Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon Fri Jan 23 with Jerry Gordon on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

Welcome, everyone, to Serenade to a Cuckoo

Happy Friday to Jerry and everybody as we get ready for Snowmageddon!

Hello hello

Hey Mike!

Hey Rick, Mike!

Hi Rick

Greetings to Gordski and his listeners. Mourning the passing of the great Uncle Floyd Vivino.A true New Jersey giant and cultural maven. Great piano player also

Kinda scary this forthcoming snowstorm

Hey Patrick!

Hi Patrick, when did this happen?

Cuckoo, cuckoo!

Hi Russ!

Hey Russell!

His two brothers are also quite talented

Hi Rick!

Mike, who are the brothers?

Jerry and Jimmy Vivino

Jimmy was in Conan's band and member of the Fab Faux

He had a stroke 2 years ago and never really recovered. His last couple podcasts you could tell he was really struggling

I think Jerry Vivino was in the Conan band as well as Jimmy

Hey Jerry. Happy snow.I have been clicked in. Happy to have you in my digiteria. I hope you have a great show.

Fond memory of him settling a frivolous lawsuit by that nebbish Joe Franklin over his Franklin Joseph parody. He agreed to cease doing it. Three weeks later he did a Joe Frankfurter parody

Haha, nebbish, YES!

Thank you, Richard. I hope we con't get digitized!

Afternoon Jerry!

Never knew this! What were the years of his show?

loving this track Jerry. Darren Korb surely was influenced by this for Hades.

Early 80's I think

Shout out to former DJ Emmanuel de ferritis who always played Oregon on his shows

mmm Oregon <3

Hi Ossy!

Hi Tomi, thanks for being here! I will have to listen to Hades!

Floyd and I had a running gag at his annual Bordentown record store shows. He would point me out to the owners and say … Watch that Guy he’s putting CDS in his winter coat!!!

He thought you were another Ian Dury

Ha!

Tomi, we will be playing Oregon later

On this Saint Vincents Day we salute VIN Scelsa,Vince Guaraldi,Vinny Lopez,Vince Herring,Vince Lombardi,Vince Leonard,VIN Scully,Vincent Price,Vince Mendoza,Vincent Van Gogh,and Rhonda Vincent

Patrick, if they had more public programming and humor, you would be a great host

sed to listen to Vin Scelsa on Sunday mornings

Don't forget Vincebus Eruptem!

Indeed

And Vinny Barbarino!

Eruptum?

Bang! Rick!

Close enough for Blue Cheer

Hi Jerry! I really like that last Towner piece, and this one is really going somewhere nice. And all before I've even had coffee yet!

It is your years of training for cosmic consciousness! You don't need coffee right away to get off!

True enough, but it sure helps/

Hi there friends - I hope everyone is well. Timeless... what a classic... Jack DeJohnette ... we'd float away to this one ... uh oh ... here we go again - floating ... floating...

50 years ago this weekend a plethora of local entertainment options. …Kenny Rankin,Grover Washington JR , the Miracles,Jerry Butler,Anna Maria Alberghetti, the ubiquitous Johnnys Dance Band,Billy Paul with MFSB,Ramsey Lewis,Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes,Zoot Sims with Urbie Green Shirley Scott..at Charlie’s Playboy Lounge on Market street

VC, you floated away and came back! That's because you are a very deep Vildachaya!

Some great shows there, would have liked to see Kenny Rankin and Jerry Butler

I see Patrick already mentioned Uncle Floyd - Gosh I loved that little TV show - Looney Skip Rooney was a DJ on a small station in NJ my brother worked on -

Floyd was a big man on campus at Bottom Line. One time Bowie came backstage before a show and Floyd shooed him and everyone away. Bowie loved it . He said nobody ever did that to me. He wrote a great song about Floyd and Oogie

Shout out to PRB dj Phil Jackson a true Rap Giant. His last show will be this weekend after 15 years. He won awards for his Side B program.

A good man Phil Jackson! Did a great show, what a pro

Always would give a nice shoutout to John Weingart when he preceded his program. A powerhouse Sunday night Trio. PHIL, JOHN AND The worried Waltz..

