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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
158 episodes
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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Almost a Radio Show - Lickspittle!
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 call...
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Almost a Radio Show - Borborygmus!
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...
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Almost a Radio Show - Verjuice!
Trivia, whack facts, dud inventions, a Darwin Award and a song that has been covered 212 times – Ralph McTell’s Streets of London… Doug Parkinson formed a band that had Tommy Emmanuel on guitar… Daddy Cool is the one-hit-wonder and Diana Ross a...
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Almost a Radio Show - Cingulomania!
Cingulomania is a strong desire to hold someone in your arms… 10CC’s Graham Gouldman in his first band… multiple Darwin Awards in the one moment of idiocy… Leo Sayer’s show must go on… Where Do You Go to My Lovely is the one-hit-wonder… plus wh...
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Almost a Radio Show - Clinomania!
Do you know anyone who is addicted to bed? Do you know which female artist was responsible for giving Mick Jagger his ‘moves’? Do you know how ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman became his own son's ex-son-in-law, the father-in-law of his ex-mot...
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Almost a Radio Show - Penultimatum!
Penultimate means second to last and a penultimatum is almost the final offer. It is like a bluff. Donald (TACO) Trump is good at it… “Your 10% tariff is now 67%. And that’s final! Um… what about 20%? That’s final. No??? Would you like...
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Almost a Radio Show - Penknife!
Can you guess why the penknife was invented? We have Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett before Pink Floyd… Another worthy idiot wins a Darwin Award…Another Number One hit that took 300 years to chart… and another one-hit-wonder from Roger Voudourus. More...
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Almost a Radio Show - Lollapalooza!
Lollapalooza… an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event…. Another idiot gets a Darwin Award for removing himself from the gene pool… More whack facts and life hacks along with a dud invention – the wine dispensing bra… There’s Graham ...
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Almost a Radio Show - Hireath!
Hiraeth is a curious Welsh word to kick-start this week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast… there is a song called My Jellybean… another deserving winner of a Darwin Award… a cover of a 300-year-old song… Lucky Starr with his biggest hit… Starbuck d...
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