Favoriting The Funhouse with Harry Parmenter: Playlist from June 16, 2024 Favoriting

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A weekly hour of unpredictable rockin' fun featuring unheard music with occasional history, commentary and anecdotes from host Harry Parmenter. THE FUNHOUSE offers the listener a brief respite from the onslaught of daily existence.

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Favoriting June 16, 2024: IT'S A GOOD DAY FOR THE RIVER OF JUSTICE

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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 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Kate Flannery  It's a Good Day   Favoriting   iTunes  2020  Single  0:01:03 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Del-Lords  River of Justice   Favoriting Based On A True Story  Enigma Records  1988  CD  0:03:52 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bruce Springsteen  Trouble River   Favoriting 18 Tracks  Columbia  1999  CD  0:08:49 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Black Angels  River of Blood   Favoriting Phosphene Dream  Blue Horizon Ventures  2010  CD  0:13:15 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Underworld  River of Bass   Favoriting Dirty Epic/Cowgirl  Wax Trax! Records  1994  CD  0:17:10 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Imelda May & Jeff Beck  Cry Me A River   Favoriting Rock 'n' Roll Party: Honoring Les Paul  AtcoAtlantic/Rhino  2011  CD  0:23:38 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Marilyn Monroe  River of No Return   Favoriting One-Hit Wonders  BMG Entertainment  1996  CD  0:26:11 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ian Hunter  River of Tears   Favoriting Man Overboard  New West Records  2009  CD  0:28:25 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Al Green  Take Me To The RIver   Favoriting Take Me To The River  Capitol  2000  CD  0:33:38 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Steve Gibbons Band  Watching the River Flow   Favoriting Live at The Robin '98  Reckless Ltd.  1998  CD  0:37:24 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Herbie Hancock (featuring Corinne Bailey Rae)  River   Favoriting River: The Joni Letters  Verve  2007  CD  0:42:47 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Arcs  The River   Favoriting Electrophonic Chronic  Easy Eye Sound  2023    0:48:09 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Cheers  Green River   Favoriting   Amazon Music      0:51:39 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
The Stranglers  Mean to Me   Favoriting Coming Your Way  United Artists  1978  45  0:56:39 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  9:00pm
rychurd:

hola sir Harry!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ rychurd @9:00
hola sir Rychurd! thx for the handoff.
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Harry Parmenter:

things ok in San Diego?
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medson:

Hola Harry and all.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:02
hey medson how you doing
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Jessie:

Evening Harry! Good game at Fenway right now.
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medson:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:02
Doing good. Was just out riding bikes and watched a perfect sunset. Hope all is well for you as well.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:03
yes indeed good to have you here Jessie
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:04
sounds like a righteous day
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Fatherflot:

Happy papa day, Harry. Enjoying you mix as we finish dinner on the back deck
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:10
hey Fatherflot. sounds like a good evening.
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Harry Parmenter:

anyone else getting cut-outs?
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Jessie:

Sound is cutting in and out.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:11
ok yeah just making sure.
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Fatherflot:

Cutting here. But seems okay now
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Jessie:

Just picked up Nick Corasaniti’s book about the Stone Pony. Should be a great read.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:14
cool. i finished that great Dr. John book: wild. then I went and bought a packet of his first five records. wacky. BABYLON is what i must kindly call "stoned garbage." but the hoodoo works on his debut Gris Gris.
  9:16pm
CC:

↳ Song: "Trouble River" by "Bruce Springsteen"
I like it...hi Harry and all you funhouse people...:)
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ CC @9:16
hey CC welcome
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Fatherflot:

Hey CC, Jessie,Medson, Rych
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:15
Gris Gris is a one of a kind masterpiece.
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Jessie:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:15
Ahmet Ertegun said to Dr. John after hearing Gris Gris, “How can we market this boogaloo crap.”
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:19
yeah unlike anything else i have ever heard.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:21
no kidding! well i bet he wasn't too fond of BABYLON either. But GG is great.
  9:23pm
CC:

Sounds groovy to me...:)
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Fatherflot:

↳ Jessie @9:21
Christgau called it "voodoo jive"
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:19
btw Ff loved how you wrapped other night with Leon's walking stick tied back to the photo and caption. cool
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Jessie:

↳ Fatherflot @9:18
Evening Ff!
  9:26pm
Dirty River:

Hey Harry. Good to be back in your urine filled river!
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:24
Glad you liked that. He was another one who divided critics. Some saw his schtick as condescending jive, but I like it in life muted doses
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Fatherflot:

↳ Fatherflot @9:27
*limited doses*
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:27
agree
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:28
I think he honored the music he covered
  9:29pm
Dirty River:

Ah some Ian I don't know. Thanks Harry.
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Fatherflot:

That MM song was not bad!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:30
very pretty song.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Dirty River @9:29
yeah good song.
  9:31pm
CC:

↳ Song: "River of Tears" by "Ian Hunter"
If you were born in 1939 I suppose you might have a lot to think about???...:)
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Harry Parmenter:

he's so terrific. great body of work.
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Jessie:

Great choices tonight Harry.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ CC @9:31
you're right
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:32
Thank you Jessie. Had an entire Bon Scott show but decided to be a bit more versatile on F Day.
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Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "Take Me To The RIver" by "Al Green"
I am the world's #1 Al Green fan. I will bore anyone who lets me with entire dissertations on his greatness.
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Will thee SG OCNY:

Hi Harry and all!!!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:36
Really! I don't know enough of his work.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Will thee SG OCNY @9:36
hey Will how you doing
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Will thee SG OCNY:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:37
I'm ok, hope you are doing well
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:36
what's his best album
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:37
or your faves
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:36
He's a great album artist, even though known for a few singles. He had about 6 straight A plus albums in the early 70s on Hi
  9:39pm
Dirty River:

Del-Lords twofer with Poem of the River?
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:38
need to dig in there
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Dirty River @9:39
ah jeez never crossed my mind. river of justice heavily on my mind at this time.
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:37
Call Me, I'm Still in love with You, Al Green Explores Your Mind, The Belle Album, Al Green Gets Next to You
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:39
I'll Email you
  9:40pm
CC:

Nice cover...:)
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:40
great thx man
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ CC @9:40
yeah this guy never hit it here but quite good
  9:47pm
CC:

Out of the people are a bunch of monkeys scenario... mothers are a lot more stable than fathers???...:)
  9:51pm
CC:

So I suppose it's a good thing men can't have babies???...)
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ CC @9:51
yea i think we have enough problems
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Fatherflot:

↳ CC @9:51
And yet they are responsible for all of the ones we have
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:52
The Royal Tennenbaums is a good film on the muddles and mysteries of paternity
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Will thee SG OCNY:

Thank you Harry, be well everyone!!!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Will thee SG OCNY @9:54
thx Will. you too.
  9:55pm
CC:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:52
Tell me Harry...what.s the worst problem in the world right now???...great show btw...:)
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Jessie:

Thank you Harry. Wonderful show tonight.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ CC @9:55
i'd have to say my ex-wife. and thx! good week to you CC.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:55
thx Mistress. see you next week
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Fatherflot:

Thanks Harry
  9:57pm
CC:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:55
Hahaha...:)
  5:07am
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and you rounded the show off perfectly. Just might actually be coming your way next spring.

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