Yes. Amazing.

No Oregon based group played better together except maybe The 1977 Portland Trail Blazers.

This build up to the drop is sweet

Mingus's classic

Excellent feature again Jerry. Was great to hear "Oceanus" again. "Solstice" Avery influential album for me.

Hi Chris. Interesting to hear that! Your band Twilight Archive is so good, now I find out about some more of it's strong roots

ROFL another good one here

There is a live recording of Ralph Towner & Gary Burton from 1989 at Penn’s Landing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YgBOC5recbM

Thank you, Russ!

Rick, what do you think?

Bassist Curtis Counce was born 100 years ago today

Jerry, this is good music!

Curtis Counce, jazzy as you wanna be

Russ! Curator of fine gems!

He is the universal curator

Thanks Russ . Those free Penns Landing shows were great. Nevermore. They are building condos for the beautiful shiny people now. They won’t allow concerts there

Ha, shiny people!

They were great.

Mike, thanks for hanging in

Still alive and well!

@ Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) Tremendous tributes to marvelous musicians. Thank you.

They are building that thing now so people can enjoy a park over the freeway with free exhaust.

Thanks very much, Richard, great to hear from you.

Mike, I wish you could post for everybody your most wanted car acquisition, you Kaiser!

your

Hi all, great tribute to a great musician.

How about the way those door slide into the quarter panel

Many a night sliding into Sleepy Hollow from Stars End

Sleepy Hollow is still on XPN, Sat and Sun morning’s.

Sleepy Hollow still on but a pale imitation of the Russ Era. They actually play Phish. Russ is still Big. Sleepy Hollow got small

@Mike C. Best hangover show on the planet at the time. lol

Icarus, produced by George Martin

Hi Stephen! Thanks for tuning in once again, glad you are digging the music

Right Rof??

Hi Sean, I didn't know that"!

I am having a flashback!

It’s improved now that Joey Sweeney has come on board to DJ. Admittedly, it has gotten a bit stale and repetitive.

@Russell, I only now realized I listened to your radio shows. Of Course you'd be a regular here and it explains why you know so damn much :)

Now they play sleepy sweet music and hit you with an ad disguised as a PSA at top levels to send that sleepy vibe straight to the toilet.

Thanks, Patrick and vildachaya1!

The tributes to Ralph Towner bring back memories of wprb in the 1970s, when fusion jazz Rock and the ECM type artists abounded on wprb

If it was on ECM or Pablo it was probably a good jazz record

oh Distant Hills gets me every time

It was wprb that introduced me, as a mere youth, to weather report Chick corea Oregon and so many more groups at the time

I didn't discover WPRB until 1978

Or Evidence Records of course - that was the best label of them all

I heard Jerry Gordon on WPRB while in my car one day - and I've been a listener ever since.

My only PRB 1970s memory is they aired the 1973 NY Mets. I missed a lot . I wonder who the DJS were. Shame that PRB has so historical web site

This chat can be a rough crowd!

Thanks, Sean for that information!

Tomi, glad you're still llistening!

of course Jerry, had to keep listening, good set!

ROFL may be c osmically concious but look out for his left hook!

@Patrick, I walked past the student center back in the day and saw the studio, but it was decades before I listened. LOL

Nice! Thanks, Rick. Glad I didn't scare you away!

I interviewed the members of Oregon when they played at the Main Point in Bryn Mawr. Sat around a table and put the cassette recorder in the middle with the microphone on top of the recorder. Had a nice, wide-ranging discussion. When I played back the tape, all I heard was the sound of the tape recorder’s motor. Rookie mistake!

russell noooooooo

And Vilda, thasnk you. I am playing several great tracks today in Jerry's Room from Evidence. Youo will be surprised.

Russ that blank tape much more entertaining than the David Dye show.

No argument from me about that, Patrick!

Talk about snatched from ones own grasp.

I might shed a few tears over that one.

