“Got Soul?”

“Got Soul?” (broadcast 9/20/19)

Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes: If You Don't Know Me By Now 
Dorothy Moore: Misty Blue 
Little Beaver: Party Down Pt. 1
The Chi-Lites: Have You Seen Her                  
Al Green: Have You Been Making Out O.K 
Latimore: Let's Straighten It Out 
Ray Charles & Aretha Franklin: Coke Commercial 
Aretha Franklin: How I Got Over 
Yvonne Fair: It Should Have Been Me 
William deVaughan: Be Thankful for What You Got 
Lulu: Take Your Mama For A Ride 
Tower of Power: Don't Change Horses (In the Middle of a Stream) 
Jean Knight: Mr. Big Stuff 
Millie Jackson: Not On Your Life 
Ben E King: Supernatural Thing, Pt. 1 
The Stylistics: I'm Stone In Love With You 
Paul Kelly: Come Lay Some Lovin' On Me 
Betty Davis: This Is It                                  
The Spinners: The Rubberband Man 
David Ruffin: Walk Away From Love
Bobby Blue Bland: I Wouldn't Treat a Dog (The Way You Treated Me)
Ike & Tina Turner: Ooh Poo Pah Doo 
Earth, Wind & Fire: Shining Star
Barbara Lewis: Hello Stranger 
Timmy Thomas: Why Can't We Live Together
James Brown: Funky President (People It's Bad)
Marvin Gaye: After The Dance 
Curtis Mayfield: Pusherman
The Four Tops: Walk Away Renee
Bobby Rush: I Wanna Do the Do
Swamp Dogg: The Mind Does The Dancing While the Body Pulls the Strings 
Jackie Moore: Sweet Charlie Babe
Gladys Knight & the Pips: Just Walk In My Shoes 
The Isley Brothers: Twist & Shout 
The O'Jays: Back Stabbers 
The Marvelettes: I'll Keep Holding On
Stevie Wonder: Higher Ground
The Miracles: Whole Lot Of Shakin' In My Heart (Since I Met You) 
Norma Jean Wright: Saturday

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