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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Oct 23, 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!

10.23.26 New Jazz/Jimmy Reed

two hours of modern jazz new releases; then one hour of the compositions of Jimmy Reed as recorded by him, followed by great covers

12:00 PM		Zakir Hussain & Niladri Kumar Space Between the Notes - Composition Based in Raag Bhairavi Space Between the Notes Snafu Records 2026
12:17 PM		Joseph Tawadros Free Spirits (feat. Jack DeJohnette) Conversations with Jack (feat. Jack DeJohnette) Joseph Tawadros 2026
12:19 PM		Natacha Atlas Zar 12 Parallel Universe, Vol. 1 Airfono 2026
12:25 PM		Julian "J3PO" Pollack Trio Tutu
12:36 PM		Jenny Scheinman Turns the Wagon Wheel (feat. Bill Frisell) One Hundred Years Today Royal Potato Family 2026
12:50 PM		Steve Johns ESP Extrasensory 2026
12:50 PM		Jeff Beck Cause We've Ended As Lovers Blow By Blow Epic 1975
12:58 PM		Jane Bunnett Serenade To A Cuckoo The Water Is Wide Linus Entertainment 1993
1:16 PM		Azar Lawrence Fatisha Turn the Music Up
1:20 PM		Russell Gunn & Blackhawk Blackstone Legacy Afrikan-Amerikan Book of the Dead
1:30 PM		Meshell Ndegeocello & Robert Glasper Don’t Stop The Music (feat. Nick Hakim) Synonym Blue Note Records 2026
1:30 PM		Willie Morris Pinocchio To Accept Oneself
1:38 PM		Ruben Caban Speak No Evil (feat. Kemuel Roig, Edwin Bonilla, Agustin Conti & Waldo Madera) Tales From The Trunk 2026
1:42 PM		Esperanza Spalding Ponta De Areia Ponta De Areia (serpentwithfeet Version) [feat. serpentwithfeet] - Single 2008
2:21 PM		Jimmy Reed You Don't Have to Go I'm Jimmy Reed Charly Records 1958
2:22 PM		Muddy Waters You Don't Have to Go One More Mile: Chess Collectibles, Vol. 1 Geffen 1994
2:23 PM		Jimmy Reed Ain't That Lovin You Baby I'm Jimmy Reed Charly Records 1958
2:24 PM		Link Wray & The Wraymen Ain't That Lovin' You Baby Slinky! The Epic Sessions '58-'61 SMSP 2008
2:26 PM		Jimmy Reed Honest, I Do (Remastered 2024) I’m Jimmy Reed (Remastered 2024) Craft Recordings 2024
2:27 PM		The Rolling Stones Honest I Do The Rolling Stones (UK) ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 1964
2:28 PM		Jimmy Reed Baby What You Want Me to Do Found Love Charly Records 1958
2:33 PM		Them Baby What you want Me To Do Them Featuring Van Morrison
2:34 PM		Jimmy Reed Caress Me Baby Rockin' with Reed Charly Records 1958
2:35 PM		The Blues Project Caress Me Baby Projections Polydor 1966
2:42 PM		Jimmy Reed Goin' To New York Rockin' with Reed Vee-Jay Records 1959
2:45 PM		Magic Slim Goin' to New York ZBC Vol. 2-See What You're Doing to Me
2:53 PM		Jimmy Reed Hush Hush Found Love Charly Records 1958
2:54 PM		Etta James Hush Hush Blues to the Bone RCA Victor 2004

Chat is archived.

Welcome, everybody, to Serenade to a Cuckoo!

Happy Friday to Jerry and everybody!

Happy Friday again

Hey Mike!

Hi Rick

Ha, great to see you guys as always!! Happy Friday, a gentle, kind, fun weekend! What will we do on Sunday?

The Eagles are in deep trouble, but how bout them Sixers!!!

Hopefully either the Commies or The Giants will be on

Sitar!

ǝʌɐꓷ siren

Dave, you have a finely attuned ear throughout the universe

Hey Dave!

Greetings to Jerry and his fine roster of listeners

🙏🏼

Hey Roffle and Patrick!

I like all you guys! Roffle, a pleasure as always. Patrick, we look forward to some shticks today.

