14/07/1983 Top of the Pops

To get us underway in this week's edition of Top Of The Pops,

Elvis Costello and the Attractions.

Their new single - Everyday I Write The Book.

# Ooh

# Yeah

# Ooh

# Don't tell me you don't know what love is

# When you're old enough to know better

# When you find strange hands in your sweater

# When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote

# I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions

# And I'm giving you a longing look

# Every day, every day every day I write the book

# Chapter One we didn't really get along

# Chapter Two I think I fell in love with you

# You said you'd stand by me in the middle of Chapter Three

# But you were up to your old tricks in Chapters Four, Five and Six

# I'm giving you a longing look

# Every day, every day every day I write the book

# The way you walk

# The way you talk and try to kiss me, and laugh

# In four or five paragraphs

# All your compliments and your cutting remarks

# Are captured here in my quotation marks

# I'm giving you a longing look

# Every day, every day every day I write the book

# Every day I write the book

# Don't tell me you don't know the difference

# Between a lover and a fighter

# With my pen and my electric typewriter

# Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal

# I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel

# I'm giving you a longing look

# Every day, every day every day I write the book

# Every day, every day every day I write the book

# Every day, every day every day I write the book

# Every day, every day every day I write the book

# Every day, every day every day I write the book

# I'm giving you a longing look

# Every day I write the book

# I'm giving you a longing look

# Every day I write the book. #

Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Everyday I Write The Book.

Now, then, if you've got a skipping rope at home,

it's Double Dutch time with Malcolm McLaren.

# All over the world high school girls

# Take to the ropes and turn them slow

# Starts a beat and the loop

# They skip and jump through the hoop

# They might break and they might fall

# But the gals in New York City don't

# They just start again, start again

# Hey, ebo, ebonettes

# Hey, ebo, ebo, ebonettes

# Hey, ebo, ebo, ebonettes

# Hey, ebo, ebo ebonettes

# Hey, ebo, ebo ebonettes

# The golden angels the Ford green angels

# The five town diamond skippers the pleasure of rope rippers

# Those dark and lovely skippers those five town diamond skippers

# The skip they do's the Double Dutch, that's them dancing

# The skip they do's the Double Dutch, that's them dancing

# The skip they do's the Double Dutch, that's them dancing

# The skip they do's the Double Dutch, that's them dancing

# Hey, swing those ropes round and round

# All the teams change your partners now

# Somersault through the hoop leap to beat

# The clicks that keep on coming

# Hey, watch your feet

# To win the Double Dutch stay jumping

# Hey, ebo, ebonettes

# Hey, ebo, ebo, ebonettes

# Hey, ebo, ebo, ebonettes... #

Malcolm McLaren and Double Dutch.

Supposing you want one of these T-shirts, they're going on sale.

Details are in next week's Radio Times,

which is actually on sale today.

So go get it if you want one for the summer.

OK, let's go with the hit at Number 2 and a classic record

for Paul Young, Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home).

# Mm-mm-mm

# Mm-mm-mm

# By the look in your eye I can tell you're going to cry

# Is it over me?

# If it is, save your tears

# For I'm not worth it, you see

# For I'm the type of boy who is always on the roam

# Wherever I lay my hat that's my home

# I'm telling you that's my home

# You had romance did you break it by chance

# Over me?

# If it's so I'd like for you to know

# That I'm not worth it, you see

# For I'm the type of boy who is always on the roam

# Wherever I lay my hat that's my home

# Mm, that's my home

# Oh, you keep telling me you keep telling me I'm your man

# What do I have to do to make you understand?

# For I'm the type of guy who gives a girl the eye

# Everybody knows

# But I love them and I leave them

# Break their hearts and deceive them everywhere I go

# Don't you know that I'm the type of man who is always on the roam

# Wherever I lay my hat that's my home

# Wherever I lay my hat oh, oh, that's my home,

# That's my home

# And I like it that way... #

Back to our chart, Heaven 17 and Come Live With Me.

# I was 37

# You were 17

# You were half my age

# The youth I'd never seen

# Unlikely people meeting in a dream

# Heaven only knows

# The way it should have been

# Here today, my tomorrow

# Where you lead, I will follow

# All that kissing

# No passion missing

# Come live with me

# Kiss the boys goodbye

# Come live with me

# Kiss the boys goodbye

# Come live with me

# Dinner parties followed

# And all my age implies

# My friends began to talk

# I began to realise

# If half the things they say

# Are quarter true of me

# Then how can I eclipse the youth

# You gave to set me free?

# There was something in your smile

# That was hard to reconcile

# The time had come

# To testify to reason

# Though years will not erase

# Remembrance of those days

# At least there's no submission

# To heart's treason

# Here today, my tomorrow

# No more shame, only sorrow

# All that kissing

# There's something missing

# Come live with me

# Kiss the boys goodbye

# Come live with me

# Kiss the boys goodbye

# Come live with me

# Now there's nothing left to cry for

# And there's nowhere left to go

# Just another hopeless fight

# But how were we to know?

# The strong are sometimes wrong

# But the weak are never free

# The choice we made we can't evade

# Don't try to follow me

# Here today, my tomorrow

# No more pain, only sorrow

# All that kissing

# There's something missing

# Come live with me

# Kiss the boys goodbye

# Come live with me

# Kiss the boys goodbye

# Come live with me

# Kiss the boys goodbye

# Come live with me... #

Check out their LP called The Luxury Gap - that's Heaven 17.

OK, a band who did a tour of Great Britain with a difference -

they started right up north, in fact in the Scottish isles,

and now they're going down to London,

and on Monday and Tuesday you can see them at the Albert Hall.

That band is Echo & the Bunnymen,

this is their single called Never Stop.

