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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Nov 7, 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!

11.7.25 A Tribute to Jack DeJohnette Part 1

In Part 1 we will hear recordings Jack Dejohnette powered from 1966-1975. Then in Jerry's Room at 2 pm, we will here recordings bynon-jazz recording artists born between Mov. 1 and Nov. 15th.

12:01 PM		Herbie Hancock The Naked Camera Blow-Up (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) WaterTower Music 1967
12:08 PM		Roland Kirk Quartet & Rahsaan Roland Kirk Quartet Serenade to a Cuckoo I Talk with the Spirits Verve 1963
12:25 PM		Charles Lloyd Forest Flower: Sunrise (Live) Forest Flower: Charles Lloyd At Monterey (Live) Rhino Atlantic 1967
12:29 PM		Charles Lloyd Forest Flower: Sunset (Live) Forest Flower: Charles Lloyd At Monterey (Live) Rhino Atlantic 1967
12:40 PM		Bill Evans Nardis (Live at The Montreux Jazz Festival, 1968) Bill Evans - At The Montreux Jazz Festival Verve Reissues 1968
12:49 PM		Wayne Shorter Water Babies Super Nova Blue Note Records 1968
12:58 PM		Miroslav Vitous Freedom Jazz Dance Infinite Search Rhino Atlantic 1969
1:14 PM		Joe Farrell Follow Your Heart Joe Farrell Quartet Legacy Recordings 1969
1:18 PM		Freddie Hubbard Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey First Light CBS Associated 1970
1:50 PM		Joe Henderson Foregone Conclusion Black Is the Color
1:58 PM		John Abercrombie, Jan Hammer & Jack DeJohnette Timeless Timeless ECM Records 1975
1:59 PM		Collin Walcott Cloud Dance Cloud Dance ECM Records 1976
2:07 PM		Red Hot Chili Peppers Love Rollercoaster Video only
2:09 PM		Kinky Friedman Sold American Sold American (30th Anniversary Edition) Vanguard Records 1972
2:13 PM		Mose Allison Fool's Paradise Allison Wonderland: The Mose Allison Anthology Rhino Atlantic 1994
2:41 PM		Pentangle Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (Live at the Royal Festival Hall 1968 with Intro) Sweet Child Castle Communications 1968
2:47 PM		Herman's Hermits Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter Their Greatest Hits ABKCO Music and Records, Inc. 1973
2:48 PM		Joni Mitchell Help Me Court and Spark Rhino 1974
2:50 PM		Bonnie Raitt Blender Blues The Lost Broadcast, Philadelphia 1972
2:51 PM		Bonnie Bramlett Never Gonna Give You Up Lady's Choice PCLC Capricorn 1976
2:52 PM		Minnie Riperton Reasons Perfect Angel Capitol Records 1974
2:53 PM		Neil Young Don't Let It Bring You Down After the Gold Rush Reprise 1970
2:54 PM		Brian Hyland Sealed with a Kiss Chronology Geffen 1962
2:55 PM		Country Joe & The Fish Section 43 Electric Music For the Mind and Body Vanguard Records 1967
2:56 PM		Little Willie John I'm Shakin' Sure Things Gusto Records 1960
2:58 PM		Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters Money Honey (08-09-53) Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters: 1953-1954 Classics Blues & Rhythm Series 2004

Chat is archived.

Welcome toSerenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon!

Happy Friday to Jerry and everybody!

Hi Rick, good afternoon!

This will be more fun than raking leaves.

Hey Mike!

Hi Rick

Hi Mike! Yeah, this is the weekend!

This is from the movie Blow-Up

Just spent the last hour raking...oy

📸

Fuggedaboudid. It's a strain on the back

Hey Christine!

Hey Jerry, Mike & Rick 👋

Hi Christine, welcome. Two hours of focus on percussion

Joe Henderson is a monster

Mike, raking is a scam. We should all collectively quit that job and leave the leaves. Otherwise we won't have fireflies next summer.

Leave the leaves!

Wut? The theme song already?

Hi!

