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Trumspringer!This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast has trivia, whack facts, a double-doozy Darwin Award and the invention is eyeglasses for chickens. Plus there’s Denny Doherty in a band before he became famous. Denny who? He was one of the papas in the Mamas and the Papas. Newlyweds James Taylor and Carly Simon sing the duet, Mockingbird, madly in love before the marriage went pear-shaped… Peter Blakely has the one-hit-wonder, Crying in the Chapel… Mary Spender has a nice acoustic cover of The Beatles’ Blackbird and we remember saxophonist, James Valentine with The Models.

This week’s Almost a Radio Show has Frida from ABBA before she found fame in ABBA… Tones and I doing a fabulous cover of Men At Work’s iconic Down Under… the one-hit-wonder is I’m the Urban Spaceman and the fabulous Elvis Costello sings Penny Lane to Paul Macartney. There’s Ian’s favourite AI rendition of an original Dave and Ian song plus whack facts and the usual fun.

Cenosilicaphobia is the fear of an empty glass. Thanks for the word, Robbo! Kim Carnes is in a band before she became famous… Bette Midler does a fabulous cover of a Beach Boys song… Aussie band, The Ferrets, has the one-hit wonder… a surprising but good cover of a Beatles song by Aerosmith… plus a Darwin Award, whack facts, trivia and some more fun with AI.

In this week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast, James Taylor in his first band… Linda Ronstadt covers Dee Dee Warwick’s You’re No Good… Happy Birthday Helen is the one-hit-wonder by Things of Stone and Wood… and Miley Cyrus belts out Help!… Plus Dave an Ian are still playing with AI, a Darwin Award, whack facts and trivia.

In this week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast, Russell Morris in his first band with Molly Meldrum producing… the cover is Dedicated to the One I Love… Exile has the one-hit-wonder, Kiss You All Over, Dave and Ian find a new toy in AI, and Tori Amos does a moving, fragile cover of The Beatles’ She’s Leaving Home. Plus a Darwin Award, whack facts, good inventions that are now museum pieces or landfill and a few surprises.

Almost a Radio Show this week has teenager, Leonard Cohen, in his first band, The Buckskin Boys… Alan O’Day swings his one-hit-wonder, Undercover Angel, AI does a cover of a Dave Prior original (Scary!), there is a great Cream song rom 1968, Otis Redding covers Day Tripper, plus whack facts, a Darwin Award and how close Australia came to having its capital city named Sydmeladelperbriho. 

In this week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast there’s Brian May and Roger Taylor’s first band, before Freddie Mercury took them to rock-god status in Queen… There’s Louden Wainwright’s son, Rufus, with a great cover…The Dynamic Hepnotics have the one-hit-wonder… Supergroup Blind Faith can’t find their way home and Roxy Music’s only UK Number One with the cover of a John Lennon song. Plus another Darwin Award, whack facts and a dud invention.  

Almost a Radio Show’s word of the week is kickdrop, a recently invented word to describe that moment you jolt awake from a vivid dream and have to recalibrate to the real world. There’s a song from Artie Garr before he owned up to being Art Garfunkel… plus Bette Midler, Bryan Ferry and Francesco Paolo LoVecchio – who is better known as Frankie Laine. Oh! Leo Sayer has a cover of The Beatles’ I Am the Walrus. And, a always there are whack facts, a dud invention and a Darwin Award.              

This week’s special word is lilo – not the blow-up bed but it’s a recently invented word to describe a friendship that can lie dormant for years only to pick right back up instantly, as if you’d seen each other last week. There’s some terrific music from covers and a one hit wonder, another Darwin Award, whack facts and great invention that became an environmental disaster.

Who did the best Woodstock – Joni Mitchell or Crosby Stills Nash & Young? Who did The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia? Which rock guitarist did Nessun Dorma? Who did a great cover of The Beatles’ Lady Madonna? Plus whack facts, a Darwin Award and fun banter. 

There’s Ian Dury in his first band… Somethin’ Stupid is the cover… Concrete and Clay is the one-hit-wonder… There’s The Band with The Weight and Aretha Franklin does The Beatles cover… plus the Darwin Award, whack facts and a dud invention called the Moustache Shield to stop food and drink invading a hairy top lip.

Borborygmus is the medical term for tummy rumbles… There’s Chris Isaak in his first band… a cover that beats the original – Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood… There’s Hans Poulsen with a one-hit-wonder… Chicago with the meaning of 25 or 6 to 4… the Beatles cover is Paperback Writer… plus an invention, whack facts and a Darwin Award to an idiot who improved our collective gene pool by removing himself from it.

Trivia, whack facts, dud inventions, a Darwin Award and a song that has been covered 212 times – Ralph McTell’s Streets of London… Doug Parkinson formed a band that had Tommy Emmanuel on guitar… Daddy Cool is the one-hit-wonder and Diana Ross and The Supremes do the Beatles cover.

