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MSing About
Ian is an award-winning comedy writer with MS and in the current series, Almost a Radio Show, he teams up with his singer/comedian mate, Dave Prior, for a weekly half-hour of great music, trivia, fun factoids and spontaneous silliness.
Episodes
167 episodes
Almost a Radio Show - Parlour!
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 Midnig...
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Almost a Radio Show - Moribund!
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 Ap...
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Almost a Radio Show - Panglossian!
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 ...
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Almost a Radio Show - Fudgel!
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...
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Almost a Radio Show - Nemotia!
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 voca...
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Almost a Radio Show - Sombrero!
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...
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Almost a Radio Show - Kakorrhaphiophobia!
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...
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Almost a Radio Show - Maugry!
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...
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Almost a Radio Show - Mythomania!
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 sing...
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Almost a Radio Show - Fygophobia!
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, wh...
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Almost a Radio Show - Slipfast!
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 su...
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Almost a Radio Show - Justing!
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 ...
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Almost a Radio Show - Exulansis!
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, si...
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Almost a Radio Show - Trumspringer!
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 o...
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Almost a Radio Show - Idlewild!
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 L...
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Almost a Radio Show - Cenosilicaphobia!
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 surprisin...
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Almost a Radio Show - Backmasking!
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 Da...
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Almost a Radio Show - Looseleft!
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 Am...
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Almost a Radio Show - Poggled!
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, Ot...
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Almost a Radio Show - Sonder!
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 ...
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Almost a Radio Show - Kickdrop!
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 Gar...
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Almost a Radio Show - Lilo!
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 ...
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Almost a Radio Show - Vellichor!
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 Darwi...
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