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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Sep 19, 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!

9.19.25

To celebrate John Coltrane's birthday on 9/23, we will play two hours of Classic recordings that feature John Coltrane as a sideman! In Jerry's Room, one hour of musical birthdays of people born in the first 10 days of September!

12:00 PM		Rudy Royston Into Elvin Panoptic
12:01 PM		Roland Kirk Quartet & Rahsaan Roland Kirk Quartet Serenade to a Cuckoo I Talk with the Spirits Verve 1963
12:11 PM		Tadd Dameron Soultrane Mating Call (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster) Prestige 1957
12:17 PM		Paul Chambers Dexterity (feat. John Coltrane) Chambers' Music: a jazz delegation from the East (feat. John Coltrane) EMI MUSIC JAPAN INC. 1956
12:26 PM		Sonny Rollins Quartet Tenor Madness (feat. John Coltrane) Tenor Madness (Remastered) Prestige 2014
12:42 PM		Mal Waldron Don't Explain Mal/2 Lumi Entertainment 2013
12:50 PM		Cecil Taylor Shifting Down Hard Driving Jazz
1:08 PM		Sonny Clark Speak Low Sonny's Crib Sinetone AMR 1958
1:11 PM		Art Blakey Midriff (2012 - Remaster) Art Blakey Big Band (2012 - Remaster) Bethlehem Records 1959
1:18 PM		Miles Davis On Green Dolphin Street (feat. John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans) Birth of the Blue SMCMG 2024
1:57 PM		Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane The Sleeper Cannonball Adderley Quartet In Chicago
1:57 PM		Franklin Kiermyer Bayaka Mosambo forthcoming album
2:06 PM		Tadd Dameron Soultrane (feat. John Coltrane) Mating Call (Remastered) Prestige 1956
2:07 PM		Grand Funk Railroad The Loco-Motion Shinin' On (Remastered) Capitol Records 1974
2:08 PM		Bee Gees You Should Be Dancing The Ultimate Bee Gees Bee Gees Catalog 2009
2:10 PM		Archie Bell and the Drells I Can't Stop Dancing single
2:14 PM		Soundgarden Black Hole Sun Superunknown (20th Anniversary) A&M 1994
2:17 PM		Memphis Slim Mother Earth (Remastered 2025) At The Gate Of Horn (Remastered 2025) Craft Recordings 2025
2:22 PM		Freddie King Look On Yonder Wall Woman Across the River The Right Stuff 1973
2:27 PM		Little Milton Walking the Backstreets and Crying Walkin' the Back Streets Stax 1981
2:30 PM		Buddy Holly I'm Gonna Love You Too Not Fade Away: The Complete Studio Recordings And More Geffen 2008
2:39 PM		Roy Ayers Hummin' In The Sun Ubiquity Verve Reissues 1970
2:45 PM		Pretenders Brass In Pocket Pretenders Rhino/Warner Records 1980
2:45 PM		Roy Brown Love Don't Love Nobody (Mono) 1950
2:48 PM		Otis Redding Try a Little Tenderness (Remastered) Complete & Unbelievable...The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul (50th Anniversary Edition) Rhino Atlantic 1966
2:53 PM		Dee Dee Sharp I'm Not In Love Happy 'Bout the Whole Thing Legacy Recordings 1975
3:02 PM		Jimmy Reed Big Boss Man Found Love (Bonus Version)

Chat is archived.

Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo!

Happy Friday Jerry and everybody!

Lookin forward to this one Jerry. A fine day in September. John Coltrane Forever!

Rick, howdy, happy to see you!

Brian, thank you, I aim to please!

.. yup, line 'em up ..

Cuckoo at 12:01 wow you know it is a special don't miss day!

So good to see you all

Hi Adam, thank you and we're glad you're here!

You know it, Brian, lots to listen to!

Greetings and good day to Gordski and his Gordainaires.

50 years ago today Patty Hearst was captured in the basement of Third Street Jazz. Jerry was not charged. The FBI determined he was duped by his then girlfriend Wendy Yoshimura.

Hi Jerry, Hi Pat 🍀

Patrick, I swear I didn't know she was behind the boxes of cut-outs!

Damn. I missed that theme song! 🎶 🐦 Life moves fast.

Hi Christine, how are you?! Thanks for joining.

Final Friday of summer. Live it up!

That's a tiny bit sad...

I love this track. It reminds me of someone waiting in the bushes, blowing their mating call!

Another Side of Coltrane. Should be fun!

It just doesn't get much better than Tadd Dameron and John Coltrane.

Hi Russ!

I agree, Rick. Very organic!

50 years ago local entertainment options included Frank Sinatra with Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie. Fairport Convention with Tom Waits. Andy Williams with Nipsey Russell. Robert Klein. Doshie Powers. Tom Rush.Lou Rawls. and Caravan.

What a mixed bag of great performers! Patrick, where were Frank, Ella, and the Count. wowowowowowowowow

“On January 4, 1969, Paul Chambers died of tuberculosis at the age of 33.”

