Favoriting The Funhouse with Harry Parmenter: Playlist from June 29, 2025 Favoriting

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format New Approx. start time
The Stranglers  The Waltzinblack (Intro)   Favoriting The Gospel According To The Meninblack  EMI  1981  LP    0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Beach Boys  I Get Around   Favoriting Endless Summer  Capitol  1974  LP    0:01:07 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Rick Derringer  Teenage Love Affair   Favoriting All American Boy  CBS Records  1973  LP    0:03:03 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bad Company  Young Blood   Favoriting Run with the Pack  Swan Song  1976  LP    0:06:35 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers  Who's Foolin' Who   Favoriting Can't Outrun a Memory  Omnivore  2025  CD  *   0:09:04 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers  Just Drive   Favoriting Can't Outrun a Memory  Omnivore  2025  CD  *   0:14:32 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Linda Ronstadt  Roll Um Easy   Favoriting Prisoner in Disguise  Asylum  1975  LP    0:16:53 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Seal & Mikey Dread  Lips Like Sugar   Favoriting 50 First Dates (OST)  Maverick  2004  CD    0:19:56 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Jeff Beck  Peter Gunn   Favoriting Rock 'n' Roll Party: Honoring Les Paul  Atco/Atlantic/Rhino  2011  CD    0:24:41 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Rolling Stones  Brown Sugar   Favoriting From the Vault: L.A. Forum 1975  Promotone  2014  CD    0:29:27 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Stranglers  Norfolk Coast   Favoriting Norfolk Coast  EMI  2004  CD    0:33:23 (MP3 | Pop-up)
My Bloody Valentine  Come in Alone   Favoriting Loveless  Creation  1991  CD    0:37:16 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Hold Steady  Riptown   Favoriting Open Door Policy  Positive Jams  2021  CD    0:40:53 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Daddy Longlegs  Pink Lemonade   Favoriting Lowdown Ways  Yep Roc Records  2019  CD    0:44:10 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Texas Shakedown  Hobo Blues   Favoriting   Cutting Grooves  2013  45    0:46:50 (MP3 | Pop-up)
John Lee Hooker  Tupelo   Favoriting The Cream  Fuel 2000  2001  CD    0:49:02 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Elvis Presley  Baby, Let's Play House   Favoriting The Sun Sessions  BMG Music  1987  CD    0:56:18 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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medson:

Hey Harry. Welcome back.
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Harry Parmenter:

hey medson how you doing and thanks.
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Fatherflot:

Evening Harry
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Tom in Brooklyn:

Hey Harry! Medson!
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medson:

Doing A-Ok. You?
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @8:58
Evening Fatherflot how you doing
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Tom in Brooklyn:

↳ Fatherflot @8:58
FF!
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medson:

↳ Tom in Brooklyn @8:58
Hey there
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Tom in Brooklyn @8:58
Hi Tom. Thanks all for joining. Bronchitis been kicking my ass all week in the 90 degree CA heat!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:00pm
Mistress Jessie:

Hey, Harry! Nice to have you back.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:00
Hi Mistress! Thanks. Had to recharge...
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:01pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

Hi Harry and all!!!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Will thee SG OCNY @9:01
hey Will! thx for checking in
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @8:59
At least there plenty of ICE in LA.







Too soon?
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:02
HAHA. The heat is on. Brian Wilson checked out at the right time
  9:03pm
Bluesman:

Feel better Harry!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:04pm
Aitch:

Yow!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Bluesman @9:03
Bluesman! Thanks. Yeah it must be age; the antib's taking longer than ever to work
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Aitch @9:04
We are having fun!
  9:04pm
CC:

Ricky!!!...:)
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ CC @9:04
Indeed. Interviewed him once. Told me a funny story about getting in an elevator with the four Pink Floyds who, even though they knew who he was, completely shunned him.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:06pm
Fatherflot:

I think Gehrig was born in Harlem. Marx brothers lower East side I think
  9:07pm
CC:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:05
Some people feel obligated to be stuck up..:)
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:06
Right on with the brothers. Changed the world. Lou did not know that
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:07pm
Tom in Brooklyn:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:05
With Barrett or Gilmour?
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ CC @9:07
I don't think they encored Hang on Sloopy together
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Tom in Brooklyn @9:07
DG
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:07
Of course Gummo was the funny one
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:08
I think Zeppo too, whose wife left him for Sinatra
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Soulstealer007:

HELLOOOOOOOOO
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Soulstealer007 @9:08
hey SOULSTEALER
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:09pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Tom in Brooklyn @9:07
Do you have to ask?

