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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Mar 25, 2022 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

With Jerry Gordon

Two hours of new modern jazz releases followed by Part II of the Elektra Records Story

3.25.22

12:09 PM		Gilad Hekselman Fast Moving Century (feat. Shai Maestro & Eric Harland) Far Star Edition Records 2022
12:09 PM		Eli Degibri Gargamel Henri and Rachel Degibri Records 2022
12:16 PM		Kenneth Brown A Place for Togetherness Love People Space Time Records 2021
12:19 PM		Boris Kozlov Page One First Things First Posi-Tone Records 2022
12:25 PM		Diego Rivera Escapade Mestizo Posi-Tone Records 2022
12:35 PM		Blodwyn Pig Serenade to a Cuckoo All Said and Done Secret Records 2011
12:43 PM		Bill O'Connell Moment's Notice A Change Is Gonna Come Savant 2022
12:57 PM		Kit Downes Trio Seceda Vermillion
12:57 PM		Larry Vuckovich Trio It Could Happen To You Street Scene
1:14 PM		Larry Fuller Django Larry Fuller Capri Records 2014
1:21 PM		Larry Fuller Celia Larry Fuller Capri Records 2014
1:30 PM		Omar Sosa & Seckoou Keita Drops Of Sunrise Suba Ota 2021
2:05 PM		Chien Chien Lu We Live in Brooklyn Baby The Path P-VINE RECORDS 2021
2:05 PM		The OGJB Quartet Ode to O Ode to O TUM 2022
2:06 PM		Greg Spero For Too (feat. Marquis Hill) The Chicago Experiment Ropeadope 2022
2:06 PM		Michael Leonhart Orchestra Shut Him Down (feat. Elvis Costello, Joshua Redman & JSWISS) The Normyn Suites Sunnyside Records 2022
2:06 PM		The Zodiac Virgo - The Perpetual Perfectionist Cosmic Sounds Rhino/Elektra 2002
2:20 PM		Clear Light Mr. Blue Clear Light Rhino/Elektra 2004
2:20 PM		The Doors Light My Fire 40th The Doors 40th anniversay mix speed corrected
2:40 PM		The Doors When the Music's Over Strange Days (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) Rhino/Elektra 2017
2:40 PM		Tom Paxton Talking Vietnam Potluck Blues Morning Again Rhino/Elektra 1968

Chat is archived.

Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo!

Hello Jerry! Happy Friday to all!

Hi Brian, Backat you!

Hosanna, hey sanna, sanna sanna ho

I'll see you at the station! Hi, Mok

good afternoon

Mok please excuse me, I haven't been able to tackle the doo-wop!

Greetings to Jerry and his loyal Cadre of Hipsters Flipsters Hilltoppers and Pill Poppers.

I know how music can pile up. An almost daily occurence for me

...and Wildcats!

hey Patrick. excellent wordsmithing

Hey DJ Jerry! Hello Mok, Brian & Patrick 👋

It's that time again....!

Haha! Excellent comment, Mok

Who is that movie star behind the shades?

lol

Time (temporarily at least) to take off the mask!

Afternoon, Jerry. Loved that opener!

😷 let's all have masks standing by

Hi Stephen! Another British release from Edition Records, they get a hit on every swing

I still have my masks, looking over my shoulder for the next variant.

Quiz: who is Gargamel?

I know that answer, for once.

I'm trying to remember his cat's name...

You're on the right track

Azael?

Yes! I had to look it up. Azrael 🐱

Well, you were the big winner, knowing who Gargamel was. I keep confusing him with Gilgamesh!

I love your use of icons, Christine!

Patrick, are you excited about the Sweet 16?

Let's go Peacocks.My 2nd favorite city.The Jersey city civic motto is Not Guilty!!

Theme song time! 🐦🎶🎵📻

I tried to put my face on Spinitron but they said it violated Spinitron Indecency Laws.

Haha, what a game that Peacock game was!

The Sopranos would have loved your joke!

I am getting in the car, but I will be listening. Taking time off this afternoon.

Have fun, Christine, thanks for joining!

Great show!!!

Thank you, Lenca! I appreciate that!

loved the interplay between piano and rhythm section on that last number

Nice, Brian! Bill O'Connell is a master pianist and great arranger

Bill O'Connell is wonderful Jerry.Headed to Manayunk. Manayunk comes from the Indian Word Place where we drink and have no WPRB reception.

...or parking spaces.

I hope you will be quaffing beers and watching basketball

Silence on air....

I'm getting silence on the FM 📻

Enjoying this Marcel Marceau CD.

Claude Rains on drums. Harpo Marx guest starring

We're back!

I like contests!!I won contest for.dumbest Irishman on Saint Patricks Day.

Thank you Brian, Christine, and Patrick. I appreciate the heads up and the comedy.

So glad you played more of this artist. I remember loving it last week

Good Morning / Afternoon from the California desert!!

Wow! This is smokin'!

Glad you like him!

Hi Kari, how are you? I can't wait to play a song from your forthcoming album!!!! So happy to hear from you, I know you have been super busy!