Thank you, Russ! I will announce that!

The Spectrum

Fairport Convention with Tom Waits. Fantastic billing!

I figured. I was hoping you would say the Latin Casino

Russ, I'm surprised you weren't there

So am I, Jerry!

WILBO mentioned a booking of The Kinks , Beach Boys and Looking Glass at Trenton Speedway in 1972 . Apparently there was a riot due to overtake of tix,Luckily Brandy was not injured. She was a fine girl

What a good wife she almost was.

Russ, you were grounded by your parents for repeated psychedelic behavior.

Patrick, good stuff!

Those stories the sailor spun for her were actually quite mundane and boring.

John Coltrane lived in Philadelphia 1952 to 1958. Probably the most boring local era. Luckily the City had him to liven up the scene.

Where did John Coltrane live in Philly?

North Philadelphia, the house is still there!

It was "Cousin Mary's" house

Cool!

He came up from North Carolina, I believe

1511 North 33rd Street https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane_House

Thank you, Russ!

Y'all are a fountain of knowledge!

Patrick, wasn't that close to Fairmount Park?

Yes right across in bucolic Strawberry Mansion.

Also lived Long Island and Wilmington NC home of Michael Jordan

I thought so. I remember getting lost in the Park and wound up there.

Hi Friends of Jerry - I haven't been able to check in for a while but I've been listening!!! Was pleasantly surprised I could pick up WPRB in the car on Long Beach Island NJ

Nice, Vilda! Man, you've really been roughing it!

Listen to what Cecil is playing!

Yes indeed - 1958 - year of my birth - we think of the fifties and being a time of culture being kind of square - but not in Jazz

Right on, Brother Chaya!

These chords!

They are making Father Knows Best at the same time they are exploring all this new musical territory

The mom was no Donna Reed, either

Lest we not forget June Cleaver.

Rick, she speaks jive.

Russ, you got that right!

Haha

This is definitely one of my fav versions of "Speak Low".

LOL @Russell

Jerry, you’re right. Cecil played some mean chords!

She learned it from Kenny Dorham!

Whoa! I'm really diggin' the Art Blakey Big Band!

Schwing!

Jackie Gleason wrote some of the music on his show - He wrote the opening theme.

Got a few Jackie Gleason and his Orchestra EPs in the collection

Classical Bob former PRB DJ once played an absolutely spellbinding version of Speak Low by Lottie Lenya

Hey, Mike! Part of the historical archives.

BP with the GM!

Hi Jerry

Jackie Gleason was a musical savant . No training . Never studied chord progression or composing . Just conjured up tunes out of mid air. Melancholy Serenade was heard in our house every Saturday night.

All time great show today Jerry!

This show is definitely JG with the GM!!!

Mike, you and I liked Jackie G better than Happy the C!

It was a Saturday night staple...right after Lawrence Welk I think

Love it, Patrick. Thanks so much, Brian. Appreciated! I love it, Rick!

Jackie, what a showman!

Truth

He didn't rehearse either

He did like to smoke and drink, however!

Who didn't!

I recently watched on youtube an inerview with Jackie and Johnny Carson, while he smoked and drank!

Wasn't that long ago people had ashtrays on their desks....but it seems like a lifetime

Was listening to Miles '55 The Prestige Recordings last night (Recent update compilation of the "1st great quintet" from I believe that transition into Trane being full time member period - some Milt Jackson on vibes in the mix too)

Nice, Brian. You are always up-to-date!

The ol Klassic Krusty episiodes where Krusty the Klown is in black and white, haze of cigarette smoke ... Tonight, our guest AFL CIO Chairman George Meany....

Tuesday will be the 99th anniversary of Coltrane’s birth. Next year will be special. Thanks for the tribute today, Jerry!

The Don DeLillo novel Underworld gives a great account of Jackie,Frank Sinatra;Toots Shor and J Edgar Hoover sitting together at the 1951 Bobby Thompson game.

Nobody smoked on TV like Tom Snyder Ha Ha Ha exagerrated horse laugh

Hoover looking resplendent in a pleated skirt

For your listening pleasure tonight : Roulette Fieldwork: Vijay Iyer, Tyshawn Sorey, Steve Lehman (Album Release Show) TODAY 8:00 pm A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance.

https://roulette.org/event/fieldwork-vijay-iyer-tyshawn-sorey-steve-lehman/

Great info @Russell, thanks.

What a great idea. I have a newspaper that I found in an abandoned house where that HR was the headline. It has traveled with me from location to location.

The stream of this show that Russ has hipped us to is 1) way out there 2) going to be really great in a way out there kind of way 3) usually costs good money but not tonight

FRANKLIN KIERMYER & SCATTER THE ATOMS THAT REMAIN TUESDAY, SEP 23, 2025 Dizzy’s Club, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th Street, New York, NY 10019 https://ticketing.jazz.org/19332/

Hear, hear! @Jerry

Jerry they were actually sitting together. He improvised the dialogue . Same day as Russians launched Sputnik

RIP to Bobby Hart . The man behind the Monkees. And Happy Birthday to my comic partner Mike C.

