PURE with Howard Thompson

Chicken v Monkey Pt. 6 

Webstar & Young B (ft the Voice of Harlem): Chicken Noodle Soup
Ten Years After: Hard Monkeys
The Curios: Chicken Back Pt. 1
The Flares: The Monkey Walk 
8 Ball Aitken: 7 Bucks an Hour in a Chicken Suit
The Specials: Monkey Man (live)
Frank Bey ID
Frank Bey w/the Anthony Paule Band: Don't Mess With the Monkey 
Canned Heat: Chicken Shack Boogie 
Lil Buck & The Top Cats: Monkey In A Sack 
Peter Stampfel: Chicken Baby Chicken 
Bunny Wailer: Follow Fashion Monkey
Robert Preston: Chicken Fat 
Rasputina: Mysterious Man-Monkey 
Wang Rollin Wong: Chick Chick 
Mueller, Roedelius: Monkey Talk
The Slackers: Fried Chicken/Mary, Mary 
Al Hendrix: Monkey Bite 
Zydeco Force: Louisiana Chicken Shack 
The Coffin Daggers: Monkey Crazy 
Earl Hooker: Do The Chicken 
Scott & Raven: Monkey Paw 
Merle Haggard: Set My Chickens Free 
The Tubes: The Monkey Time 
Duke Williams and the Extremes: Chinese Chicken
Jeff Beck: Grease Monkey 
Preston Love: Chicken Gumbo (feat Shuggie Otis) 
Tommy Braden & His Flames: Did You Ever See a Monkey Play the Fiddle 
Missy Elliott, Aaliyah & Da Brat: Stickin' Chickens
Laurie Anderson: Monkey's Paw 
James Brown: Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens 
Low: Monkey
Delbert McClinton PURE ID
Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men: No Chicken On The Bone 
The Beatles: Too Much Monkey Business 
World Famous Headliners: Fried Chicken 
Lt. Stitchie: Fresh Sexy Chicken 
Chuck Prophet: What Makes the Monkey Dance 
Arlen Roth w/Lee Roy Parnell: Dixie Chicken 
The Replacements: Lowdown Monkey Blues (feat Tom Waits) 
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Chicken 
Kevin Coyne: Monkey with Your Funky 
Nashville Pussy: Fried Chicken and Coffee 
The Brian Jonestown Massacre: Monkey Puzzle  
James Gallagher: Crazy Chicken 
The Queers: Monkey In A Suit 

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