In the early 70s there was an "underground" Philly DJ that I liked alot who was a follower of a "Guru Bawa". Great DJ, would slip in Bawa" stuff at the time that didn't offend me, and would occasional drop in sitar music which realllly "cooled" out his program. I really enjoyed him, don't even remember his name. Maybe on WDAS FM

WMMR used to play Alan Watts talks around 1 or 2 Sunday mornings

Mike, do you remember "Be Here Now"?

Philly radio just added another suburban country music FM station and I can’t find Dr Jack Kervorkians phone number .

I don't

Patrick scores again!

I think it's the old WHAT FM frequency

96.5

Be Here Now was Baba Ram Dass (Alan Watts book?) which was a counter-cultural smash, a guidebook for beginners seeking cosmic consciousness. It was a must have until it wasn't.

I used to follow Baba Rum Rasin

Why did Country take over Philadelphia music stations?

"Country"

Philly hasn't had a country station since WRCP

Was in New Hope yesterday. Club Havana entire schedule is cover Bands . Oy oy

Nothing better than WRCP . Philadelphia Blazers hockey followed by Ron Cade country

Thinking about Ram Dass....I think he was in the Woodstock movie doing a yoga class

Used to be a Friday afternoon show on WXPN called 'Relax For Survival. ' I could be misremembering, but I think they dd have Ram Dass on at a certain point.

Maybe. He was Timothy Leary's Pal, joined at the hip at I forget what university (Harvard?) exploring LSD

Hey ET!

Indded Jerry. 'the Fellowship' I remember Guru Bawa. I believe his tomb and memorial are out near Unionville PA. chester county.

Alan Watts turned into Baba Ram Dass

and other institutions. lol

You know your stuff, ET. I remember that had a house in Wynnefield where they were centered.

Enough of these country things. (some guy named Shakespeare)

The only dance there is.

Exactly Jerry- I was going to say. The house is still there, I used to pass it every now and then.

Looking forward to World Series. Americas best beer city vs Americas best cigar city

The birthplace of PBR

I didn't realize Red Lion Pa was fielding a team.

Rick, you hangin in?

Jerry, I'm hangin'.

How did your fundraising go?

Richard Alpert. Philip Glass did some work around Alan Ginsburg when he was in India.

Jerry, very well. We have 1 more fundraiser on 11/20 (a Friday, of course!).

As long as you are bringing in the $$$

ET, do I have my Alperts mixed up? Herb, perhaps?

smooove groooove

Cosmic Cuckoo today Jerry

This is a fantastic set

Hey T;homas, glad you're here!

Thank you, a mood can lead anywhere!

Niladri Kumaar Will be at Penn Live Arts on November 1: https://pennlivearts.org/event/NiladriKumaar

Thank you, Mike!

You are a man of discriminating taste, like all Cuckoo listeners!

haha. RIP Jeff.

Hi Russ, will you go to that show? I bet it will be great

I hope so.

At a certain point later in life he worked with an amazing bassist. Tal Wilkenfeld

Produced by Sir George Martin

C;uckoo listeners know their... stuff

Loving this reminds me of Jeff Beck

Martin And Parsons Fight. Famous Philip Glass track.

20 Bob on Parsons to win

Reminds me I need to buy the entire Miami Vice soundtrack. In Stereo.

@MC don’t count G Martin out he could always produce a big hit!

Ha! Thomas

I m feeling a little horny here.

Then please turn down the volume on the next track

speaker wires melt- Bluetooth contacts ancient and foreign civilizations beyond our human understanding.

don't eat the blu pills

50 years ago a cornucopia of local entertainment options. Peter Tosh , the Wailers and House Of Assembly. New Riders of Purple Sage.Karon Bihari.Frankie Avalon.Melba Moore with Bill Withers.Stephen Stills With Joan Armatrading.Red Rodney with Richie Cole.And in his first Spectrum appearance Bruce Springsteen

aiffrig, inappropriate with this bunch!

wawa had smokes but alas no 99 packs of beer

I did kinda like the old riders of the purple tabs.

Richie Cole was the man!

Indeed, Rick! You and he simpatico spirits

I remember the time I did meet. 'Stepping Razor' His father was a Steamfitter. Don't even ask me about 'ASIA'

I dig this tune.

a man of refined taste

Some fine bone playin' goin' on here.

I was just gonna say

If you were seeing "Stepping Razor" tags across Philly, you were witnessing a specific era of his evolution before he transitioned to his iconic block-letter ESPO visual campaigns in the late 1980s and 1990s. The name itself is a direct nod to the 1977 reggae anthem "Stepping Razor" by Peter Tosh. Perhaps.

