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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Oct 16, 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!

10.16.26

2 hours of modern jazz, today half are new releases; it will be followed by one hour of doo-wop which will feature all songs originally from another era!

12:00 PM		Steinski I Like It Like That What Does It All Mean? - 1983-2006 Retrospective
12:03 PM		Emmet Cohen w/Endea Owens, Tivon Pennicott, Peter Martin Footprints Live at Emmet's Place
12:16 PM		Gretchen Parlato Juju/footprints Gretchen Parlato Gretchen Parlato 2005
12:24 PM		Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes Expansions Expansions Ace Records 1973
12:25 PM		Herbie Hancock Butterfly Thrust Columbia/Legacy 1974
12:30 PM		The Headhunters God Make Me Funky Survival of the Fittest
12:47 PM		Roland Kirk Quartet & Rahsaan Roland Kirk Quartet Serenade to a Cuckoo I Talk with the Spirits Verve 1963
12:50 PM		Franklin Kiermyer Electric Sunshine Scatter The Atoms That Remain Gearbox Records Ltd 2026
1:07 PM		Charlie Hunter Mothra Space Bomb SideHustle 2026
1:08 PM		Mike Clark Kuon Ganjo (feat. Eddie Henderson & Patrice Rushen) Kuon Ganjo (feat. Eddie Henderson & Patrice Rushen) Wide Hive Records 2026
1:16 PM		Brandon Sanders The Game Changer (feat. Jeremy Pelt) The Game Changer Savant 2026
1:21 PM		Peter Brendler Didn't Do Nothing Message in Motion Posi-Tone Records 2016
1:41 PM		Linda May Han Oh, Melissa Aldana Anthropology Beneath Lifted Skies
1:42 PM		Clovis Nicolas Lawns (feat. Larry Goldings & Carl Allen) Blues in Blueprint (feat. Larry Goldings & Carl Allen) Sunnyside Records 2026
1:45 PM		Sun Ra and His Arkestra Heliocentric Worlds Elliptical Orbits Enterplanetary Koncepts 2026
1:46 PM		Christopher Dammann Untititled Dead Words
1:57 PM		Matt Wilson's Good Trouble Black Fire Love Is The Whole Thing, We Are Only Pieces Palmetto+ 2026
2:08 PM		Jocelyn Gould The Song Is You So Delighted La Reserve Records 2026
2:09 PM		The Ravens September Song Their Complete National Recordings (1947-1953) Savoy 2003
2:11 PM		The Orioles Baby Please Don't Go Blowing the Fuse - 29 R&B Classics That Rocked the Jukebox In 1952 Bear Family Records GmbH 2011
2:22 PM		The Orioles Crying In The Chapel - Original Dancin' & Romancin' CD2 Charly Records 2006
2:23 PM		The Flamingos Jump Children Doo Wop Classics: 54 Original Hit Recordings H&H Music Ltd 2010
2:24 PM		The Harp-Tones A Sunday Kind of Love The Doo Wop Box
2:27 PM		The Clovers Blue Velvet (LP Version) The Clovers Rhino Atlantic 1956
2:32 PM		Billy Ward & The Dominoes Star Dust Jukebox Classics of 1958 Revolver Records Limited 2009
2:34 PM		Billy Ward & The Dominoes Deep Purple (Remastered) Deep Purple (Remastered) - Single Bacci Bros Records 2013
2:37 PM		The Cadillacs Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Christmas Rhythm & Blues
2:42 PM		The Platters Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (1958) History Records - American Edition 10 (Original Recordings Digitally Remastered 2012 in Stereo) History-Records 2012
2:50 PM		The Flamingos I Only Have Eyes for You I Only Have Eyes for You Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group 2018
2:52 PM		The Spaniels Stormy Weather Best of The Spaniels Blaricum CD Company (B.C.D.) B.V. 2010
2:53 PM		The Marcels Blue Moon 1961 Hit Songs, Vol. 1 Euro Music Group 2013
2:53 PM		The Cleftones Heart and Soul Heart and Soul Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group 1961
2:57 PM		The Duprees You Belong to Me Doo Wop Classics, Vol. 1 Top Town Records 2011
3:02 PM		Cab Calloway Do You Wanna Jump Children? Presenting Cab Calloway

Chat is archived.

Welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon!

Happy Friday to Jerry and everybody!

Hi Rick, thank you, we missed you!

Hi all

Did you see the Eagles signed an ex third string Dallas quarterback this morning?

Jerry, thanks for sending the show to me! Hey Mike!

Your welcome, Rick! Hi Mike! Where did that Ra picture come from?

Facebook

JJack Posen's son posted it

Rosen

I figured it was one of your NJ outings

Jerry, you may very well get the next call to be on the Eagles roster - they're dropping like flies!

Unbelievable!

Taked at Havana in New Hope 1980

Taken

I don't know anything about the Panthers. Do the Eagles have a shot?

It looks bleak to me.

Panthers are very good

I believe no 1 offence if the NFC

The Eagles have depressed me so much I stopped following others!

I'm watching no more sports on TV until the Sixers season starts.

I hope THEY don't depress us

It's the only sport I follow so.....UGH

Basketball?

Football

Ahhh!

they make a pill for that or a stiff drink

Hey aiffrig!

Hey Aiffrig, I need to hang with you on the beach rather than watch football

oakland raiders fan i've been depressed since they left that slice of cali

More character, more Raider-like then

Greetings to Gordski and his listeners. Au contraire Pierre. Great baseball yet.the networks fair haired boys swept and a crackling old school old school day time fall classic in Cleveland

Bass clarinet happening!

Hey Patrick!

50 year anniversary of Greatest Raider team. The 1976 16 and 1 juggernaut. Just win baby

That was a truly great team

I was a Raders fan back then

They were the baddest team on the planet!

Patrick, you truly remind me of a hard-nosed sports announcer or journalist. A cub reporter like Jimmy Olson or Red Barber

Fred Belitnikoff's hair hanging out of the back of his helmet made my Father insane

Hahahahaha

Lyle Alzado looked like he could chew somebody's arm off.

Ha....yep

what was that yellow shit he used to paint his hands with

Stickum

It was all over him

son said that was the first time that stadium in england didn't empty out by halftime , he follows premier league

We're with the lawfirm of Lambert, Ham, Blount and Shell. We'll be working with the firm Greene, Greenwood, White and Holmes. We've got an ironclad case. We're ast

We're a steely bunch... gad I hate the carriage return button on phones acting as a post entry button

I'm with Wecheatem & Howe

I'm with Turner, Harper & Realmuto & Gohomeearly.

Hi Brian, I didn' know you were a football expert also. Impressive, didn't know you had the time!

Mike, that's your cousin's firm, also!

The Steeler vs Raider rivalry was so vicious it ended up in federal court . Chuck Noll said Raiders were a criminal element. No hugging and dapping each other after those wars

Dad is from Western Pa. I got the Steelers bug as a kid in the 70s big time. I did not have the same deal for Pirates. Phillies all the way. Dad adopted the Phillies well. Big fan. But he still loved the Pirates

But I can't forget that Buddy Ryan had the body bag game.

Wonder if Lee-onel Loueke will pop up in the set

Haha, he may have been on the Gretchen Parlato track

This is a solo!

Oh he was!? I thought of him (L.L.) as soon as the Parlato track was kickin in w vocalizations

He went to music school or whatever with "Leeonel" and are best of friends..

I heard Rebirth Brass Band earlier today on the Charlottesville Va indep/college station WTJU. 1989 LP Feel Like Funkin' it up. That is a Party that one

I need to check that out! Thank you!

Boy, this Lonnie Liston Smith track really captures an era.

Sure does

Yeah this LLS is great. Love that ting ting percussion

It tunes us up!

How much do I need to donate for the Jerry Gordon bobble head doll??

