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

Welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo!

Happy Friday to Jerry and everybody!

Happy Friday, Rick. How are you?

Jerry, I hope the Phils keep on rollin!

Ah the Gordian Knot on a Friday. Good Afternoon Jerry.

Tuned in and turned on

Hey Mike and Elias!

Hi Rick

ET, Mike, how the hell are ya?

I'm hearing bari sax already. Life is good!

Rick, the batters need to take some vitamins

BAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was meditating on what to call my fellow Gordians. Then it hit me. They have no name. And their nameless ness informs the C at the center of the piano forte'

Rick, of course! It's what makes this track so good besides the fact it's so damn funky

Chef, you hit that right on the beat

Jerry, maybe the Phils need some shots of B-3, like you administer so well!

Ha, I hope it would be effective on them. They're not funky enough

Hahaha!

Thanks, ET! That was deep!

Music from the ride paddies

rice

I've been shooting reds and yellows all day and boy am I tired

Hahahahahaha.Russ knows that line. Good work from you, Mike

Rice paddies made me think of it!

I was right there with you

Cadmium or Indian Yellow? Both fine colours.

That was a Firesign Theatre reference.

Firesign Theatre was the best!!!

Absolutely

second time today for a Firesign theater reference. so electrons and muons have spin. No one knows why.

Interesting!

Cool track. I'm diggin' it!

I like the alto player Bruce Williams

This is exactly how Lester got banned. Listening to an entirely different soundtrack, and commenting none the less. There is an energy here. A musician friend of mine told me- Speak through the instrument.

I like the Gordian knot reference @Elias

Hey Christine!

Hi everybody! Late to the party today. 🎶🐦

Hi Christine, everybody was looking for you!

Greetings to Jerry and his Gordonians. Mourning the loss of underrated genius Dexter Wansel. LIFE ON MARS was epic. Also engineered the Jacksons emergence into adult sound

Hey Patrick!

its not 'just' a Gordian knot. Its a Jerry Gordon knot. Perhaps there are unknown unknowns. But Jerry knows, as do all the Gordians, and the disesetblementaarisists know as well, spelling is important.

This flute is just carrying us away. Such energy!

Elias, you're a true philosopher!

Lew Tabackin born in Philadelphia. Did stellar work on a Tom Waits lp. Makes occasional area appearances. Saw him couple years ago at turf club in Asbury Park

Hi Patrick. Thanks for that info. I hadn't heart that Dexter Wansel passed.

TY Rick. We Shall meet in the far-after. The hereafter has an entrance fee. They want your soul.

Jerry as you know he owned mid to late 1970s music. Also some nice music with Gordski favorite Goddess Phyllis Hyman.

Jerry- Who is ticking those keys? Tickling is the correct term.

Yes a smart, funny and beautiful goddess

SIRI let me know what 1976 sounded like! Cue The Jacksons Let Me Show You.

ffs that flautist

Pianist on this track is Angelica Sanchez

We went to a new recording and artist.

to no one in particular. To be a creative spirit you may have to give up everything. Can you hit a high C on a Trumpet? I love horns, also Bass Calrinets.

Bass clarinets, yes indeedy!

Clarinets. Also Clarets.

Love them clarets

I did ask my mother. She did not like going into Wee Three record shop to ask for some 'Bitches rew" I think it was the anaerobic starved bacteria.

This is an exceptional album that I didn't know existed until a week ago

ha we will reach for the stars. Could take a minute.

I love discoveries like that.

Yes, a nice surprise that still surprises me!

I do remember my piano teacher. Mrs. Duffield. So she had a lot of sheet music. Designed for kids. There was a whole tone piece I loved. A trip to the Moon. Jerry- I am on my way to the moon with Indian rhythms. Elvin Jones feeding the diesel fuel into the cauldron.

I was getting the essence of diesel fuel and the shocking reflection off the moon also. Good one, ET

Bee flat takes a knight. we see you, Oh fair Maiden. We have a horns. Sharp horns. A love supreme.

These vibes are pure. 💯

this is my favorite passage Jerry.

On our way to Skull island. the 500 pound gorilla.

The Cuckoo Players are some wild and interesting folk. Poets!

looks to be hotter up there than clearwater, tunes are keepin it cool here

I'm glad! Hope you are enjoying this, aiffrig

dam computer keeps remindin me every friday at noon

Charlotte Mundy performs Morton Feldman's Three Voices tonight in West Philly https://www.bowerbird.org/event/morton-feldman-three-voices-2026/

Prism Quartet plays the world premiere of a Don Byron composition in Germantown tomorrow: https://www.prismquartet.com/concerts/premieres_phl/?ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_eco-press_release_COPY_01)&mc_cid=0766dcced8&mc_eid=dc1d539236

This is such a great tune - and this version is oh so nice!