Oh gosh....thank you Patrick

For those confused he’s the funny one. I just spew nonsense..

Hey Jerry good news . Phillies won’t have playoff game on Yom Kippur. I was afraid we wouldn’t be able to field a team.

Why you, I oughta.....

HBD to Lily 🎂

If, like me, you spaced out and did not get tickets to guitarist Mary Halvorson’s sold out show at Solar Myth in Philly tomorrow, you can catch her on Sunday at Roulette in Brooklyn: Mary Halvorson’s Amaryllis: About Ghosts, Sunday, September 21, 2025 8:00 pm Mary Halvorson guitar Adam O’Farrill trumpet Jacob Garchik trombone Patricia Brennan vibraphone Nick Dunston bass Tomas Fujiwara drums Immanuel Wilkins saxophone Brian Settles saxophone A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm.

@Russell, how do you know all this and keep it all straight?! 🧠

https://roulette.org/event/mary-halvorson-amaryllis/

Thanks, Christine, from Lily!

@Christine, I don’t keep up! I missed getting a ticket for Halvorson’s show at Solar Myth. Otherwise, I spend entirely too much time online and entering things into Google Calendar.

You're a fount of knowledge @Russell

One of third Street Jazz best selling LPS. I remember disco Jerry with the platform shoes.

Didn't you burn your disco records?

Absolutely. Also, Stevie Wonder - Innervisions, and The Ojays - Ship Ahoy! And my father did have a wallpaper and paint store!

Christine I was in Vietnam and Russell emailed me shows occurring in Ho Chi Minh City. Truly our minister of information.

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

WILBO played Ship Ahoy past Tuesday. What a great record . Surprised it doesn’t get more oldies AirPlay. I guess the subject matter makes people uncomfortable

Pat 😆

Ship Ahoy = CLASSIC

LET ME PUT THIS HAMBURGER DOWN!

Gotta put this hamburger down

It’s that Saigon Soul Revival Orchestra……and everyone else.

Archie Bell!

The Ho Chi Men!

and some Drells!

This video of Fell on Black Days is even more heart-wrenching than the album version.

https://youtu.be/ySzrJ4GRF7s?si=ezaDiWPGaKRzgCbJ

Thank you, Mike! Looking forward to watching after the show! Appreciated

What is this Q 104

No 103.3

Who is this, Sonny Boy Williamson III, orJohnny Meister?

My first Friday back at the job since vacation and this show makes it not only better - it makes it nice to sit here and do my work. THANK YOU JERRY!

Howlin' Wolf Jr.!

Thanks, VC!

Good doc on Howlin'Wolf

https://youtu.be/4Zy51tiEhfA?si=HFei0XLd90Oz_bIV

Thanks again, Mike!!!

Chris Cornell and Howlin' Wolf. Two singers whose voices were so expressive, you get scared that you can so realistically and empathetically feel their pain.

Perfectly stated

Wolf really suffered from the rejection of his mother.

Is that in the doc?

A belated Coltrane note. April 2026 McCarter theater is hosting a Coltrane 100 performance led by Joe Lovano. And Jeff Tain Watts

This pretenders song had a great video in the caveman era of videos.

In the luncheonette?

Patrick, you are Zelig, at all historical events wherever, often dressed as a rabbi

Yes, Wolf's mother was very religious and thought he was doing the devil's work.

Lovin' that bari sax.

I believe a luncheonette was involved . It was not Abandoned. That was Itchy and Scratchy territory aka Hall and Coates.

Right on, Rick! A great track!

Great job by Gordski . Everyone have a great weekend . Happy Rosh Hasanah .

..great seleciones of musics again, thanks for your service ..

Shana Tova!

I love this crowd! Mike, do you belong to Patrick's shul?

Once while busking on the Atlantic City Boardwalk and guy came up and introduced himself. He was the Guitar player for Dee Dee Sharp -

Ha!

Chuck, thanks for listening and commenting!

She did the Mashed Potato, right?

Thanks Gerry. Plain' us out LIVE.

Have a great week everyone

Yessir, VC! As Mike Constantine says, Shano tovah!

Three hours of celebratory & quality music! The Serenade to a Cuckoo way. 🎶 🐦

Mike T, thanks always for your presence and contributions.

Thanks, Jerry! Enjoy the final weekend of summer, everybody.

Jerry, another totally enjoyable show. Kudos to you! Everybody enjoy your weekend. Happy Rosh Hashanah! Shana Tovah!

Keeping it all together is Christine, thank you!

Vocalist Rick Hallahan is available for Bar Mitzvahs and Easter celebrations!

Russ, thank you! Mike, Happy Birthday Sunday!

Absolutely!

Chuck B, thank you!

Thanks Jerry

Happy upcoming birthday, @Mike Constantine 🎂!

Patrick, the best!

Thanks Christine!

amazing show

THANK YOU <3

Thank you, Elise. Nice of you to say!!! Appreciated!