“Tea or Coffee?”

“Tea or Coffee?” (broadcast 4/17/20)

Zoot Horn Rollo: Cowboy Coffee
Gretchen Peters: Love That Makes A Cup Of Tea
Martin Newell: Miss Van Houten's Coffee Shop 
Shelby Lynne: Iced Tea 
22 Pistepirkko: Coffee Girl 
Pink Martini: Tea for Two (feat. Jimmy Scott)
Los Fabulocos: The Coffee Song
Kirsty MacColl: Queen of The High Teas 
Etta James: Cigarettes & Coffee 
Bermondsey Joyriders / John Sinclair: Cuppa Tea 
Brian Cullman: Coffee 
Stackridge: Teatime 
Bill Brock: A Cup Of Coffee (Then I'll Go) 
Bob Marley: One Cup Of Coffee
Jo-Jo Adams w/Maxwell Davis & His Band: When I'm In My Tea 
Stereo Venus: Coffee And Honey (feat. Rumer) 
Paul McCartney: English Tea 
Powfu: death bed/coffee for your head (feat. Beabadoobee)
Marianne Faithfull: Black Coffee 
The Police: Tea In the Sahara
Yuna: Coffee 
Kacey Musgraves: Cup Of Tea
Blur: Coffee & TV
The Kinks: Afternoon Tea
Kate Tempest: Perfect Coffee 
Flying Lotus: Tea Leaf Dancers 
Garbage: Cup Of Coffee 
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band: The Boston Tea Party
David Allan Coe: Coffee 
Leon Redbone: When I Take My Sugar to Tea 
Squeeze: Black Coffee In Bed 
Family: Buffet Tea for Two 
Greg Klyma: Coffee and Weed 
The Kinks: Have A Cuppa Tea (Alternate Version) 
Ella Mae Morse: Forty Cups of Coffee 
Sidney Simien & His All-Stars: She's My Morning Coffee 
Shpongle: Around the World in a Tea Daze 

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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