PURE with Howard Thompson

“Me Love You Long Time” (broadcast 9/25/14)

Béla Fleck, Jie-Bing Chen & V.M. Bhatt: CarukeśI 6:39
Big Jim Sullivan: Sunshine Superman 3:23
Randy Newman: Korean Parents 3:26
Alex Chilton: Bangkok 1:58 
Ananda Shankar: Jumpin' Jack Flash 3:37
Reiko Ohara: Peacock Baby 2:47
Screamin' Jay Hawkins: Hong Kong 2:19
Bruce Anderson & Rich Stim: Calcutta Cutaway 2:22
Burma Orchestra Saing Waing: I Want You 3:03 
Cibo Matto: Lobby 3:57 
Masaaki Hirao & His All Stars Wagon: Sittin' In The Balcony 2:20
The Bombay Royale: The Bombay Twist 3:01 
Annisteen Allen: Fujiyama Mama 2:28 
The Cupids: Bazazz Tengoku 2:36 
Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren: Goodness Gracious Me 2:59
Gènder Wajang Quartet: Pemungkah 3:26
Monsoon: Ever So Lonely 6:16 
Techung: Chakla Phepsam (Welcome) 2:21 
Akira Tana: Secret Agent Man 4:02 
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Hong Kong Garden 2:54 
Aki Izumi: Koi Wa Heart De 2:12
Petty Booka: I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend 3:40
Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt: Isa Lei 7:38 
Sex Patels: Life During Wartime 3:10
Anoushka Shankar & London Philharmonic Orchestra: Ahir Bhirava 7:51
John Adams: Act 1, Sc 1 - Landing Of The Spirit Of '76 2:22
Shoko Hikage: Inishie No 8:02 
Gary Lucas: The Moon In The Street 3:04
Altai Hangai: Khotgoidiin Unaga (Horse from Khotgoid) 2:30
Urna Chahar-Tugchi: Taliin Juud 6:17
The Beatles: Within You, Without You [Instrumental] 5:25 
Kumi Adachi: Path 3:28 
Hiromi: Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 8, Pathetique (feat. Anthony Jackson & Simon Phillips) 5:07 
The Balinese Gamelan & Ketjak: Sekehe Gambuh Sekar Leret 2:32 
Terumasa Hino, Soko Kimura & Issyu Kawahara: Fidelity 2:56
Vincent Quatroche: Chinese Proverb 1:56 
Sheila Chandra: ABoneCroneDrone 3 7:28 
Yoko Ono & The Plastic Ono Band: Moonbeams 5:48 
Shu-De: Dugen Chugaa (feat. Leonid Oorzhak) 2:40
Jocelyn Pook: Quiet Joy (feat. Manickam Yogeswaran) 3:02 
The Cure: Kyoto Song 4:15 
Johnny Cash: Singin' In Vietnam Talking Blues 2:56
Pizzicato Five: Thank You 5:24 
Alabama 3: Vietnamistan 4:43 
The Vapors: Turning Japanese 3:41
Envy: An Umbrella Fallen Into Fiction 6:26
The Psychedelic Furs: India 6:17 
Guitar Wolf: Planet of the Wolves 2:32 
Mohammed Rafi: Jaan Pehechaan Ho (May there be familiarity) 5:32
Yellow Magic Orchestra: Tighten Up 3:41 
Bob Seger: Katmandu 4:57 
M.I.A: Paper Planes 3:22 
The 5.6.7.8's: 19th Nervous Breakdown 3:21
Melt-Banana: Vertigo Game 1:27

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