Speaking of Eagles, Weren't they the greatest? I did see one the other day over the Schuylkill. Was not green. Sang in unknown bird harmonies. Where is Rob from the Birdwatchers society?

Settle for the canvas Jerry Bag Pat.

rut ro back beats

Hi ET! Patrick, I am selling the bobbleheads privately.

Ha, canvas bag!

Speaking of PRB a shoutout to Classical Host Marvin Rosen. This Wednesday in nyc he will receive a prestigious award honoring him for promoting women composers. attention Must be Paid!!!!

Thank you for that, Patrick, and mmenschy of you to announce that!

Is no one else going to mention how Jerry Gordon just insulted the performance skills without ever hearing a single note from that musician that’s playing Farmington DIY tomorrow? How is that acceptable to say on air? What if the kid is listening with his family right now and he had to hear that in front of his mother?

I just said he was great. Clean out your ears, Angel.

Marvin Rosen. Classical Discoveries. I love how he plays contemporary classical Great DJ.

It is in the Luminous Brewing?

Being uncertain of someone’s soul based on their age, is an insane way to complement someone. I don’t care if you said he was nice afterwords. That’s so back handed that hurt my face.

I want a date. Are you busy tommorow?

This track is cookin'!

Jerry insults me all the time. Where’s my parade??

Brandon Sanders is a drummer and his albums are always good!

We'll be insulting you shortly, Patrick

meds kick in after a little time, if not punch urself in the kisser

Another great prescription from Dr. Aiffrig

all that to say FU

a fine insult is like a complement. Love and hate are an axis. Bold as Love.

My best prescription from Dr. Jerry is always a shot of B-3!

Thank you, Rick. I may have one for you yet!

I turned on Spinitron and a Steelers Raiders game broke out

It is a route by the Jersey Pork Rollers

fight in the parking lot? They ain't gonna do nothing. I saw his bass violin.

Don Mattingly returning as manager is like that episode where George Costanza quit his job and just showed up the next day like nothing happened

jersey Pork Roller's were undone by the Jersey Devil. Now resides in Shell Pile- and sails a pirate ship from the Cohansey.

Patrick, that's an astute interpretation.

Rock Chalk Jayhawk!!

What a clever and interesting core of chatters!

Jerry, we haven't had our meds yet, so anything goes!

Kids, leave the house!

Surrounded by a thin, thin, thin 16 mm shell. And inside, it's delicious!

Hahahahaha! Here, have some M&Ms!

That's Arnie's whole beef halves, we deliver

Sorry, Not available in Section D

Listening to Sun Ra reminds me of the last conversation i had trying to fix my desktop computer. # 1. Mount your 2TB Kubuntu system partition sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt # 2. Mount the tiny EFI boot partition from your NVMe drive inside it sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot/efi # 3. Bind your active live RAM system resources for i in /dev /dev/pts /proc /sys /run; do sudo mount -B $i /mnt$i; done # 4. Step directly inside your real 2TB Kubuntu installation sudo chroot /mnt

chroot!

That really Kubuntu's me when that happens

ET, you're a riot!

Chim chimney chroot.

Currently my Firefox Browser is totally whacked plus my printer gets disconnected from the network every other print job

Phillies Cheroot is a classic, mild-bodied machine-made cigar

Mike, you go to the head of the class.

I bet I won't be there long

Don't be long, don't be long, don't belong don't belong

Bass players need to keep away from the high notes.

It's B-3 time!!!

We got to it, Rick!

50 years ago this weekend a true cornucopia of entertainment options…..Neil Diamond.The Lettermen.jackson Browne.Blue Oyster Cultand Manfred Mann.SteeleyevSpan.Ted Curson.Anna Maria Alberghetti .Richie Cole Alto MadnessJohn Hartford.Donnie Hathaway with Franklin Ajaye.and someone I never heard of The Bill Gaither trio

but the best ones don't care. who r the best bassists? The ones with soprano voices.

I was at that BOC and Manfred Mann....there was a 3rd act too

Might have been Journey

@ Particle- Since you are now divorced- to what do attribute your success to?

