"Birds - A Whole Mess Of Them"

"Birds - A Whole Mess Of Them" (broadcast 6/17/16)

Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band: Mr. Slaters' Parrot
Tango Kings: Loro (feat. Yodok) 
Lascelles Perkins w/Clue J & his Blues Blasters: Lonely Robin 
The Stanley Brothers: The White Dove
The Cramps: Surfin' Bird 
Audience: Jackdaw 
Steve Martin: The 
Nasty Pop: Crow 
Tony Joe White: Rain Crow
Inez & Charlie Foxx: Mockingbird 
Reiko Ohara: Peacock Baby 
Ohio Players: Jive Turkey
Shakin' Stevens: Is A Bluebird Blue
Jet Black Berries: Bluebirds Over The Mountain
Rosalyn Sweat & The Paragons: Blackbird 
Eagles: Best Of My Love
The New Piccadillys: The Owl And The Pussycat
Julee Cruise: The Nightingale 
Ian Hunter: PURE ID 
Ian Hunter: A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square 
Danny Rivers: Hawk 
Ashley Hutchings, Richard Thompson, Dave Mattacks, John Kirkpatrick, Barry Dransfield: Cuckoo's Nest
The Louvin Brothers: Red Hen Hop 
Wylie & The Wild West: Meadowlark 
Wylie Gustafson: Yahoo-oo 
B.B. King: Hummingbird 
Genya Ravan: Jerry's Pigeons
Marianne Faithfull: Sparrows Will Sing 
Laura Cantrell: Someday Sparrow 
Huw Gower: PURE ID
Huw Gower: Free As A Bird 
22 Pistepirkko: Birdy 
James Booker: The Duck 
Detroit: Long Neck Goose 
Popcorn Wylie: Goose Wobbling Time
Charlie Parker: Bird's Nest 
Rich Stim's Hotline: “a whole mess of birds” 
Jona Lewie: The Swan 
Mel Blanc: Woody Woodpecker
Rare Bird: Sympathy 
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band: Ice Cream For Crow 
Michael Nyman: Birdlist 
Illusion Fields/R. Moose Jackson: The Mardi Gras Raven 
The Orioles: Crying In The Chapel 
The Ospreys: It's Good To Me (You Don't Know And I Don't Know) 
Ducks Deluxe: Dig It Deep
T. Rex: Ride A White Swan
Rod Stewart: Pretty Flamingo

PSAs

HeadCat: The Eagle Flies On Friday 
The Beatles: And Your Bird Can Sing (outtake) 
The Birds: No Good Without You Baby 
Sheb Wooley: Hoot Owl Boogie 
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Free Bird (Muscle Shoals version)

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