Cingulomania is a strong desire to hold someone in your arms… 10CC’s Graham Gouldman in his first band… multiple Darwin Awards in the one moment of idiocy… Leo Sayer’s show must go on… Where Do You Go to My Lovely is the one-hit-wonder… plus whack facts, dud inventions and a Beatles cover.

Do you know anyone who is addicted to bed? Do you know which female artist was responsible for giving Mick Jagger his ‘moves’?  Do you know how ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman became his own son's ex-son-in-law, the father-in-law of his ex-mother-in-law, as well as the step-grandfather of his ex-wife? Do you know Greg Almann’s first band? Do you remember great Aussie rocker Jeff St John? As always there are whack facts, musings, a Darwin Award, a couple of dud inventions plus an amazing interpretation of a Beatles song. 

Penultimate means second to last and a penultimatum is almost the final offer. It is like a bluff. Donald (TACO) Trump is good at it… “Your 10% tariff is now 67%. And that’s final! Um… what about 20%? That’s final. No??? Would you like fries with that?” We’ve got Roger Daltry in his first band…another idiot gets a Darwin Award… The Rolling Stones Time Is on My Side is a cover… Alanah Miles has a one-hit-wonder… there is a song that was a hit in 1945, 1956, 1963 and today! There is a surprise Beatles cover… plus musings, whack facts and another dud invention.

Can you guess why the penknife was invented? We have Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett before Pink Floyd… Another worthy idiot wins a Darwin Award…Another Number One hit that took 300 years to chart… and another one-hit-wonder from Roger Voudourus. More life hacks and whack facts, a dud invention and a Beatles cover from Nina Simone…

Lollapalooza… an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event…. Another idiot gets a Darwin Award for removing himself from the gene pool… More whack facts and life hacks along with a dud invention – the wine dispensing bra… There’s Graham Nash in his first band… Reggae Red Red Wine is the cover… Double-Barrel is the one hit wonder… Joe Cocker sings so beautifully… and Sherbert has a Beatles cover.

Hiraeth is a curious Welsh word to kick-start this week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast… there is a song called My Jellybean… another deserving winner of a Darwin Award… a cover of a 300-year-old song… Lucky Starr with his biggest hit… Starbuck does the one-hit-wonder… Canadian Sarah McLachlan has a sweet performance of Blackbird off the Beatles White Album and there are the usual life hacks, whack facts, banter and fun…

This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast is brought to you by a fear of happiness – yes, there is such a phobia… There’s Annie Lennox in a band before the Eurhythmics… Another winner of the coveted Darwin Award who improved our gene pool by removing himself from it… Limp Bizkit covers The Who… Barry Crocker has a one-hit-wonder… there’s the late but wonderful Billy Thorpe and Blood Sweat & Tears cover The Beatles plus whack facts, musing and a dud invention… 

In Yiddish, would you rather be a mensch or a schmuck? Also in this Almost a Radio Show podcast, Roy Orbison in his first band, The Wink Westerners… Luke Combs covering Tracy Chapman… Electric Avenue is the one-hit-wonder… we dig up the terrific English-Aussie rocker, Jon English… Stevie Wonder works it out with a Beatles cover… Hair in a Can is the failed invention and a Canadian lawyer improves our collective gene pool by removing himself from it to take out the Darwin Award… and, as usual, there are musing, banter, trivia and deep meaning of life thoughts like, does a drinking straw have one hole or two?

Clever but unscrupulous – that’s a ‘snollygoster’… Also in this Almost a Radio Show podcast, Mama Cass in a band before she became famous… Eva Cassidy covering a Fleetwood Mac song… Nicolette Larson with a Lotta Love for the one-hit-wonder… Leonard Cohen with a lotta love for his Norwegian muse, Marianne Ilhen… Marmalade spreads out for the Beatles cover and we have a winner of the Darwin Awards who improved the world’s gene pool by removing himself from it…

Almost a Radio Show is brought to you by deipnosophists. Where would we be without them?! There is Olivia Newton John in a band before she became famous… but, if you are in Sweden you can’t dance to it in public without a permit… Soft Cell does the cover song… Blind Melon has the one-hit-wonder… Canadian blind guitarist, Jeff Healey does a Beatles cover backed by George Harrison… and there are whack-facts and great Aussie inventions!  

This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast is brought to you by dunderheads and other old-time fools. Eric Carmen started out in a band called The Raspberries. How many paper straws can you stick and hold in a beard? (Hint: More than 100, less than 1000). There is a surprise cover by The Gipsy Kings… the Nashville Teens provide the one-hit-wonder… there are a couple of turtles happy together and Matchbox 20 covers a Beatles song live in Sydney…

In this Almost a Radio Show, the recent Russian fad of defenestration... Carole King is in a band before becoming a solo sensation... Sting covers Elton John... Jonathan Edwards has his one-hit-wonder... We remember the late George Michael... Thomas Edison performs Mary Had a Little Lamb... Dear Prudence gets a post-punk goth-rock twist plus trivia, fun facts, life hacks and chat.

