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Serenade to a Cuckoo

Feb 26, 2021 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

With Jerry Gordon

2 hours of new jazz releases, and then "1963, the year before the British Invasion"

12:02 PM		Young Tiger Calypso Be Calypso Be / I Was There - Single ALL AROUND THE WORLD 2019
12:04 PM		Pino Palladino & Blake Mills Ekuté Notes With Attachments Blake Mills Label JV 2021
12:10 PM		Roland Kirk Quartet & Rahsaan Roland Kirk Quartet Serenade to a Cuckoo I Talk with the Spirits Verve 1998
12:14 PM		Greg Smith My Pet Robot Cluster 001
12:30 PM		José James Save Your Love For Me (Live at (Le) Poisson Rouge) José James: New York 2020 (Live) Rainbow Blonde Records 2021
12:30 PM		Doug Beavers Sunshine (feat. Joe Locke) Sol Circle 9 Records 2020
12:34 PM		Gayelynn McKinney Stylin' Zoot Suit Funk Beatstix Music 2021
12:42 PM		Yoko Miwa Trio Think of One Songs of Joy
12:52 PM		Ethan Iverson & Umbria Jazz Orchestra Bouncing With Bud (Live at Teatro Mancinelli, Orvieto, Italy, on December 29-31, 2018) [feat. Ingrid Jensen, Dayna Stephens, Ben Street & Lewis Nash] Bud Powell in the 21st Century (Live at Teatro Mancinelli, Orvieto, Italy, on December 29-31, 2018) [feat. Ingrid Jensen, Dayna Stephens, Ben Street & Lewis Nash] [Live] 2021
12:55 PM		Chad Lefkowitz-Brown Caravan Quartet Sessions La Reserve Records 2021
1:08 PM		Lawrence Ferlinghetti Junkman's Obbligato Poetry Readings In The Cellar Master Classics Records 2011
1:15 PM		David Kikoski Satellite (feat. Boris Kozlov) Sure Thing (feat. Boris Kozlov) HighNote Records 2021
1:21 PM		Thumbscrew Camp Easy Never Is Enough (feat. Tomas Fujiwara, Mary Halvorson & Michael Formanek) Cuneiform Records 2021
1:28 PM		Fred Frith & Ikue Mori Nothing to It A Mountain Doesn't Know It's Tall Intakt Records 2021
1:34 PM		Michelle Lordi The Way Love Used To Be Warren Defever Sessions
1:35 PM		Tom Tallitsch Dusk Message Tt Productions 2021
1:43 PM		Joe Chambers Rio Samba de Maracatu Blue Note Records 2021
1:57 PM		Jeremy Pelt Don't Dog the Source GRIOT: THIS IS IMPORTANT! HighNote Records 2021
2:06 PM		The Surfaris Wipe Out Wipe Out K-tel 2008
2:18 PM		The Beach Boys Surfin' U.S.A. Greatest Hits Capitol Records 2012
2:18 PM		Ricky Nelson Fools Rush In 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Rick Nelson Geffen* 2003
2:18 PM		James Brown & The Famous Flames Prisoner of Love The Ultimate James Brown Collection (Remastered)
2:18 PM		Bobby Vinton Blue Velvet Bobby Vinton: Blue Velvet
2:18 PM		Ruby & The Romantics Our Day Will Come Our Day Will Come
2:23 PM		Major Lance The Monkey Time The Best of Major Lance: Everybody Loves a Good Time!
2:23 PM		Roy Orbison In Dreams The Essential Roy Orbison Monument/Orbison Records/Legacy 2006
2:28 PM		The Orlons South Street Cameo Parkway: The Best of the Orlons, 1961-1966 ABKCO Music and Records, Inc. 2005
2:32 PM		The Dovells You Can't Sit Down Cameo Parkway: The Best of the Dovells, 1961-1965 ABKCO Music and Records, Inc. 2005
2:32 PM		The Sapphires Who Do You Love Best Of The Sapphires
2:36 PM		The Tymes So Much in Love (Remastered) So Much in Love (Remastered) - Single
2:39 PM		Garnet Mimms Cry Baby The Best of Garnet Mimms - Cry Baby Parlophone Catalogue 1993
2:42 PM		The Drifters On Broadway The Complete Atlantic Albums
2:49 PM		Skeeter Davis End of the World End of the World - Single Stars and Stripes 2014
2:54 PM		Jackie Wilson Baby Workout Original Brunswick Hit Recordings
2:55 PM		Smokey Robinson & The Miracles Mickey's Monkey 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Smokey Robinson & The Miracles Motown 1999
3:04 PM		The Angels My Boyfriend's Back My Boyfriend's Back
3:04 PM		The Kingsmen Louie Louie Louie Louie / The Jolly Green Giant - Single K-tel 2011

Chat is archived.

Good afternoon, everyone!

Hello Jerry

Hey brian , dig this song

Ooo pah pah dah Calypso

haha

one I knew you would appreciate

I keep hearing this very interesting collab on prb w Pino Palladino. Very nice

British NuJazz

So far only two tracks have been made available

to djs. It's on Impulse!

Hi Jerry/ breaking format: no theme song play or did i miss it

no, mark, my new policy of playing one or two tunes before I get to the theme, tracks I want to "isolate"

Sometimes the Cuckoo strikes at 5 to 10 mins after. I have a pre loaded text that just reads 'Cuckoo' to my wife each week to remind her to tune into Jerry.

there you go

There she is

There's that cuckoo!

Look at dat bird....

Mmm hmmm...

Hi Christine, I was missing you!

