Favoriting The Funhouse with Harry Parmenter: Playlist from January 9, 2022 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 January 9, 2022: DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Images Approx. start time
The Stranglers  The Waltzinblack (Intro)   Favoriting The Gospel According To The Meninblack  EMI  1981  CD    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Iggy Pop  Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night   Favoriting Free  Loma Vista Recordings  2019  CD    0:01:13 (Pop-up)
 
William S. Burroughs  Is Everybody In?   Favoriting The Doors Stoned Immaculate  Elektra Entertainment  2000  CD    0:03:38 (Pop-up)
Grace Jones  Walking in the Rain   Favoriting Walking in the Rain  Island Records  1981  12"    0:06:36 (Pop-up)
The Stranglers  All Roads Lead to Rome   Favoriting Feline  Epic Records  1982  CD    0:13:28 (Pop-up)
Brian Eno-David Byrne  The Carrier   Favoriting My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts  Sire Records  1981  CD    0:17:37 (Pop-up)
David Bowie  A New Career In A New Town   Favoriting Low  Rykodisc  1991  CD    0:21:09 (Pop-up)
 
Gordon Lightfoot  Too Many Clues in This Room   Favoriting Summertime Dream  Reprise Records  1976  LP    0:25:51 (Pop-up)
The Dandy Warhols  Sleep   Favoriting Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia  Capitol Records  2000  CD    0:30:51 (Pop-up)
Bob Dylan  Beyond Here Lies Nothin'   Favoriting Together Through Life  Columbia  2009  CD    0:36:40 (Pop-up)
John Hiatt  Skin Game   Favoriting Music from the Original Soundtrack "The Border"  Backstreet Records  1982  LP    0:40:50 (Pop-up)
ZZ Top  TV Dinners   Favoriting Chrome, Smoke & BBQ  Warner Bros. Records  2003  CD 
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Kraftwerk  The Hall of Mirrors   Favoriting Trans Europe Express  Kling Klang  1977  CD    0:51:54 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 🥃 8:57pm
Harry Parmenter:

Hello! If you aren't too Whigged Out Welcome to the Funhouse!
  8:59pm
Androu B.:

Present and accounted for, Harry.
Avatar 🥃 9:00pm
Harry Parmenter:

Hello Androu!
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MOM WHIG:

Hi there Harry - Androu
Avatar 🥃 9:01pm
Justin Pierce:

Justin is in da house!
Avatar 🥃 9:01pm
Justin Pierce:

did I ever tell you I met Roger Daltrey in 1973?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
Emeline:

Hiya Harry, Androu, Mom Whig and Justin! 🤩🌟♥️🌼
  9:02pm
Richard Whig:

I will whig gently into that good night!
Avatar 9:02pm
MOM WHIG:

Hi Justin & Emeline, RW
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
Emeline:

Hahaha! Hi Richard! 🤩🌟
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Motobro:

Hello Harry.
Avatar 🥃 9:02pm
Harry Parmenter:

Hello All. Justin, go to your room.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
medson:

Hi Harry and everyone
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
Emeline:

Hi Motobro and Medson! 🤩🌟
Avatar 🥃 9:03pm
Harry Parmenter:

Hey Medson, Motobro, Richard and Emeline
  9:03pm
Androu B.:

Great way to start off the show, Harry! I've never heard this Iggy track before!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
Emeline:

Soulstealer007 has to work tonight, so he won’t be here. ☹️👎🏻
Avatar 🥃 9:03pm
Harry Parmenter:

Iggy is THE MAN
Avatar 🥃 9:03pm
Justin Pierce:

ah this is the spoken word show
Avatar 9:03pm
MOM WHIG:

hey there medson, Motobro
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
Emeline:

Yeah, that was spectacular! 😍
Avatar 9:04pm
Motobro:

Hi Eme.
MEDS !!
Mom.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
Emeline:

This is so great!! 😍😍😍
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
medson:

Hello Mom W Emeline and Motobro.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
Mike Sin:

I'm in! and I'm wearing an apron!
Avatar 🥃 9:05pm
Justin Pierce:

I feel like I'm in a dragnet episode waiting for Joe Friday to break up the party
  9:05pm
Androu B.:

I might just record this show from the archives. I can already tell it's going to be a keeper!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:06pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings Harry & all
Avatar 🥃 9:06pm
Harry Parmenter:

Hello coelac
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:06pm
Emeline:

Hiya Mike and Coel! Whatcha cooking, Mike?
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
Aitch:

Grace is fun
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
Emeline:

Trouble, I’m sure.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
Emeline:

🤣🤣🤣
Avatar 🥃 9:07pm
Justin Pierce:

this would be good music to paint to
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
Emeline:

Hi Aitch! 🤩🌟
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
coelacanth∅:

hey Emeline!
Avatar 🥃 9:07pm
Harry Parmenter:

Making spaghetti here. How about you, Mike?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:08pm
Mike Sin:

Hey there Emeline! I just finished up baking and broiling the Brussel sprouts; my wife is working on the pasta.
Avatar 🥃 9:08pm
Harry Parmenter:

