14/07/77 Top of the Pops

The following few are feeling fine,

cos they're this week's Top Of The Pops.

# Love

# Love's such a wonderful thing

# Just think of the joys it can bring

# I've got so much love to give to you

# My love is a shelter

# Let it be your shade

# Somewhere you can run to

# Your troubles will fade

# Life's so full of shadows

# It's so full of rain

# Let my love surround you

# And keep out the pain

# There's a feeling in the night

# That I know could be so right

# To share

# Come on, tell me what you see

# Every time you look at me

# Do you care?

# Love

# Love's such a wonderful thing

# Just think of the joys it can bring

# I've got so much love to give

# Love

# Love's such a wonderful thing

# Just think of the joys it can bring

# I've got so much love to give to you

# With each passing day, girl

# Gets harder to bear

# You know where to run to

# I'll always be there

# There's a feeling in the night

# That I know could be so right to share

# Come on, tell me what you see

# Every time you look at me

# Do you care?

# Love

# Love's such a wonderful thing

# Just think of the joys it can bring

# I've got so much love to give to you. #

Real good thing from The Real Thing and Love's Such A Wonderful Thing.

Welcome to Top Of The Pops. Here's a girl that knows a lot about love.

She is the lovely Rita Coolidge singing a Boz Scaggs composition

that appeared on his Silk Degrees LP.

It's a song called We're All Alone.

# Outside the rain begins

# And it may never end

# So cry no more

# On the shore, a dream

# Will take us out to sea

# For ever more, for ever more

# Close your eyes and dream

# And you can be with me

# 'Neath the waves

# Through the caves of ours

# Long forgotten now

# We're all alone, we're all alone

# Close the window, calm the light

# And it will be all right

# No need to bother now

# Let it out, let it all begin

# Learn how to pretend

# Once a story's told

# It can't help but grow old

# Roses do, lovers too

# So cast your seasons to the wind

# And hold me, dear

# Oh, hold me, dear

# Close the window, calm the light

# And it will be all right

# No need to bother now

# Let it out, let it all begin

# All's forgotten now

# We're all alone

# Oh, we're all alone

# Close the window, calm the light

# And it will be all right

# No need to bother now

# Let it out, let it all begin

# Owe it to the wind, my love... #

Real romantic stuff there from Rita Coolidge

and We're All Alone.

Hovering just outside the charts

is a band from Australia currently in this country,

the Saints and this is called This Perfect Day.

# Don't talk to me about what you've done

# Ain't nothing changed it all goes on

# And they'll keep laughing till the end

# I've seen them drive around in cars

# All look the same get drunk in bars

# And don't talk back we got no social rights

# A perfect day

# What more to say

# Don't need no-one to tell me

# What I don't already know

# We got no high times always flat

# If you go out you don't come back

# It's all so funny I can't laugh

# A perfect day

# What more to say

# I don't need no-one to tell me

# What I don't already know

# Don't talk to me about what you've done

# Ain't nothing changed it all goes on

# And they'll keep laughing till the end

# A perfect day

# What more to say

# I don't need no-one to tell me

# What I don't already know

# I need nothing

# Don't want no-one

# I don't need nothing, nothing at all. #

Sly bit of sound from The Saints and This Perfect Day.

At number 21 in the carts this week, a very mellow sound

from the Commodores, and here to dance to it are Legs & Co.

And they make it look so Easy.

# Know it sounds funny but I just can't stand the pain

# Girl, I'm leaving you tomorrow

# Seems to me girl you know I've done all I can

# You see, I've begged, stole and I borrowed

# Yeah, ooh

-# That's why I'm easy

-Ah ah ah ah

-# I'm easy like Sunday morning

-Ah ah ah ah

-# That's why I'm easy

-Ah ah ah ah

# I'm easy like Sunday morning

# Why in the world would anybody put chains on me?

# I've paid my dues to make it

# Everybody wants me to be what they want me to be

# And I'm not happy when I try to fake it, no

-# That's why I'm easy

-Ah ah ah ah

-# I'm easy like Sunday morning

-Ah ah ah ah

-# That's why I'm easy

-Ah ah ah ah

# I'm easy like Sunday morning

# I want to be high

# So high

# I want to be free to know the things I do are right

# I want to be free

# Just me

# Whoa... #

I think we have something for everyone

in this edition of Top Of The Pops.

