05/02/1981 Top of the Pops

DRUMSTICKS TAP

GUITAR PLAYS

And it's a runaway success for a start, cos we've got

the Stray Cats to kick off Top Of The Pops, with Rock This Town.

Over here.

# Well, my baby and me went out late Saturday night

# I had my hair piled high and my baby just looked so right

# Well, pick you up at ten, gotta have you home at two

# Mama don't know what I got in store for you

# But that's all right, cos we're looking as cool as can be

# Well, we found a little place that really didn't look half bad

# I had a whisky on the rocks and changed half a dollar for the jukebox

# Well, I put a quarter right into that can

# But all they played was disco, man

# Come on, baby, baby, let's get out of here right away

# We're gonna rock this town

# Rock it inside out

# We're gonna rock this town

# Make 'em scream and shout

# Let's rock, rock, rock, man, rock

# We're gonna rock till we pop, we're gonna rock till we drop

# We're gonna rock this town

# Rock it inside out

# Whoa!

# Whoo!

# Whoo!

# Well, we're having a ball just a-bopping on the big dance floor

# Well, there's a real square cat, he looks a 1974

# Well, he looked at me once

# He looked at me twice

# Looked at me again and there's a-gonna be a fight

# We're gonna rock this town, we're gonna rip this place apart

# We're gonna rock this town

# Rock it inside out

# We're gonna rock this town

# Make 'em scream and shout

# Let's rock, rock, rock, man, rock

# We're gonna rock till we pop, we're gonna rock till we drop

# We're gonna rock this town

# Rock it inside out

# We're gonna rock this town

# Rock it inside out

# We're gonna rock this town

# Rock it inside out! #

Whoo!

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

DRUMS PLAY

SONG ENDS Stray Cats.

Terrific start to Top Of The Pops this week.

And straight into the top ten, at number five,

it's Blondie, of course.

A beautiful song called Rapture. Rapping quietly.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

MUSIC PLAYS

GUITAR PLAYS

INSTRUMENTAL

# Toe to toe

# Dancing very close

# Barely breathing

# Almost comatose

# Wall to wall

# People hypnotised

# And they're stepping lightly

# Hang each night in

# Rapture

# Back to back

# Sacroiliac

# Spineless movement

# And a wild attack

# Face to face

# Sadly solitude

# And it's finger popping

# 24 hour shopping

# In rapture

INSTRUMENTAL

SHE RAPS

# Fab Five Freddie told me everybody's fly

# DJ's spinning I said my, my

# Flash is fast, flash is cool

# Francois sais pas, flashe no deux

# And you don't stop, sure shot

# Go out to the parking lot

# And you get in your car and you drive real far

# And you drive all night and then you see a light

# And it comes right down and lands on the ground

# And out comes a man from Mars

# And you try to run but he's got a gun

# And he shoots you dead and he eats your head

# And then you're in the man from Mars

# You go out at night, eatin' cars

# You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too

# Mercuries and Subaru

# And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars

# Then, when there's no more cars

# You go out at night and eat up bars where the people meet

# Face to face Dance cheek to cheek

# One to one Man to man

# Dance toe to toe

# Don't move too slow, cos the man from Mars is through with cars

# He's eatin' bars, yeah wall to wall

# Door to door Hall to hall

# He's gonna eat 'em all

# Rapture, be pure

# Take a tour through the sewer

# Don't strain your brain, paint a train

# You'll be singin' in the rain

# I said don't stop Do punk rock. #

INSTRUMENTAL

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Blondie at number five. And further down the charts, but doing well,

Spandau Ballet, with the follow-up to To Cut A Long Story Short.

This is their new single,

which is called The Freeze.

INSTRUMENTAL

# Mm, blue sing La lune, sing lagoon

# These visions are making me stay

# The artist pretending it's art

# The question is where do you pay?

# Unpack my case one more time

# I'll cancel my train once again

# Destiny give me a day

# Erogenous zones win again

# Mm, blue sing La lune, sing lagoon

# These visions are making me stay

# The artist pretending it's art

# The question is where do you pay?

# Unpack my case one more time

# I'll cancel my train once again

# Destiny give me a day

# Erogenous zones win again

# Blue sing La lune, sing lagoon

# These visions are making me stay

# The artist pretending it's art

# The question is where do you...

# Do you pay? #

INSTRUMENTAL

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Spandau Ballet there, of course.

