According to Brian Long in his book The London Sound, both sides of the Beatles' single were now being played on Big L due to the saturation play that Help! was getting on radio and tv. As the record slips to #12 this week, Radio London starts to list the B-side I'm Down alongside Help! in the Fab Forty.

Something else that Brian points out is the amusing play on words that provided the stage name for the artist who enters the Fab 40 at #38 this week. Ernest Evans was said to resemble a young Fats Domino, so it seemed only natural he should be renamed Chubby Checker!

Additional notes from Mary Payne:

A recording of the Kenny and Cash Show broadcast on Thursday, Sept 2nd does indeed include an airing of I'm Down, plus a brief interview with Chubby Checker, taped the previous Saturday during the Radio London Club afternoon at the Marquee Club. Chubby must have been in the UK promoting his new single and was clearly attempting to shake off his outdated 'twist' image.

Kenny and Dave had the Marquee crowd yelling, "We want knees! We want knees!". We had long wondered if this had been an attempt on their part to get Decca to release their Knees single and to have it accepted onto the Big L playlist. However, it's uncertain whether they had actually recorded the song at this stage. Perhaps the Marquee crowd had merely been attempting to incite a display of patellae! (Possibly Chubby Checker's.)

So far, no recorded evidence has emerged of either side of the Kenny and Cash record having received airplay on Radio London. This was despite the single's B-side – called The B-Side (what else?) – being a product of the Radlon-linked publishing company, Pall Mall Music. The B Side was moved by Decca to the 'A' side (which, as the song's creator, David Cumming points out, made no sense whatsoever) and the single did not see the light of day till November 12th. Climber lists from this period are far from complete, but one explanation as to why Knees might have failed to make the playlist, could be that by November, Dave Cash had moved to the Breakfast Show and the much-loved Kenny and Cash Show was no more. At this stage, Ben Toney probably considered that the only point in Big L promoting a novelty single might have been a possible revenue for Pall Mall. (Thanks to the Pirate Radio Hall of Fame).