16/02/78 Top of the Pops

Top Robinson Band, Sweet and Abba. Just three names we have for you

in another star-studded Top of the Pops.

# I had a little trouble In the home town

# Things got funky so I had to leave

# Right away

# So I went to the city on the bus Next morning

# But trouble had a way of finding me

# And I ain't joking

# Now I think I know which way is up

# Finally got my direction together

# Which way is up

# Don't need no love It changes like the weather

# Which way is up

# Don't have to think about it twice

# Which way is up

# I've got a new lease of life

APPLAUSE

That was Stargard at number 30 in the top 30 this week.

The new EP release from the Tom Robinson Band under the title of 'Rising Free'. TRB!

# We first met in the winter

# Said, "Let's give it a try"

# I swallowed my fears

# A couple of years just living a lie

# I'd just come from the country

# Wide eyed and naive

# I signed on the line I signed a long time

# Now you won't let me leave

# But you don't take no for an answer

# Don't take no for an answer

# Don't take no for an answer

# When you've nothing to lose

# You don't take no for an answer

# Don't take no for an answer

# Don't take no for an answer

# Put yourself in my shoes

# I don't want any trouble

# I ain't after a fight

# But well respected man Please understand man

# You're standing in my light

# No use sticking together

# I've got to get out and get off

# I offered you a slice But you told me no dice

# Cos you wanted the lot

# You don't take no for an answer

# Don't take no for an answer

# Don't take no for an answer

# When you've nothing to lose

# You don't take no for an answer

# Don't take no for an answer

# Don't take no for an answer

# Put yourself in my shoes

# You don't take no for an answer

# Don't take no for an answer

# Don't take no for an answer

# When you've nothing to lose

# You don't take no for an answer

# Don't take no for an answer

# Don't take no for an answer. #

APPLAUSE

Tom Robinson Band from their new EP, Don't Take No For an Answer.

Now, making her debut on Top of the Pops is the exquisite Kate Bush

with her new single, Wuthering Heights.

# Out on the wiley, windy moors

# We'd roll and fall in green

# You had a temper like my jealousy

# Too hot, too greedy

# How could you leave me

# When I needed to possess you?

# I hated you, I loved you too

# Bad dreams in the night

# You told me I was going to lose the fight

# Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering, Wuthering Heights

# Heathcliff

# It's me, Cathy

# I've come home

# I'm so cold

# Let me in your window

# Heathcliff

# It's me, Cathy

# I've come home

# I'm so cold

# Let me in your window

# Oh, it gets dark

# It gets lonely

# On the other side from you

# I pine a lot

# I find the lot

# Falls through without you

# I'm coming back, love

# Cruel Heathcliff, my one dream

# My only master

# Too long I roamed in the night

# I'm coming back to his side To put it right

# I'm coming home to wuthering, wuthering, Wuthering Heights

# Heathcliff

# It's me, Cathy

# I've come home

# I'm so cold

# Let me in your window

# Heathcliff

# It's me, Cathy

# I've come home

# I'm so cold

# Let me in your window

# Ooh, let me have it

# Let me grab your soul away

# Ooh, let me have it

# Let me grab your soul away

# You know it's me

# Cathy

# Heathcliff

# It's me, Cathy

# I've come home

# I'm so cold

# Let me in your window

# Heathcliff

# It's me, Cathy I've come home. #

APPLAUSE

That spellbinding single comes from a magnificent album from Kate Bush.

Now for something different. Here come the Darts.

# Come back my love

# Don't go away

# Come back my love

# Come back to stay

# I love you so

# Well, I want you to know

# I need your love so badly

# Whop

# Do the when

# Do the whop, do the when Do the whop

# I want you to come back my love

# Don't go away

# I need your loving every day

# I love you so Well, I want you to know

# I need your love so badly

# You said goodbye, I wondered why

# All because of those silly lies

# I love you so Well, I want you to know

# I need your love so badly

# Well, everybody makes big mistakes

# In this game of romance

# Now, I'm asking you darling

# Why don't you come back And give me a chance

# Come back my love, don't go away

# I need your loving every day

# I love you so Well, I want you to know

# I need your love so badly

# Do-whop-a-dooby-whop-a-dooby-do

# Do-whop-a-dooby-whop-a-dooby-do

# Oh, oh, oh, oh

# Do-whop-a-dooby-whop-a-dooby-do

# Do-whop-a-dooby-whop-a-dooby-do

# Oh, oh, oh, oh

# Everybody makes big mistakes

# In this game of romance

# Now, I'm asking you darling

# Why don't you come back And give me a chance, oh baby

# Come back my love, don't go away

# I need your loving every day

# I love you so Well, I want you to know

# I need your love so badly

# I need your love so badly

# B-b-b-b-baby

# I need your love so badly. #

APPLAUSE

Come Back My Love. Darts in full flight.