Most excellent.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:08pm
Emeline:

Yum! Spaghetti sounds good! Maybe I’ll make that! 🤔
Yum! Loooove Brussel sprouts! Hi Mrs. Sin! 😻
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:09pm
coelacanth∅:

it's good music to search for a record to
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:09pm
Emeline:

Omg, totally! 😂♥️
  9:10pm
Androu B.:

We had steak & egg noodles here at home.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:10pm
Emeline:

Interesting combo! Right on!
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MOM WHIG:

hi coela, Aitch, Mike
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:12pm
Emeline:

This is so great!
Avatar 9:13pm
marpay:

HI Harry!! Hi MomW, Androu B, Justin Pierce, Emeline, Richard, Motobro, medson, Mike Sin, coel, Aitch!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:13pm
Emeline:

Hi Miss Marpay!! 😍♥️♥️
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member 9:14pm
medson:

Hi Marpay
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Emeline:

Love this song! 🌟🌟
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Justin Pierce:

Expanding my mind as always
Avatar 🥃 9:16pm
Harry Parmenter:

Hello Marpay! Well not to get too personal but I just put a piece of chicken in my mouth and wound up with a wisdom tooth in my hand! TMI? I feel dumber already.
Avatar 9:16pm
MOM WHIG:

hi marpay - still raining here all day!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:18pm
Mike Sin:

I thought I was the only maniac who still had all four of his wisdom teeth.
Avatar 🥃 9:19pm
Justin Pierce:

Let me know when we're in range of Colonel Kurtz.
Avatar 🥃 9:19pm
Harry Parmenter:

Clearly the beginning of the end for Parmenter.
Avatar 9:20pm
marpay:

MomW - same here, just dripping rain all day but seems to have stopped now. Harry, don't worry, I'm ok and most of my teeth have left me, lol!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:21pm
Emeline:

Seriously, Harry?!? 😱😱
Avatar 9:21pm
Motobro:

No not the end. Not the bore worms !!
Avatar 🥃 9:22pm
Justin Pierce:

That Eno song had a little up the river into the unknown to it
Avatar 🥃 9:22pm
Harry Parmenter:

Hahaha Motobro. Good point.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:24pm
coelacanth∅:

hi marpay!
Avatar 9:25pm
Motobro:

I worked as a dishwasher 1/2 day and got fired….
Avatar 🥃 9:25pm
Harry Parmenter:

Yeah I did a night as a fry cook at Carlos N Charlies in Beverly Hills and quit before they fired me.
Avatar 🥃 9:26pm
Justin Pierce:

I was a busboy for three days.
Avatar 9:26pm
Motobro:

The cook was outside smoking weed and the owner smelled it; so he blamed it on me. Can you believe it!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:27pm
Emeline:

I was a hostess at IHOP for a couple months… the restaurant biz is not for meeee! Hahaha
Avatar 🥃 9:27pm
Harry Parmenter:

Sacre Bleu! Anybody else out there ever get fired? I guess that could be an entire show theme.
Avatar 🥃 9:27pm
Justin Pierce:

easier to replace the dishwasher than the cook!
Avatar 9:28pm
Motobro:

Why I awdda …. Yunck yunck yunck
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:28pm
Mike Sin:

A "space shuttle" reference in 1976 lyrics, huh? Just random I guess, right? Not a reference to the US Space Shuttle program that wasn't invented yet, right?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:29pm
coelacanth∅:

2 jobs i quit at the end of the first day.
'been fired a few times, all after a year or more and usually because i wanted to be.
Avatar 🥃 9:29pm
Harry Parmenter:

Gordon Nostradamus.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:29pm
Emeline:

Hahahaha!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:30pm
coelacanth∅:

i think the space junk program was in the works fore many years before they got it up
Avatar 9:30pm
Motobro:

Not in 76’, those were still Apollo dayz.

Justin, true dat be. But weren’t you banished to the cellar?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:31pm
Emeline:

You guys are hilarious!! 🤣🤣
Avatar 🥃 9:31pm
Justin Pierce:

I snuck out!
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Harry Parmenter:

Watch out for the giant spider down there, Pierce.
Avatar 🥃 9:32pm
Justin Pierce:

I think this is my theme song
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:32pm
coelacanth∅:

they were working on "reusable" space crafts since at least the 60s
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:33pm
coelacanth∅:

-don't know if they called 'em "shuttles", but why not?
Avatar 🥃 9:33pm
Justin Pierce:

It's all ballbearings now!
Avatar 🥃 9:33pm
Harry Parmenter:

an obvious badminton reference.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member 9:33pm
medson:

I believe the Shuttle program officially started under Nixon. With test flights mid 70’s.
Avatar 🥃 9:34pm
Harry Parmenter:

think you're right, Medson.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:35pm
coelacanth∅:

that seems right. i remember hearing about it in school, some time
Avatar 🥃 9:35pm
Justin Pierce:

this is cool
Avatar 9:35pm
Motobro:

Capsules. Think cold medicine.
Speaking of which, I need another sudifed. Think I got me some omnicromatic disturbance. But I tested negative, twice, really.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:36pm
medson's high school physics teacher:

See -- listening to songs and learning important historical science and technological facts.
Avatar 🥃 9:36pm
Harry Parmenter:

The Instructional Hour is in session.
Avatar 🥃 9:37pm
Justin Pierce:

Learning about Cuba, and having some food.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:38pm
medson's high school cooking class teacher∅:

go home tonight and listen to wfmu, kids.
Avatar 9:38pm
marpay:

Mr. Dylan!! ♥
Avatar 9:38pm
Motobro:

Did you know a 14 mm socket can be used on a 9/16th bolt?
Avatar 🥃 9:39pm
Harry Parmenter:

Socket to me.
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medson:

@Justin nice Fast Times Ref.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:40pm
coelacanth∅:

approaching the conversation from different angles. i like it.
but i better go look for that record.
Avatar 🥃 9:40pm
Harry Parmenter:

This song has a different lesson for the youngsters.
Avatar 🥃 9:41pm
Justin Pierce:

stumped Shazam w the John Hiatt
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Harry Parmenter:

A monster track
  9:42pm
Androu B.:

Sad about Dylan. He didn't stand a chance against that hot-air balloon that came down on him. (t's a running gag on Station Manager Ken's show Harry. 😉 )
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:43pm
Mike Sin:

What did you folks think of the movie "The Border"? Nicholson, Keitel, and Oates all on the same silver screen!
Avatar 🥃 9:43pm
Harry Parmenter:

Saw it long ago. A B movie with a couple great scenes. Can't believe you remember it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:45pm
Mike Sin:

I expected it to be a lot better -- I saw it way after the fact on one of the subscription services.
Avatar 🥃 9:45pm
Harry Parmenter:

Yeah you said it.
  9:46pm
zoelpw:

Hey Harry!! Great tunes!!
Avatar 🥃 9:46pm
Harry Parmenter:

All: take note of photo accompanying this song. Actual hospital dinner made me LONG for a TV dinner.
  9:47pm
Phil G!:

harry....as usual your migh sunday night football soundtrack...the raiders are beating the chargers just before half time...but we all know the Funhouse is going to win ...rock on!
Avatar 9:47pm
Motobro:

TV dinners…
Putting cooks and dishwashers outta business.
Avatar 🥃 9:47pm
Harry Parmenter:

Thx Zoe! Great to see your name.
Avatar 9:47pm
MOM WHIG:

hi there zoe - homework all done?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:47pm
Emeline:

Hi Zoe and Phil G! 🤩🌟
Avatar 🥃 9:48pm
Harry Parmenter:

Looking like a bad night for LA football teams.
  9:48pm
zoelpw:

Hey mom whig! Just got done getting ready for tomorrow’s class !
  9:48pm
zoelpw:

Hey Emeline!
  9:48pm
Phil G!:

i agree with you Harryi, i rushed home for the Rams game to listen to the Funhouse
Avatar 🥃 9:49pm
Justin Pierce:

don't the raiders still coint?
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Justin Pierce:

count?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:49pm
Emeline:

Hi hi! 😍😍 I start again tomorrow, too! 🤢
  9:50pm
Phil G!:

Hey Emeline!
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Harry Parmenter:

Thanks for listening, Phil!
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MOM WHIG:

Harry - thanks for the tunes - so GOOD!
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marpay:

HI Phil G!!! HI Zoe!!
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Harry Parmenter:

Glad you enjoyed, Mom W!
Avatar 9:51pm
marpay:

Nite Harry and everyone♥♥♥ Thank you for great tunes!!!
Avatar 🥃 9:51pm
Justin Pierce:

OK, I gotta go file that Xmas Eve expense report
  9:51pm
Androu B.:

Thanx, Harry! See you next week!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:51pm
Mike Sin:

Good night Harry and FunFreaks! Stay well!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member 9:52pm
medson:

Thanks Harry. Fun time tonight.
Take care folks.
Avatar 🥃 9:52pm
Harry Parmenter:

Thanks Mike, Androu, Marpay! And Justin we did NOT have dinner on Christmas Eve.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:52pm
Emeline:

Thank you for a great show, Harry! 🤩♥️ See y’all soon! 🌼
Avatar 9:53pm
MOM WHIG:

Nite all - see yo for Monday tunes
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Harry Parmenter:

Thx Em!
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marpay:

Emeline, have a great school week! Nite, MomW!!
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Motobro:

Kraftwerk… I remember !!
This predated the space shuttle… LOL
Avatar 🥃 9:54pm
Harry Parmenter:

haha Motobro. but it would have ben perfect to hear ON the space shuttle!
Avatar 9:55pm
Motobro:

NO NO NO, don’t go.
Itz only robot coming on.
I’ll call Arnold, he’ll fix it…

Good night all.
thank you HP.
Avatar 9:55pm
Motobro:

Yes it would have.
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Harry Parmenter:

Even the greatest stars...Goodnight All...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:57pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Harry!
Avatar 🥃 9:58pm
Harry Parmenter:

Glad you enjoyed, coelac.
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