WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

New Jersey's Only Radio Station

WPRB is a community-supported, freeform radio station. Our FM signal (103.3) serves central New Jersey, Philadelphia, eastern PA and the northern tip of Delaware. We reach a global audience at wprb.com.

Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Jul 1, 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!

7.1.26 Sub for Free4All w/#6

Assorted Rock, Funk, and Jazz for your summer entertainment pleasure

12:00 PM		Steinski I Like It Like That What Does It All Mean? - 1983-2006 Retrospective
12:02 PM		Russell Gunn Sybil's Blues Ethnomusicology Atlantic Jazz 1999
12:03 PM		Beefeaters Serenade to a Cuckoo Meet You There Universal Music A/S 1968
12:29 PM		The Chambers Brothers People Get Ready The Time Has Come Today Columbia 1969
12:29 PM		The Chambers Brothers Funky New Generation Columbia/Legacy 1969
12:53 PM		Funkadelic One Nation Under a Groove One Nation Under a Groove Charly 1978
12:53 PM		JAMES BROWN Get Up Offa That Thang Hits of the 70'S - 1976 Music Company Europe 2011
12:53 PM		Sir Mack Rice Mustang Sally Beg, Scream
12:53 PM		Shawn Brown Rappin' Duke 12 inch
12:53 PM		Rodney Dangerfield Rappin' Rodney Single
1:00 PM		Cream Politician Wheels of Fire Polydor Records 1968
1:04 PM		Cream Pressed Rat and Warthog Wheels of Fire Polydor Records 1968
1:08 PM		Canned Heat Boogie Music Living the Blues
1:20 PM		Canned Heat Gotta Boogie (The World Boogie) Uncanned! The Best of Canned Heat
1:23 PM		Slim Harpo Shake Your Hips Best of Slim Harpo Universal Music Enterprises 1997
1:24 PM		Kaleidoscope You Don't Love Me A Beacon From Mars
1:31 PM		John Hammond I Wish You Would I Can Tell
1:31 PM		Kid Ramos Real Gone Lover West Coast House Party Evidence Music 2000
1:45 PM		Freddie Roulette Sleepwalk Back In Chicago - Jammin' With Willie Kent & The Gents Hi Horse 2006
1:59 PM		Procol Harum In Held 'Twas In I: A) Glimpses of Nirvana Shine On Brightly (2009 remaster) Fly Records 2018
1:59 PM		Procol Harum In Held 'Twas In I: b) Twas Teatime at the Circus Shine On Brightly (2009 remaster) Fly Records 2018
1:59 PM		Procol Harum In Held 'Twas In I: c) In the Autumn of My Madness Shine On Brightly (2009 remaster) Fly Records 2018
2:00 PM		Procol Harum In Held 'Twas In I: d) Look to Your Soul Shine On Brightly
2:03 PM		Procol Harum In Held 'Twas in I; Grand Finale Shine on Brightly
2:10 PM		Moody Blues Legend of a Mind In Search of the Lost Chord
2:11 PM		The Rolling Stones Monkey Man Let It Bleed
2:16 PM		Robin Trower Bridge of Sighs Bridge of Sighs Chrysalis Records 2024
2:20 PM		MC 5 High School The Big Bang! - Best of the MC5
2:27 PM		Mongo Santamaria Cold Sweat Soul Bag Columbia/Legacy 1968
2:32 PM		Stevie Wonder Master Blaster (Jammin') Hotter Than July Motown 1980
2:48 PM		Dexter Wansel Life on Mars Life on Mars P.I.R. 1976
2:48 PM		Hamilton Bohannon Let's Start the Dance 12"

Chat is archived.

I am not a number! I am a free man!

Happy July 4th weekend. Jerry Gordon here, sitting in for #6 with Free4All

haha, Hi Mike!

The Diamond is a ship me lads, for the Davis Strait she's bound... Love that sea shanty station ID. I am not a number I am a Free For All Man

Thanks for appearing on a Wednesday, Mike

Hi Brian

Yardwork done and I'm in for the day.

Greetings to Jerry , Mike and Brian D. And all listeners. Brian PRB desperately needs a Sea Shanty program

it's miller time

Aiffrig, that would be a good name for your radio show!

