PURE with Howard Thompson

“1969” (broadcast 4/21/23 )

the Beatles: Sun King 
The MC5: Kick Out The Jams 
Fairport Convention: Who Knows Where The Time Goes
The Band: Whispering Pines
Nick Drake: River Man
Bob Dylan: I Threw It All Away
Marianne Faithfull: Sister Morphine 
Bob Dylan: I Threw It All Away
Procol Harum: The Devil Came From Kansas 
Roy Harper: Sgt. Sunshine 
The Maytals: Monkey Man
The Velvet Underground: After Hours
Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg: Je T'aime ... Moi Non Plus 
The Kinks: Shangri-La
Amen Corner: (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice
Dusty Springfield: So Much Love
James Brown: Mother Popcorn (Part 1)
Third Ear Band: Stone Circle
The Isley Brothers: It’s Your Thing 
David Bowie: Memory of a Free Festival
Howlin' Wolf: Tail Dragger
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Frownland
Frank Zappa: Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague
The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter
Michael Chapman: It Didn't Work Out
Spooky Tooth: Feelin’ Bad
Thunderclap Newman: Something In the Air 
Desmond Dekker & The Aces: A It Mek
T. Rex: King Of The Rumbling Spires 
Egg: Seven Is a Jolly Good Time 
King Crimson: 21st Century Schizoid Man
Denny Laine: Say You Don’t Mind
Led Zeppelin: Good Times Bad Times
Free: I'm a Mover 
Mott The Hoople: Rock And Roll Queen 
The Stooges: 1969 

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