Russ checking the archives looks like that main point show was May 1980. The inquirer did mention Local Boob screws up Oregon interview

Haha

I also see an effusive Jack Lloyd review of a 1979 bijou performance. tom moon in in 1991 praises their show at a sadly nearly empty Glassboro State university show.

Patrick, you continue to impress with your comedic view!

Jack Lloyd, mensch

Nels Nelson always repped Jazz in the Daily News.

Horacee Arnold! omg "tales of the exonerated flea" another favorite! Unheralded.

@Patrick, I went to High School across the street from the Wilson building and it's a great venue. We would cross support the college and they would support the HS Band. It's really a cool place. Better practice room than Julliard big time with lots of pianos. lol

You got it, Chris, another great one! Don't know many people who knew about that one!

Nels Nelson, mensch.

I see Ralph and the gang appeared at the wonderful Saint Mary’s Church venue in 2001 . Tickets available at TLA video store

Life was so much easier then

Roffle. Do they still do concerts there. Rutgers Camden used to put on great jazz concerts also

Amen Gordski ! Never thought my phone bill would be a mortgage payment

@Pat, I have not lived there for a long time, but it would be a hell of a waste if they don't. They even had Segovia there when I was a kid. It's a major gig on the circuit.

Shout out to Mayfair. Just did hassle free snowstorm shopping at Gino’s Bakery and Capriottis produce. No Day of the Locust food shopping rioting.

Mac and Cheese death match for the last box begin at sunset Pat.

Only an evil person would order next day delivery today.

We considered it but... fuggedaboudid

Any of you hipsters interested TCM is show Don’t Look Back Dylan docu on Saturday. An antidote to that lousy movie from last year.

Hey. Gordski I heard Junior was angry at you for not playing Diamond Dogs last week.

Not for me. I remember Dylan just fine.

I remember seeing Dont Look Back when it first ran in the movie theaters. Revelatory

My archives show an Oregon show at Annenberg Center at Penn on April 4, 1993 and at Memphis on Arch Street on July 27, 1988.

My archives have Alzheimer's.

Wow Memphis I forgot all about that short lived spot

I've forgotten about a lot of them

Saw him open for Ten Years After

That was wonderful stuff Towner. I really am getting a bit overwhelmed with the Obit shows of late, but that was nice work.

I always use that Dylan Line either 136 or 142 but nobody ever gets it.

Russ's archives has rats.

Mike, this was at a club called "Memphis"?

That Towner show reflects some impeccable taste Jerry!

A club called "Spectrum"

Thanks, Roffle!

Rock y Roll!

Club Spec

Mucho rock!

Memphis was at 2121 Arch Street. Previously The Trauma. Also Just Jazz. Now Greene Town Montessori School. https://gtms.org/did-you-know-about-the-trauma-club-at-2121-arch/

The local John Cadillac Blues Band did a killer version of Who Do You Love - They were so fun...

Ed Sullivan tells Bo you can’t sing that Bo Diddley song!Bo okay! Bo goes on air sings Bo Diddley song. Gets banned for life. True Baller move!

Rock y Roll!

Here in the Burbs we had the Flamin' Harry Blues Band

I don't think he was planning on becoming a weekly guest on the Sullivan Show/

Pretty ballsy for '55 or '57

Sullivan told the Doors that they couldn't sing "Light My Fire" with the words "gonna take you higher". Same result.

I wonder what door they even let him in by.

That mouse was always going off script too.

The Stones did the opposite for Spend the Night Together

Friggin' Topo Gigo

Couldn't stand Topo OR the spinning plates.

I was supposed to appear on Sullivan as a 10 year old comedian but my Cardinal Spellman,A Rabbi and Charo walk into a bar didn’t make it through the censors .

My life was all about spinning plates

It was that or the Beatles, so....

Lots of spinning plates

Did you have a spinning plate set or did you just use your mothers plastic p lates?

