05/10/1978 Top of the Pops

Welcome to Top Of The Pops. This week's countdown is to the tune of ABBA.

# Summer night city

# Summer night city

# Waiting for the sunrise Soul dancing in the dark

# Summer night city

# Walking in the moonlight Love-making in the park

# Summer night city

# In the sun I feel like sleeping

# I can't take it for too long

# My impatience slowly creeping

# Up my spine and growing strong

# I know what's waiting there for me

# Tonight I'm loose and fancy free... #

# My baby's always dancin' And it wouldn't be a bad thing

# But I don't get no lovin' And that's no lie

# We spent the night in Frisco

# Went to every kind of disco

# And from that night I kissed our love goodbye

# Don't blame it on the sunshine Don't blame it on the moonlight

# Don't blame it on the good times Blame it on the boogie

# Don't blame it on the sunshine Don't blame it on the moonlight

# Don't blame it on the good times Blame it on the boogie

# That nasty boogie bugs me But somehow how it has drugged me

# That spellbound rhythm gets me off my feet

# It's changed my life completely I've seen the light, believe me

# My baby now can't take her eyes off me

# Don't blame it on the sunshine Don't blame it on the moonlight

# Don't blame it on the good times Blame it on the boogie

# Don't blame it on the sunshine Don't blame it on the moonlight

# Don't blame it on the good times Blame it on the boogie

# Hey, I just can't, I just can't

# I just can't I just can't control my feet

# I just can't, I just can't I just can't control my feet

# I just can't, I just can't

# I just can't control my feet

# I just can't, I just can't

# I just can't control my... (Sunshine)

# (Moonlight) Mm-hm

# (Good times) Hey

# (Boogie)

# (Sunshine)

# (Moonlight) Moonlight

# (Good times)

# (Boogie)

# That magic music moves me

# That dirty rhythm fools me

# The devil's gotten to me Through this dance

# I'm full of funky fever

# You stole my soul, d'you hear me?

# That boogie's got me In its super trance

# Don't blame it on the sunshine Don't blame it on the moonlight

# Don't blame it on the good times Blame it on the boogie

# Don't blame it on the sunshine Don't blame it on the moonlight

# Don't blame it on the good times Blame it on the boogie

# Hey, hey, yeah (Sunshine)

# Wow (Moonlight)

# (Good times) Hey

# (Boogie)

# (Sunshine)

# (Moonlight)

# (Good times) Hey, hey

# (Boogie)

# Don't blame it on the sunshine Don't blame it on the moonlight

# Don't blame it on the good times Blame it on the boogie

# Boogie, boogie, sunshine

# Don't blame it on the... # APPLAUSE

The original version of the song he wrote. Mick Jackson and Blame it on the Boogie.

Now, thanking his lucky stars because he's number six in the chart, it's Dean Friedman.

# What are you, crazy?

# How in the hell can you say what you just said?

# I was talking to myself Shut the door and come to bed

# By the way, I forgot to say

# Your endearing mother called today

-# Did you see Lisa?

-Yes, I saw Lisa

-# Is that why you're angry?

-I wasn't angry

-# Maybe a little

-Not even maybe

-# Must be the weather

-Now don't be a baby

# Well, how am I supposed to feel

# With all the things you don't reveal?

# And you can thank your lucky stars

# That we're not as smart As we'd like to think we are

SAXOPHONE SOLO

# Would you like to talk about it?

# There's not much to say

# We had lunch this afternoon

# Her life's in disarray

# She still goes around as if

# She's always stumbling off a cliff

-# Do you still want her?

-What are you saying?

-# Do you still want her?

-Baby, stop playing

# Really, I mean it Can you forget her?

# Baby, now, stop it You should know better

# I know this is hard to do

# But there's no-one for me but you

# And you can thank your lucky stars

# That we're not as smart As we'd like to think we are

SAXOPHONE SOLO

# Baby, I'm sorry, I was wrong

# I have no alibis

# I was acting like a fool

# And I apologise

# Listen, hon', I know you're dumb

# But that's OK You don't have to look so glum

-# Do you still love me?

