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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Aug 15, 2025 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Music

With Jerry Gordon

Serenade to a Cuckoo & Jerry's Room: first a two hour jazz show featuring new, modern jazz releases or special jazz features, followed by a one hour show of various themes that are non-jazz, including pop, r&b, rock, and blues from the forties thru the seventies! You will love it!

8.15.25 Sheila Jordan/Blues Masters with Rock Acolytes

We honor Sheila Jordan who passed this week, followed by an hour of Blues Masters and their rock acolytes recording together

12:00 PM		Painkiller Panormita The Equinox Tzadik 2025
12:07 PM		Roland Kirk Quartet & Rahsaan Roland Kirk Quartet Serenade to a Cuckoo I Talk with the Spirits Verve 1963
12:14 PM		Sheila Jordan Sheila's Blues Detroit Jazz City Blue Note (BLU) 2015
12:28 PM		Sheila Jordan If You Could See Me Now Portrait of Sheila Blue Note (BLU) 1962
12:32 PM		Sheila Jordan Falling In Love With Love (Remastered) Portrait of Sheila Blue Note (BLU) 1962
12:42 PM		Sheila Jordan Dat Dere Portrait of Sheila Blue Note (BLU) 1962
12:42 PM		Sheila Jordan It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Comes Love
12:52 PM		Sheila Jordan Confirmation (feat. Harvie S & Alan Broadbent) [Live] Better Than Anything (feat. Harvie S & Alan Broadbent) [Live] There Records 2015
12:53 PM		Sheila Jordan I Concentrate On You (feat. Harvie S & Alan Broadbent) [Live] Better Than Anything (feat. Harvie S & Alan Broadbent) [Live] There Records 2015
1:02 PM		Sheila Jordan & Arild Anderson Better Than Anything Sheila
1:04 PM		Sheila Jordan & Arild Anderson Don't Explain Sheila
1:08 PM		Sheila Jordan & Arild Anderson Please Don't Talk About Me Sheila
1:22 PM		Roswell Rudd What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? Flexible Flyer 1201 Music (Americas) LLC 1974
1:23 PM		Sheila Jordan Body and Soul Body and Soul
1:25 PM		Sheila Jordan How Deep Is the Ocean Body and Soul
1:44 PM		Sheila Jordan & Mark Murphy Where You At? One For Junior
1:54 PM		Jane Bunnett The Water Is Wide The Water Is Wide
1:56 PM		Eric Alexander & Vincent Herring & Vincent Herring Strollin' Split Decision
2:04 PM		Steve Miller Band with James Cotton Big Boss Man live
2:16 PM		Albert King Pride and Joy (Live) In Session (With Stevie Ray Vaughan) [Live] Stax 1999
2:17 PM		B.B. King Hummingbird Indianola Mississippi Seeds Geffen* 1970
2:22 PM		B.B. King If You Love Me (feat. Van Morrison) Deuces Wild Geffen 1997
2:25 PM		B.B. King & Roger Daltrey Never Make Your Move Too Soon 80 Geffen 2005
2:33 PM		John Lee Hooker & Canned Heat Whiskey and Wimmen Hooker 'N Heat EMI/EMI Records (USA) 1971
2:35 PM		John Lee Hooker Chill Out (Things Gonna Change) [feat. Carlos Santana] [2007 - Remaster] Chill Out BMG Rights Management (US) LLC 1995
2:40 PM		Muddy Waters Walking Through the Park Father's and Sons
2:54 PM		Muddy Waters I'm Ready (feat. Otis Spann, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, Donald "Duck" Dunn & Sam Lay) Fathers and Sons Geffen 1969
2:58 PM		Buddy Guy Cognac (feat. Jeff Beck & Keith Richards) The Blues Is Alive and Well Silvertone 2018
2:59 PM		Junior Wells Get Down (feat. Carlos Santana) Everybody's Gettin' Some Telarc 1995

Chat is archived.

Welcome, everybody, to Serenade to a Cuckoo!

New Painkiller?!

Happy Friday to Jerry and everybody!

Jim, hi, yes!

Hey Rick, Happy Friday, glad to see you!

Hi Jerry Hi everyone

Adam, hi, happy Friday!

Glad we all made it to another Serenade

Another week down

Adam, I'm with you on that.

There’s that theme song!

Greetings to Gordski and his listeners. On this Feast of the Assumption Friday I will make the Assumption that this will be 3 hours of stellar radio

As an addendum to the last 3 weeks this weeks third hour will feature a tribute to Charles Manson including outtakes from Charlie’s Monkees tryout and his audiition tape for Terry Melcher.

Hi Russ Woessner! Thank you for your help!

