Favoriting The Funhouse with Harry Parmenter: Playlist from May 7, 2023 Favoriting

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Favoriting May 7, 2023: SUNDOWN FOR MR. LIGHTFOOT

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Approx. start time
The Stranglers  The Waltzinblack (Intro)   Favoriting The Gospel According To The Meninblack  EMI  1981  CD   
Gordon Lightfoot  Too Many Clues in This Room   Favoriting Summertime Dream  Warner Bros.  1976  LP  0:00:55 (Pop-up)
 
Elvis Presley  Early Mornin' Rain   Favoriting A Canadian Tribute  RCA  2000  CD  0:09:13 (Pop-up)
Mac Wiseman  Summertime Dream   Favoriting Mac Wiseman Sings Gordon Lightfoot  CMH Records  1979  LP  0:09:15 (Pop-up)
J.D. Crowe & The New South  You Are What I Am   Favoriting   Rounder  1975  LP  0:11:20 (Pop-up)
Cowboy Junkies  The Way I Feel   Favoriting Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot  Northern Blues Music  2003  CD  0:13:40 (Pop-up)
Quartette  Song for Winter's Night   Favoriting Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot  Northern Blues Music  2003  CD  0:17:48 (Pop-up)
Belinda Carlisle  If You Could Read My Mind   Favoriting Runaway Horses  Demon Records  2019  CD  0:21:52 (Pop-up)
Steve Forbert  Early Morning Rain   Favoriting Early Morning Rain  Blue Rose  2020  CD  0:26:14 (Pop-up)
 
Gordon Lightfoot  My Pony Won't Go   Favoriting Old Dan's Records  Wounded Bird  1972  LP  0:31:03 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot  Sundown   Favoriting Sundown  Reprise  1987  CD  0:34:31 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot  If You Could Read My Mind   Favoriting The Complete Greatest Hits  Rhino  2002  CD  0:38:02 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot  Carefree Highway   Favoriting The Complete Greatest Hits  Rhino  2002  CD  0:41:46 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot  Steel Rail Blues   Favoriting Lightfoot!  Capitol/UMC  1966  LP  0:45:22 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot  Ribbon of Darkness   Favoriting Classic Masters  Collectables  2003  CD  0:48:09 (Pop-up)
 
Gordon Lightfoot  The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald   Favoriting Summertime Dream  Warner Bros.  1976  LP  0:51:47 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar ♥ 8:00pm
HyperDose:

Hey Harry dude! 😎
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 8:22pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ HyperDose @8:00
hey you're early!
Avatar ♥ 8:25pm
HyperDose:

↳ Harry Parmenter @8:22
Was so excited I came early. I swear this never happens...
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 8:26pm
Harry Parmenter:

haha. here i am thinking the chat will be total crickets tonight because an hour of GL will obviously be mellow not yellow and you're here an hour early! of course you may be only one of a select few...
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medson:

Hey Harry and all
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Aitch:

Hello fun-lovers
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:02pm
Harry Parmenter:

evening to you both.
  9:03pm
Sumner Redstone:

I like a little Gordon to get my ladies in the mood!
  9:03pm
Prowler:

Raising a glass to Gordon Lightfoot. A true icon. RIP
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:03pm
Woo:

↳ Harry Parmenter @8:26
Gordo is OK with me
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Sumner Redstone @9:03
good God
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Prowler @9:03
indeed Prowler and you 2 Woo
  9:04pm
Sumner Redstone:

Gordon and a steak through my feeding tube and I'm set!
  9:04pm
Prowler:

Hey Sumner, I guess that's because Errol Flynn records are hard to find!
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:04pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Sumner Redstone @9:04
now that is funny
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:05pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Sumner Redstone @9:04
is his head in the deep freeze next to Ted Williams'?
  9:06pm
Sumner Redstone:

↳ Prowler @9:04
yeah and I need a break from Dean Martin every. now and then
  9:06pm
Prowler:

Copy that Sumner.
Don't we all.
  9:07pm
Sumner Redstone:

Did AC/DC cover any Gordon?
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:08pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Sumner Redstone @9:07
back to your room, Sumner.
  9:09pm
Prowler:

↳ Sumner Redstone @9:07
'For Those About To Folk We Salute You' comes to mind.
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:10pm
Harry Parmenter:

Or "If You Could REALLY Read My Mind."
  9:10pm
Sumner Redstone:

Hey they only let me out into the sunlight for 20 minutes a day, don't put me back in there. Shari! Shari! Help me!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:10pm
PaulRobeson1923:

Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:11pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ PaulRobeson1923 @9:10
Hi xxxxx to you to Mr Robeson
  9:11pm
Prowler:

↳ Sumner Redstone @9:10
She can't hear you she's watching outtakes of 'Yellowstone'.
  9:11pm
Sumner Redstone:

That taylor sheridan's horses are shitting all over my bottom line!
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:11pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Prowler @9:11
Did you see that great WSJ piece about the showrunner of that thing?
  9:13pm
Sumner Redstone:

That WSJ piece was written by hack!
  9:13pm
Sumner Redstone:

If I had my old comms lickspittle Carl Folta that piece would never have run!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:13pm
PaulRobeson1923:

Early Morning Rain performed by Peter, Paul and Mary is one of the greatest songs ever recorded
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:14pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ PaulRobeson1923 @9:13
i should have used that! i do love that Elvis version. what a song.
  9:14pm
Prowler:

Cowboy Junkies, another Canadian act.
  9:15pm
Sumner Redstone:

This is cool. That Cowboy Junkie singer liked me but that damn midget Paul Simon was getting in the way of my game.
  9:16pm
Prowler:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:14
The Elvis version was great. Will check out the PM&M take as well.
  9:19pm
Sumner Redstone:

What's interesting about Gordon and a lot of artists is all these beautiful soulful folky songs and then all this drama and trauma in his personal life and love life
  9:20pm
Prowler:

Quartette- Also a Canadian group featuring Sylvia Tyson who is herself, wit husband Ian, a Canadian folk legend.
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:20pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Prowler @9:20
very nice stuff
  9:21pm
Prowler:

I think Ian Tyson and Gordon were friends. They certainly traveled in the same circles at the same time.
  9:22pm
Prowler:

Belinda- A great choice Harry. Thanks.
  9:23pm
Prowler:

↳ Sumner Redstone @9:19
Art doesn't come cheap.
  9:24pm
fredr:

Wow! Really loving the Gordon tributes tonight. Thank You Harry
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:24pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Prowler @9:22
The muses are heard!
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HyperDose:

DJ got me falling in love 😭
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Prowler @9:22
someone mentioned to me...
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:24pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ fredr @9:24
glad you are enjoying. thx for listening.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:26pm
medson:

Never heard any of these versions of his work.
  9:27pm
Sumner Redstone:

↳ Prowler @9:23
Tell me about it. My fish collection alone could feed a small country for years!
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:27pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:26
yeah there's a ton.
  9:28pm
Prowler:

↳ medson @9:26
There are so many versions by a surprising number of artists. Gordon quickly went from troubador to millionaire.
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:33pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Prowler @9:28
well deserved
  9:34pm
Prowler:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:33
True that.
  9:35pm
Sumner Redstone:

this and carefree highway are my faves. yes I"m a cliche.
  9:35pm
Prowler:

Sundown-'A sailor's dream'. Classic Gordon.
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:36pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Sumner Redstone @9:35
hey they're HITS for a reason.
  9:38pm
Sumner Redstone:

When I was hanging from that hotel ledge this song was going through my mind
Avatar 9:40pm
Max D:

Hi Harry and all! I'm really enjoying the show. Sweet tribute!
  9:40pm
Prowler:

'If You Could Read... recorded 53 years ago.
probably bought him his first house.
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:40pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Max D @9:40
hey max thank you! glad you like it.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Prowler @9:40
at, what, 29?
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:41pm
medson:

Such a great voice
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:41pm
Harry Parmenter:

yeah. stayed on the road right till the end.
  9:42pm
Sumner Redstone:

He was playing just recently!
  9:44pm
Prowler:

Carefree, also from Sundown. One of the big records of 1974
  9:46pm
Sumner Redstone:

Harry once again you've out done yourself. If content is indeed king, you are the emperor!
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:47pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Sumner Redstone @9:46
ha sumner, mr cradle to the cane!
  9:48pm
Prowler:

↳ Sumner Redstone @9:46
Sumner's right Harry. And on Coronation weekend, that's a hell of a compliment. Well deserved.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:48pm
Tom P:

Thanks Harry for this great show celebrating Gordon Lightfoot, an underappreciated and very talented artist
  9:48pm
roach coach:

@ sumner redstone: I assume he has no gigs lined up where you are.
Hi Harry
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:49pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Tom P @9:48
thank you Tom! appreciate it. he was great.
  9:49pm
Sumner Redstone:

↳ roach coach @9:48
If he gets down here I will be first on line
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:49pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ roach coach @9:48
ignore him, rc. how you doing
  9:49pm
Androu B.:

Hi, harry! Came in listening while Belinda Carlisle was playing. These songs bring back memories of AM Top 40 & Adult Contemporary radio, in a time when you couldn't switch from station to station without hitting a Gordon Lightfoot tune every once in a while.
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:50pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Androu B. @9:49
good point Androu. with Casey Kasem and the weekly top 40!
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:50pm
Harry Parmenter:

Ribbon of Darkness, that's some songwriting there.
  9:51pm
Prowler:

Ribbon of Darkness-You just don't get whistling peaking in the monitors like that anymore.Still it's one of my favorites.
  9:51pm
Sumner Redstone:

Ignore me? Evans? Evans where are you? I need some muscle.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:51pm
medson:

Lake Superior Never gives up her dead
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Sumner Redstone @9:51
Hilarious squared!
  9:51pm
Prowler:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:50
Thanks Harry.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:51
indeed. what a line
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Sumner Redstone @9:51
you were butter tonight sumner...on a ROLL
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Prowler @9:51
thank YOU Prowler. glad you enjoyed.
  9:52pm
roach coach:

Doing good HP. Staying up past my bedtime to enjoy this Gordo tribute.
This one’s a classic. Well done!
  9:52pm
Prowler:

Harry, this has been a wonderful tribute to Gordon.One of your best.
It brings me back. Thank you.
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:53pm
Harry Parmenter:

Thanks everyone. medson and RAMA LAMA DING DONG up next to take you home.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ roach coach @9:52
thank you man. catch up soon.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Prowler @9:52
yeah took me back making it. he was a fine music maker to say the least.
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medson:

The fellas it’s too rough to feed ya line is chilling as well.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:54
it's been good to know ya
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Harry Parmenter:

and that must be steel guitar taking it up a notch
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:57pm
Harry Parmenter:

Thanks again everyone for joining the chat and listening.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:57pm
medson:

Great show Harry. Ya did Gordon proud.
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:58pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:57
thx man...now over to YOU!
  9:58pm
Prowler:

↳ medson @9:57
What Medson said
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:00pm
Will thee Sound Guy:

Thank you Harry!!!
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