Favoriting The Funhouse with Harry Parmenter: Playlist from December 10, 2023 Favoriting

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Favoriting December 10, 2023: A CELEBRATION OF THE MUSIC OF SCOTT "TOP TEN" KEMPNER"

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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  LP  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
 
The Del-Lords  The Cool and the Crazy   Favoriting Based on a True Story  Enigma Records  1988  CD  0:01:30 (Pop-up)
The Del-Lords  Get Tough   Favoriting Get Tough: The Best of the Del-Lords  Restless Records  1999  CD  0:06:12 (Pop-up)
The Del-Lords  Love Lies Dying   Favoriting Johnny Comes Marching Home  EMI America Records  1986  LP  0:10:32 (Pop-up)
The Del-Lords  Chicks, Man   Favoriting Elvis Club  Gb/MRI  2013  CD  0:16:08 (Pop-up)
The Del-Lords  Judas Kiss   Favoriting Based on a True Story  Enigma Records  1983  CD  0:19:51 (Pop-up)
The Del-Lords  Cheyenne   Favoriting Based on a True Story  Enigma Records  1983  CD  0:24:12 (Pop-up)
Scott Kempner  Saving Grace   Favoriting Saving Grace  2:59  2008  CD  0:27:53 (Pop-up)
Scott Kempner  I'll Give You Needles   Favoriting Saving Grace  2:59  2008  CD  0:33:04 (Pop-up)
The Del-Lords  Touch One Heart   Favoriting Lovers Who Wander  Enigma Records  1990  Cassette  0:36:38 (Pop-up)
Scott Kempner  I.C.U.   Favoriting Tenement Angels  Razor & Tie  1992  CD  0:40:55 (Pop-up)
The Dictators  Channel Surfing   Favoriting D.F.F.D.  Dictators, Inc.  2001  CD  0:45:17 (Pop-up)
The Dictators  Slow Death   Favoriting Bloodbrothers D.F.F.D.  Asylum Records  1978  LP  0:47:53 (Pop-up)
 
The Del-Lords  Poem of the River   Favoriting Based on a True Story  Enigma Records  1983  CD  0:52:46 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Tom P:

Hey Harry! Hey All!
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Aitch:

Fun times are here again
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medson:

Hey Harry and all
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Harry Parmenter:

Hey Tom! how you doing. And Aitch, medson! Welcome. Thx for joining tonight
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:04pm
Aitch:

or something wicked this way comes perhaps
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Aitch @9:04
i think you'll dig it
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:07pm
Fatherflot:

Hey Harry
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:07pm
Fatherflot:

Hey Med
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doctorjazz:

Hi all!
Avatar 9:08pm
Harry Parmenter:

Fatherflot! doctorjazz! welcome. hope all well in your worlds
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:09pm
medson:

↳ Fatherflot @9:07
Hey there
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:07
how was HS week 2 ?
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Soulstealer007:

Hello Funhouse fans !
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Soulstealer007 @9:13
Soulstealer in the house!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:16pm
Aitch:

↳ Song: "Love Lies Dying" by "The Del-Lords"
sounding like a lost Hoodoo Gurus track from a different room, had to check
Avatar 9:17pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Aitch @9:16
ah, know what you mean. all scott K tonight.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:19pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:11
HS?
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:19
High School. You just started as Teacher, right?
Avatar 9:22pm
DFFD617:

Top Ten was the secret sauce of the Dictators and one of the greatest of roots rockers in the Del Lords. Rest in peace.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:22pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:20
Oh, I started back in August, so I'm 16 weeks down already. It's a shit-ton of work, that's for sure. But I've already been observed a bunch of times and it's all good as far as my overseers are concerned. As with all teachers, some kids love me, some hate me, most are fairly indifferent.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ DFFD617 @9:22
Indeed and well said. DFFD
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Soulstealer007:

Chicks, Man
Brilliant
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:22
means you're doing a good job.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:23pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Fatherflot @9:22
My daughter's a High School Bio teacher, it is indeed a shitload of work, unbelievable!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Soulstealer007 @9:22
righteous
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:23pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings Harry and all
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:22
Ha, yeah the old punk rock philosophy --- if some in the audience don't hate you, you're not trying hard enough
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ coelacanth∅ @9:23
hey! welcome.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:28pm
Fatherflot:

Harry, I remember this band's name from reading music magazines in the 80s, but I never had any of their records and I don't remember hearing them on the radio. This is a good retro intro
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:28pm
medson:

Nice tribute Harry
Avatar 9:29pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:28
Del-Lords really good.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:29pm
Tom P:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:04
Not familiar with this band. But they were good. Scott was young for that to happen - RIP
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Sweet Corn Lizzie:

↳ Fatherflot @9:28
Same for me. I've already starred a couple of songs.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:28
alright thx medson the midnight cowboy! stay tuned for the finale of medson's great RAMA LAMA DING DONG in just 30 minutes.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Tom P @9:29
yeah. same young fate as malcolm young another great rhythm guitarist
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Sweet Corn Lizzie @9:29
glad you are enjoying SCL
  9:31pm
Prowler:

A Del-Lords mega playlist! Nice.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Prowler @9:31
Prowler! How you doing?
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doctorjazz:

Same, I knew the name, but hadn't heard the band's music. Nice!
  9:32pm
Prowler:

Doing well harry! Thx for asking.
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Sweet Corn Lizzie:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:30
First time listening to your show but I'll be back.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ doctorjazz @9:32
really good albums and a hard to find rockin live on Halloween gig including fine cover of Groovies' Jumpin in the Night
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:34pm
Fatherflot:

Better than the Del-Leppards
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:34
Del-finitely
  9:36pm
Prowler:

Bits of Willie Nile and Lou Reed. Classic troubadour rock!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Prowler @9:36
Willie Nile--there's a name haven't heard in a while. Should dig up some trax
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medson:

Diggin the tunes Harry
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:45
alright yeah. Scott was truly an all-in rock n roll animal
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Fatherflot:

↳ medson @9:45
Ditto. Nobody else is playing this stuff on the R&SS
  9:49pm
Prowler:

Did anyone here ever go to Dick Manitoba's bar in the East Village in New York? It was a blast!
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Soulstealer007:

Harry,
This is one Kick Ass show!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:46
Thx for the kind words, F2. Flot's Spot Friday nights after medson's Musical Dose. wfmu.org...
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Prowler @9:49
oh yeah. great juke and HDM was the barkeep.
  9:50pm
Prowler:

↳ Soulstealer007 @9:50
Absolutely. Let's hear it for more reverb!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Soulstealer007 @9:50
glad you're enjoying man
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Fatherflot:

↳ Prowler @9:49
Many Times. Miss those days. That neighborhood was so fun when it was not longer a war zone but not yet a gentrified urban mall. I used to hit that and then the Lakeside Lounge. Great Jones Cafe. Milano's Bar. Holiday Cocktail Lounge.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:52
Alphabet City
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Fatherflot:

Brownies. . .
  9:55pm
Prowler:

↳ Fatherflot @9:52
Milano's. 'It's Frank's world. We just live in it' I had a place on E7th.That was a neighborhood you never had to leave.. Miss it.
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:53
Yeah. I'm old enough to remember it in the 80s when it was really, really dangerous
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:55
me too. and it was. and the early 70s...French Connection showed it
  9:56pm
Prowler:

↳ Fatherflot @9:55
Fatherflot.You should have seen it in the 70s. Brutal but fun.
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Fatherflot:

↳ Prowler @9:55
Sunken Ling and I were in a band that played at Milano's around '88 or so. Picture of it are still up. We crammed a drum set and two combo amps in that shoebox.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:57pm
medson:

Thanks Harry, great show and tribute
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Harry Parmenter:

Thanks for listening everyone and thank you to the great Scott Kempner, TOP TEN, for all the great music he brought us. Rest in peace and DFFD.
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:55
Are your from NY originally?
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:57
yes. you?
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:58
Yeah, was born in Queens, but grew up in Hackensack. Spent a lot of time in Queens -- grandparents were there.
  9:59pm
Prowler:

↳ Fatherflot @9:56
Just for laffs and sunken memories, an old friend and I closed our evening down just before Covid.
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Harry Parmenter:

Born on the Island then spent time in the city. Can remember being about 13 in Port Authority and just thinking WATCH OUT!
  10:00pm
Prowler:

↳ Prowler @9:59
at Milano's
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:00pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Prowler @9:59
Milano's is my all time favorite bar
  10:00pm
Prowler:

Thanks Harry. Great show! Great music!
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Harry Parmenter:

Stay tuned for medson and the big finish at RAMA LAMA DING DONG. Thanks everyone. Thanks Prowler
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:59
We always drove past the South Bronx on Sunday nights heading back to Bergen country from grandma's house. It was on fire some of the time and generally very, very, very scary to a kid
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @10:01
same kinds of experiences. and now you're in Iowa!
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @10:01
Scary in its own unassuming way. . . .
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @10:02
haha..would actually like to visit sometime. haven't been.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:20pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Harry!
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