WFMU: The Funhouse with Harry Parmenter: Playlist from May 7, 2023

Listener comments!
	8:00pm HyperDose: Hey Harry dude! 😎
	🥃 8:22pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ HyperDose @8:00 hey you're early!
	8:25pm HyperDose: ↳ Harry Parmenter @8:22 Was so excited I came early. I swear this never happens...
	🥃 8:26pm Harry Parmenter: haha. here i am thinking the chat will be total crickets tonight because an hour of GL will obviously be mellow not yellow and you're here an hour early! of course you may be only one of a select few...
	🥃 9:01pm medson: Hey Harry and all
	🥃 9:01pm Aitch: Hello fun-lovers
	🥃 9:02pm Harry Parmenter: evening to you both.
	9:03pm Sumner Redstone: I like a little Gordon to get my ladies in the mood!
	9:03pm Prowler: Raising a glass to Gordon Lightfoot. A true icon. RIP
	9:03pm Woo: ↳ Harry Parmenter @8:26 Gordo is OK with me
	🥃 9:03pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Sumner Redstone @9:03 good God
	🥃 9:03pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Prowler @9:03 indeed Prowler and you 2 Woo
	9:04pm Sumner Redstone: Gordon and a steak through my feeding tube and I'm set!
	9:04pm Prowler: Hey Sumner, I guess that's because Errol Flynn records are hard to find!
	🥃 9:04pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Sumner Redstone @9:04 now that is funny
	🥃 9:05pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Sumner Redstone @9:04 is his head in the deep freeze next to Ted Williams'?
	9:06pm Sumner Redstone: ↳ Prowler @9:04 yeah and I need a break from Dean Martin every. now and then
	9:06pm Prowler: Copy that Sumner. Don't we all.
	9:07pm Sumner Redstone: Did AC/DC cover any Gordon?
	🥃 9:08pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Sumner Redstone @9:07 back to your room, Sumner.
	9:09pm Prowler: ↳ Sumner Redstone @9:07 'For Those About To Folk We Salute You' comes to mind.
	🥃 9:10pm Harry Parmenter: Or "If You Could REALLY Read My Mind."
	9:10pm Sumner Redstone: Hey they only let me out into the sunlight for 20 minutes a day, don't put me back in there. Shari! Shari! Help me!
	9:10pm PaulRobeson1923: Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi
	🥃 9:11pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ PaulRobeson1923 @9:10 Hi xxxxx to you to Mr Robeson
	9:11pm Prowler: ↳ Sumner Redstone @9:10 She can't hear you she's watching outtakes of 'Yellowstone'.
	9:11pm Sumner Redstone: That taylor sheridan's horses are shitting all over my bottom line!
	🥃 9:11pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Prowler @9:11 Did you see that great WSJ piece about the showrunner of that thing?
	9:13pm Sumner Redstone: That WSJ piece was written by hack!
	9:13pm Sumner Redstone: If I had my old comms lickspittle Carl Folta that piece would never have run!
	9:13pm PaulRobeson1923: Early Morning Rain performed by Peter, Paul and Mary is one of the greatest songs ever recorded
	🥃 9:14pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ PaulRobeson1923 @9:13 i should have used that! i do love that Elvis version. what a song.
	9:14pm Prowler: Cowboy Junkies, another Canadian act.
	9:15pm Sumner Redstone: This is cool. That Cowboy Junkie singer liked me but that damn midget Paul Simon was getting in the way of my game.
	9:16pm Prowler: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:14 The Elvis version was great. Will check out the PM&M take as well.
	9:19pm Sumner Redstone: What's interesting about Gordon and a lot of artists is all these beautiful soulful folky songs and then all this drama and trauma in his personal life and love life
	9:20pm Prowler: Quartette- Also a Canadian group featuring Sylvia Tyson who is herself, wit husband Ian, a Canadian folk legend.
	🥃 9:20pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Prowler @9:20 very nice stuff
	9:21pm Prowler: I think Ian Tyson and Gordon were friends. They certainly traveled in the same circles at the same time.
	9:22pm Prowler: Belinda- A great choice Harry. Thanks.
	9:23pm Prowler: ↳ Sumner Redstone @9:19 Art doesn't come cheap.
	9:24pm fredr: Wow! Really loving the Gordon tributes tonight. Thank You Harry
	🥃 9:24pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Prowler @9:22 The muses are heard!
	9:24pm HyperDose: DJ got me falling in love 😭
	🥃 9:24pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Prowler @9:22 someone mentioned to me...
	🥃 9:24pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ fredr @9:24 glad you are enjoying. thx for listening.
	🥃 9:26pm medson: Never heard any of these versions of his work.
	9:27pm Sumner Redstone: ↳ Prowler @9:23 Tell me about it. My fish collection alone could feed a small country for years!
	🥃 9:27pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ medson @9:26 yeah there's a ton.