I can't not whistle as loud as I can along! Howdy everyone

Especially the off notes

Hi Jerry! Happy Friday, everybody ☀

Hey Dude, how are you?

Just curious : how many diff versions do u have / Roland Kirk & others ?

about 10

but this is the original and I love it

A fine variety.

I'm doing pretty well thank you Jerry, how're you? - you know it was about this time a few years ago my girlfriend called in to ask you to wish me a happy birthday on air, made my day! So just want to thank you for that

This is trés cool. I want a pet robot! 🤖

So do i ! been conditioned to hear it on Friday for the longest time :)

my second favorite by Jethro Tull heard in Jerry's Dorm. Tied with that is my friend Jane Bunnett's version

Dude, thank you for telling me that. I'm glad to hear I did it!

Are you still with that girlfriend?

@the_dude, it sounds like your birthday has rolled around again. Happy Birthday! 🎉🎂

Christine, yes, very robotic!

Get your jabs! 💉

Pino has played bass w The Who since John Entwistle's passing . Also played w David Gilmour , Gary Numan, Jeff Beck many other acts artists

Thanks, Brian. I had no idea

Yeah great bass player. Really accomplished. Great resume

Great knowledge there

This singer is so great. I guess people are buying his CD because Blue Note has put out plenty on him

Great name too. Born in Wales.

Sorry was delayed, but haha yes I am! Clearly she was a keeper! And thanks Christine! My turn for the quarantine birthday..also gonna check out that Tull version later..

Yeah that Jose James has been on my radar thanks for playing that

Really smooth

he's great

Dude, everyone my age heard Tull do it. Kid's in Dorm Rooms had no idea Tull was doing a Roland Kirk song!

Glad you are with the same woman!

I had Bach's Bouree from the Lute Suite as a classical guitar lesson piece back when I was a teen. Then I heard Tull swing through it when someone in college turned me onto older Tull lps

Ha thank you, almost 10 years now so what is it common law at this point? And I did have the fortune to see Tull at mann in 2019, he killed it on flute still! Would have loved to have heard serenade

Bouree, nothing prettier

Anothernew re-visit to the language of bebop

💜 Caravan

You could do a week long show on Caravan versions. I like The Ventures. That's a hoot. And my fave is on the L.P. Money Jungle. A power trio of Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Max Roach. Real stripped down dark version

@Brian D, that would make an interesting show.

Wes Montgomery did a great version too w a big horn section

This is about a rebellion

People leave their old lives behind to become street people

Rest in peace, Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Ferlinghetti passed this month-101 years old

That performance just knocks me out!

That was great to hear!

I could listen to a whole beat show

Dude, you're a beatnik!

Ha! Why thank you! In a some ways for sure, but idk if I'm hip enough! One of my favorite pieces though is Allen Ginsberg s capitol air, the music is such a cool accompaniment on it

I think there's a few versions? But I always liked this one https://youtu.be/2dfhCFNfQ5Y

Thank you, Dude, will check it out!

if you want to bust out laughing read Gregory Corso's poem 'Marriage'

I will, never read it. Maybe I should have read it before getting married the last time.

Ikue Mori. Beyond a master

From Hopewell, Tom Tallitsch

Of course! And saved that Gregory Corso poem too, and yeah gonna have to dig into Ferlinghetti more too

Well since you are a beatnik, you should enjoy them immensley!

Huarache sandals too. For a fun version of Surfin USA check out the French Frith Kaiser Thompson LP

Now that is obscure. I must!

What a Supergroup FFKT was . Still waiting on the reunion....

Maybe the only time you get to hear Richard Thompson sing in Okinawan

whoa

Monkey Time. Covered by The Tubes in the 80s with Martha Davis of the Motels guesting

PABST BLUE RIBBON! Can't hear this without thinking of Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet film

Heineken f* thT sh** / gonna have to rewatch tonite :)

Yeah!

I went to the University of Wisconsin. There was ZERO Budweiser there. ONLY Pabst. Made next door in Milwaukee at the time. Everyone drank Pabst and smoked Old Golds.

Loyal to the town brew

Used to listen to radio show from Madison Wi "What do Ya Know?". Clyde Stubblefield (the Funky Drummer) was the bandleader .

The Orlons... singing about The Garment District

Can't hear The Dovells without seeing the guy with the diamond in his beard on those jewelry store commercials

8th & Walnut

That was 4 Philly groups in a row. Brian, you are funny! The lead singer of the Dovells was Leonard Borisoff.

From Overbrook, but he changed his name to Len Barry

Classic

Sounds of Philadelphia

Benjamin Krass in his blue poly Krass Brothers suit. And "Where'd everybody go? They went to Betsons!" Other great Philly ads

Now let's all sing the Ideal song: "If you've got a passion for fashion, if you've got a craving for savings..." 🎶

Nothing but a Quonset hut.

It's good to shop on friendly Mill Street in Bristol Pa (bah dah dah)

Dave the Obscure, your last show was insanely good

Thanks. I'm honored that you woke up so early.

You are really prepared, or really know your stuff, or both!

I always try to wake up earlier on Friday to catch your whole show, DJ DTO. Do you achieve them?

I know some stuff. But I probably over prepare a bit, too.

*archive them*

From Monkey Time to Mickey's Monkey

No, Christine, Dave the Obscure has no internet footprint. The Spinitron playlist is the nearest I get to an archive.

Rascals do a good combo w Bobby Blue Bland's ...Lovelight

Thanks, Jerry...another fantastic show! And thanks DJ Dave. Fridays are a highlight on PRB.

Have a good week Christine

Great show! Have a good one all!

Thanks, Brian, as always!

Thanks everybody!