In this Almost a Radio Show we discover that Dave is a pluviophile... Debbie Harry is in a band before Blondie... George Michael performs a sensational cover... The Lemon Pipers have a one-hit-wonder from 1968... We remember Ace Frehley from KISS... There is (arguably) the top ten inventions of all time... There's trivia, life hacks and The Bee Gees covering a Beatles song.

A look back at some 40 musicians who died in 2025 but who will live on through their music... including Peter, Paul & Mary, Roberta Flack, Marianne Faithful, Col Joye, Tom Lehrer, Ted Egan, The Beach Boys, Mungo Jerry, The Youngbloods, Badfinger, Limp Bizkit, The Band, The Moody Blues, Supertramp, The Searchers, Blood Sweat & Tears, Brenton Wood, The Band and The Easybeats. 

This Almost a Radio Show one-hour special is really Dave and Ian finding their Christmas musical playlist. Some songs are traditional, some are contemporary, some might surprise. There's John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Joni Mitchell, Jethro Tull, Merle Haggard, Elvis Presley, Paul Kelly, Bing Crosby & David Bowie, The Weathergirls, Bill & Boyd, Chris Rea, Jose Feliciano, Michael Buble, Tim Minchin, Bill Nighy, The Tractors, Slade, Craig Thompson, The Irish Rovers, Mariah Carey and Bruce Springsteen.

In this episode of Almost a Radio Show... Leon Russell in his first band... Whitney Houston covers Dolly Parton... Carl Douglas performs his one-hit-wonder... Jethro Tull has a stunning instrumental composition... Esther Phillips covers a Beatles classic... there's an accidental invention, trivia, fun factoids and the usual banter.

This Almost a Radio Show is brought to you by finely developed buttocks... there's Kenny Rogers in his first band... a cover by Janis Joplin... a one-hit-wonder by Frente... Procol Harem with a great song that ISN'T Whiter Shade of Pale... and Michael Jackson does the cover of a Beatles song... plus the usual fun factoids, trivia and banter.

Almost a Radio Show is feelin’ groovy… there’s Suzi Quatro’s first band… Jose Feliciano has a great cover, Edie Brickell has the one-hit-wonder, Roberta Flack sings Leonard Cohen and Johnny Young has the Beatle’s song he sang more than 800 times!

Nock is Almost a Radio Show’s word of the week… The Flying Machine is James Taylor’s first band… Tina Turner covers Proud Mary… She Didn’t Remember My Name is the one-hit wonder… and can you remember the song featured in Groundhog Day, at six o’clock every morning?

Almost a Radio Show is brought to you by an oxymoron… there’s Johnny O’Keefe in his first band… Harry Nilsson writes a song for the Monkees, buys a London Flat that sees off Mama Cass and Keith Moon and performs a song from the only R-Certificate movies to win the Best Picture Oscar… Eye of the Tiger is the one-hit-wonder and Joe Cocker sings a Beatles ballad…

This week’s word on Almost a Radio Show is cockwomble… there’s Minnie Ripperton’s first band when she was 15… LSD is the accidental invention, there’s kangaroo trivia and fun factoids… Bob Dylan is Knocking on Heaven’s Door while the boy from New York City ties a yellow ribbon round the ole oak tree… and Joan Baez covers a Beatle’s classic.

This week on Almost a Radio Show – Shulve is the word… The Roosters is Eric Clapton’s first band… Melanie has a Rolling Stones cover… Dave Loggins has the one-hit-wonder… there’s a tragic back story to There Ain’t No Mountain High Enough… Bill Withers covers a Beatles song… plus pig trivia, fun factoids and The Streisand Effect!

Pandiculate is the word of the week. All humans and most animals do it daily! We’ve goy Tom Petty’s first band, Mudcrutch… a great cover by Natalie Imbruglia… a one-hit-wonder from Chip Taylor and Merilee Rush… Bryan Adams covers a Beatles song and lead singer Al ‘Blind Owl’ Wilson died way too young after going up the country on the road again… 

Drum roll! Bring on the noctambulist! What about J.J. Cale’s first band, Leather Coated Minds? Who could forget the classic, Cows with Guns or the one-hit-wonder by Men Without Hats? What is the accidental invention and what Beach Boys song did Paul McCartney say was the greatest song ever written? What Beatles song did Chris de Burgh cover beautifully? Yes, great music, bovine trivia and random fun factoids and banter…

An Illeist refers to himself or herself in third person. Donald Trump is good at it… Have a listen to Ozzie Osbourne before Black Sabbath… AI is no longer about Artificial Insemination… who wins the best version of the 1966 song Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down), Cher or Nancy? Whi did Bob Marley buy two BMWs? And what Beatles song did 10CC cover? 

