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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Feb 6, 2026 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!

2.6.25

2 hours of male vocalists, the best in jazz from the last 50 years, followed by covers of the compositions of the great Allen Toussaint

11:59 AM		Steinski I Like It Like That What Does It All Mean? - 1983-2006 Retrospective
12:05 PM		T.J. Kirk Serenade to a Cuckoo T.J. Kirk Rhino/Warner Records 1995
12:15 PM		Michael Mayo Four Fly Artistry Music 2024
12:19 PM		Joe Williams Ain't Got Nothing But the Blues In Good Company Verve Reissues 1989
12:22 PM		Kurt Elling & James Morrison Goin' to Chicago (Live) Live in New York Big Shoulders Records 2019
12:27 PM		Al Hibbler & Roland Kirk Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me A Meeting of the Times Rhino Atlantic 1972
12:32 PM		Johnny Hartman On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever) Hartman Sings Trane's Favorites
12:40 PM		Oscar Brown, Jr. Somebody Buy Me A Drink Sin & Soul... and Then Some Columbia/Legacy 1960
12:40 PM		Jimmy Witherspoon & Brother Jack McDuff Past Forty Blues The Blues Is Now Verve Reissues 1967
12:43 PM		Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson Cherry Red Cleanhead's Back in Town 1957
12:44 PM		Ray Charles Drown In My Own Tears Ray Charles In Person Rhino Atlantic 1960
12:57 PM		Frank Minion So What (feat. Bill Evans, Jimmy Cobb & Paul Chambers) The Soft Land of Make Believe Bethlehem
1:06 PM		Gene McDaniels Straight No Chaser The Wonderful World of Gene McDaniels Liberty
1:08 PM		Jon Hendricks This Could Be the Start of Something Live at the Trident Smash 1965
1:11 PM		Leon Thomas Damn Nam (Ain't Goin' to Vietnam) Spirits Known and Unknown Ace Records 1969
1:17 PM		Gary Bartz NTU Troop Vietcong Harlem Bush Music - Uhuru Milestone 1971
1:25 PM		Jose James Save Your Love for Me (The Brooklyn Sessions) Blackmagic (10th Anniversary Edition) Universal Music LLC 2020
1:28 PM		Horace Silver Won't You Open Up Your Senses Total Response (The United States Of Mind / Phase 2) EMI MUSIC JAPAN INC. 1972
1:29 PM		Dwight Trible Feeling Good Inspirations Gondwana Records 2017
1:39 PM		Eddie Jefferson Soft and Furry Letter from Home Original Jazz Classics 1961
1:42 PM		King Pleasure Red Top King Pleasure Sings / Annie Ross Sings Original Jazz Classics 1953
1:47 PM		Nat King Cole Almost Like Being In Love The Extraordinary CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 2014
1:57 PM		Jimmy Scott On Broadway The Source Rhino Atlantic 1969
1:57 PM		Gregory Porter I Fall In Love Too Easily Liquid Spirit Universal Music Division Decca Records France 2013
2:07 PM		Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Whipped Cream Whipped Cream & Other Delights Herb Alpert Presents 1965
2:09 PM		The Pointer Sisters Yes We Can Can The Pointer Sisters Geffen 1973
2:13 PM		Esther Phillips From a Whisper to a Scream From a Whisper to a Scream CBS Associated 1971
2:19 PM		Chris Kenner I Like It Like That - Part 1 I Like It Like That Charly Records 2006
2:20 PM		Don Covay Everything I Do Goin' Be Funky The Platinum Collection Woah Dad! 2007
2:23 PM		Glen Campbell Southern Nights Rhinestone Cowboy - The Best of Glen Campbell EMI Marketing 2003
2:27 PM		Albert King Get Out Of My Life Woman New Orleans Heat Charly Digital 1978
2:32 PM		Lee Dorsey Working in the Coalmine: Stereo Soul Mine: The Greatest Hits & More 1960-1978 Charly 1992
2:33 PM		The Meters Ride Your Pony Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology Rhino 1995
2:48 PM		Robert Palmer Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley Universal-Island Records Ltd. 1974
2:49 PM		Little Feat On Your Way Down Dixie Chicken Warner Records 1973
2:51 PM		Levon Helm Play Something Sweet Levon Helm Geffen 1978
2:56 PM		Lou Ann Barton It's Raining Read My Lips New West Records 1989
2:58 PM		Ernie K-Doe Mother-in-Law (2002 Remaster) Finger Poppin' And Stompin' Feet: 20 Classic Allen Toussaint Productions For Minit Records 1960-1962 (2002 Remaster) Capitol Records 2002

