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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.