15/10/1981 Top of the Pops

Hi there!

After my being away from Top Of The Pops for over a year,

I must say, it is good to be back.

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But right now, there's thunder in them there mountains.

MUSIC: Thunder In The Mountains by Toyah

# Where the mountains meet the sea

# And lights spit stains on the scenery

# And the air is heavy with a sticky unease

# I wish for my world of make believe

# And the rebel in my soul says go

# Go go go go go go

# And the rebel in my soul says go

# Go go go go go go

# Can you hear it breaking through?

# Can you hear it breaking through?

# Thunder and lightning

# Thundering

# Thundering in the mountains

# There's a motorway - ha!

# It's a monument

# To distant cities with distant cries

# A problem, an explosion

# Just a spark sets the anger in motion

# And the rebel in my soul says go

# Go go go go go go

# And the rebel in my soul says go

# Go go go go go go

# Can you hear it breaking through?

# Can you hear it breaking through?

# Thunder and lightning

# Thundering

# Thundering in the mountains

# Can you hear it in the mountains?

# Can you hear it breaking through?

# Can you hear it breaking through?

# Thunder and lightning

# Thundering

# Thundering in the mountains

# Can you hear it breaking through?

# Can you hear it breaking through?

# Thundering

# Thundering

# Thundering in the mountains

# And it's breaking through

# Yeah, breaking through

# Breaking through, yeah

# It's breaking through

# Breaking through, yeah

# It's breaking through

# Breaking through, yeah

# Breaking through. #

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And we leave Toyah breaking through.

Well, fellow Scots BA Robertson and Maggie Bell have just entered

the charts this week, with a classic PJ Proby song.

They do a very good version of this - Hold Me.

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# When you're near me I feel so romantic

# When you're far away I'm always blue

# If you want me to remain romantic

# Here are all the things you'd have to do

# Hold me

# Honey, won't you hold me?

# Hold me

# Never let me go

# Take me

# Honey, won't you take me?

# Never to forsake me

# Cos I love you so

# Whoa oh

# Thrill me

# Let your kisses thrill me, yeah

# Just like you alone can do

# Hold me

# Tenderly enfold me

# Never try to hold me away from you

# Whoa oh

# Thrill me

# Baby, let your kisses thrill me, yeah

# Just like you alone can do

# Hold me

# Tenderly enfold me, oh yeah

# Never try to hold me away from you

# Baby, listen to me, don't you try

# To hold me away from you

# One more time

# Don't you try to hold me away from you

# Baby, listen to me, don't you try

# To hold me away from you. #

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A couple of terrific voices there,

and it's an invasion of the Glaswegians.

After Maggie and BA, here come Altered Images

and their first hit, as they celebrate Happy Birthday.

# Happy birthday, happy birthday

# Happy birthday, happy birthday

# Happy birthday, happy birthday

# Happy, happy birthday in a hot bath

# To those nice, nice nights

# I remember always, always

# I got such a fright

# Seeing them in my dark cupboard

# With my great big cake

# If they were me If they were me

# And I was you And I was you

# If they were me If they were me

# And I was you And I was you

# If they were me and I was you

# Would you have liked a present too?

# Happy, happy birthday in a hot bath

# To those nice, nice nights

# I remember always, always

# I got such a fright

# Seeing them in my dark cupboard

# With my great big cake

# If they were me If they were me

# And I was you And I was you

# If they were me If they were me

# And I was you And I was you

# If they were me and I was you

# Would you have liked a present too?

# Happy birthday, happy birthday

# Happy birthday, happy birthday

# Happy birthday, happy birthday

# Happy birthday, happy birthday

# Happy birthday, happy birthday

# Happy birthday, happy birthday

# Happy birthday, happy birthday... #

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Well, after watching Clare and company bounce around,

it's time for you to join Flick Colby's Legs & Co

and bounce around to The Tweet Song.

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC: The Birdie Song by The Tweets

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The Tweets, Birdie Song.

Former 10cc men, Kevin Godley

and Lol Creme, are a terrifically talented duo,

and that's why it's so good to see them

so high in the charts this week, with Under Your Thumb.

