PURE with Howard Thompson


"Black History Month"... (Plus) (broadcast 2/20/26)

"Plus" -

Andy Thomas: Nothing I Wouldn't Do (For You) (feat. Dori Freeman) 
Andy Thomas: Little Love Machine
Andy Thomas: Highway Junkie
Rod Stewart: Every Picture Tells A Story
Ron Wood: A Certain Girl

"Black History Month" -

Prince: Avalanche
Tracy Chapman: Talkin’ Bout a Revolution
Swamp Dogg: I Was Born Blue
B.B. King: Why I Sing The Blues, Pt. 1
Peter Tosh: Get Up Stand Up
The Heptones: Message From A Black Man
Aswad: Three Babylon
The O’Jays: Ship Ahoy
Shungudzo: It’s a Good Day (To Fight the System) 
Michael Kiwanuka: Black Man in A White World
The Equals: Police On My Back
The Chi-Lites: (For God's Sake) Give More Power To The People 
Harold Melvin/Blu Notes: Wake up Everybody (ft. Teddy Pendergrass)
James Brown: I’m Black & I'm Proud Say It Loud (Jason Brown Remix)
The Staple Singers: Why (Am I Treated So Bad)?
George Perkins & The Silver Stars: Cryin’ In The Streets, Pt. 1
Peter Tosh: Equal Rights
Lee "Scratch" Perry: Big Neck Police 
Jah Lion: Soldier and Police War
Neville Brothers: With God On Our Side
Carolina Chocolate Drops: Political World
Marion Williams: I Pity The Poor Immigrant
Stevie Wonder: Blowin’ In The Wind
Curtis Mayfield: Power to the People
Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces Of A Man
2Pac: Changes [feat. Talent] 
KRS-One: Sound of da Police
Public Enemy: Fight the Power (remix 2020)
Peter Tosh & the Wailers: Down Pressor
Queen Ifrica: I Can't Breathe
Jimmy Cliff: Sufferin’ In The Land
Janelle Monáe: Say Her Name (Hell You Talmbout) - excerpt


What is PURE with Howard Thompson?

Airing twice a month on WPKN 89.5FM Bridgeport!

howard loves all kinds of music and has collected records ever since his uncle gave him Rock Around The Clock as a 6th birthday present

howard worked in the music biz so he could get more free records and meet wondrous people

howard made records with Adam & the Ants, Alan Vega, Angel Corpus Christi, Aswad, Barb Jungr, Billy Bragg, Danny Gatton, Eddie & the Hot Rods, the Georgia Satellites, Hamell On Trial, Herb Alpert, Ian Hunter, John Campbell, Judy Tenuta, ManBreak, Motörhead, Peter C Johnson, the Prissteens, the Psychedelic Furs, Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3, Roky Erickson & the Aliens, Rubén Blades, Sally Oldfield, Sara Hickman, Scatterbrain, the Screaming Blue Messiahs, the Slits, the Star Spangles, the Sugarcubes, Susan Fassbender, Tulipomania, Victor DeLorenzo, Yellowman and 10,000 Maniacs to name a few. He was the first to release records by MX-80 Sound, the Real Kids and Suicide in Europe and th’ Faith Healers, the Gipsy Kings, Happy Mondays, Paul Young, the Sisters Of Mercy, and Wham! in the USA

howard joined WPKN in May 2010 and is grateful to Steve di Costanzo and Peter Bochan for letting him in. Terry Hopper too, for giving up an hour of The Quest to see if it could work

howard thinks Bob Dylan should be President, and ‘Poison’ Ivy Rorschach should be Vice-President