-Yes, I still love you

-# You're not just being nice?

-No, I'm not just being nice

# Do you feel sleepy?

# You're so sincere Yes, I feel sleepy

# Well, slide over here cos I may not be all that bright

# But I know how to hold you tight

# And you can thank your lucky stars

# That we're not as smart As we'd like to think we are

# And you can thank your lucky stars

# That we're not as smart As we'd like to think we are

-BOTH:

-# And we can thank our lucky stars

# That we're not as smart As we'd like to think we are... #

APPLAUSE

From an album called Well, Well, Said The Rocking Chair, Dean Friedman and Lucky Stars.

Now for a look at Legs & Co, moving to the music of Third World and Now That We've Found Love.

# (Now that we've found love)

# (What are we gonna do)

# (With it?)

# (Now that we've found love)

# (What are we gonna do)

# (With it?)

# Make daddy shoot, make daddy shoot Make daddy shoot, make daddy shoot

# Make daddy shoot, shoot, shoot Shoot all over the place

# I say, come on, baby When the music's playing

# I want to see you dance, dance, dance

# Come on, baby Say when the music's playing

# I want to see you dance

# Get up and dance

# Ooh, yeah, ooh, yeah

# I said, come on, baby

# Let me show you what a... What a man can do

# I said, music, oh-ah yeah

# It's there, stole into my soul

# Went on and on and...

# (Now that we've found love)

# (What are we gonna do)

# (With it?)

# (Now that we've found love)

# (What are we gonna do)

# (With it?)

# Let's give love a try

# Let love control Control your destiny

# Owe it to ourselves, yes, we do

# To live happy eternally

# Sweet love is what We're searching for

# And love is what We're looking for

# Now that I've got it Right here in my hand

# I'm gonna spread it All over the land now

APPLAUSE

To follow other exciting things from Manchester

like Manchester United and Manchester City,

here's Manchester's Buzzcocks

and Ever Fallen In Love With Someone You Shouldn't Have Fallen In Love With?

# You spurn my natural emotions

# You make me feel I'm dirt

# And I'm hurt

# And if I start a commotion

# I run the risk of losing you And that's worse

# Ever fallen in love with someone Ever fallen in love

# In love with someone Ever fallen in love

# In love with someone You shouldn't've fallen in love with?

# I can't see much of a future

# Unless we find out what's to blame What a shame

# And we won't be together Much longer

# Unless we realize That we are the same

# Ever fallen in love with someone Ever fallen in love

# In love with someone Ever fallen in love

# In love with someone You shouldn't've fallen in love with?

# You disturb my natural emotions

# You make me feel I'm dirt

# And I'm hurt

# And if I start a commotion

# I'll only end up losing you And that's worse

# Ever fallen in love with someone Ever fallen in love

# In love with someone Ever fallen in love

# In love with someone You shouldn't've fallen in love with?

# Ever fallen in love with someone Ever fallen in love

# In love with someone Ever fallen in love

# In love with someone You shouldn't've fallen in love with?

GUITAR SOLO

# Ever fallen in love with someone Ever fallen in love

# In love with someone Ever fallen in love

# In love with someone You shouldn't've fallen in love with?

# Fallen in love with

# Ever fallen in love with someone

# You shouldn't've fallen in love with? #

One of my favourite songs this week, Ever Fallen In Love.

From the Buzzcocks to the sublime now.

It's the stunning star of the stage production Evita.

Elaine Paige is here with her new single called Don't Walk Away 'Til I Touch You.

