"Blackness"

"Blackness" (broadcast 2/13/24)

Al Green: Strong As Death (Sweet As Love)
William DeVaughn: Be Thankful For What You Got
Ann Peebles: Hangin’ On
Ketty Lester: Love Letters
The Chi-Lites: Have You Seen Her
The Impressions: People Get Ready
Paul Kelly: Stealing In The Name Of The Lord
Otis Redding: Try A Little Tenderness
James Carr: The Dark End Of The Street
Fern Kinney: Together We Are Beautiful
Ashford & Simpson: Gimme Something Real
Candi Staton: He Called Me Baby
David Ruffin: Walk Away From Love
The Flirtations: Nothing But A Heartache
Yvonne Fair: It Should Have Been Me
Dorothy Moore: Misty Blue
The Isley Brothers: That Lady
William Bell: You Don't Miss Your Water
Little Beaver: Party Down
The Dells: Stay In My Corner
Lorraine Ellison: Stay With Me
Barbara Lewis: Hello Stranger
Etta James: At Last
Ben E. King: Supernatural Thing, Pt. 1
Doris Troy: Just One Look
Latimore: Let’s Straighten It Out
Us3: Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
The Spinners: The Rubberband Man
George McCrae: Rock Your Baby
The Marvelettes: I’ll Keep Holding On
Gladys Knight & The Pips: Just Walk In My Shoes
Millie Jackson: Loving Arms [Live]
The O’Jays: Back Stabbers
Donald Byrd: Black Byrd
Gloria Jones: Tainted Love
Brenda Holloway: Think It Over (Before You Break My Heart)
The Showstoppers: Ain’t Nothing But A Houseparty
Cheryl Lynn: I’ve Got Just What You Need
James Brown: Night Train
Marvin Gaye: I Want You
Al Green: Take Me To The River
The Isley Brothers: Love The One You're With
Parliament: Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)
Aretha Franklin: Rock Steady (Alternate Mix)
Betty Harris: Cry To Me
Tami Lynn: Wings Upon Your Horns
The Three Degrees: When Will I See You Again
Norma Jean Wright: Saturday
Darlene Love: Ooh-Wee Baby
Ramsey Lewis Trio: The "In" Crowd
Betty Davis: Stars Starve, You Know
Bobby "Blue" Bland: I Wouldn't Treat a Dog (The Way You Treated Me)
Jackie Moore: Sweet Charlie Babe
Odyssey: Native New Yorker (Extended)
Sister Sledge: He’s the Greatest Dancer
Donny Hathaway: The Ghetto
Interboro Rhythm Team: Watch The Closing Doors
Keith Barrow: Turn Me Up (instr.)

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