Serenade to a Cuckoo/Middle of Nowhere with Fankie Tue May 21 with Jerry Gordon on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

Welcome, everybody, to Serenade to a Cuckoo in the Middle of Nowhere.

Liminal!

Liminal message forward and backwards. ..

Haha, it's the thing!

Brian, you are a liminal being!

I can always depend on you two!

Greetings to Gordski and his listeners. Liminal not so much.

But Patrick, you are NEVER sub-liminal!

Gordski O'routie McVoudie O'zoot.

Good day everyone

The incense is lit and the lava lamp is on

Hi Allan, the parking lot booth is ready, the stage is set!

Greetings to the great Allan a true oracle of Center City nostalgia

How is everybody today?

Call it ‘the shack’

@Patrick-hey

Patrick, do you know why I always reference the "parking lot booth?"

Hey Jerry I bet the live horse racing at PARX yesterday. Unfortunately most of the horses I bet on are just finishing today

I am growing long hot peppers with a Scoville rating of 40,000.

Russ has his hardware store, Patrick has his post office, Brian has Jon & Peter's Place and other venues thereabouts.

Jerry G! In the place to be!! Good evening everyone :)

Hi Tandy, thanks for being here!

Ah Patrick, the life of a comedian and PTC rider.

Russ, what are their current status?

They haven’t invented an A. I. Machine that can take the place of the great Gordon!

But it did create my current logos!

PTC-wow

Patrick still rides the PTC

Hey Jerry the horse trainers felt bad for me so they gave some manure to take home for my garden. I guess I broke even.

Peppers are looking good. Little pepper buds are just starting to appear.

@Jeery-i remember 20 cent fares and free transfers

This used to get blasted at the parking lot cutting through the haze

Anybody know what PTC bus I can take to Connie Mack Stadium for tonight’s Phillies game?

Farmer Russ, excellent and congratulations.

You bet. Early Traffic was quite psychedelic

Patrick, you didn't need any additional manure. Maybe give some to Russ

The A bus Patrick ran down Broad St

Patrick, you can’t take the Frankford El!

I don’t recall which bus ran up Lehigh Ave to the stadium

Russ I didn’t know you were a member of The American Dream.

Clearly, Allan, you went to the stadium and some Phillies games

Allan was and still is the dependable 54 bus. From somerset el stop

I spent my time taking the 44 from City Ave to King of Pizza on Market St. Allan would eat there.

Wow Patrick

I don't know how Russ was going from SW Philly.

King of Pizza had giant slices for 20 cents. 2 slices made a dinner

Yum

haven't had a better pizza since

They gave 2 paper plates spread out just to hold one slice

The pizza was gear

Stop teasing me. Sausage Pizza, yes indeed!

When it comes to pizza it’s DeLorenzos ….and everyone else.

During Christmas in the 60’s, a sidewalk vendor sold little bags of hot chestnuts for 10 cents. Methinks 12th and Market St

There’s some young uns blasting that hippie hop music at the school near my house.I am going to go give them a piece of my mind. Like the oldsters used to do when Jerry and Allan were blasting Traffic music .

LOL Patrick

Give them a joint instead Patrick

They laughed at me and said go home and listen to your Lawrence Welk music grandpa!!

Be careful, Patrick, they might stomp you

Perry Como-what did delaware, she wore a brand new jersey

Perry had a hit with an early Burt Bacharach song

I always thought Good Morning Starshine was Donovan . I am an old man I get confused like Uncle Leo

When I had TV, I would channel surf, and if I landed on Lawrence Welk - I’d stay there. He sure could polka his ass off

Oliver/Good Morning Starshine; Keith/98.6, Uncle Leo!

I could never pull off the Perry Como sweater look

Now that is funny!!!!!

He had some great talent. Big TinyLittle, Pete Fountain, and a lady named Cass I think played fabulous piano

Allan, you were WAY out there. My father loved it. It was like a sedative

Patrick-I wore Perry Como sweaters with that weird turtleneck they called a dickie

Donovan had a rough early 2024.

Far out!!!!

Hi Space Cowboy, greetings from Jerry and Steve Miller!

Perfect for the sunny ride home---- where did I put my bell bottom s?

@Jerry-I woukd sit with my Bubbie on Sat night holding hands and watching the Lennon sisters. I liked Janet. I was 8

That is the greatest story I ever heard. Ever!

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WILBO is a big acolyte of Big Tiny Little. Underrated genius

Russell-do tell about Donovan 2024

Nice marimba!

@Pattick-sbsolutely. I liked him at 8 years old

Would have never noticed without your mention, Russell. We will have to find out who that is.

That’s okay Allan . Just stay away from the Maguire sisters.Sam Giancana is watching.

