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In this week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast there’s Sammy Hagar in a band before he joined Van Halen… Can any of a number of top artists better the original Four Tops classic, Reach Out, I’ll Be There? Woodstock gets a look-in… Freda Payne sings her One-Hit-Wonder, Band of Gold… The Beatles’ cover is Hey Bulldog by an all-girl band plus there’s the usual random trivia, whack facts and fun… 

In this week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast there’s Joe Cocker in a band before he became Joe Cocker… Stand by Me still stands up after more than 60 years and there’s a surprisingly good cover from Cassius Clay/Muhummad Ali… the One-Hit-Wonder is Would I Lie To You?... the late, great Dolly Parton sings Bob Dylan and Peter Sellers covers a Beatles song as Dr Strangelove… plus trivia, inventions, musings and whack facts.

In this week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast there’s Jeff Lynne before the Electric Light Orchestra in a band called The Idle Race… Louis Armstrong with the first ever scat song… Gloria sung in its original Italian – yes, it’s Umberto Tozzi! (and Laura Brannigan)… Musical Youth provides the One-Hit Wonder… The Beach Boys should have known better but they cover that particular Beatles’ song… plus trivia, an invention, musings and whack facts. 

In this week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast, Benny Andersson in a band before ABBA was created… can the original (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction be beaten by a cover?... the one-hit wonder is Smoke from a Distant Fire… there is a wee tribute to the late Johnny Young… The Cure does the Beatles’ cover with Sir Paul McCartney’s son James on vocals and keyboard plus whack facts, musings and other silly stuff. 

This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast has Engelbert Humperdink before he became, well, Engelbert Humperdink… the cover is If by Bread, but is it Telly Savalas or Olivia Newton-John?... the one-hit-wonder is Oh Babe… Stone Cold features Midnight Oil with the late Rod Hirst on drums… and Peter Sellers does a fabulous version of A Hard Day’s Night… plus trivia, whack facts and an invention that was probably okay for its time.

In this week’s Almost a Radio Show, Meatloaf in a band called Popcorn Blizzard before he became famous… Bob Dylan covers Simon & Garfunkel… the one-hit-wonder is Jeans On… we have a 50-year-old song from Glenn A. Baker’s Ol’ 55…and Fiona Apple covers The Beatles’ Across the Universe… plus trivia, whack facts, musings, a dud invention and a Darwin Award.

In this week’s Almost a Radio Show, Seal in a band called Push (before he became Seal)… UB40 covers a Neil Diamond song and owns it… the One-Hit-Wonder is Neverending Story… We dig up the recently deceased Bonnie Tyler with her biggest hit and a very different cover of a Beatles hit that most will get a smile from… plus a Darwin Award, whack facts, musings and a dud invention.

In this week’s Almost a Radio Show, Ricky Martin in a band when he was aged about 12 in Puerto Rico… the cover song is by Simply Red (covering a Mick Hucknel song from his previous band, The Frantic Elevators)… the One-Hit-Wonder is from a lady by the name of Charlene… Stone Cold has two late, great singers in Freddie Mercury and David Bowie performing Under Pressure… and Barry Gibb does the Beatles cover. Plus trivia, banter, whack facts, a dud invention and a Darwin Award.  

In this week’s Almost a Radio Show, Elvis Costello in a band before he changed his name from Declan McManus… the cover song is from The Youngbloods… there is an earworm One-Hit-Wonder in Popcorn by Hot Butter… following the recent death of vocalist, David Clayton Thomas, there’s a hit single from Blood Sweat and Tears and the cover of a Beatles song is from Ray Charles, singing The Long and Winding Road. And, as usual, there are whack facts, dud inventions, musings and a Darwin Award.

In this week’s Almost a Radio Show, Barry White in a band before Love Unlimited… there’s a cover song that went to Number One for Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson and The Pet Shop Boys… Benny Hill semi-sings the One Hit Wonder… there’s a great song from a contraption called Steely Dan and a surprisingly good Beatles cover from Alice Cooper. Plus trivia, musings, whack facts, a dud invention that made a fortune and a Darwin Award!  

In this week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast – Did you know that a band called Kara’s Flowers was the forerunner to Maroon 5? Do you know what song was a hit for The Supremes, Vanilla Fudge and Kim Wilde? Who sang the One-Hit-Wonder, One Night in Bangkok? Who was Jiles P. Richardson better known as (he died in a plane crash)? What Beatles song did Emmy-Lou Harris cover? What’s the dud invention? Who picks up a Darwin Award? What are Dave’s hack Facts? So many questions!!!

This week in Almost a Radio Show there’s P!nk in a band before she became famous… The Righteous Brothers do one of the greatest covers of all time… Romeo’s Tune is the One-Hit-Wonder… Kurt Cobain performs live just before he wasn’t live anymore, U2 performs Beatles cover brilliantly plus there’s trivia a Darwin Award, whack facts, musings and fun.

This week in the Almost a Radio Show podcast there are whack facts, musings, a dud invention, a Darwin Award and a suggestion that Donald Trump may be a mythomaniac plus music from B.J. Thomas before he became famous… Peter Paul & Mary singing about drugs… a one-hit wonder from Harpo… Stone Cold has Jethro Tull and The Monkees… and Bobby McFerrin does the Beatles’ cover.

Before he was famous is Guess Who?! Well, Guess Who was a later band… Van Halen covers The Kinks… Smoking in the Boys Room is the One-Hit-Wonder… Percy Sledge pops up in Stone Cold and Cat Stevens does the Beatles cover… plus a Darwin Award, whack facts, a dud invention and a music trivia quiz!

This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast has Huey Lewis in a band before he became News-worthy… there is a duet from Elton John and Kiki Dee… I Can Help is the one-hit-wonder from Billy Swan… who remembers The Ronettes, the only girl group to support The Beatles… and Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66 have a Beatles cover with Fool on the Hill… plus a dud but clever invention, whack facts, musings and a Darwin Award.

This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast has Bobby Darin in a band called the Rinky Dinks before he became famous… Kate Bush covers Elton John…  the one-hit-wonder is Anita Ward with Ring My Bell… Bachman Turner Overdrive features in Stone Cold… Peter Frampton has the Beatles cover, Norwegian Wood plus a Darwin Award, whack facts, trivia and pointless banter…

This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast has Pat Benatar in a band before she became famous… John Farnham sings a cover from Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid… Hedgehopper’s Anonymous has the One Hit Wonder… famous stutterer, Bill Withers, sings without a stutter and Cyndi Lauper does the Beatles’ cover… plus a humdinger or a dud invention depending, whack facts, musings and a Darwin Award.

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 drink...

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!