King Rollo

Round 1: 36 The year Round 2: 30 The Drifters (I thought of The Four Tops like the contestant), Tina Turner Tie-break: 8 out of 10 3 in 10: 2 You're The First The Last My Everything, Just The Way You Are

Yes, only coming back from injury in the last few weeks counted against her. No gold medals for team GB is disappointing. The USA really dominated the championships with sixteen golds. It was great to see Ireland's Kate O'Connor win a silver medal yesterday in the heptathlon.

Liverpool 2-1 Everton Brighton 1-1 Tottenham Burnley 1-1 Nottingham Forest West Ham 1-2 Crystal Palace Wolves 0-0 Leeds Manchester Utd 2-2 Chelsea Fulham 2-1 Brentford Bournemouth 2-1 Newcastle Sunderland 1-0 Aston Villa Arsenal 2-0 Manchester City

Round 1: 30 The year, Calling Round 2: 33 Jason Donovan 3 in 10: 3 Back To Black, Valerie, Rehab

We were waiting for Club Bizarre to start. The next edition should be starting soon.

Fantastic to see Amy Hunt win a silver medal in the 200m and she has a degree from Cambridge University as well.

Well done John on two 39s. Round 1: 33 Disco, the year Round 2: 33 Bolton, Memories 3 in 10: 3 Never Gonna Give You Up, When I Fall In Love, She Wants To Dance With Me

Congratulations uhsting. It's good to see a Rolloland recycle win a song contest. I entered a song by The Haunted Youth into the Worldvision spinoff. So my overnight position of 6th place didn't change, thanks to all who voted for Ankor. Thanks Addy for another brilliantly hosted contest.

16th - 22nd September 1965 27. Almost There - Andy Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XifUaCyCO0g A warm ballad with gentle orchestration which will go as high as number 2. It's from his 1964 film 'I'd Rather Be Rich'. 33. Try To Understand - Lulu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_U7p_KarYA Lulu puts in a spirited vocal with plenty of personality and I liked the piano solo in the middle. 37. If You Gotta Go, Go Now - Manfred Mann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Tl2cVeCbY This cover of a Bob Dylan song is well put together but doesn't stand out for me as much as some of their other singles. It will, however, reach number 2. 38. Run To My Lovin' Arms - Billy Fury https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVhI_-bjATI Another fine vocal from Billy on this ballad with a big production and a strong chorus. 39. Ride Away - Roy Orbison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTUnFTY8570 Any record that Roy sings on is worth a listen but this would work better as an album track and will only reach number 34. Record of the week : 24. Baby Don't Go - Sonny and Cher There's nothing that I liked a lot this week but this was my favourite. With 'I Got You Babe' still in the top 3 this week, their previous record label have re-released this single from 1964. I'm picking it as I found the lyrics a bit more interesting than the others. It's about an 18 year old who's had a tough childhood in a small town and wants to move to a city where she thinks things will be better for her despite her boyfriend's plea to stay with him. The instrumental backing also fits well around her vocal on the verses with Sonny singing the chorus. The single will spend two weeks at number 11.

Why are the GB athletes wearing different coloured shirts? Some are in dark blue, others a light purple and at least one wearing white. All the other countries' athletes seem to be keeping to their normal national colours.

Thanks to all who have given points to 'Shoganai' so far. I think it came up on my youtube recommendations. I'll take 6th place as an overnight position. I'm pleased to see my favourite entry, 'Pollyanna', as high as second place at the moment.

Round 1: 36 The year Round 2: 36 The year 3 in 10: 3 Red Light Spells Danger, Suddenly, When The Going Gets Tough

I think those two songs are more towards pop/rock.

Round 1: 39 💥 Round 2: 33 And I Love You So by Perry Como (I guessed Solitaire by Andy Williams) 3 in 10: 2 Hanging Tough, Tonight

Thanks. Sultans Of Swing is certainly Dire Straits' best known song but I felt that one is more classic rock than soft rock. The same applied to some of the other artists here, their most popular songs might not fit into this genre.

I've edited my post and reloaded the disc 3 playlist. Can everybody see it now?

A poor start to the week for me. Round 1: 24 I'd Lie For You, New Year, Gloria Estefan, Boogie Oogie Oogie Round 2: 24 Love Changes Everything, DJ Jazzy Jeff, the year, Rock'n'Roll 3 in 10: 3 Holding Back The Years, Fairground, Stars

Disc 3 is showing up for me. If you go to one of the other playlists, you should get to it on Spotify by clicking on the "Buzzjack presents..." part which will take you to all the playlists from the series.

