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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Jul 17, 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!

7.17.26 New Jazz Releases + 1960

2 hours of outstanding Modern Jazz releases, followed by one hour of the pop and r&b hits of 1960

12:04 PM		Captain Yossarian Expensive Sh Fela Kuti in Dub
12:10 PM		Seamus Blake Listen Here EH! Plays the Music of Eddie Harris
12:23 PM		Ardeshir Pourkeramati featuring Cory Weeds Blues Up and Down Introducing
12:24 PM		The Pentland / Bergonzi Quartet Countdown Windward GroundTone Records 2026
12:31 PM		Kirk Knuffke Brother John Brother SteepleChase 2026
12:33 PM		Joe Lovano Amsterdam (with. Julian Lage, Asante Santi Debriano & Will Calhoun) Paramount Quartet (with. Julian Lage, Asante Santi Debriano & Will Calhoun) ECM Records 2026
12:42 PM		Ralph Alessi Nothing is Dead A Sun That Never Sets ECM Records 2026
12:48 PM		Patricia Brennan & Sylvie Courvoisier The Time We Spent Talamanti Antlia Records 2026
1:21 PM		Mick Goodrick & Fred Hersch Soul Eyes Feebles, Fables & Ferns ECM Records 2026
1:21 PM		Roland Kirk Quartet & Rahsaan Roland Kirk Quartet Serenade to a Cuckoo I Talk with the Spirits Verve 1963
1:21 PM		Franklin Kiermyer One Is Love One Is Love - Single Gearbox Records Ltd 2026
1:56 PM		Bobby Timmons Dat Dere (Remastered 2026) This Here Is Bobby Timmons (Remastered 2026) BNF Collection 1961
1:56 PM		Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Dat Dere The Big Beat (Remastered) Blue Note Records 1959
1:56 PM		Oscar Brown, Jr. Dat Dere Sin & Soul... and Then Some Columbia/Legacy 1960
1:56 PM		Omar Sosa So All Freddie (feat. Lionel Loueke & John Santos) Eggūn (feat. Marvin Sewell, Pedrito Martinez, Gustavo Ovalles, Lionel Loueke & John Santos) Otá Records 2013
2:14 PM		Barrett Strong Money (That's What I Want) [Single] 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Barrett Strong UNI/MOTOWN 2003
2:15 PM		Hank Ballard Let's Go Let's Go, Let's Go Blowing the Fuse: 31 R&B Classics That Rocked the Jukebox in 1960 Bear Family Records GmbH 2011
2:15 PM		Bobby Marchan There is Something on Your Mind, Pt. 2 There's Something on Your Mind: The Greatest Hits Fire Records 1960
2:15 PM		Gary U.S. Bonds New Orleans Blowing the Fuse: 31 R&B Classics That Rocked the Jukebox in 1960 Bear Family Records GmbH 2011
2:21 PM		Fats Domino Walkin' To New Orleans Hits of 1960, Vol. 1 Lumi OMP 2011
2:21 PM		Joe Jones You Talk Too Much The Complete Ric & Ron Recordings, Vol. 2 - Classic New Orleans R&B and More, 1958-1965 Rounder Records 2012
2:23 PM		Dinah Washington Baby, You’ve Got What It Takes (feat. Brook Benton) Verve Jazz Masters 19: Dinah Washington Verve Reissues 1993
2:24 PM		Buster Brown Fannie Mae Fannie Mae: The Best of Buster Brown Classic Music International 2011
2:26 PM		Sam Cooke Chain Gang The Best of Sam Cooke RCA/Legacy 1962
2:28 PM		Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs Stay (Remastered) Stay (Remastered) - Single Bacci Bros Records 2013
2:39 PM		The Hollywood Argyles Alley Oop Alley Oop - Single Resnik Music Group 1959
2:41 PM		Elvis Presley Are You Lonesome Tonight Burning Love: 40 Greatest Hits of Elvis Presley RCA/Legacy 2020
2:42 PM		Roy Orbison Only the Lonley Rock'n'Roll and Beat Legends (Original 1960) DAYL 2011
2:45 PM		Bobby Darin Beyond the Sea Bobby Darin - Beyond the Sea X5 Music Group 2014
2:46 PM		Brian Hyland Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dor Bikini The London American Story 1960 (Volume 2) Revolver Records 2013

Chat is archived.

Happy Friday! Welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo!

Happy Friday to Jerry and everybody!