I'll be happy to forego my shot of B-3 to give Christine some serious percussion.

(Luna moths, bumblebees, swallowtail butterflues, etc.)

Kerroffle hasn't raked leaves in over 40 years in order to protect the tiny critters.

And there's that theme song again! 🎶 🐦

I have a field behind the house and all the leaves go there....I've never bagged them.

It's an insect farm!

Ha! You are so right Jerry, not my kinda gig.

Excellent @Mike! 🍂🍁🦋🐛🐝

Greetings and good day to Gordski and his Gordonistas

I even have them in my house!

Hi Patrick!

@Jerry, do you have those shield bugs, aka stink bugs?

Most bugs are little stinkers.

BAM to that little bird over there!

Hi Guys!

50 Th anniversary of The sinking of Edmund Fitzgerald. Gordon was so prescient he wrote the song 6 months before the sinking

Hi Kerroffle, Patrick, Stephen and CHEF 🍳

Also 50 years ago local entertainment options included David Bowie,Betty Carter,Sammy Kaye Orchestra,Asleep at Wheel,thevDells,Johnnys Dance Band,Sergio Franchini,Tony Martin with Cyd Charisse and Murray McLaughlan

hey christine & all! PLEDGER ALLEGIANCE 🍳

Rest in peace, Jack DeJohnette 💔 A drummer & percussionist for the ages.

Always enjoyed Jacks 2017 LP HUDSON

This is sooooooooo good music.

Patrick, you pack alot of punch in3 minutes! Hudson is a killer, great taste once again!

Jerry, thank you SO much for your shows and stories. Grateful for you and all of WPRB! BAM!!!!!!

Chef, Stephen, welcome!

The performance I described earlier was one of the greatest jazz performances of my life. Life changing! In the park!

Thank you very much, Chef. You power WPRB with your energy and your $$$ along with all of you

Patrick, where exactly in the park, did I see this show. I was vending ice cold cokes at the time.

HEY COKE HEAH! HEY COLD BEAH!

LOL @Brian D

Hi Brian! You got it. My call was: "Yo Ice Cold!"

I still have my apron.

Jerry, I bet you were as popular a vendor as the "Doggie yo-ho" guy at Connie Mack Stadium.

Thanks, but nah, after I sold my first load or two of cokes I watched the event. I was a vendor at Eagles games and Army Navy games also.

Love all the Forest Flower versions I've heard. Chico Hamilton "Man from Two Worlds" has a great take on it as well

You always know your stuff, Brian

Rick, all classic jazz today, perfect time to not rake the leaves!

✨️this percussion ✨️

Yes! Actually, I had my trees pruned yesterday and the workers - unbeknownst to me - also raked all my leaves. I'm living large!

February 1978 I attended the second set at the Main Point. Jack De Johnette's New Directions with John Abercrombie and Lester Bowie. The bassist was George Mraz, not Eddie Gomez. I don't think there were more than 25 people in the audience. And it was one of the best concerts I've ever experienced.

Haha, Christine. Bill Evans really let him stretch out!

One of Jack's last recording dates was with Ethan Iverson on his Blue Note debut, Every Note Is True.

Wowowowowow! Thanks, Anthony. What a show at the Main Point that must have been!

Hi Jerry. Sadly, gotta jump. Wish there was a replay option.

Thanks for listening

Anthony Creamer, who just left the chat, has probably seen more shows than any other person on earth.

Not the Fairmount Park concert but another by Lloyd in Philadelphia around the same time: https://www.concertarchives.org/image_uploads/photo/image/478975/large_The_Philadelphia_Inquirer_Wed__Apr_17__1968_.jpg

Good morning Jerry. I am looking for some help. Last Saturday night i was up late and discovered a very good Jazz program around midnight. I think the hosts name is Turshu. I wrote to the station manager and I have already asked Dan Buskirk and Marvin Roden for help. I would like to see her time slot moved earlier. This would be good for her, giving her a wider audience. It would also help the station which has lost two great Jazz programs, the Sunday morning program and the loss of Will.