	9:28pm Prowler: ↳ medson @9:26 There are so many versions by a surprising number of artists. Gordon quickly went from troubador to millionaire.
	🥃 9:33pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Prowler @9:28 well deserved
	9:34pm Prowler: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:33 True that.
	9:35pm Sumner Redstone: this and carefree highway are my faves. yes I"m a cliche.
	9:35pm Prowler: Sundown-'A sailor's dream'. Classic Gordon.
	🥃 9:36pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Sumner Redstone @9:35 hey they're HITS for a reason.
	9:38pm Sumner Redstone: When I was hanging from that hotel ledge this song was going through my mind
	9:40pm Max D: Hi Harry and all! I'm really enjoying the show. Sweet tribute!
	9:40pm Prowler: 'If You Could Read... recorded 53 years ago. probably bought him his first house.
	🥃 9:40pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Max D @9:40 hey max thank you! glad you like it.
	🥃 9:40pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Prowler @9:40 at, what, 29?
	🥃 9:41pm medson: Such a great voice
	🥃 9:41pm Harry Parmenter: yeah. stayed on the road right till the end.
	9:42pm Sumner Redstone: He was playing just recently!
	9:44pm Prowler: Carefree, also from Sundown. One of the big records of 1974
	9:46pm Sumner Redstone: Harry once again you've out done yourself. If content is indeed king, you are the emperor!
	🥃 9:47pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Sumner Redstone @9:46 ha sumner, mr cradle to the cane!
	9:48pm Prowler: ↳ Sumner Redstone @9:46 Sumner's right Harry. And on Coronation weekend, that's a hell of a compliment. Well deserved.
	🥃 9:48pm Tom P: Thanks Harry for this great show celebrating Gordon Lightfoot, an underappreciated and very talented artist
	9:48pm roach coach: @ sumner redstone: I assume he has no gigs lined up where you are. Hi Harry
	🥃 9:49pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Tom P @9:48 thank you Tom! appreciate it. he was great.
	9:49pm Sumner Redstone: ↳ roach coach @9:48 If he gets down here I will be first on line
	🥃 9:49pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ roach coach @9:48 ignore him, rc. how you doing
	9:49pm Androu B.: Hi, harry! Came in listening while Belinda Carlisle was playing. These songs bring back memories of AM Top 40 & Adult Contemporary radio, in a time when you couldn't switch from station to station without hitting a Gordon Lightfoot tune every once in a while.
	🥃 9:50pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Androu B. @9:49 good point Androu. with Casey Kasem and the weekly top 40!
	🥃 9:50pm Harry Parmenter: Ribbon of Darkness, that's some songwriting there.
	9:51pm Prowler: Ribbon of Darkness-You just don't get whistling peaking in the monitors like that anymore.Still it's one of my favorites.
	9:51pm Sumner Redstone: Ignore me? Evans? Evans where are you? I need some muscle.
	🥃 9:51pm medson: Lake Superior Never gives up her dead
	🥃 9:51pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Sumner Redstone @9:51 Hilarious squared!
	9:51pm Prowler: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:50 Thanks Harry.
	🥃 9:52pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ medson @9:51 indeed. what a line
	🥃 9:52pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Sumner Redstone @9:51 you were butter tonight sumner...on a ROLL
	🥃 9:52pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Prowler @9:51 thank YOU Prowler. glad you enjoyed.
	9:52pm roach coach: Doing good HP. Staying up past my bedtime to enjoy this Gordo tribute. This one’s a classic. Well done!
	9:52pm Prowler: Harry, this has been a wonderful tribute to Gordon.One of your best. It brings me back. Thank you.
	🥃 9:53pm Harry Parmenter: Thanks everyone. medson and RAMA LAMA DING DONG up next to take you home.
	🥃 9:53pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ roach coach @9:52 thank you man. catch up soon.
	🥃 9:54pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Prowler @9:52 yeah took me back making it. he was a fine music maker to say the least.
	🥃 9:54pm medson: The fellas it’s too rough to feed ya line is chilling as well.
	🥃 9:55pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ medson @9:54 it's been good to know ya
	🥃 9:55pm Harry Parmenter: and that must be steel guitar taking it up a notch
	🥃 9:57pm Harry Parmenter: Thanks again everyone for joining the chat and listening.
	🥃 9:57pm medson: Great show Harry. Ya did Gordon proud.
	🥃 9:58pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ medson @9:57 thx man...now over to YOU!
	9:58pm Prowler: ↳ medson @9:57 What Medson said
	🥃 10:00pm Will thee Sound Guy: Thank you Harry!!!