Hi Patrick

not as versed as you think

Patrick, how the heck are you? You will hear various inspirations for this show, some you will recognize

yo, a cold Schmidt’s and a cheesesteak

That's it!

Hi DBG!

Republic of Congo 1 England 0 I am standing up doing my Patrice Lumumba tribute

Ivar Rosenberg engineered this. Ahead of it's time. Gimme extra onions.

DENG You could do both and order a Schmitter at McNallys Tavern in Chestnut Hill

This is allegedly the Byrds but I don't hear it

DBG doesn't speak Chesnut Hill, He speaks Filladelfun

43 years ago a plethora of local entertainment options. Angela Bofill and Arthur Prysock. Pat Metheny. Southside Johnny and Asbury Jukes.Peter Tosh. Styx.Trudy Pitts.Dave Edmunds.Father John Damico Trio.Suni Toonoka.Comedy Gold with Dom Irrera.Comedy garbage with John Baldy DiBella.

Garbage is correct

Sounds like a similar story to Sir Douglas Quintet. Think of a British / UK sounding name.

But I would not go by AI in equating it with the Byrds. It is possible more than one band existed with that name.

Beefeaters:Bass – Keith Volkersen* Drums – Max Nhuthzhi* Engineer – Ivar Rosenberg Frederiksen, John Ovesen Lead Guitar [Single], Flute, Vocals – Peter Thorup Organ – Morten Kjærumgaard* Producer – H. H. Koltze*

I think number 33 of the Celtics had a band in Indiana. Larry and the Birds.

DBG, that don't sound like no Byrds. Thank you!

You are right, Brian!

https://www.discogs.com/release/5887100-Beefeaters-Meet-You-There .. now put me up shot o' Jack.. Bukowski just walked in the bar.

Searches say that Beefeaters you played today is / was a Danish band

O ya, Manu Da Beng Gou done found it too

Patrick, I'll go with Arthur Prysock or Dom Irrera, Patrick.

..it's lunch time.. bartender a round for evry body ..

AI just had another one of those hallucinations. Embarrassing! But it didn't sound like the Byrds or 1964

Mama ko mama sa makosssss-shot time

Bukowski jus tole me AI means assholes and idiots ..

Bukowski would never use AI

He just likes to drink with DBG and Brian D, who has already started.

Shot of espresso maybe... but nothin else til 5 bells

Happy hour starts around 1 here.

The bar I used to frequent used to start Happy Hour whenever I left

Haha! Mike and Patrick. Like it!

James Brown, the Godfather of Soul!

After signing the Declaration of Independence rumored has it the signers walked over to Third Street Jazz to procure some Jazz and Funk LPS.

Thomas Jefferson spent most of his money in the 12" disco section

Anybody remember this one?

Yo....T Jeff gettin' down

I do not

Haha, exactly

truth and effect , alrite

Haaaaaah!

What a great production. Brilliant!

I know a 9 year old girl absolutely mesmerized by Rodney’s Simpsons Appearance. She watches it ad infinitum

Cute! There's alot worse!

There were a couple of Patrick jokes in there

They played that Rappin' Rodney with the full music video on screen at another local school's dance back in the 80s. MTV big at the time. Having a few videos screened along to the music was a big deal. Strange that it was Rodney tho. Catholic high school. And they allowed the kids to smoke cigarettes outside the doors...strange times indeed the 80s. Public school dances were not down with the cigs ha. Long walk for us but that walk was more fun than attending in many ways.

Middle school dance too. Not just high school aged kids being allowed to smoke ha.

Reading Jack Bruce biography "Composing Himself" now. Wild times that Scot

I guess because the chaperones were getting high at that point also

Well now those kind of cigarettes were frowned upon, that would be trouble, kicked out or worse.

That activity was covered in the long walk through the burbs. No thanks parents, we do not want a ride....

