PURE with Howard Thompson

David Bowie: “The Man Who Whirled The Soul” (broadcast 1/15/16)

Twinkle Twinkle Little Rock Star: Life On Mars 
David Bowie: Space Oddity (w/John Hutchinson) 
Peter Gabriel: Heroes 
David Bowie: Slip Away
Lou Reed: Perfect Day 
David Bowie: The London Boys 
Mick Ronson: Growing Up and I'm Fine
Anna Calvi: Lady Grinning Soul 
David Bowie: All the Madmen 
Lulu: Watch That Man 
David Bowie: Loving the Alien 
The Gourds: Ziggy Stardust 
David Bowie: 'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore 
Ed Kuepper: The Man Who Sold The World 
David Bowie: Seven 
Dana Gillespie: Andy Warhol 
David Bowie: My Death 
Mott The Hoople: All the Young Dudes (DB, vocal) 
David Bowie: Absolute Beginners 
The Polecats: John, I'm Only Dancing
David Bowie: Lazarus 
David Bowie: Liza Jane 
Replicants: The Bewlay Brothers 
David Bowie: Moonage Daydream 
Peter Noone: Oh You Pretty Things 
David Bowie: Blue Jean 
David Bowie: Five Years
Tom Jones w/Chrissie Hynde & the Pretenders: Lust For Life 3:39
David Bowie: The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell (Stigmata ver.) 4:46
Iggy & The Stooges: Raw Power 4:18
David Bowie (w/the Hype): Waiting For The Man 
32. David Bowie (w/the Spiders From Mars): White Light/White Heat
33. David Bowie (w/the Spiders From Mars): Sweet Head
34. David Bowie: A Better Future
35. David Bowie: Where Have All The Good Times Gone?
36. David Bowie: Rebel Rebel

“The Original Versions" (broadcast 10/18/24)

Ray Stevens: Sunday Morning Coming Down
Kris Kristofferson: Help Me Make It Through The Night
Roger Miller: Me And Bobby McGee
Howard Tate: Get It While You Can
Nat King Cole Trio: (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
Ron Davies: It Ain't Easy
Biff Rose: Fill Your Heart
Betty Hutton: It’s Oh So Quiet
Bessie Banks: Go Now
David Bowie: The Man Who Sold the World
Barrett Strong: Money (That's What I Want)
Gloria Jones: Tainted Love
Darryl Hall & John Oates: Everytime You Go Away
The Four Preps: Love of the Common People
Joy Division: Love Will Tear Us Apart              
Ray Noble: Harlem Nocturne
Sir Mack Rice: Mustang Sally
Jackie DeShannon: Needles And Pins
Bill Monroe: Blue Moon Of Kentucky
Shorty Long: Devil With The Blue Dress
Hoagy Lands: Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand
J.J. Cale: After Midnight
Fleetwood Mac: Black Magic Woman
Fred Neil: Everybody’s Talkin’
Mickey Newbury: An American Trilogy
Kai Winding: Time Is On My Side
Willie Mabon: The Seventh Son
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup: My Baby Left Me
The Leaves: Hey Joe, Where You Gonna Go?
The Valentinos: It's All Over Now
John Kongos: He’s Gonna Step On You Again
T-Bone Walker: Stormy Monday
Richard Berry & The Pharaohs: Louie Louie
Shuggie Otis: Strawberry Letter 23
Laura Nyro: Stoned Soul Picnic
Bobby "Blue" Bland: Turn On Your Love Light
Yvonne Fair: I Found You
Chuck Berry: Come On
The Crickets: I Fought The Law                        
Big Star: Thirteen
Evie Sands: I Can't Let Go
Willie Nelson: Crazy (demo)    
Howlin’ Wolf: Spoonful
Johnny Kidd & The Pirates: Shakin’ All Over
Brinsley Schwarz: (What’s So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding
Jimmy Reed: Shame Shame Shame                                       
Wilbert Harrison: Let’s Stick Together (partial)

PURE Presents Rich (MX-80) Stim - “Siblings” (broadcast 12/20/24)

Brothers & Sisters

Billie Eilish: I Don’t Wanna Be You Anymore
 Nino Tempo & April Stevens: Deep Purple 
The Honeycombs: Have I The Right? 
The Collins Kids: Go Away Don’t Bother Me 
The Ramrods: Ghost Riders In The Sky 
Naziah & Zoheb Hassan: Aag 
The Carpenters: (They Long To Be) Close to You
 Len: Beautiful Day (feat. Biz Markie) 
The Magic Numbers: Shotgun Wedding 
The White Stripes: Seven Nation Army 
The Corrs: I Never Really Loved You Anyway 
Wild Belle: Love Like This 
 Sly & The Family Stone: Family Affair