Chat is archived.

Welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon!

Happy Friday to Jerry and everybody!

good day

Hey Mike!

Hi Rick, Mike, thanks for being back here! Happy Pierogi day!

Hi Rick

jerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Jimboooo Yooooo!

Hey Jimbooooo!

There's perogies?

That was a fun station ID, Jerry. We made it yo Friday, ll! 🥳

And there's that theme song again 🎶 🐦

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

Hey Christine, always thrilled to see you!

Hey Christine and Richard!

Thank you very much, Richard, just make sure you don't digitize into the land of 1s and 2s!

Christine, that ID was Traffic, you may have already known that

How's work treating you?

Percussion!

Greetings to Gordy Gordski and all you hipsters,flipsters,and finger popping daddies. Please lend your lobes to our illustrious DJ Jerry

Hi Jerry, Rick, Richard, Mike, and jimbooooo 🍅

Hey Patrick!

And Patrick ☘️

The person for whom I did the Miles/'Trane video: His name was Robert Carrington. He lived at Peacock’s General Store in Hillsborough Township, NJ. He had resided in San Francisco. He arrived here with a pet dog. When I met him, he had just lost his pet. I asked about the pet. That began a 25 year friendship. He was one of the brightest people I had ever met.

I haven't heard many vocals of "Four" before, but this is goooooood!

Yo rick Mike richard Christine patrick 💥💥💥

Yo Patrick! You earned a 4-leaf clover badge from Christine

LHR did a great one

Best thing I will see today is probably a 1976 photo of Matty the Humdinger Singer teaching a music marketing class at Temple decked out in a cowboy hat

Thanks to Christine . Nobody circles the wagons like us shamrock Fenians🇮🇪

@Jerry, work has been very busy these past two weeks, and has finally calmed down. Which is good, because it's Serenade to a Cuckoo time 📻 🎶

Super Bowl entertainment was much better when Al Hirt was part of the show.

And Up With People

Michael Mayo at Princeton: https://www.princeton.edu/events/2025/jazz-princeton-university-presents-jazz-vocal-ensemble

Michelle Lordi & Rudresh Mahanthappa are rock stars ✨️

Patrick, playing the hits of Allen Toussaint!

Matty gets a gefilte fish logo

Mike the Simpsons repping Up With people as Hooray for Everything is peak comedy

Right!

I miss First Fridays in old City. People getting sloshed on free wine at Art galleries and stumbling through cobblestone streets

The Grambling State Marching Band was fire🔥

I miss Super Sunday

Patrick, I remember when you got hit over the head with wine bottles and then your car got towed away

Thank you, Russ

Tru that!

Schwing!

50 years ago this weekend a true cornucopia of entertainment options….Doc Watson,Billy Eckstine,Four Aces,Karen Young,Mimi Farina,Denny Doherty, Ray Bryant and a true supergroup UNTOUCHABLE…featuring Monette Sudler,Khan Jamal,Sonny Murray and David Murray.

Indeedy!!!

Haha, Rick

Tonight at Zellerbach Theater at Penn, drummer Tyshawn Sorey pays tribute to jazz pioneer Max Roach and his 1968 album, Members, Don't Git Weary with Adam O'Farrill (trumpet), Mark Shim (tenor saxophone), Lex Korten (piano), Tyrone Allen II (bass) and Fay Victor (vocals). https://pennlivearts.org/event/TyshawnSorey

Beautiful, Patrick!

