Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon
Aug 28, 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!
8.28.26
Great new modern jazz releases in the first two hours, then followed by the "Alternate Woodstock, Day 2" which is comprised of great music and stars from 1969 who did not appear at the original Woodstock!
| 12:00 PM |
| Steinski I Like It Like That What Does It All Mean? - 1983-2006 Retrospective
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| 12:04 PM |
| John Scofield Jolene Country for Old Men Universal Music Division Decca Records France 2016
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| 12:13 PM |
| Tim Curry & The Rocky Horror Picture Show Sweet Transvestite The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Original Soundtrack (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) 1975
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| 12:13 PM |
| Herbie Mann Summertime (Live) At the Village Gate (Live) Rhino Atlantic 1961
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| 12:24 PM |
| Kari Kirkland The Boys of Summer (feat. John Daversa) Especially at Night Slea Head Records 2026
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| 12:33 PM |
| Yazz Ahmed Questions No Answers (feat. Noel Langley) Shinrin-Yoku - EP Night Time Stories (NTS) 2026
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| 12:48 PM |
| Lisa Rich It's over Now (Well You Needn't) I Still Rise Tritone Records 2026
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| 12:48 PM |
| Emmet Cohen Well You Needn't Universal Truth Mack Avenue Records 2026
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| 12:48 PM |
| Zaccai Curtis Sonoluminescence Sonoluminescence Vol. 1
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| 12:57 PM |
| The Claire Daly Band Serenade to a Cuckoo Rah! Rah! Ride Symbol Records 2020
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| 1:17 PM |
| Stefon Harris & Blackout Legacy Dances (feat. Casey Benjamin) Legacy Dances (feat. Casey Benjamin) Motema Music, LLC 2026
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| 1:17 PM |
| Faye Carol Groovin' High Forever Dynamic Getdown Records 2026
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| 1:20 PM |
| Mike Clark Softly As In Morning Sunrise (feat. Eddie Henderson & Patrice Rushen) Kuon Ganjo (feat. Eddie Henderson & Patrice Rushen) Wide Hive Records 2026
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| 1:26 PM |
| Joe Syrian Motor City Jazz Octet Teach Me Tonight (feat. Lucy Yeghiazaryan) A Blue Time Circle 9 Records 2026
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| 1:40 PM |
| John Coltrane Chronic Blues (Remastered 2026) Coltrane (Remastered 2026) Craft Recordings 2026
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| 1:50 PM |
| Ale Nuñez East Of The Sun (feat. Neil Swainson) Blue Room (feat. Neil Swainson) Cellar Live 2026
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| 2:05 PM |
| Conrad Herwig Litha The Latin Side of Chick Corea Savant 2026
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| 2:07 PM |
| The Fraternity of Man Don't Bogart Me (aka Don't Bogart That Joint) Easy Rider (Music From the Soundtrack) V/A Geffen* 1969
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| 2:07 PM |
| Quicksilver Messenger Service Mona Happy Trails Capitol Records 2014
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| 2:17 PM |
| Mother Earth Down So Low Living With The Animals Mercury Records 1968
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| 2:18 PM |
| Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner Milwaukee, Here I Come Always, Always RCA Records Label Nashville 1969
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| 2:19 PM |
| Taj Mahal Good Morning Little School Girl Giant Steps/De Old Folks At Home Columbia 1969
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| 2:22 PM |
| Moby Grape Ooh Mama Ooh Moby Grape 69' (Bonus Track Version) SBCMG 1967
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| 2:25 PM |
| Joni Mitchell Chelsea Morning Clouds Reprise 1969
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| 2:42 PM |
| Tommy James & The Shondells Crimson and Clover (Single Version) Celebration: The Complete Roulette Recordings (1966-1973) Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group 2021
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| 2:43 PM |
| Procol Harum A Salty Dog A Salty Dog A&M 1969
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| 2:44 PM |
| Steppenwolf Rock Me All Time Greatest Hits Geffen 1999
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| 2:45 PM |
| Bob Dylan Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You Nashville Skyline Columbia 1969
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| 2:51 PM |
| John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers Miss James Blues from Laurel Canyon (Bonus Track Version) UMC-Decca 1968
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Chat is archived.
Mike Constantine
12:00:39 PM
Allo
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
12:01:02 PM
Aye, Matey. How are you?
Mike Constantine
12:01:20 PM
Swell
Christine 𓅓𓅥 𓅊
12:02:36 PM
Hi Jerry, Mike & all 👋 we made it to Friday!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
12:02:55 PM
I wonder if anyone has played this this week.
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
12:03:30 PM
Hi Christine! Glad it is here, my Grandson's birthday!