Holy smoke it's time for Jazz

It must be afternoon!

Hey Mike!

Hi Rick

Hey Roffle!

My fav drummer!

Rick, Mike, Roffle, thank you!

Uh oh it's those drums

Hwya Rick

Uh oh, indeed!!!

Where is Christine, we need her

No funky drummer is there?

Christine can drum us out of ths

The trouble music

gus send the old stall tape

A problem, Mike?

Mike, you hit the nail on the head.

OK, got it

It's the song that plays when there's an issue

Mike is back on the tower with more duct tape.

and chewing gum

We're back!

biggger hammer

Duct tape worked!

That's what happens when the record companies no longer send Jerry the new material.

That's right!

lol Rick

Those bastards!

Thank you, Rick, you tell 'em

Hey aiffrig, sorry I missed you.

Roffle, you got it!

no worries

The artist is "Captain Yossarian. Anyboy remember him from your past?

Greetings to Gordski and Gordon Nation.Im starring in a new sitcom It’s Always Smoky In Philadelphia

Ha! Hi Patrick!

I bought 3 basses and I cannot paly any of them well, but I love listening and trying to play along. OMG it's aweful/

Hey aiffrig and Patrick!

Now it's time to get down and get funky!

That question sort of a Catch 22 situation

Roffle, mess around with them enough and I bet you improve! Why did you buy 3?

Patrick, your main man Seamus here. Do you know who Yossarian is?

The last couple of years. I am really bad at it, but I love it.

An ID by Franklin Kiermyer? WOW!

Ha, because we have a new one by him

I still have cello in an attic in Texas.

For 30 years.

That will be an interesting rediscovery.

Fun times 50 years ago . Local appearances Cleo Laine, Buddy Hackett,Henry Mancini,McCoy Tyner,Dave Van Ronk,Lou Monte , James Taylor,and for you theater people. Porgy and Bess,1776,Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Your Arms Too Short to Box with God!

I'm diggin' this swinging track with the dueling saxes.

Jerry’s best program IDS were the ones Benny Krass did.

Hi Russ!

Had me at Dave Van Ronk Pat.

I bought my bar mitzvah suit from Krass Bros in the "Husky" department, but he wouldn't let me near the girls.

Cleo Laine! What a voice! I got to see her and Johnny Dankworth at the Zellerbach Theater for free (I was an usher there).

Good call

It was the husky department at Robert Hall's for me

Wow. I'm going to second ROFL's pick, DVR.

ROFL, did you go to school there?

Texas?

Mike, I don't think they call it Husky anymore, but would. certainly be appropriate for me as we speak

Good afternoon to all you Husky folks out there.

Hi, ET. Patrick is also Musky

I haven't heard that word in years....fat ass however.....

Hey Elias!

I love my life at Texas, But I will never go back, I got stuff there though.

That’s the show Rick . Sorry I left out John Dankworth.

College for a bit.

Hey Roffle his opening act was something called Edie the Egg Lady which I didn’t want to mention during family hour!

Patrick, it killed me when Cleo would sing in unison with John's alto sax.

Mike, I fee you.

Feel you.

@PAT, totally understandable

Better I should fee you.

Edie the Egg Lady and her Fabulous Playpen

I set up a Go Fund Me for an 11000 dollar upper deck All Star Game Ticket . Thanks to you guys not contributing I wasn’t able to go !!! I hate all of you !

wife say's her dad bought easter suits for her brothers at robert hall's

Hahaha!

Oh that sax was lovely and this follows so nice. You really can pick'em Jerry!

gosh darn catholic guilt

I took my Dad in 1996 . 65 dollar tickets . Which is 133 $ today. All hail corporate greed and its swiney aura.

Jerry Bergonzi is a heckuva plalyer

@Pat I never go to seriously over priced stuff. No reason. Too much out there.

Couldn't agree with you more

Shout out to the guy they pulled out of the sewer on 8500 Bustleton Avenue. He was in the Philadelphia sewer system for 6 hours . Makes those Survivor goobers look like junior varsity athletes.

Roffle, you do pay attention to the music and appreciate it.

I come hear for nothing else Jerry.

I am trying to learn

but if you do decide to go- pay for the good seats. I remember being in the front row at a Parliment concert c 1977 spectrum. Was disappointed Bootsy was not with them.

Russ, I played a reggae track by Captain Yossarian but I don't think anyone is old enough to recognize the name but you and me

What ? They have music here? Who Knew ?

