoon, everybody 🌤

Hi Brian, thank you!

Brian, in Jerry's Room you may hear some new mixes to old classics, which is something I know you enjoy.

Christine, this is your kind of weather. Bicycling weather!

Yeah, you're right Jerry! 🚲 Sad to say I am working this afternoon.

Wait, it's Friday!

Fuzak Cuckoo

There you go, thanks DTO

It's now officially Friday afternoon. 🎶 🐦

Thanks for making it official.

No, the cuckoo made it official!

Afternoon Selecta Gordon

Haha, Hi Ossy!

💚💛🖤

A compliment!

And SOTC Saturdays are the best, especially in spring and summer!

Ha Leslie Knope

Who is that, Mike?

The clip you just played...Leslie Knope and DJ Barney Wurbles

I thought it was funny, don't know them!

The show Parks and Recreation....big fav of mine

Never watched it but of course heard of it

The DJ is played by Dan Castellaneta

Here's the scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAbg8X9-uBI

thank you, look forward to watching it after the show, maybe an episode

ZZ∀ſ ➕️ ⅉ𝕒ẕ𝕫 = 🅹🄰🅩🆉

I dig it

You are the master, Christine. From my computer I don't see any easy way to even include a heart or a check here. You are turning letters upside down!

hey hey hey jerry.thought u were gonna do a dylan cover show

Tomorrow, two hours, from 6-8 pm

A really big shoe for two hours

so what is todaze

Nov 2, 1964 and WIBBAGE

wibg or wfil ? what was better

WIL didn't switch formats until 1966

WFIL wasn't our kind of stuff yet in 1964

WFIL

I knew we would hear from Mike!

I was a Hy Lit man!

Hello everyone

Hey Allan, how are you?

I’m good Jerry. Thank you

You were listening to WIBG, pre-parking lot!

jimmy page does not play on you really got me

who is the guitarist?

Yes I was. Also WHAT and WDAS

dave davies

Were you running the parking lot when you were 15? As we knew, you were advanced musically

Did Page play on the first album's "Revenge"? He has a writing cocredit.

Story goes that Dave got that sound from a broken speaker in his cabinet

Doesn’t get better than the Kinks and the Zombies!

lou costello of crusin 92.1 dedicates his show to hy every day

‘67 Jerry

jimmy plays on revenge and some harmonica bits.ray was not happy

no hermits play on dere records

Jimmy played some tracks on Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends

the searchers when you walk in the room is where the the byrds got that 12 string sound

‘64 was also America Invadion. Byrds, Beau Brummels, Paul Revere and the Raiders, etc

Invasion 😊

gerry marsden was a very humble guy he knew when it was over

🇬🇧

It seems that Herman's Hermits were bigger than the Stones.

chuck berry back in charts after that prison stay

Christine, get your Irish flag ready.

Hi DAvid, I don't think so.

When there were songs like Beep Beep, Big John, Purple People Eater it's not hard to see why the British Invasion was so new and exciting. The Brits taught us what to do with Rock and Roll.

Johnny Rivers had more success with Memphis

Right on, Brian. Beautifully stated.

allan that track was little marie

Gerry & The Pacemakers and Chuck Berry can be seen playing together in the "T.A.M.I. Show".

Terry -cool

I used to hear those songs wakinging up in 1959 to go to school. WOR Rambling with Gambling.

every newbeats song sounds the same

Doesn't matter, it's all in the falsetto!

Didn't they die their hair white and look like hillbillies?

Bread & Butter ?

Yeah, man

I remember my parents listened to WOR in the 70's and 80's. It was like a radio station plucked out of a time machine from the pre-rock and roll era.

Ringo reminds me of Big John

the newbeats last 45 was in 1974

dye

Bruce, that's amazing. Did it sound like "Bread & Butter"/

Good memory, Allan

the group whose hair all white was the hullabaloos. there sound was based on buddy holly

No, they were the other one

it was on playboy records

Cher's first record, "Ringo, I Love You", came out in 1964.

Seeing the Wibbage songs lost reminded me of riding my bike to a little record shop in Fairless Hills to buy my records

the snobs have all white hair with the buckle shoe stomp

I liked Jackie DeShannon a lot back then.

chers best 45 was dream baby from 65 big spector sound by sonny bono and the wrecking crew

Was that Mr. Lonely song the first song about the draft?

