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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Apr 12, 2024 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!

Dan & Jerry 4.12.24 Fundraiser

Preview of the Princeton University Jazz Festival followed by the songs of the WIBG TOP 99 Records of the Week on Nov. 1, 1965

12:06 PM		Sun Ra The Idea of the Greater Age Space Is the Place (Music from the Original Soundtrack) 2023
12:13 PM		Blodwyn Pig Serenade to a Cuckoo All Said and Done Secret Records 2011
12:17 PM		Yuhan Su Liberated Gesture II. Arc Liberated Gesture Sunnyside records 2023
12:27 PM		Yuhan Su Character Liberated Gesture Sunnyside records 2023
12:42 PM		Miles Okazaki Years in Space Thisness Pi Recordings 2022
12:50 PM		Miles Okazaki The Lighthouse The Sky Below Pi Recordings 2019
1:33 PM		Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-pak Coalition Alap Agrima
1:33 PM		Rudresh Mahanthappa Overjoyed Hero Trio Whirlwind Recordings 2020
1:33 PM		Dafnis Prieto To the Concert (feat. Luciana Souza) Cantar Dafnison Music 2022
1:34 PM		Dafnis Prieto Big Band The Sooner the Better Back to the Sunset Dafnison Music 2018
1:34 PM		Dafnis Prieto Big Band Danzonish Potpourri Back to the Sunset Dafnison Music 2018
2:17 PM		The Rolling Stones Get Off of My Cloud December's Children (And Everybody's) ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 2013
2:17 PM		Bob Dylan Positively 4th Street single
2:17 PM		The Gentrys Keep On Dancing Keep On Dancing (Expanded Edition) Polydor 1995
2:17 PM		Gary Lewis & The Playboys Everybody Loves a Clown Legendary Masters Series: Gary Lewis and the Playboys EMI/EMI Records (USA) 1990
2:17 PM		The Beatles Yesterday Help! UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2009
2:30 PM		Roy Head & The Traits Treat Her Right Rock 'N Roll Classics Master Classics Records 2011
2:34 PM		Jonathan King Everyone's Gone to the Moon Everyone's Gone To The Moon - Single Marquis Enterprises Ltd 2010
2:35 PM		Len Barry 1-2-3 Len Barry's Greatest Hits - the Original Masters That Philly Sound 2008
2:35 PM		The Gants Road Runner Road Runner! The Best of the Gants Capitol Records 2000
2:36 PM		The Walker Brothers Make It Easy On Yourself Scott Walker & The Walker Brothers - 1965-1970 Island Def Jam 2009
3:28 PM		Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs Ring Dang Doo The MGM Singles
3:37 PM		The Turtles Let Me Be (Remastered) You Baby (Deluxe Version) FloEdCo 2016
3:38 PM		The Animals It's My Life The Complete Animals Parlophone UK 1990
3:39 PM		The Four Seasons Let's Hang On The Very Best of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons Rhino 2004

Chat is archived.

Hello Everybody! Welcome, it's Pledge Time on Serenade to a Cuckoo!

Listening from Plattsburgh, NY

Hey Russ, thank you! How's the beer there?

JERRRRRRRRRRY 🎷💥🎷💥🎷💥🎷

Jimboooo, you are swingin' already! Thank you for being here!

Did not seek out beverages in Plattsburgh. Just an overnight stop before the straight shot down the Northway.

Ra, Ra, Ra!

🐦 🎶

Whoa...theme song already?! Crazy!

Hi, pledger of WPRB!

@ Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) I heard the opening track while in another room, and knew immediately: "That's gotta be the Sun Ra Arkestra!" And so it was. Thanks for making playlist space for Space Is The Place.

Department of Icons Chief!

Hi All!

Hi there, Richard. Thank you! I hope you enjoy the show today!

Hi Jerry and Dan Buskirk....two jazz powerhouses on the mike!🎙

Stephen thanks as always, thanks for being an early bird and a consistent listener!

Love it, is that a microphone icon?

This is a cool version of Serenade to a Cuckoo!

Hey Rob F! Jethro Tull offshoot!

Yes it is! It is listed as "studio." 🎙 there's also a thismicrophone icon: 🎤

Walk tha bass.... hello all

Hi Brian!

I just pledged!!

Yay Stephen 🎷🎷🎷

We gotta keep supporting the best dang jazz show anywhere on the dial!

Stephen, thank you very much, our friend!

Thanks, keeping the Jazz Dept in business!

Greetings to Jerry, Dan and Cuckoo listeners.Like having Ruth and Gehrig on same team. Unless you prefer Jimmy FOXX and Al Simmons of the Philadelphia AS

At least we're not the Pancho Herrera and Tony Curry duo

Hey Gordski I used to pick up PRB In Elizabeth NJ when I was leaving the Santillos Pizza . Now gone due to a fire

I hear they make crispy pizzas there

Nice. Yuhan Su very good. Thank you.