If she is amenable to the move i enlist your support with the station to get her on earlier any day of the week. Any help will be appreciated.

My handy dandy schedule says ER w/ the Czar

VER

Hi Russ, as Johnny Carson used to say, "I did not know that." I'm shocked, actually. Charles Lloyd preceded by Mandrake Memorial!

The show was 11 to 1AM

Christine, some great percussion for ya

Jerry, you weren’t shocked. You were Trauma-tized.

Another Metronome Every week on Sun at 1:00 AM Music With turshu

Sorry Richard The Gods Do Not Answer Letters!!

love the Jerry's room Scorpio celebration

Who are you, not Jerry Gordon?

Hi Mok, have you been smokin' in the boy's room?

I'd like to invoke my fifth amendment privileges.

I meant Mokin' in the Boys Room

That's because he was smokin' in the girls room

😁

Wait until the SCOTUS finds out!

Mok always likes a good party

Hi Jerry, that Miroslav Vitous was great! Enjoying this Jack Dejohnette music

got some Cookie Wreck and Garlic Cookies. phew it stinks.

Is that sold by the Girl Scouts?

ncle Albert?...I'll be dipped

Uncle

Hi Rob F, I'm glad. All classic music

the Girl Scouts really should branch out lol.

Herbal GS Cookies? Nice

This is why Kerroffle hasn't raked in over 40 years

Mike, had you heard this before?

Got me again Jerry.

Written by Paul and Linda McCartney

the original is a banger. Butter Pie!?

I'm diggin' this interpretation of Uncle Albert. Complete with strings!

Probably Paul's most Beatley songs post Beatles

@Mike _and_ it was epic AF for a top 40.

Yes it was!

That Freddie Hubbard is brilliant, captures the essence

Freddie Hubbard version

And Mike, yes, it IS Beatley, so great

Lots of nice little homage passages in this. and a splash of kitchen sink.

That was an incredible version

Right on, Kerroffling out loud

Playing the hits! lol

Rofl, my parents took one vacation a year. They would go to Miami Beach and stay at the hotel where they stayed on their honeymoon. Eventually they started taking me; my favorite thing was there was an ice cream shoppe near the hotel that had a banana split called "The Kitchen Sink". I still think about it.

Love this track rn!

What a beautiful piece for this set, DJ Jerry G! Thanks for the great show today on this early weekend for me :)

I'm excited that I get to listen to what's been playing in Jerry's Room this week!

I was all spaced out on The People's People the other day. This reminds me of that.

This John Abercrombie piece really is “Timeless “

Good noodles

And you know I’m here for the sitar, too

TAndy, what a nice thing to say! Thrilled by your comments, thank you

Hey Dave! You are precient

prescient

precious

This track is excellent 💯

Funny, I sometimes try to anticipate what the listeners will like. I'm glad you guys like this, different than the others.

It's very cool

Classic, that one

I was prescient enough to use prescient earlier in the chat!!

Debuting my new one man tribute band soon . Called Gordon White Foot. It will probably sink like the Edmund Fitzgerald

I didn't realize you had! No wonder I knew that word!

Hey Guelo, thanks for listening. Glad you're here!

I love the Gabor Szabo guitar stylings on this standard.

Greetings friends - In college there were these really cool jazz kids who were into Jack DeJohnette - Especially the Timeless record. It was an interesting period being exposed to that around the same time as I saw the Ramones. I am not sure which kids were cooler - the jazz or the punk kids

Gabor Szabo on My Love is musical perfection

I should have been prescient to know Jerry like most others ignores my psychotic unhinged postings

Patrick, we got your back.

Is there a better November song than Richie Allen and the Enonistics Echoes of November?

Straight into the fire with the jams!

@TAndy, 🚨🚨🚨 Jam ALERT?

I'm with you, Rick! Hey VC, you were popular with the Klezmer crowd also! You were the music man!

LOL @Pat

Indeed! 🚨🚨

He's a prescient comedian and intellectual.

Christine how can I change my avatar to Old man yells at Cloud?