Haha

Atonal apples and amplified hate

It reopened under new management and it's doing better than ever

heat I believe... I think it was David Dye who interviewed a very cranky (surprise!) Ginger Baker and cut away from the interviews to play the 2 Ginger vocal Cream tracks (Pressed Rat and Blue Condition). It was like... "Hey now we're going to hear [song title]". ... pause "Ugh.... why... why do we have to .... oh well, if you must..." something like that.

I can imagine the tour management prodding Ginger to do radio interviews in those days (must have been mid 1990s)

Funny!

This was the response recording to Dancing in the Streets by Martha and the Vandellas

Jerry is the live outdoor remote broadcast still on for Friday?

I'm going to have to go naked and wear my sombrero

On your head?

Ha!

historic album here

Is it East West? haven't played that in like 4 years

Max Buda on harmonica ..

It was Kleidoscope, Mike.

DBG, are you an old hippy?

I'm orderin' a sie of onion rings.. this cut : Executive-Producer – Jerry Gordon

*side, my fingers are greasy

was outside in parkin' lot wid Bukowski .. he wanted to smoke a joint ..

.. back in the bar, drinks for evryone, bartender give that Constantine guy a shot of the gud stuf ..it's 1:36 day is young ..

I'm in

USPS had some groovy employees.Bukowski,William Faulkner,Sherman Hemsley,John Prine.

..friggin greasy fingers slidin all over this palm puppet .. it's hot as a mofo outside .. bartender mo' ice

..somebody get the phone..

yup, thanks for remindin' me .. I'll punch "Hey Grandma" up on the jukebox ..

Mike will continue drink that stuff until tomorrow morning when when Mike will attempt to mow that lawn again

what a group of usps employees, a bunch of poets

Probably the neighbor's lawn thinking it's mine

..Bukowski says this is Procol Harum .. don't ask me to correct him ..

.. the playlist is lagging, they're placing bets around the bar ..

dbg forthescore

Cream .... Nice deserted cities of the heart next? Loved the inside cover of that album

Here we go...

Beautiful Mellotron in this

it's a lullaby

Played for my old Prog friend

and Fluffadelphians swimming in the ocean in Flarda

Buying fy dolla beers

Man haven't heard this in forever... Wasn't shine on brightly on this album

didn't go in ocean in lbi sure as hell ain't dippin a toe in desanto waters

we went from that to In Search of the Lost Chord

The Stones at their best?

Oooooooh Robin

Stones at their best for me is Exile

This is a different take?

SUPPOSEDLY only a different mix

As one that had the 8 track in his car playing endlessly August of 74, I say different take

I questioned it myself, but that's what it said. You may bery well be right

be very

this is great, told my brother Jerry's on rite now

I think you have confirmed it. On the most recent release they stretched it into 3-4 CDs

Thanks, Aiffrig!

I have the Blu Ray....for a three piece they do a nice surroud mix.

Wow. Whenever, if you can figure it out, no emergency, tell me what version I played of sighs. 5:29

oil in the car ain't gonna change itself , rite after i finish this beer and the tunes

Haha. Don't get any on the beer!

Says 2024 Stereo mix which I haven't played, I always play the 5.1. That's weird because it's missing the white noise at the end.

I'll be changing my oil soon....thing takes 10 friggin' quarts.

You're going to have to camp out tonight in your garage!

maybe we can get big spender to get a couple a cases and get drunk

Maybe you and Mike canget someone to change the oil on both of your cars for some PBR

If the PBR makes it that far....

Everyone took a nap

DaGou is flowin

Or went to Benson's

Yeah, that's it! With Bertie the Bunyip

And a visibly drunk Uncle Pete Boyle

Love Tom Tom!

And Sir Guy de Guy doin' his thing.

I knew you loved this r ecord. I've seen it before here in the chat

Thanks, everybody

And we all know what his thing was

Little wolves?

Ha!!!!!!!!

Was that Sir Guy de Guy right there?

Right there

Tina Weymouth was all that and a bag of....

Yes! Girls on bass!

thanks, makin doin shit in the heat easy

Thanks, aiffrig, I think everyone else died!

Mario????

Of course

Crazy man!

Craaazy!!!

Doesn't sound right not being in 8 bit!!

What the heck is goin' on?

I wanna be free!

haha. Thanks, Mike.. Talkl to you soon!