The next piece of music is a bit of rock and roll

from Dave Edmunds' Rockpile and I Knew The Bride.

# Well, the bride looked a picture in the gown that her mama wore

# When she was married herself nearly 27 years before

# They had to change the style just a little but it looked just fine

# They stayed up all night but they got it finished just in time

# Now on the arm of her daddy she's a-walkin' down the aisle

# I see her catch my eye and give me a secret smile

# Maybe it's too old-fashioned but we once were close friends

# Oh, but the way that she looks today, she never could have then

# Cos I can see her now in the tight blue jeans

# Pumpin' all the money in the record machine

# Spinnin' like a top, you shoulda seen her go

# I knew the bride when she used to rock and roll

# I knew the bride when she used to rock and roll

# Now her proud daddy only want to give his little girl the best

# And so he put down a grand on a cosy little lover's nest

# You could've called the reception an unqualified success

# At a flash hotel for 150 guests

# Take a look at the bridegroom smiling pleased as pie

# Shakin' hands all around with a glassy look in his eye

# He got a real good job and his shirt and tie is nice

# But I remember a time when she would never even look him twice

# Cos I can see her now drinkin' with the boys

# Breakin' their hearts like they were toys

# She used to do the pony, she used to do the stroll

# I knew the bride when she used to rock and roll

# I knew the bride when she used to rock and roll

# I knew the bride when she used to rock and roll

# I knew the bride when she used to rock and roll

# Well I can see her now with her headphones on

# Jumpin' up and down to her favourite song

# I still remember when she used to want to make a lot of noise

# Hoppin' and boppin' with the street corner boys

# She used to want to party, she used to want to go

# I knew the bride when she used to rock and roll

# I knew the bride when she used to rock and roll

# I knew the bride when she used to rock and roll

# I knew the bride when she used to rock and roll. #

If you've been wondering what happened to Jigsaw,

puzzle yourself no more,

because they've been putting it all together again

with a new 45 release, If I Have To Go Away.

# Cha cha cha chu-kah

# Cha cha cha chu-kah

# Cha cha cha chu-kah

# Here I am with my head in my hands

# With a tear each day of the year

# This is not, not at all what I planned

# What I planned

# I've to say what cannot be clear

# I'm going away from you

# If I have to go away

# If I have to go away

# There'll be time enough to say

# Why I ruined a good thing I never know

# How I loved and lost a thing I wanted most, most

# There you are You're so near yet so far

# Out of reach to one who can't speak

# Just the pass makes me silent and more

# More and more

# Makes my mind unable to think

# I'm going away from you

# If I have to go away

# If I have to go away

# There'll be time enough to say

# Why I ruined a good thing I never know

# How I loved and lost a thing I wanted most, most... #

In musical terms,

one of Britain's biggest exports must be Supertramp,

and here they from their album Even In The Quietest Moments.

# Give a little bit

# Give a little bit of your love to me

# I'll give a little bit

# I'll give a little bit of my love to you

# There's so much that we need to share

# So send a smile and show you care

# All right

# I'll give a little bit

# I'll give a little bit of my life for you

# So give a little bit

# Give a little bit of your time to me

# See the man with the lonely eyes

# Oh, take his hand, you'll be surprised

# Oh, take it

# Come along

# Come along

# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. #

Giving more than a little bit, Supertramp.

Right now, Cilla Black, and this is her brand new single release.

This is called, I Wanted To Call It Off.

