PURE with Howard Thompson

WPKN 1/26/22 “Pure Prog"

Aubrey Small: Country Road 4:19
Barclay James Harvest: Mocking Bird 6:35
Traffic: Hole In My Shoe 3:01
Roy Harper: When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease 7:11
Procol Harum: A Salty Dog 4:36
Genesis: The Musical Box 10:23
Hawkwind: Hall of the Mountain Grill 2:23
The Pretty Things: Trust 2:44
David Bowie: The Man Who Sold The World 4:04
Love Sculpture: Why? (How-Now) 7:41
Gracious!: Heaven 8:08
Help Yourself: Alabama Lady 4:02
Family: In My Own Time 3:33
Daevid Allen & Euterpe: Wise Man In Your Heart 8:33
Egg: They Laughed When I Sat Down At The Piano.. 1:17
Caravan: Golf Girl 4:58
The Soft Machine: We Did It Again 3:46
The Deviants: Nothing Man 4:17
Home: The Brass Band Played 1:23
Cream: White Room 4:57
Trees: Glasgerion 5:13
Penguin Cafe Orchestra: Penguin Cafe Single 6:14
Van der Graaf Generator: Killer 8:20
Third Ear Band: Stone Circle 3:24
Fleetwood Mac: The Green Manalishi (With The Two Prong Crown) 4:41
Roxy Music: The Pride And The Pain 4:12
Nucleus: Song for the Bearded Lady 7:20
The Idle Race: The Skeleton and the Roundabout 2:20
Sandy Denny: Still Waters Run Deep 2:55
Simon Dupree and the Big Sound: Kites 3:48
Tyrannosaurus Rex: Debora 3:30
Brian Auger & the Trinity: This Wheel's On Fire 3:30
Man: Life On The Road 7:12
The Moles: We Are The Moles (Part 1) 4:29
Edgar Broughton Band: Apache Drop Out 2:39
Pink Floyd: See Emily Play 2:51
Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera: Flames 3:07
King Crimson: Cat Food 4:51
Patto: I Need You 3:28
The Mooche: Hot Smoke & Sassafras 3:10
The Misunderstood: Children Of The Sun 2:50
Quiver: Gone In The Morning 9:02
Bonzo Dog Band: I'm The Urban Spaceman 2:21
Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come: Eternal Messenger 3:48
The Move: The Words Of Aaron
The Move: Hello Susie 

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