(Click on image to enlarge) The latest 'Buzzjack Presents' release covers soft rock, a more melodic and lighter type of rock music which emerged in the early 1970s and reached its peak in the 1980s before dying out in the early 90s. It has never been considered cool or fashionable but the Spotify numbers for most of the songs on this compilation are huge which suggests that many people still like to listen to them. There's a high quality to the vocals on all of these songs, backed up by skilled musicianship and a lush production which often includes an orchestra or at least a string section. Disc 1: The first disc opens with Foreigner's number 1 single, which closes with that memorable gospel choir, followed by 'Africa', one of the first songs you might come up with if you were asked to name a soft rock song. It's back to the 70s for Chicago's number 1 which leads on to more American groups with their best known songs. The US record buyers have always been more receptive to this type of music which often had the alternative name of adult oriented rock. The first UK representation comes on track 8 from Cutting Crew who are followed by big sellers from John Farnham, Heart and Fleetwood Mac. There's a slight country twang to the next two songs by Dr Hook and The Bellamy Brothers before things get really slushy on tracks 14 to 18. The pace increases again for the final two tracks, 'The Boys Of Summer' and 'Don't Stop Believin'. Disc 2: It's off to the cinema at the start of this disc with several songs from movie soundtracks. 'I Don't Want To Miss A Thing' from 1998 is comfortably the most recent song across the collection, I don't think there's anything else here later than 1992. I wasn't familiar with the term 'yacht rock' until I watched a BBC4 documentary about it a few years ago. Tracks 10 to 13 could all be filed under this genre with Dan Hartman obviously following Daryl Hall as he sounds so much like him. From 'Don't Dream It's Over' to the last track 'Wind Of Change' we have some of the last chart hits that could be roughly defined as being soft rock. Disc 3: It's back to the 70s when I don't think the term 'soft rock' was being used but I think the beautiful ballads from tracks 1 to 8 all have the right type of sound to be included. The next two tracks 'Make It With You' and 'A Horse With No Name' both have that laid back early 70s American sound to them before we get to the the only song from the 60s, 'Reflections Of My Life' by Marmalade. Tracks 12 to 16 encapsulate the mid 70s British folk rock/pub rock scene before we get to the much later piano led songs from Bruce Hornsby and The Range and Marc Cohn. The disc ends with a trio of classy guitar ballads by solo artists. Disc 4: Elton John, Rod Stewart and Paul McCartney covered many genres but I think the songs I've included here suit the theme. Further on, it's mainly British artists that take up this disc, including some groups that are best known for prog rock but released shorter, simpler songs to get a top 10 single. Paul Carrack, who can be heard on 'How Long' by Ace on disc 3, makes a second appearance singing 'The Living Years' with Mike and The Mechanics. Tracks 16 to 18 are all big orchestral epics before we close with 10cc's masterpiece 'I'm Not In Love'. Please go and have a listen now to the playlists below. Thanks to Colm for providing the cover art. Disc 1: Disc 2: Disc 3: Disc 4: The whole playlist:

Some surprises today with a New Zealander winning the men's steeplechase and a Swiss winning the women's 100m hurdles. Overnight, the men's marathon was the closest ever with only three hundredths of a second separating 1st and 2nd. And it's another world record for the phenomenal Armand Duplantis in the pole vault.

Houdini, I think some of next week's fixtures on that list seem to be wrong. There are eleven matches and some teams are shown as playing on Saturday and Sunday.

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That was an exciting finish to the men's 10000m. Well done the Frenchman.

Arsenal 3-0 Nottingham Forest AFC Bournemouth 2-2 Brighton & Hove Albion Crystal Palace 2-1 Sunderland Everton 2-0 Aston Villa Fulham 2-1 Leeds United Newcastle United 2-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers West Ham United 1-2 Tottenham Hotspur Brentford 1-3 Chelsea Burnley 1-3 Liverpool Manchester City 2-1 Manchester United

England have hit the third highest score in a T20 international, 304-2 against South Africa at Old Trafford. The top 2 scores were by Zimbabwe against Gambia and Nepal against Mongolia so this is the best innings score against proper bowlers. Phil Salt hit the fastest century and highest score by an England batsman (141 not out).