Russ, very very deep. You will be there?

I will.

More schwing here

Russ, will you listen to the album today in preparation, or unnecessary?

Jerry, this show is taking me to the right place!

It is in that groove, sir, designed for everyone's listening pleasure. Jazz for Schwingers like yourself, Rick

Roland playing 3 horns, he's his own horn section

Rahsaan and Al Hibbler! What a pair!

I hope Roland got 3 times the pay!

Patrick, you get to shine in Jerry's Room today as we play the songs of your main man Allen Toussaint

Some people know what to do with all the hot air inside of them.

Roffle! We needed you here, you hipster!

They are indeed their own horn section.

A lot of hot air without direction.

Heard you guys with the jazz smokes were spinnin' :)

Jerry we may think we’re cool but we will never be as cool as Allen Toussaint rocking a purple suit at Joe’s Pub in August of 2014 cool!!

We only smoke (and drink) for medicinal purposes.

Patrick, you are so right!

Are we going to hear the title track, Members, Don’t Git Weary, with Andy Bey on vocals on Cuckoo today?

Patrick, that will be a little difficult for me technically, if I don't it won't be for a lack of desire but technical skillls.

Headed to the frozen tundra of Clark Park Sunday for the annual Charles Dickens Birthday celebration

Clock on the VCR still flashing 00?

Patrick, it will be the best of times... And Roffle, yes!

Clark Park is one of a kind and so special.

Correction... 00:00

The only Dickens statue in the world.

Tomorrow at the Miller Theater at Columbia University, the Angelic Brothers (keyboardist John Medeski and cornetist Kirk Knuffke) play the music of Sun Ra. https://www.millertheatre.com/events/john-medeski-and-kirk-knuffke?ct=t%28EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025-26-January_COPY_01%29

Wow

deep and danky B3 just then

@rick, I used to live a short walk from Clark Park. I love the farmer's market and all the weirdness.

B3, as provided by Dr. Jerry.

RIP Catherine OHara one funny Irish lass. Lola Heatherton forever!

What a resume!

Roffle, I used to live at 4224 Chester Ave. in a 3rd floor walk-up. Good times.

Some people find this track to be politically incorrect.

Patrick, I sincerely enjoyed Catherine O'Hara's acting in Schitt's Creek.

The angel from Saturn himself will be profiled on American Masters on PBS on February 20: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/sun-ra-do-the-impossible-documentary/37455/

Rick she claimed the Moira character was an extension of her SCTV character Lola Heatherton .

Patrick, I did not know that.

I can see that

Couldn’t have been more politically incorrect than my A priest, a rabbi and Lenny Bruce at my CYO breakfast performance

Better than your priest, a rabbi, and Imam jokes

Ah, thanks, Jerry ("So What")

Vocalized "So What" - it just don't get any better.

Richard, thank you for that story. What a nice story and interesting friend

Looks like we have an upcoming Winter Olympics but if it doesn’t have Jean Claude Killy,Spider Savich and Peggy Fleming im not really interested..

A little further afield musically, percussionist David Cossin leads a performance of Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians at the Manhattan School of Music on Tuesday, February 10: https://www.msmnyc.edu/performances/msm-faculty-recital-david-cossin-percussion-2-10-2026/ Livestream!

Patrick, I agree.

Hey Rick that Chester Avenue side of Clark Park looks like a sledding Valhalla

I bet!

Wow 19 cents . Thats better deal than Russ at the hardware store

JM Fields, I believe

Jerry, you just can't find cuts like this anywhere else in the continental 48 states, let alone the world (except maybe Paris).

Schwing is the thing!

I remember the state unemployment office sent me to JM Fields at Leo Mall in Somerton. 2.65 per hour . Fun times.