Hi Patrick, thank you! Oy Terry Melcher, what a putz!

Hi Jerry, hi chat!

Sorry to be tardy for the party 🎶 🐦

Hi Christine, thanks for joining. I think you will like the incredible life of Sheila Jordan.

Jerry, I must say that I did not experience very much of Sheila Jordan in my listening experience, but I am very impressed by what I'm hearing now.

So unique, so special. Unfortunately I did not know her, but our friend Russ Woessner knew her for 40 years!

For anyone interested in Sheila’s life, I recommend Ellen Johnson’s biography: https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/jazz-child-a-portrait-of-sheila-jordan-biography-by-ellen-johnson-released-by-rowman-and-littlefield/

Thanks, Russ

I was lucky to know Sheila for 45 years. My wife and I met her in 1980.

You can't get any closer to Jazz than Sheila Jordan. That's amazing, Russ

88.9 had a copy of Portrait of Sheila. We loved it. We checked the NYT listings every week but never saw a listing for Sheila. Then one day we saw that she was playing at club on 7th Ave. We called and reserved tickets and told them that we were coming from Philly. After the show we asked to meet Sheila and said we were the ones from Philly. Sheila came out and said “You came all the way from Philadelphia?” She gave us her phone number.

Thanks for the recommendation, @Russ. 📖

And excellent anecdote!

Russ, I can't believe no one stole that album. Righteous!

We interviewed her in her apartment for a Women’s Day 3 hour show on 88.9. She sent us reel to reel tapes of her previous recordings (which I still have).

Great biographical information, @Jerry & @Russell.

Thanks, Christine. Her music was so great I feel like I knew her. But I never met her.

Like a lot of qualified creative artists, I wonder if Sheila suffered from imposter syndrome.

Hey, everybody! Happy Friday!

Has anyone seen the new Naked Gun movie with the scene where Pamela Anderson's character scat sings? Very funny.

Sheila was a very kind and generous person. We asked her to do a benefit concert for 88.9. I did not want to rent a piano and I knew she had played bass & voice with Peter Ind & Steve Swallow. So I asked her if she would do a duet concert with Harvie Swartz. She agreed. I didn’t realize that she and Harvie had not played as a duo before, although they both played in Steve Kuhn’s group. Harvie was skeptical about sustaining an audience’s interest for a full concert.

Hi Danosaur. No, but I'm a fan!

Russ, you were a part of history right there, it's still hard to believe. You should have produced records!

Hey Danosaur! 🦖

Sheila and Harvie worked for weeks to develop a program of duets. Based on the audience’s enthusiastic response (multiple encores), they decided to continue to perform as a duo. And the rest is history!

Thanks Russ you truly are our minister of information. I do you remember what year Sheila played the Charlie Parker jazz festival

We saw Sheila perform between 15 and 20 times. Four times in Philly, twice in San Francisco, once in Princeton, once in Baltimore, many times in Manhattan and Brooklyn. And once at William Patterson University in NJ. The only musician who rivals Sheila in terms of the number of times that I saw them perform is Sun Ra.

Oh, yeah! Love this song

Hi all. It's an honor to lurk among you!

That bass!

Hi Ears, the honor is ours!

Boy, how good do you have to be to sustain a song with just your voice and a bass?!

Danosaur, you make an astute point!

Patrick, I believe that was 2013.

https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/night-life/charlie-parker-jazz-festival-2

Hey, ears!

Hi, Ears 🌌

Hello, Christine 𓅓

Speaking of XPN Gordski they kneecapped another old guy. What a bunch of bloodless pharaohs!

Who is that, Patrick?

Oh no, @Patrick

That nice Chuck Elliot fellow. Doesn’t Commandant Dye realize……..He’s old!!!

Nice to hear the great Mark Murphy!

Enjoyed a free Joan Osborne concert in bucolic HADDON Heights . Last night. She did a lot of Bob Dylan music.

Cool, Rick!

Thanks, Jerry.

Jane Bunnett 💜

What was the scene like there, Patrick? How did she sound/

Christine, that black and white photo you liked of Sheila came from a post by Jane.

Good to hear @Patrick. I figured that storm on Wednesday would rain out the concert that day.

@Jerry, that's fantastic

She sounded great. What a nice person . Audience somewhat somnolent due to the reschedule. Can you imagine a big timer like that have a rained out free show and then agree to do it the next night!!

Happy 99th birthday to the late great sadly forgotten Philadelphia jazz singer Buddy Greco..

Wow @Patrick! I figured Joan's concert was rained out, and that was it. What a gift.

Get out of. here

She took a lot of stick for If God Was One of Us but I find her quite talented

Hey Mike. I LOVE her!

