PURE with Howard Thompson

"1964" (broadcast 4/5/24)


The Beatles: Any Time At All 
Joe Cocker: I’ll Cry Instead  
Dave Berry: Crying Game  
Sam Cooke: A Change Is Gonna Come 
Sandie Shaw: (There’s) Always Something There To Remind Me
John Lee Hooker: Queen Bee  
Steve Aldo: Baby What You Want Me To Do 
Bob & Earl: Harlem Shuffle
Manfred Mann: 5,4,3,2,1  
The Shangri-Las: Remember (Walkin' In The Sand) 
The Nashville Teens: Tobacco Road
Bob Dylan: Spanish Harlem Incident  
The Fairies: Don’t Think Twice, It's Alright  
Eric Dolphy: Hat And Beard
Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers: One Way Love
James Brown: Out Of Sight  
Georgie Fame: Preach And Teach  
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas: Dancing In The Street
Tom Jones: Chills And Fever 
Dusty Springfield: Wishin’ And Hopin’ 
The Beatles: You Can't Do That 
The Kinks: You Really Got Me    
P.J. Proby: Hold Me
Jackie De Shannon: When You Walk In The Room 
Marianne Faithfull: As Tears Go By
Millie: My Boy Lollipop
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers: Mr. James
Howlin' Wolf: Hidden Charms
Rod Stewart: Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
The Zombies: She’s Not There
The Searchers: Needles And Pins
The Dave Clark Five: Any Way You Want It
the Who: I Can't Explain 
The Beach Boys: The Warmth of the Sun
The High Numbers: I’m The Face
Little Anthony & The Imperials: Goin’ Out Of My Head
Lulu: Shout
The Everly Brothers: The Price Of Love
The Swinging Blue Jeans: Hippy Hippy Shake 
Little Axe & the Golden Echoes: So Soon
The Mojos: Everything’s Alright 
Dionne Warwick: Walk On By 
The Beazers: Blue Beat
Betty Everett: The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)
The Animals: Baby Let Me Take You Home
The Kingsmen: Louie Louie
John Coltrane: Bessie’s Blues

What is PURE with Howard Thompson?

What is PURE with Howard Thompson?

Apart from the occasional overnighter, fill-in or fundraiser, howard now creates shows for our Podcasts page. You’ll find over 140 archived PUREs there, and new shows will be added - check the PURE and “Strictly” pages - at least once a month.

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.

Disc Jockeys like Brian Matthew (BBC Light Program), Emperor Rosko (Radio Caroline), John Peel (Radio London/BBC Radio 1), Hugh Nolan (Radio Geronimo), Charlie Gillett (BBC Radio London) and Andy Dunkley (the Marquee/Lyceum) made howard’s life worth living and he now just wants to return the favor.

howard worked in the music biz so he could get free records and meet astonishing 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, Sir Tim Smit, 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 and Wham! in the USA

howard joined WPKN in May 2010 and thanks 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