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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Jan 9, 2026 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Music

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!

1.9.26

2 hours of modern jazz favorites. No new releases, music to enjoy the beginning of the New Year. In Jerry's Room we have a show based a small collection a friend recently gave me of r&B, Blues, pop, We explore and listen to my new acquisitions for an hour!

12:00 PM		Sarathy Korwar A Day Is a Cycle of Drum Beats There Is Beauty, There Already Otherland Records 2025
12:07 PM		Jane Bunnett Serenade To A Cuckoo The Water Is Wide Linus Entertainment 1993
12:19 PM		Jon Lucien Creole Lady Song for My Lady Legacy Recordings 1974
12:21 PM		Leon Thomas The Creator Has a Master Plan Spirits Known and Unknown Ace Records 1969
12:25 PM		Andy & The Bey Sisters 'Round Midnight Andy Bey & the Bey Sisters Prestige 2000
12:49 PM		Miles Davis Quintet It Never Entered My Mind Workin' With The Miles Davis Quintet Craft Recordings 1959
12:50 PM		Chico Freeman Peace Spirit Sensitive India Navigation
12:50 PM		John Handy If Only We Knew John Handy: Live at Monterey Columbia 1966
1:13 PM		Rez Abbasi Red Baron Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet-RAAQ
1:24 PM		Urszula Dudziak Misty Midnight Rain Arista
1:28 PM		Michał Urbaniak Nica's Dream Some Other Blues SteepleChase 1994
1:44 PM		Gil Evans There Comes a Time There Comes a Time
2:06 PM		Dr. John Let the Good Times Roll Dr. John's Gumbo Rhino/Elektra 1972
2:07 PM		Santana Oye Como Va Abraxas Sony Music Media 1970
2:10 PM		Bob Marley & The Wailers Jamming Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and the Wailers (Deluxe Edition) Island Records 1984
2:13 PM		The Rolling Stones Miss You Some Girls (Deluxe Edition with Bonus Video) [2011 Remaster] Polydor Records 1978
2:17 PM		The Doors Love Her Madly The Very Best of The Doors Rhino/Elektra 2008
2:22 PM		Jerry Lee Lewis Breathless Sun Records' 70th Anniversary Compilation, Vol. 1 (Curated by Chris Isaak) Sun Records 2022
2:25 PM		Randy Newman Let's Burn Down the Cornfield 12 Songs Warner Records 1969
2:32 PM		The Temptations The Way You Do the Things You Do Meet the Temptations UNI/MOTOWN 1964
2:34 PM		Otis Redding I've Been Loving You Too Long (Mono) The King of Soul Rhino Atlantic 2014
2:38 PM		James Brown & The J.B.'s Soul Power (Pts.1 & 2 / Stereo Mix) Star Time Universal Records 1991
2:39 PM		De La Soul The Magic Number 3 Feet High and Rising AOI Records 1989
2:40 PM		Charlie Rich Don't Put No Headstone On My Grave Sun Records' 70th Anniversary Compilation, Vol. 3 (Curated by Ben Vaughn) Sun Label Group, LLC 2022
2:41 PM		The Rolling Stones You Win Again (Bonus Track) Some Girls (Deluxe Edition with Bonus Video) [2011 Remaster] Polydor Records 1978
2:42 PM		Howlin' Wolf Smokestack Lightnin' Moanin' in the Moonlight Geffen 1959
2:43 PM		Johnny Cash Bird on a Wire American Recordings American Recordings Catalog P&D 1994
2:44 PM		The Kinks Victoria (Stereo) Somethin' Else

Chat is archived.

Hi everybody! Welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo!

Happy Friday to Jerry and everybody!

Hello hello

Happy Friday, Rick! Hi Mike!

Hey Mike!

Hello Rick

Two of my favorite guys, always fun.

Oh gosh

Mike, I can't believe I didn't know a Beatles song from 1965.

Jerry, right back atcha.

Thanks, Rick. We have some songs strategically placed for you in today's show.

Cool beans!

Greetings to Gordski and his acolytes. Hope everyone has a great 2026 . Happy Healthy Prosperous

It's a bit obscure I guess...Paul considers it filler

Hey Patrick!

Beatles 65 American version never got a whole lot of play from me.

Hi Patrick, thank you, glad to see you.