# What will it take

# To make you love me again?

# What do I do

# To make you care?

# How will I know

# If love is real or pretend?

# Where will I go

# When you're not there?

# Don't walk away 'til I touch you

# Give me tonight To make everything right

# I've got the rest of forever To be alone without you

# Don't walk away 'til I touch you

# Don't say goodbye Without letting me try

# I'll find the right kind of loving To keep you here by my side

# Don't walk away-ay

# How will I be

# When you go running away?

# How can I see

# My way along?

# How can I try

# To make you love me some way?

# How can I live

# When you are gone?

# Don't walk away 'til I touch you

# Give me tonight To make everything right

# I've got the rest of forever To be alone without you

# Don't walk away 'til I touch you

# Don't say goodbye Without letting me try

# I'll find the right kind of loving To keep you here by my side

# Don't walk away-ay

SAXOPHONE SOLO

# Don't walk away 'til I touch you

# Give me tonight To make everything right

# I've got the rest of forever To be alone without you

# Don't walk away 'til I touch you

# Don't say goodbye Without letting me try

# I'll find the right kind of loving To keep you here by my side... #

APPLAUSE

This week's highest new entry is at number nine from Boney M

and their own interpretation of Russian history. It's called Rasputin.

# There lived a certain man In Russia long ago

# He was big and strong In his eyes a flaming glow

# Most people looked at him With terror and with fear

# But to Moscow chicks He was such a lovely dear

# He could preach the Bible Like a preacher

# Full of ecstasy and fire

# But he also was the kind of teacher

# Women would desire

# Ra-Ra-Rasputin Lover of the Russian queen

# There was a cat that really was gone

# Ra-Ra-Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine

# It was a shame how he carried on

# He ruled the Russian land and never mind the tsar

# But the kazachok He danced really wunderbar

# In all affairs of state He was the man to please

# But he was real great When he had a girl to squeeze

# For the queen He was no wheeler-dealer

# Though she'd heard The things he'd done

# She believed he was a holy healer

# Who would heal her son

# Ra-Ra-Rasputin Lover of the Russian queen

# There was a cat that really was gone

# Ra-Ra-Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine

# It was a shame how he carried on... #

But when his drinking and lusting

and his hunger for power became known to more and more people,

the demands to do something about this outrageous man

became louder and louder.

# Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

# Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,

# Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

# Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,

# "This man's just got to go!" Declared his enemies

# But the ladies begged "Don't you try to do it, please"

# No doubt this Rasputin Had lots of hidden charms

# Though he was a brute They just fell into his arms

# Then one night Some men of higher standing

# Set a trap, they're not to blame

# "Come to visit us" They kept demanding

# And he really came

# Ra-Ra-Rasputin Lover of the Russian queen

# They put some poison into his wine

# Ra-Ra-Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine

# He drank it all And said, "I feel fine"

# Ra-Ra-Rasputin Lover of the Russian queen... #

APPLAUSE

Well, out of the USSR to the merry UK and Marshall Hain

and a former Radio 1 record of the week of mine called Coming Home.

# Oh, baby, don't listen that way

# I can understand your surprise

# Am I really your lost love

# Calling you

# Or just a joker in disguise?

# We could spend a night of pain

# Just asking for apologies

# Calling you cost me all my pride

# But just say the word

# And I'll say anything you want me

# To be holding you close tonight

# So please say it's all right that I'm

# Coming home

# I'm coming home

# I'm coming home

# To love

# Oh, baby, I could try to explain

# I was young in heart and mind

# Freedom meant more to me Than staying with security

# And more than leaving you behind

# Then came the day when I'd Exhausted all my fantasies

# But I was still in flight

# Heroes of the road

# I could have anyone I wanted

# To be holding you close tonight

# So please say it's all right that I'm

# Coming home

# I'm coming home

# I'm coming home

# I'm coming home (Just like the sun on summer days)

# (I knew that you would shine again)

# I'm coming home (Just like the moon is there always)

# (I knew that you would Climb again)... #

APPLAUSE

That's Kit Hain on lead vocals and Julian Marshall on keyboard. Marshall Hain and Coming Home.

