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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.