Here's a guy who has come up from Bristol.

He's been on the folk scene for a while and has himself a hit.

It's Fred Wedlock at number 19.

MUSIC: The Oldest Swinger in Town by Fred Wedlock

# When you score with a chick in a disco bar

# Take her home in your hairy little car

# Then you find you went to school with her ma and pa

# You're the oldest swinger in town

# When you won't look in a mirror in the light of day

# Swear you dyed it when your hair turns grey

# When you zip up your Wranglers and your belly's in the way

# You're the oldest swinger in town

# Here you come and there you go

# Wire wheel spokes and a stereo

# But the engine's clapped, and the driver also

# Is the oldest swinger in town

# When your barber takes a little less time each week

# The kids don't understand a word you speak

# When you walk into a disco and they offer you a seat

# You're the oldest swinger in town

# You prefer a pint of mild to Bacardi and coke

# The songs are too loud and there's too much smoke

# You'd like another dance but you're scared you'll have a stroke

# You're the oldest swinger in town

# Here you come with your chest all bare

# A little gold ingot and a lot of gold hair

# Like the disco king meets Yogi Bear

# You're the oldest swinger in town

# When you're feeling as stiff as a skinhead's boot

# You rub on Vick where you used to splash Brut

# And the latest punk fashion is your wedding suit

# You're the oldest swinger in town

# When you have to go shopping for your sex appeal

# Travolta shades and nine-inch heels

# You say a man is just as old as the woman he feels

# You're the oldest swinger in town

# Here you come with your lips closed tight

# You never smile, you know it wouldn't look right

# Cos your dentures glow in ultra-violet light

# When you're the oldest swinger in town

# Oldest swinger in town

# And you look so mean cos your pants are too tight

# You're the oldest swinger in town

# Oldest swinger in town

# And it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night

# You're the oldest swinger in town #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

You speak for yourself. That's Fred Wedlock at number 19.

Now then, Rainbow have a new single out.

And it's their first new single with their new line-up.

It goes like this. It's called I Surrender.

INSTRUMENTAL

# I surrender

# To your heart, babe

# Do anything that you want me to do

# Please be tender

# Yeah

# I'm in your hands, girl

# This is a feeling I never knew

# You know I tried to make it on my own

# That's not the way it was meant to be

# Spend my time waiting by the phone

# Oh, darling come back to me

# Ooh

# I surrender, I surrender

# I'm giving up the role of pretender

# Oh, be tender

# Girl, be tender

# Can't you feel the love that I send you?

# Ooh

# I surrender

# Oh

# I surrender

# Oh, yeah

# I remember

# Seems like a lifetime

# Can't believe it's a matter of days

# Since you left me

# Oh

# I'm near to heartbreak

# I want you so bad

# Don't turn away

# What does it take to stay by my side?

# You know I'll do what you want me to

# Don't take away this feeling inside

# I'm still in love with you

# Ooh

# I surrender, I surrender

# Giving up the role of pretender

# I remember, I remember

# Can't you feel the love that I send?

# Ooh

# I surrender

# Darling, yeah

# I surrender

# Ooh, yeah, yeah

# Oh

# Yeah

# I surrender, I surrender

# Darling, now won't you be tender?

# Surrender

# Oh, surrender

# Feel the love that I send you?

# I surrender

# Oh, yeah

# Surrender. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Great. Rainbow at number 12 and I Surrender.

Now then, since Sultans of Swing,

Dire Straits have been rather quiet, as far as hits are concerned.

But this is going to be a massive one.

PIANO PLAYS It's Romeo and Juliet.