# I was standing in the station being pounded by the rain

# So I chose the last compartment of a stationary train

# I felt someone get in behind me but I never caught their eye

# But I thought I heard a woman's voice whispering goodbye

# So I lay down in the darkness with the beer and coffee stains

# And I stared out at the thunder through the broken window panes

# And although the storm was booming like an engine in the sky

# I'm sure I heard a woman's voice cry

# Don't wanna be under your thumb forever

# Don't wanna be under your thumb forever

# Don't wanna be under your thumb

# It's over and done

# I'll never be under your thumb forever

# So I rolled myself a cigarette and smoked it on my own

# But it didn't stop the whispers or the smell of her cologne

# Then she rose up out of nowhere and her hair was full of steam

# And she stuck her head out the window and screamed

# And screamed, she screamed

# Don't wanna be under your thumb forever

# Don't wanna be under your thumb forever

# Don't wanna be under your thumb

# It's over and done

# I'll never be under your thumb forever

# So I picked up an old newspaper to read

# And I noticed something very strange indeed

# So I looked a little closer and it chilled me to the bone

# "Woman throws herself from speeding train, identity unknown"

# But I recognised the picture of the woman who was dead

# And underneath the picture, it said

# Don't wanna be under your thumb forever

# Don't wanna be under your thumb forever

# Don't wanna be under your thumb

# It's over and done

# I'll never be under your thumb forever

# Don't wanna be under your thumb forever #

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Well, the shortest record, not to mention the fastest

record in the charts this week, is by this brand-new band.

They're called The Exploited. This is Dead Cities.

# I'm filled up with aggression, I'm gonna smash your television

# Saturday night, you watch TV, Saturday night does nothing for me

# Dead cities, dead cities

# Dead cities, dead cities

# See the man in the electric chair

# They beat him up and shave his hair

# There is no future to behold

# In the city of dead, you'll be there

# Dead cities, dead cities

# Dead cities, dead cities

# I'm getting wasted in this city

# Those council houses are getting me down

# Go up town, see who's there

# There's nothing to do except hanging around

# Dead cities, dead cities

# Dead cities, dead cities

# Snarling and gobbing and falling around

# I really enjoy the freedom I've found

# My mate's beside me lying on the ground

# His ears are bursting with the volume of sound

# Dead cities, dead cities

# Dead cities, dead cities

# Dead cities, dead cities, dead cities, dead cities

# Dead cities, dead cities, dead cities, dead cities

# Dead cities, dead cities, dead cities, dead cities

# Dead cities, dead cities, dead cities, dead cities! #

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And who said punk was dead, eh? Hmmm.

By way of a contrast, here's one of my favourite bands.

They are Squeeze, and they are back in the charts once again,

this time with a song called Labelled With Love.

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# She unscrews the top of her new whisky bottle

# Shuffles about in her candle-lit hovel

# Like some kind of witch with blue fingers and mittens

# She smells like the cat and the neighbours she sickens

# Her black and white TV has long seen a picture

# The cross on the wall is a permanent fixture

# The postman delivers the final reminders

# She sells off her silver and poodles in china

# Drinks to remember I, me and myself

# And winds up the clock and knocks dust from the shelf

# Home is a love that I miss very much

# So the past has been bottled and labelled with love

# During the wartime an American pilot

# Made every air-raid a time of excitement

# She moved to his prairie and married the Texan

# She learned from a distance how love was a lesson

# He became drinker and she became mother

# She knew that one day she'd be one or the other

# He ate himself older, drunk himself dizzy

# Proud of her features, she kept herself pretty

# Drinks to remember I, me and myself

# And winds up the clock and knocks dust from the shelf

# Home is a love that I miss very much

# So the past has been bottled and labelled with love

PREMATURE APPLAUSE

# He like a cowboy died drunk in a slumber

# Out on the porch in the middle of summer

# She crossed the ocean back home to her family

# But they had retired to roads that were sandy

# She moved home alone without friends or relations

# Lived in a world full of age reservation

# On moth-eaten armchairs, she'd say that she'd sod all

# The friends who had left her to drink from the bottle

# Drinks to remember I, me and myself

# And winds up the clock, and knocks dust from the shelf

# Home is a love that I miss very much

# So the past has been bottled and labelled with love

# Drinks to remember I, me and myself

# And winds up the clock, and knocks dust from the shelf

# Home is a love that I miss very much

# So the past has been bottled and labelled with love

# The past has been bottled and labelled with love

# The past has been bottled

# And labelled with love. #

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It's currently at 31, and I think it's going to go

straight to number one. That was Squeeze.