Fun fact, it was written in Atlantic City

Tell me more

On the 64 tour and recorded in the Fall

The only obscure I recognize is Dave The. What a great program this morning. Also shoutout to Jude The Obscure.

My conversation with Mike is about a Beatles song I heard last night, and I never heard it before. Asked Mike.

Love the Difficult Listening Hour

It's thought the song is about Jane Asher

Is that the first hour of the show?

Last

Patrick, what is going on?

50 years ago limited local entertainment options. David Amram,Gary Burton,Julie Gold,,Jan Hammer.Some war crime called Disco Dancing at The Spectrum. Jimmy Castor solo appearance with his lovely new bride Bertha Something or other.

Also 50 years ago The Philadelphia Flyers defeated the mighty Red Army of Moscow and sent them Back to Back To Back To the USSR.

That Red Army game was a true classic!

Like that Sarathy Korwar beat pulsing one to start there

Sure was. I think it was Ed Van Impe that caused a few problems

Hi Brian!

The Red Army had defeated all comers in NHL. The whole league was rooting for the Flyers.

Creole-Lady-EE-Hooooo

When the Red Army team walked off the ice to the locker room I thought WW3 was about to start.

I hope we will be experiencing exciting hockey again. There were some great moments associated with our guys.

Watched it in a bar and the place went nuts

Julie Gold was in my wife's high school class and they still communicate.

That's impressive!

Love that reachin in the piano and strumming the strings sound

I thought I saw Julie Gold the other day. I’m not sure because it was from a distance

This is a great tune. Always loved to hear Leon Thomas vocalize.

Patrick got into a heated argument with Stevie Wonder one time. He tried to get Stevie to understand his side of things. But Stevie just couldn't see it. Too soon.

Ha!

Rimshot!

Kris Davis invites Pyroclastic Artists: A Winter Festival Started off strong last night with Eric Revis featuring Kris Davis and Andrew Cyrille & the Patricia Brennan Septet. Continues tonight with Solos and Duos featuring Brandon Seabrook, Yvonne Rogers, David Leon and Ned Rothenberg and the Angelica Sanchez trio featuring Sam Newsome and Nasheet Waits. https://jazzgallery.org/calendar/pyroclastic-records-festival-jan-8-9-10-2026 Livestreams!

And even better than Leon Thomas is the great Andy Bey!

Leon's first solo album (and several subsequent releases) were on old Impulse boss Bob Thiele's Flying Dutchman label.

This album is trememdous.

1965

The Pyroclastic Winter Festival concludes tomorrow with the Kris Davis quartet featuring Larry Grenadier, Nasheet Waits, and Ingrid Laubrock and Sylvie Courvoisier’s Amalthea featuring Patricia Brennan, Dan Weiss and Thomas Morgan at the Jazz Gallery in Manhattan: https://jazzgallery.org/calendar/pyroclastic-records-festival-jan-8-9-10-2026 also livestreams

Miles! This show is turning into one of the "Best of Jerry Gordon"!

Thanks, Russ!!!

Yeah, some faves, Rick. More often than not, my shows reflect the mood I was in while planning it. My moods can vary!

Hey there Jerry, I have been clicked in all day. Happy to have you in my digiteria. I hope you are having a great show.

Jerry’s moods sure did vary when Ian Drury or Debbie Harry showed up at the store!

This is one of Horace Silver's best compositions.

And Patricia Brennan will be leading her Tentet at the Winter JazzFest (no relation) at Le Poissin Rouge in Greenwich Village tonight: https://www.winterjazzfest.com/artist-patricia-brennan-tentet Unfortunately, no livestream.

As much as I bash the current Philadelphia leaders there is a wonderful weekly Philadelphia City of Firsts occurring throughout the year. Last Week was the first hot air balloon. Great presentation

Thanks, Richard.

Patrick, they weren't the only ones!

Rick, someone else just texted me how much they loved Andy and the Bey sisters version of it

Nice!

We need a full list Jerry!!!

Thank you Patrick and Mike for the kind words

Thank you Dave for such a unique well curated program.

Jerry was always in a good mood when Wilbert Montgomery walked in the door. Jerry like Uncle Floyd was also an unlikely hero to the punk rock community due to his top 10 upstairs and punk section downstairs.

