Favoriting The Funhouse with Harry Parmenter: Playlist from April 6, 2025 Favoriting

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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   
  1970S BOSTON BRUINS THEME MUSIC         Other  0:01:21 (Pop-up)
Nervous Eaters  Scream (When I Dream)   Favoriting Eat This  No Tomorrow Records  2002  CD  0:02:59 (Pop-up)
J. Geils Band  Dead Presidents   Favoriting Houseparty: Anthology  Rhino  1992  CD  0:05:07 (Pop-up)
The Joe Perry Project  I've Got The Rock 'n' Rolls Again   Favoriting I've Got The Rock 'n' Rolls Again  CBS Records  1981  LP  0:08:54 (Pop-up)
Whitford/St. Holmes  Sharpshooter   Favoriting Whitford/St. Holmes  Sony  1981  LP  0:12:04 (Pop-up)
DMZ  When I Get Off   Favoriting When I Get Off  Bomp Records  1993  CD  0:18:55 (Pop-up)
Human Sexual Response  Marone Offering   Favoriting In A Roman Mood  Supermegabot  2017  CD  0:22:42 (Pop-up)
Johnny Black Trio  Survive   Favoriting Basic Black  Route 9 Records  1999  CD  0:26:06 (Pop-up)
Aerosmith  Critical Mass   Favoriting Draw the Line  CBS  1977  LP  0:29:42 (Pop-up)
Real Kids  Senseless   Favoriting Outta Place  Star Rhythm  1982  LP  0:34:30 (Pop-up)
The Del Fuegos  Sound of Our Town   Favoriting The Best of the Del Fuegos  Amazon Music  2001  CD  0:39:13 (Pop-up)
Pixies  Oyster Beds   Favoriting The Night The Zombies Came  BMG  2024  MP3  0:42:21 (Pop-up)
The Breeders  S.O.S.   Favoriting Last Splash  4 AD / Elektra  1993  CD  0:44:45 (Pop-up)
The Cars  Free   Favoriting Move Like This  Hear Music  2011  CD  0:46:36 (Pop-up)
Boston  Rock & Roll Band   Favoriting Boston  Epic  1976  LP  0:49:15 (Pop-up)
Duke Robillard  I Wouldna Done That   Favoriting   Amazon Music      0:52:12 (Pop-up)
 


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Soulstealer007:

YO!
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Harry Parmenter:

YO! How goes it??The Who doing BATMAN! Classic
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Soulstealer007:

Awesome
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Mistress Jessie:

Evening, Harry!
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medson:

Hey Harry and all
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:00
Evening Mistress J! Sunday night is upon us.
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Fatherflot:

Hey Harry
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:00
hey medson welcome
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Soulstealer007:

Hi Jessie and Medson
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:00
Fatherflot! good to see you thx
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Mistress Jessie:

↳ Soulstealer007 @9:01
Hey, Soulstealer!
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Fatherflot:

Hi Jessie, Medson, Soulstealer
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medson:

↳ Soulstealer007 @9:01
Hey there.
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medson:

↳ Fatherflot @9:02
Hola.
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Mistress Jessie:

↳ Fatherflot @9:02
Evening Ff! Just clinging to what’s left before Monday. 😕😇
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JReganK:

Hey. Harry!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ JReganK @9:03
welcome JReganK! how you doing
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Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "1970S BOSTON BRUINS THEME MUSIC"
Ovechkin broke Gretzky's goal record today
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:04
saw headline yet to see video. saw he refused to get an empty net goal: classy.
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Harry Parmenter:

i mean how many great songs did willie dixon write
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JReganK:

↳ Song: "Dead Presidents" by "J. Geils Band"
Good one!
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Mistress Jessie:

↳ Fatherflot @9:04
Same number of games to break his record too! 😳😳
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:04
Da. Do you remember who had the record before Gretsky? Was it Gordie Howe? Bobby Orr? Rocket Richard?
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:06
really? wow. that's amazing.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:06
Howe
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Fatherflot:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:06
Wild
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Mistress Jessie:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:07
801 goals!
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:07
Did Gretsky's WHA goals count??
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:08
and how many games?
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:08
and Gordie played there too didn't he?
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:08
Yes. I think he was in n his 50s. Houston Areos, with his sons
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Sweet Corn Lizzie:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:04
Yeah that was pretty cool.
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Mistress Jessie:

↳ Fatherflot @9:08
They do not count for his NHL total.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Sweet Corn Lizzie @9:10
truly
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Mistress Jessie:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:08
1,767.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:12
christ almost every other game average!
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Mistress Jessie:

↳ Song: "Sharpshooter" by "Whitford/St. Holmes"
Derek St. Holmes? Played with Nugent I believe.
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JReganK:

↳ Song: "Sharpshooter" by "Whitford/St. Holmes"
Haven't heard this in a dog's age!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:13
yes the Blue eponymous album, saw em open for Aero Toys tour great night
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JReganK:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:13
His rhythm guitarist
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Fatherflot:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:11
But AAFL stats from the 40s are now part of NFL stats. The Cleveland Browns are now an NFL dynasty
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:15
The two greatest Browns were named...Brown. I think they need a new one.
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:16
It's been all Charlie Brown since Modell kicked Paul to the curb
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Mistress Jessie:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:16
Jim was an incredible lacrosse player too!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:18
I bet. Wonder if he did decathlon. Did THE DIRTY DOZEN instead
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:17
the Brownout continues
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Fatherflot:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:18
and B movie actor
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:20
who can forget 100 Rifles
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Mistress Jessie:

↳ Fatherflot @9:20
Slaughter’s Big Rip-Off!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:23
Now we're talkin!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:23
and that was a sequel?
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Fatherflot:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:23
Great JB soundtrack
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Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "When I Get Off" by "DMZ"
Pre-Lyres Monoman
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Mistress Jessie:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:23
Yes. Slaughter was the first.
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Mistress Jessie:

↳ Song: "Marone Offering" by "Human Sexual Response"
Nice choice Harry.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:24
I confess to having enjoyed either that I recollect. I must.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:24
you like this band? polarizing. great live i thought
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Soulstealer007:

That was great!
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Mistress Jessie:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:25
I have the In A Roman Mood release.
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Fatherflot:

Duh, the All Boss Town lineup just hit me. Nice picture. I was just walking around there a few weeks ago.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Soulstealer007 @9:26
yes!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:27
ah do tell
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Fatherflot:

Missed the Show title!
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David Shortell:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:25
Their peak of national fame may have been their appearance on "An Evening at the Improv".
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:27
Flew in for a Wedding at the Boston Harbor Hotel. Very classy event.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:26
good record. love side 2 especially. bodyguard and House of Atreus
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David Shortell:

↳ Fatherflot @9:24
I saw them reunite at Maxwell's not 20 years ago.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ David Shortell @9:28
missed it! KROQ hit with Sex guessing they did or Jackie O
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ David Shortell @9:29
i remember seeing that was happening. good show?
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:28
on the waterfront
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JReganK:

↳ Song: "Critical Mass" by "Aerosmith"
Nice trip back into the 70's
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Fatherflot:

↳ David Shortell @9:29
How was it?
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David Shortell:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:30
What I saw of it (I was late).
As soon as it ended, Jeff frantically tore the setlists from the stage. I suppose he needed to keep them for another DMZ reunion show.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ JReganK @9:33
a great decade
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ David Shortell @9:34
LOL
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JReganK:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:35
Good times!
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Harry Parmenter:

MONOMAN!
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medson:

Great sounds Harry.
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Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "Senseless" by "Real Kids"
So great that I'm playing it Friday (recorded the show last night).
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:37
hey thx med; knew you'd dig this un. Fatherflot on the same wavelength too! Most Excellent
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Mistress Jessie:

↳ Fatherflot @9:38
Extremely early earworm! 😇😇
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Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "Oyster Beds" by "Pixies"
Nice. Never heard this
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:43
reunion album i think
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:45
Great stuff
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Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "Free" by "The Cars"
Never heard this either
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Mistress Jessie:

↳ Song: "Free" by "The Cars"
Damn fine song!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:47
i recall buying the cd at starbucks before it disappeared. decent little album without Ben Orr, sadly
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JReganK:

↳ Song: "Rock & Roll Band" by "Boston"
Ha! This was inevitable!
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swivs:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:48
yes. I worked at starbucks at the time, used steal all the cds and claim I needed to listen in order to sell them. That cars record (despite being "new") actually brings back alotta weird memories...
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Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "Rock & Roll Band" by "Boston"
"Dancing in the streets of Hyannis" --- this is why we needed the Sex Pistols in '76
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ JReganK @9:50
naturally
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ swivs @9:50
there were some good ones they sold. HEAR MUSIC the label.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:51
no kidding!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:51
at the time it was kinda like AI; music made in a lab. there were no "Boston" club gigs it just came outta nowhere and ate FM radio
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JReganK:

↳ Song: "I Wouldna Done That" by "Duke Robillard"
Nice!
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Soulstealer007:

HAH HAH FF!!!
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David Shortell:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:29
I don't remember which song, but it was on this April 24 1981 broadcast:
thetvdb.com...
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swivs:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:52
not sure if you're familiar with the artist Clairo but she's a fave of mine and her pops was (is?) the head of Starbucks label Hear Music.
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:53
Believe me I understand. They were the quintessence of something. "More Than a Feeling" is pure magic and gives me goose pimples today just like it did when I was 13.
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swivs:

Maybe not so fun but a fact!
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Mistress Jessie:

Only thing missing tonight was Chevy Chase’s band, Chamaeleon Church! 🤩🤩
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ swivs @9:54
am not but will check her out. thx for tip
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medson:

Thanks for wrapping the weekend up Harry. Great show.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:54
ditto
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Mistress Jessie:

Too much fun for a Sunday night. Thanks so much Harry and enjoy the week!
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Soulstealer007:

Thanks Harry. Great show. and great chatter everyone. Goodnight BOSTON!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:55
thx medson man and thx everyone for listening and hanging on the board. appreciated.
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JReganK:

Thanks, Harry!
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Harry Parmenter:

thx much everyone. good week to you all.
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David Shortell:

↳ Fatherflot @9:51
I recently suffered through some early music-intensive Saturday Night Live broadcasts and cried out "Somebody invent punk rock for God's sake!"
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Fatherflot:

Somebody posted film from an Indians-Sawx game at Fenway from October '74. Fenway is 75% empty, but you get to see Oscar Gamble trying to keep his helmet on his massive afro: youtu.be...
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:58
oh man loved Oscar especially when he was in the Bronx hitting that porch with that swing and Fro!!
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Fatherflot:

Thanks Harry! This was fun as usual.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:58
thx jeff, good week in the class room to ya
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Fatherflot:

If you want to cut directly to Oscar, here's the link: www.youtube.com...
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Fatherflot:

I believe this was Frank Robinson's first game as Player-Manger --- last game of the '74 season
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Harry Parmenter:

truly astounding hair. wonder what Frank thought of Oscar's 'do. more the Marine kinda guy;) GREAT old film btw thx man will peruse
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