PURE with Howard Thompson

Chicken v Monkey Part 7

LSD Sound-Out Club: Monkey Love 5:29
Charles Mingus: Eat That Chicken 4:37
The Kingsmen: Monkey Walk (Part 1) 2:43
MFC Chicken: Chicken 'bout You 2:03
Chuck Prophet: Monkey in the Middle 5:07
Armand Van Helden & KOMES: Fried Chicken 2:39
Lisa Anders & The Victory Five: Space Monkey 2:19
Little Jimmy Dickens: Walk Chicken, Walk ('Cause You're Too Fat To Fly) 2:21
Otis Redding: The Boston Monkey 2:42
Mogwai: Chicken Guns 4:44
KMFDM: Urban Monkey Warfare 4:30
Mel Brown: Chicken Fat 4:11
William Bell: Monkeying Around 2:09
Ted Daigle: Red Hen Hop 1:47
Jerry Douglas: Monkey Let the Hogs Out 1:00
Bubble Tea & Cigarettes: Go Down Stairs to the Blue Moon Buy Some 
Fried Chicken 5:38
J.C. Davis: Monkey 2:15
The Persuasions: Who Stole the Chicken 2:52
Stereolab: Fried Monkey Eggs 2:05
Jackson 5: How Funky Is Your Chicken 2:37
Otis Spann: Monkey Face Woman 4:56
Hot Tuna: Are You Talkin' About Love Or Are You Talkin' About Chicken 4:34
De Frank Jr: Chicken 3:40
Ranking Trevor: Three Piece Chicken & Chips 3:22
Scotty: Monkey Drop 2:56
Ramon & The Crystalites : Golden Chickens 2:42
Manu Chao: The Monkey 2:17
Little Freddie King: Chicken Dance 4:29
Lisa Mann: It's the Monkeys or Me 3:35
Biscuit Miller & The Mix: Chicken Grease 3:47
The Bottle Rockets: Coffee Monkey (1989 Chicken Truck Version) 2:11
King Salami and the Cumberland 3: Chicken Back 2:21
The Sherwoods: Monkey See, Monkey Do 2:13
Los Straitjackets: Itchy Chicken 6:01
Mike Zito: Too Much Monkey Business (feat Luther Dickinson) 3:10
Little Emmett Sutton: Mom, Won't You Teach Me To Monkey 3:04
Vincent Neil Emerson: Fried Chicken & Evil Women 3:24
Mother's Finest: Micky's Monkey 4:39
T-Model Ford: Chicken Head Man 7:40
Kid Creole & the Coconuts: Monkey 4:49
Wendy James: Chicken Street 4:09
Pet Shop Boys: Monkey Business (Prins Thomas Diskomiks) 8:45
Baby Boy Warren: Chicken 3:08
Boo Ray: Chickens 2:44
Dead Kennedys: Chicken Farm 5:05
Hobo: Box of Fried Chicken 3:04
Junior Dean & The Avalons: Chick Chick 2:22
Leroy Van Dyke: Chicken Shack 1:51
Lonnie Johnson: The Monkey and the Baboon - Part 2 3:10
The Magnetic Fields: A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off 2:40
Martin Simpson: Pretty Crowing Chicken 2:51
Oscar Toney Jr: Chicken Heads 3:23
Pet Shop Boys: Monkey Business (Radio Edit) 3:08

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