# I started to call it off

# I searched through all my thoughts

# Came up to this conclusion

# That you

# You're clouding up my mind

# We argue all the time

# What good is this confusion?

# Cos when you touch me, baby

# I don't want to live without you

# Cos there's something warm about you

# That brings my loving down around me

# Whenever you touch me, baby

# I don't want to love another

# Cos we both need each other

# We should find a way to work it out

# Oh, I wanted to call it off

# The night I turned and tossed

# In searched of a solution

# Ooh, my body's weak my soul is strong

# The taste of your love lingers on my tongue

# And I need a resolution

# Because when you touch me, baby

# I don't want to live without you

# Oh, there's something warm about you

# That brings my loving down around me

# Whenever you touch me, baby

# I don't want to love another

# Cos we both need each other

# We must find a way

# To work it out

# Cos when you touch me, baby

# I don't want to live without you

# Cos there's something warm about you

# That brings my loving down around me

# Whenever you touch me, baby

# I could never love another

# Cos we both need each other

# We must find a way

# To work it out. #

By way of a conquest,

this week's highest new entry is at number seven.

It's the third single release from the Sex Pistols.

Their new one, it's called Pretty Vacant.

# There's no point in asking

# You'll get no reply

# Oh, just remember I don't decide

# I got no reason it's all too much

# You'll always find us

# Out to lunch

# Oh, we're so pretty

# Oh, so pretty

# We're vacant

# Oh, we're so pretty

# Oh, so pretty

# Vacant

# Don't ask us to attend

# Cos we're not all there

# Oh, don't pretend cos I don't care

# I don't believe illusions cos too much is real

# So stop your cheap comment

# Cos we know what we feel

# Oh, we're so pretty

# Oh, so pretty

# We're vacant

# Oh, we're so pretty

# Oh, so pretty

# Vacant

# Oh, we're so pretty

# Oh, so pretty

# Ah

# But now

# And we don't care

# There's no point in asking

# You'll get no reply

# Oh, just remember I don't decide

# I got no reason it's all too much

# You'll always find me

# Out to lunch

# We're out at lunch

# Oh, we're so pretty

# Oh, so pretty

# We're vacant

# Oh, we're so pretty

# Oh, so pretty

# Vacant

# Oh, we're so pretty

# Oh, so pretty

# Ah

# But now

# And we don't care

# We're pretty a-pretty vacant

# We're pretty a-pretty vacant

# We're pretty a-pretty vacant

# We're pretty a-pretty vacant

# And we don't care. #

It's with a great deal of pleasure that I have on the programme

to introduce to you tonight

a former number one artist by the form of Kenny Rogers. Welcome.

Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

Welcome to Britain. What are you doing over here?

I'm actually on holiday, now.

I'm coming back from working in Saudi Arabia,

for the last two weeks.

And to get out of Saudi Arabia and the 120 degree weather,

believe me, it was great to come here

and find what was moderately warm here, I understand, for you.

Any chance of any future dates you may have in this country for us?

I was told today on telephone

that I will be here November for about eight days

throughout the United Kingdom.

So, I'm looking forward to it.

It's the first time in about seven years I've worked here.

We can't say goodbye

without having you introduce this week's number one record.

That's right. Hot Chocolate, So You Win Again.

And you will. Here they are.

For week number three in the number one position -

-the fabulous Hot Chocolate. Isn't it?

-Hot Chocolate.

# Du du du-du

# Du du du-du

# Du du du-du

# Du du du-du

# Du du du-du

# Du du du-du

# Just to admit one mistake

# That can be hard to take

# I know we've made them fall

# But only fools come back for more

# Being the fool I am

# I figured in all your plans, darling

# Your perfumed letters didn't say

# That you'd be leaving any day

# So you win again

# You win again

# Here I stand again, the loser

# And just for fun

# You took my love and run

# But love had just begun

# I can't refuse her

# But now I know that I'm the fool

# Who won your love to lose it all

# When you come back

# You win again

# Du du du-du

# Du du du-du

# Du du du-du

# And I'm not proud to say

# I let love slip away

# Now I'm the one who's crying

# I'm a fool there's no denying

# When will my heartache end?

# Will my whole life depend

# On fading memories

# You took the game this time with ease

# So you win again, you win again

# Here I stand again, the loser

# And just for fun

# You took my love and run

# But love had just begun

# I can't refuse her

# But now I know that I'm the fool

# Who won your love to lose it all

# When you come back

# You win again

# Du du du-du

# Du du du-du

# Du du du-du... #

And so endeth another week of chart toppers.

We hope you've enjoyed it

and that you'll join us again next week for more Top Of The Pops.

From me, Kid Jensen, have a good week and good love.

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