# A lovestruck Romeo

# Sings a street suss serenade

# Laying everybody low

# With a love song that he made

# Finds a streetlight

# Steps out of the shade, says something like

# You and me, babe How about it?

# Juliet says, Hey it's Romeo.

# You nearly gimme a heart attack

# He's underneath the window

# She's singing, Hey, la, my boyfriend's back.

# You shouldn't come around here singing up at people like that

# Anyway what you gonna do about it?

# Juliet

# The dice was loaded from the start

# And I bet

# Then you exploded in my heart

# And I forget, I forget

# The movie song

# When you gonna realise

# It was just that the time was wrong

# Juliet?

# Come up on different streets

# They both were streets of shame

# Both dirty, both mean

# Yes, and the dream was just the same

# And I dreamed your dream for you

# And now your dream is real

# How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?

# When you can fall for chains of silver

# You can fall for chains of gold

# You can fall for pretty strangers

# And the promises they hold

# You promised me everything

# You promised me thick and thin, yeah

# Now you just say, Oh Romeo, yeah

# You know, I used to have a scene with him

# Juliet

# When we made love you used to cry

# You said, I love you like the stars above

# I'll love you till I die

# There's a place for us

# You know the movie song

# When you gonna realise

# It was just that the time was wrong

# Juliet?

# I can't do the talks

# Like they talk on the TV

# And I can't do a love song

# Like the way it's meant to be

# I can't do everything

# But I'll do anything for you

# I can't do anything except be in love with you

# And all I do is miss you

# And the way we used to be

# All I do is keep the beat

# The bad company

# And all I do is kiss you

# Through the bars of a rhyme

# Julie, I'd do the stars with you

# Any time

# Oh, Juliet

# When we made love you used to cry

# You said, I love you like the stars above

# I'll love you till I die

# And there's a place for us

# You know the movie song

# When you gonna realise

# It was just that the time was wrong

# Juliet? #

SOLO ACOUSTIC GUITAR PLAYS

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

That's a beautiful single. It's Dire Straits' Romeo and Juliet.

-What do you reckon?

-Brill!

-Brill.

All right, she likes it. Here's one you might like -

it's straight into the 30 for Sgt Rock and XTC.

# I'm enlisting

# Overseas aid

# Need assisting

# Help with a maid

# Get the expert

# On mademoiselles

# He could defuse

# Any bombshell

# If I could only be tough like him

# Then I could win my own

# Small battle of the sexes

# Sergeant Rock is going to help me

# Make the girl mine, keep her stood in line

# Sergeant Rock is going to help me

# Make the girl mine, keep her stood in line

# Make the girl mine, wave the victory sign

# I'm invading

# Doo doo doo doo do we ooh

# Territories

# Doo doo doo doo do we ooh

# Girls are foreign

# Doo doo doo doo do we ooh

# And strange to me

# Doo doo doo doo do we ooh

# Get the expert

# Doo doo doo doo do we ooh

# At kissing and stuff

# Doo doo doo doo do we ooh

# He stays easy

# Doo doo doo doo do we ooh

# When things get rough

# If I could only be tough like him

# Then I could win my own

# Small battle of the sexes

# Sergeant Rock is going to help me

# Make the girl mine, keep her stood in line

# Sergeant Rock is going to help me

# Make the girl mine, keep her stood in line

# Make the girl mine, wave the victory sign

# Sometimes relationships

# Don't go as planned

# Some girls can make themselves so cold

# A no-man's land

# If I could only be tough like him

# Then I could win my own

# Small battle of the sexes

# Sergeant Rock is going to help me

# Make the girl mine, keep her stood in line

# Sergeant Rock is going to help me

# Make the girl mine, keep her stood in line

# Sergeant Rock is going to help me

# Make the girl mine, keep her stood in line

# Sergeant Rock is going to help me

# Make the girl mine, keep her stood in line... #

APPLAUSE

XTC and they're in the charts.

So let's see how those lower regions are doing this week.

In at number 30, Joe Dolce Music Theatre

and Shaddap You Face.

David Bowie's down with Scary Monsters.

XTC are up with Sgt Rock.

Racey's down to 27.

Boomtown Rats are up with Elephant's Graveyard at 26.

Bad Manners and Lorraine are down to 25.

Flash and Queen are down at 24.

The Beat's Too Nice To Talk To goes down to 23.

And up goes Burn Rubber On Me, The Gap Band at 22.

