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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Aug 14, 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!

8.14.28

Nearly two hours of new jazz releases and a short tribute to vocalist Jeanie Bryson, followed by the pop hits from the Fall of 1965.

12:06 PM		Captain Yossarian Everything Scatter in Dub (feat. Niko Schabel) Fela in Dub Agogo Records 2026
12:10 PM		Mad Lion Take It Easy (Vocal Mix) Take It Easy - EP Nervous Records 1993
12:15 PM		Nat Birchall Meets Al Breadwinner Mystical Dub (Dub) Tradition Disc in Dub Tradition Disc 2020
12:18 PM		Explainer We Just Can't Go On This Way 12"
12:28 PM		Roland Kirk Quartet & Rahsaan Roland Kirk Quartet Serenade to a Cuckoo I Talk with the Spirits Verve 1963
12:40 PM		Caesar Frazier Blues March (Live) "Alive" One Night in Savannah (Live) 2024
12:45 PM		Sam Barsh East Flatbush Pimp Walk (feat. Keyon Harrold & Mark Guiliana) Straight08 (feat. Keyon Harrold & Mark Guiliana) La Reserve Records 2026
12:51 PM		The Pentland / Bergonzi Quartet Beantown Blues Windward GroundTone Records 2026
12:52 PM		Mike Clark Monk's Dream (feat. Eddie Henderson & Patrice Rushen) Kuon Ganjo (feat. Eddie Henderson & Patrice Rushen) Wide Hive Records 2026
1:05 PM		Lucy Yeghiazaryan Blow Top Blues Hey Love! La Reserve Records 2026
1:06 PM		Peter Brendler Quartet High Water Mark And Then Nothing
1:12 PM		Zaccai Curtis Last Call Sonoluminescence Vol. 1
1:23 PM		Sarah Pillow Tonight at Noon Wanderer
1:38 PM		Jeanie Bryson Sunshower I Love Being Here With You Telarc 1993
1:40 PM		Jeanie Bryson Squeeze Me I Love Being Here With You Telarc 1993
1:57 PM		Miles Davis Sextet Just Squeeze Me Miles
1:59 PM		Marshall Allen Slingshot Effect (feat. Jamaaladeen Tacuma) 101: An Audio Odyssey (feat. Jamaaladeen Tacuma) Ropeadope 2026
2:03 PM		Junior Walker & The All Stars Cleo's Back Shotgun UNI/MOTOWN 1965
2:05 PM		The Vogues Five O' Clock World The Best of the Vogues Carter Lane - OMiP 2006
2:21 PM		The Yardbirds I'm a Man Shape of Things: The Very Best of the Yardbirds Charly Records 2006

Chat is archived.

Witam!

Happy Friday to Jerry and Mike and everybody!

Hi everyone, welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo!

Happy Friday everybody, guys!

Sound ok so far?

Sounds great

Sounds good!

Thanks! Mike, were you speaking inuit before?

Polish

Thanks, I will try and remember that one

Dobre! Who stole the kishka!

Iggles tonight

You mean the Iggles game when no starters play.

Tomorrow night!

Are you sure? I must have heard wrong! No Phillies tonight

Yep...I'm hosting tomorrow night

What a vibe already! 💯

Happy Friday, Jerry!

Hi Jerry, Mike, rick, Zach & all

Hey Christine and Zach!

Sound is good & clear!

Hi Chritine, special percussion for your listening pleasure

Hi Christine

I am loving this percussion, as always

Hi! What Christine said, add Christine. :)

Zach, welcome! Thanks for joining the chat!

Hey Roffle!

Roffle-aphonic Rolf! Yes!

All ears hear. I gotta head over to the VA soon, but some interesting tunes help me get ready.

Hi Roffle! ⚔️

Phonic, I think Christine gave you a two sword icon for your service

Ah! thank you! I would only cut myself with those these days, but very cool!

Thanks Jerry. Timing wise its generally hard for me to get in your chat but I'm working for my sister today so the pace is lax

Well we are glad you are here

Greetings to Gordski and his loyal band of Jazzbos. Future greetings to all the hippies who wake up at 2 pm

Hey Patrick!

Patrick, alarms are set!

Mourning the loss of Abbe Lane vocal accompaniment for Xavier Cugat and later his wife.

It's to match your profile pic, @Roffleaphonic

Hi Patrick!