And she has to appear in Woodstock night . Maybe it’s that Levon Helm barn place?

Right??

There's a Bethel Performing something or other there

Her Dylan covers much better than what I was subjected to Tuesday in Gloucester. At the end of the Kenn Kweder show Michael Tearson got up and sang A Dylan song. I believe Junior would have sounded better

@Patrick, is Joan Osborne performing tonight at the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock? That's a cool place.

Oh dear

Junior is constantly working on his chops. In fact, we had lamb chops the other day!

This is a so cool tune, yes indeedy!

Haha! I forgot, did Horace Silver write this, Rick?

This song has your name all over it

Christine looks like some place called COLONY.

In the middle of Tearson singing I called Gloucester FD to report a dumpster fire.

Can't imagine

Jerry, you stumped me on that one!

This is an absolutely tremendous versioin!

Horace Silver, I think

Yes, Horace Silver wrote Strollin’

Hello

Hey Rob, great to see you! Are you ready to Rock y Roll?

Any birding today?

Steve Millers godfather was the great Les Ford. Perhaps leading him to his Jazz pathway

Hi Jerry! Staying inside after my walk, had a mid-day acupuncture session, just laying low right now because it's so hot and humid. Birding tomorrow though

Hey Rob MD will the Ravens fly to the Super Bowl this year?

And how about you, Jerry?

Patrick, I have no idea, I don't follow sports at all

In the eighties somewhere! I don't bother with that anymore. We have plenty of birds hanging out at our birdfeeders, the dogs and I watch them within the air conditioning

My favorite Big Boss Man version is Nancy Sinatra singing to Phil Leotardo in the Sopranos

Great Leon Russell song

Phil's hair was so thick that no air got to his scalp. But Nancy Sinatra may have made his hair stand

Nancy Sinatra …whatever happened there!

You got it, DanoSaur. With Leon on piano

van Morrisson ?

Free concert next Thursday Bobby Zankel and his warriors of Woo. 7 pm Hawthorne Park 12,th and Catharine

Yessir Mr. Aiffrig

Van orrison....Mr Sunshine

thanks Gerry

Haha, Mr. Sunshine! Affrig, guess the guest star on this one

Imagine Van Morrison/ Don McLean tour. Masters of misery

Anyone... without cheating. He hasn't shown up yet

Thanks @Patrick! I'm a block away from Hawthorne Park

Donnie Osmond?

i need nu glasses thanks Jerry

Throw Don Henley in there too

There was the clue

wife only had to work half day , soakin up sunshine in clearwater and beer can't hurt , thanks for the tunes

The Doctor said I can only have one beer per day. I said but Doc I’m Irish !! She said okay Just 7 a day though.

I never would have guessed

Haha, did you write that one?

No, beer on a day like today can be very medicinal, enjoy!

martini here

Would that be with an olive, sir?

Is this Muddy Waters with the Stones?

Ears, it's John Lee Hooker with Canned Heat

Olive takes up too much room

Haaaaaaah!!!!!!!!! Love that!

Ears, redeem yourself. Who is this on guitar?

Ohh :-)

Carlos!

Santana?

Ding, Ding, Ding!

didn't think we lived in upstate ny, luv eatin olives out of jar

Lol. I wasn't gonna risk guessing wrong twice in 5 minutes

John Lee Hooker watching the Dodgers on his new HD tv thanks to the royalty money Bonnie Raitt got him is the coolest

Thing

I think that was a good move, Ears!

Ears, watch out, we may challenge you again

Don't confiscate my mojo

Thanks Jerry. Everyone have great weekend and be careful telling Irish Jokes at an AOH fund raiser. Humorless shamrockolios.

@Patrick, you scamp

You have a good weekend too, Patrick

Hi @Christine

my wife's irish and catholic , tell em to bite me if they can't take a joke , that's what she said

Hi Ears! 🌌

cognac horrid stuff

Hahahaha. Aiffrig, your wife is very representative of our listeners

You got your martinis, Mike. What vodka is that?

Kettle One

smooooooooooth

Mike, you are so right!

Yep!

Cheers, Jerry...these past three hours flew.

Thanks, Christine, have a great weekend! You are the best. Tell them you need a raise!

Jerry, you gave us another wonderful show that was very entertaining! Everybody enjoy your weekend!

I wish everyone a good weekend, and freshly-mixed cocktails to all those who partake.

Hear hear!

Thanks , Rick, always a pleasure!

Thanks Jerry!

Everybody, thank you for partaking in the chat, for listening, and get down this weekend!

Gotta get up first

Just stay there!

Ha!

Till next time

Thanks, Mike

And thank you