And me

Yes, the featured attraction is the narration by Husky Mike Constantine

I think Catch 22 was my first R rated movie

OK, now we're talking!

"Attraction is the narration"! Gotta love that!

I have the DVD, one of my t0p 10 movies! What a book and fim!

Greetings Elias that Parliament concert was when I first learned the word JAWN. Couple of Department of Rec guys at our playground said We can take your jawn down to my jawn then it’s only a short jawn to the jawn. He lived in South Philly near Spectrum . Fun Times. Carmen and Benny

6 hours in the Philadelphia Sewers? Ha thats nothing I was there for 40 years and lived to tell the tale.

film

@mike. My mom took me to see Catch 22. Go figure.

Upon opening Snowden's flak suit to treat his wounds, Yossarian is horrified to find Snowden's internal organs mixed with "the stewed tomatoes Snowden had eaten that day for lunch"

That was cool. Do you recall her reaction or comments?

In theater.

They did you a solid Patrick. I traded two jawns for a chumpy back in the day.

I could see it being a little uncomfortable, Roff

Russ, did you listen to this album yet?

Yossarian's plight will never leave me.

That Kirk Knuffke was knifty!

Yep

rec centers closed for that guy to take a dip in the sewer

Knuts!

I am a dummy Jerry. I have no ida whae mommy thout.

Spelling confirms this...

Funny, of the movies I went to with my parents, I don't recall discussing a single one

Not yet, Jerry. I am inundated by new stuff!

O most foul and pestilent ordinance! These captains and colonels, these parchment-hearted villains, Do plot against my life with every mission’s breath. “Fly once more,” quoth they, “and earn thy keep!” Yet every flight is but a step toward the grave, And I, poor Yossarian, am marked for death By every flak, by every Messer’s wing, By every order signed in some far tent.

This album is superb. Alessi is superb

Nope. I would love mom's thoughts about 2001 as well. But I can't ask her. So it ges...

ET, that was fabulous! terrific!

My brothers had nightmares for years after my parents took us to see 'Fantastic Voyage' At the drive in likely. It was only year later when I understood why the antibodies in the inner ear canal attacked Raquel Welch.

Yeah, I know what you mean. My parents took to some, not a million, but some really classic movies. Never discussed a single one.

AI Jerry- But my new job is titled 'Prompt Engineer'

@ET, the fate of men defending the wealthy.

ET, you could have picked a crappy one.

Pop took to the occasional movie at the local Drive In and of course, nothing was discussed

Hahaha

My folks said nothing either once the curse words came out at the movies.

a given back then either you got it or that's on you

PG17

glad i followed thru with that thinkin

My dad did all the cursing, he didn't need any movie

And yes, so did my mother

HA!

My Father dropped the F bomb only once

They knew, just not gonna share that cussing luxury.

When I cursed (never in front of my parents except a couple times) I got hit in the head with a plastic trashcan

correct curse words do reduce pain. Science!

Yes, that was off-limits. Self control!

Hell, I was afraid to say fart in front of them

I got smacked by a nun in 1st grade for the f bomb.

Back when I as a teen got my driver's license, my Uncle Mike (the true black sheep of the family) got me to drive him (he didn't drive) to the adult movie theater in center city Allentown, PA. Thus, my education did not come only from the local school district.

oh Shit! Not the plastic trash can !

Love this new release by Patricia Brennan and Sylvie Courvoisier! Brilliant!

Beautiful!

We didn't have metal trashcans

Good thing

Another one of your guys, Russ

Mike's Dad drove a Chevy Nomad

Two tone, bronze and white

used to get hit with a wooden spoon made sure i passed that trait on

I always got into this haunting tune.

It's such a beauty. You're like Charlie the Tuna!

Haha, aiffrig. A weapon popular with some parents. Not too bad, right?

that'll learn ya

I had an in law who used a wooden spoon for discipline. My own mother's preferred weapon was the wire handle of a fly swatter. She never hit me with it though. Just the twins- they were so bad.

I would have been more scared of the crushed fly on the other end.

how they say in texas , I'll tan ur hide

Right? I also had a one time mother in law- I will remember this always- Do not threaten to do things you won't actually do, of course paraphrasing here.

Love this piece all day long. What a great.

Neurosis also has an album and song called a sun that never sets

Style and feel win every time.