Right now, let's take a look at the rest of the chart placings,

in this week's hit sound countdown, just like this.

At number 30, The Teardrop Explodes, with Passionate Friend.

At 29, Slade, Lock Up Your Daughters.

At number 28, Dollar, with Hand Held In Black And White.

Linx, So This Is Romance, is at number 27.

At 26, Imagination, Falling In And Out Of Love.

Siouxsie and Budgie, The Creatures, at 25 with Mad Eyed Screamer.

At 24, The Electronicas with the original Bird Dance.

At 23, Hi-Gloss, You'll Never Know.

At 22, The Pointer Sisters, Slow Hand.

And at number 21, up nine places, Barry Manilow, Let's Hang On.

Right now, let's go back to number 25 and join Siouxsie and Budgie.

These are The Creatures.

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# Platform ranting in the trees

# Disturbed voices on the breeze

# Huddled round the mad-eyed screamer

# A pointed finger, the tin-can schemer

# Mad-eyed screamer, mad-eyed screamer

# Mad-eyed screamer, mad-eyed screamer

# A pointed finger, the tin-can schemer

# Mad-eyed screamer, the corner speaker

# Could be a preacher, could be a teacher

# You want the world to meet your maker

# Now a lecher transforms a traitor

# With a petrol flaring eye

# Come and see the corner speaker

# Come and hear his suit drip dry

# The passers-by have one obsession

# To hear his raving to the sky

# Mad-eyed screamer, on your knees

# Mad-eyed screamer, you are not pleased

# With the chatter in the trees

# Your balls are freezing in the breeze

# Mad-eyed screamer, mad-eyed screamer

# Mad-eyed screamer, mad-eyed screamer

# Your balls are freezing in the breeze

# Mad-eyed screamer, you are not pleased. #

SHE SCATS ALONG TO THE DRUMS

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Siouxsie and Budgie,

collectively having success these days as The Creatures.

It's amazing, you know,

I last introduced Top Of The Pops 18 months ago,

and since then there have been so many new names,

faces and sounds in the chart, while I was in America.

People like Altered Images, Linx, Imagination,

even The Teardrop Explodes were virtual unknowns when I left.

Right now, let's continue our look at this week's charts,

and have a few more faces, and a few more names and sounds.

At number 20, Soft Cell with Tainted Love.

At 19, Japan, Quiet Life.

Number 18's a new entry from Laurie Anderson, O Superman.

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark at 17, Souvenir.

At 16, up 12 for Altered Images, Happy Birthday.

At 15, Pretend, Alvin Stardust.

Up nine places to 14 for Elvis Costello

and Good Year For The Roses.

At 13, Diana Ross, Lionel Richie, Endless Love.

At 12, Shut Up, Madness.

At 11, up 29 places, goes Shakin' Stevens, It's Raining.

And at number ten, up six places, Bad Manners,

and here they are, from their Gosh It's...

album, Walking In The Sunshine.

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# Wet winter left me cold and crying

# Beaten black and blue

# Someone said there's no harm in trying

# Nothing else to do

# I'm just a-walking in the sunshine

# Leave your troubles all behind you

# I think I'll drink a little red wine

# I'll take you where they'll never find you

# Sad songs, well I've heard too many

# Words that didn't rhyme

# Hard years, never had a penny

# But we could spend the time

# I'm just a-walking in the sunshine

# Trying to keep from going under

# I think I'll drink a little red wine

# Ain't no use to sit and wonder

# Cos I would say

# Autumn eve and the leaves are falling

# 'Til the trees are bare

# Summer's gone, I can hear you calling

# Haven't got a care

# I'm just a-walking in the sunshine

# Leave your troubles all behind you

# I think I'll drink a little red wine

# I'll take you where they'll never find you

# Ooh yeah

# I'm just a-walking in the sunshine

# Leave your troubles all behind you

# I think I'll drink a little red wine

# I'll take you where they'll never find you

# I'm just a-walking in the sunshine

# Leave your troubles all behind you

# I think I'll drink a little red wine

# I'll take you where they'll never find you

# Cos I would say. #

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A very popular live act with a much-requested song.

Bad Manners at ten, Walking In The Sunshine,

and now we go back to our hit sound countdown.

