PURE with Howard Thompson

"Last Year’s Best Reissues" (broadcast 1/24/19)

The King's Singers: After The Gold Rush 
Deanna Storey & John Brion: Little Person 
Headless Heroes: True Love Will Find You In The End 
Morgana King: It's A Quiet Thing 
Peter Ivers: In Heaven 
T. Valentine: Teen-Age Jump 
Little Mack Simmons: I'm Tore Down
Rufus Jagneaux: Opelousas Sostan 
Clifton Chenier: It Happened So Fast 
Frankie Paul: Kushumpeng 
Queen Ifrica: Lioness On The Rise 
Yellowman: Zungguzungguguzungguzeng 
Barbara Lynn: (Until Then) I'll Suffer 
Linda Jones: What Can I Do (Without You) 
Carolyn Sullivan: Dead! 
Dee Dee Warwick: Foolish Fool 
Nina Simone: Baltimore 
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien: Mistadobalina 
KMD: Peachfuzz: 
Naughty By Nature: O.P.P. 
Michael Rother: Silberstreif 
Ray Ethier: Slave Girl 
Suicide: Johnny 
Ray Price: Crazy Arms 
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys: It's Mighty Dark To Travel 
Jerry Lee Lewis: Swinging Doors 
The Grateful Dead: Mama Tried 
John Kongos: He's Gonna Step On You Again 
Tiffany w/the Thoughts: Baby Don't Look Down
Norman Greenbaum: Spirit In The Sky
Mott The Hoople: Rock And Roll Queen
The Open Mind: Magic Potion
The Raspberries: I Wanna Be With You 
The Flamin' Groovies: Shake Some Action [first version] 
Roky Erickson & The Aliens: White Faces 
Canned Heat: Remember Woodstock 
Happy Mondays: Kinky Afro 
Alabama 3: Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness 
The Pink Fairies: The Snake 
MC5: The American Ruse
Detroit: Rock 'n Roll 
Mick Ronson: Growing Up And I'm Fine 
Motörhead: Stay Clean
The Reverse Cowgirls: Lost Tribes 
Fleetwood Mac: The Green Manalishi (With The Two Prong Crown)
Suicide: Frankie Teardrop 10:24

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