"Fingers"

"Fingers" (broadcasr 5/20/22)


Jack Nitzche: Surf Finger
Bobby Bare: Painting Her Fingernails
Jerry Lee Lewis: My Fingers Do The Talkin'
John Barry: Goldfinger
Prince Buster: Finger
Junior Walker & The All Stars: Shake And Fingerpop 
Tony Joe White: Cold Fingers
Ian Hunter & The Rant Band: Fingers Crossed 
Art Jerry Miller: Finger Lickin' Good 
Lee Ann Womack: Does My Ring Burn Your Finger
Hayes Carll: Wild Pointy Finger
Spottiswoode & His Enemies: Dirty Fingerprints 
Patto: You, You Point Your Finger
Aswad: Finger Gun Style
The Pretty Things: Bracelets Of Fingers 
My Darling Clementine: Different Finger 
Blake Shelton: I Still Got a Finger
Joe Maphis & Larry Collins: Flying Fingers
Billy Edd Wheeler: 3 Fingered Banjo Picker 
Genevieve Waite: Biting My Nails
Groovey Joe Poovey: Ten Long Fingers 
Addie Brik: Drunkie Drunkie Crystal Fingers 
Patti Smith Group: Distant Fingers 
The Smithereens: Rings On Her Fingers 
Barbara Lewis: Snap Your Fingers 
Cowboy Junkies: Powderfinger 
Roy Sludge: Honey Fingers
Wizzard: Angel Fingers (A Teen Ballad) 
Garbage: Teaching Little Fingers To Play
The Fugs: Fingers Of The Sun 
Gwenifer Raymond: Bleeding Finger Blues 
Paul McCartney & Elvis Costello: Twenty-Five Fingers 
Frank Zappa & The Mothers: Magic Fingers 
The Rake's Progress: Fingers In Your Ears 
Roky Erickson: Click Your Fingers Applauding the Play 
Jason D. Williams: Fingernails 
Ike & Tina Turner: Finger Poppin' 
The Rolling Stones: Fingerprint File
The Ponys: 10 Fingers 11 Toes 
Beady Eye: Flick Of The Finger
the Who: Under My Thumb 2:30

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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