Twilight Cafe and Susan Fassenbender's at 21.

And here's Cliff Richard out of the top 20 at number 15.

And a Little In Love.

# It's been so long

# You say you've had fun

# And you've been happy

# With the things you've done

# Now you feel strange and a little unreal

# Well, I can understand the way you feel

# You're just a little in love

# Just a little

# You're just a little in love

# Just a little

# Well, I can see

# What's happenin' to you

# You feel alone

# But it's just not true

# And there's one thing you ought to know

# Whoooa-hooooo

# I need you so

# I'm just a little in love

# Just a little

# I'm just a little in love

# Just a little

# You say you're willin' to learn

# You need a friend

# A friend who will help you

# Cos you're just a little in love

# Oh, yeah

# A little in love

# You are

# A little in love

# With someone You're just like someone

# Like me, you're in love

# Oh, yeah, a little in love

# You know sometime you look somewhere

# You're not alone but there's no-one there

# No-one to turn to

# And-no one to see the way you're feelin'

# You're just like me

# You're just a little in love

# Just a little

# You're just a little in love

# Just a little

# Now, you say you're willin' to learn

# But you need a friend

# A friend who will help you

# Cos you're just a little in love

# Oh, yeah, a little in love

# You are

# A little in love with someone

# You're just like me

# You're just like me

# Like me, you're in love

# Oh, yeah, a little in love

# Whoooooa-hoooooo

# You're in love

# Oh, yeah

# A little in love

# You are

# A little in love

# With someone You're just like me

# You're just like me

# You're in love, you're in love, you're in love

# A little in love with someone who just... #

APPLAUSE

Cliff Richard of course at number 15 and behind me a new band

called The Passions with a lady singer called Barbara

who writes great songs and to prove it she's going to sing her latest one

which is called I'm In Love With A German Film Star.

# I'm in love with a German film star

# I once saw in a bar

# Sitting in a corner wearing perfect clothes

# Trying not to pose for the cameras and the girls

# It's a glamorous world

# I'm in love with a German film star

# I once saw in a movie

# Playing the part of a real troublemaker

# But I didn't care

# It really moved me It really moved me

# I'm in love with a German film star

# I once saw in a bar

# Sitting in a corner wearing perfect clothes

# Trying not to pose for the cameras and the girls

# It's a glamorous world

# I'm in love with a German film star

# I once saw in a movie

# Playing the part of a real troublemaker

# But I didn't care

# It really moved me It really moved me

# It really moved me It really moved me

# I'm in love

# I'm in love

# I'm in love

# I'm in love

# I'm in love

# I'm in love

# I'm in love

# I'm in love

# I'm in love

# I'm in love

# I'm in love

# I'm in love

# I'm in love. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Well, first time on Top Of The Pops with a beautiful song from The Passions.

OK, it's back to the charts.

We've looked at 30 to 20, now let's go up a bit.

Down go Heatwave one place to number 20.

Good news for Fred Wedlock. He's at number 19.

The Specials slide down to 18.

Up goes Spandau Ballet to 17.

Diana Ross is up to 16.

Good news for Cliff Richard. He's up to 15.

And the same for Madness, they're up to 14.

Stevie Wonder's slipped down to 13.

Rainbow are at number 12.

And it's Dire Straits at number 11.

OK, now then, the Godfather's arrived all the way from Australia.

This guy has been top of the pops in Australia for the last eight weeks.

He's got a song that if you're Italian you may know about

and if you've ever watched The Godfather...

Joe Dolce, everyone.

Hey, everybody. Grazie.

Here we go. Shaddap You Face.

# When I was a boy, just about-a eighth grade

# Mama used to say, don't-a stay out late

# With the bad boys always shoot the pool

# Giuseppe going to flunk-a school... #

That's my mama all of the time.

# Boy, it make-a me sick all the things I gotta do

# I can't getta no kicks Gotta follow stupid rules

# Boy, it make-a me sick just to make a lousy bucks

# I gotta feel like a fool... #

And Mama used to say all of the time.

# What sa matter you, hey

# Gotta no respect, What do you think you do?

# Why you looka so sad?

# It's a not so bad It's a nice a place

# Ah, shaddap you face... #

That's my mama.

