“Big Jim Sullivan, guitarist”

“Big Jim Sullivan, guitarist” (broadcast 11/23/12)

Danny Gatton: Funky Mama
Marty Wilde: A Teenager In Love
Eddie Cochran: 20 Flight Rock
Peter Sellers, Sophia Loren: Goodness Gracious Me
Billy Fury: Halfway To Paradise
Mike Berry & The Outlaws: Tribute to Buddy Holly
John Leyton: Johnny Remember Me
Mike Sarne: Come Outside
Jet Harris: Man With The Golden Arm
Johnny Kidd & the Pirates: A Shot of Rhythm & Blues
Heinz: Just like Eddie
The Marauders: That's What I Want
Dusty Springfield: I Only Want To Be With You
Bern Elliot & The Fenmen: Money
Cilla Black: Anyone Who Had a Heart
The Mojo’s: Everything's Alright
PJ Proby: Hold Me
Dave Berry: Crying Game
Marianne Faithfull: As Tears Go By
Twinkle: Terry
Sandie Shaw: Girl Don't Come
Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames: Yeh Yeh
The Kinks: Tired Of Waiting For You
Tom Jones: It's Not Unusual
The Birds: Leaving here
Chris Andrews: Yesterday Man
Crispian St. Peters: You Were On My Mind
Little Richard: Rocking Chair
Chris Farlowe: Out Of Time
Lulu: Boat That I Row  
The Tremloes: Silence Is Golden 
The Smoke: My Friend Jack
Donovan: Sunshine Superman 
Small Faces: Itchycoo Park
David Bowie: Let Me Sleep Beside You 
Love Affair: Everlasting Love
Dave Dee etc: The Legend Of Xanadu
Barry Ryan Eloise 
Thunderclap Newman: Something In the Air
Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg: Je T'Aime...Moi, Non Plus
Family: No Mule's Fool 
John Kongos: Tokoloshe Man 
Pilot: Magic 
Walker Bros: No Regrets
Chas & Dave: Strummin' 
Big Jim Sullivan: If I Could Only Play Like That
Big Jim Sullivan: Sunshine Superman 3:28

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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