I'm surprised they didn't try to pay you 19 cents

There was a great bagel shop in the Leo Mall 40 years ago

That area is loaded with great Uzbekistan,Tajikistan and Georgian restaurants.

Is this in the Northeast?

What became of JM Fields?

Went the way of Jamesway and others I imagine

Andy Bey - simply the best!

On Bustleton Avenue before the end of city. I didn’t enjoy unemployment because I was lazy … I just like saying I was on the dole

Andy Bey and his talented sisters . What a family juggernaut

Every place I ever worked went out of business or moved. I can measure my unemployment in years

Mike, Patrick you both have had interesting careers!

One of the best LPs ever. Of course, Andy Bey is a big reason why.

Yep...candles, holsters, computers etc

Rick, your ear is so finely tuned and has always been so.

Mike, I remember when you worked in the holster store with the candles and the x rated videos.

Yeah....they all go hand in hand

I murdered John Wanamakers;Queen Casuals,Triangle Container Cotp,Ideal Shoe Company ,Spring Garden College and soon possibly the USPS

Those yellow unemployment cards were quite the 1978 Carter era status symbol

Women really dug them

Single female looking for unemployed Sid Vicious type

Saxophonists Jaleel Shaw & Steve Wilson celebrate their birthdays at the Jazz Gallery in Manhattan on Wednesday, February 11: https://jazzgallery.org/calendar/jaleel-shaw-feb-11-2026

Ha!

Good afternoon all. Sorry I missed the chatter about Clark Park. Track and Turf anyone? One memorable 'rap' show I attended, the sound system went out. Young rappers, is like, no problem. Does it a cappella, no accompanment, no sound system. I rmember that performance to this day.

We probably don’t talk enough about how cool the Lazlo Schrifin Mannix jazz theme is.

OK, I'll start then. Mannix, he was no McCloud.

Mannix told McCloud screw you and the horse you came in on!

Hey friends! Happy Friday - Will Jerry play Please Mr. Postman - After all he's doing all Mail vocalists? Thank you, I'll be here all week

Take a letter Maria?

Guitarist Ben Monder leads his trio with Matt Brewer on bass and Johnathan Blake on drums at the Jazz Gallery on Thursday, February 12: https://jazzgallery.org/calendar/ben-monder-trio-feb-12-2026

Patrick, I rember when you put Wanamakers in their first bankruptcy.

statue of Wanamaker on the North side of city Hall. John Wanamaker, Citizen.

This is a fine Eddie Jefferson Tune. wowsie

Widely known for his pop/soul/rand b hits Lou Rawls was a great jazz vocalist

Hey LW

Hey Jerry- Your Wednesday eveing show was some fine wine. I have been going through the playlist track by track. I knew the name 'Amboy Dukes' but knew nothing about them. Ted 'I Like To Hunt' Nugent Wikepedia actually mentions Hendirx on the write up of that song.

I mistakenly thought the Amboy Dukes were from Perth Amboy NJ.INn the depths of my ignorance

Nat King Cole sure had some hip big bands backing him.

Thanks, LW. That track came out at a time when Hendrix blew every pre-existing rock guitarists mind. A new day! On Mainstream Records, the label the first big Brother and the Holding Company album came out on

Nat King Cole was such a star! A piano player who was discovered to have an unreal voice, ala George Benson

For Patrick, Little Jimmy Scott

Archibald Campbell was the producer. He also produced Lalo Schifrin. This was just before Bruce Geller stole the idea and hired Hal Leonard to produce a fake Moon landing. No wonder I keep getting banned.

Nats brother Freddie was great vocalist also.3 years in a row rained out at Wiggins Park.like the Lil Abner character Joe Bflpsk

I know the more popular version of this. Great tune.

Tell me more about this Wiggins Park you speak of?

