Serenade to a Cuckoo Fri Dec 5 with Jerry Gordon on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

Welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo!

Happy Friday to Jerry and everybody!

Hi Rick, thanks for being here!

Oy!

Hey jerry hey rick

Moose and Squirrel

Hey Mike

We made it

Hey Mike and Adam and Christine!

Hi Adam, Rick, Christine

Haha! Hi Mike, Adam, Christine! Used to love Rocky & Bullwinkle! Remember, we thought it was sophisticated!

I think I enjoyed watching Rocky and bullwinkle more as an adult than I did as a kid.

Christine, were you around for Rocky and Bullwinkle?

Hi Jerry! That was a fun ID. Hi Mike, Rick & adamgoget 👋

Beware of metal munching moon mice

Old reruns of The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show would sometimes be shown on UHF channels, like Channel 48. 📺

I remember watching it as a kid early in the morning before the sun rose

Adam, that's cool. A peaceful time of day!

I think I watched after school, early 60s

Cartoons on channel 48 with Dr Don! Also a DJ on WFIL

I remember in on 48! Hi Brian

Dr Don Rose....had a heart attack in then went back to Cali

heart attac in 72

Don Rose was cool

Yeah he was...talked to him once

💜 Dhafer Youssef

Yep, another good one, Christine

They are ALWAYS good!

You got that right

I have most of the Rocky and Bullwinkle stuffed animals from CVS: https://www.mercari.com/us/item/m45572599142/

Hi Dave! Always! Amazing!

Hi Russ, from when?

Around 2000, I think.

Are they in boxes, on bookshelves, in your bedroom? Where are they?

CVS also did the characters from Rudolf in 2000

I missed all this.

What is Rudolph? Sounds like a Nazi rat.

Greetings and good day to Gordski and his Gordonaires

My ex wife collected all of them and they reside in my attic

Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer

Hi Patrick! Thank you for remembering the Gordonaires.Quite a vocal group

Sorry Jerry You can’t use I missed all this .that is the title of my autobiography .Where I was often misquoted.

They are in my office. I see them everyday. R&B WERE sophisticated! Fractured fairy tales! Dudley Dooright!

I think everyone will enjoy the Randy Newman show today in Jerry's Room, I'm proud of it

I love this British artist playing now

Mr. Peabody, loved that

39 tears ago local entertainment options included Cyndi Lauper,Big Audio Dynamite,Dave Van Ronk,Leslie West,Buddy Rich,Toots and The Maytals,Sly and Robbie,Lou Rawls with BB King,Trouble Funk and at Third Street Jazz a disastrous Drunken Santa contest.

Was that the same drunken Santa that the Philly fans pelted with snowballs at Franklin Field?

Love that bari sax!

Loving this spiritual squonky saxophone

My dog isn't!

No, Rick, it was Patrick himself. We had to let Patrick take a nap and sleep it off behind the Coltrane wall.

Was able to atttend well done Jazz Bridge Cheltenham concert this week. Vocalist Paul Jost and his band. Highly recommended

Mike, your dog was just protecting you.

Somebody spiked my egg nog and I fell into the Sun Ra ornamented Christmas Tree. Marshall Allen said Space is Not this guys place!!

From deranged sa players

sax

@Patrick, LOL 🎄🥃😵‍💫

BB & Dave Van Ronk

Russ, I debated playing this today

More squonk for Christine

💯

Thank you for the heiroglyphs

Boris Badenov introduces himself as the physician on the boat. Rocky: “Oh, ship’s doc?” Boris: “Of course, they do!”

Brilliant stuff

haha! what a memory!

There's that theme song again....! 🎶🐦

I was always hot for Natasha Fatale as a child

R&B’s writers had no shame.

Thanks, Christine!

I named my daughter Natasha. I never told my wife why I wanted that name in the family!

What an alluring name. Does she go by that, or a nickname?

Her friends call her Tasha, but I always call her Natasha.

He’s Tunisian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhafer_Youssef

I am here! I am here! I have been clicked in all day. Happy to have you in my digiteria. I hope you are having a great show.

Good info, thanks @Russell

Patricia Brennan’s brilliant recent record release concert at Roulette can be viewed here: https://roulette.org/event/patricia-brennan-of-the-near-and-far-record-release-show/

Good, Richard, thank you. I haven't gotten digiteria yet!

Christine, and all Cuckoo listeners. Everyone! Thanks to Russ I saw this record release concert at Roulette on line. It was so great, I don't know howto properly describe it. And it's free free free. Roulette, a great club in NY has great, great shows and sometimes they stream them for free. If you have the time, please check it out. Every Cuckoo listener here will enjoy it.

Great info, thanks Jerry

That was spectacular

Great take on the Herbie Headhunters track there whew.... they really had those vintage tones dialed in. Thought it was the orig for a while there

Roulette is one of the hippest clubs in NY, their shows are exceptional, and so are their free streamed show.

Glad you guys liked that

I will be at at Roulette on Sunday for this concert: https://roulette.org/event/sylvie-courvoisier-with-mary-halvorson-and-wadada-leo-smith/ Courvoisier will play two complete duo sets, one with Wadada and one with Halvorson. If you can’t make it in person (and you really should), there will be a free livestream.

Open tuning. Love it.

Hey, Lester, glad you're here!

You are so kind.

I'm diggin' this beautiful interpretation of Ruby My Dear!

great, Rick.

Our group needs to know that Rick has a long career as a hang out in clubs as a baritone player, and as a top flight chorale vocalist. (choral?)