Mike Constantine
12:03:35 PM
Hi Christine
Christine 𓅓𓅥 𓅊
12:04:01 PM
Happy Birthday to your grandson, Jerry! 🥳 🎂
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
12:04:18 PM
Thanks! 4!
Patrick White
12:04:57 PM
Greetings to all and Happy Birthday to Gordski grandson
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
12:05:22 PM
Hi Patrick! Happy happy!
Patrick White
12:06:29 PM
Nice Dolly Parton tribute by Jerry . May she rest in peace. Johnny Cash introducing 13 year old Dolly at Grand Ole Opry best thing you will see on interwebs today
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
12:06:58 PM
We have another surprise one coming
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
12:07:59 PM
This is strong, however. I agree, Scofield captured the emmis of this song!
Mike Constantine
12:10:42 PM
My GF in New York would go to the midnight shows back in the 70s....such fun
Mike Constantine
12:10:54 PM
And I
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
12:13:54 PM
Fun! So you would go in NY and not on South St.
Mike Constantine
12:14:49 PM
No....she had a theatre near her place where the movie got acted out
Christine 𓅓𓅥 𓅊
12:15:51 PM
Rest in peace, Dolly & Tim. Rough week for icons. 💔
Rofflelectic
12:15:51 PM
Happy Friday, and Happy Birthday to yer Grandson Jerry!
jim haku 👏
12:16:15 PM
This Herbie Mann record is one of my alltime faves, probably bought it at 3rd st, too.
Christine 𓅓𓅥 𓅊
12:16:21 PM
Hi Roffle ⚔️🛡
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
12:19:32 PM
Hi Roffle, thanks very much! Party time!
Christine 𓅓𓅥 𓅊
12:20:15 PM
Sweet vibes 🎶
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
12:20:45 PM
Hi Jim! Thank for being here, and thanks for buying it at Third St. Christine, you took the words out ofo my mouth
Rofflelectic
12:21:26 PM
🥳
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
12:21:53 PM
Roffle, were you around for Rocky Horror Picture show?
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
12:22:35 PM
Jim, you still have your Herbie Mann album?
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
12:23:19 PM
Christine, a friend of yours is coming up next
Rofflelectic
12:30:11 PM
Yea, got into the the Rahway theater for free if you wore a pair of underwear over your pants, for Rocky Horror in '77 I think. Fuzzy times.... :)
Rofflelectic
12:30:54 PM
Rahway Theater did some kooky stuff.
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
12:31:26 PM
Rahly?
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
12:32:12 PM
Hip! How many people wore their underpants on their head?
Rofflelectic
12:32:25 PM
Union County, next to linden.
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
12:33:13 PM
No Roffle, that was a joke. as in "Really?"
Rofflelectic
12:33:15 PM
I am sure someone did, but I was not that someone.
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
12:33:31 PM
Hahaha
Christine 𓅓𓅥 𓅊
12:34:36 PM
I ❤️ this Yazz Ahmed album 🎺
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
12:35:02 PM
Damn you're good
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
12:35:23 PM
You liked her last time
Christine 𓅓𓅥 𓅊
12:35:31 PM
Damn, I missed my friend Kari Kirkland! Work annoyance.
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
12:36:01 PM
She has a new album
Christine 𓅓𓅥 𓅊
12:36:15 PM
Serenade to a Cuckoo was my intro to Yazz Ahmed, so thank YOU
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
12:37:02 PM
Thanks, this sound is great!
Rofflelectic
12:58:11 PM
Nice variation.
jim haku 👏
12:59:57 PM
@jerry sorry I was driving, I still got the album, on cd tho.
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
1:09:28 PM
👏
jim haku 👏
1:17:58 PM
I'm not nearly as into his studio albums but that one is really special.
Russell Woessner
1:18:46 PM
Credit where credit is due department: The lyrics to Monk’s Well You Needn’t/It’s Over Now are by Mike Ferro. Recorded by Carmen McRae: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qYADfnI-iSs&ra=m
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
1:45:53 PM
Hi Russ
aiffrig
1:54:18 PM
lunar eclipse visible from clearwater last nite ,lucky me
Mike Constantine
1:55:09 PM
Miserable here
Jim
1:59:25 PM
'East of the Sun.....' from the 1934 Princeton U Triangle Show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_of_the_Sun_(and_West_of_the_Moon)
Christine 𓅓𓅥 𓅊
2:02:30 PM
57 years ago, Woodstock was. 🕊
Mike Constantine
2:03:03 PM
This song is sage wisdom
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
2:03:32 PM
Aiffrig, what it is!
aiffrig
2:03:52 PM
when pot was good
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
2:04:09 PM
Good info there, Jim. Who else at this point is going to tell us that?