A last minute insertion ov B3!

Vitamins for the Phillies

Max Johnson Sextet & Thomas Kraines will be in Philly on Sunday https://www.firemuseumpresents.com/upcoming/max-johnson-sextet

Jerry, you are the doctor that prescribes only good music!

Love it, Rick!

Yvonne Rogers Quartet plays at Roulette in Brooklyn on Tuesday: https://roulette.org/event/yvonne-rogers-odes/ Livestream!

The first two hours really flew.

Melissa Aldana performs in Baltimore on Thursday: https://www.instantseats.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.event&eventID=DA358E14-FBF1-47D9-F2867C3D26C339C5 Livestream

Jerry, for a second it sounded like you were singing Paul Simon's song "René And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War"

"To the Penquins The Moonglows The Orioles And The Five Satins The deep, forbidden music They’d been longing for"...

Thanks, Christine, Chef

Bari sax makes the world go round!

Bari was big in the fifties for sure!

One eyed cat....yeah, sure.....

Mike, you are a great listener of lyrics

Earth Angel, Please be mine. Just a fool

I love the jaunty spoon-clacking on this song.

dWhat ears!

That was a racy lyric for sure @Mike

Right????

Christine and Mike have a keen sense of awareness for that stuff!

Thats some old wax Jerry. See her with some flats on with a microphone suspended on springs. You got something that money can't buy, I'm love.. Why you can't buy that.

You don't need to, ET

Seafood store 😄 @Mike

BB? Can't mistake Lucile.

Yeah....that too, Christine!

I'm getting schooled by Christine... again

Happy Friday Friends - Working boy here just wrapping a 4 hour meeting to listent to some Good Ol Rock N Roll

Hey VC! From the artists studio to Wall Street, you're amazing

Hi vildachaya 👋

does anybody here have any personal memories of 1954?

I saw the Klezmatics Tuesday in Philly - Their 40th anniversary! They are so good - They are leaning into their politics and doing songs of resistance like Deportee as well as their Klezmer dance songs.

I remember being born

I peed in my crib

Hey Christine! -

I don't remember being born because I was very young back then.

wow jerry and mike, incredible!

I wanted to go back in

Mike- your mother wouldn't have it

Freud would have a field day with that one

Jerry! What version is this?

I am planning on moving to different kinds of activities in July that don't involve sitting at a screen all day. any tips on joiining the chat via my phone?

of White Christmas? The Drifters

Hi Juliana

Thank you! <3

My pleasure!

Thanks for listening!

economy added 172 K Jobs. Market sold. Why why why? Well b/c fed will raise the next time

Jerry plays precious wax.

Thanks to RCA for the invention of the 45

The Honeymooners were on in 55 and 56 and Art Carney (Ed Norton) describes some must they are dancing to as Rock and Roll

'music"

Love it, Benj

ET goes to church!

1492. Columbus invents the 16 track. Oddly the actual magnetic tape was not even invented until after the British had flanked Washington at Brandywine. .

7 or 12 inch singles

Thats why they are known as 'Cats'

This harmonica playing is sensational. Healing.

Alert for Christine and Mike

More risqué lyrics, Jerry?

I don't know, I need you to explain them to me

Att: Rick, Rick

I'm diggin' it!!!

If I buy a ticket on the Palmetto, will I be able to listen to the Cuckoo all the way to New Orleans? So I can visit and hear 'The Saints' at preservation Hall?

If they have internet!

I didn't get to play any of my New Orleans music I had picked out

:-)

Jerry, once again you transported us into the weekend with another totally pleasurable show! The Trane "A Love Supreme" was a very nice surprise. JG with the GM! Everybody enjoy your weekend!

This is more fightin' music, Willie Mabon!

Thanks very much, Rick. Everybody have a great weekend

Cheers, Jerry! Another top-drawer program to kick off the weekend. 💯

Thank you, Christine, you are always in the Rock & Roll Spirit!

Have a great weekend everyone. Thanks Jerry

Jerry with the GM. RIP Bob Perkins. One of the GOAT

Till net time

Benj, ET, Mike, Russ, everybody... thank you for being great listeners

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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

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