King Rollo

Thanks to all those who have given points to Elvis Costello so far, especially Jim for the 12. I'm stuck in mid-table now so it could be worse and could be better.

That's a good top four and they seem to be running away from the rest but still plenty of time for one of the others to catch up.

I was fairly sure that Popchartfreak was Scott Walker. It was a good discovery from him with the same big orchestration that the Walker Brothers had on their hits.

I almost convinced myself that my own song was by Fish. I was struggling to think of who might have sent him, maybe AH Gold. Fish was a great decoy to make sure that no one would guess what my entry actually was.

I like the graphics for the name of each voter and their entry.

I always take it as a compliment. It looks more like a car sponge to me than a piece of cheese.

Today would be fine for me.

The Kate Bush song didn't get a good reaction at the listenthrough. I'm going to tip Alanis Morissette for the win with Lauro Nyro as a dark horse. Dolly Parton can't be ruled out after this week's events.

Well done Jade for today's 39. Round 1: 33 Peabo Bryson Round 2: 39 💥 3 in 10: 2 Your Love Is King, Smooth Operator

Crystal Palace 1-2 Manchester City Liverpool 2-1 Nottingham Forest Bournemouth 2-1 Everton Coventry City 2-0 Hull City Tottenham Hotspur 2-2 Newcastle United Chelsea 2-1 Brighton & Hove Albion Leeds United 1-1 Brentford Sunderland 1-0 Fulham Manchester United 2-0 Ipswich Town Aston Villa 0-2 Arsenal

A second world record falls, this time for Masai Russell in the women's 100m hurdles.

The men's 400m hurdles world record has just been broken by Alison dos Santos in Zurich. Well done him.

I hadn't noticed that every line of When Will I See You Again is a question. I also didn't know that Dreadlock Holiday had sold so much. I wonder if either of 10cc's other number 1 singles will appear.

I've listened to the first eight songs. I thought I recognised the name Thunder Bae. She's the new lead singer for the revived Propaganda who you might know for Dr Mabuse and Duel in the 80s. She sang on their 2024 album. The original singers, Claudia and Susanne, are now in the other version of the group, xPropaganda.

Well done John and Tylky for today's 39s. Round 1: 39 💥 Round 2: 39 💥 3 in 10: 3 Time After Time, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, True Colors

Voted. I did a short commentary about my own song, as requested. There was a high quality of entries and my whole top 10 were very good.

Round 1: 39 💥 Round 2: 27 Higher Ground, Des'ree 3 in 10: 3 The Air That I Breathe, He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother, Bus Stop

Well done John and Jade for today's 39s. Round 1: 30 Young Americans, the year Round 2: 24 Stan, Nazareth, Good Thing 3 in 10: 3 A Winter's Tale, Rock On, Hold Me Close

25th - 31st August 1966 38. Blowin' In The Wind - Stevie Wonder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OUJ_ODGlCE Covering a Bob Dylan song this early in his career is unexpected and doing it in the Motown style doesn't really suit it. 39. Headline News - Edwin Starr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-za5o1l7Yo The headline news here is that he's found a woman he loves, so not very exciting. The backing vocalists sing "extra, extra" and "read all about it". Sadly, the days are long gone when people on street corners would try and persuade passers by to buy their newspapers. Record of the week : 32. Big Time Operator - Zoot Money and the Big Roll Band A lively modern jazz song in the style of Georgie Fame or Alan Price with Zoot Money putting plenty of effort into his vocal. One of the members of the Big Roll Band is Andy Summers who will go on to be part of The Police. The single will peak at number 25 and will be the group's only hit.

I Feel Love is the best single to appear so far and Wuthering Heights is also fantastic. The Floral Dance shows us that anything could be a big hit in the 70s with the right amount of promotion.

It's usually two weeks.

So we will start at 8pm here : https://sync-tube.de/room/zvz7L49i

Thanks, and well done to Tylky for today's double 39. Round 1: 36 The year Round 2: 33 The year, Ghetto 3 in 10: 1 Listen To Your Heart (the others I know didn't come to me)

The winner of the previous contest is always one of the three warm up songs. One of the others will be the song I think the Sophie B Hawkins vetoed person should have switched to. I might play Marlene as the other one, then.

Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumours Nik Kershaw - The Riddle Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power Of Love Tears For Fears - Shout Heaven 17 - This Is Mine No room for Chicago, Murray Head, Foreigner, Sal Solo