Any cuckoos attend the Dylan show at Mann the other night. According to Reddit a real s . Show. 3rd different band mates. Half empty . Sit where you want. Amorous fossils tearing each others clothes off on the lawn. Old codgers fist fighting each other. Bobby mumbling incoherently.

Drove the Buddhist family members to some Buddhist temple in Leeds NY last week . Very surreal atmosphere. You can’t beat the Hudson Valley for a summer day Trip .

Sounds like an old age home

Hi, Bob!

Then you get to meditate on your trip?

That sax was just crazy enough

Would love to see a copy of Gordski s Rolodexx

my kid's don't have a clue , what's a rolodex

Did they take away your salt shaker Patrick?

Patricia Brennan leads her septet on a bill with Cindy Blackman Santana and Lucía at the Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park in Brooklyn next Friday. Free! https://bricartsmedia.org/event/jazz-at-the-bandshell/#patricia-brennan-septet

when philly had 1 area code

Explain it like this to them- Say you are on a paddle wheel boat on the Mississippi river- but each paddle wheel is a broken iphone. And then- what is that thing over there?

the assignment of area codes is quite fascinating. Cleveland got a good one.

I think Sheila Jordan sang Dat Dere in every set that she did.

Theses horn players and their flats!

Maybe Sheila Jordan was just in her zone... lol

New York City, having the highest call volume, received 212 (only 5 total dial pulses), followed by Los Angeles with 213 (6 pulses), Chicago with 312 (6 pulses), and Detroit with 313 (7 pulses). Conversely, sparsely populated regions like Wyoming received 307 (20 pulses). Listen to the Saxophone. I know it seems off topic- But I think not- then promptly disappeared.

Sheila Jordan! !!

267 here in florida

Philly wants you back affrig. Six Seven

Trying to stoically enjoy being daily Dat There Ed by a 9 year old knowing in a couple years it will be silence and slammed doors😅

That’s the Blue Curtain group. They put on great shows every summer. Free . No fees. No building restoration fees

More Omar Sosa is welcomed!

Rick, you are the reasonI am playing this!

Nice!

Patrick, you really know your stuff! Have you been to their shows?

Love the way that keyboard floats.

What could have been

Back to the bass. :)

Jerry did you run into Jackie Gleason in Miami Beach ?Or maybe Crazy Guggenheim ?

Nixon ! That man never drank a Duff Beer in his life !!

This was covered by The Flying Lizards

Unfortunately I did not run into the great one, only Crazy Guggenheim who threw up on my flip-flops

ET, what a version! Where were you listening to that o ne?

"Catch 22" was only rated R, Mike? I'd've thought that scene with Paula Prentiss would merit an X.

The next stray cat that shows up here is going to be named Guggenheim.

I bought that Flying Lizards single at ………Third Street Jazz Top punk 10 next to the register.

I suspect Crazy Guggenheim influenced Bo Bo Bolinski.

As a bambino in 1960 I was taken to a ginormous JFK rally in bucolic Levittown PA

I haven't seen Catch 22 since it came out and I vividly remember that scene!

Yes, Bo Bo Belinski. David, you are making me laugh hystericallky.

That was a big deal Patrick....he also came to Willow Grove

AKA as Mr Mamie Van Doren

This is Bo Bo Belinski from Zap Comix!

How the Western canon handles improvisation and rhythm, which often break the rules of written scores.Where would you like to take this next? I dunno. Lets ask Jerry

went to see panic in needle park at dtown county got thrown out cause i waz underage , good times

I thought it was the Perverted Pirates

1960 Phillies manager resigned after 1 game . When asked why he said I’m 49 …. I want to live until 50!

That's Captain P Gums

I saw Catch 22 at the Barn Theatre

al pacino at his best. I can not watch these films- Hey baby- I'll be right back. Every Junkie is like a setting sun. Neil young captured that.

Right...I decided to leave the Captain's name out...it's a family show

god dam college ushers from Del Val

Right!!!

A 95 loss season despite the stellar work of Turk Farrell,Tony Taylor, Tony Gonzales , Ruben Amaro SR , Johnny Callison and Bobby smith

Mike, the humor of that rivals Bo Bo Belinsky

Agreed!

Iremember those Phillies teams so well. They had improved by then. It was worse before!

Was Fats Domino Be My Guest the origin of SKA music ?

Actually it got worse Gordski 1961 wasvthev23 game losing streak

Bonus Points for Bobby Smith

How about Joe Koppe, Bobby Del Greco, Tony Curry, and Bobby Malkmus, what about that crap team?