Sisters

HAIM: Summer Girl 
Patience & Prudence: Tonight You Belong To Me 
Ibeyi: Sister 2 Sister 
The Pointer Sisters: Fire 
The Shangri-Las: Leader of The Pack 
The Roches: Mr. Sellack 
Midi, Maxi & Efti: Ragga Steady 
The Breeders: Cannonball 
Heart: What About Love 
The Forester Sisters: Men
 The Pleasure Seekers: What A Way To Die 
Sister Sledge: We Are Family 
Soho: Hippychick 
Larkin Poe: Bad Spell
 The Ronettes: Be My Baby

Brothers

The Beach Boys: Warmth Of The Sun 
The Brothers Johnson: Come Together 
The Everly Brothers: When Will I Be Loved 
The Kinks: Tired Of Waiting 
Oasis: Supersonic
 Cannonball Adderley: Cannonball’s Theme 
Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E.: Chillin’ On The Westside 
The Isley Brothers: It’s Your Thing 
The Psychedelic Furs: Sister Europe 
The Allman Brothers: One More Ride (outtake) 
The Black Crowes: Hard To Handle
 Devo: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction 
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Run Through The Jungle 
Gojira: Mea Culpa (Ah! Ca ira!) 
The Bee Gees: Staying Alive (Teddybears 2007 remix) 
Happy Mondays: Step On

"PURE Presents Hamell On Trial" (broadcast 4/18/14)

Hamell On Trial: The Meeting
Frank Sinatra: I Get a Kick Out of You
Hamell On Trial: Big As Life
Elvis Presley: Good Rockin Tonight
Little Richard: Tutti Frutti
Hamell On Trial: Choochtown
The Primitives: The Ostrich
Hamell On Trial: Happiest Man in the World (live @WPKN)
Bob Dylan: Like A Rolling Stone
Hamell On Trial: Blood of The Wolf
? & the Mysterians: 96 Tears
Hamell On Trial: Don't Kill
The Animals: Don’t Bring Me Down
Hamell On Trial: The Vines
The Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever
Hamell On Trial: Open Up The Gates
The Stooges: T.V. Eye
Hamell On Trial: Folsom Prison Blues
George Jones: He Stopped Loving Her Today
Hamell On Trial: Hail (live @WPKN)
The Replacements: Bastards Of Young
Hamell On Trial: Hoo Hoo Song

“PURE Presents Sara Hickman” (broadcast 1/17/25)

Stereo Total: I Am Naked  
Viagra Boys: Punk Rock Loser
William Shatner: Common People
Rah Rah: Art & Wife
Cassandra Wilson: Harvest Moon
Landon Pigg: Falling in Love At A Coffee Shop
The Roches We
Amy Rigby: Back From Amarillo
Flight of the Conchords: Ladies of the World
Billie Eilish: bury a friend
Davíd Garza: I Know
Janelle Monáe: Make Me Feel
Peggy Lee: Elmer’s Tune
Petty Booka: Fujiyama Mama
Rodney Crowell: Moving Work of Art
St. Even: Having Sex
Parthenon Huxley: Playing Her Guitar
Bebel Gilberto: Aganju
Next of Kin: Jekyll & Hyde
Flora & Fawna: Long Shot
Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie: Feel About You
Billy Harvey: Emptiness is Everything
Pale Honey: Lonesome
Peter Sellers & Spike Milligan: She Loves You
Crowded House: Weather With You
Barbara K: My Name is Truth
Alexi Murdoch: Orange Sky
Vance Gilbert: Goodbye Pluto
Sara Hickman: Mother’s Little Helper
Claire & The Reasons: Pluto
Austin Haggerty: Sara Hickman!!
Domestic Science Club: Calm of Your Heart
Jeff Goldblum & Sarah Silverman: Me & My Shadow
Jane Siberry: Everything Reminds Me of My Dog
Two Nice Girls: I Spent My Last $10 on Birth Control & Beer
Marvin Etzioni:  You Possess Me (w/Maria McKee)
Willie Nelson: Simply
David Mead: Landlocked
The Wallflowers: One Headlight 
Mike Doughty: Busting up a Starbucks
Shawn Hook: Sound of Your Heart
Lorrie Singer & Bradley Kopp:  Breakfast In Bed
Ssion: Blonde With You
Rain Perry: Thank You 
popMantra: The Heavy Wind
Sara Hickman: Salvador

