11/10/73 Top of the Pops

THEME TUNE: "A Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin, performed by CCS

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

MUSIC: "Dreams Are Nuthin' More Than Wishes" by David Cassidy

It's me!

# Dreams are nothing more than wishes

# And a wish is just a dream you wish to come true

# If only I could have a puppy

# I'd call myself so very lucky

# Just to have some company

# Share a cup of tea with me

# I'd take my puppy everywhere

# Da-da da-da da, I wouldn't care

# We would stay away from crowds

# And signs that said "no dogs allowed", I know we

# No, he'd never bite me Oh, no

# We know he'd never bite me

# If only I could have a friend

# Stick with me until the end

# To walk along beside the sea... # APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Whoo. Er...

Well, there I was, mucking out the pigs

and milking things we don't mention

and they said, "Come on, Top Of The Pops, lad!"

So I stuffed me straw into me back pocket

and rushed down to London town to be with you all.

And here, the second act on the show that you're going to lurve,

what? What?

It's the ELO!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "Raining All Over The World" by ELO

# She cried to the southern wind

# 'Bout a love that was sure to end

# Every dream in my heart was gone

# Heading for a showdown

# Bad dreamer, what's your name?

# Looks like we're riding on the same train

# Looks as though there'll be more pain

# There's gonna be a showdown

# And it's raining all over the world

# It's raining all over the world

# Tonight, the longest night

# She came to me like a friend

# She blew in on a southern wind

# Now my heart has turned to stone again

# It's gonna be a showdown

# Save me

# O-oh, save me

# It's unreal the suffering

# It's gonna be a showdown

# And it's raining all over the world

# Raining all over the world

# Tonight, the longest night

WOMEN'S VOICES: # Raining, raining

# Raining, raining

# Raining all over the world

# Raining all over the world

# The longest night

# And it's been raining all over the world

# Raining all over the world

# Tonight, the longest night

# You gotta save me, girl

# When I'm ready to save

# Oh, I'm a fool for you

# You know I need you... # CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-LONDON ACCENT:

-Hello, darlin'. What you doing after the show?

I mean we've got a rave going on in the pigsty, if you fancy.

-NORMAL ACCENT:

-Oh, sorry! Um, yes, that was Raining All Over The World

by... And now we have ELO.

And that was... And now we have Elton John with his latest big hit,

er, Goodbye Yellow Rose Of Kentucky!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" by Elton John

# When are you going to come down?

# When are you going to land?

# I should have stayed on the farm

# Should have listened to my old man

# You know you can't hold me for ever

# I didn't sign up for you

# I'm not a present for your friends to open

# This boy's too young to be singing

# The blues

# Ah aa-ah aa-ah

# Ah aa-ah

# So goodbye yellow brick road

# Where the dogs of society howl

# You can't plant me in your penthouse

# I'm going back to my plough

# Back to the howling old owl in the woods

# Hunting the horny-back toad

# Oh, I've finally decided my future lies

# Beyond the yellow brick ro-o-oad

# Oh o-oh o-oh

# O-o-oh

# O-oh

# What do you think you'll do then?

# I'll bet that'll shoot down your plane

# It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics

# To set you on your feet again

# Maybe you'll get a replacement

# There's plenty like me to be found

# Mongrels who ain't got a penny

# Sniffing for titbits like you

# On the gro-ou-ound

# Oh o-oh o-oh

# Oh o-oh... # APPLAUSE

You can tell I work for the BBC -

I can't have my bridge-work done.

I mean Tony Blackburn gets fresh sets of teeth every day, but me?

MOCK SOB

Anyway, it's pin-back-your-lugholes time for Status Quo.

APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "Caroline" by Status Quo

# If you want to turn me on to

# Oh, anything you really want to

# Turn me on to your love, your love

# If the night-time is the right time

# Oh, any time of yours is my time

# We can find time for love sweet love

-BOTH:

-# Come on, sweet Caroline

# You're my sweet Caroline

# You know I want to take you

# I really got to make you

# Come on, sweet Caroline

# Take my hand together we can rock'n'roll

# When I'm thinking of you sleeping

# I'm at home alone and weeping

# Are you keeping your love sweet love?

# Do you still care when I'm not there?

# And do you really wish I was there?

# Can I come in for love, sweet love?

# Come on, sweet Caroline

# You're my sweet Caroline

# You know I want to take you

# I really got to make you

# Come on, sweet Caroline

# Take my hand together we can rock'n'roll

# If you want to turn me on to

# Oh, anything you really want to

# Turn me on to your love sweet love

# Come on, sweet Caroline

# You're my sweet Caroline

# You know I want to take you

# I really got to make you

# Come on, sweet Caroline

# Take my hand together we can rock'n'roll. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Fantastic.

-YOKEL VOICE:

-Eeh, that were Sweet Caroline at number nine.

-NORMAL VOICE:

-See this massive thing? This is BBC camera one.

And it's through this obelisk that we're going to see now,

Pan's People dancing to Detroit Spinners!

APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "Ghetto Child" by Detroit Spinners

MALE VOICE: # When I was 17 I ran away from home

# And from everything I had ever known

-NEW MALE VOICE:

-# I was sick and tired living in a town

# Filled with narrow minds and hate

# They used to laugh at me their children called me names

# I would run and hide feeling so ashamed

# Just for being born

# I was just a boy

# Punished for a crime that was not mine

-ENTIRE BAND:

-# Life ain't so easy when you're a ghetto child

# Oh, baby

# Life ain't so easy when you're a ghetto child

# No-one tried to understand

# Papa did the best a man could do

# A child's reality is paid for by his folks

# Fancy fairy tales are born and sold by those

# Who can well afford Time to make believe

# Childhood dreams can still come true

# Uh huh huh huh

# So I've been wandering travelling all around

# Guess it ain't my style to live in just one town

# Still I'll never know why a child is blamed

# Ridiculed and shamed We're all the same

# Life ain't so easy when you're a ghetto child

# Oh, baby

# Life ain't so easy when you're a ghetto child

# Life ain't so easy...

# Yea-ea-eah

# ..when you're a ghetto child... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

SQUELCHY MWAH!

Ooh, cheese and onion. Mmm... And now it's new release time!

And what a new release we have for you, ladies and gentlemen!

He's come all the way from his dressing room

to sing this one at you!

It's Love Is All by Engelbert 'Umperdink!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# Yesterday

# I knew the games to play

# I thought I knew the way

# Love was meant to be

# And now there's you

# My foolish games are through

# Now at last, I have found

# Just what makes this whole world turn around

# Love is all I have to give

# Love is all as long as I shall live

# So take it all

# And I'll always be there when you call my name

# I know now that love is all

# Every night

# I long to hold you tight

# Until the morning light shines in your eyes

# So love me now

# We'll get along somehow

# Won't you, please, take my hand

# And together for ever we'll stay?

# Oh o-o-oh love is all I have to give

# Love is all as long as I shall live

# So take it all

# And I'll always be there when you call my name

# I know now that love is all

# So take it all

# And I'll always be there when you call my name

# I know now

# That love is all. #

APPLAUSE

Eeeh!

Eeh, what a grand song.

What fun we're having. That was Engelbert Humperdink.

Thank you, Eng, and may your humpel never dumple.

Whoo! I've been asked by the British Board of Governors

to say that it wasn't hello, red brick housing estate

it was Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. And now, My Friend Stan!