Syd would have set the controls for the heart of the shun.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:09pm
Tom in Brooklyn:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:08
I figured. I get the impression Syd was sociable until things fell apart for him. tho' definitely crazy.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:09
good one
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:10pm
Mistress Jessie:

Harp was mute in the films because he and Chico’s voices sounded similar. At least that is how I read it.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:10pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Tom in Brooklyn @9:09
Yeah. His entire personality was destroyed by whatever he took
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:10
Harpo--Adolph--was very shy
  9:11pm
CC:

↳ Song: "Who's Foolin' Who" by "Joe Grushecky and the Hous...
Dig this one!!!...:)
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Harry Parmenter:

Nine nights ago I was in dead steel mill town Johnstown PA and this guy Joe G and band played one of the greatest gigs I have ever seen and heard at a free concert with 300 people in the rain under some crappy shed by the river. Unbelievably great.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:12pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:11
Chico was one of my degenerate gamblers and womanizers in Hollywood history. He got his name from all the chicks he was always trying to bag
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:12pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Fatherflot @9:12
"one of the biggest"
Avatar ♥ 9:13pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:12
yeah he blew all his dough gambling too. groucho resented him bigtime. i am a huge fan read every book except the one chico's daughter wrote about him. HARPO SPEAKS is a terific autobiography
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:13pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:11
What the hell were you doing there?
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:13
I read it as a kid
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:13
visiting HS friends near Pittsburgh hadn't seen in 45 years. it was completely unexpected.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:13
yeah him and Woolcott and the Roundtable great stuff
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:14
I know joe a little bit as well
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Mistress Jessie:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:11
Was it Joe Grushecky you saw?
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:15pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:13
If Groucho were alive he's have a Bernie Bro podcast. He was very into politics and a big lefty
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:14
yes. we had a great talk beforehand. his buddy Bruce couldn't get him over the top. he never had a champion in the industry early on and it's so hard as you know
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:15
been to his grave in Chatsworth. puny. Erin Fleming blew all the dough. there should be a fucking statue.
Avatar ♥ 9:17pm
Harry Parmenter:

cemetery guy says "Go see Lenny Bruce" he's right up the hill. His tombstone says: "Peace at Last."
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:17pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:14
Speaking of that era, I just read Thurber and White's "Is Sex Necessary?". (1929). F'ing hilarious
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:17
ah! don't know it. James and EB together?! sounds good.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:20pm
Mistress Jessie:

↳ Fatherflot @9:17
Just started reading Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life by James Curtis.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:21pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Fatherflot @9:17
HL Mencken style social satire of sacred cows of American Booboise
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:18
Yes, just before they hooked on at the New Yorker
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:22pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:20
Good?
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Harry Parmenter:

“If this book isn’t a minor classic--and one uses the term ‘minor’ only because it is so gorgeously funny and not ponderous enough to be a major--well, one doesn’t know what book is. Let’s compromise and just call it a classic.” — Will Cuppy, New York Herald Tribune
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:22
That's It
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:22
I will need to get this. Merci beaucoup
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:23pm
Mistress Jessie:

↳ Fatherflot @9:22
Yes! Fatty Arbuckle produced a lot of his early films. Keaton wrote most of them.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:24pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:22
Just funny to hear what hipsters were mocking when our grandparents were teenagers
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:23
The General! Watched Lloyd's SAFETY LAST recently. Another genius
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:25pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:23
Silent era fascinates me
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:26pm
Mistress Jessie:

↳ Fatherflot @9:25
Same here Ff. The physical aspect is incredible!
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David Shortell:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:10
He had a speaking part in this recently restored film:
youtube.com...
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:24
The Laurel & Hardy silents also so brilliant
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Harry Parmenter:

That "Gunn" horn workout sent me looking for a great Keys/Taylor BS version. I also like the way Mick "I Get Around" Jagger says "just like a young boy should" twice.
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Fatherflot:

↳ David Shortell @9:26
He's in Sunset Blvd. www.youtube.com...
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Mistress Jessie:

↳ Song: "Brown Sugar" by "The Rolling Stones"
Wyman’s bass playing!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:30
great.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:30
Isn't he also in Funny Thing ... Way to Forum?
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ David Shortell @9:26
That is cool! Never seen Harpo outside the brothers on film
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:30
from one four string master to another
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:36pm
Mistress Jessie:

↳ Song: "Norfolk Coast" by "The Stranglers"
Burnel nailed it with this album.
Avatar ♥ 9:37pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:36
yes he did. they were on life support
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David Shortell:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:31
Yes, Buster died before its release.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:37pm
Fatherflot:

↳ David Shortell @9:26
Ah "speaking" as in title card attributed to his character . . . .
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Mistress Jessie:

↳ Song: "Come in Alone" by "My Bloody Valentine"
Nice pick Harry.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:38
what cool sounds this album
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Harry Parmenter:

I remember reading about the Santa Monica apt bldg manager who the cops used to catch Whitey Bulger. the poor guy had tickets to see MBV that night at the Pantages and couldn't go after he'd confirmed the suspicious elderly gentleman upstairs...
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David Shortell:

↳ Fatherflot @9:30
Buster is, yes! That movie gets a national rerelease August 3.
fathomentertainment.com...
  9:40pm
CC:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:39
Progressive grunge???...:)
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ CC @9:40
why not?!
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Harry Parmenter:

@FF--it took me awhile...remember?
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ David Shortell @9:40
Wow never saw on the big screen; will. 50th of Cuckoo's Nest too July 13/16 I believe: What a Ballclub!
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Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "Tupelo" by "John Lee Hooker"
GREAT one!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:49
Yeah! Just got the CD. Literally recorded the night Elvis died I believe.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:50pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "Tupelo" by "John Lee Hooker"
his guitar vibrato has got to be the most chilling in history
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:50
unique
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Harry Parmenter:

and that voice
  9:51pm
CC:

Buster Keaton was on the Twilight Zone and Harpo Marx was on one of the Lucille Ball sitcoms???...:)
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:51pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:51
He attacks the string like he's squashing a deadly tarantula
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ CC @9:51
Harpo Lucy right where they do the Duck Soup mirror scene I think?
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:51
now That's a metaphor
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Harry Parmenter:

attack is the word alright
  9:56pm
CC:

Enjoyed the tunes Harry...cheerz all...:)
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:56pm
Fatherflot:

This is a tradition that goes back to medieval balladeers, delivering the news and preserving history through song
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Mistress Jessie:

Thanks so much Harry. Enjoy the holiday weekend.
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Tom in Brooklyn:

Thanks Harry, fun show! Get over the bronchitis soon!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ CC @9:56
thx and cheerz CC
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:56
wonderful
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Fatherflot:

Lassie!!!!! 😅
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Mistress Jessie @9:56
thx Jessie!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:57
I know! Hilarious! Heckuva memoir btw
Avatar ♥ 9:58pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Tom in Brooklyn @9:57
thx Tom appreciate it. lingering like a mutha
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:58pm
Fatherflot:

Feel better brother. Great show and you sounded fine on the mic by the way.
Avatar ♥ 9:58pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:58
much appreciated F2. thx for hanging. good week to all.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:59pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

Thank you Harry! Get better soon!
Avatar ♥ 10:00pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Will thee SG OCNY @9:59
thx Will! good week to you
  3:00am
Twin:

The world turned
& the sun came out.
Another fine day in paradise …

Here in the finest company from the East Coast. The Funhouse blasting out on WFMU.

Nice day to start all over again.
The wheels are rolling.

Crank it up and play loud.

Thanks TWIN.
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