# Good God, you said

# Is that the only thing you care about

# Splitting up the money

# And share it out

# The cake's being eaten

# Straight through the mouth

# Poison, poised to come back in

# Season, for all the ones who lack reason

# Measure by measure drop by drop

# And pound for pound we're taking stock

# Of all the treasure still unlocked

# The love you found must never stop

# The king is dead

# And long live the people who aim above

# All the simple stuff never understood

# Like right from bad and wrong from good

# Deny that you were ever tempted by the lie

# That there's an answer in the sky

# Measure by measure drop by drop

# And pound for pound we're taking stock

# Of all the treasure still unlocked

# The love you found must never stop

# Oh, oh

# Oh, oh

# Oh, oh

# Oh, oh

# Never stop

# Never stop

# Never stop

# Never stop

# Never stop

# Never stop

# Never stop

# Never stop

# Never stop

# Measure by measure drop by drop

# And pound for pound we're taking stock

# Of all the treasure still unlocked

# The love you found must never

# Measure by measure drop by drop

# And pound for pound we're taking stock

# Of all the treasure still unlocked

# The love you found must never stop

# (Stop) Never stop

# (Stop stop) Never stop (Stop)

# Never stop (Stop stop)

# Never stop. #

Echo & the Bunnymen - Top Of The Pops tonight

to the Albert Hall on Monday and Tuesday in London.

OK, mate, what about the charts?

Never Stop.

She Works Hard For The Money.

Want to Be Startin' Something.

China Girl.

Confusion (Hits Us Every Time).

Waiting For A Train.

Bad Boys.

Don't Try To Stop It.

When We Were Young.

Cruel Summer.

They're live on Top Of The Pops.

# Hot summer streets and the pavements are burning

# I sit around

# Trying to smile but the air is so heavy and dry

# Strange voices are saying

# What did they say

# Things I can't understand

# It's too close for comfort

# This heat has got right out of hand

# It's a cruel, (Cruel) Cruel summer

# Leaving me here on my own

# It's a cruel, (It's a cruel) Cruel summer

# Now you've gone

# The city is crowded, my friends are away and I'm on my own

# It's too hot to handle so I got to get up and go

# It's a cruel, (Cruel) Cruel summer

# Leaving me here on my own

# It's a cruel, (It's a cruel) Cruel summer

# Now you've gone

# You're not the only one

# It's a cruel, (Cruel) Cruel summer

# (Leaving me) Leaving me here on my own

# It's a cruel, (It's a cruel) Cruel summer

# Now you've gone

# It's a cruel, cruel summer

# Leaving me here on my own

# It's a cruel, cruel summer

# Now you've gone

# You're not the only one

# It's a cruel, (Cruel) Cruel summer

# (Leaving me) Leaving me here on my own

# It's a cruel, (It's a cruel) Cruel summer

# Now you've gone

# You're not the only one... #

Bananarama and their latest hit, it's called Cruel Summer.

OK, back to the charts and this week's 20.

Every Breath You Take.

Tantalise.

Forbidden Colours.

The Walk.

All Night Long.

I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues.

Take That Situation.

Rock 'n' Roll Is King.

The Trooper.

Dead Giveaway.

And we go back to number 18 on this week's chart

for a really beautiful piece of music.

From David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto,

it's a film theme from a movie called

Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, and it's called Forbidden Colours.

# The wounds on your hands never seem to heal

# I thought all I needed was to believe

# Here am I a lifetime away from you

# The blood of Christ or the beat of my heart

# My love wears forbidden colours

# My life believes

# Senseless years thunder by

# Millions are willing to give their lives for you

# Does nothing live on?

# Learning to cope with feelings aroused in me

# My hands in the soil buried inside of myself

# My love wears forbidden colours

# My life believes in you once again

# I'll go walking in circles

# While doubting the very ground beneath me

# Trying to show unquestioning faith in everything

# Here am I a lifetime away from you

# The blood of Christ or a change of heart

# My love wears forbidden colours

# My life believes

# My love wears forbidden colours

# My life believes in you once again... #

That was a beautiful song,

David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto, Forbidden Colours.

And here's the Top 10.

Double Dutch.

Who's That Girl?

It's Over.

War Baby.

Come Live With Me.

Flashdance.

Moonlight Shadow.

IOU.

Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home).

Baby Jane.

# Baby Jane, don't leave me hangin' on the line

# I knew you when you had no-one to talk to

# Now you're moving in high society

# Don't forget I know secrets about you

# I used to think you were on my side

# But now I'm no longer sure

# I wish I knew what I know now before

# When I give my heart again

# I know it's gonna last forever

# No-one tell me where or when

# I know it's gonna last forever

# Baby Jane don't it make you feel sad?

# Just when I thought that we were winning

# You and I were so close in every way

# Don't time fly when you're loving and laughing

# I've said goodbye so many times

# The situation ain't all that new

# Optimism's my best defence

# I'll get through without you

# When I give my heart again

# I know it's gonna last forever

# No-one tell me where or when

# I know it's gonna last forever

# I won't be that dumb again

# I know it's gotta last forever

# When I fall in love again

# I know it's gonna last forever. #

We bow with Donna Summer and She Works Hard For The Money.

-From us all here, goodnight.

-Goodnight, bye-bye.

# She works hard for the money

# So hard for it, honey

# She works hard for the money

# So you better treat her right

# She works hard for the money

# So hard for it, honey

# She works hard for the money

# So you better treat her right

# I met her there in the corner stands

# And she wonders where she is

# And it's strange to her

# Some people seem to have everything

# 9am on the hour hand

# And she's waiting for the bell

# And she's looking real pretty

# She's waiting for her clientele

# She works hard for the money

# So hard for it, honey

# She works hard for the money

# So you better treat her right... #