@Jerry, you and Dan Buskirk *are* the WPRB Jazz Department. We gotta support the Jazz Department at all costs. 💸

How much do we have to contribute to make sure we don’t hear Jethro Tull again?

Happy belated birthday, @Dan Buskirk 🎂 🎉 🥳

I'll donate extra to hear more Jethro Tull!

Grandpa G in the hizzle

How much for a remastered version of This Was?

Hi Grandpa G, Hi LGK

Hi guys, glad YOU'RE in the "hizzle"

Happy hizzle day!

Hahaha. I'm in my hizzle dress as we speak, Valence!

Any Cuckoo listeners in the vicinity of Torresdale section of NE Philadelphia. They are having a series of FREE Jazz events at beautiful Glen Foerd Mansion.

Wow! Everybody's in show business!

Anyone planning on attending the Princeton Jazz Festival Saturday should also try to stop by the Paul Robeson House. They are having a day long series of events.

Great info, thanks @Patrick

Dan had a great overnight show on XPN . He was replaced by reruns of the Meglomaniac program director.

Dashing Dan Buskirk OWNS the airwaves!

Back in the days when XPN was really good.

Jerry’s Third Hour today will continue birthday tributes. Today Tiny Tim and David Cassidy

Hoping I can attend the the Princeton Jazz Festival evening concert - tbd

Lol @Patrick

Afternoon Jerry

Hi Ossy!

Hey Gordski make sure you watch the Phillies on the radio tonight . Those new alternate uniforms will make you violently ill

Great buy by Dan . O. V. Wright extremely underrated

Dan always honors my Annual Richie Kamuca request

HA!! There you go, @Patrick, your favorite, I think? 🙃

happy friday afternoon WPRB fam

jethro tull was a great band . this was is still a ground breaking lp. after stand up they became a product and ego of ian anderson.

Hi Cap'n Ahab, Terry, Ossy, Rob F & jimbooooOooo

Hi all. Yes, happy Friday

hi christine i am bruce terry was my wifes name

I really enjoy the Vijay Iyer you guys have been playing on WPRB

Hi @Bruce!

The Rock!

only 2 beatles songs in nov 65 were yesyerdat and help. by nov help was gone

oops yesterday just awfull

get off my cloud is twist and shout.compare them

After the success of Yesterday Capitol wanted a solo McCartney album but Brian nixed that

Hey Dan, Glassboro state radio, where my friend would play a whole Yes album side. :) I also did my time with the fishes in Alaska. Totally gets an acknowledgement donation! lol

hi mike dont know where that rumor came from not true at all

Ah but it is

Positively 4th Street thanks

4th street was aimed at all ppl that dylan abandoned the protest scene mostly aimed at phil ochs

Hi Captain, thank you from everyone for your exceptional shows. Nice to see you

Yesterday came suddenly

Captain, you have been very popular for a long time! I remember one listener who was a very critical one but loved your show.

hahaha why thank you Jerry that's very kind, I wonder who that listerner was

I am but a newcomer compared to so many of our esteemed DJs

@ Jerry & Dan Listening to these classic 1965 sides -- with a notable example being Gary Lewis & The Playboys' "Everybody Loves a Clown" -- it comes to me again just how well performed, recorded and mixed these hits were. Far from being the "junk" dismissed by grownups (I remember that well!), they're true works of musical art.

scrambled eggs oh you've got such lovely legs

larry raspberry of the gentrys had a huge local following down south

Capt, it was "john", he loved your show.

oh yes of course, John, may his soul rest in peace

didn't realize he was a critical one!

treat her right was first issued on local texas label back beat then picked up for national dis distributation

A dance contest with Roy Head , James Brown and Curly Howard would be epic

Patrick, you have me "Roffle-ing" right now.

Jerry’s hero Len Barry was one handsome guy. Surprised he didn’t get into Hollywood acting scene

Bruce, a song for you is coming up after this, specifically for you.

len was a phila guy and hated the british invasion

Shout out to Dan for recommending Princeton Public Library. Great Institution

ahhh the great scott walker

Scott Walker and his mates did the opposite British Invasion. His documentary is a must see

yep i gonna cry

We ♥️ the Princeton Public Library! 📚 Their Princeton Zine Fest last month brought a lot of cool makers and writers together.

Scott Walker was a Worried Waltz staple.

whats that mean christine

the gants opened for the animals in 65

stereo record king was a killer store

The only free promo I got from Third Street was a scratched Patti Page single

@Bruce, on 3/16 the Princeton Library held their first zine fest, which was all about the creation & circulation of 'zines, which is short for "fanzines." There are endless variations on every subject under the sun.

No, Patrick, I had thrown that single into the trash can and you nabbedit!

thanks christine

Also Princeton library great place for small children and free museum passes

Thanks to Gordski and BUSKIRK. Great Threeeee hours .

Anonymous is so generous...they give to basically EVERYTHING

Hahaha, jimbooooooo

Thanks for the nice words Jerry

Thank you, Jerry and Dan! 🎧 💯 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

👍 👂

Thank you, everybody!

Thank you Jerry and Dan!