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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.

This Almost a Radio Show podcast is brought to you by the word ‘bumfuzzled’. It’s an old word meaning confused, baffled or puzzled. As in “I am bumfuzzled as to why Donald Trump was voted in as President again. Was it because Joe Biden spent three years looking totally bumfuzzled?” Freddie Mercury is in a band before Queen, The Ferrets perform their one-hit-wonder, Tommy Emmanuel does a great cover, Harry Chapin is the muso who died too soon, brandy is the accidental invention, and Barrington Spence belts out Yesterday. Or the day before. Because yesterday is the day before in Jamaica. Plus there’s trivia, fun factoids and more! 

Almost a Radio Show, podast number 18… 

Where would you find your acnestis? Who was in Rick and the Ravens before finding fame? What do you know about asparagus? What would be the Richie Valens cover? What was Barry McGuire’s one-hit-wonder? Who doesn’t like Israel Kamakawiwo’ole? What wonderful thing did Dom Pierre Perignon invent by accident? What did Roupa Nova and Cathy Berberien do with Yesterday?