"Chuck Berry, 90" w/Gene Casey

“Chuck Berry, 90 (w/Gene Casey)” (broadcast 10/21/16)

Chuck Berry: Rockin’
Chuck Berry: Woodpecker
Elvis Presley: Maybellene 
Chuck Berry: The Way It Was Before
The Kinks: Beautiful Delilah
Chuck Berry: Bio
MDQ/Waylon Jennings: Brown Eyed Handsome Man
Chuck Berry: The Little Girl From Central 
Bob Cort Skiffle: School Days
Chuck Berry: Tulane
Dave Edmunds: It's My Own Business
Chuck Berry: My Mustang Ford
Rod Stewart: Sweet Little Rock 'N Roller
Chuck Berry: Go Go Go
The Beatles: I Got to Find My Baby (BBC, 6/11/63)
Chuck Berry: Down The Road Apiece
Rolling Stones: Come On (BBC Sat’day Club, 10/26/63)
Chuck Berry: Thirteen Question Method
Johnnie Allen: Promised Land 
Chuck Berry: Sue Answer
Slade: I'm a Rocker
Chuck Berry: Liverpool Drive
Carlos Santana & Santana: Havana Moon
Chuck Berry: Let's Do Our Thing Together 
Black Claw: Around and Around 
Chuck Berry: My Little Love-Light
Lonnie Mack: Memphis 
Chuck Berry: Little Marie 
Pat Wayne & the Beachcombers: Roll Over Beethoven
Chuck Berry: Reelin' & Rockin' (live, ’72)
Jerry Lee Lewis: No Particular Place To Go (live, Municipal Auditorium, Birmingham, Alabama ‘64) 
Chuck Berry: Oh Yeah 
Love Sculpture: You Can't Catch Me 
Chuck Berry: Dear Dad 
Emmylou Harris: You Never Can Tell 
Chuck Berry: Too Late 
The Pretty Things: Oh Baby Doll 
Chuck Berry: Have Mercy Judge 
Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks: Forty Days
Chuck Berry: I Want To Be Your Driver 
MC5: Back In the USA 
Chuck Berry: It Wuden't Me 
The Band: Going Back To Memphis 
Chuck Berry: Hi Heel Sneakers
Tom Petty/Heartbreakers: Jaguar & Thunderbird (live)
Chuck Berry: Johnny B Goode (live, ‘72)

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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