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
2:04:27 PM
Mike, your old theme song!
Mike Constantine
2:05:04 PM
Yep!....my garden is presently flowering
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
2:07:43 PM
You have a green thumb!
aiffrig
2:08:20 PM
nuthin good grows in the sand here
Mike Constantine
2:08:52 PM
Yeah....the plants love me
aiffrig
2:10:16 PM
luv u too , don't bogart that joint brother
Mike Constantine
2:10:46 PM
Never!
Christine 𓅓𓅥 𓅊
2:15:38 PM
This track is 🔥
Christine 𓅓𓅥 𓅊
2:16:54 PM
Rest in peace, Dolly. 👑
Russell Woessner
2:22:42 PM
Sonny Boy Williamson would be arrested these days.
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
2:23:45 PM
True that! Chuck Berry and BB Kind also for their affinity for 16 year olds
Mike Constantine
2:25:12 PM
And Jimmy Page
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
2:26:05 PM
Haha
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
2:26:39 PM
Frank Zappa for Suzy Creamcheese?
Mike Constantine
2:27:21 PM
Absolutely
Russell Woessner
2:27:24 PM
Of course, Chuck Berry was convicted and served time: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/December-23/chuck-berry-is-arrested-on-mann-act-charges-in-st-louis-missouri
Christine 𓅓𓅥 𓅊
2:28:27 PM
Well, good! Because yuck. These are kids that adults are singing about.
Christine 𓅓𓅥 𓅊
2:28:43 PM
Not acceptable.
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
2:29:41 PM
Right on, Christine!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
2:30:05 PM
It's a good thing you are here to keep this chat on course!
Christine 𓅓𓅥 𓅊
2:31:55 PM
It's not just me 🙂
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
2:36:45 PM
Fortunately, no one here approves of that kind of behavior!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
2:37:25 PM
It's an observation of how we have improved for the better.
Mike Constantine
2:38:05 PM
Keith Reid's lyrics are inscrutable
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
2:43:18 PM
Percussion,l Christine!
Christine 𓅓𓅥 𓅊
2:44:09 PM
LOVE that percussion! 🥰
Mike Constantine
2:45:21 PM
That weird Bob voice
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
2:45:57 PM
That was some good percussion!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
2:46:22 PM
And then weird Bobby Z
Mike Constantine
2:47:54 PM
You can call me Zimmy
Christine 𓅓𓅥 𓅊
2:47:55 PM
Life-affirming vibes 💯
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
2:48:37 PM
But you didn't have to call me Johnson.
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
2:49:10 PM
@Christine A beauty by Bob, just like you said.
aiffrig
2:51:51 PM
cig and a beer couldn't be more happy
Mike Constantine
2:52:29 PM
Yeah man.....a cig and a drink
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
2:52:56 PM
You're #1 with that goin' on, especially on the beach
Russell Woessner
2:55:21 PM
Laura Nyro declined to appear at Woodstock
Patrick White
2:55:42 PM
Great job by Gordski.Everyone have a great weekend and hope to see youse at Charlie Parker Jazz Festival
Christine 𓅓𓅥 𓅊
2:55:59 PM
These past three hours have flown 🐦 🎶
Mike Constantine
2:56:35 PM
Didn't Laura Nero think people were booing her at Monterey?
Christine 𓅓𓅥 𓅊
2:56:42 PM
Thanks for another top-drawer Serenade to a Cuckoo, Jerry! Have a good weekend, everybody 🌤
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
2:57:22 PM
Thank you, everybody! Have a great weekend!
aiffrig
2:57:45 PM
always sunny in florida via philly
Patrick White
2:58:00 PM
Russ Laura had a previous commitment at a Stone Soul Picnic
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
2:58:12 PM
hahahaha
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
2:59:32 PM
One for Mike
Christine 𓅓𓅥 𓅊
2:59:33 PM
We'll be there! 📻
Russell Woessner
2:59:38 PM
https://johnrieber.com/2017/09/17/the-uncut-monterey-pop-laura-nyros-complete-performance-on-the-way-criterions-amazing-new-blu-ray-has-uncut-hendrix-the-who-too/
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
2:59:48 PM
Thanks, Christine
Mike Constantine
2:59:52 PM
Till next time
Mike Constantine
3:00:10 PM
My songs always get left till last....
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
3:00:28 PM
Yeah, and then they get cut off!
Mike Constantine
3:00:56 PM
Ha!!
Rofflelectic
3:04:43 PM
Thanks Jerry!
Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host)
3:05:43 PM
Thank you, Roffle! I always appreciate it when you listen. I really do!