Lol Jerry

How bout hurdy gurdy man

Yessir

I always thought Donovan would have made a great Cult Leader.

Patrick-I thought he was (wink)

That would have been a helluva cult to hang with. Allan, I have a song for YOU today, btw

Grooooovy!

Here you go Space Cowboy

You're pretty good, Cowboy!

In February 2024, Donovan was disqualified from driving for two years and fined €500 for dangerous driving by Skibbereen District Court in Ireland. A charge of being drunk in charge of a vehicle was dismissed, as the court determined it would be unsafe to convict him for that offence. The court heard that the singer was still working and that he supports charitable causes. He has lived in Ireland for thirty years, with no previous convictions.

Such a hip shrewd man to play big fat block of donavan on a sunny day ... perfect

Hey Gyp ???

I won't tell you

Wow Russell-

You tease

That Bubbie story makes me want to cry!

DWI driving while Irish 🇮🇪

Plus this mellow hippie music FREAKS OUT the square s at traffic lights

Russ, wasn't he Scottish?

And then ya flash a peace ✌️ sign to finish the job

It knocks them out!

She was perfect Jerry. I still miss her

Im so happy now

bidi cigarettes for all!

Mokest Mouse knows!

I liked folk Donovan a lot

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Yeah Allan he got bad treatment from Bob Dylan in that movie

Buying sugar cubes, you'll notice

Mokest Mouse -Sherman cigaretellos

The sugar cubes were for his horses

I know. That was a thing then. Dylan or Donovan?? They used to say Do Ivan was ripping Dylan off

Donovan was ripping Dylan off

Jerry Manero at the paint store!

Mike Carr played vibraphone on Wear Your Love Like Heaven https://www.discogs.com/release/471707-Donovan-Wear-Your-Love-Like-Heaven

Yes, Donovan was Scottish. Born in Glasgow.

MokestMouse, I truly embrace that! Really!

Patrick, maybe the horses you bet on

I too sit in front of the synagogue gathering my material .But the Bar Mitzvah never came

And in the beginning for me, it was The Byrds, The Yardbirds, and LOVE

Patrick, the rabbi heard you and went OY, forget about it!

Sitar version of this, Jerry

And Allan that beautiful story about you and your bubbie, I used to sit on the couch with mine and loved her dearly. Blind from diabetes.

Allan, I do have the sitar version in my inventory!

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@Jerry-Gromelsky was a Vildachaya

Haha, now that's serious information and true!

My bubbie was quite the cook and baker. Man-I miss her bad

I bet she made delicious cookies! Brisket! What else?

Invasion music trapped me. I gave up Motown for Invasion

Little muffins, schneken, cheese cakes, apple pies…on and on

And gefilte fish I bet

Her sweet and sour meatballs were the best

Any of you hippies see The Hollies live? Seems like they would be a good live show

Of course. She bought the fish at the store, brought it home, and made the gefilte fish. 3 different fish

Not me, Patrick. That would have been a special memory today. Don't remember them playing anywhere but I imagine they did around here somewhere.

@Patrick-no. They might have been at Steel Pier, but I never saw them

Great tune now Jerry. No Milk

It's all Graham Gouldman's doing!

Speaking of May birthdays, tomorrow is Sun Ra’s arrival day. Bob Dylan will be 83 on Friday and Marshall Allen will be 100 on Saturday.

Crazy

Hi all! Good show Gordon

It looks like Herman’s Hermits played Steel Pier as opener for Jerry Lee Lewis

Feels like Friday today

Hi Kevin, how are you doing?

@Jerry-Steel Pier had Invasion bands

Thanks

I thought it was Friday . I’m confused

Beatles. The Monkees with opening act Jimi Hendrix I believe

@Patrick - wow

That Diving Horse was iconic

Nice day today

Ha Patrick!

Patrick-today they call the diving horse animal abuse

Atlantic City beach still has on the beach jazz concerts in the summer. Chicken bone Beach Jazz

This song is killer

You wanna see animal abuse. You should have seen me at PARX racetrack yesterday

I go one beach north-Brigantine. Best kept beach secret

Patrick-punching horses in the face isn’t nice 😊

That was too far for non rich Philadelphians except those whose parents had places on Long Beach Island

He wasn't punching them, he was throwing peanuts at them

I spent many weekends in AC. High Hat Joes was a hang out

Jerry-or LSD sugar cubes tee hee

Unleashing my inner Alex Karras. Patrick just pawn in game of life

I bought all my Talking Heads albums at Third Street Jazz

Seeing them perform in the rain for free at Philadelphia Zoo was the highlight of 1979

Thank you for your purchases, Patrick!

Market savvy Jerry was all over that Punk thing early.Even though he couldn’t understand it.

