PURE with Howard Thompson

"Hands & Feet" (broadcast 11/19/21)

Lalo Schifrin: Cool Hand Luke (Main Title) 
American Music Club: Johnny Mathis' Feet 
T. Rex: Left Hand Luke & the Beggar Boys 
Randy Newman: Back On My Feet Again 
Alex McMurray: Diamonds in Your Hand 
The Ink Spots: Your Feet's Too Big 
The Psychedelic Furs: Tiny Hands 
Bernard Bresslaw: You Need Feet 
Grateful Dead: Hand Me Down (Ripple) (demo) 
The Kinks: Got My Feet On The Ground 
Le Beast Concrète: Cool Hand Luke 
Kenny Lynch: My Own Two Feet 
Terry Reid: The Hand Don't Fit The Glove 
Baba Brooks & His Band: Cork Foot 
George Formby: With My Little Ukulele In My Hand 
Rockin' Dopsie: Foot Stompin' Zydeco 
Tom Waits: Clap Hands 
Bob Dylan: Foot of Pride 5:53 
Macy Gray: Hands 
Frank Zappa: Stink-Foot 
The Velvelettes: A Bird In Hand (Is Worth Two In The Bush) 
Linda Thompson: As Fast As My Feet Can Carry  Me
Georgia Satellites: Keep Your Hands To Yourself 
Jim Lauderdal & High Fidelity: Barefoot Nellie  
Death Valley Girls: Hold My Hand 
Frank Turner: One Foot Before the Other 
Justin Hines & the Dominoes: One Bird In The Hand 
Led Zeppelin: Trampled Under Foot 
The Pointer Sisters: Slow Hand 
Johnny Otis & His Orchestra: Willie & the Hand Jive
Joe Gibbs & the Professionals: Foot Foot 
Tone-Loc: Cool Hand Loc 
The Beach Boys: Take A Load Off Your Feet 
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Red Right Hand
Brinsley Schwarz: Home In My Hand 
Richard Thompson: Two Left Feet 
Willie Nile: Blood On Your Hands 
James Brown: Get On The Good Foot 
The White Stripes: Handsprings 
Mud: Tiger Feet 
The Who: Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand (Mirasound version) 
Prince Fatty: Cow Foot and Gravy 
The Shadows: Foot Tapper 
PSAs 
The Jags: Back Of My Hand 

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