Thankful that corporate manufactured Field of Dreams horse manure is over. What a sham of a hoodwinking scam. Mediocre movie inspiring all this nonsense

Hola Christine

Uh-Oh!

Can I enlist my cuckoo compadres to engage in a letter writing barrage to the Philadelphia Inquirer to retire the term ICONIC!

There's that theme song again....!!

🎶 🐦

Thank you, Christine

I remember Iggles vs Giants pre season every year in bucolic Princeton NJ

Patrick, why the rash of "iconic" in the Inky?

With the serial killer story I am waiting for them to reference iconic serial killers Gary Heidnik and Marty Graham

the pride of Philadelphia!

@Christine, That works! The pic is Lord Buckethead, an interstellar villain and part time satirical English candidate that just cracked me up one day. :)

I remember when you nabbed the Old City Strangler when you noticed him boosting all your punk rock Group The Stranglers LPS.

Fela Kuti 💜

eye transplant waz a bad idea

I think I actually bought a Stranglers lp at 3rd Street

dam gary gillmore

Gotta go for now, but the theme song brought it home. Catch ya laters!

Take care, roffle

Later Roff

See you, Roffleaphonic!

The B-3 is coming through loud and so clear!!!

Any reggae fans out there they just issued a great Bob Marley and Wailers Live at Hammersmith Odeon

Patrick, that WAS Mike!

Rick have you had your shot of B3 today.

Hey Aiffrig, Gary Gilmore didn't have the stock portfolio of Gary Heidnik

Patrick, Dr. Jerry is administering that to me as we speak. It hurts, but I guess I'm a masochist.

That Hammond is smooooth

the brite side

Haha, Rick loves it. He keeps shouting "it hurts so good"

Flyby, hello everyone

Hi Rob, did you see those temporary visitors last weekend?

Marylands pre eminent orthnologist in the house

Hi Rob 🦀! Any interesting sightings lately?

who let them parrots loose down here

I will be in NYC SUNDAY AND MONDAY.Paging Dr Woessner,Paging Dr Woessner

Jerry, I'll have to check which temporary visitors you are asking about. Patrick, you are too kind. Christine, yes, a Marbled Godwit last Sunday an hour from home https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Marbled_Godwit/overview

The Birds you couldn't see last Friday and were disappointed

They were Shore birds....I do remember that

This is called East Flatbush Pimp Walk

@Jerry, no, I never saw those temporary visitors that I mentioned last week (American Avocet & Whimbrel). The Marbled Godwit I just mentioned was yet another uncommon shorebird

aiffrig, no parrots at my house

But right now we are heading to the grocery story, er, store. Bye y'all!

See ya, Rob!

Bye, Rob!

Attended the Kenn Kweder show last Tuesday at perhaps area nicest venue Gloucesters Proprietor Park.Emceed by the great Michael Tearson. One more upcoming show.

Nice, Patrick! did you talk to Tearson?

The Gods Do Not Answer Letters!

Is that your quote or did it come from elsewhere?

I can’t believe PRB turned me down for my Fall Program Christian Reggaetron

Is that popular these days?

Apparently not. I will give it another shot with Spanish language Polka.

Who is the rage these days in that genre?

cool sounds of Jerry and prb radiatin in florida

Probably El Polockoski Juannie..

Thanks, Aiffrig, I really love this new CD. Def radiating!

Speaking of FLORIDA. Does anyone know who that is. Apparently he’s performing after a Phillies game

Not I

caps not needin unless ur from nor jesey

I spent huge amounts of time in Jersey City, Newark Bayonne . Not sure if that qualifies.

aiffrig, thanks for radiating it!

Flo Rida (I think that's it) is very, very popular. And good.

Patrick, my recommendations: Sunday - Charles Mingus Orchestra at Birdland, Bill Frisell at the Village Vanguard. Monday - Charles Mingus Big Band at Pocket Jazz Club.

Jeannie Bryson much respect. USPS worker and dau Of Dizzy Gillespie. Thanks Russ

Patrick, I grew up in Gloucester City. I think I saw Chubby Checker there when I was very young.

Hi Russ!

Patrick, I met Kenn Kweder when I was in high school. He was playing at a church basement in Southwest Philly. My girlfriend and I were the only ones in the audience. Nice guy.