“Tea or Coffee?” (broadcast 4/17/20)

Zoot Horn Rollo: Cowboy Coffee
Gretchen Peters: Love That Makes A Cup Of Tea
Martin Newell: Miss Van Houten's Coffee Shop 
Shelby Lynne: Iced Tea 
22 Pistepirkko: Coffee Girl 
Pink Martini: Tea for Two (feat. Jimmy Scott)
Los Fabulocos: The Coffee Song
Kirsty MacColl: Queen of The High Teas 
Etta James: Cigarettes & Coffee 
Bermondsey Joyriders / John Sinclair: Cuppa Tea 
Brian Cullman: Coffee 
Stackridge: Teatime 
Bill Brock: A Cup Of Coffee (Then I'll Go) 
Bob Marley: One Cup Of Coffee
Jo-Jo Adams w/Maxwell Davis & His Band: When I'm In My Tea 
Stereo Venus: Coffee And Honey (feat. Rumer) 
Paul McCartney: English Tea 
Powfu: death bed/coffee for your head (feat. Beabadoobee)
Marianne Faithfull: Black Coffee 
The Police: Tea In the Sahara
Yuna: Coffee 
Kacey Musgraves: Cup Of Tea
Blur: Coffee & TV
The Kinks: Afternoon Tea
Kate Tempest: Perfect Coffee 
Flying Lotus: Tea Leaf Dancers 
Garbage: Cup Of Coffee 
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band: The Boston Tea Party
David Allan Coe: Coffee 
Leon Redbone: When I Take My Sugar to Tea 
Squeeze: Black Coffee In Bed 
Family: Buffet Tea for Two 
Greg Klyma: Coffee and Weed 
The Kinks: Have A Cuppa Tea (Alternate Version) 
Ella Mae Morse: Forty Cups of Coffee 
Sidney Simien & His All-Stars: She's My Morning Coffee 
Shpongle: Around the World in a Tea Daze 

"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
(PSAs)

"Blackness" (broadcast 2/13/24)

Al Green: Strong As Death (Sweet As Love)
William DeVaughn: Be Thankful For What You Got
Ann Peebles: Hangin’ On
Ketty Lester: Love Letters
The Chi-Lites: Have You Seen Her
The Impressions: People Get Ready
Paul Kelly: Stealing In The Name Of The Lord
Otis Redding: Try A Little Tenderness
James Carr: The Dark End Of The Street
Fern Kinney: Together We Are Beautiful
Ashford & Simpson: Gimme Something Real
Candi Staton: He Called Me Baby
David Ruffin: Walk Away From Love
The Flirtations: Nothing But A Heartache
Yvonne Fair: It Should Have Been Me
Dorothy Moore: Misty Blue
The Isley Brothers: That Lady
William Bell: You Don't Miss Your Water
Little Beaver: Party Down
The Dells: Stay In My Corner
Lorraine Ellison: Stay With Me
Barbara Lewis: Hello Stranger
Etta James: At Last
Ben E. King: Supernatural Thing, Pt. 1
Doris Troy: Just One Look
Latimore: Let’s Straighten It Out
Us3: Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
The Spinners: The Rubberband Man
George McCrae: Rock Your Baby
The Marvelettes: I’ll Keep Holding On
Gladys Knight & The Pips: Just Walk In My Shoes
Millie Jackson: Loving Arms [Live]
The O’Jays: Back Stabbers
Donald Byrd: Black Byrd
Gloria Jones: Tainted Love
Brenda Holloway: Think It Over (Before You Break My Heart)
The Showstoppers: Ain’t Nothing But A Houseparty
Cheryl Lynn: I’ve Got Just What You Need
James Brown: Night Train
Marvin Gaye: I Want You
Al Green: Take Me To The River
The Isley Brothers: Love The One You're With
Parliament: Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)
Aretha Franklin: Rock Steady (Alternate Mix)
Betty Harris: Cry To Me
Tami Lynn: Wings Upon Your Horns
The Three Degrees: When Will I See You Again
Norma Jean Wright: Saturday
Darlene Love: Ooh-Wee Baby
Ramsey Lewis Trio: The "In" Crowd
Betty Davis: Stars Starve, You Know
Bobby "Blue" Bland: I Wouldn't Treat a Dog (The Way You Treated Me)
Jackie Moore: Sweet Charlie Babe
Odyssey: Native New Yorker (Extended)
Sister Sledge: He’s the Greatest Dancer
Donny Hathaway: The Ghetto
Interboro Rhythm Team: Watch The Closing Doors
Keith Barrow: Turn Me Up (instr.)

