"Birdy Num-Num"

"Birdy Num-Num" (broadcast 12/5/25)

The Valli Boys: Night Hawk
Madness: Pam The Hawk
Danny Rivers: Hawk
Peter Hammill: The Birds
Elvis Costello: The Birds Will Still Be Singing
Kate Nash: Birds
The Unthanks: Cuckoo Madame
The Charlatans: Bird
Alex McMurray: Just A Bird
Bert Jansch & Martin Jenkins: Osprey
The Haden Triplets: Cuckoo Bird
Horace Andy & Jah Wobble: Three Little Birds 
Barclay James Harvest: Mocking Bird
Conway Twitty: Is a Bluebird Blue?
Roy Sludge: Gooseball Brown
Huw Gower: Free as a Bird
Guadalcanal Diary: Little Birds
The Dutones: The Bird
Howlin’ Wolf: Little Red Rooster
The Beatles: Free As A Bird
Canned Heat: An Owl Song 
Dolly Parton: Eagle When She Flies
Fleetwood Mac: Albatross
Stackridge: Percy the Penguin 
Lizzy Mercier Descloux: Birdy Num-num
Carlos Niño & Nate Mercereau: Wild Birds in an Imagined Canoga Park with Lakes and Trees in Place of Streets and Buildings (feat. Kamasi Washington)
Neil Young: Birds
Kathryn Tickell & Friends: Penguin Notes
Jerry Jeff Walker: Little Bird 
Genya Ravan: Night Owl
David Greenberger & Prime Lens: Bird Moved In
Luna: The Owl And The Pussycat 
Parly B: Talking Parrot (ft. Interrupt)
The A-Bones: Bird Doggin’
Butthole Surfers: Birds
Chuck Berry: Woodpecker
Baby Ray & the Ferns: How’s Your Bird?
Champion Jack Dupree: Woodpecker
Jerry Lee Lewis: Goosebumps
The Cramps: Nest Of The Cuckoo Bird
The Trashmen: Surfin’ Bird
Van Der Graaf Generator: Earlybird

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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