PURE with Howard Thompson

"1970" w/Kevin Teare (broadcast 10/16/15)

1. B.B. King: Nobody Loves Me But My Mother 
2. Egg: They Laughed When I Sat Down At The Piano… 
3. Norman Greenbaum: Spirit in The Sky 
4. Slade: Shape Of Things To Come 
5. Art Ensemble of Chicago: Theme de Yoyo 
6. Eric Burdon & War: Spill The Wine 
7. Miles Davis: John McLaughlin 
8. Kevin Ayers: Puis Je?
9. Tim Buckley: Song to The Siren
10. Lindisfarne: Clear White Light (Part 2) 
11. Jerry Hahn Brotherhood: Martha's Madman 
12. Free: Oh I Wept 
13. Essra Mohawk: I Am The Breeze 
14. Fotheringay: Banks Of The Nile
15. Sun Ra: My Brother The Wind
16. Mick Jagger: Memo From Turner 
17. The James Gang: Funk #49 
18. The Kinks: Apeman 
19. The Velvet Underground: Cool It Down 
20. Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band: Lick My Decals Off, Baby 
21. Edgar Broughton Band: Apache Dropout 
22. Joni Mitchell: Rainy Night House 
23. Van Der Graaf Generator: Refugees (single version) 
24. Joe Farrell Quartet: Collage For Polly 
25. The Mothers Of Invention: Theme From Burnt Weeny Sandwich 
26. David Bowie: After All 
27. T. Rex: The Children Of Rarn/Jewel 
28. Genesis: Dusk 
29. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Déjà Vu 
30. The Last Poets: On the Subway 
31. Dave & Ansel Collins: Double Barrel 2:43
32. James Brown: Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine (Part 1) 
33. Family: The Weaver's Answer 
34. Bob Dylan: Father Of Night
35. The Doors: Peace Frog
36. The Stooges: TV Eye
37. Melanie: Lay Down (Candles In the Rain) 5:29

PSA break

38. The Pretty Things: Parachute 
39. Jimi Hendrix: Freedom
40. Dave Edmunds: I Hear You Knockin’

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