Melamene plates...guaranteed not to break

That's a gray area

@ Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) Thank you soooo much for playing The Doors' live cover of "Who Do You Love"? They sometimes get a bad rap (due to Jim Morrison's later excesses and songwriting falloff). But they could rock and rhythm-&-blues, with Ray Manzarek's spooky keyboards, Robbie Krieger's killer slide guitar and John Densmore's powerful, always in-the-right places percussion plus Jim's hard-hitting vocals. And it's only a 3.5 piece band! (Ray's bass keyboard = 1/2 instrument)

And they're killin' here, live with no later overdubs.

Right on Richard, yeah that was magnificent

Probably the best Door's IMHO

They just released the doors first six albums on blue ray whatever. Mike, you hip?

Yep....In Atmos

I was in the audience for the Spectrum track from the Doors' Absolutely Live.

Cool!!!

I thought I heard you, Russ!

He switched from a 48 Lincoln to a Ford

Don’t be so modest Jerry. It’s well known Bo wrote this song for you!!

I didn't want to take too much credit

Never liked that name as a kid

Saddest Day in Evidence records History was when Jerry was forced to sign over young Elvis Presley to Colonel Parker.

Hahahahaha, true that!

Plus the time Jerry told the Beatles guitar groups were out and to go to Decca

@ Russell Woessner Awesome! I only got to catch the Doors live once, in the theater space in Madison Square Garden. It was soon after that mess in Miami with Morrison accused of exposing himself. And in NYC, Jim was sober and on this best behavior, and it was a tremendous show. When called back for an encore, Jim said to the others (but on mic so the audience heard), "Let's do one of the famous radio songs.) And they cut into "Light My Fire" and pretty much burned the place down. Yikes!

I never screwed up that big! Biggest mistake I made was not signing Benny and the Vildachayas

I purposely passed on Derek Trucks

Sorry it had to be another obituary show but as usual Jerry did yeoman work. Looking forward to next week . I can’t find that new Spring PRB schedule. Let us know if any filll in shows Gordski. Everyone have a great weekend.

PS: At a party once I met a guy who'd been at the infamous Doors show in Miami. He said he had a good view of the stage and Morrison never exposed himself. At least physically. But he exposed what a mess he was becoming ~ drunk, kept starting and them stopping songs. Alas, the guy told me, it was a lousy show, an insult and a ripoff. I'm a major Doors fan, so I'm glad I caught them on a great night.

Clarinetist and saxophonist Anat Cohen plays at Lehigh University in Bethlehem tomorrow: https://lehightickets.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetEventInfo?ticketCode=GS%3ALEHIGH%3AZ26%3APS0124WB%3A&linkID=global-lehigh&shopperContext=&pc=&caller=appList&appCode=&groupCode=Z-E&cgc=&dataAccId=507&locale=en_US&siteId=ev_global-lehigh

Thanks everybody for listening today, be safe!

Saxophonist Anna Webber's Nonet with Ingrid Laubrock, Mary Halvorson and David Virelles performs at the Jazz Gallery in Manhattan tonight and tomorrow: https://jazzgallery.org/calendar/anna-webber-jan-23-24-2025

Grandkid staying over this weekend - I anticipate Sledding, hot chocolate and a lot of Paw Patrol... They are calling it Storm Benjamin... I swear it wasn't me

set was great jerry thanks !

I have food and alcohol to last till Wednesday

Jerry, you put us in a good frame of mind as we get ready for the snowstorm. Your shows cover the waterfront in a very good way! Everybody enjoy the snowy weekend!

Nice, super Benjy. That should be way fun.

Sara Serpa + Matt Mitchell and Theo Bleckmann + Ben Monder play Ingrid Laubrock's Repurposing the Air at the Jazz Gallery https://roulette.org/event/ingrid-laubrocks-purposing-the-air/ on Wednesday, January 28: Livestream!

Michael Gudgeon, thanks for tuning it and mentioning!

BTW Don Was tribute to Blues for Allah at the Ardmore was pretty great. Nice horn section of folks who played with everyone under the sun. Nice tribute to Bob Weir too.

Mike C, this is your guy

Good stuff for days Jerry! Thanks for sharing!

I cover the waterfront!! Thanks, Rick. You traveling this weekend?

