"Weekender"

'Weekender” (broadcast 2/17/23)

1.    Fatboy Slim: The Weekend Starts Here
2.   Dean & Britta: Friday I'm In Love
3.   Humphrey Lyttelton & His Band: Saturday Jump
4.   Eddie Cochran: Weekend
5.   Fun Lovin’ Criminals: Friday Night
6.   Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3: Saturday Groovers
7.   Dave Edmunds: Here Comes The Weekend
8.   Steely Dan: Black Friday
9.   David Bowie: Drive-In Saturday
10. Steven Wilson: Sunday Rain Sets In
11.  Neil Young: Out On The Weekend
12. The Sundown Playboys: Saturday Nite Special
13. James King: Sunday Morning Christian
14. Tom Petty: Big Weekend
15. J.J. Cale: Friday
16. Lynsey De Paul: Dancing on a Saturday Night
17. Blondie: Sunday Girl 
18. Flowered Up: Weekender
19. Lily Allen: Friday Night
20. Billy Bragg: The Saturday Boy
21. The Small Faces: Lazy Sunday
22. The Cramps: Weekend on Mars (live, Irving P 8/18/79)
23. Don Lang and His Frantic Five: See You Friday
24. Al Dexter: Saturday Night Boogie
25. The Velvet Underground: Sunday Morning
26. Paul Thorn: I Backslide On Friday
27. Dion: Lookin’ For The Heart Of Saturday Night
28. The Resentments: I Do My Drinking on the Weekends
29. The Easybeats: Friday On My Mind
30. Norma Jean Wright: Saturday
31. Kris Kristofferson: Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
32. Wanda Jackson: Lonely Weekends
33. Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers: Friday Song
34. Mott The Hoople: Saturday Kids
35. Heroes: Seven Day Week-End
36. The Dirty Strangers: Saturday Night
37. Morningface: It’s Always Sunday
38. Dave Rawlings Machine: The Weekend
39. Ian Hunter: I Hate Hate

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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