Wilbert bought Blowfly albums!

Good thing Wilbert didn’t bring in his college teammate Tex Cobb. He would have broke a lot of furniture and records

Great memory, Patrick. Also strong in the memory department is Mike C

And Rick!

thx Jerry, this Handy piece was always a fave; best for the new year, Jim

Hi Jim, same to you, thank you! yes, this is a beauty. I'm not surprised you love it, I'm only surprised if you weren't there!

funny u should say that, some years ago I saw him in NYC at Dizzy's Club, where he reprised that album, maybe almost as good? lol

Historic!

Who was in the band?

lol used to see Tex Cobb in the grocery store in West Philly.

The Band consisted of Levon Helm, Rick Danko,Garth Hudson,Robbie Robertson and Richard Manuel.

Tex Cobb last sighting for me was the thieving auto junkyard parts places in bucolic SWP

Hi Lester! I remember Tex Cobb in Philly. What was the story there?

Ha, Patrick! Thank you for the answer!

I have no idea. I was only ever at the Blue Horizon boxing venue twice, I saw him there, in the crowd. I don't even how I knew it was him, since I'm not much of a sports fan. But seeing him in person, he is quite a big man. Always had a huge grin on his face as I recall.

This is coming back to me. Was he trained by Joe Frazier? Patrick?

He was right up there with Chuck Wepner

Randall was trained by the great George Benton. Actually Mike he was pretty good. Beat Ken Norton and Earnie Shavers

Would not like the punch-drunk hangovers. Not my kind of gig.

Hi!

How come I remember Earnie Shavers but don't remember what I did yesterday?

Hi Roffle, welcome!

I think all of these electric violins have a built in phase shifter for some reason.

They have something going on!

Life in our 70's, Jerry

Ali taunted him as The Acorn but almost lost to him.

Mike, you are so right.

Ali lived in Cherry Hill, which I could never figure out.

How much did we love boxing? I used to watch with my Dad, great memories!

Glad to see Poland represented 🇵🇱. Starving Marvin Rosen is a big adherent of Polish music especially the Warsaw Philharmonic Choir.

His wife is quite Polish. lol

And very charming

Ali wanted to live near his good buddy Major Coxson

Speaking of Polish, the best blackberry brandy in the world is Jeznowka.

Is that made in Jersey City?

Haha!

I think all the Polish of Jersey City have fled to Linden. Lot of good Polish Eats there. Also Trenton Farmers Market on Spruce street top notch Polish deli

@Patrick, is that the reason? I could never figure out why, with all his money, Cherry Hill. I like Cherry Hill, lived in Moorestown, it's rather lovely in it's way, but I would have house shopped a bit.

Also lived in linden with the refugees. lol

Didn't Ali have a training camp in the Poconos?

Anyone remember Cyclone Hart? Only took me 15 minutes to recall the name.

Ali's training camp was in Deer Lake, PA, just south of Pottsville.

Right!...used to go fossil hunting in Deer Lake

Haha, I remember!

A lot his money was controlled and spent by The Nation Of Islam.

Trilobite country.

Sure is

Jesse Hart, nicknamed "Hard Work", is a Philadelphia-born professional boxer carrying on the legacy of his father, the legendary Eugene "Cyclone" Hart ( See, we've come full circle here. HArd Work.

January 15 the USPS is issuing a beautiful Muhammad Ali stamp. Philatelic is one of the few things they get right.

Hey Jerry there is a new Miles Davis movie on the way . It’ covers his years living in France.

@Patrick, My girlfriend gave me a stampbook full of Chinese stamps. Pretty weird and cool.

Interesting gift

Interesting girl. lol

She would have to be!

16 minute track. I think Jerry took Junior for a walk🦮🐶

Maybe they both had to hit the bathroom

Those Perogies ain't gonna make themselves. :)

This track is as "out there" as I've ever heard Gil Evans and his orchestra. Interesting!

Sure is

Roffle, pierogies are the food of the gods.

Righty-ho! I'm here, thinking about perogies.

The Ukrainian church will be having their perogy sale in a few months. Mmmm

Loved the Gil evans track Jerry. It somehow superimposed itself over a video of the lastest unrest I was just watching. Powerful combination.

Wait a minute Jerry! I donated my whole Wayne Newtown collection to you. Where’s my Parade??

