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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?