Patrick, you can't say people don't at least think about you

Whenever I hear "Love Roller Coaster," I flash back to its use in the amusing and occasionally flatout hilarious "Beavis & Butthead Do America." :-D

Haha, that's what I like about you, Richard!

I gotta cop to it, I can do nothing else. ;-))

@Pat, to do that, update your profile photo in your Google account. That's if you log into the chat with your Google. If you log in with Facebook, you can update your profile photo there. 🖼

Mike C, you didn't listen!

The what now.....

Oh yeah....I sure didn't

Mosey on along

@Pat, and that's a great image: Grampa Simpson yelling at a cloud

Your mother didn't care, whe was happy with you

And here's The Jazz Sage his own self, Mr. Mose Allison! That's what I like about _you_, Jerry.

Heh...I wouldn't go that far!

OK, Russ...

Thank you, Richard

I've always found it impossible to log in with Google. I thought only Facebook account holders are able to chat here.

That's what FB wants you to think.

Only ever logged in w Google. Sometimes it takes 2 clicks / 2 tries but not always

I log into the chat with Google also.

Mine wanted 2 part ID here the other day!

Facebook usually takes 2 clicks for me

2 clicks every refresh is standard for me.

As a person in Facebook prison, I always log in with Google.

I have a FB account laying around somewhere. Big pain in the ass though.

And I've always used the spinitron.com/wprb url to log into / view the chat. Had it bookmarked since 2020 and it is the most viewable site for me. Going through the station's website to get to chat always gives me cut off pages etc

My efforts with Google always get "Validation errors: Please contact us if you think this is a server error." Then it doesn't allow me a second click.

Peter Noone played a free show in Holmdel two months ago.

This song always takes me back to those carefree days back in the day.

Yep....1974

It was a very good year

Twisted to think about

I saw what you did there...

I tried the link Brian provided. That doesn't allow me to log in by any means!

Freebo on the bass for the Bonnie no doubt

Live on WMMR

Some issue on your end with Google credentials/ cookies then. Works every time like a charm here

Ya had that live on WMMR on tape. Good stuff

That series they had, Live from Sigma Sound was so good

Then I had a live tape of her from 1988 or so and she gets a request for Let Me Be Your Blender and she politely declined w regrets. Said she had not done it in years and back when she started getting booked as "Bonnie Blender"

Right! she wanted nothing to do with it

I told the story many times. I wanted an artist on my label to record it, but beause there was no official release, it required the permission of the writer. She respectfully declined.

She was on the 1st SNL, which I rewatched a couple of months ago.

Who, Mr. Kerroffle? Bonnie Raitt?

Cool story

Minnie Ripperton

Wow. And then her daughter became a regular

All the classes in the cabinet just broke

Yep, I bet!

Now we have a glass carpet!

Shiny side up

I bet she's dancing on the Steel Pier Show

Getting down to the roaches now.

And not the insects, either

Nor the cool girly band from NJ either. :)

I never liked Phish, but I love the Fish. I believe I first heard this tune in the documentary movie "Monterey Pop".

Classic

Phish had more farewell concerts than Cher

Hahahahaha

Or The Who

Everyone have great weekend. Thanks Jerry for a most entertaining 3 hours and as Kinky would say May the God of your choice bless and keep you..

Fun show today. Thanks, Jerry! 🎧

I first heard "I’m Shakin’" on American Bandstand, mimed and lip synched by the Blasters.

Jerry, you gave us another wonderful 3 hours with all good music, which was entirely enjoyable. I already have my seat reserved for next week's show! Everybody have a great weekend1

Till next time

💸💸💸

Thanks Jerry! So much great Jack Dejohnette stuff. Looking forward to next week too. Have a lovely week!

Thanks, Jerry!!

Thanks, everybody!!!!!

Mike, couldn't fit keith emerson in!

This is very confusing. The chat is all Jerry; but that is not the voice of the host on the broadcast. Please clear his up for me. Thanks.

Richard, the voice is Jerry!

It's 3d chess programing AI, of course... :)

Kerroffled!