Doing really well, Jerry! Glad to be back home after finishing the vocals for new album in Miami. At least we were in the same time zone for a week!

Kari, you have really gotten star treatment on this record. I know it will be fantastic!

The Vision Festival this year is honoring Oliver Lake on Sunday, June 26 with performances by JD Parran, the World Saxophone Quartet, Lake in duet with Andrew Cyrille and Lake with Philadelphia's Sonic Liberation Front. https://www.artsforart.org/vision.html

Thank you, Russ, If you go to the show you definitely need to take your vitamins that day!

It sure is a dogs life haha.

Haha. This is the best album, I can't believe it's a tribute to a dog and has Elvis Costello on it!

This Costello collaboration is fantastic!

Stephen, it really is, I will play another Costello track in the next two weeks.

reminds me of the Dead's Bertha. They wrote the song about a fan in their office that would dance around on the high speed setting.

Yes...please do!

✌️

Morrison did sound slow ..good point

man how many times have I played this song, heard this song, etc. when I was a young lad

Dunno why this makes sense, but I'm fine with it. :t

Sounds less heavy, but that might be my mind tricking me

was it slowed down by mistake or on purpose?

drums sound like wind up monkey toy

Digital mix or remastering on this 🤮

Might be that I'm listening through NS-10m's

Imho of course

Sometimes they need to leave well enough alone

that middle 8 weeeee so much fun

@Selecta this is the speed corrected version

It's totally the drums and premium drugs. Just sayin'.

Hi Jerry This is too much. My brain has never heard this version, and it's really evident it's different ! Flashback freakout!!!!

Yeah it is not good

Ya speed is great corrected. But Sel Jerry i think is commenting on the strange choices for the mix. Tinny i thought

Yes bri no bass or analogue feel

Took the blood out of the song

And not enough loud/ quiet difference overall. Aka The Loudness Wars....

I like my doors slow and smokey

yes, me too

All up all the time... not enough peaks and valleys

Strawberry fields. lol

The Doors baby!!!

wow guitar sounds like fripp

the Doors are on the list for the Warner fire. MAster tapes might up in smoke

Robbie dueling with himself. Love that fat tone

with some incense. But I don't have the CD, this is a digital file from YouTube. We don't know the truth on that track unless we hear that version on a CD and A/B it.

When the musics over …..🎶🎶🎶

Hey Jerry. Yes, this fueld our lives!

some youtube ers "fix" the sound before uploading

*face palm* all those evil 'auto correction' tools

Ha, Kevin, Ha so right!

Bought that red and white tinted Greatest Hits on cassette in about 1981. One of the first tapes i owned. Wore it out.

🌎🌏🌍

Yes me too brian had lp and cassette

Yo dude!

Plus double cassette weird scenes inside the gold mine

Hey there Jerry, great show, always down for the doors

The dude! Hail up

Oh, yeah!

Opening track of your show too sucked me right in

Now? Now!

I had a friend that was a Doors fanatic. LOL

"We Want the World And We Want it NOWWWWW!!!

Big up to both Jerries!

The 2006-2007 reissue series i read that they added back in all sorts of tidbits they originally left out (background vocal tracks, guitar overdubs etc)

Roffle was running around South St. with his fists up in the air!

Yeah jerry he was yelling alive she cried!

OMG Jerry you saw that?

It's hard to keep track of the Doors. Those collections/anthologies often added something special or unique.

Weird Scenes had some cool stuff. More interesting track list

Yes, Roffle, more than once.

Tom is a master

Ack! My mom gonna be pissed!

This song is for Jerry, based on its content.

I will take that as a compliment i guess 😵‍💫

Still have not found out who is doing the fine flatpicking

Maybe Tom himself overdubbed it later.. I read David Grisman is listed on Morning Again playing mandocello cool

Yes, the Viet Cong and the Americans decided to have a pot party for world peace.

Ahh the other Tom! Great player

Pol Pot!

The electric gtr here must be the same player as on Tom Rush's other Joni cover "Urge For Going". Has those similar pull-offs in their style. Might even be same session

Same album, it's coming up next.

RS, if only!

LOL

That Tom Rush song about mom n dad... goodbye etc Child's Song. Maybe his best

"Tom's" as in his version. Written by someone else.

This is a Joni Mitchell composition here actually

Is it?

Yep

She did not release on lp orig. Maybe later on a comp

yow, thank you

Thanks for another fine Friday Jerry ✌️

Joni released her version of Urge for Going on the B side of the single of You Turn Me On (I'm a Radio).

This is nice

Thanks Jerry Tom Paxton has a great baseball song My Favorite Spring .John Weingart plays often

There ya go Russ! I knew it was not on a full lp

cheers Jerry

Steve Goodman and his baseball songs too!

Thanks, everybody. Have a good one, thanks for listening and info!

Jerrys room essential friday listening respect due jerry g 🎶🔥

Great show Jerry! Have a great weekend all!

Thank you SJ, love to see you hear! Appreciate you! Thanks Brian!

Roffle, Mok, Patrick!!!

Dude, Kevin, everybody