"Saturday Afternoon Delight" (broadcast 3/23/24 )

Shadows Of Knight: Oh Yeah
Roy Orbison: In Dreams
Elvis Costello & The Attractions: Green Shirt
Ruben Blades y Seis Del Solar: Muevete
Loudon Wainwright III: Down Drinking At The Bar
Bob Dylan: Everything Is Broken
Gene Casey & The Lone Sharks: Bad Baby
MC5: Shakin’ Street
Alice Cooper: Lost In America
Dr. Feelgood: All Through The City
Brinsley Schwarz: Surrender to the Rhythm
ABBA: The Visitors
Them: (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
Johnny Rivers: Willie And The Hand Jive
The Screaming Blue Messiahs: I Wanna Be a Flintstone
Felt: Primitive Painters
Blondie: Atomic
Family: It’s Only a Movie
Roxy Music: Love Is The Drug
Public Image Ltd.: Cruel
Josefin Öhrn & the Liberation: Take Me Beyond
? & The Mysterians: 96 Tears
T. Rex: Metal Guru          
The Rubettes: Sugar Baby Love
Ace Frehley: New York Groove
Mud: Tiger Feet
Gay Dad: To Earth With Love
Mott The Hoople: Honaloochie Boogie
David Bowie: Queen Bitch
The Motors: Love And Loneliness
Garbage: Betcha
Bjork: Big Time Sensuality
Ariana Grande & Mariah Carey: yes, and?
Lou Reed: Dirty Blvd
Beyoncé: Texas Hold ‘Em
John Kongos: He’s Gonna Step On You Again
Burundi Stevenson Black: Burundi Black (2E Partie)
Adam & The Ants: Antmusic
Faye Webster: Thinking About You
In These Trees & Tartie: The Orchard
Odetta & Dr. John (w/John Campbell): Brother Can You Spare A Dime

"Angels & Devils" (broadcast 3/5/21)

Paul Thorn: Angel Too Soon
The Beatles: Devil In Her Heart
Mikel Rouse: Guide To Angels
Bryan Ferry: Sympathy For The Devil
Lukas Nelson, Promise Of The Real w/ Neil Young: Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground
Michael Doucet and Tom Rigney: Chasing the Devil
Terry Allen: Angels of the Wind
Lee Ann Womack: Sleeping With The Devil
Cowboy Junkies: Misguided Angel
Mark Knopfler: Devil Baby
Hollie Cook: Angel Fire
Dandy Livingstone: Suzanne Beware of the Devil
Randy Newman: Harps And Angels
J.J. Cale: Devil In Disguise
Elvis Costello: (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes (demo)
Albert Castiglia: Where the Devil Makes His Deals
Patti Smith Group: Ask The Angels
Elvis Presley: (You're The) Devil In Disguise
Bobby Bare: The Trouble With Angels
John Campbell: Devil in My Closet
John Campbell: Angel of Sorrow
Chumbawamba: The Devil's Interval
Kirsty MacColl: Angel
Atomic Rooster: Devil's Answer
Wizzard: Angel Fingers
Sarah Shook & the Disarmers: Devil May Care
Laura Cantrell: I Don't Claim To Be An Angel
Tony Joe White: They Caught The Devil And Put Him In Jail In Eudora, Arkansas
Trailer: Bury Me An Angel
Suzi Quatro: Devil Gate Drive
Alan Vega: Angel
Chris Isaak: Speak Of The Devil
The Psychedelic Furs: Angels Don't Cry
Gene Vincent: Race With The Devil
Nick Lowe: How Do You Talk to an Angel
Ronnie Dawson: Up Jumped The Devil
Rosie Flores: His Rockin' Little Angel
Sarah Quintana: In The Devil's Country, Part 1
Happy Mondays: Angel
Grateful Dead: Friend of the Devil (demo)
The Rolling Stones: Sweet Black Angel
Shorty Long: Devil With The Blue Dress
The Penguins: Earth Angel