Roffle, thanks again for your presence and comments, love it!

Russ, thanks for your suggestions, info, and jazz club promotions

Till next time

Jerry, we're making 150 dozen of pierogies up in the coal regions tomorrow. But I'll probably be stuck in the house on Sunday and Monday.

Wow! Delicious, freeze a couple for yourself. Be safe

I'll take a hundred dozen

Damn near hit it at the top of the hour

Stuck in a house with pierogies during a snow storm. Roughing it.! LOL

Mike, you knew that mcCartney version of course, yes?

I would brave the elements and go out to get sour cream

In fact, that's all I can think of right now

Oh...right!

12:00 PM		Steinski I Like It Like That
12:02 PM		Roland Kirk Quartet & Rahsaan Roland Kirk Quartet Serenade to a Cuckoo I Talk with the Spirits Verve 1963
12:09 PM		Ralph Towner, Jan Garbarek, Eberhard Weber & Jon Christensen Oceanus Solstice ECM Records 1975
12:23 PM		Ralph Towner, Eddie Gomez & Jack DeJohnette Waterwheel Batik ECM Records 1978
12:45 PM		Garbarek-Towner-Abercrombie-Vasconcelos Timeless Live In Hamburg ECM Records 1978
12:45 PM		John Abercrombie & Ralph Towner Fable Sargasso Sea ECM Records 1976
12:54 PM		Gary Burton & Ralph Towner Goodbye Pork Pie Hat Matchbook ECM Records 1975
1:02 PM		Gary Burton & Ralph Towner Some Other Time Matchbook ECM Records 1975
1:04 PM		Ralph Towner & Gary Burton Blue In Green Slide Show ECM Records 1986
1:20 PM		Paul Winter Icarus Winter Consort: Icarus Epic 1971
1:20 PM		Oregon Distant Hills Distant Hills Vanguard Records 1973
1:34 PM		Gary Burton & Ralph Towner Song for a Friend Matchbook ECM Records 1975
1:34 PM		Horacee Arnold Tribe Tribe Legacy Recordings 1972
1:45 PM		Weather Report The Moors I Sing the Body Electric Columbia/Legacy 1972
1:52 PM		Larry Coryell Improvisation on Robert De Visee's Sarabande The Restful Mind (feat. Ralph Towner, Collin Walcott & Glen Moore) Craft Recordings 1975
2:00 PM		Ralph Towner Clarion Call My Foolish Heart ECM Records 2017
2:05 PM		Bo Diddley Bo Diddley I'm a Man: The Chess Masters, 1955-1958 Geffen 2007
2:08 PM		Taj Mahal Bo Diddley Hey Bo Diddley - A Tribute! EVIDENCE MUSIC INC. 2002
2:10 PM		Bo Diddley Who Do You Love? His Greatest Sides Vol. 1
2:14 PM		The Doors Who Do You Love (Live) Absolutely Live Rhino/Elektra 1970
2:29 PM		Bo Diddley Mona The Chess Box Geffen 1990
2:29 PM		Quicksilver Messenger Service Mona Happy Trails Capitol Records 1969
2:29 PM		Bo Diddley Ride On Josephine The Chess Box Geffen 1990
2:31 PM		Eric Sardinas Ride On Josephine Hey Bo Diddley - A Tribute! EVIDENCE MUSIC INC. 2002
2:39 PM		Bo Diddley Bring It to Jerome His Best Geffen 1997
2:41 PM		Billy F Gibbons Bring It To Jerome The Big Bad Blues Concord Records 2018
2:47 PM		Bo Diddley Road Runner (Single Version) The Chess Box Geffen 1990
2:48 PM		Walter Trout Road Runner Hey Bo Diddley - A Tribute! EVIDENCE MUSIC INC. 2002
2:53 PM		Bo Diddley Crackin' Up I'm a Man: The Chess Masters, 1955-1958 Geffen 2007
2:57 PM		Paul McCartney Crackin' Up CHOBA B CCCP (Remastered) Paul McCartney Catalog 1988

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