Favoriting The Funhouse with Harry Parmenter: Playlist from October 15, 2023 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  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
 
Elvis Presley  Money Honey   Favoriting   RCA Victor  1956  45  0:03:17 (Pop-up)
Ramones  Sheena Is a Punk Rocker   Favoriting   Sire Records  1977  45  0:05:52 (Pop-up)
AC/DC  Rock 'N' Roll Damnation   Favoriting   Atlantic  1978  45  0:08:48 (Pop-up)
Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders  Game of Love   Favoriting   Fontana  1965  45  0:12:19 (Pop-up)
Jerry Reed  Amos Moses   Favoriting   RCA Victor  1970  45  0:14:24 (Pop-up)
Bunker Hill with Link Wray and the Raymen  The Girl Can't Dance   Favoriting   Norton Records  1990  45  0:16:33 (Pop-up)
Eddie and the Hot Rods  At Night   Favoriting   EMI  1980  45  0:18:19 (Pop-up)
The Ventures  Hawaii Five-O   Favoriting   Liberty Records  1968  45  0:20:54 (Pop-up)
Devo  Be Stiff   Favoriting   Stiff Records  1978  45  0:22:36 (Pop-up)
The Beatles  Slow Down   Favoriting   Capitol Records  1964  45  0:25:07 (Pop-up)
 
Human League  Love Action   Favoriting   Virgin Records  1981  45  0:28:27 (Pop-up)
Norman Greenbaum  Spirit in the Sky   Favoriting   Reprise Records  1969  45  0:32:01 (Pop-up)
Al Caiola  Theme from The Mod Squad   Favoriting Television's Greatest Hits  TVT  1986  CD  0:36:15 (Pop-up)
R. Dean Taylor  Indiana Wants Me   Favoriting   Tamla Motown  1971  45  0:37:01 (Pop-up)
Van Halen  Finish What Ya Started   Favoriting   Warner Bros. Records  1988  45  0:40:25 (Pop-up)
Grass Roots  Wait A Million Years   Favoriting   Dunhill Records  1969  45  0:44:49 (Pop-up)
Gap Band  Early in the Morning   Favoriting   Total Experience Records  1982  45  0:48:45 (Pop-up)
 
Roger and the Goosebumps  Stairway to Gilligan's Island   Favoriting   Splash Records  1978  45  0:56:01 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  9:00pm
rychurd:

what can we expect?
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Fatherflot:

Hey Harry
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Harry Parmenter:

pleas
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Harry Parmenter:

Reverb! Alrightythen.
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medson:

Hey Harry and all.
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Fatherflot:

Hey Rych Hey Med
  9:02pm
rychurd:

filthee lookre
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Harry Parmenter:

gentlemen! how you doing. great shows this week.
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Jessie:

Hey Harry!!
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Harry Parmenter:

it went away! i willed it! hey Jessie!!!
  9:03pm
rychurd:

great wrap Harry!
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Tom P:

Hi Harry. Hi All! Styx, Kansas and Journey - OMG!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ rychurd @9:03
wright?
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Tom P @9:04
we all have our own unique visions of Hades
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medson:

I’ll play all those bands on repeat if we don’t hit our $$$$ goal.
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Harry Parmenter:

back away from the radio...medson is here...
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Woo:

Good evening
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medson:

↳ Song: "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" by "Ramones"
Love and miss the Ramones.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Woo @9:07
Good Evening Woo
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:07
seems a long time suddenly
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medson:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:08
Very long time.
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Will thee Sound Guy:

Hi Harry Parmenter and all!!
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medson:

Joey gone since 2001
  9:10pm
Chuck:

Hi Harry and all..!..I bet 'Psycloctopuss' is the name of some band somewhere???...:)
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Chuck @9:10
no doubt
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:09
Tommy the last probably because he stopped touring first
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medson:

Great opening set
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Jessie:

↳ Song: "Amos Moses" by "Jerry Reed"
Jerry was one helluva guitarist!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:14
thx. singles! so fun.
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Fatherflot:

↳ Jessie @9:15
Was it Johnny Cash who said Jerry was so fast he could thread a sewing machine while it was running?
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:15
finger pickin' good
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Will thee Sound Guy:

killin it Harry!!!
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medson:

Hey Norton!
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Harry Parmenter:

what a sound eh?!
  9:18pm
Chuck:

↳ Fatherflot @9:15
I know Chet Atkins had a hard time keeping up with him...:)
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medson:

↳ Will thee Sound Guy @9:17
Did you visit the Norton Records table at the record fair?
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Will thee Sound Guy:

↳ medson @9:18
I wish, we had 3 hours there... I didn't really get to look at many places
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medson:

↳ Will thee Sound Guy @9:22
Gotcha.
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Jessie:

↳ Song: "At Night" by "Eddie and the Hot Rods"
45 years ago yesterday, Devo was on Saturday Night Live!!😳😳
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Aitch:

↳ Song: "Be Stiff" by "Devo"
DEVO shows just announced for Sydney, I've never seen them, might go this time, unlikely to be another
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Harry Parmenter:

what they play? Jocko Homo?
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Aitch @9:25
Go
  9:26pm
Chuck:

↳ Song: "Slow Down" by "The Beatles"
Johnny and the Moondogs!!!...:)
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Jessie:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:26
Yep!
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Will thee Sound Guy:

I met Handy, Frank in Queens, Chris Crash, Mike Sin, Joe McG, Marty, JA, Staysh, The Garbage man Matt, and Olivia... Got to talk to Gaylord Fields for a few minutes too. Todd was pretty busy... didn't get to meet Matt Clarke or Christina Ginger, but I saw them there
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Jessie:

Show is sounding great Harry! Plus, the Giants are winning!😳
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medson:

↳ Will thee Sound Guy @9:27
Nice. Full roster
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Will thee Sound Guy:

I met Scott Williams too.
  9:31pm
Sam Howell:

I'm here Harry. Been listening in the car.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:30
they are?! something wrong with your TV set??
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Sam Howell @9:31
Hello Sam the Driver
  9:32pm
Chuck:

↳ Jessie @9:30
I sure am glad the Eagles lost!!!...:)
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Jessie:

↳ Chuck @9:32
Me too Chuck!
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Will thee Sound Guy:

↳ Chuck @9:32
nice
  9:33pm
Sam Howell:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:31
and yeah great Jets win
  9:34pm
Prowler:

Spirit In The Sky . Is there a better one hit song than this one?
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Will thee Sound Guy:

↳ Jessie @9:30
hard to believe that they are winning right now
  9:34pm
Sam Howell:

Always loved this one! (Spirt in the Sky)
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Prowler @9:34
jeez i don't think so. i mean, it's been a ton of movies and tv shows as well.
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Woo:

↳ Prowler @9:34
Hopefully Norman is still getting the occasional check for this song. He will be 81 next month.
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Harry Parmenter:

a cash cow, exactly the opposite of what song about
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Jessie:

↳ Will thee Sound Guy @9:34
Defense is playing really well! Offense is a mess!!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Sam Howell @9:34
me too. never gets old.
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Tom P:

↳ Will thee Sound Guy @9:27
I went to the record fair too - my first. But did not get to speak to any DJs, unfortunately. The setup was such that I felt that I would be intruding if I went into the DJ area...
  9:35pm
Prowler:

↳ Woo @9:35
He must be killing it on royalties!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:35
those first few guitar notes out of the car radio...
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Will thee Sound Guy:

↳ Tom P @9:35
I saw them at other tables and the bar...
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Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "Indiana Wants Me" by "R. Dean Taylor"
This should be my theme song explaining my grad school choice
  9:38pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

↳ Chuck @9:10
there was a San Francisco band "Psychefunkapus"; 2 albums on wiki
  9:38pm
Sam Howell:

Either the Giants or Bills are making this a game.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:37
hilarious
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Tom P:

↳ Will thee Sound Guy @9:37
OK that makes sense - I don't know what they look like!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:37
remember this well on the radio growing up...so corny. the sirens got me.
  9:40pm
Chuck:

↳ Sam Howell @9:33
Now they can brag about it until they ever get to play each other again...lol...:)
  9:40pm
Prowler:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:39
An old colleague, Dean Taylor wrote this. It set him up for life . RIP Dean
  9:41pm
Chuck:

↳ Song: "Finish What Ya Started" by "Van Halen"
Sammy!!!...:)
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Will thee Sound Guy:

↳ Tom P @9:38
I've seen some pictures, and the spring fundraiser has the hoof n mouth
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Prowler @9:40
the singer too, right?
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Will thee Sound Guy:

I met Todd and Gaylord spinning records in Beacon, NY at Quinn's last year
  9:45pm
Prowler:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:42
I don't think Dean was the singer. He just wrote the song.
  9:46pm
Prowler:

I hope you are playing Sugarloaf - Green Eyed Lady. Saw them open for Mountain in December 1971.
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Will thee Sound Guy:

Harry's been killin it with the 45's
  9:47pm
Chuck:

↳ Song: "Wait A Million Years" by "Grass Roots"
I bet this song was a great inspiration to the band Chicago???...:)
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Prowler @9:46
Not tonight. Considered but couldn't fit it all.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Will thee Sound Guy @9:46
thx Will. i hear it, Chuck. horns.
  9:49pm
Prowler:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:48
Bummer, Harry.
  9:50pm
Prowler:

...but let it be said that the rest of your playlist has been awesome!
  9:50pm
Chuck:

Wow... I haven't heard too many DJs play The Gap Band???...:)
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Will thee Sound Guy:

↳ Chuck @9:50
yea they've got some awesome hits too
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Prowler @9:50
i'll take it! green eyed lady. so many great hits that era.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Chuck @9:50
still got the 12" of this. great dance song.
  9:54pm
Chuck:

My deceased brother-in-law used to book a band called Tower of Power down in Atlanta back in the 70s.. they were pretty good too...::
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medson:

Great show Harry
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Chuck @9:54
of course! SF band. had some of their records and think mightve seen him playin somewhere with someone.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:54
thx medson. saved the best for last! and STAY TUNED ALL for RAMA LAMA DING DOng. next...
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Will thee Sound Guy:

Thank you Harry, solid show!!!
  9:56pm
Sam Howell:

if I knew you were doing parodies I'd have sent you the one of Bruce doing the Flintstones theme
  9:56pm
Prowler:

Great show Harry! I'll be out of town and off the internet for my birthday next Sunday. Have a great punk show and play a bit of Jello Biafra for me. Cheers!
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Harry Parmenter:

thx Will and everyone for listening in. Bruce Flintstones?! you must know this one. KROQ classic. got it Prowler! Holiday in Cambodia time for you I hope.
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Fatherflot:

Thanks for playing the hits, Harry!
  9:58pm
Chuck:

I think I must be tripping now?!?...:)
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MOM WHIG:

↳ Song: "Stairway to Gilligan's Island" by "Roger and the ...
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