At number nine, Invisible Sun, from The Police.

Depeche Mode are at number eight with Just Can't Get Enough.

At seven, Hands Up Give Me Your Heart, Ottowan.

The Human League move up 15 places to number six with Open Your Heart.

At number five, up three, Toyah, Thunder In The Mountains.

At four, Adam And The Ants, Prince Charming.

At three, Under Your Thumb, Godley And Creme.

The Tweets are in the runner-up number two position this week,

with The Birdie Song.

And right now, congratulations to keyboardist Dave Stewart

and vocalist Barbara Gaskin, who are at number one with It's My Party.

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# It's my party and I'll cry if I want to

# Cry if I want to Sigh if I want to

# Cry if I want to Cry if I want to

# Cry if I want to Cry if I want to

# Nobody knows where my Johnny has gone

# But Judy left the same time

# Why was he holding her hand

# When he's supposed to be mine?

# It's my party and I'll cry if I want to

# Cry if I want to Cry if I want to

# You would cry too if it happened to you

# Playing my records, keep dancing all night

# But leave me alone for a while

# 'Til Johnny's dancing with me

# I've got no reason to smile

# It's my party and I'll cry if I want to

# Cry if I want to Cry if I want to

# You would cry too if it happened to you

Nobody knows where my Johnny has gone

But Judy left the same time

So I'll cry if I want to

Cry if I want to

Cry if I want to

# Judy and Johnny just walked through the door

# Like a queen with her king

# Oh, what a birthday surprise

# Judy's wearing his ring

# It's my party and I'll cry if I want to

# Cry if I want to Cry if I want to

# You would cry too if it happened to you

# It's my party and I'll cry if I want to

# Cry if I want to Cry if I want to

# You would cry too if it happened to you

# It's my party and I'll cry if I want to

# Cry if I want to Cry if I want to

# You would cry too if it happened to you. #

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So, the song with the sad ending makes number one.

Congratulations again to Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin.

Well, we're going to leave you this week with This Year's Blonde,

a medley of Blondie hits, in fact.

This is Platinum Pop. Have a good week, until next week, goodnight.

# I'm in a phone booth, it's the one across the hall

# If you don't answer, I'll just ring it off the wall

# I know he's there, but I just tried to call

# Don't leave me hanging on the telephone

# Don't leave me hanging on the telephone

# I heard your mother, now she's going out the door

# Did she go to work or just go to the store?

# All those things she said, I told you to ignore

# Oh, why can't we talk again?

# Oh, why can't we talk again?

# Don't leave me hanging on the telephone

# Oh Denis, do-be-do

# I'm in love with you, Denis, do-be-do

# I'm in love with you, Denis, do-be-do

# I'm in love with you

# Denis, Denis

# Oh with your eyes so blue

# Denis, Denis

# I've got a crush on you

# Denis, Denis

# I'm so in love with you, oh oh

# When I met you at the restaurant

# You could tell I was no debutante

# You asked me what's my pleasure

# A movie or a measure

# I'll have a cup of tea

# And tell you of my dreaming

# Dreaming is free

# Oh, oh, what are we gonna do?

# Union, union

# Union city blue

# When we play at cards you use an extra sense

# (It's really not cheating)

# You can read my hand, I've got no defence

# When you send your messages

# Whispered loud and clear

# I am always touched by your presence, dear

# All I want is a room with a view

# A sight worth seeing, a vision of you

# All I want is a room with a view

# Oh oh, whoa whoa whoa

# All I want is a photo in my wallet

# A small remembrance of something more solid

# All I want is a picture of you

# Picture this, a day in December

# Picture this, freezing cold weather

# You've got clouds on your lids and you'd be on the skids

# If it weren't for your job at the garage, if you could only oh-oh

# Picture this, a sky full of thunder

# Picture this, my telephone number

# One and one is what I'm telling you, oh yeah

# I know a girl from a lonely street

# Cold as ice cream, but still as sweet

# Dry your eyes, Sunday Girl

# Hey, I saw your guy with a different girl

# Looks like he's in another world

# Run and hide, Sunday Girl

# Hurry up, hurry up and wait

# I stay away all week, and still I wait

# I got the blues, please come see

# What your loving means to me

# Dreaming, dreaming is free

# Dreaming, dreaming is free... #

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