One of my first LP’s was Golden Hits of the 4 Seasons

Cool, Dennis, buying singles, being hip! Nice to see you here, thanks.

sorry under cherilyn

And here I thought it was going to be Al Martino

Quirky

to bad the 2 oldies station here in phila only play the stuff over and over

david that was released under bonnie jo mason

Hyski O’Rooney McVoutie O’Zoot

Live, love, laugh, and be happy

always wondered what it would of been like if JFK was alive in 64

Haha, Christine.

A band I never got into

written by brian and mike prod by gary usher

Mike, who are you referencing? Let me find you the Al Martino track

Beach Boys

I recently watched “Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution”, a 1967 CBS-TV documentary about inter-generational conflict and impending social revolution. To my surprise, a large part of it focused on Herman’s Hermits!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vyiGFRj5b-k

mike, check out their 67 to 1970 output.

I have....even all the SmIle stuff....doesn't do it for me

@ Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) Can you imagine The Hondells -- or any American band -- releasing a Japanese motorcycle-promoting song these days? Someone would dox them out to the local Harley-Davidson club, real quick ...

Slightly off topic ask here, but PRB folks are plugged into the Philly musician and sound network. Running a dance with a live zydeco band on Fri 3/15 and our sound guy just bailed. If you have any introductions to a sound tech who has their own gear (could be a band member who runs sound for their band, too) pls sent to comstuff2012@gmail.com and I'll take it from there. As PRB proved during the pandemic, the show must go on!

Heros and Villans is just awful.....I tried.

David, I will watch! Interesting and thank you.

Mike, you were an East Coast motorhead.

Good luck, Peter!

Yeah....and British Invasion guy I guess

beach boys today the first concept lp. a side fast b side slow the makout side

Hi Richard Rocky Hill, I was hoping you would be listening today!

Jay and the Americans

I'll go with Sinatra for first concept albums

Allan, a tribesman

Jan & Dean sing “Sidewalk Surfin’” live in the “T.A.M.I. Show”.

Ha-I know. Jay Black

Richard, I believe Harley Davidson gave in and starting manufacturing overseas.

I went to a movie theater to see T.A.M.I. when it came out

I never did, in fact I still haven't seen it ecept for a couple of you tube clips.

Harley is still in the US...they have a actory out by York....fantastic tour.

Jerry-you need to see it. Yardbirds, James Brown, Stones, etc.

allan sorry no yarbirds

Allan, you were in tenth grade, already smoking pot with Randy Monaco, probably

yardbirds

The TAMI show was a huge seller when VHS tapes were hot.

@ Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) Yeppers, here am I! And with a confession: I had never, ever previously heard "Little Marie," Chuck Berry's 1964 followup to his 1959 classic "Memphis, Tennessee." It finally whopped me upside the head to realize: The singer isn't having a shady relationship with a 6-year-old: Marie's his daughter! And he wants to get back with her mom! (I wuz dense ...)

Richard, I will listen more carefully!

Terry-I thought the Yardbirds was in TAMI?? Wow

that was the barbarians hey little bird

Jerry-ha ha

What year were the flashbacks in Edgar Wright’s “Last Night in Soho”? I don’t know if it was specified.

@ Mike Constantine Yes, indeed! As witness Sting singing in the Police song "When The World Is Running Down": "James Brown and TAMI Show / Same tape I've had for years."

the animals first hit written by er and alan price

eric

I read that Margaret Nolan made her final screen appearance in that recent Edgar Wright flick. In 1964, she appeared in “Goldfinger”, “A Hard Day’s Night” and a stag film that I can provide a link for (but it’s definitely NSFW).

Thanks, Jerry! I'll be tuning in tomorrow for the Dylan covers show, and I have my 🇮🇪 ready for next Friday.

Splendid show Jerry!

Great! Thanks, Christine!!! You are always prepared.Thanks!

Great show Jerry. Consider doing a show featuring Rory Gallagher

Thank you, Ossy, glad you liked it!

Thanks everybody for listening, tuning in, commenting, etc.! You are appreciated!

Was swell

Someone may report you for your comments on the Beach Boys

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