Also a nice feature on local jazz clubs…DINOS 135 S 46street……GERTS LOUNGE 1437 South Street..TREYS LOUNGE 333 W Queen Lane….CHARLIES PLAYBOY LOUNGE 50 and Market ….New Foxhole Cafe on locust walk

@patriot- no way. Dinos 46th street.

Also a RIP to Tom DiNardo music writer for inquirer and Daily News . Mostly classical but did a lot of jazz promotion and reviews also . Truly an erudite and talented journalist

I do love insects. I don't know why. I guess its things that love life. but I do not like fleas.

it going to be do wop sun ra chicago?

Gather 'round the radio, Yon Teens

you will miss me when I am gone

Charlie Horner and Bill Moore had a great doodle Wop show on that other Ivy League station. It was fantastic must hear listening. Were given the boot by the new visionless,mediocrity embracing regime. You could make a radio all star team out of DJS disappeared by those Androids

All too common

A truly great tribute to doo wop Paul Simon’s Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War. Was a staple on the Worried Waltz.

Sorry ET Meant to type DOO WOP

Their Christmas show was top notch . Bill owned a record store on Frankford Avenue in Holmesburg

You must be referring to 'Yesterday's Now Music Today' Lee Paris did love 'Executive Slacks.'

I am at summer camp now in the chapel

The Orioles were so beloved in Baltimore the MLB franchise named their team after them when they relocated from ST Louis

This is good!!!

Rick, another B3 for you haha

reminds me of Frank Zappa.

Whatever happened to Reuben and the Jets

I will accept no Polish Prince slander🇵🇱

Frank Zappa

Haha, sorry Patrick

Jerry, you turned me into a DooWop freak! I'm diggin' it!

They had to share cell with Captain and Tenille pushing boulders up an incline.

Sisyphus laughs

no way Jerry. Blue Velvet! Whoah.

Thanks, Rick. Really glad you are enjoying.. These are your tunes, many of them!

Schwing!

the Rudolf sax rules supreme!

Yeah, that was nice!

Steve and Laurie dancing at the end of American Graffiti

Patrick, ET, you are such Radio-philes! Don't forget Mike Constantine, the WPEN-meister

Mike, what knowledge, what a movie!

AMAZING movie

1933.

indeed.

Ha...this was in the movie too

Spookiest song ever ?

Toad and Debbie parking

love this one

Hi Bixa

This tune and interpretation is one of the best 10 songs ever recorded (please don't ask me what the other 9 are!).

I want the 58 Chevy f rom the movie more than anything

I'll take Milnor's Deuce Coupe

Paradise Road Gordon!

Ha, I would take the 56 T-Bird with I forget her name

Jerry, you are absolutely killing it!!! Wow!!!

Our jazz knowledge gives us a leg up

Suzanne Sommers

desires have a way with undermining the body.

Yowzah, you are good!

Brazil is mostly nuts. but not to many.

Goodnight sweetheart, well it's time to go.

Everyone have a great weekend . Thanks Jerry stellar 3 hours of entertainment

Thanks, Patrick

Jenn going to blow up everything.

The Duprees always had the "sheets of sound" approach from the saxes. Very nice!

See the hoagies behind your ears

omg.. that song... I only have eyes for you...that was and still is my r&b favorite. Jr high school, Friday night dances at the local Catholic church (adults watching us carefully while we slow-danced something we called "the fish" (that's what it was called in Yonkers) and I always wanted to dance with the bad boys from the Catholic school cause they jeans with black leather belts and DA haircuts were so cool.. thanks for the big hit of nostal

Those were good times, Karen

thanks

Jerry, I plan my Friday schedule around your show with very good reason. Your musical expertise is truly appreciated! Note that the DooWop hour was classic! Everybody enjoy your weekend!

Thanks, Karen. Fun to hear your memories!!!

I meant... thanks for that big hit of nostalgia.

Thanks Karen, Mike, Rick, everybody!