The key to our homemade pierogies that we make in the coal regions of Eastern, PA is that we mix the potatoes with extra-sharp cheese, which we get from a food distributor in Shamokin, PA. he claims he gets the cheese directly from Wisconsin.

Sounds soooo good

goverment thugs

Christopher, I can see that!

Laissez les bons temps rouler

Ukrainian church Perogies sale! That is the pathway to heaven indeed.

I'm sorry, Patrick, you must have missed my Wayne Newton Special! All two hours. You were at the Perogie Festival probably.

Yep...right up the road from me

nice

This is a very informed, intellectual and thoughtful crowd... but perogie's rule.

Wayne Newton bought a really cool restaurant venue up by San Louis Obispo and ruined it, back when I lived there. People were pissed.

perogies and sour cream

yessir, mr. aiffrig

Wayne Newton ruined TV for me as a youth

Also, pierogies sauteed with butter and onions. Oh baby!

lol Mike. Sadly true for many of us.

I hear you Mike. He was always wierd. Wanted to punch him

Danke Schoen.....oy vey

Hahahahahaha!

It's like my bedroom when I was 14 in here now!

Wayne was in town last week at City Winery. The headline read Lousy performer appearing at Lousy venue.

Ches Smith’s Clone Row with Ches Smith – drums, Mary Halvorson – guitar, Liberty Ellman – guitar and Nick Dunston – bass will be at Solar Myth in South Philly on Tuesday, January 13: https://www.arsnovaworkshop.org/programs/ches-smiths-clone-row/ No livestreams

Ears, these cds were someone's bedroom music for sure.

I would like to see Wayne Newton play "The Mummy" in a movie.

His face is pulled so tight his ears are on the back of his head

Like a flounder.

Ha!

no wonder he still hit's the high notes

Affrig, I wouldn't be surprised if he were appearing in your neighborhood!

Good afternoon fine people

Hi Rob, how are ya?

Hey Rob

Hi Jerry and Mike. I'm okay, I hope you two are too. I just got in from seeing 2 Ross's Geese a half-hour from home. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Rosss_Goose/overview. They are small, adorable geese

We just have the big fat ones here

he can hang with the big yellow duck in clearwater this weekend

JB! Yes!!!

My favorite Maryland Orthnologist. He’s certainly no birdbrain

Cool Rob, I look forward to looking at their picture after the show.What kind of environment did you have to go to in order to see them?

No, he's an orthodontist.

Jerry s program one my favorites but I notice he brings a weak ABBA game. Never takes. A chance on them..

eminent physicist, polyglot, classicist, prize-winning botanist, hard-biting satirist, talented pianist, good dentist too

And Dancing Queen

Watch it, Mike.

Oy!

Neighbor has a Saab. Plate is SAABBA, lol

Ha!

Clever!

Something to sink your teeth into: Ross's Geese are quite rare around DC as well in the entire Mid Atlantic area. That said, I went to a lake on the edge of a big townhouse development. They look a lot like Snow Geese but are significantly smaller and have a different bill pattern.

Everyone have a great weekend and Fly Iggles Fly .i might attend the game my 15 year stadium mandated attendance ban just ended.

@Lester, your neighbor sounds amusing. An ABBA fan who drives a Saab?!

You're in luck, they don't have a jail there anymore

Is the Judge still holding court in the basement? Only in Philly

touche

I have yet to visit the Linc

Go Eagles!

IT might actually be SAAB A, took me a minute to figure it.

It should be a really enjoyable game. It better be!

Indeed

Jerry, you gave us 3 hours of pure pleasure. I said it before: Your show is like an oasis in the desert! Everybody enjoy your weekend! Go Birds!

For sure Rick

Haha, thanks Rob! I hope you have a great CD. I didn't get to the track I had pegged for you, another time

Thanks everybody, have a good weekend

Yes, ty Jerry (for the 1/2 hour I caught). Go Birds and go birds!

Thanks, Jerry! You win again!

Thank you, Russ, thanks for the jazz information and for your pun!

Rob, I'll be checking out those cute geese!

Till next time

THX Jerry!

See you, Mike! Roffle, thanks. We all ought to have a perogie and beer party some year!

Before we turn to dust

I'm in!

For sure

Lets do that

Yessssssss