PURE with Howard Thompson

"Winners & Losers" (broadcast 4/2/21)

Shelby Lynne: Loser Dreamer
Macy Gray: Let You Win
Claudine Longet: Nothing to Lose
James Hunter: You Can't Win 2:28
Johnny Cash: Born To Lose
Hot Chocolate: Every 1's a Winner  
Smith Connection (I've Been a Winner, I've Been a Loser) I've Been in Love
Albert Castiglia: Love Will Win The War
John Schneider: Better Class of Loser (w/Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings)
Charlie Haden Family: You Win Again (feat. Elvis Costello) 
Waylon Payne: Born To Lose 
Cameo: You're A Winner
The Residents: Loser Weed
MX-80: You Can't Win 'em All
Peter Stampfel: Loser
Garbage: Nobody Can Win
Whitey Morgan: Cheaters Always Lose
Them: You Just Can't Win
Resistance Revival Chorus: All You Fascists Bound To Lose (ft Rhiannon Giddens)
Junior Walker & The All Stars: What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)
Dave Rubin & The Emblems: Loser's Lament
George Jones: Sometimes You Just Can't Win
Rod Stewart: What Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made A Loser Out Of Me)
Ashley Monroe: Winning Streak
Jerry Lee Lewis: Born to Be a Loser (Alternate Version)
The Western Sizzlers: Can't Win For Losing
Rockpile: 3 Time Loser (Live)
Hollie Cook: Win Or Lose
Freddy Fender: You'll Lose A Good Thing
The Impressions: We're A Winner
The Stanley Brothers: If I Lose
Leo Graham: A Win Them
The Hellacopters: Long Gone Losers
Huw Gower ID
ABBA: The Winner Takes It All
Diana Ross & The Supremes: Little Miss Loser
William Bell: Everybody Loves a Winner
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Even the Losers
Dr. John: Quitters Never Win
Shane Dwight: Lose My Number
Ian Hunter: Win It All
Etta James: Losers Weepers
Felix Da Housecat: Sinner Winner (Let's Be Friends Remix)
Burning Spear: I W.I.N.
Fats Domino: You Win Again
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What is PURE with Howard Thompson?

What is PURE with Howard Thompson?

Apart from the occasional overnighter, fill-in or fundraiser, howard now creates shows for our Podcasts page. You’ll find over 140 archived PUREs there, and new shows will be added - check the PURE and “Strictly” pages - at least once a month.

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.

Disc Jockeys like Brian Matthew (BBC Light Program), Emperor Rosko (Radio Caroline), John Peel (Radio London/BBC Radio 1), Hugh Nolan (Radio Geronimo), Charlie Gillett (BBC Radio London) and Andy Dunkley (the Marquee/Lyceum) made howard’s life worth living and he now just wants to return the favor.

howard worked in the music biz so he could get free records and meet astonishing 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, Sir Tim Smit, 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 and Wham! in the USA

howard joined WPKN in May 2010 and thanks 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