Apricity is catching the warmth of the sun in winter! Did you know Beyonce started in a band called Girls Tyme? Not good. Did Paul McCartney really die in 1967? Do you remember Pilot of the Airwaves? Stevie Wright fronting The Easybeats before he discovered heroin and brain damage… plus fun factoids and a great cover of Yesterday that has its debut on Almost a Radio Show! 

Interrobang! Gosh. Episode 30. And apart from interrobang, Almost a Radio Show has Neil Diamond’s first band, Neil & Jack… Santana with a cover that is better than the original… Right Said Fred with a one-hit-wonder… INXS with Australia’s greatest ever song… Marianne Faithful with a sweet version of Yesterday as well as the usual banter around trivia, an accidental invention, an old-time radio commercial and fun factoids. 

Almost a Radio Show is brought to you by Glabella & Philtrum. They are not lawyers or accountants but features as plain as the nose on your face… There’s a cover song performed by a group who also wrote the original (hint – the first song written by Jagger & Richards) … and a band that included Jim Messina, Stephen Stills and Neil Young before they became famous elsewhere. There’s the usual trivia, fun factoids, accidental invention and a great song from Avicii…

Please don’t absquatulate from Almost a Radio Show because there are lots of goodies like trivia, fun factoids, an accidental invention, a boke called Sting before he became famous, a bloke called Eddie Cochran before he became 21 and Henry Deutschendorf Jr. does a lovely rendition of Yesterday!

Nothing rhymes with pint, orange, silver, bilge, month, ninth, dangerous or marathon… bit something rhymes with purple! Carly Simon sings (before she became famous), The Beatles do a cover and the late Peter Woolnough is part of Almost a Radio Show… You know Pete… He was the grandson of George who had been all around the world, but lived no special place. He changed his last name and married a girl with an interesting face…

Billingsgate is home to London’s fishmarkets and the resident fishmongers have such colourful vulgar language it is actually called Billingsgate language.  Also part of Almost a Radio Show this week – Tom Jones, the Mamas & the Papas, Katy Perry, The Bee Gees and, as an extra special treat NO Billy Ray Cyrus!

Just what is nugacity?! What band did Shirley Strachan front before finding fame in Skyhooks? What song did Cyndi Lauper cover and make her own? What Beatles number one song has not one Beatle playing an instrument? And, as usual, there's trivia, fun factoids, an accidental invention and a cover of Yesterday.

Almost a Radio Show podcast this week is brought to you by the word tarradiddle… and includes an occupation called luthier… Ronnie Burns in a band called The Flies… Manfred Mann covering Bruce Springsteen… The Troggs’ biggest hit… a Bob Dylan hit and miss… a Barrett Strong one-hit-wonder that was covered by The Beatles… an accidental invention, fun factoids and more! 

Gardyloo is the word of the day in Almost a Radio Show. It’s what people yelled from upstairs windows to warm passers-by below that they were about to empty their chamber pot onto the street. There’s Rod Stewart in a band before he became famous… Daryl Braithwaite has a cover song and Lou Bega has the one-hit-wonder… there is a surprising version of Yesterday plus fun factoids, an accidental invention and an advertising blast from the past. 

In Almost a Radio Show the word ‘textpectation’ enters the language… John Paul Young enters a band called Elm Tree… there are more portmanteaus than you can poke a podcast at… a Bob Dylan cover that knocks Bob out of the park…there’s Dexys Midnight Runner’s one-hit-wonder… Buddy Holly calls it a day… a heavy metal band takes on Yesterday… plus fun factoids and an accidental invention that literally made jaws drop.

It’s Almost a Radio Show podcast 21 and what do these have in common – buffleheads, bustards, boobies, bushtits, dickcissels, goat suckers, bog suckers and honeycreepers? Who is the famous rocker whose first band was called The Golliwogs? Which Bob Dylan song has been covered by Bryan Ferry, Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians, Leon Russell and Timothee Chalamet? Who sang the one-hit-wonder, Take a Letter to Maria? 27 Club inductee Amy Winehouse is Back to Black and Tom Jones belts out Yesterday. It’s not unusual… plus trivia, an accidental invention and a few fun factoids.

Brouhaha brings you Episode 20 of Almost a Radio Show… Who is that famous muso in a band called The Pink Finks? Who is that singer who loves rock and roll? Who fooled around and fell in love? Who was just a red brassiere to all the boys in town? And how did the humble teabag get invented by accident? Maybe Judy Collins has the answer… plus trivia and more fun factoids.