Now a group that needs no introduction as they explode in front of our TV screens.

It's Sham 69 and Hurry Up, Harry.

# Come on, come on

# Hurry up, Harry, come on

# Come on, come on

# Hurry up, Harry, come on

# We're going down the pub

# We're going down the pub

# Now, listen here, Harry If we're going down the pub

# You'd better tell your mum and dad And finish up your grub

# I wish you'd listen to me

# No, I don't want a cup of tea

# Come on, come on

# Hurry up, Harry, come on

# Come on, come on

# Hurry up, Harry, come on

# We're going down the pub

# We're going down the pub

# You don't have to tell me That the things I do are wrong

# Cos everything I do in life Is win, lose, right or wrong

# Now I think I understand

# How to have some fun

# Come on, come on

# Hurry up, Harry, come on

# Come on, come on

# Hurry up, Harry, come on

# We're going down the pub

# We're going down the pub

# You're telling me to grow up But, Harry, don't you see

# If I tried to act my age I wouldn't be me?

# We never do anything

# Don't have the time to begin

# Come on, come on

# Hurry up, Harry, come on

# Come on, come on

# Hurry up, Harry, come on

# We're going down the pub

# We're going down the pub... #

Here we go, two, three, four!

PIANO SOLO

# Come on, come on

# Hurry up, Harry, come on

# Come on, come on

# Hurry up, Harry, come on

# We're going down the pub

# We're going down the pub. #

APPLAUSE

From Sham 69, who are on the way to the chart,

to Leo Sayer, who has already made it, with I Can't Stop Loving You.

# Saw you leaving

# In the morning

# On the early train

# I could say everything's all right

# I could pretend and say goodbye

# You got your ticket

# You got your suitcase

# You got your leaving smile

# I could say, that's the way it goes

# I could pretend that you won't know

# That I was lying

# Cos I can't stop loving you

# I can't stop loving you

# I can't stop loving you

# Though I try

# We took a taxi

# To the station

# And not a word was said

# I saw you walk across the road

# For maybe the last time

# But I don't know

# Feeling humble

# I heard a rumble

# From the railway track

# And when I hear the whistle blow

# I'll walk away and you won't know

# That I was lying

# Cos I can't stop loving you

# I can't stop loving you

# I can't stop loving you

# Though I try

# I just can't stop loving you

# I can't stop loving you

# I can't stop loving you

# Though I try

# Oh, I try. #

APPLAUSE

I'm delighted to say that Bob Geldof tore himself away

from his birthday celebrations today to be with us and The Boomtown Rats

to perform their new single, Rat Trap!