Went to see Little Jimmy Scott at Marcus Garvey park to close out the Charlie Parker jazz fest.Ominous clouds.rain held off until his last note

Lester Wiggins Park Camden runs a series of summer jazz concerts on the waterfront for free.unfortunately the lineup has dipped into blandness lately .Stanley Clarke does show up almost annually Andvthe Brecket Br

And the Brecker Brothers

LW, what song were you talking about?

Many Jazzbos criticize me for my Little Jimmy Scott fandom.many jazzbos are wrong!,

Jose James. Now this is a great musician. I never understood why he had not gotten a lot more recognition. Was watching some vids back in 2020?

I LOVE Little Jimmy Scott! Great taste, Patrick. Rick, see you next Friday!

On Broadway. Jerry. Sometimes the network glitches. I missed all the recent comments.

I have to bow out early today (it's time to help sell 155 dozen frozen pierogies up in the coal region). Jerry, listening to "Serenade To A Cuckoo" was a most enjoyable experience, as always! Male (and female) jazz vocalists rock!!! Schwing City! Everybody enjoy your weekend!

Good luck Rick. Make them feel guilty if they don't buy. 155 dozen?

Unfortunately his show was removed from Southern stations because he put his arm around Dinah Shore.

Here’s my list of smoother singers than Nat King Cole………………………………..

I fall in love too easily I fall in love too fast I fall in love too terribly hard For love to ever last

This one is for Russ whose first concert was The Tijuana Brass!

Allen’s New Orleans musician friends ridiculed him for his Whipped Cream instrumental as lame.Then the Dating Game picked it up. They didn’t ridicule the house he bought from the royalties

Haha! And of course Java

Is this from the A&M catalog?

The Herb Alpert was, yes

Alpert & Moss

Love Allen Toussaint this is a treat

USPS currently has a beautiful Muhammad Ali stamp .later this month Bruce Lee.They do some things well

His mothers name was Naomi Neville but not related to Neville Brothers

When I was a kid I was sure A&M was American & Mexican

pierogies for coal country , ah , for the coalies haven't heard that since workin at SPS

Patrick, if I'm not mistaken all his songs bore the name of Naomi Neville as the songwriter.

And straight in from the beach to listen to Jerry's Room is Affrig!

Affrig, I hope it's not to hot out

Not all. He liked to mix his name ,moms and his father.he said if the royalties got bollixed up at least they would end up in the hands of family

From a Whisper to a scream is one of the most haunting songs you will ever hear

Love that info, Patrick. What was your attraction to Toussaint, when did it happen?

Naomi Neville was a pseudonym used by Allen Toussaint, a legendary New Orleans songwriter, producer, and pianist. He adopted this name—his mother’s maiden name—for contractual and business reasons, particularly during transitions between record labels. Toussaint used "Naomi Neville" to write and publish numerous songs in the 1960s, including hits like "Fortune Teller", "Ruler of My Heart", "All These Things", and "Whipped Cream". The pseudonym allowed him to maintain creative momentum during le

Jerry , you have to head to the keys for swimwear , little cool

Thank you, LW!

Always enjoyed his music then I heard an interview with Harry Shearer.Tremendous erudite story teller.saw him at Joes pub nyc numerous times.

Too long for radiocast but anyone interested his live version of Southern Nights is a magnificent piece of storytelling woven into a great song.

Jerry I still have my '63 Rambler. Meet me behind the clubhouse. Bring a lighter. Or a Light-Saber. Your choice. But leave Patrick out, unless he has great crypto tips.

Harry Shearer is one of the ATG's I always liked that guy. Did he go full Timothy Leary?

Jerry Reed does a nice version of Southern Nights .When He’s Hot He’s Hot.

Unfortunately Lester I lost all my savings in Crypto.Some Guy told me some other guy told him to invest in some crypto but I lost the password and some other guy hacked the money.i met him at my MENSA gathering.

The Highway Theater in Jenkintown remembers Catherine O’Hara on Thursday, February 12 with Best in Show: https://hiwaytheater.org/films/best-in-show

Ha, will have to listen to that Jerry Reed! Love that song!

