Favoriting The Funhouse with Harry Parmenter: Playlist from December 22, 2024 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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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 (Pop-up)
The Rolling Stones  Melody   Favoriting Welcome to Shepherd's Bush  Promotone BV  2024  CD  *   0:01:03 (Pop-up)
Otis Redding  Day Tripper   Favoriting Live in Europe  Atco  1967  LP    0:06:04 (Pop-up)
Aerosmith  Same Old Song And Dance   Favoriting Live at Mama Kin's    1993  CD    0:09:18 (Pop-up)
Humble Pie  Four Day Creep   Favoriting Performance - Rockin' The Fillmore  A&M Records  1970  LP    0:14:30 (Pop-up)
Cheap Trick  Ain't That A Shame   Favoriting Live At The Roxy    1993  CD    0:18:18 (Pop-up)
Nirvana  Smells Like Teen Spirit   Favoriting Live At Reading  Geffen  2009  CD    0:22:55 (Pop-up)
AC/DC  Gone Shootin'   Favoriting First Time in Boston    1978  CD    0:27:37 (Pop-up)
The Clash  English Civil War   Favoriting Live at Shea Stadium  Legacy/Epic  2008  CD    0:33:37 (Pop-up)
The Hives  Hate to Say I Told You So   Favoriting Live At Third Man Records  Third Man Records  2020  CD    0:36:07 (Pop-up)
The Iron City Houserockers  Have A Good Time (But Get Out Alive)   Favoriting Live at Inman Square Men's Bar    1979  CD    0:40:12 (Pop-up)
The Plimsouls  Jumpin' in the Night   Favoriting Beach Town Confidential Live at the Golden Bear, 1983  Alive Records  2012  CD    0:44:52 (Pop-up)
David Bowie  Heroes   Favoriting A Reality Tour  ISO  2010  CD    0:49:38 (Pop-up)
 
Sonny Parker and Lionel Hampton  Merry Christmas, Baby   Favoriting Complete 1948-1953  Blue Moon  1995  CD    0:57:42 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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medson:

Hey Harry.
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Harry Parmenter:

hey man how you doing
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Harry Parmenter:

did you just lose audio?
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medson:

Yes.
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Tom in Brooklyn:

Hi Harry and medson. Yes, audio dropped but is back now.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Tom in Brooklyn @9:00
ok. am sure it'll pop right back.
  9:00pm
rychurd:

harrrreeeeee!!!!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Tom in Brooklyn @9:00
hey Tom! how are you doing? JJ Cale Part 2 coming in 2025 for ya!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ rychurd @9:00
Mr. Blastable! ok I still lack audio. y'all??
  9:02pm
A2B:

Evening, Harry!

I can confirm audio dropout at my end too.
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Harry Parmenter:

ok let's stand by. Saturday's Children blew a fuse!
  9:04pm
A2B:

Hope it isn't another power outage like the last time it happened on the stream.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ A2B @9:04
it happens from time to time. am sure it'll pop back on anytime. regardless Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!
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Tom in Brooklyn:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:01
Excellent JJ news! Seem to be hearing RW's show again now!
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Fatherflot:

Hey Harry. Getting an "empty playlist" message
  9:06pm
A2B:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:05
Back atcha, Harry!
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Jessie:

Evening Harry!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:05
don't know what that means. episode in the old dropbox and playlist cued up. we shall see.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:07
Hi Jessie! We're listening to an extended version of The Sounds of Silence!
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:07
Hopefully they start you up from the beginning. I'll hang and wait.
  9:09pm
Rychurd:

My apologies if Deck Five cleared the decks! I sent in a service call. So hopefully our crack techs will plug ya back in!
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Jessie:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:08
Either that or John Cage 4’33” 😇😇
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Harry Parmenter:

For anyone who didn't catch it Flot's Spot had an absolutely brilliant Xmas show Friday night after the usual killer Musical Dose: wfmu.org...
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:09
Next week Side Four of Metal Machine Music
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Harry Parmenter:

ok well we're eleven minutes in...feel free to abandon ship. Actually planning an encore show next week so this show tonight may lead off 2025...
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:10
Thanks Harry. I had such a blast hanging with the gang on Friday
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:12
It really was Epic.
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Harry Parmenter:

I think my show title this week jinxed it! the coal is in MY stocking!
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:12
I'm hanging out until you turn the lights out, boss
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:13
ok thx let's see where we are at :15. :20 feels like Drop Dead Legs.
  9:15pm
A2B:

SUCCESS!!! Stream is back!
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Fatherflot:

Yay¡!!!!!!
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Harry Parmenter:

I hear something.
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medson:

👍🏻
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spodiodi:

greetings, Harry and all!
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Harry Parmenter:

Indeed A2B! perfect timing spodiodi!!! you brought IT!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:21pm
Fatherflot:

Otis my man!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:21
Righteous!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:22pm
Fatherflot:

The Stax live in Europe records are some of the best live soul albums ever
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:22
Yeah he really had a voice. Urgent is just a tip of the iceberg description.
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Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "Ain't That A Shame" by "Cheap Trick"
This is pretty epic
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medson:

↳ Song: "Ain't That A Shame" by "Cheap Trick"
Love this one.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:35pm
medson:

The magic of Robin Zander
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:35
Fats!
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medson:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:36
Indeed.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:38pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by "Nirvana"
Live at Reading is Fundamental
  9:40pm
A2B:

There was a time when it seemed like every city in America (and maybe some internationally) had there own nightclub with the Roxy name on it. Heck, I once regularly hung out at one located in nearby New Brunswick, NJ.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ A2B @9:40
yeah ubiquitous. LA Roxy still going strong.
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medson:

↳ Fatherflot @9:38
🤣
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Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "Gone Shootin'" by "AC/DC"
KILLER
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:44
Yeah I shoulda been at this gig but missed it. Decades later lucky enough to get a cassette version off someone at WBCN. Now of course it's out there. Angus wailing.
  9:47pm
kev:

Hi
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ kev @9:47
hi kev welcome in
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:47
You from Boston?
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:48
for the most part yeah and went to school there.
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:48
How did you end up in LA?
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medson:

↳ Fatherflot @9:49
He heard you don’t need a snow shovel there hahaha.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:49
Escape from The Wind! Just decided to give it a shot and here I am a million years later. You know Boston?
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:50
exactly
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SF Sorrow:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:48
That explains a lot!
Ha, ha, ha!
Hello Harry!
Hello F2!
Hello to the fun house crew!
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Harry Parmenter:

The Blizzard of '78 was a monster
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ SF Sorrow @9:50
Hey SFS!
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:50
Not intimately. I had friend who went to BU in the 80s and I was up there a lot. I was in Philly for college, 83-87
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:51
Penn?
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Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "Hate to Say I Told You So" by "The Hives"
This is bangin'
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:52
Yeah
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:52
Lived right by Smokey Joe's summers '77 and '78 was workin at the airport.
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Harry Parmenter:

Love Philly
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:53
40th street?
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:53
Yeah Pine/Walnut between 40/41 couple different flats
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Fatherflot:

I lived on 40th st. right off of Spruce
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:56
Right there! I think Smokey Joe's is still there. Was able to finagle beers there.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:57
very good memories that city
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Fatherflot:

Was Troy's diner there during your time?
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:58
Yeah, it was wild in the 80s. Lots of drama. The MOVE bombing, etc.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:58
hmmm. unsure. Chuck E Africa! I was there when that went down. Frank Rizzo!
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @10:00
That was '85. You were there?
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @10:00
I thought it was in the '70s. There was some MOVE shit going down then as I recall.
  10:02pm
A2B:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:51
Remember it fondly! Me & my sibs had just moved to central NJ 2 years previously. We found ourselves literally neck-high in snow (keeping in mind my sibs were in their tweens at the time, and I'd just turned 13). We had fun making snow walls with the help of a play tool that was used to make snow "bricks".
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Harry Parmenter:

Yeah 1978 shootout.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ A2B @10:02
WINTER!!!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @10:00
yeah this what i remember: The first major confrontation between MOVE and the police led to a shootout in Powelton Village on August 8, 1978, that left police officer James J. Ramp (1926-78) dead and nine MOVE members in jail for life. The incident began when police arrived to execute a court order requiring the group to vacate a compound they had created at 307-309 N. Thirty-Third Street after repeated complains from neighbors concerning the number of animals being kept on the property, reports of filthy conditions, frequent use of a bullhorn to transmit lectures based on John Africa’s teachings, weapons code violations, the presence of children in reportedly filthy conditions, and MOVE’s refusal to pay gas and water bills. Shooting erupted, and Ramp was hit in the back of the neck. MOVE was blamed for his death, but accounts of MOVE members stated that Ramp was facing the home at the time of the shooting, leading to questions of whether the bullet could have actually come from a MOVE weapon. Five firefighters, seven police officers, three MOVE members, and three bystanders were also injured during the standoff.
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @10:01
Yeah, there were a number of incidents over the years, but when the Philly PD dropped a bomb on their roof and took out an entire city block (because the building was full of explosives and tanks of kerosene and shit) --- that was 85
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @10:04
right. The End. 1978 was something at the time too.
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Harry Parmenter:

13 days before AC/DC at the Paradise we just heard btw.
  10:06pm
A2B:

↳ Harry Parmenter @10:02
My mother was recently reorganizing the family album and we found some photos from that time. You should've seen us all bundled up in this one photo, me, the sibs and my Dad (God rest his soul).
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Fatherflot:

There was a year where I was stashed in the DuBois dorm (overflow white kids) and Farrkahan came to speak, used it for his home base, and his guys kicked me out of my own room.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ A2B @10:06
Great memories
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @10:07
Ha! Yeah I had a faceoff of my own in LA with those cats in my job years later. The Bow Tie Crew
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spodiodi:

↳ Song: "Heroes" by "David Bowie"
always makes me think of my xgf (who escaped from the former east)
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ spodiodi @10:08
Hadn't heard this live version. xgfs are never forgotten eh?!
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Harry Parmenter:

Hey I wanna thank everyone for hanging out especially with the delay at the top of the hour. Very much appreciated.
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medson:

Thanks Harry. Great stuff.
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @10:10
I had a lot of xgf drama in Philly. Oh my god . . .
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Harry Parmenter:

Whither echo?!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @10:10
good times!!
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Fatherflot:

Great selection of live killers, tonight
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spodiodi:

new to me as well, thanks, Harry!

... yeah, currently communicating with her again ... reminds me that i owe her a text (she's trying to help me)
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @10:10
thx med. thx everybody. like i said off the grid next week so Merry Christmas Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to all!
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spodiodi:

thanks for a fantastic show!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ spodiodi @10:11
very nice. hope all goes well.
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @10:11
You Too Harry. Thanks for another great show
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ spodiodi @10:11
you are welcome!
  10:12pm
A2B:

Thanks, Harry! Merry Xmas & Best Wishes for the New Year!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @10:12
Thx Fatherflot. Good holiday break to you and yours.
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Fatherflot:

Night Pals
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ A2B @10:12
you too A2B!
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spodiodi:

↳ Harry Parmenter @10:11
thank you! and happy days/holidays to you!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @10:12
Night
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