Cool story, Russ

Hey Russ I knew a woman was Kenns DPW caseworker. She knew he was earning extra income but never reported him because he was such a nice guy.

Nice, @Patrick! How was Kenn? Still equal parts whimsical and irascible?

Truly the hardest working local troubadour. He was practicing 6pm on stage in the heat.

Russ I rolled a bowling ball down the Main Street in Gloucester. Took out 14 Irishman

He never stops, it seems.

Christine he is great. Free show every Tuesday near boathouse row

Good info, thanks @Patrick. At Cosmic Café next to Boathouse Row?

Yes I believe 4 to 7 . Special guests often. Pop in . I believe Tyler Swift this week

This is special "social music"!

Yes indeedy, Rick!

Jerry today’s fun fact .The Twins,Royals,Marlins are all no spending poverty no fan franchises . Each have 2 World Series champs.Same as Phillies.

Yes, as you, Rick, Russ, and Mike will all agree a crappy farm system will do that to you!

Smooth bass here

It's Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Christine. He produced this record, too. Good!

Buzzy Buzzkirk had a nice interview with Jamaldeen the other week. I believe it is archived on Souncloud

Mr. Tacuma is fantastic! 💯

Did someone just turn on the Drew Carey show?

Haha, does he play this?

It was the opening there for a season or three

theme

i'm in wildwood of my mind , wildwood new jersey

Ah...many a Summer in Childwood

What a great song this is

How is the volume on these songs, and how does the volume compare to my voice?

missin a fukin boardwalk in this state , really missin it

Very even

This would have been a good one for the Adams Family (Liar Liar)

I was an Adams Family guy....Munsters not so much

Len Barry!

Love Len Barry

beach haven is a pricey spot

And other Delights

Mike, you preferred Morticia

Oh my....yesssss

And you were only 7

Hey!....I was 10 but had no idea why she was appealing

Addams only drew 58 cartoons about that family. Are they all compiled in a single book?

Wow....I had no idea!!

I was a hugr Playboys fan

What a great song! Hitbound! The Wrecking Crew, probabl!

Wrecking crew no doubt

October in Westfield: https://addamsfest.com

Leon Russel was a co writer of that song so it has to be the Wrecking Crew

Those backup Vogues stealing money like backup NBA centers. Lead singer doing yeoman work. Back up guys just yelling Hey Hey Hey!!

That was the Yardbirds track playing on the jukebox that old fart Sinatra grumbled about in Gay Talese's April 1966 Esquire article "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold".

Oy....unfortunately I do

Sinatra hated Doors Light my Fire so much he ripped out his car radio

And threw it across the room...Jilly had to go pick it up

old fuk , should do a song w\ syd vicious

Imagine when heard Nancy working with Lee Hazelwood. Hearing Some Velvet Morning!

Hazelwood should be glad his legs weren't broken

I suppose we'll never know what this song is about

The Sex Pistols DID do a great version of My Way

nancy knew about her boots

Loved the Pistols....my friends did not

Mike, did you wonder what you liked about nancy Sinatra?

Nancy grew up just a few miles down the road

She wore boots!!

Hazlewood wrote Frank's "This Town"--and the "Tony Rome" theme!

That one hits harder the more people you grow beyond in life

Oh....Nancy Spungen...not Nancy Sinatra!

chiks who can keep track

afternoon jerry

Haha, aiffrig. Representing Philly in Florida!

Hi Ossy, how are you?

Hi, Ossy! How goes it?

Thanks Jerry

hi jerry and christine, all great to enjoy the birthday weekend, with these sounds!

It would have been nice to see Nancy Sinatra in a Wawa on 611

I'd but her a Sizzli

buy

Happy Birthday, Ossy

Happy Birthday, Ossy! 🥳 🎉 🎂 I hope you have a festive Friday & weekend!

🎂💛 :D

Happy Birthday! and thanks Jerry

Zach, we want to see your handsome face more often!

Jerry, you continue to entertain us musically at a high level! Your show was most enjoyable!!! Everybody enjoy your weekend!

see you next week1

thanks all for the wishes and have fun weekend as well!

Another top-notch show today, cheers @Jerry! 💯

Thumbs up, Zach! Rick, thank you, have a great weekend. Thanks Christine, you have a good one, we all appreciate you! Ossy, have a great, great birthday!

Patrick, Mike, everybody, thanks for listening

Till next time