More sophisticated than I knew!

It's all coming back to me

Right? Some kids scale a 200 foot tower to write their name above I-95 North. Sorry the piano lessons did't work out. Maybe you are an artist who likes to take risks? No one knows.

I: think he tagged the Guru Bawa Center

Aiffrig, what are you doing today besides laying on the beach, drinking a couple of sixpacks, and takling blue pills?

Burning a ciggie I imagine

Inspired 3 rd hour programming today Gordski. Is it true Jimmy Reed used to hang out with Donna Reed? Or did I Reed that wrong?

Not to be confused with Jerry Reed

Haha,l Patrick doing his mind exercises

Worst Jimmy Reed cover . Nancy Sinatra covering Big Boss Man in Sopranos . Crooning to Phil Leotardo during his capo induction ceremony. Oy oy oy

Constantine mourning the closing of Zito Diner

OMG!

The Brain Enzymes kicked in at 2:08

I actually am....used to have breakfast there with a friend once a month

They had very good home fries

Patrick knows all!

next track- well since you're gone I have not missed you.

soft in the middle, crispy on the edges

The open hot turkey sandwich was wonderful.

Good diner food, Rick.

oh fukin Zoto's

Central New Jersey still has some semblance of a diner culture. Philadelphia and its suburbs almost nil

Mike, I met a friend there for lunch a few months ago and it was really good food.

Hathaways on 130

Used to go to Olga's a million years ago

You had me at Route 130 !!! I used to get lost in S Jersey all the time and then I would inadvertently find RTE 130 and its low priced gasoline

We stopped going to Zoto's because a waitress said it was closing last June

Olga is not Baba Yaga. Route 70 crosses 73 in Mt Laurel. 7 + 7 + 3. Get the special

Only if it comes on a blue plate

I do miss the Nude Girl Sex Show just across the river. No wonder I get banned from public forums/

Ha! ET....I do remember that

There are 8 million stories in the Naked City . This is one of them !!

I have a T-shirt from the Rivera Lounge n 73 near 130.. Across from the Pensauken Mart. An Indian name that translates roughly to Roget Wilco.

neshamity personal fave

Roger

then there's rt 29 skippback

The Neshaminy Hotel was in walking distance from my house Oy vey

just because the number could be wrong does not mean the the sensibility is right.

doll house in Myrtle

Now we know where the Hollies got that groove.

tropicana girls ran the circut between florida and carolina

Identify that guitar. Hmmm Is that Lucile?

aiffrig, you don't need any more blue pills

Any more blue pills and he'll put his eye out

way before got married

hahahaha

Mike

Excuse me miss- Could I have the next dance?

Back up, fella

Everyone have a great weekend and Go Iggles

You too Patrick

Patrick, you had a big flurry of hits in the 5th inning. Have a great weekend!

These singers always be traveling. going to New Orleans, Chicago. Cheltenham. Staying put in Cedar Lakes

Yeah, Cheltenham too far and inconvenient

Medford Lakes

Jarrett’s Lounge in Cheltenham......some great times there

The 9th hole. don't ask. We were on the the course.

The Hole....that was some place

What a bunch of lounge lizards! Very impressive!

this music brings out the best

It really does!

This music brings out the beast

Great show Jerry- I dived in on the Alpert groove- It was all shaving cream.

Yes, you're thinking of "Shaving Cream" by Benny Bell (real name Binyomin Zamberg), written in 1946 and originally performed by Paul Wynn (a.k.a. Phil Winston). It's a classic "teasing song" — a folklorist term for this exact technique. How it works: Each verse builds a rhyme that makes the listener brace for a certain four-letter word ("...I stepped in a big pile of..."), then the singer draws out the sh- sound and pivots into the refrain: "Shaving cream, be nice and clean, Shave every day

excelente thank yous fo your service.

Jerry, this was a show that helped to expand my musical horizon - and I'm very appreciative of that! JG with the GM!!! Everybody enjoy your weekend and enjoy the fall colors!

Love it! Thank youo, everybody!!!Have a great weekend!

Till next time

Thanks Jerry! Nice listen while worked around the house. Have a great week all!

DBG!

Thanks, Robble!!!

LOL

Roffle! Where did those b's come from?

Who cares? :)

Thanks for the show man.

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Till the Cuckoo Flies Again!