And everyone's hero Pancho Herrera. My father DID curse at him

My parents took me to my 1st Phils game in 1960. They lost to the Pirates 6-2. But Ted Lepcio hit a home run, so I was more than thrilled!

HaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaH! Ted Lepcio! Rick, you win!

The pirates were the greatest then. Beat the hell out of the Phils!

Rick The ERA of low expectations. Now they lose one game and all the WIP simians…. Fire, trade, get rid of ,changes needed…

@rick- and you remember the score? There are few 130 year old guys I like a lot.

Tick doesn't come from that kind of background

The Mets Won! 1969

1960 Pirates outscored 55 to 27 in World Series vs Yankees. And won in 7 games . Bill Mazeroski forever

you clearly have an agenda here. What it it is I will not speculate on.

:-)

Gary US bonds was playing a concert, I missed it. I was at Zellerbach theater. Terry Riley was playing.

Apparently Dinah Washington and Brook Benton hated each other but you sure can’t tell it on their duets.

hate > love

Gary US Bonds appearing tonight in Freehold NJ WITH little Steven Van Zandt

Loves come and go- but an enemy- that can last you a lifetime.

Words to the wise!

Is the venue anywhere near the Marlboro State Hospital?

easy chief life's short

Elvising

E. It’s the old Freehold raceway East Freehold Fairgrounds

Is your heart filled with pain- also are you lonesome tonight?

The King

The great Bobby Darin!

Ned Beatty sang a beautiful rendition of Are you Lonesome on the tv series HOMICIDE

Wow, who knew? (Patrick)

They cut a video for this one

TV is homicide. But that's just me thinking.

I thought he sang that in the movie Deliverance

Haha! Why do so many people have Alzheimers? Plastics and television.

"If my heart is broken, then I feel pain" B → P (Broken → Pain) Equivalent: ¬B ∨ P "If I’m lonely, then I think of you" L → T (where T = "think of you") "Only if I’m sad, do I write songs" (stronger "only if") S → W and W → S (biconditional S ↔ W) "If you leave me, then my world ends" Leave → ¬World (or Leave → End) "Even if I’m happy, sometimes I cry" This is not pure implication — more like H ∧ C can both be true (no contradiction). "If I was lonely and it was raining, then I’d play this sad s

i must not think bad thoughts X came alot later

Talk about residue!

Both could be true.

Elias, you're making me feel like I'm back in college.

Issues

Everyone have a great weekend and stay safe out there. Thanks for indulging my semi incoherent rants. 1960 not a bad year at all. But whatever happened to Quemoy and Matsu?

I am in a collage- so perfection is an illusion.

Thanks for being here Jerry. The best!

Thanks much, Rofl. Want to hear more aboout you and the bass

See you guys next Week!

I went to collage, too

I suck at bass. There ya go... :)

Till next time

Cool

Thank, Mike

Jerry,

Get the 5 string. E is cool- but low C is at least as good as High C.

Jerry, your shows are consistently special - and today you once again more than filled the bill! Very entertaining show! Everybody enjoy your smoky weekend!

Did the Hollywood Argyles get into trouble with V.T. Hamlin over “Alley Oop”, the same way the Royal Guardsmen did with Charles Schulz over “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron"?

Hang on Snoopy

Ha, hi Linda!!! Nice to see your name there! Everything good?

Jerry Just wanted to say hi. I enjoyed your show expecailly the three versions of Dat There. I like that song. I also enjoyed Jerry's Room, those '60s songs reminded me of my much older brother who played those old songs all of the time. h thought he could sing and was in a d00-wop group in the early 6'60s when he was a teenager.

Interesting, David

Ted Lepcio!

Yes, Ted Lepcio!!!

Nice memories! Everybody, Linda also knew the Ohio Players!

I live right by the East Freehold Fairgrounds but, darn, those concerts are expensive.

Thanks, Jerry!

Thanks again for listening. Linda, everybody. Thanks, Russ!

Wow, it's been 22 years since I saw the biopic "Beyond the Sea"!

What a great movie. GREAT!

don't know much about geography- But I have learned a lot lately. I was happy in my ignorance. Reminds me of Freddy Fender.

@David, I lie literally up the street from the Philmore. To spendy for me.

Live...

Very spendy

Wow hit the post there

Ain't over till it's over Mike. :)

ok three penny opera

THANKS jERRY!