The Funhouse with Harry Parmenter: Playlist from May 7, 2023

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May 7, 2023: SUNDOWN FOR MR. LIGHTFOOT

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Approx. start time
The Stranglers	The Waltzinblack (Intro)	The Gospel According To The Meninblack	EMI	1981	CD
Gordon Lightfoot	Too Many Clues in This Room	Summertime Dream	Warner Bros.	1976	LP	0:00:55 (Pop-up)

Elvis Presley	Early Mornin' Rain "Early Mornin' Rain" by "Elvis Presley"	A Canadian Tribute	RCA	2000	CD	0:09:13 (Pop-up)
Mac Wiseman	Summertime Dream "Summertime Dream" by "Mac Wiseman"	Mac Wiseman Sings Gordon Lightfoot	CMH Records	1979	LP	0:09:15 (Pop-up)
J.D. Crowe & The New South	You Are What I Am		Rounder	1975	LP	0:11:20 (Pop-up)
Cowboy Junkies	The Way I Feel "The Way I Feel" by "Cowboy Junkies"	Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot	Northern Blues Music	2003	CD	0:13:40 (Pop-up)
Quartette	Song for Winter's Night	Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot	Northern Blues Music	2003	CD	0:17:48 (Pop-up)
Belinda Carlisle	If You Could Read My Mind	Runaway Horses	Demon Records	2019	CD	0:21:52 (Pop-up)
Steve Forbert	Early Morning Rain "Early Morning Rain" by "Steve Forbert"	Early Morning Rain	Blue Rose	2020	CD	0:26:14 (Pop-up)

Gordon Lightfoot	My Pony Won't Go	Old Dan's Records	Wounded Bird	1972	LP	0:31:03 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot	Sundown "Sundown" by "Gordon Lightfoot"	Sundown	Reprise	1987	CD	0:34:31 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot	If You Could Read My Mind	The Complete Greatest Hits	Rhino	2002	CD	0:38:02 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot	Carefree Highway	The Complete Greatest Hits	Rhino	2002	CD	0:41:46 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot	Steel Rail Blues	Lightfoot!	Capitol/UMC	1966	LP	0:45:22 (Pop-up)
Gordon Lightfoot	Ribbon of Darkness	Classic Masters	Collectables	2003	CD	0:48:09 (Pop-up)

Gordon Lightfoot	The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald	Summertime Dream	Warner Bros.	1976	LP	0:51:47 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	8:00pm HyperDose: Hey Harry dude! 😎
	🥃 8:22pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ HyperDose @8:00 hey you're early!
	8:25pm HyperDose: ↳ Harry Parmenter @8:22 Was so excited I came early. I swear this never happens...
	🥃 8:26pm Harry Parmenter: haha. here i am thinking the chat will be total crickets tonight because an hour of GL will obviously be mellow not yellow and you're here an hour early! of course you may be only one of a select few...
	🥃 9:01pm medson: Hey Harry and all
	🥃 9:01pm Aitch: Hello fun-lovers
	🥃 9:02pm Harry Parmenter: evening to you both.
	9:03pm Sumner Redstone: I like a little Gordon to get my ladies in the mood!
	9:03pm Prowler: Raising a glass to Gordon Lightfoot. A true icon. RIP
	9:03pm Woo: ↳ Harry Parmenter @8:26 Gordo is OK with me
	🥃 9:03pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Sumner Redstone @9:03 good God
	🥃 9:03pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Prowler @9:03 indeed Prowler and you 2 Woo
	9:04pm Sumner Redstone: Gordon and a steak through my feeding tube and I'm set!
	9:04pm Prowler: Hey Sumner, I guess that's because Errol Flynn records are hard to find!
	🥃 9:04pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Sumner Redstone @9:04 now that is funny
	🥃 9:05pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Sumner Redstone @9:04 is his head in the deep freeze next to Ted Williams'?
	9:06pm Sumner Redstone: ↳ Prowler @9:04 yeah and I need a break from Dean Martin every. now and then
	9:06pm Prowler: Copy that Sumner. Don't we all.
	9:07pm Sumner Redstone: Did AC/DC cover any Gordon?
	🥃 9:08pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Sumner Redstone @9:07 back to your room, Sumner.
	9:09pm Prowler: ↳ Sumner Redstone @9:07 'For Those About To Folk We Salute You' comes to mind.
	🥃 9:10pm Harry Parmenter: Or "If You Could REALLY Read My Mind."
	9:10pm Sumner Redstone: Hey they only let me out into the sunlight for 20 minutes a day, don't put me back in there. Shari! Shari! Help me!
	9:10pm PaulRobeson1923: Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi
	🥃 9:11pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ PaulRobeson1923 @9:10 Hi xxxxx to you to Mr Robeson
	9:11pm Prowler: ↳ Sumner Redstone @9:10 She can't hear you she's watching outtakes of 'Yellowstone'.
	9:11pm Sumner Redstone: That taylor sheridan's horses are shitting all over my bottom line!
	🥃 9:11pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Prowler @9:11 Did you see that great WSJ piece about the showrunner of that thing?
	9:13pm Sumner Redstone: That WSJ piece was written by hack!
	9:13pm Sumner Redstone: If I had my old comms lickspittle Carl Folta that piece would never have run!
	9:13pm PaulRobeson1923: Early Morning Rain performed by Peter, Paul and Mary is one of the greatest songs ever recorded
	🥃 9:14pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ PaulRobeson1923 @9:13 i should have used that! i do love that Elvis version. what a song.
	9:14pm Prowler: Cowboy Junkies, another Canadian act.
	9:15pm Sumner Redstone: This is cool. That Cowboy Junkie singer liked me but that damn midget Paul Simon was getting in the way of my game.
	9:16pm Prowler: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:14 The Elvis version was great. Will check out the PM&M take as well.
	9:19pm Sumner Redstone: What's interesting about Gordon and a lot of artists is all these beautiful soulful folky songs and then all this drama and trauma in his personal life and love life
	9:20pm Prowler: Quartette- Also a Canadian group featuring Sylvia Tyson who is herself, wit husband Ian, a Canadian folk legend.
	🥃 9:20pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Prowler @9:20 very nice stuff
	9:21pm Prowler: I think Ian Tyson and Gordon were friends. They certainly traveled in the same circles at the same time.
	9:22pm Prowler: Belinda- A great choice Harry. Thanks.
	9:23pm Prowler: ↳ Sumner Redstone @9:19 Art doesn't come cheap.
	9:24pm fredr: Wow! Really loving the Gordon tributes tonight. Thank You Harry
	🥃 9:24pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Prowler @9:22 The muses are heard!
	9:24pm HyperDose: DJ got me falling in love 😭
	🥃 9:24pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Prowler @9:22 someone mentioned to me...
	🥃 9:24pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ fredr @9:24 glad you are enjoying. thx for listening.
	🥃 9:26pm medson: Never heard any of these versions of his work.
	9:27pm Sumner Redstone: ↳ Prowler @9:23 Tell me about it. My fish collection alone could feed a small country for years!
	🥃 9:27pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ medson @9:26 yeah there's a ton.
	9:28pm Prowler: ↳ medson @9:26 There are so many versions by a surprising number of artists. Gordon quickly went from troubador to millionaire.
	🥃 9:33pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Prowler @9:28 well deserved
	9:34pm Prowler: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:33 True that.
	9:35pm Sumner Redstone: this and carefree highway are my faves. yes I"m a cliche.
	9:35pm Prowler: Sundown-'A sailor's dream'. Classic Gordon.
	🥃 9:36pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Sumner Redstone @9:35 hey they're HITS for a reason.
	9:38pm Sumner Redstone: When I was hanging from that hotel ledge this song was going through my mind
	9:40pm Max D: Hi Harry and all! I'm really enjoying the show. Sweet tribute!
	9:40pm Prowler: 'If You Could Read... recorded 53 years ago. probably bought him his first house.
	🥃 9:40pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Max D @9:40 hey max thank you! glad you like it.
	🥃 9:40pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Prowler @9:40 at, what, 29?
	🥃 9:41pm medson: Such a great voice
	🥃 9:41pm Harry Parmenter: yeah. stayed on the road right till the end.
	9:42pm Sumner Redstone: He was playing just recently!
	9:44pm Prowler: Carefree, also from Sundown. One of the big records of 1974
	9:46pm Sumner Redstone: Harry once again you've out done yourself. If content is indeed king, you are the emperor!
	🥃 9:47pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Sumner Redstone @9:46 ha sumner, mr cradle to the cane!
	9:48pm Prowler: ↳ Sumner Redstone @9:46 Sumner's right Harry. And on Coronation weekend, that's a hell of a compliment. Well deserved.
	🥃 9:48pm Tom P: Thanks Harry for this great show celebrating Gordon Lightfoot, an underappreciated and very talented artist
	9:48pm roach coach: @ sumner redstone: I assume he has no gigs lined up where you are. Hi Harry
	🥃 9:49pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Tom P @9:48 thank you Tom! appreciate it. he was great.
	9:49pm Sumner Redstone: ↳ roach coach @9:48 If he gets down here I will be first on line
	🥃 9:49pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ roach coach @9:48 ignore him, rc. how you doing
	9:49pm Androu B.: Hi, harry! Came in listening while Belinda Carlisle was playing. These songs bring back memories of AM Top 40 & Adult Contemporary radio, in a time when you couldn't switch from station to station without hitting a Gordon Lightfoot tune every once in a while.
	🥃 9:50pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Androu B. @9:49 good point Androu. with Casey Kasem and the weekly top 40!
	🥃 9:50pm Harry Parmenter: Ribbon of Darkness, that's some songwriting there.
	9:51pm Prowler: Ribbon of Darkness-You just don't get whistling peaking in the monitors like that anymore.Still it's one of my favorites.
	9:51pm Sumner Redstone: Ignore me? Evans? Evans where are you? I need some muscle.
	🥃 9:51pm medson: Lake Superior Never gives up her dead
	🥃 9:51pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Sumner Redstone @9:51 Hilarious squared!
	9:51pm Prowler: ↳ Harry Parmenter @9:50 Thanks Harry.
	🥃 9:52pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ medson @9:51 indeed. what a line
	🥃 9:52pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Sumner Redstone @9:51 you were butter tonight sumner...on a ROLL
	🥃 9:52pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Prowler @9:51 thank YOU Prowler. glad you enjoyed.
	9:52pm roach coach: Doing good HP. Staying up past my bedtime to enjoy this Gordo tribute. This one’s a classic. Well done!
	9:52pm Prowler: Harry, this has been a wonderful tribute to Gordon.One of your best. It brings me back. Thank you.
	🥃 9:53pm Harry Parmenter: Thanks everyone. medson and RAMA LAMA DING DONG up next to take you home.
	🥃 9:53pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ roach coach @9:52 thank you man. catch up soon.
	🥃 9:54pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ Prowler @9:52 yeah took me back making it. he was a fine music maker to say the least.
	🥃 9:54pm medson: The fellas it’s too rough to feed ya line is chilling as well.
	🥃 9:55pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ medson @9:54 it's been good to know ya
	🥃 9:55pm Harry Parmenter: and that must be steel guitar taking it up a notch
	🥃 9:57pm Harry Parmenter: Thanks again everyone for joining the chat and listening.
	🥃 9:57pm medson: Great show Harry. Ya did Gordon proud.
	🥃 9:58pm Harry Parmenter: ↳ medson @9:57 thx man...now over to YOU!
	9:58pm Prowler: ↳ medson @9:57 What Medson said
	🥃 10:00pm Will thee Sound Guy: Thank you Harry!!!

The Funhouse with Harry Parmenter: Playlist from May 7, 2023

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