"Carry On Doctor"

“Carry On Doctor” (broadcast 4/3/20)

"It's a Sick, Sick World..." 
Richard Marino & His Orchestra: Fever 
The Beatles: Doctor Robert 
Steven Wilson: Year Of The Plague 
Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham: Night Nurse
The Primevals: Fever Zone 
Gregory Isaacs: Night Nurse 
Jackie Lomax: Little Yellow Pills 
Wanda Jackson: Rockabilly Fever (w/Dave Alvin) 
Alabama 3: Too Sick To Pray 
Peter Tosh: Bush Doctor 
BBC Radiophonic Workshop: Doctor Who 
Mickey Jupp: Down at the Doctors 
Randy Newman: Doctor, Doctor
Graham Parker: Lady Doctor 
The Chakachas: Jungle Fever 
Bobby Marchan: Rockin' Pneumonia
Jerry Lee Lewis: High Blood Pressure
Roger Ruskin Spear: Doctor Rock 
John Adams: Dr Atomic Symphony - The Laboratory
Big Boy Henry: Take My Baby to the Doctor
Warren Zevon: Don't Let Us Get Sick 
The Imposter: Pills And Soap 
Otis Redding: I'm Sick Y'All 
Robyn Hitchcock: Not Even a Nurse 
J.J. Cale: Call the Doctor
Tom Jones: Chills And Fever 
Lightnin' Hopkins: Sick Feeling Blues 
BB King: Walking Doctor Bill 
Gene Ray: Rock & Roll Fever 
Bill Kirchen: Swing Fever
Buster Brown: Doctor Brown 
Arkey Blue: Daddy's Sick Again
Sharon Cash: Fever 
Richard Hawley: Is There A Pill? 
Johnny Sonnier: Slow Walking Fever and the Asiatic Flu 
Robert Palmer: Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor) 
Cecil Cambell: Rock And Roll Fever 
The Continental Quilts: Motor Sicko Fever 
The Cramps: Bop Pills 
The Sisters of Mercy: Doctor Jeep 
The Reverse Cowgirls: Doctor! 
Björk: Virus 
Motörhead: Cat Scratch Fever 
Todd Rundgren: Influenza 
The Dandy Warhols: Horse Pills
Norris Weir: Doctor Honey 

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