PURE with Howard Thompson

Chicken v Monkey Pt. 3

The Fame Gang: Turn My Chicken Loose
Guy Warren: Monkeys And Butterflies 
Big River Cree: Chicken Dance
Tragic Mulatto: Monkey Boy 
Adrian Belew: Return of the Chicken 
Silver Apples: Concerto For Monkey And Oscillator 
Kate Tempest: Chicken 
Pauline Oliveros: Monkey 
Von Südenfed: Chicken Yiamas 
Monkey: Monkey Bee 
Alex McMurray: Ninth Ward Chickens 
Harvey Mandel: Space Monkeys 
Scott H. Biram: Killed A Chicken Last Night 
Addie Brik: Monkey Cage 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five: Ain't Nobody Here But us Chickens 
Tampa Red: She Wants To Sell My Monkey 
Cab Calloway: A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But a Bird 
Rufus Thomas: Can Your Monkey Do the Dog 
Billy Bland: Chicken In the Basket 
The Big Bopper: Monkey Song (You Made a Monkey out of Me) 
Charles Sheffield w/Big Sambo: Shoo, Shoo Chicken 
Houston Boines: Monkey Motion 
Bill Thomas: Southern Fried Chicken, Pt 1 & 2 
Andre Williams: The Monkey Speaks His Mind 
J.C. Davis: Chicken Scratch
Gene Burks: Monkey Man 
Willie Henderson: The Funky Chicken 
Boozoo Chavis and The Magic Sounds: Who Stole My Monkey? 
Trace Adkins: Brown Chicken Brown Cow 
Mo' Mojo: Sell My Monkey 
The Iguanas: Wedding of Chicken and Snake 
Toots & the Maytals: Monkey Man (previously unreleased 7” version) 
The Beautiful South: Never Lost a Chicken to a Fox 
Jackie Wilson: Twistin' And Shoutin' (Doing The Monkey) (Take 2) 
The Spark Plugs: Chicken 
David Allan Coe: One Monkey 
Donnie Fritts: Memphis Women and Chicken 
Johnny Paycheck: Don't Monkey With Another Monkey's Monkey 
A Band of Bees: Chicken Payback 
Warren Zevon: Porcelain Monkey 
Little Richard: Chicken Little Baby 
Pixies: Monkey Gone To Heaven 
Alaska Thunderfuck: Chicken (feat. Miss Fame) 
Los Lonely Boys: 16 Monkeys 
The Mr. Move: Wine & Fried Chicken 
Tranquility Bass: Mya Yadana (Monkey Forest Medley) 
Ozark Mountain Daredevil: Chicken Train 
Mike Phirman: Chicken Monkey Duck 
The Atmospheres: Fickle Chicken (faded out)
Yo La Tengo: Don't Say a Word (Hot Chicken #2) 
Hasil Adkins: Chicken Flop 
Fat Daddy Holmes: Chicken Rock

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