Only A Cover Song's Radio Show

Only A Cover Song's Radio Show

"Only A Cover Song" is a weekly program on Beatles-A-Rama hosted by Dan Augustine of Detroit, Michigan. And it's not just cover songs that you will hear on "Only A Cover Song", you will also hear songs about The Beatles (ie "Beatles and The Stones" by House of Love), songs that mention The Beatles within the lyrics (ie "All The Young Dudes" by Mott The Hoople), songs from the same era as The Beatles (ie"Be My Baby" by The Ronettes, songs by other groups or artists that one or more Beatles played on (ie "Badge" by Cream), songs by other musicians from Liverpool (ie Elvis Costello), "Same Title, Different Song" (ie "Come Together" by The MC5 is not the same as The Beatles' "Come Together"), songs The Beatles wrote about someone else (ie "Sexy Sadie" is about Maharishi Yogi), songs The Beatles wrote for someone else (ie Paul wrote "Woman" for Peter & Gordon), other cover songs (ie Billy Fury's cover of Conway Twitty's "It's Only Make Believe") and MUCH, MUCH MORE!

Episodes

May 27, 2023
featuring: The Kinks, Woody Woodpecker, Jean Ritchie, Alice Cooper, George Harrison, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Bonerama, Beavis & Butthead, Ringo Starr & The All-Starr Band, Blondie, The Real People, Frank Sinatra, Louis Prima and Exotic Adrian Street & the Piledrivers
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featuring: Earl Slick, Aerosmith, Mark Hudson with Earl Slick, Cream, The Cookies, David Bowie, The Kinks, Leo Sayer, Ian Hunter, Stray Cats, Bugs Bunny, Phantom Rocker & Slick, Carl Perkins & Friends and The Yardbirds
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featuring: Shelley Fabares, Madness, The Stooges, Rustix, The Teardrop Explodes, excerpt from 1951 "Abraham Lincoln" film, Hank Marr, The J. Geils Band, Roland Shaw & His Singers & Orchestra, George Harrison, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Flying Machine, The Moody Blues, The Doors and Andy Williams
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featuring: The Kinks, The Rutles, The Beatles, Crosby Stills & Nash, Danny Cox, The Hollies, Love & Rockets, Blues Magoos, The Grass Roots, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Talking Heads, Dire Straits, "Weird" Al Yankovic, Ray Conniff Singers and The Shins
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featuring: Cliff Richard & The Shadows, Herman & Angie, George Harrison, The Who, The 6ths, The Monkees, Harry Nilsson, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, The Lennon Sisters, The Michelles, Queen, Pink Floyd, Split Enz, Joe Walsh and Nu Shooz
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featuring: Beavis & Butthead, Todd Rundgren, The Beatles, Bugs Bunny, Money, Woody's Truck Stop, The Nazz, Badfinger, Utopia, Yukihiro Takahashi, Ringo Starr & The All-Starr Band and Beatles Tribute Tour Band
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featuring: Cranes, Chris Hansen, Paul Evans, Rainbow (Korea), Deep Purple, John Lennon, The Red Cats, Spontaneous Corruption, Depeche Mode, Split Enz, Mary Hopkin, Donovan, Aerosmith, Judas Priest and Little River Band
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featuring: Episode Six, Judy Garland, Jil Caplan, Manfred Mann, The Zombies, Tomorrow, Ed Alleyne-Johnson, Randy Bachman, Copycat, Paul McCartney, Stealers Wheel, Nazareth, Robin Trower, The Beatles and Razorlight
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featuring: Newsreel excerpts, The Beatles, Dionne Warwick, Humble Pie, Grand Funk Railroad, Jethro Tull, Robin Trower, David Johansen, The Clash, The Who, Simon & Garfunkel, The Police, Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton & Elton John
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featuring: Aerosmith, Gene Autry, The Contours, The Tourists, The Easybeats, The Beatles, Molly Hatchet, Gayle McCormick, Patrick Star, Smith, John Sebastian, Lovin' Spoonful, The 6ths, Al Green, The Gobshites, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Stray Kids, The Doors, Twice and Alice Cooper
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featuring: The Hollywood Vampires, The Who, The Beatles, Harry Nilsson, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Delinquents, Iggy Pop, Jimmy Liggins, Ringo Starr, Alice Cooper, The Berkeley Kites and Bull Moose Jackson
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featuring: Jeff Tweedy, The Swingin' Blue Jeans, Ataraxia, The Moments, The Faces, Rod Stewart, Spike Jones & His City Slickers, The Doobie Brothers, John Lennon, The Wedding Present, The Savages, Rush, Cheap Trick, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Yoko Ono and Laugh-In excerpt
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featuring: Jimmy Osmond, Clone High excerpt, Apple, Rory Gallagher, Brontophobia, The Fireman, Squeeze, The Stan Tracey Big Band, Jiv-A-Tones, Country Joe & The Fish, Nurse, Tom "T-Bone" Stankus, The Heard, The Bee Gees, Merlin, Darlene Gillespie, Suburban Skies and Hard Meat
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featuring: Cannibal & The Headhunters, David Bowie, Tony Sheridan with The Beatles, Ike & Tina Turner, Tina Turner, Dire Straits, The Johnny Mann Singers, Orleans, Canada's Electric Tiger Machine, Irene Cara, Chris Spedding with The Vibrators, Plastic Betrand, Patrick Logelin, Frances Black, Pixies, Ray Anthony & His Orchestra with Tommy Mercer & Marcie Miller, Soupy Sales, Ted "Lurch" Cassidy, Freddie & The Dreamers and Rocky Twis...
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featuring: George Harrison, The Vogues, Genesis, Paul Revere & The Raiders, The Coachmen, The Merseybeats, Paul McCartney & Wings, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Les Fleur de Lys, Dick Hyman, R.E.M., Village, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Joe Bauer
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featuring: Gary Wright, George Harrison, Spooky Tooth, "Captain Video & His Video Rangers" excerpt, Fanny, Gary & Billy, Traffic, Art, Suburban Skies and Tone Loc
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featuring: "Twilight Zone" excerpts, The Twilights, The Divinyls, Ronnie Burns, Terry Britten, The Art of Time Ensemble, Floyd Kramer, Spike Jones & His City Slickers, John Farnham, Little River Band, Tina Turner and Healing Force
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featuring: Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas, The Twilights, Golden Earring, The Swingle Singers, The Atlantics, The Rutles, Johnny Broom & The Handels, The Marksmen, Silverchair, The New Seekers, Pretty and Ralph McTell
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featuring: Groucho Marx with Six Hits & A Miss, Al Kooper, Suicidal Tendencies, vintage commercial excerpt, Dandy & The Israelites, The Raincoats, The Muppets, David Bowie, You Am I, Nazareth, Modern Lovers, "Weird" Al Yankovic, The B-52s and Run DMC
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featuring: R.E.M., vintage toy commercials, Wildwood, The Pattie Boyds, Cream, The Beatles, The La-De-Da Band, The Monkees, Annette Funicello, The Lennon Sisters, The Claypool Lennon Delirium, Primus, The Electric Prunes, Martika, Small Faces and Teresa Brewer
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