PURE with Howard Thompson

“Happy 87th Birthday, Chuck” (broadcast 10/18/13)

Chuck Berry: Woodpecker (Instrumental) 
Bob Corr Skiffle: School Days 
Carson City Playboys: Nadine (Is It You) 
Chuck Berry: Let's Do Our Thing Together 
Johnny Rivers: Memphis 
Jerry Lee Lewis: No Particular Place To Go 
Chuck Berry: I'm In The Danger Zone 
Rockpile: Oh What A Thrill 
The Lovin' Spoonful: Almost Grown 
Chuck Berry: Have Mercy Judge  
Chely Wright: C'est La Vie (You Never Can Tell) 
Wanda Jackson: Brown Eyed Handsome Man 
Chuck Berry: Route 66 (Alt Take 11)
Gene Casey & the Lone Sharks: Bye Bye Johnnie 
The Band: Going Back To Memphis (Outtake) 
Chuck Berry: Oh Baby Doll
The Pretty Things: Don't Lie To Me 
The Georgia Satellites: No Money Down (live) 
Chuck Berry: Trick Or Treat 
Bo Diddley: Hey Good Looking 
Johnny Winter: Maybellene (w/Vince Gill) 
Chuck Berry: The Little Girl From Central 
Shakin' Stevens & The Sunsets: Thirty Days
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Jaguar And Thunderbird (live)
Chuck Berry: It Wasn't Me 
Peter Tosh: Johnny B Goode 
Johnnie Allan: The Promised Land 
Chuck Berry: Carol 
Louis Jordan: Ain't That Just Like A Woman (intro only) 
The Rolling Stones: Come On  
The Kinks: Beautiful Delilah 
Chuck Berry: Sue Answer 
David Bowie: Round And Round 
Slade: I'm A Rocker 
Chuck Berry: Tulane 
Elvis Presley: Too Much Monkey Business 
The Beatles: Rock And Roll Music 
Chuck Berry: My Mustang Ford 
John Lennon: You Can't Catch Me 
Chris Farlowe & The Thunderbirds: Reelin' And Rockin' 
Chuck Berry: I Want To Be Your Driver 
Pat Wayne And The Beachcombers: Roll Over Beethoven 
The Flamin' Groovies: Little Queenie 
Chuck Berry: I'm Talking About You 
Dave Edmunds: Let It Rock 
Albert Lee & Hogan's Heroes: Back In the USA 
Chuck Berry: Let's Go Go Go 
Dion: Sweet Little Rock And Roller 
Imperial State Electric: Sweet Little Sixteen 
Chuck Berry: Little Marie 
Lemmy, Billy Gibbons & Dave Grohl: Run Rudolph Run 

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