Big accordion solo with a little dance.

# Soon there come a day, gonna be a big star

# Gonna make a Top Of The Pops Get a new car

# But still I'll be myself I never change a thing

# Always love to dance and sing... #

I remember Mama. She used to say...

# What sa matter you, hey

# Gotta no respect What do you think you do?

# Why you looka so sad?

# It's a not so bad It's a nice a place

# Shaddap you face... #

That's my mama. She said...

# What sa matter you, hey?

# Gotta no respect

# What do you think you do?

# Why you looka so sad?

# It's a not so bad

# It's a nice a place

# Ah, shaddap you face... #

That's my mama. Brings back memories.

Hello, out there in television land.

Here we are doing the big hit song, Shaddap You Face.

This was a big hit in Italy.

I used to sing this song and all my fans would clap with their hands.

FANS SCREAM Grazie.

We can all learn this song, right?

Nobody knows it.

See the blackboard, we got the words.

I sing, "What sa matter you?"

And everybody... Right, stupid.

Sing, "Hey!" Like that.

And then at the end we all sing, "Shaddap you face". Ready?

Uno, due, tre, quattro...

-# What sa matter you?

-Hey!

-# Gotta no respect

-Hey!

-# What do you think you do?

-Hey!

-# Why you looka so sad?

-Hey!

-# It's a not so bad

-Hey!

# It's a nice a place

ALL: # Ah, shaddap you face... #

Great. Everybody gets an A-plus.

-# What sa matter you?

-Hey!

-# Gotta no respect

-Hey!

-# What do you think you do?

-Hey!

-# Why you looka so sad?

-Hey!

-# It's a not so bad

-Hey!

It's a nice a place

ALL: # Ah, shaddap you face... #

OK, one more time for Mama.

Everybody.

-# What sa matter you?

-Hey!

-# Gotta no respect

-Hey!

-What do you think you do?

-Hey!

-# Why you looka so sad?

-Hey!

-# It's a not so bad

-Hey!

It's a nice a place

# Ah, shaddap you face. #

SCREAMING

That's Joe Dolce and that's Shaddap You Face and I think it'll be a hit.

OK, then. Let's have a look at the real hits that matter

and take a look at this week's top ten.

The Look have had a good run with I Am The Beat

but they're down two places to number ten.

# And the party wouldn't swing if not for me... #

And that new old single by Adam And The Ants, Young Parisians

is in the same position at number nine.

Up four places go Visage, Fade To Grey.

They're number eight this week.

Disco's back in town.

Yarbrough and Peoples, same position as last week, number seven.

The song's called Don't Stop The Music.

Adam And The Ants down two places to number six

with Antmusic.

Blondie's in the same position as last week, number five with Rapture.

# 24-hour shopping in Rapture... #

And down three places goes Imagine for John Lennon at number four.

# Living life in peace... #

Ultravox's surprise hit Vienna is up to number three.

# Oh, Vienna... #

Phil Collins has an amazing new album out and its single is a hit.

It's number two, In The Air Tonight.

# Oh, Lord... #

We've got to say goodnight from this week's Top Of The Pops

and give you a bit of a wave from this loony lot from here

and wish you very well with this week's number one.

John Lennon and Woman.

# Woman, I can hardly express

# My mixed emotions at my thoughtlessness

# After all, I'm forever in your debt

# And woman, I will try to express

# My inner feelings and thankfulness

# For showing me the meaning of success

# Oooh

# Well, well

# Do-do-do-do

# Oooh

# Well, well

# Do-do-do-do

# Woman, I know you understand

# The little child inside the man

# Please remember my life is in your hands

# And woman, hold me close to your heart

# However distant, don't keep us apart

# After all, it is written in the stars

# Oooh

# Well, well

# Do-do-do-do

# Oooh

# Well, well

# Do-do-do-do

# Woman, please let me explain

# I never meant to cause you sorrow or pain

# So let me tell you Again and again and again

# I love you

# Yeah, yeah, now and forever

# I love you

# Yeah, yeah, now and forever

# I love you

# Yeah, yeah, now and forever... #