# There was a lot of rockin' Going on that night

# Cruisin' time For the young bright lights

# Just down past the gasworks By the meat factory door

# The five lamp boys were coming on strong

# The Saturday night city beat had already started

# And the pulse of the corner boys Just sprang into action

# Young Billy watched it Under the yellow street light

# And said, "Tonight, of all nights

# "There's gonna be a fight"

# Billy don't like it Living here, in this town

# (He says) Traps have been sprung Long before he was born

# (He says) Hope bites the dust Behind all the closed doors

# And benches in the park And drains in the sewer

# There's screaming and crying In the high rise blocks

# It's a rat trap, Billy But you're already caught

# But you can make it if you wanna Or you need it bad enough

# You're young and good looking And you're acting kind of tough

# Anyway, it's Saturday night Time to see what's going down

# Put on the bright suit, Billy Head for the right side of town

# It's only eight o'clock But you're already bored

# You don't know what it is But there's got to be more

# You'd better find a way out Hey, kick down the door

# It's a rat trap

# And you've been caught

# In this town, Billy says

# Everybody's tryin' to tell you What to do

# In this town, Billy says

# Everybody says you gotta Follow rules

# You walk up to the traffic lights Switch from your left to right

# You push in that button And that button comes alight

# It says, "Walk, don't walk" ("Walk, don't walk")

# "Talk, don't talk" ("Talk, don't talk")

# "Walk, don't walk" ("Walk, don't walk")

# "Talk, don't talk" ("Talk, don't talk")

# Billy, take a walk, take a walk Take a walk

# Billy, take a walk, take a walk Take a walk

# Billy, take a walk, take a walk Take a walk

# Billy, take a walk with me

# Do you want that misery?

# Sweetheart run free

SAXOPHONE SOLO

# Little Judy's trying to watch Top Of The Pops

# But mum and dad are fighting Don't they ever stop?

# She takes off her coat And walks down to the street

# It's cold on that road But it's got that home beat

# Deep down in her pocket She finds 50p

# Hey, is that any way For a young girl to be?

# "I'm gonna get out of school Work in a silk factory

# "Work all the hours God gave me Get myself a little easy money"

# Her mind's made up She walks down the road

# Her hands in her pockets Coat buttoned against the cold

# She finally finds Billy Down at the Italian cafe

# When he's drunk it's hard to Understand what Billy says

# But then he mumbles in his coffee and suddenly roars

# "It's a rat trap, Judy

# "And we've been caught"

# Rat trap

# Rat trap... # APPLAUSE

I think I can safely say we've had three of the most exciting new bands on the scene today.

Boomtown Rats there and their single Rat Trap from Tonic For The Troops.

Now it's number one and it's Olivia Newton-John with John Travolta.

# Summer lovin' had me a blast

# Summer lovin' happened so fast

# I met a girl crazy for me

# Met a boy, cute as can be

# BOTH: Summer days driftin' away

# Oo-ah, those summer nights

# (Uh-well-oh-well-uh-well-oh-oo)

# Tell me more, tell me more Did you get very far?

# Tell me more, tell me more Like, does he have a car?

-# A-ha

-(Doo-roo),

-A-ha

-(Doo-roo)

-A-ha

-(Doo-roo-roo-doo-roo)

# She swam by me, she got a cramp

# He went by me, got my suit damp

# I saved her life She nearly drowned

# He showed up, splashing around

# BOTH: Summer sun Something's begun

# Oo-ah, those summer nights

# (Uh-well-oh-well-uh-well-oh-oo)

# Tell me more, tell me more Was it love at first sight?

# Tell me more, tell me more Did she put up a fight?

-# A-ha

-(Doobie-do),

-A-ha

-(Doobie-do)

-A-ha

-(Doobie-doobie-doobie-do)

-# A-ha

-(Doobie-do),

-A-ha

-(Doobie-do)

-A-ha

-(Doobie-doobie-doobie-do)

# Took her bowlin' in the arcade

# We went strollin', drank lemonade

# We made out under the dock

# We stayed up until ten o'clock

# BOTH: Summer fling Don't mean a thing

-# Oo-ah, those summer nights

-(Woah-woah-woah)

# Tell me more, tell me more But you don't gotta brag

# Tell me more, tell me more Cos he sounds like a drag

# (Shoo-baba, shoo-baba, shoo-baba Shoo-baba)

# (Shoo-baba, shoo-baba, shoo-baba Shoo-baba, yeah)

# He got friendly, holding my hand

# She got friendly, down in the sand

# He was sweet, just turned 18

# She was good You know what I mean?

# Summer heat, boy and girl meet

# Oh, those summer nights

# Tell me more, tell me more How much dough did he spend?

# Tell me more, tell me more Could she get me a friend? #

APPLAUSE

Summer nights, and that's it for this week's Top Of The Pops.

We look forward to seeing you next week for more of the same.

Until then, this is the Electric Light Orchestra and Sweet Talkin' Woman.

# I was searching (Searching) On a one-way street

# I was hoping (Hoping) For a chance to meet

# I was waiting for the operator On the line

# (She's gone so long) What can I do?

# (Where could she be?) No, no, no Don't know what I'm gonna do

# I gotta get back to you... #

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