APPLAUSE

# My friend Stan's got a funny old man, oh, yeah

# Oh, yeah

# He makes him work all night till he can't do it right, oh, yeah

# Aha

# And from the way you blacked my eye

# I know that you're the reason why

# And from the way you fix his tie

# I see you're gettin' to him Gettin' to him

# My friend Jack's got an ache in his back

# Ooh ooh

# Oh yeah

# The doc said he'd be fine if he'd just take his time

# Oh oh

# Mm-mm

# And from the way you blacked my eye

# I know that you're the reason why

# And from the way you fix his tie

# I see you're gettin' to him You've been gettin' to him

# Kinky!

# And from the way you blacked my eye

# I know that you're the reason why

# And from the way you fix his tie

# I see you're gettin' to him

# You've been gettin' to him

# My friend Pete says his body is weak

# Oh, yeah

# Aha

# He says that he can't sleep and his temperature's steep

# Oh, yeah

# Whoa-ho!

# And from the way you blacked my eye

# I know that you're the reason why

# And from the way you fix his tie

# I see you're gettin' to him You've been gettin' to him

# You've been gettin' to him

# You've been gettin' to him

# Oh, yeah! #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Pum-pum! Hello! Ooh, that was Slade. Hello.

I bet you've got a fine set of udders, m'dear. Aye! Aaar, yeah.

And now, straight from America, we have a magnificent group

who are going to do their second in a series of two hits.

And it's Limmie & Family Cooking and their latest smasheroo -

Dreamboat!

APPLAUSE

-ALL:

-# Ooh ooh ooh

# Ooh oo-oo-oo-ooh

# Dreamboat

# Dreamboat won't you take me on a float tonight?

# Mmm, just rock me around your river

# And just roll me till the morning light

# Oh, dreamboat Come on, dreamboat

-# Won't you whistle me to come aboard?

-Whistle me to come aboard

# If I was the captain of your fate, baby

-# I'd sail you straight to the Lord

-I'd sail you straight to the Lord

# Oh, won't you take me to heaven? Won't you roll me up to paradise?

# Ooh ooh I know a place

# Where we can drop anchor and the water is cool and nice

# Oh we could make hay together baby

# We can make love till our hearts delight

# And sail right back to that kissing bridge

# Well, maybe I could hold you tight

# Oh, dreamboat

# Dreamboat

# Won't you take me on a float tonight?

# Take me on a float tonight

# Rock me around your river

# And just roll me till the morning light

# Oh, dreamboat Come on, dreamboat

-# Won't you whistle me to come aboard?

-Whistle me to come aboard

# If I was the captain of your ship baby

# I'd sail you straight to the Lord

# And I want to take my shoes off and wiggle all my toes with you

# Ooh ooh ohh

# Sitting by the creek side

# Watching all the frogs I'd maybe even catch us a few

# Oh we can make hay together, baby

# We can make love till our hearts delight

# And sail right back to that kissing bridge

# Well, maybe I could hold you tight

# Oh, dreamboat

# Dreamboat

# Oh, my baby, yeah

# Oh, dreamboat

# Dreamboat

# Won't you take me on a float tonight?

# Yeah, dreamboat Come on, dreamboat

-# Won't you take me on a float?

-Just take me on a float tonight?

# Tonight

-# Come on

-Tonight

-# Oh, come on, baby

-Tonight

-Yeah

-# Tonight

-All right

-# Tonight

-Come on, baby. #

APPLAUSE

Yee-hee! Yee-hee! Whoo-hoo!

Yoo-hoo! Hullo! Oh, that was fab! Limmie & The Family Cooking.

Ooh, hang on, I'll have a word with the director.

Hello, is that the director?

Good. Um, can I bring some cows next week?

It's all right, they're house-trained.

Oh, these BBC people, you know.

Asked to put on a show, try to get a few cows and what do they say?

Something I can't repeat, I can tell you! Meanwhile we have violins.

You know, love is like a violin.

Well, here's a group that's just like a violin -

all varnished and covered in string!

It's Eye Level by the Simon Park Orchestra!

APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "Eye Level" by the Simon Park Orchestra

INSTRUMENTAL

MUSIC FADES APPLAUSE

-YOKEL VOICE:

-And now, ladies and gentlemen,

we're going to leave you with Ike and Tina Turner while we say...

-NORMAL VOICE:

-Now, what are you looking at?

-AS YOKEL:

-We're going to say good night from Top Of The Pops.

See you next week. Goodbye, my dearios.

Llandudno. Iechyd da. Goodbye!

APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "Nutbush City Limits" by Ike & Tina Turner

# A church house gin house

# A school house outhouse

# On highway number 19

# The people keep the city clean

# They call it Nutbush

# Oh, Nutbush... #

Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd