PURE with Howard Thompson

"Happy Birthday, Hoto" (broadcast 6/3/22)

The Call: Oklahoma 
The Sugarcubes: Birthday (Icelandic) 
Björk: The Anchor Song 
Dana Pomfret: Happy Birthday song 
Herb Alpert: I Want You 
Spiritualized: Broken Heart 
Angel Corpus Christi: Love Me Tender 
Angel Corpus Christi / Pull Girl
Dean Wareham: untitled instrumental
Luna: Tiger Lily 
The Psychedelic Furs: Pulse 
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3: What You Is
Deborah & Puerto Ricans: R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Judy Tenuta: Happy Birthday 
Danny Gatton Band: Happy Birthday Howard
Danny Gatton: Sun Medley (feat Delbert McClinton)
Hamell On Trial: Don't Kill 
False Virgins: Savior of the Pleasure Beast 
The Flamin' Groovies: Slow Death 
Billy Bragg & Natalie Merchant: Birthday
Sisters Of Mercy: Ribbons 
Georgia Satellites: Keep Your Hands to Yourself 
The Prissteens: Oh Howard! 
The Afghan Whigs: Gentlemen 
John Campbell: Firin’ Line
John Campbell: Down In the Hole 
Robert Medici: Ironage 
MX-80: Man on the Move 
Rubén Blades: Letters To The Vatican 
Public Image Ltd.: Rise
Ramones: Somebody Put Something In My Drink 
Motörhead: R.A.M.O.N.E.S 
MC5: Kick Out the Jams 
Howard Maurer & Dyanne Thorne
Sara Hickman: Simply
ManBreak: Kop Karma 
Garbage: Queer
Faster Pussycat: You're So Vain 
PSAs
Sex Pistols: God Save The Queen
The Sisters of Mercy: This Corrosion

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