I still have that red 1977 lp

That statement was absolutely correct in every way, Patrick

I have to go now. Great show as usual Jerry. Nice seeing everyone. Pink Floyd at the old Municipal Stadium for $2. Bobby Startup was the stage manager. 6 bands for $2

Who are these strange persons ignoring my extensive jazz collection on their way to the basement.?

Always love your shows Jerry! I was somewhere in my dorm Freshman year when I first heard these Talking Heads tracks - emblematic of the punk/new wave: SO COMPLETELY different and original compared to what came before.

Pink Floyd had to stop their show early because of a rain storm. The ground circuit on AC plugs wasn’t invented yet

See ya, Allan, thanks!

Bye all

Hi Bob, thanks for checking in. You're younger than me, that must have been an interesting time, experience, and perspective for you

TV first Gordski as a soundtrack for Phillies Rangers…Au Revoir to the great Allan

That's where Russ went! His ears are split on both

Bob, was you dad a publisher?

Ranger vs The Rangers

good one

Do you know my Ian Dury story?

No, he wasn't. Same name?

Yes, a famous publisher in Philly

Bob, how did the culture change in your first year of college due to the music and what was happening?

Thanks Jerry. What did he publish? Definitely no relation.

Magazines, but I forget which ones now

There really was a feeling of almost "anything is possible" - these bands (Talking Heads, Ramones, Blondie, etc.) were just doing stuff nobody ever expected and there definitely was a group of people that felt, wow, this is just such creative, innovative stuff - not to sound pretensious but abstract art seemed to just make a lot more sense after hearing this music.

Not pretentious! New York! Art! Coolness! Interesting to hear this from you!

And Archie Shepp will be 87 on Friday.

I can't do Herman, Marshall, Bob, an interview, AND Archie!

Yes, that was unforgettable for me. I loved your Punk/Third St. Commentary, so on the money!

Thanks Jerry - great conversation here

I saw Archie Shepp. At one those Princeton jazz ensembles. I believe Gordski did an interview before the show

I remember the Weekly Top 10 at the front counter.

You were open minded Jerry I remember getting into arguments with Genesis.Yes. Elp fan boys who said Punk musicians were illiterate morons who couldn’t play their instruments

I forgot about the list of singles, Patrick! It was very short lived.

Just like my comedy career

I will admit I couldn't grok the Mohawks, I was still heavy into Eric Dolphy!

(hair style)

Apparently I bought a B52s single from you that’s now worth 280 dollars

Also a Graham Parker EP LOCAL GIRLS B SIDE I WANT YOU back is worth something also

Wow! What makes the B 52s single valuable?

Graham Parker makes sense. Did you see his appearance in This is 40?

Not sure but I googled the EBAY.looks like the same one

No but I saw him at PASTORIUS park couple years ago . Great show

I used to love buying those EPS

Very savvy and fun

If you are able to contact Miles by seance , could you tell him I love his music but I just can’t get into that B….s Brew

He would curse you out, tell you that's your problem, and not bother with you again.

Patrick, Miles’ famous response was “How long do I have to wait for you?”

Didn't know that one, Russ! Good one!

Probably the cleaned up response.

Doesn't quite sound like Miles. The unexpurgated version

Hey Jerry if I see another article about Hall or Oates discussing their breakup please call Dr. Kervorkian for me!

Sickening

I love Miles. Love Don Cheadle .not a fan of that movie though. Miles running around with a gun for 2 hours acting like a maniac

Terrible, terrible movie. But Jerry digs it!

At least it had Phil Schaap!

Patrick, as an esteemed person, I hate to disagree with you so much today. You may have heard my opinion on it, and as Russell says, I freakin' love it. It is not a documentary, it's a vibe. Like Blow Up

Haha, Russ. Not as great an actor as he was a DJ

RIP to the great Phil Schaap . Still on WKCR 830 am weekdays

I just love the acting in that movie, Cheadle was so brilliant

Phil Schaap lives!

Hey Jerry nice of Bryce Harper to ask the girl to the prom for him. I did the same thing with Pete Rose and it didn’t go the way I wanted.

Patrick, I haven't read that story yet. What was the deal?

I hear the studio insisted on having a white co-star.

Is that from a bio you read?

Some neighbor of Bryce’s in South Jersey asked him to help a girl go to his prom. Bryce said sure . They went over and she said yes and hugged Harper

VERY menschy

Looks like another packed house. They have a shot at 3 million fans

Did they ever come close before?

Looks like 7 times in new stadium. Hard to believe . It only holds 44k. Looks like once at vet in 93

Harper roped a nice double

How is Suarez tonight? Great, I hope

So far so good he was down 1 to 0 but now they are ahead 2 to 1

I remember seeing Miles at Kool Jazz Festival at Penns Landing. Playing with his back towards us. I thought he was going to say The Mass in Latin.