Upcoming at Roulette, Amir ElSaffar New Quartet & Hamid Al-Saadi tomorrow and Elliott Sharp: Feedback Book Launch & Duets with James Brandon Lewis on Wednesday: https://roulette.org/calendar/

Jerry, I actually was a trombone player. I was a wannabee baritone sax player, but discovered after borrowing a bandmate's bari sax, I wasn't able to get a damn note out of it - not even a squeal. So now I just dig hearing other musicians play it properly.

Thanks Rick. I know the tune. But couldn't place it. Reminds me of an old GF, who had an olfactory gift. She could identify smell in the way a musical prodigy can identify notes.

You are still big time in my book

Lester, what do you play?

I play the Bass. Small mouth mostly.

I like them too

I play the ponies

lol jk. I remember George Lane. He played a fine Bass Clarinet. I did find a recent recording of Dolphy, 1964.

My other favorite NYC jazz club is The Jazz Gallery. Philadelphia drummer Johnathan Blake & pianist Dabin Ryu are playing tonight and tomorrow with Philly saxophonist Jaleel Shaw: https://jazzgallery.org/calendar/johnathan-blake-dabin-ryu-dec-5-6-2025. These concerts will be livestreamed.

Haha, Mike. I bet you do!

I Love Ponies. Where is the PNY based economy I was promised by Vermin Supreme

This is classic stuff by Rahsaan!

The Bill Frisell Quartet is doing fundraising concerts for the Jazz Gallery on Wednesday and Thursday with Johnathan Blake and Jaleel Shaw: https://jazzgallery.org/calendar/bill-frisell-dec-10-11-2025 Livestreams are available for the Thursday sets.

Jerry- don't take this the wrong way. Pretty sure in my dream last night you had died. There was a huge funeral. Where ever you are going, please take me with you to

Jazz Heaven

Charles Mingus, Monk, Coltrane, Bach, Dvorshack, Dolphy, Bernard Herrmann, Ravel, Zappa, Bird, Louis Armstrong.

Don't want to hurt any Kangaroos

Ironic because Jerry had a dream last night that my comedy act had died. No Wait that was live and in person.

Happy Birthday Randy Newman! We need an RN hour

In Copenhagen, you can't go wrong telling jokes about the Swedes?

Sail Away just fantastic

https://genius.com/Etta-james-sail-away-lyrics

Lester, there's going to be Sun Ra and Muddy too. But I'm not going anywhere for the forseeable future!

Sarcasm is part of the song! It’s double when Etta sings it

Excellent point, Bike R

...and welcome.

Marshall Allen 101! b May 25, 1924.

Aaaah the 1970s when you could name a best selling band after an Act of Bestiality !!!!

Patrick went right with this immediately

I never get tired of hearing Dusty Springfield's voice.

Patrick is so knowledgeable about pop music, it is incredible. Even if his jokes occasionally suck.

Rick, remember the first time you heard "The look of love"?

Those were good times, Jerry.

I think I first noted Look of Love was by Brazil 66

Chicken Little Was Right!

It's from the Bond spoof with niven and allen, Casino Royale on Colgems!

Good knowledge from Mike Constantine

Thank you, sir

This ain't no booogy woogie music

As a tall person I am jealous of short people. They they hit their heads on low stuff substantially less.

Howdy folkses

I hear ya...finding 36 in inseam jeans ain't easy

Not at all.No bargains at the kids rack

At 6'" 36in isn't long enough

6'4"

Yup same here 6'4". lol

Ha!.....congrats

Correct me if I am wrong here, but my understating was was they needed another track to complete the album, so Newman stepped into a side room and quickly scribed 'Short People' Although I think Drop the Big one was his greatest composition. or at least most useful one.

I order 5xxx from Chinese places and they are still too small. Speaking of short people.

I'm only 240lbs

@Lester, it certainly has that put together in the moment feel. But that moment works.

210 here

I threw a lot of boxes in Alaska, got bigger and it stuck. lol

Great knowledge there, Lester. Hey Kerflufflestein, this short people envies you and Mike

Thanks, Russ

My Chinese girlfriend checks in at 5ft even. It's weird and lovely.

Many folks have wanted to analyze Bob Dylans B side, "I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes / You'd know what a drag it is to see you" No one understands the creative process. So the same with RN. I always loved that guy and his songs. i think Fleetwood mac should have had a collaboration.

Haha, like Mutt & Jeff. But alot prettier

Dylan writer workshops were a thing in the 70's. All kinds of shit like that.

Dylan never hosted them though.... lol

TOM ROBBINS!

Aaron Neville

Jerry Goes Country! Thanks for the show Gordski. Everyone have a great week and Go Iggles!!

hey all

150 cm?

Lynn Anderson omits this verse: “ President Coolidge come down in a railroad train With a little fat man with a notepad in his hand President say, "Little fat man, isn't it a shame What the river has done to this poor cracker's land?"

manfred mann did a GREAT version of i think it gonna rain today

And Aaron Neville changes “cracker” to “farmer”

Fair trade share cropping.

Jerry, you once again get the Bob Perkins Award for all the good music you showered us with today! This was a most enjoyable 3 hours! Everyone enjoy your weekend!

Thanks Jer

Kerrofflesburgsteinski, you know your stuff! Thanks everybody!

Thank you, Jerry!

My good friends mom lived down the way from Tom Robbins in La Conner,WA. I was a big fan. :)

Great covers!

Yes, Lynn Anderson says cracker and that's one of the reasons I chose it

Awesome show! Saw Randy at Alexander Hall/Richardson in the 70's..Wow.! Have a Great Weekend everyone! Thanks for the music!

Till net time

Thanks Rick, Russ, Bruce, Lester, Patrick, Mike

Bike R, Russ, Max

Christine.

Thanks, Sheila. Wow, that was a while ago! You have seen some great shows!

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