Hey Jerry RIP to the great Sonny Jurgensen the Iggles very own Joe Namath

I saw that this morning! Even my football players are disappearing.

He was in his 90s!

He was quite the man around town born vivant.So the Iggles traded him for Norm Snead.He was great radio commentator for those who play in Washington DC

Didn’t realize he was Van Brocklin.backup in 1960 so he got a title ring.

Oh yes, then he started in '61 and they traded him away for Norm Snead. I was 10 and I knew it was a crappy deal

I do have a funny Joe Namath Story. Could be true, or not be true. But so the informant is in a bar talking to a guy. he asks, what do you do? She goes on and on about working with children, likely with disabilities, etc. He leans in listening. So finally she asks, what do you do? Namath answers, I play football. She responds, That's a silly thing for a grown man to do. Ok i I asked the board should I post this. Sally says OK.

This song is smacked with the greatness stick.

Love the whole album

1988 jambalaya jam at Penns Landing Allen set the Delaware River on fire

We loved the Cayuga River. Fire!

I was there

My Kingdom for a ticket back in time to go see it, if I could stay in 1988 after the show.

Great show as always - My band, The Wild Bohemians are playing our 42 Annual Mardi Gras Parade on Feb 22 on South Street. Traditional New Orleans band with a bar crawl sytel parade. Lots of fun - Free :0

JERRY!!!!

Damn Sonny's gone. Billy Kilmer is still in the game though

I'm with you, Roffle

Benny, you Vildachaya you, everybody should see you and your Wild Bohemians on Feb 22. Love to hear that!

Little Feat at University of PA -Irvine Hall - One of the best shows I ever saw

G Jax Knows!

Then he showed up in 1991 and played with Frankie Sea Cruise Ford.

Here's a video from the parade a few years back

Just got my Seymour Duncan Micro SHPR-2B P-Rails Hot, Bridge, Black from Amazon. That goes in the Starcaster this afternoon! Woot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4g1QzWwwds

I found it for $99 Roffle. Did you overpay?

I thought Billy Kilmer and Jack Lord were the same guy. They really didnt look that much alike but what do you want?? I was like 6

Yes I did lester

129.00

Everyone have a great weekend.Stay warm . I hope somewhere out there is a 9 year old as excited about the Super Bowl like I was in 1970

U2 Patrick. Kids are for sure still out there with dreams. :)

Everybody have a great superbowl Sunday, thanks for enjoying today's show. Appreciated

I found a Hammond organ in the trash. We got scales. Put two fingers and some lead and we will weight your light-saber later.

What about the Southern Rythm orchestra. Whaen the lights go out in georgia.

Thanks Jerry! Enjoy the game!

The County Theater in Doylestown remembers Catherine O’Hara on Tuesday, February 10 with For Your Consideration: https://www.countytheater.org/films/for-your-consideration

Levon said Robbie had robbed him blind.

so BTW, when you are on the drum kit, you channel the other folks

This is my dream person of 1982

Robbie Roberston The only robber is ourselves.

@Lester, I found a Korg N5 walking back home at 1 am in the U District in a pile of stuff on the curb with the trash. Crazy!.

Woessner is a Neuropsycholigist. .

nice Roffle. Now play it

Love to hear Russell's take on neuro-developement in musicians. :)

Best thing I ever found in the trash was a Supro Lap Steel. It's a student model. From the 40's

It's sitting right close Lester.

Goodbye

Big Sandy and Los Straightjackets do this in Español..first I have heard in english

we are in uncharted fields She asked me waht I feel, and dont come back no mo'

Love Big Sandy! will look for it!

Sing along with the Straitjackets

@G-Jax, that's cool. An old student piece is great with a little luthering. :)

Thanks, Carlos! And welcome to the chat. Thanks for listening

Later

See ya,, Roffle, thanks

Yeah it needed luthering. It's cool now. I still have it.