Haha, one of his many endearing personality traits. You have to forgive him, he was KOOL

Just passing along rumors . Not from a bio. AFAIK.

Great to have you on Tuesday Jerry, great show!

I remember his disastrous in store appearance at Third Street when he spotted the prominent placement of Eric Dolphins LPS

Cheadle has said the casting of Ewan McGregor, who plays a journalist in the film, was partly because the actor had a high box-office appeal in territories outside North America: "I could have cast a huge French actor, or an Asian actor who's big in Japan, China, and try to make it work for that. Because it's all about selling foreign. No needle moved until we cast Ewan McGregor".

Thank you, Guelo! Glad to see you such an important member of the station.

Probably the cleaned up story from Cheadle!

The only nasty response I ever got from a musician at Third St. was from Debbie Harry who complained bitterly that I didn't have more people there for her in-store appearance. She thought she was in NY, I guess. She wasn't famous yet!

Well at least she didn’t steal any records under her coat.Great job by Gordski . Hope they use you for more fill ins. Everybody have a great rest of the week

You know what I'm going to say, Ewan McGregor was great.

Thank you, Patrick. You know my Ian Dury story! Thanks Russ! Thanks everybody!

And white!

5:00 PM		Sunny Kim, Vardan Ovsepian & Ben Monder The Curvature of Silence Liminal Silence Earshift Music 2023
5:03 PM		Jethro Tull Serenade to a Cuckoo This Was (Bonus Tracks Edition) Parlophone UK 2001
5:10 PM		Traffic Coloured Rain Mr. Fantasy (Deluxe Edition) Universal-Island Records Ltd. 1999
5:15 PM		Traffic 40,000 Headmen Traffic Island
5:16 PM		Traffic No Time to Live Traffic Universal-Island Records Ltd. 1968
5:27 PM		Blind Faith Sea of Joy Blind Faith Polydor Records 2001
5:28 PM		Stomu Yamash'ta, Steve Winwood & Michael Shrieve Crossing the Line Go - Live From Paris Universal-Island Records Ltd. 1976
5:40 PM		Donovan Season of the Witch (2005 Remastered Version) [Mono] Sunshine Superman The state51 Conspiracy 2005
5:43 PM		Donovan The Fat Angel Sunshine Superman (Stereo Special Edition) The state51 Conspiracy 2005
5:50 PM		Donovan Guinevere Sunshine Superman (Stereo Special Edition) The state51 Conspiracy 2005
5:51 PM		Donovan Wear Your Love Like Heaven A Gift from a Flower to a Garden Legacy Recordings 1967
5:55 PM		Donovan Hurdy Gurdy Man The Hurdy Gurdy Man Epic 1968
5:57 PM		Donovan Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness) Fairytales and Colours Castle Communications 1998
6:06 PM		The Yardbirds Heart Full of Soul Having a Rave Up With the Yardbirds Oldays Records 2018
6:07 PM		The Yardbirds For Your Love For Your Love Oldays Records 2018
6:08 PM		The Hollies Look Through Any Window The Hollies' Greatest Hits Epic/Legacy 1973
6:09 PM		The Hollies Bus Stop Bus Stop Oldays Records 2017
6:12 PM		Herman's Hermits Listen People Both Sides of Herman's Hermits Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group 1966
6:15 PM		Herman's Hermits No Milk Today Into Something Good (The Mickie Most Years 1964-1972) Parlophone UK 2008
6:28 PM		10cc I'm Not In Love The Original Soundtrack EMI 1996
6:33 PM		10cc Dreadlock Holiday Bloody Tourists EMI 1997
6:42 PM		Talking Heads Psycho Killer ( LP Version ) Talking Heads: 77 Warner Records 1977
6:44 PM		Talking Heads Take Me to the River More Songs About Buildings and Food Warner Records 1978
6:44 PM		Talking Heads Life During Wartime Fear of Music Warner Records 1979
6:45 PM		Talking Heads Once In a Lifetime Remain In Light Warner Records 1980
6:49 PM		Talking Heads Burning Down the House Speaking In Tongues Warner Records 1983
7:00 PM		Miles Davis Surrey With the Fringe On Top (feat. John Coltrane) Steamin' Prestige
7:13 PM		Miles Davis Quintet If I Were a Bell Relaxin' With the Miles Davis Quintet (Remastered) Prestige 2006
7:29 PM		Miles Davis Autumn Leaves Somethin' Else 1958
7:34 PM		Miles Davis On Green Dolphin Street Jazz Track
8:01 PM		Miles Davis Quintet Footprints Miles Smiles Columbia/Legacy 1967
8:05 PM		Miles Davis Guinnevere Circle In the Round Legacy/Columbia 1979

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