And now in full costume, it's Legs And Co

with the music of Rose Royce.

# I'm wishing on a star

# To follow where you are

# I'm wishing on a dream

# To follow what it means

# I'm wishing on a star

# To follow where you are

# I'm wishing on a dream

# To follow what it means

# And I wish on all the rainbows

# That I see

# I wish on all the people

# Who really dream

# And I'm wishing on tomorrow

# Praying it'll come

# And I'm wishing on all the loving

# We've ever done

# I never thought I'd see

# A time when you would be

# So far away from home

# So far away from me

# Just think of all the moments

# That we've spent

# I just can't let you go

# For me you were meant

# And I didn't mean to hurt you

# But I know

# That in the game of love

# You reap what you sow

# I feel it's time we should make up

# Baby

# I feel it's time for us To get back together

# And make the best of things Oh, baby

# When we're together

# Whether or never

# I feel it's time we should make up

# Baby

# I feel it's time for us To get back together

# And make the best of things Oh, baby

# When we're together

# Whether or never

APPLAUSE

Wishing On A Star. Legs And Co moving to Rose Royce.

And now a lovely song from Billy Joel.

A former record of the week of mine, in fact.

# Don't go changing

# To try and please me

# You've never let me down before

# Mmm-mmm

# Don't imagine you're too familiar

# And I don't see you any more

# I could not leave you

# In times of trouble

# We never would have come this far

# Mmm-mmm

# I took the good times

# I'll take the bad times

# I take you just the way you are

# I need to know That you'll always be

# The same old someone that I knew

# Ah, what will it take Until you believe in me

# The way that I believe in you

# I said I love you

# And that's forever

# And this I promise from the heart

# Mmm-mmm

# I could not love you any better

# I love you just the way you are. #

APPLAUSE

That was called Just The Way You Are.

There are so many good singles around at the moment.

Just like the mid-'60s all over again.

Sweet, after being away from the scene for a long time, are back

and here's another example of one of those good singles around at the moment,

with Love Is Like Oxygen.

# Love is like oxygen

# You get too much, you get too high

# Not enough and you're going to die

# Love gets you high

# Love is like oxygen

# You get too much, you get too high

# Not enough and you're going to die

# Love gets you high

# Time on my side

# I've got it all

# I've heard that pride

# Always comes before a fall

# There's a rumour

# Going round the town

# That you don't want me around

# I can't shake off my city blues

# Every way I turn I lose

# Love is like oxygen

# You get too much, you get too high

# Not enough and you're going to die

# Love gets you high

# Love is like oxygen

# You get too much, you get too high

# Not enough and you're going to die

# Love gets you high

# Time is no healer

# If you're not there

# Lonely fever

# Sad words in the air

# Some things are better left unsaid

# I'm going to spend my days in bed

# I walk the streets at night

# To be hidden by the city light

# City light

# Love is like oxygen. #

APPLAUSE

Happily, the ever elegant Elkie Brooks is here to brighten up

the dark recesses of our studio tonight

with her new single release, Lilac Wine.

# I lost myself on a cool damp night

# Gave myself in that misty light

# Was hypnotised by strange delight

# Under a lilac tree

# I made wine from the lilac tree

# Lost my heart in its recipe

# Made me see what I want to see

# Be what I want to be

# But I think more than I ought to think

# And do things I never should do

# I drink much more than I ought to drink

# Because it brings me back

# To you

# Lilac wine

# Is sweet and heady

# Like my love

# Lilac wine

# I feel unsteady

# Like my love

# Listen to me

# I cannot see clearly

# Isn't that he coming to me?

# Nearly here

# Lilac wine

# Is sweet and heady

# Where's my love?

# Lilac wine

# I feel unsteady

# Like my love

# Listen to me

# Why is everything so hazy?

# Isn't that he

# Or am I going crazy, dear?

# Lilac wine

# I feel I'm ready

# For my love

# Feel I'm ready

# For

# My love. #

APPLAUSE

Intoxicating, what? This week's highest new entry is in at 18.

From the film Saturday Night Fever,

it's the Bee Gees with Stayin' Alive.

# Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk

# I'm a woman's man, no time to talk

# Music loud and women warm

# I've been kicked around since I was born

# But now it's all right I don't care

# You may look the other way

# We can try to understand

# The New York Times' effect on man

# Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother

# You're stayin' alive Stayin' alive

# Feel the city breaking and everybody shaking

# And we're stayin' alive Stayin' alive

# Ha-ha-ha-ha, stayin' alive Stayin' alive

# Ha-ha-ha-ha

# Stayin' alive

# Oh, when you walk

# Well, now I get low and I get high

# And if I can't get either I really try

# Got the wings of heaven on my shoes

# I'm a dancing man and I just can't lose

# You know, it's all right, it's OK

# I'll live to see another day

# We can try to understand

# The New York Times' effect on man

# Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother

# You're stayin' alive Stayin' alive

# Feel the city breaking and everybody shaking

# And we're stayin' alive Stayin' alive

# Ha-ha-ha-ha, stayin' alive Stayin' alive

# Ha-ha-ha-ha

# Stayin' alive

# A-a-a-a-ah, yeah! #

APPLAUSE

One of the year's most talked about new bands is this one,

they're called Magazine and here's their debut single,

Shot By Both Sides.

# This and that They must be the same

# What is legal is just what's real

# What I'm given to understand

# Is exactly what I steal

# I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd

# Wormed my way into the heart of the crowd

# I was shocked to find what was allowed

# I didn't lose myself in the crowd

# Shot by both sides

# On the run to the outside of everything

# Shot by both sides

# They must have come to a secret understanding

# New offences always in my nerves

# They're taking my time by force

# They'll have to rewrite all the books again

# As a matter of course

# I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd

# Wormed my way into the heart of the crowd

# I was shocked to find what was allowed

# I didn't lose myself in the crowd

# Shot by both sides

# On the run to the outside of everything

# Shot by both sides

# They must have come to a secret understanding. #

APPLAUSE

I think we can safely say that Abba don't have a fear of heights

because they're back at the top of the charts once again.

Another number one. This time it's for Take A Chance On Me.

-# If you change your mind

-Take a chance

-# Take a chicka-chance, chance

-I'm the first in line

-# Take a chicka-chance, chance

-Honey, I'm still free

-# Take a chance

-Take a chance on me

-# Take a chicka-chance, chance

-If you need me, let me know

-# Going to be around

-Take a chance, take a chance

# If you've got no place to go When you're feeling down

# Take a chance, take a chance

# If you're all alone

# When the pretty birds have flown

# Honey, I'm still free

# Take a chance on me

# Going to do my very best

# And it ain't no lie

# If you put me to the test

# If you let me try

# Take a chance on me

That's all I ask of you, honey

# Take a chance on me

# We can do dancing We can go walking

# As long as we're together

# Listen to some music Maybe just talking

# Get to know me better

# Cos you know I've got So much that I wanna do

# When I dream I'm alone with you

# It's magic

# You want me to leave it there Afraid of a love affair

# But I think you know

# That I can't let go

# If you change your mind I'm the first in line

# Honey, I'm still free

# Take a chance on me

# If you need me, let me know

# Going to be around

# If you've got no place to go When you're feeling down

# If you're all alone

# When the pretty birds have flown

# Honey, I'm still free

# Take a chance on me

# Going to do my very best And it ain't no lie

# If you put me to the test If you let me try

# Take a chance on me

Come on, give me a break, will you?

# Take a chance on me

# Oh, you can take your time, baby

# I'm in no hurry

# Know I'm going to get ya

# You don't want to hurt me

# Baby, don't worry

# I ain't going to let ya

# Let me tell you now My love is strong enough

# To last when things are rough

# It's magic

# You say that I waste my time

# But I can't get you off my mind

# Oh, I can't let go

# Cos I love you so

# If you change your mind I'm the first in line

# Honey, I'm still free

# Take a chance on me

# If you need me, let me know... #

APPLAUSE

Unhappily, that's it for another edition of Top of the Pops.

I'm going to get my Hot Legs on out of here

and wish you a good week and good love! Goodbye!

# Who's that knocking on my door?

# It's got to be a quarter to four

# Is it you again

# Comin' round for more?

# Well, you can love me tonight if you want

# But in the morning make sure you're gone

# I'm talkin' to ya

# Hot legs, wearing me out

# Hot legs, you can scream and shout

# Hot legs, are you still in school?

# I love you, honey! #

# You've got a most persuasive tongue

# You promise all kinds of fun

# But what you don't understand... #

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