Favoriting The Funhouse with Harry Parmenter: Playlist from March 16, 2025 Favoriting

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Favoriting March 16, 2025: WFMU FUNDRAISING MARATHON WEEK TWO - 2025

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The Stranglers  The Waltzinblack (Intro)   Favoriting The Gospel According To The Meninblack  EMI    LP      0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)

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Rocket from the Crypt  On A Rope   Favoriting Scream Dracula, Scream!  Interscope    LP      0:02:32 (MP3 | Pop-up)
AC/DC  Night ProwlerAC/   Favoriting Highway to Hell  Atlantic  1979  LP      0:05:04 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Hugh Cornwell & Robert Williams  Nosferatu   Favoriting Nosferatu  EMI  1979  LP      0:11:21 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Stranglers  Do You Wanna/Death & Night & Blood   Favoriting Black and White  A&M  1978  LP      0:13:05 (MP3 | Pop-up)

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The Clash  The Street Parade   Favoriting Sandinista!  CBS  1980  LP      0:19:44 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Tom Waits  Heart Attack And Vine   Favoriting Heart Attack And Vine  Elektra/Asylum  1980  LP      0:22:49 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Curtis Mayfield  Superfly   Favoriting Superfly Original Soundtrack  Buddah Records  1972  LP      0:27:29 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Three Dog Night  Mama Told Me Not To Come   Favoriting Single  Dunhill  1970  45      0:32:07 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Country Gentlemen  House of the Rising Sun   Favoriting The Roots of Bob Dylan  Mojo Records  2006  CD      0:33:52 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Black Oak Arkansas  Everybody Wants To See Heaven "Nobody Wants To Die"   Favoriting Street Party  Atco  1974  LP      0:37:16 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Alison Krauss & Union Station  So Long   Favoriting So Long, So Wrong  Rounder Records  1997  CD      0:40:19 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Professor Longhair  Tipitina   Favoriting The Big Easy OST  Island/Mango  1987  CD      0:43:30 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Dr John  Right Place, Wrong Time   Favoriting 45RPM SIngle  Atco  1973  45      0:47:01 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Dead South  People Are Strange   Favoriting People Are Strange  Six Shooter Records  2021  MP3      0:49:58 (MP3 | Pop-up)

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The Blue Hawaiians  Lonely Star   Favoriting Savage Night  Coolsville Records  1999  CD      0:54:09 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Tom in Brooklyn:

H Harry P! All!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Tom in Brooklyn @9:00
Evening Tom!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Tom in Brooklyn @9:00
How are things in beautiful downtown Brooklyn??
  9:01pm
rychurd:

alright Harry! tyme to coast during the anchor leg now that the deal is done!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ rychurd @9:01
rw! great Louie closing segment. LOVE your raps. you are the best.
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Fatherflot:

Hey Harry
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Jessie:

Evening, Harry!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:02
hey man
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:02
Mistress J!
Avatar ♥ 9:03pm
Harry Parmenter:

The End of Another Marathon! To quote Henry the K Peace is at hand!!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:03pm
JReganK:

Hey, Harry!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:03pm
Jessie:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:02
Freeform radio lives to see another year! 🤩😇
Avatar ♥ 9:04pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ JReganK @9:03
alright JRK in the house!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:03
Indeed
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:04pm
JReganK:

Yo, F2
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:04pm
Jessie:

Hey, JRegan!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:04pm
JReganK:

Hey, Jessie!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:05pm
JReganK:

Hey, TinB, Rych!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:05pm
Fatherflot:

The Mister of 1000 Moods is ready to rock tonight
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:06pm
Jessie:

Beauty of a segue way Harry!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:06pm
Jessie:

↳ Fatherflot @9:05
👀👀👀
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:06pm
medson:

Hey Harry
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:06pm
JReganK:

↳ Song: "Night ProwlerAC/" by "AC/DC"
Bon makes it better!
Avatar ♥ 9:06pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:05
alrightythen let's do it!
Avatar ♥ 9:07pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:06
alright medson. great work on the marathon by you and the braintrust.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:07pm
Aitch:

↳ Song: "Night ProwlerAC/" by "AC/DC"
Tres Bon!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:07pm
JReganK:

Hey, Medson!
Avatar ♥ 9:07pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Aitch @9:07
His last gasp--literally.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:07pm
medson:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:07
Thanks. Lots of great stuff over the last two weeks.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:08pm
Aitch:

Hey Harry and crew
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:09pm
JReganK:

Hey, Aitch!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Aitch @9:08
Aitch! Welcome. Hope you are doing ok.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:10pm
Aitch:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:09
New improved version, doing really well
Avatar ♥ 9:11pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Aitch @9:10
glad to hear it
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:13pm
Fatherflot:

Paul Bruno is the n stage doing "Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys in an Elmo costume
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:14pm
Tom in Brooklyn:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:01
Doing OK, Harry! I'm not exactly downtown..... near the Verrazano Narrows Bridge.... not sure I would describe downtown as beautiful :)
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:15pm
JReganK:

↳ Song: "Do You Wanna/Death & Night & Blood" by "The Stran...
F__king CLASSIC!
Avatar ♥ 9:16pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ JReganK @9:15
glad you concur!
  9:17pm
roachcoach:

Yukio!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ roachcoach @9:17
RoachCoach!!!!!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:18pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Fatherflot @9:13
of was that Jim the poet?
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:18pm
Jessie:

↳ Fatherflot @9:18
Jim the Poet dressed as Elmo
  9:19pm
roachcoach:

none other
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Fatherflot:

↳ Jessie @9:18
Corrected, thanks!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ roachcoach @9:19
most excellent
  9:21pm
roachcoach:

Glad to be along for the ride my friend
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:21pm
JReganK:

↳ Song: "The Street Parade" by "The Clash"
Nice set, Harry!
Avatar ♥ 9:22pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ JReganK @9:21
thx. passing the rock n soul torch along track by track!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:22pm
Fatherflot:

Stu is ripping it up!!!!!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:24pm
JReganK:

↳ Song: "Heart Attack And Vine" by "Tom Waits"
Best man to cover this one!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:27pm
JReganK:

↳ roachcoach @9:17
Yukio Mishima!
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medson:

↳ Song: "Superfly" by "Curtis Mayfield"
Yes.
  9:29pm
Freddy's Dead:

Since you're playing some Super Fly. Hang in there Harry. Maybe next week you can hold a fundraiser for a soon to be unemployed hack.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:30pm
Fatherflot:

CURTIS!
  9:30pm
roachcoach:

↳ JReganK @9:27
Indeed
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:30pm
JReganK:

Nice! Telecaster Deluxe on The Hoof and Mouth Symphonia!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:32pm
JReganK:

↳ Song: "Mama Told Me Not To Come" by "Three Dog Night"
T!!!D!!!N!!!!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:32pm
Jessie:

↳ Song: "Mama Told Me Not To Come" by "Three Dog Night"
A complete 180 from the Randy Newman original.
Avatar ♥ 9:33pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:32
yeah and i see Wilson Pickett covered too; haven't heard that one
  9:34pm
Freddy's Dead:

At first I thought this was the Folksmen!
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Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "House of the Rising Sun" by "The Country Gentlemen"
nice
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:36pm
JReganK:

↳ Jessie @9:32
Fundamentally worlds apart in style.
Avatar ♥ 9:36pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:34
sucker for a banjo. man, they are hard to play.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:37pm
JReganK:

↳ Song: "House of the Rising Sun" by "The Country Gentlemen"
Nice harmonies!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:37pm
JReganK:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:36
Like accordions. Banjos are great when they're played well!
  9:38pm
Freddy's Dead:

I've. always wanted to learn the bagpipes
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:38pm
Jessie:

↳ Song: "Everybody Wants To See Heaven "Nobody Wants To Di...
Former house band at the Whisky and frontman that David Lee Roth stole his act from.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:38pm
JReganK:

↳ Song: "Everybody Wants To See Heaven "Nobody Wants To Di...
Love your curveballs, Harry!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:39pm
JReganK:

↳ Jessie @9:38
Really!
Avatar ♥ 9:39pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Freddy's Dead @9:38
perfect timing
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:38
and they turned down medson for a roadie job
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:42pm
JReganK:

↳ Freddy's Dead @9:38
How does one avoid driving everybody out of the neighborhood while theyre mastering it?
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:42pm
Jessie:

↳ Song: "So Long" by "Alison Krauss & Union Station"
She taught Plant a whole other language in music.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:42pm
JReganK:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:40
BOA or VH?
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David Shortell:

↳ Jessie @9:32
I thought it was an Eric Burdon original.
I know Randy wrote it, but did he ever sing it?
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:43pm
medson:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:40
Because Mike Sin sole Jim Dandy's ludes
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JReganK:

↳ David Shortell @9:43
Randy performs it on "Live At The Bottom Line".
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Fatherflot:

FESS
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Jessie:

↳ David Shortell @9:43
It’s on Randy’s 12 songs album.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:45pm
JReganK:

↳ Song: "Tipitina" by "Professor Longhair"
Nice! Thought it was Levon Helm for a moment!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:46pm
Jessie:

↳ Fatherflot @9:44
The main stage at Jazz Fest is named after Fess!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:46pm
Mike Sin:

↳ medson @9:43
It got “dog eat dog” for a while in the 1970s. Running from the law, pending alimony, paraquat… We mended fences.
Avatar ♥ 9:46pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:46
cool.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:46pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Jessie @9:46
Can you play that style?
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Harry Parmenter:

PARAQUAT!!!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:47pm
Jessie:

↳ Fatherflot @9:46
🤔🤔🤔
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:47pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "Right Place, Wrong Time" by "Dr John"
The Doctor! I got to see him live at the Old Lone Star Cafe on 5th avenue in the village.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:49pm
JReganK:

↳ Fatherflot @9:47
Nice!
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medson:

↳ Mike Sin @9:46
I'm glad you guys made things right
Avatar ♥ 9:49pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:47
cool! never had the pleasure. his memoir Jessie recommended is wild.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:50pm
JReganK:

↳ Song: "People Are Strange" by "The Dead South"
Cool!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:50pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:49
I discovered Gris-Gris my senior year of college and it frickin' blue my mind. Still does.
Avatar ♥ 9:50pm
David Shortell:

↳ Fatherflot @9:47
Was that before his appearance in the Johnny LaRue production "Polynesiantown"?
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:51pm
Fatherflot:

↳ David Shortell @9:50
After, I'd say
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:51pm
Jessie:

↳ Fatherflot @9:50
A record you listen to between midnight and 4am!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:53pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Jessie @9:51
Correct. I don't think it's even playable in daylight!
Avatar ♥ 9:54pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:53
Walk on Gilded Splinters a one of a kind piece of music
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:54pm
medson:

Thanks Harry
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Fatherflot:

Thanks Harry, for another freeform spectacular. There's no other way to close out the weekend!
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Aitch:

Thanks Harry
  9:54pm
Freddy's Dead:

how much of a pledge for dinner w Harry?
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:54pm
Mike Sin:

I’m so extremely happy we made our goal… especially this year. There is no way most us would be able to do our weirdness anywhere else. Like the USA, it can all disappear in a second once the wrong people get a hold of it.
Avatar ♥ 9:54pm
Harry Parmenter:

Thanks Aitch!
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Jessie:

Terrific show tonight Harry. Enjoy the upcoming week.
Avatar ♥ 9:54pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Freddy's Dead @9:54
I'll let you be the judge of that.
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Mike Sin:

Another excellent show here.
Avatar ♥ 9:55pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Mike Sin @9:54
Great News, Mike! Thanks for joining the board tonight.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:54
thx Mistress J. same to ya
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Mike Sin @9:55
much appreciated
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JReganK:

↳ JReganK @9:44
Performances were recorded at the Bitter End.
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Fatherflot:

↳ Mike Sin @9:54
I couldn't agree more, Mike. This year it all means so much more -- and I've been saying on the air --- this is an institution build on love and community and it works magnificently. It's a living, breathing F-you to all the cynical theories of the oligarchs and authoritarians.
Avatar ♥ 9:56pm
Harry Parmenter:

Good week to all and thanks to everyone for supporting WFMU, a very special place to be a part of.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:56pm
Mike Sin:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:55
I’m usually listening on a device each week so it’s not always easy to comment. Using ye ol’ laptop tonight.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:56pm
JReganK:

↳ Song: "Lonely Star" by "The Blue Hawaiians"
Beautiful stuff! Thanks, Harry!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:57pm
Fatherflot:

↳ JReganK @9:56
yes
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ JReganK @9:56
Most welcome JRK. So appreciate you hanging out with us. Grateful to everyone for the marathon munificence!
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VerdElf:

↳ Song: "On A Rope" by "Rocket from the Crypt"
Yesss!!!!!
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